Treesize free, the best application to manage the space of your hard drives

Currently we can enjoy large doses of storage at reasonable prices, because we can find hard drives of several terabytes of capacity for a price of 100 euros or even less. Despite this, saving space is still important, and a tool that can help us do this is TreeSize Free.

Manage your hard drives with TreeSize Free

TreeSize Free is a free tool that informs us about the use of storage space on a hard drive or SSD. It is an application that shows us the context menu of a folder or drive, along with the space of all the data contained in it and its directories. Since the content of the files will not be read automatically, Windows security and data privacy remain guaranteed.

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The application offers us a filter for all types of files, in this way it will be easier for us to identify what is eating up the space on our hard drive. You can use filters, for example, to search for files of a certain type, such as temporary files, text files, or images, and use this information to clean your hard drives. TreeSize Free is also capable of scanning network drives and your mobile devices.

The application offers a column view that gives us more detailed information for each file and folder, among this information we find the size or number of files, the last access date and the owner. The interface can be switched to a touch mode to improve user comfort if the user wishes. Explorer context menu and drag and drop are supported by the application.

Scan operations run on a thread, so you 'll see results almost instantly while TreeSize Free is running in the background. This application works in MFT (Master File Table), and reaches extremely high scanning speeds so you don't have to wait long.

We continue to see the benefits of TreeSize Free, and is that this great application can apply NTFS compression to the branches of the directory, and show the compression rate. All you have to do is start TreeSize Free as an administrator to calculate the size of all folders, even directories for which you do not have access permission.