Copyright: Daren Thayne, 1997,1998


What is FolderChart
What is FolderChart?

FolderChart is a Win32 application that quickly helps you analyze your hard drive usage.  FolderChart can recursively scan any folder and graphically chart the size, number of files and latest modified dates of all of the folders and files.  FolderChart utilizes a very fast multi-threaded engine to perform the analysis in the background.

To start seeing how the space on your hard drive is being used, simply select the root folder of your drive and then select "Start Folder Scan" from the Tools menu.


What is new in Version 2
What's New

FolderChart Version 2.01

•	Fixed bug that caused folder sizes of zero to display incorrectly in MB display mode.

•	Fixed bug in "New User Tips" dialog that caused "Show this dialog on startup" option to be ignored when selecting "Continue" button.

FolderChart Version 2.0 introduces the following new features:

•	Printing.

•	Exporting to tab-delimitted text file.

•	Support for UNC paths.

•	Sorting.

•	Latest Date chart view.

•	Delete Folder.

•	Refresh option.

•	Startup options

•	Several bug fixes.


Comments and/or Suggestions

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.  Please e-mail them to the author at FolderChart@hotmail.com.

Thank you.


Registering FolderChart

You may try out FolderChart without any cost for 30 days. If you wish to keep using it after 30 days, you must register it with the author and pay a registration fee.

Once you have registered, you will receive a personal registration number that you can enter into the program so it knows that you have registered.  Site licenses are availiable by contacting the author at FolderChart@hotmail.com.

Registration of FolderChart is only $19.95 and can be done with credit card, check or money order!

Register NOW via a SECURE SERVER at www.RegSoft.COM, or by TOLL-FREE Phone (1-877-REGSOFT), or Fax (770-497-9234).

(International users please make your VOICE orders by calling 770-497-9126, and your FAX orders at 770-497-9234).

The RegSoft product ID for FolderChart is 6769.

(Because this is shareware and you are free to try the software before you purchase it, no warranties or refunds are available.)


File Menu

The file menu contains the following items:

New

Add Root Folder...

Export...

Print...

Print Preview

Print Setup...

Exit


File New

Clears the current session and all of the FolderChart data.


Add Root Folder...

Allows you to add any folder (including network folders) to your FolderChart tree view.  This will allow you to add a network folder to your FolderChart tree without needing to map a drive to that folder.


Export...

Allows you to export the current FolderChart data to tab-delimitted text file.

This feature is only availiable once you have registered your copy of FolderChart.


Print...

Use this command to print the current FolderChart view.   This command presents a Print dialog box, where you may specify the range of pages to be printed, the number of copies, the destination printer, and other printer setup options.

This feature is only availiable once you have registered your copy of FolderChart.


Print Preview

Use this command to display the current FolderChart view as it would appear when printed.  When you choose this command, the main window will be replaced with a print preview window in which one or two pages will be displayed in their printed format.  The print preview toolbar offers you options to view either one or two pages at a time; move back and forth through the document; zoom in and out of pages; and initiate a print job.

This feature is only availiable once you have registered your copy of FolderChart.


Print Setup...

Use this command to select a printer and a printer connection.  This command presents a Print Setup dialog box, where you specify the printer and its connection.


Exit

Use this command to end your FolderChart session.  You can also use the Close command on the application Control menu.


View Menu

The View Menu contains the following items:

Toolbar

Status Bar

Include in Chart

Exclude from Chart

Show File Sizes

Show Cluster Overhead

Show File Count

Show Latest File Date

Sort

Refresh

Options


Toolbar

Use this command to display and hide the Toolbar, which includes buttons for some of the most common commands in FolderChart.  A check mark appears next to the menu item when the Toolbar is displayed.


Status Bar

Use this command to display and hide the Status Bar, which describes the action to be executed by the selected menu item or depressed toolbar button, and keyboard latch state. A check mark appears next to the menu item when the Status Bar is displayed.


Include in Chart

Adds a previously "Excluded" to the chart views.  Excluded folders do not show up in the chart views.


