Qsirch graphical representation for storage size use

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Qsirch graphical representation for storage size use

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Currently, qsirch gives you a colored bar to indicate how much space is taken up by specific media types e.g. videos, music, pictures, documents etc....

But it seems like it doesn't necessarily tell you the sub folders file size.

instead in qsirch it lists by individual files, their filesizes which can be sorted.

But what i also wanted, was someway to identify sub folders file sizes in comparison to others, so i can then narrow down that way to see if these biggest folder locations are in need of any trimming down of content to reduce size.

For example, treesize can do this. as you can see it shows bar indicating storage size used. then i can browse into these sub locations to further inspect which of those within are taking up the most space.
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Windirstat is also another app that does this in a different style
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personally i prefer treesize's approach to it, as it's much simpler and cleaner.


Anyway this is my observation from what qsirch is lacking in terms of analyzing sub folders space utilization.

Would be nice if future enhancements of Qsirch could develop some means of this, to expand the use of the existing graphical representation for storage size allocated to folders/sub folders for the user to analyze their space usage more meaningfully.


*recap

just only ran across this limitation while i was using qsirch and qfilling finding the junk on my qnap x_x; now it's more or less squeaky clean, but i still need to look up like sub folders with many small files that may be outdated.

qsirch can give the basic size for media types in general, or filter by file size presets, or filter by specific filesize range, and also sort ascending/descending. but like mentioned, it doesn't allow sub folder file size displays atm ^^
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Re: Qsirch graphical representation for storage size use

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If you like WinDirStat, then checkout KDirStat - it's the original Linux app that WinDirStat was based upon. The latest version is called QDirStat.

However, I like the old baobab app (now called Disk Usage Analyzer) - much faster navigation and the graphical representation is easy to understand:

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yeah thx, this one does look great (way more preferable than those rectangle blocks that give me a headache :shock: ). but is there a windows setup for it so i can test it out from desktop :'

https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps ... s%2FBaobab
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I sure hope not, too many apps have been ported to Windows already. :lol:

I was only suggesting it as another UI schema for Qsirch.

For Windows, check out the alternatives shown here: https://alternativepedia.com/baobab/?platform=windows

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k i'll check those out thx.
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how do I run Windirstat on my QNAP Linux system? Is there an app that can be installed via the GUI interface?
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mlevin77 wrote: Sat Apr 20, 2019 6:14 am how do I run Windirstat on my QNAP Linux system? Is there an app that can be installed via the GUI interface?
I don't think your TS-879 Pro supports HD Station, so you have no X11 system to run GUI desktop apps. :(

However, you can run *DirStat on a client PC and examine the NAS shares remotely.

As mentioned earlier, for Windows, use WinDirStat. For *nix, use QDirStat.

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