 FullDisk Help Index

Welcome to FullDisk, the Windows application to profile sub-directory trees and file sizes on your network or local hard drives.

Commands and Topics

	Installation
	Use and Navigation
	FullDisk menu
	Options menu
	Legal
	Registering
	How Win95/98/NT Computes Sizes
	Other Applications
	What is New


Installation

Unzip the download file and run setup.exe. Take the defaults and the program will be in the Program Files\FullDisk directory with a shortcut on your desktop and on the Start Programs menu.

The application is fulldisk.exe. When launched, FullDisk searches your drive for all sub-directory trees and the file sizes therein starting with the currently selected drive.

That's it!


Options menu commands

The Options menu offers the following command:

Settings	You have the choice of displaying the results in the list box in bytes, kilobytes or megabytes. The choice is persistent across sessions. The choice also applies to the text in the Results dialog box and the Status bar. You have the choice of hearing a sound at the end of disk drive scanning (or disabling the sound). The choice is persistent across sessions. You have the choice of displaying the disk free space in the list box and the pie chart. Look for the name "..Free on X:” in the list box where X is the current drive. (Free space is always shown in the Status bar.) When this option is changed a re-scan takes place if you are at the drive's root. If you choose to show the disk free space you then have the option of displaying it in its “pastel” color or force it to be shown in black for easy identification. These choices are persistent across sessions. The free space slice is only shown for scans at a drive's root.

The menu item above also has a toolbar button.


FullDisk menu commands

The FullDisk menu offers the following commands:

ReScan	This causes a re-scan of the path last scanned. Note that Function key F3 has the same effect.
Show Results…	This launches a dialog to display some facts about the result of the last scan.
Save Results	You can save an ASCII file of the results of the last scan. You choose the file name and path. The path and name are persistent across sessions and there is file over-write protection. Fields are separated by a “tab” character.
Refresh	This causes the Tree to be refreshed (and the other two panes to be erased). Note that Function key F5 has the same effect.
Register	Use this to do the one-time FullDisk registration. Registering disables the closing dialog box.

Note that at least one scan must have taken place for the first three menu items above to be enabled.

The first four menu items above have toolbar buttons.


Use and Navigation

FullDisk permits quick and easy profiling of the contents of a local or network drive.

Refer to the FullDisk menu  and the Options menu topics for details. Most users can just use the left-hand Tree window to navigate to the directory or disk under study and click on its icon to scan it for its size.

Think of FullDisk's interface as just like Win95 or WinNT4 Explorer but with an additional (third) pane - the "PieChart". Use the "Tree" to navigate by clicking on the "+" and "-" symbols on the Tree. Clicking on a disk icon or folder icon on the Tree causes the size scanning. Note that all your local and network drives are displayed on the Tree.

You can click on the "ListBox" entries or the "PieChart" to descend down a directory branch - most users want to study the largest trees and there two windows are sorted according to size (the left-hand Tree window is not). To navigate elsewhere, use the Tree.

Additional, textual information is shown on the Status bar and in the dialog box spawned by the FullDisk > Show Results… menu pick.

Note that there is a right-mouse button function when the cursor is over the Pie portion of the main window. Function key F3 causes a re-scan and key F5 causes the Tree to be refreshed.

Use the Options menu to select how visual and aural information are presented.

Use FullDisk menu to save an ASCII file (which is “tab separated") of the scan results (or to Show Results, Register or Exit).

FullDisk has been designed in anticipation of multi-gigabit drives and will not be subject to the 2 gig or 4-gig limit of similar applications. Specifically, Win95A and NT3.51 cannot report a logical drive larger than 2gig. (Want more info? see: “Problems Accessing Windows FAT Drives Larger than 2 GB”, Article ID: Q127851 at the Knowledge Base at www.microsoft.com.) Again, this limitation is from the operating system - not FullDisk. Win95B/98 and NT4/5 do not have this restriction and FullDisk will handle any size drive if you use these operating systems.


