Command Prompt Question

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redseadiver

Hi all

Help appreciated please. Having 'lost' a large amount of HDD space I want
to see what is taking up so much room.
Using Command Prompt 'tree \' all sub-directories on my drive are listed but
I can only see the last twenty or so not
the whole lot and I cannot scroll up.

Using command prompt 'tree c:\ / f ¦ more' is supposed to give the same info
one screen at a time but the error 'too
many parameters' is shown. Cutting down the prompt to just "tree c:\ / f "
just produces the full list again but no ability
to scroll up.

Ideas welcome.
 
If you really like the tree view, store it to a file:
c:>\tree \ > tree.txt

you can then examine the file at your liesure.

You are using cmd.exe to get a command prompt, right? Not command.exe
(command.com)
The former is scrollable, though I doubt you could make the buffer big
enough for the tree of a full disk as you seem to have.

I find that your second version, piping to the more filter, works fine in
both command shells.

Google for "diskpie" to find several programs that can give graphical
pictures of folder and file types.

Val

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Hi all

Help appreciated please. Having 'lost' a large amount of HDD space I want
to see what is taking up so much room.
Using Command Prompt 'tree \' all sub-directories on my drive are listed but
I can only see the last twenty or so not
the whole lot and I cannot scroll up.

Using command prompt 'tree c:\ / f ¦ more' is supposed to give the same info
one screen at a time but the error 'too
many parameters' is shown. Cutting down the prompt to just "tree c:\ / f "
just produces the full list again but no ability
to scroll up.

Ideas welcome.
 
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