goTotal

Managing disk space can normally be done by keeping an eye out on the available, and free disk space. However, it’s best to rely on specialized applications for faster scanning, and more detailed reports. One suitable example is goTotal, letting you instantly scan drives or folders to view a list of files, and space distribution.

Advantages of a portable app

First of all, you can run the application as soon as the download process is finished, because it doesn’t require installation. As such you can easily carry it around on a thumb drive to use on other computers besides your own. What’s more, system registry entries remain intact, so you don’t have to worry that any system component gets affected.
As far as the visual design is concerned, the application wraps all of its features in a classic window frame, which doesn’t make accommodation much of hassle. Most of the space is a table where all analyzed files are shown along with details like extension, count, size, and percentage of the total space occupied by the target folder.

Files analyzed by extension

The core purpose is to scan a selected folder and have all files analyzed. It can take a little while, depending on the size, and number of files inside. Once done, the total number of files and folders is shown in a dedicated field, as well as the total amount of space taken in bytes.
You don’t actually get to see what files takes up the most space, but rather the type of files based on extensions. You’re free to filter according to any of the column headers for better analysis. Sadly, there’s no possibility to break down extensions into files for in-depth analysis, so you need to manually go to the source folder for a clean up operation.

A few last words

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that goTotal can provide a decent amount of info regarding space distribution for an entire category of files. Although you’re not shown the exact files which take up a lot of space and have to manually hunt them down, it’s sure to provide a neat report on space taken by category.