Exclude From Chart

Excludes the selected folder from the chart views.  If you are not interested in investigating your largest folder, you may want to "Exclude" it so that the range of your chart view can be smaller which will show more detail for your smaller folders.


Help Menu

The Help menu contains the following items:

Help Topics

Register...

About...


Show File Sizes

Toggles the File Sizes bar chart view.  The File Sizes view shows the exact file sizes (not including any cluster overhead).  To see the total bytes taken by your files, turn on both the "Show File Sizes" option and the "Show Cluster Overhead" options.  These two items are always charted as a stacked bar that represents the total bytes used by the files.


Help Topics

Displays this help file.


Register...

Allows you to enter both your name and your unique Registration Key.  To obtain a Registration Key, you must register your copy of FolderChart.  Once you have registered FolderChart, this menu option will no longer be enabled.

See Registering FolderChart.


About FolderChart...

Displays the Program and Copyright information.


Show Cluster Overhead

Toggles the File Cluster bar chart view.  The File Cluster view charts the "extra" space that is occupied by each file.  This amount of this "extra" space is based on the cluster size of your drive.

To see the total bytes taken by your files, turn on both the "Show File Sizes" option and the "Show Cluster Overhead" options.  These two items are always charted as a stacked bar that represents the total bytes used by the files.


Show File Count

Toggles the File Count chart view.  The File Count view charts the number of files in each folder.


Show Latest File Date

Toggles the Latest File Date chart view.  The Latest File Date view charts how many days old the newest file is in each folder.  With this view you can easily see folders that have not been changed in a long time.


Tools Menu

The Tools Menu contains the following items:

Start Folder Scan

Explore Folder

Delete Folder


Sort

Sorts the children of the selected folder by one of the four sort criteria:

Name - sorts the Folder's children by their name (default).

Size - sorts the Folder's children by their File Sizes.

Number of Files - sorts the Folder's children by the number of files.

Days old - sorts the Folder's children by their last file changed date.


Start Folder Scan

This is generally how you begin to use FolderChart.  This option Starts scanning the selected drive or folder.  The folder scan is done in the background so that you can still interact with FolderChart while it is processing.  All folders that are not yet finished with the scan are displayed with a cross-hatched bar in the chart views.


Explore Folder

Lauches the Windows Explorer application on the selected folder.


Delete Folder

This command should be used with caution.  It will delete the selected folder and all of its children if you answer Yes to the comfirmation prompt.


Refresh

Updates already scanned folders.  Use this command if you have added or deleted files and/or folders and you want to update the FolderChart data


Options

There are two property pages on the Options dialog.  One for setting Cluster Size options and one for setting Startup options.


Startup Options

Add root tree item for all drives - When this option is set, FolderChart will automatically add a FolderChart root tree item for all of your drives.  For example if you have A:, C:, and D: drives on your compter, FolderChart will start with three root folders (one for each drive).

Don't add removeable drives - When this option is set, FolderChart will ignore removeable drives.  This only applies if "Add root tree item for all drives" is set.  In the preceding example, if this option was also set, only C: and D: would automatically get added to the FolderChart tree at startup.

Automatically scan first drive at startup - When this option is set, FolderChart will automatically begin a scan on the C: drive on startup.


Cluster Sizes

This page lets you set the cluster size that will be used when calculating the cluster overhead for each file (see Show Cluster Overhead).  The two options are:

Use Drive's Own cluster size - FolderChart will attempt to determine the actual cluster size for each drives scanned and will use this value when calculating the overhead.  This is the default behavior.  However, FolderChart cannot accurrately determine the cluster size for some network drives.  In this case, you may specify the cluster size to use.

Specify target cluster size - If this option is selected, FolderChart will use the size entered here for calculating all file cluster overhead sizes.  If you are going to copy data from one drive to another you may want to see how much space the files will occupy on the target drive.  To do this, set the cluster size to that of the target drive so that scans on the source drive will appear as they would on the target drive.