Registering

FullDisk is distributed as Shareware. It is not free or public domain. This means you may copy and distribute it freely but should you find it useful and use it beyond an initial evaluation period of 30 days you are obliged to pay the license fee.

The single user license fee is US$10. More is accepted if you find this software of superior value!

You can register this program by mail. Cash or checks/cheques can be accepted in any major currency, equivalent in value to US$10 per copy. Cash is preferred. Please use the Shareware Registration form.

Registered users will be sent a registration number to disable the reminder box. This number will be good for all subsequent Shareware versions of the program that may become available.

If you enjoy this software, do the right thing and register!

I would be pleased to receive any comments, bug reports or suggestions for future releases. I may be contacted by e-mail at pgerhart@worldlynx.net.


Other Applications

Other Applications by the Author

If any of my other apps below look interesting contact me by e-mail at pgerhart@worldlynx.net or visit my ShareWare site at http://www.worldlynx.net/pgerhart/.

CleanUp

CleanUp permits quick and easy identification of unwanted files on your drives and permits one-click deletion (or move) of those files.

No deletions are ever performed unless you approve.

For example, CleanUp can clean up your Temp directories (under WINDOWS or at the Root) and/or Netscape cache and URL history. You can identify "exclude files" and such "exclude files" are never regarded as deletion candidates. You can specify directory paths to be excluded from searching.

CleanUp will identify candidate files if their extensions *.tmp, *.log, etc. You can tailor the list as you choose.

URLegal

Think you’ve gotten some broken links? Well, offer up your bookmark files and URLegal, will find those bad links.

URLegal is a 32 bit application. You can choose a single file to test or recurse through sub-directories. Each HTTP URL in each file is automatically tested by attempting to connect on the Web to the target site and receive the specified HTML page.

The results of the test are displayed in a text window and can be exported to a text file or an HTML file.

A “re-run” button exists so that, with a single mouse click, you can completely re-test only the failed links (without wasting time re-testing all the good ones). This is useful as URLegal may be forced to declare some links as broken when the real problem is that the target server is very slow.

URLegal offers 21 filtering options on the results so that you can learn all the sordid details of the target URLs or simply the infamous 404 bad boys (the dreaded “Not Found” pages).

URLegal can automatically repair the pages containing the bad links identified by your chosen filtering options.

Tickle

Tickle lets you keep your Internet Service Provider (ISP) connection alive.

Tickle lets you specify a URL of a server or Web page. Then Tickle lets you specify a time period, for example 5 minutes. From then on, Tickle makes sure that distant page or server gets "tickled" at your specified rate. Thus, any time-out set by your Internet Service Provider is always satisfied - the connection never times out! Eudora users and others love Tickle.

ThumbsUp

ThumbsUp lets you visually browse folders containing JPEG files. All the JPEG files in the folder (directory) are shown in a thumb-nail format. You can adjust the image size and view a full-size slide show.

QuickChart

QuickChart permits quick and easy viewing, printing and navigation for financial data stored in MetaStock or CompuTrac format. The user is presented with crisp, clean charts.

The color scheme of the chart may be user configured. Charts may show volume and user-defined moving averages.

Toolbar buttons, arrow keys and a right mouse popup menu enable navigation among the charts. In addition, a SlideShow mode is supported to automatically sequence through a portfolio.

MetaFix

MetaFix permits you to modify the disk files for MetaStock or CompuTrac format data including:

	editing a single quote
	adjusting a quote series for a split
	adjusting a quote series for Price or Volume multipliers
	deleting a quote
	displaying underlying facts about a quote series
	automatically scanning for potential splits

No files are ever deleted - any edited .DAT file is first saved with the extension .BAK. This is unlike comparable applications! Also, the automatic split-search is unique and provides suggested split ratios for both forward and reverse splits.

Contact me by e-mail at pgerhart@worldlynx.net.


