T R E E S I Z E F R E E =========================== Version 1.7.9 Every hard disk is too small if you just wait long enough. TreeSize tells you where precious space has gone to. TreeSize can be started from the context menu of a folder or drive and shows you the size of this folder, including its subfolders. You can expand this folder in Explorer-like style and you will see the size of every subfolder. Scanning is done in a thread, so you can already see results while TreeSize is working. The space, which is wasted by the file system can be displayed and the results can be printed in a report. INSTALLATION ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unzip the archive into a temporary folder, right-click on 'TInstall.inf' and select "Install". TreeSize is then copied to your Windows directory 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. KNOWN PROBLEMS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * TreeSize Free, in contrast to TreeSize Personal and Professional, does not support Unicode characters in paths. TIPS & ANNOTATIONS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The following information is important. Provided are instructions and information which makes understanding of TreeSize and how to use it easier. * The "wasted space" is the amount of space in clusters which is not completely filled (the last cluster of every file or if the file is smaller than one cluster) The file system FAT of Windows 95 has very big cluster sizes (up to 32k), so the amount of wasted space may significant (up to 25%). Please note: size of files + wasted space = allocated space. For a file of 1 KB size on a 1.2 GB hard disk you have wasted space of 31kb and allocated space of 32kb. * To reduce the wasted space on your hard disk, put folders with a lot of wasted space on a compressed drive, or use the NTFS file system. You can also make smaller partitions, 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 compressed drive only a little space is wasted, but it depends on the type of compression. TreeSize Professional has full support for NTFS compression. * 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 marked 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 another 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. * By default the Windows folder "System Volume Information" is not accessible for users as well as Administrators (you can check this in the Windows Explorer after switching the hiddon files to "on"). * Only file system folder can be scanned with TreeSize * To view the files in a folder, select 'Open' from the context menu of a folder * The 'filter' and 'user defined cluster size' are not saved to the registry in order to avoid wrong values being used by TreeSize next time. * "Access Denied" and other error messages are displayed by Windows and can be suppressed in the Professional version. * Treesize displays German menus if "German" is selected in the control panel. TREESIZE PROFESSIONAL / PERSONAL ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In Addition to TreeSize Free, TreeSize Professional and TreeSize Personal are available as well. In addition to the features of TreeSize Free, they have additional powerful features: * Several exporting and reporting possibilities: Printed report (showing the directory structure), Excel, HTML, XML, text file, clipboard. * TreeSize Pro is able to save its data to an XML file and to load it again later. * A saved XML file can be used to compare it against the current version of the file system branch. The difference between the two scans will be displayed and makes it easy to see which folders have grown. * Support for Unicode file and folder names. * Statistics about file types and file owners on directory level. * High performance through Multithreading: Scan and view several folders at the same time, Automatic adjustment of the number of threads that are used for a scan. * See all details (size, allocated, wasted, percent, files) at a glance. * The visible columns can be configured separately for the TreeSize Pro window, Excel export, HTML Export, Text export and printed reports. A lot of optional columns are available. * a shell extensions is included that adds an additional TreeSize column to the Windows Explorer that is showing the size not only for files but also for folders. * 3D bar and pie charts can be displayed or printed * Values are displayed in the form: 1,234,567.0 kb. The number of decimals and the unit (KB/MB/GB/mixed) is configurable * The contents of a directory can be printed, including all files and the corresponding icons * The integrated multi-path file search helps you to find and archive the largest, oldest, obsolete and temporary files, e.g. invalid