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Re:AltWinDirStat by zaroth on Thursday March 31, 2022 @05:13PM (#30872276)
By using cached NTFS metadata instead of actually querying the allocation tables I presume?
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Re:AltWinDirStat by dspillett on Thursday March 31, 2022 @05:29PM (#30872412)
Yep. Their related product wizfile uses the same trick for fast search by filename/path. Obviously doesn't work for non-local file locations.
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