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- From: Kevin.R.Boyce@gsfc.nasa.gov (Kevin R. Boyce)
- Subject: du for BBEdit (THINK C)
-
- Here's a quick-n-dirty BBEedit extension that lets you check where all
- the space on your hard disk has gone. You select a starting folder,
- and it makes a listing of the sizes of said folder and all the folders
- it contains. The list goes into a new window. The sizes it reports
- are in blocks (yes, that's the physical size, not logical size). That
- seemed to be easier on the eyes than lots of numbers with 6 or 7
- digits in them.
-
- Other ways to do the same thing:
-
- ShowSizes, by Jon Pugh. Much more versatile, and doesn't require
- BBEdit. On the other hand, it's $20, can only scan your whole disk
- (and doesn't run in background while scanning), and the formatting is
- kind of ugly.
-
- Turn on "calculate folder sizes" in the Views control panel, select
- "View by name", and go home for the weekend. When you get in on
- Monday, it might be finished. And if you open a folder after it's
- finished, the finder is too stupid to remember all the work it has
- done, so it has to rescan everything in that folder. Gah.
-
- This thing is free (are you kidding?) A THINK C 7.0 project is
- included, but I'm sure you can compile it with TC 5.0 or higher. Just
- set the project to Code Resource, file type 'BBXT', creator 'R*ch',
- resource type 'BBXT', id 128, attributes 20, name "du..." (I used the
- ellipsis character.)
-
- Or you could change the name, if you hate Unix....
-