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SpaceSharp is a free, open source disk space analyzer. It scans a drive or a folder and draws it as a zoomable treemap: folders are frames, files are boxes sized by the space they take. This wiki is the long version of the README: every screen, every setting, every shortcut, and the answers to the questions that come up.

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Using SpaceSharp

• Getting started: install, the first scan, the administrator prompt
• Reading the map: what the frames, boxes, colors and shading mean
• Navigating: zoom, pan, the path row, the side panel
• The filter: plain words, the drawer, quick filters, Select matches
• Insights: the numbers behind the map, and Safe to clear
• Changes: what grew, shrank, appeared and disappeared since the last scan
• Inspect: one item in depth
• Cleaning up: the Recycle Bin rule and what happens when you delete
• Saved scans and the start screen
• Settings reference: every setting, one line each
• Palettes and looks: the 24 palettes, the picker, themes and looks
• Custom palettes: the palette editor and the JSON format
• Keyboard shortcuts
• Command line
• Languages

Questions and problems

• FAQ
• Troubleshooting
• Privacy and security

For contributors

• Building from source
• Architecture
• Translating
• Editing this wiki

New in 2.5

• The map draws itself while a folder scan runs and settles into the finished picture (Reading the map).
• A Changes view replaces the change color mode: then, now and the difference for every folder (Changes).
• Ten new palettes and a tabbed picker (Palettes and looks).
• Safe to clear shows the drive before and after, the start screen says when a drive filled up, meters in the status bar, Ctrl+W closes a scan, a Behavior tab in Settings. The changelog has all of it.