When comparing Directory Report vs WinDirStat, the Slant community recommends Directory Report for most people. In the question“What are the best tools to discover disk usage?” Directory Report is ranked 6th while WinDirStat is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Directory Report is:
Once duplicates are found you can choose to select certain files based on criteria like when was it created, when was it last modified, size, folders they're in or if the folders they're in contain a particular string.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Offers good options for quickly dealing with duplicates
Once duplicates are found you can choose to select certain files based on criteria like when was it created, when was it last modified, size, folders they're in or if the folders they're in contain a particular string.
Pro Reasonable rules for finding both duplicate files and folders
The program can find duplicate files based on any combination of size, name, CRC. It can also compare files byte by byte. Also, it can compare folders (with or without subfolders) based on any combination of size, name, CRC as well as file count.
Pro Gives a clear overview of found duplicates
It shows duplicate items grouped with every second group highlighted.
Pro Free / Open Source
GNU Public License (GPLv2).
Pro Color codes by file type
You can sort the list in the extension column (file type) globally or from parent folder selected. This is very helpful in case there are files of a specific type that you may not be aware of that's taking up too much space. Also, the colors correspond to the visual section.
Pro Lightweight
Pro PacMan Progress Bars
Cons
Con Slow
There are faster programs.
Con Classic UI
interface are old and cluttered