T R E E S I Z E ================= Version 1.42 Every hard disk is too small if you just wait long enough. Treesize tells you where precious Clusters have gone. From the context menu of a folder or drive, TreeSize shows you the size of this folder, recursively including the subfolders. You can expand this folder in Explorer-like style and you will get the size of the subfolders. It works like the UNIX-command "du" with a Win95 graphical user interface. Scanning is done in a thread and the wasted space can be displayed, so it is easy to find areas on the disk, where much space is wasted. The results can be printed in a report. INSTALLATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unzip the archive in a temporary folder, right-click on 'TInstall.inf' and select "Install". TreeSize is then copied to your Windows dir and appears in the start menu and in the context menu of every folder and drive. TreeSize can be completely uninstalled via Control Panel/Software. TIPS & ANNOTATIONS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following information is important. Provided are instructions and information which makes understanding and how to use TreeSize easier. * The "wasted space" is the amount of space in clusters, which is not completely filled (the last cluster of aevery file or if the file is smaller than one cluster) The filesystem of Windows 95 has very big cluster sizes (up to 32k), so the amount of wasted space may significant (up to 25%). Pleae note: size of files + wasted space = allocated space. For a file of 1kb size on a 1.2 GB hardisk you have wasted space of 31kb and allocated space of 32kb. * To reduce the wasted space on your harddisk, put folders with a lot of wasted space on a compressed drive, or use the new Windows 95 OEM release 2 with FAT32 or Windows NT with NTFS. You can also make smaller partitons, but this increases the number of drive letters. * On a compressed drive, the values for allocated and wasted space may be incorrect. Normally, on a commpressed drive onyl little space is wasted, but it depends on the type of compression * In scanning large drives, it may be better to use no sort criteria, because otherwise the folders will constantly change their position in the tree. * All Folders, which are visible in the window, will be included in the printed report. If you want a complete report, select the top folder and select "Full Expand" from the context menu * The small indicator bars, which can be selected to appear in the view menu, indicate the size of a folder relative to the scanned folders. Large folders are additionally markes with a yellow bar and very large folders with a red bar. * With a user defined cluster size, you can look what the values for occupied and wasted space would be with an other cluster size on your disk. A rescan of the current Folder is necessary when you change the cluster size * You can use the CD-ROM clustersize to determine, how much space a directory tree would occupy on a CD-ROM. There may be a slight difference of about 0.25% to the real size on a CD-ROM. Use the user defined cluster size for exact values. * You will only get true values for allocated space, wasted space, free space and bytes per cluster if you select file system folders. Folders like "My Computer" or the "Network Neighbourhood" can contain several drives with different cluster sizes. These values are not printed in the report if you select a non file system folder * To view the files in a folder, select 'Open' from the context menu * The 'filter' and 'user defined cluster size' are not saved to the the registry in order to avoid wrong values using TreeSize next time * Treesize displays german menus if "German" is selected in the control panel * TreeSize was developed with Borland Delphi COPYRIGHT & LICENSE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TreeSize is mailware, which means you can use TreeSize without charge and distribute the complete archive. If you decide to use it, you must send me an e-mail or a postcard. Please include the version number of your copy, where you found it and problems or errors if you had some. TreeSize is intended for private use. People who use TreeSize at work should use TreeSize Professional, which offers a lot of new features. Copyright ©1996-1997 by Joachim Marder TREESIZE PROFESSIONAL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TreeSize Professional 1.0 is also available. In addition to the functionality of TreeSize, it has some powerful new features: * It is possible to save the scanned Data to a file, copy it to the clipboard or export it directly into Excel * 3D bar and pie charts can be displayed or printed * Details (size, allocated, wasted, percent, files) can be viewed together * The last access date of every file and folder is shown * Multiple Folders can be scanned multithreaded in the same window * Values are displayed in the form: 1,234,567.0 kb. The number of decimals and the unit (KB/MB/Mixed) is configurable * Quick drive access * Installation program * page setup dialog and print dialog * Directory Lines in the Printout * Help file * Renaming of files and folders is possible * Big folders are labeled with a bold font A trial version is available on: http://www.jam-software.com/treesize.html TreeSize Professional V2.0 will be available soon. THE AUTHOR ~~~~~~~~~~ Joachim Marder An der Kastilport 3 D-54295 Trier E-Mail : marder@pobox.com WWW-Page: http://www.jam-software.com KNOWN PROBLEMS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * If you are using MS Internet Explorer 4 withh Active Desktop or Windows 98, the size of the Recycle Bin is not correct, because Microsoft uses a new storage scheme. * On some systems with IE4 installes, TreeSize produces an Access Violation in CDFVIEW.DLL when it tries to scan the Channels folder. I don't know yet, why it happens, because I don't get this error here on my system. Also Treesize Professional seems to be not affected. CHANGES ~~~~~~~ Version 1.42: Released on 6 Dec 1997 - Fixed a problem with missing Toolbar images Version 1.41: Released on 5 Dec 1997 - Fixed a problem with uninstallation - Fixed a problem with root context menu Version 1.4: Released on 15 Nov 1997 - New toolbar design - In the previous versions the space occupied by folders itself was not caclulated correctly. This is now corrected. - Fixed a problem with wrong icon for the '' node - Recompiled with Delphi 3 Version 1.3: Releasedd on 25 Jun 1997 - The -Key deletes a folder - The values are updated, when a folder is deleted - Most Recently used folder list in the file menu - Smaller progress bar, so free space, cluster size and file system type is visible during scan process - Added a Refresh button - The 'Files'-icon is only shown, if there *are* any files in the folder - Corrected problem with cluster size, which occured on Netware drives - Corrected problem with window position saving - Corrected problem with filter option - Changed Treesize.inf script file so that uninstall works under NT - Some other small enhancements Version 1.2: Published on Jan 20 1997 - FAT32 and compressed drives are handled correct now - Added statusbar help for all buttons and menu items (Feel free to correct my english) - Visibility state of the toolbar is saved now Version 1.1: Published on Dec 28 1996 - A filter like '*.doc' can be set - The small indicator bars now indicate the the type of value chosen in the View-Menu (e.g. wasted space or size), not only the allocated space - Some small bug fixes Version 1.0: Published on Dec 2 1996 - fixed problem with too big tool-/statusbar which occured with some video drivers - Virtual folder names are displayed correctly now under NT - Moved 'Full Collapse/Expand' to the context menu - Added 'Parent Directory' Button Version 0.2 - 0.9: Published 08 Aug 96 - 21 Nov 96