SpaceSharp 1.6.0

See where your disk space went, and now also why.

Inspect, redrawn

Press Ctrl+I on anything and the window tells you about it instead of listing numbers:

• One big number, the size, with the path as clickable breadcrumbs that zoom the map.
• Three lines of context. "48% of Nexus Stuff, the largest of its 6 folders · 17% of F:". "Mostly images (61.2 GB) and archives (6.8 GB) · median file 2.3 MB". "Last changed 3 months ago, 78% untouched for over a year · unchanged since the last scan".
• Where the space is. The five largest things anywhere inside, not just direct children. A folder that is almost all one child is skipped in favor of that child, so you see Google\Chrome\User Data, not Google. Click a row to zoom there.
• By type and By age as donuts. Age is new: how much of a folder has not been touched in over a year is usually the best clue to what can go.
• A callout when one thing holds most of a folder: "65% of this folder is one thing: AppData at 93.15 GB."
• Resizable, remembers its size, header stays while the rest scrolls.

The tooltip, trimmed

Three lines on hover: name and size; what it is and its share of the folder you are looking at; what it mostly holds and when it changed, with the growth since the last scan in color when a comparison is loaded. Everything else moved to Inspect.

Fast scan without the restart

The fast NTFS scan no longer restarts SpaceSharp as administrator. Windows asks once, a small elevated helper reads the file table and hands the map back to the window you already have, then exits. Your zoom, filters and settings stay. Say no and the normal scan runs.

Smaller things

• Drag the side panel's right edge, or the line between Drives and Largest items, to resize them. Both are remembered.
• On Windows 11 the title bar is painted in the theme's colors, so the caption and toolbar are one surface.
• Tiles, Cards and Soft no longer turn a folder of hundreds of small files into a field of dots; gaps and corners shrink with the box, decided per folder so seams stay straight.
• Classic shades files only. Deep parts of the tree no longer go muddy from stacked frame shading.
• Cards now looks different from Tiles again: darker folders, lighter files.
• Only one SpaceSharp runs per session; launching it again hands the request to the open window.

Downloads

File	For
SpaceSharp-win-x64.msi	A standard Windows installer. Choose the install folder, and whether to install for you or for everyone on the PC. Adds a Start menu entry. Updates itself.
SpaceSharp-win-Setup.exe	One-click install to your user profile. No questions, no admin rights. Updates itself. To pick a folder: SpaceSharp-win-Setup.exe --installto "D:\Apps\SpaceSharp"
SpaceSharp-win-Portable.zip	No install: unzip anywhere and run SpaceSharp.exe. Still updates itself.
SpaceSharp.exe	A single portable file. Nothing to install, nothing to update automatically; download the new version when you want it.

SpaceSharp-1.6.0-full.nupkg, SpaceSharp-1.6.0-delta.nupkg and releases.win.json are the update packages that installed copies fetch on their own. You don't need to download them.

Windows SmartScreen may warn about the downloads because they aren't code-signed. Click More info, then Run anyway. Your settings and saved scans from earlier versions are kept.

Windows 10 and 11, x64. Free and open source, MIT.

Full changelog: CHANGELOG.md