These Apps Help You Visualize What’s Hogging Your Hard Drive

If your hard drive is full, and you're not sure what could possibly be taking up all that space, you might think your only option is to tediously go through your file lists, one by one. Thankfully there are applications that will not only highlight where you might be able to save some space (do you really need all those cat pics?), but they'll also look pretty as they do. These free apps are available for both Windows and macOS, and they let you visually explore what's on your hard drive so you can more easily spot places to wrangle back some real estate. These applications also make it quick to locate and delete any large files you don't need anymore, or files that you could move to an external drive instead of storing on your device. Just make sure to also back up those files to the cloud. But before you go on a deleting spree, also remember that these applications are capable of scanning your entire hard drive, including files that are necessary to run your applications or even op ... Read full article.