WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

Re:WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics by convFixb on Thursday May 23, 2024 @03:48AM (#40451771)

Note: There’s a gotcha when using it in multi-user environments (like a server).

Users with Administrator access do not have permission to enumerate directories / files inside other Admin users home directories. So any per-user files are not counted in this scenario.

Source: ‘The mysterious case of the Windows server with a full disk but WinDirStat shows it as only half-full’ :-)

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Re:WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics by Dylan16807 on Thursday May 23, 2024 @03:59AM (#40451854)

It can't get to all the files even for a single admin user, you need to do something like run it as system with psexec.

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Re:WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics by justsomehnguy on Thursday May 23, 2024 @07:28AM (#40453340)

Yes, that's why WinDirStat is a no go at all.

Use WizTree, or any other util what reads NTFS MFT directly.

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