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This essay is about a suggested student project in Java programming. This essay gives a rough overview of how it might work. It does not describe an actual complete program. I have no source, object, specifications, file layouts or anything else useful to implementing this project. Everything I have to say to help you with this project is written below. I am not prepared to help you implement it; I have too many other projects of my own.

I do contract work for a living, which could include writing a program such as this. However, I don’t do people’s homework for them. That just robs them of an education.

You have my full permission to implement this project any way you please.

This is a very simple project. The program takes one or more drive names off the command line and scans those drives to find the 100 biggest files. It then lets you scroll through the list of fully qualified pathnames. You can then select files for deletion.

Karsten Lentsch has implemented this as a Java Web Start application calld JDiskReport.

I have written a class called Batik which contains all the file scanning and deletion logic you need. I could send that to you. File Deleter Project.

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