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- 1 - INTRODUCTION
-
- Do you know where your disk space has gone?
-
- No matter how large a disk drive you have there comes a day when
- you need to do some house cleaning to make space for new files.
- DISK HOG FINDER was designed to compute the space used by
- each directory and all it's subdirectories. A Graphical User
- Interface clearly displays the results of this computation as a
- directory outline with a disk usage bar chart. This allows you
- easily see where disk space is being used.
-
- Once a directory is identified you may look at that directory's
- files sorted by Name, Date, Extension or Size. You may delete the
- entire directory and all its subdirectories with a single command
- or you may delete individual files.
-
-
- 2 - SELECTING THE DRIVE TO ANALYZE
-
- When the DISK HOG FINDER starts you will be asked for a Drive
- letter. The drive letter refers to the hard drive partition that
- you would like to analyze. For hard drive users this would be C or
- D. If you purchased the LAN version then you may use higher
- letters like F, I, H etc. You may analyze floppy disks in drive A
- or B but be sure there is a disk in the drive.
-
- Simply type the letter you want and then press the ENTER key or
- click the OK button with the mouse.
-
-
- 3 - THE DIRECTORY WINDOW
-
- The Directory Window is the heart of the utility. It contains an
- alphabetized outline of all the directories on that drive. Each
- directory entry is shown with it's exact size listed as well as a
- bar on a bar chart.
-
- The scale of the bar chart is shown along the top. The default
- scale is 10 Megabytes. If a directory uses 5 Megabytes of space it
- would be shown as a blue bar that goes half-way across the chart.
- All directories that use more than 10 Megabytes would be drawn as a
- red bar all the way across the chart.
-
- Only 16 directories can be seen on the screen a one time. A red
- cursor will show the selected directory at any given time.
- To see the rest you must use the PageUp/PageDown keys to move the
- cursor a page at a time or the UpArrow/DownArrow keys to move one
- row at a time. Clicking the mouse in the +/- boxes along the right
- of the display will also move the cursor.
-
- Simply hitting the ENTER key will select the highlighted directory.
- The directory may also be selected with the mouse. Once a directory
- has been selected a list box will appear with the following
- options:
-
- a. View Directory's Files - This will bring up the File
- Window.
-
- b. Delete Directory - Deletes the contents of this directory
- and all its subdirectories. (Be careful this will delete
- hidden and system files as well).
-
- c. Change Chart Scale - This will allow you to select a new
- chart scale for the Drive Directory Window.
-
- d. Select New Drive Letter - Entering a new Drive letter
- here will replace the current chart with a chart for the
- new drive. The system will create a new chart if you
- remove a directory but it will not create a new chart if
- you delete a single file. You may re-enter the same drive
- letter you started with to get an up to date picture of
- that drive.
-
- e. Exit to Highlighted Directory - Selecting this option
- will end the program and place you in the highlighted
- directory.
-
- f. Exit to Current Directory - Selecting this option will
- end the program and return you to the directory you
- started the program from.
-
-
- 4 - THE FILE WINDOW
-
- The File Window contains a listing of all the files in the selected
- directory. It contains only the files in those directories and does
- not refer to any subdirectories. Use the same PageUp/PageDown
- ArrowUp/ArrowDown keys to scroll the files. When you hit enter of
- select a file with the mouse a list box with the following choices
- will appear:
-
- a. Close File Window - Selecting this option will close the
- File Window and return you to the Directory Window.
-
- b. Delete File - Deletes the highlighted file.
-
- c. Change Chart Scale - This will allow you to select a new
- chart scale for the Drive Directory Window.
-
- d. Sort Files in Window - Will cause a list box to appear
- with the following options:
-
- 1. Name - Sorts files by Name.
-
- 2. Extension - Sort files by extension.
-
- 3. Date - Sort files by Date, new files are top of
- list.
-
- 4. Size - Sort files by size, large files are top of
- list.
-
-
- 5 - Technical Details
-
- The system is setup for EGA graphics. This makes the system a
- little faster and more widely useable. If your windows look small
- or distorted on a VGA card then you may want to request a VGA
- version.
-
- The system makes some temporary files in the directory that you
- start the program from, not the directory that the software
- resides. This is so you can install it on a LAN for multiple users.
-
- The systems attempts to compute the disk space used by each file.
- It considers the fact that the smallest amount of disk space
- granted to a file is a cluster. The cluster size is determined by
- the hard drive you are using. This number should not be confused
- with the SIZE of a file reported by DOS. The SIZE is computed
- without regards to the cluster size.
-