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The TreeMap View

Baseline also lets you see your files in a TreeMap view.

A TreeMap is a graphical representation of a Volume or directory, where each square represents a single file, whose size is proportional to the area of the square - bigger squares represent larger files.

Use the View toolbar item or the TreeMap View menu item to switch to the TreeMap View.

The screenshot below shows the TreeMap view of a scanned Volume.

Top Level TreeMap

The files that are shown in shades of gray have not changed compared to the Baseline. New items, or items that have increased in size are shown in red. The deeper the shade of red, the greater the change in relation to the file's original size. Item that have shrunk are shown in blue - the deeper the shade of blue, the greater the decrease in size.

When you move the mouse over the TreeMap, an overlay window indicating the name and size of the file that the mouse is over will be shown, as in the screenshot below (you might need to click in the TreeMap to make sure it has the focus).

Top Level TreeMap Labelled

The orange line indicates the borders of the highlighted file. The yellow lines indicate the borders of the parent directories of the file.

Double-clicking on an item will "drill down" one level in the directory tree. The screenshot below shows the TreeMap for the /System directory.

System TreeMap

The up arrow key will move the TreeMap view one level back up the directory tree. The Escape key will return the view to the top level of the Volume.

See also

The TreeMap view