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Filelight

System Software

Score 84%

Description:

Filelight creates an interactive map of concentric segmented-rings that represent the sizes of files and directories on your computer.

* KIO support, check disk usage on your web server or grandma's linux box
* KPart for quick disk usage checks while in Konqueror

Last changelog:

14 years ago

1.0
* As RC2, no changes at all.

RC2
* Fixed two crashes, we hope
* Correct 2GB size limit on Debian
* Stopped using GiB/MiB in favour of the more universal GB, MB

RC1
* All known bugs fixed as far as I can before 1.1
* Click very center to go up a dir
* Context menu gains copy to clipboard

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polrus
1 year ago

even now years after updates still works perfectly well

l0ll0lll
6 years ago

Great program, i use it very often.
One feature i'd like to request: progress indication. It might be difficult to know total number of files until it's counted, but progress can be determined by computing total size of files scanned and compare it to disk usage.
It would be good to see a progress bar near count of files scanned.

modstrcil
8 years ago

Nice application, but still not perfect.
When I delete or remove some file using the Filelight, it should recalculate the graph without reading all data again.
In the program called scanner for Windows (http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/scn2.zip) it works perfect.

Second problem is with the line used to write address to be scanned. When I write there something like /usr/src/ it works ok, but if I want scan smb://192.168.1.1/data the program try to scan /home/user/smb://192.168.1.1/data

him
9 years ago

This should be integrated in Dolphin as view beside icons, details and columns.

Filelight is one of the usefullst features i ever have seen. Please dont waste it. Port it to KDE4 and integrate it into dolphin. This would increase the popularity extremly.

greetings him

anupamsr
10 years ago

Hi!

Is this program going to be available for KDE4?

PS: I love your program.
PPS: GiB/MiB is ok.

amdfanatyk
10 years ago

RULES!!!

panzi
11 years ago

There are some problems with the % displayed. 33% used and 11% not used. 33 + 11 = 44 and not 100% ???

csanchisb
11 years ago

So, was that problem with non-English characters solved?

linpete
11 years ago

The Concept is really nice and handy. Thumbs Up!
Thx 4 this.

gohanz
11 years ago

A SlackWare TGz package with SlackBuild Script is Ready to DownLoad!!!

http://www.slacky.it/

http://www.slacky.it/index.php?option=com_remository&Itemid=29&func=fileinfo&id=262

sszmidt
11 years ago

Very nice, very handy!!

Just one minor thing, for some reason you have stuck an 'i' in GB, making it GiB which is not needed.

MxCl
11 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte

I almost agree with you, but the prevalence of GiB is increasing, and I am a scientist.

MxCl
11 years ago

Yeah, I'll probably change it, no need to be confusing for puritan reasons. Anyway the justification for GiB/MiB is poor.

panzi
11 years ago

Well, there is a 'i' in Giga-Byte, but where is a 'i' in Mega-Byte?

MxCl
11 years ago

Follow the URL in my previous comment. It's nothing to do with the spelling it's to do with the unit standards defined by the Scientific Institute.

zi99y
11 years ago

This gets printed when running from konsole:

*** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0xb66c6e80 ***
KCrash: Application 'filelight' crashing...

yoho
11 years ago

Same behaviour here. :( Maybe a double-free or something.

dmn
11 years ago

I've emailed the patch that fixes the bug that leads to crash on exit to filelight's developers.
Here it is:

[BEGIN PATCH - part.cpp.diff]
--- part.cpp 2004-11-23 23:58:51.000000000 +0300
+++ part.cpp.fixed 2006-06-22 23:52:17.000000000 +0400
@@ -170,8 +170,11 @@
KAboutData*
Part::createAboutData()
{
- static KAboutData about( APP_NAME, I18N_NOOP( APP_PRETTYNAME ), VERSION );
- return &about;
+ //static KAboutData about( APP_NAME, I18N_NOOP( APP_PRETTYNAME ), VERSION );
+ //return &about;
+
+ KAboutData* about = new KAboutData( APP_NAME, I18N_NOOP( APP_PRETTYNAME ), VERSION );
+ return about;
}

bool
[END PATCH - part.cpp.diff]

Apply it:
cd [filelight_source_dir]/src/part
patch part.cpp part.cpp.diff

clearthought
11 years ago

this is one of the greatest programs! thank you very much!

clearthought
11 years ago

and thanks to raoul for providing suse 10 rpm!

zi99y
11 years ago

I'm really impressed by this program, it's incredibly useful.

Having a small problem if I load filelight view up in Konqueror, then right click on a cell and choose to open in Konqueror, the whole thing crashes. Can provide the full data if required.

Does anyone else find this?

three cheers to the dev!

zi99y
11 years ago

further to this problem, every time I exit filelight it crashes! can post full crash details if desired..

linux3114a
12 years ago

filelight-1.0b6-S10K35.i586.rpm
at
http://home.tiscali.be/raoul.linux/downloadSuSE10.0.htm

ENJOY !!!

avaurus
12 years ago

configure fails on qt, even if you give the qt-dir, qt-includes and qt-libs...I am using suse 10 with the latest qt3.

why2jjj
12 years ago

I'd love to try this program out too, but the download link to get the bzip2 tarball is broken!

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14 years ago

1.0
* As RC2, no changes at all.

RC2
* Fixed two crashes, we hope
* Correct 2GB size limit on Debian
* Stopped using GiB/MiB in favour of the more universal GB, MB

RC1
* All known bugs fixed as far as I can before 1.1
* Click very center to go up a dir
* Context menu gains copy to clipboard

polrus Nov 05 2016

SeaJey Nov 24 2011

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