Show HN: Visualize your Dropbox Space Usage

I fail to see the need to authorize a third party to visualise your Dropbox when your files probably all sit at least on one of your machines anyway and there are perectly fine open source tools that do treemap visualisation very well:<p>* For Windows,use <a href="http://windirstat.info/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;windirstat.info&#x2F;</a><p>* For Mac, use <a href="http://www.derlien.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.derlien.com&#x2F;</a><p>* For Linux, use <a href="http://kdirstat.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kdirstat.sourceforge.net&#x2F;</a>

&quot;Treemap Visualizer would like access to all files and folders in your Dropbox. This app will be able to read and modify everything.&quot;<p>Has anyone tried this yet? Something about &quot;hey this app may or may not alter every file you have on Dropbox&quot; makes me wary, even if the title does imply it&#x27;s a read-only operation.

Screenshot: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/z9hkHT7.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.imgur.com&#x2F;z9hkHT7.png</a><p>The colour and area of the blocks would seem to correspond to the file type and file size respectively.

I made the exact same thing at PennApps Fall 2013! Great minds think alike. ;)<p><a href="https://github.com/kevincon/utilityknife" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;kevincon&#x2F;utilityknife</a>

&quot;This app will be able to read and modify everything.&quot;<p>Why modify?

Treemaps have been around for ages. why not just run one on your local dropbox folder?

Would be nice if it would tell me where things are located. I can tell they&#x27;re grouped by folder, but it doesn&#x27;t tell me what folder that is or where it is within the Dropbox folder. (I know I can find it in my actual Dropbox folder, just wondering why that information is missing from here)<p>Also, there seems to be a bunch of &quot;undefinedByte&quot;-sized files lying around. Anyone know what those are? Maybe 0-sized files or something?

I&#x27;m sure this was a cool and fun dev project. I&#x27;ve used a program like this before: <a href="http://www.derlien.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.derlien.com&#x2F;</a> to visualize and edit&#x2F;delete files.<p>But for space management have since switched to <a href="http://spacieapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spacieapp.com&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m intrigued, but not enough to click. Ahh. Can someone else take the leap? Provide some details, screenshots, any credentials about who made this? Can&#x27;t be bothered looking into how hard it is for someone nefarious to get something on *.mit.edu subdomain.

Guys, seriously. Somebody built something. He&#x27;s sharing it with you. Yes, there are other things that can do it.<p>You don&#x27;t have to leap on every thread and complain that someone else had the same idea.

This is just like <a href="http://windirstat.info/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;windirstat.info&#x2F;</a> which can be run on the desktop. Very handy tool...

Dropbox has left it difficult to track down large files in their web interface; nice to see someone fill in the (purposely) missing piece.

On my 5-year old netbook and my pretty decent spec desktop I just get a white page that goes grey when I move the mouse over it. :(

OP: how are you getting around 429 errors thrown by Dropbox when you do a full dirwalk like this?

Did anyone dare authorize? I find using simple commands like `du` and `tree` sufficient for me...

Sample output would be great.