User's Manual

Free up disk space
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You can always find information about the selected element in the folder tree at
the top of the window, in the upper area with a colorful background. If My
Computer or an individual drives is selected, the capacity and the percentage of
occupied space are displayed. If a folder is selected, you will see its size here,
including all of its files and subfolders and the percentage of space that it takes
up from the folder in which it is located.
An overview of the most important information from all of the other views is
located along the bottom of the window in the form of several tables.
The first table gives you an overview of the largest folders and files that are
located directly in the selected element (drive or folder). The size and percentage
of space occupied is shown here for up to 10 items. If you would like to see more
than the 10 elements that are displayed, simply click on the link Show Contents
to switch to a detail view.
If My Computer is displayed in the first table, it will instead show the occupied
space for each drive.
The second table organizes the files contained in the selected element based on
file types and shows you at a glance which types of files (documents, music
files, videos or images) are taking up the most disk space.
Please note that this view does not just include the files that are directly located
in the selected drive or folder, but also includes all files in subfolders. You can