Registration Form

Print this form and send it with your remittance to:

Paul Gerhart

101 Magella Court

North Wales, Pennsylvania

19454 USA

Please give an e-Mail address if you have one so I can inform you of your registration code as soon as I receive your order, and give timely information on upgrades.

FullDisk Registration Form.

I wish to register ____ copies of FullDisk .

I enclose a check for $US______	($10 per copy)

I enclose cash for $US______	($10 per copy)

Name(s)	_______________________________________________

Company	_______________________________________________

Address	_______________________________________________

_______________________________________________

_______________________________________________

Code	___________________

Country	___________________

E-Mail	_____________________________________________(please print clearly)

Where did you obtain FullDisk from? _______________________________

It would be helpful for me if you could tell me how you use the program. I can then use this information when planning new features for future versions. Also provide any comments/suggestions.

______________________________________________________________________

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Thank you!


Important Legal Stuff

Disclaimer and Agreement

Copyright

Registering

License


Disclaimer and Agreement
Disclaimer of Warranty

Users of FullDisk must accept this disclaimer of warranty. If you do not accept this

disclaimer, do not use FullDisk.

"FullDisk IS SUPPLIED AS IS. THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, WHICH MAY RESULT FROM THE USE OF FullDisk EVEN IF THE AUTHOR HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES."


Copyright

FullDisk is protected by US and international copyright laws.

FullDisk is distributed as Shareware. It is not free or public domain. This means you may copy and distribute it per the License but should you find it useful and use it beyond an initial evaluation period of 30 days you are obliged to pay the license fee.

Unregistered use of FullDisk after the 30-day evaluation period is in violation of federal copyright laws.

Click here for Shareware Registration form. If you find FullDisk useful, do the decent thing and register!

FullDisk Copyright © 1996.


License

You should carefully read the following terms and conditions before using this software.  Use of this software indicates your acceptance of these terms and conditions.  If you do not agree with them, do not use the software. All presumption of warranty is disclaimed - see the Disclaimer of Warranty for the specific language.

You are hereby licensed to:  use the Shareware Version of the software for a 30-day evaluation period; make as many copies of the Shareware version of this software and documentation as you wish; give exact copies of the original Shareware version to anyone; and distribute the Shareware version of the software and documentation in its unmodified form via electronic means.  There is no charge for any of the above.

You are granted a limited license to use FullDisk, to copy and distribute it, provided the following conditions are met:

1.	No fee may be charged for such copying and distribution other than actual costs incurred, except for a nominal distribution fee.
2.	FullDisk may ONLY be distributed in its original, unmodified state, complete with data files and this documentation.
3.	FullDisk may not be distributed as part of a package or group of programs.
4.	The paid registered version may NOT be distributed.


How Windows Computes Sizes

How Win95 and WinNT Computes Sizes

Windows 95/98 and DOS (like Windows 3.1 and DOS) compute sizes in different ways depending on what you are asking for. FullDisk computes in the same way as Win95/98/NT. However, sometimes there can be confusion so a brief discussion follows:

Let’s will define two ways of computing: “file” and “sector”.

In “file” mode the exact number of bytes of files(s) are counted and that is all. The smallest file size (of a real file) is one byte. In “sector” mode, the smallest increment is the “allocation unit” which is a number peculiar to your drive and determined by its design and choices made when the drive was formatted. A typical allocation unit size is 8192 bytes.

Sizes are reported by the “file” method in FullDisk’s list box, FullDisk’s computation of the pie chart, FullDisk’s display line of “Size of tree” and by Win95/NT Explorer when individual or multiple files or folders are selected and the Properties are examined. You can confirm that Windows and FullDisk report the same byte count values for a given tree.

However, when Win95/98/NT Explorer is used to display the Properties for an entire drive then the “sector” technique is used. The “sector” technique is also used by FullDisk in the display line that reads something like “C:\ has 23,456,789 bytes in used sectors”. Also, FullDisk’s display line describing the free space uses the “sector” technique. This is also the way the classic DOS chkdsk function works, too. In all these cases, the total bytes shown is an integer multiple of the allocation unit size.

The “sector” technique is the correct way to talk about used space and free space because once the first byte is written to a particular allocation unit on a drive then that unit is unavailable for other files. Thus, the file’s size determines used sectors as a function of how many allocations units the file requires. However, when you want to account for the actual size of files then the “file” technique is appropriate.

In summary, there are two ways of computing size; FullDisk and Win95/98/NT do these computations in a consistent way.


What is New

What is New in 3.6?

Improved install.

Added hyperlinks to the Closing dialog (for unregistered users).

Added hyperlinks to the About dialog.

What is New in 3.5?

Improved some licensing information.

What is New in 3.4?

Improves the  “tool tip” window which is displayed when the mouse is over the pie chart.

Improved copyright information.

Improved color palette.

Fixed bug when doubling clicking certain pieces of pie.

What is New in 3.3?

Version 3.3 adds full installer/uninstaller support.

A small “tool tip” window is displayed when the mouse is over the pie chart indicating the name of the slice.

What is New in 3.2?

Version 3.2 offers more encouragement for unregistered evaluators.

What is New in 3.1?

Version 3.1 adds full Printing support including Print Setup and Print Preview.

The Save Results choice and the directly Printed output also add the value of the percentage of the disk total that each branch consumes.

The Show Results and Save Results output also add the value of the disk capacity.

What is New in 3.0?

Version 3.0 has all the function as V2.3 but with two important differences: first, the process of "navigating" your directories is de-coupled from the act of "scanning" (summing file sizes); second, FullDisk has a new, more "95-ish" user interface. Let's discuss these more…

Many FullDisk customers asked to de-couple the navigation process from the scanning. Also, FullDisk V2.3 would always start-up by scanning. Version 3.0 lets you navigate to the directory you want to study without scanning every intermediate point in the hierarchy. Also, V3.0 does not scan on startup.

FullDisk V3.0 has a new interface - think of it as just like Win95 or WinNT4 Explorer but with an additional (third) pane - the "PieChart". Use the "Tree" to navigate by clicking on the "+" and "-" symbols on the Tree. Clicking on a disk icon or folder icon on the Tree causes the scanning. Also, note that all your local and network drives are displayed on the Tree.

You can still click on the "ListBox" entries or the "PieChart" to descend down a directory branch. This feature was retained as most users want to study the largest trees and these two windows are sorted according to size (the left-hand Tree window is sorted alphabetically).To navigate back up a branch, use the Tree.

And, Wow!, we now have a Toolbar and a Status bar.

The textual information that appeared in the main window of V2.3 is partially shown on the Status bar of V3.0 and in the dialog box spawned by the FullDisk > Show Results… menu pick.

Note that there is still a right-mouse button function when the cursor is over the Pie portion of the main window.

Many thanks to  Mike W.  for previewing Version 3.0.

What is New in 2.3?

Added sound enable/disable option.

Added export of scan results (“tab” separated ASCII file export).

Added the choice of displaying the disk free space in the list box and the pie chart and optionally forcing its associated display color.

Edited this Help file for the three items above.

Improved the program to take advantage of the operating system’s capability to accommodate drives larger than 2gig. Specifically, Win95A and NT3.51 cannot report a logical drive larger than 2gig. (Want more info? see: “Problems Accessing Windows FAT Drives Larger than 2 GB”, Article ID: Q127851 at the Knowledge Base at www.microsoft.com.) Again, this limitation is from the operating system - not FullDisk. Win95B and NT4.0 do not have this restriction and FullDisk will handle any size drive if you use these operating systems.

What is New in 2.2?

Fixed bug where free space incorrectly displayed when not a root.

Fixed bug where read-only directories were ignored. (Thanks, Larry)

Added text clipping to long file names.

Added display line for used sectors.

Changed registration encryption key.

Added Help topic on How Win95 Computes Sizes.