shortcuts or files owned by a non existant account. * You can search disks for obsolete files (like temporary files, browser cache files, etc.) and for very large files * Full support for NTFS compression (the compression rate is displayed too) and for symbolic links of NTFS5. * Ability to scan folders to which the current user does not have access to. * A list of all files in the scanned file system branch can be exported. * Small folders can be removed from the tree to have a better overview. * Command line options allow scheduled scans. Am integrated wizard helps you to set up scheduled scans. * Help file and printable manual * And much more ... A trial version is available on: http://www.jam-software.com/treesize/ Rudowicz COPYRIGHT & LICENSE ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TreeSize is freeware, which means you can use TreeSize without charge and distribute the complete archive. TreeSize is intended for private use. People who use TreeSize at work should consider using TreeSize Professional, which offers a lot of additional features. Copyright ©1996-2006 by Joachim Marder CONTACT ~~~~~~~ JAM Software Joachim Marder Bruchhausenstr. 1 54290 Trier Germany E-Mail : info2@jam-software.com WWW : http://www.jam-software.com CHANGES ~~~~~~~ Version 1.7.9: Released on 27 Nov 2006 - TreeSize does not stop any more on "Access Denied" denied errors with a message box, it now continues scanning. - A few minor issues under Windows Vista have been fixed. Version 1.7.8: Released on 26 Jun 2006 - Bugfix: Changing the cluster size to a user defined value in the Scan Options didn't update the values of the wasted space. - In some cases the error handling has been improved and error messages are shown less often. - The flickering during the scan has been eliminated. - The French UI was not always shown. Version 1.7.7: Released on 11 Oct 2005 - Bugfix: The last version occasionally reported wrong sizes for folders with a lot of zero byte files in it. Version 1.7.6: Released on 04 Oct 2005 - Bugfix: Files with a size of exactly 4GB (2^32 Bytes) were counted as zero Bytes. - Some minor bug fixes and improvements Version 1.7.5: Released on 06 Jan 2005 - Slight increase of scan speed - Windows XP style is now supported - Some minor - Bugfix: Directories that have formerly been expanded but are collapsed when the view mode (size, allocated, wasted, percent, ...) was changed have not been updated correctly. Version 1.7.4: Released on 16 Sep 2004 - A problem with the rescan after switching to the user defined cluster size has been fixed. Version 1.7.3: Released on 10 Aug 2004 - A problem with the Shell Context menu has been fixed. Version 1.7.2: Released on 24 Jun 2004 - Some minor tweaks and bug fixes Version 1.7.1: Released on 05 Feb 2004 - TreeSize does not stop with an error message now if it gets an Access Denied error while scanning the directory "System Volume Information". This special Windows folder cannot be accessed by default (TreeSize Pro however is also able to scan folders like this to which you do not have access to). - The "Update Branch" menu item in the context menu of Folder did not work in the previous version. - Some minor bug fixes. Version 1.7: Released on 04 July 2003 - TreeSize now has an install / uninstall program Version 1.64: Released on 19 May 2003 - Fixed problem with values in "CD-ROM cluster size" mode if >4GB. - The menu item "Readme.txt" now really opens the Readme file of TreeSize Version 1.63: Released on 19 Dec 2002 - Some minor bug fixes Version 1.62: Released on 24 Jul 2002 - A French user interface is now included and should be used automatically on a French Windows - Some minor bugs have been fixed Version 1.61: Released on 12 Mar 2002 - The column headers in the printed report were missing in the previous version. - Some other minor issues fixed. Version 1.6: Released on 23 Dec 2001 - TreeSize is now based on the code of TreeSize Professional, that means it is faster and more robust now. - TreeSize no longer tries to scan the FTP servers that are part of the shell extension of WS FTP Professional - A problem with corrupt toolbar images with certain Win98 garphic card drviers has been fixed. - In the printed report directory lines are now printed - Several minor improvements have been incorporated. Version 1.51: Released on 16 Aug 1999 - Sometimes TreeSize caused all small Windows icons to have the wrong background color. This is corrected now. - Under Win98 TreeSize occasionally displayed an error message on startup. This is fixed now. - Under Windows 2000 TreeSize tried to scan My NetHood. This is fixed now. - The drives in the "Scan" menu now have a shortcut key Version 1.5: Released on 14 Jan 1999 - Drives can be selected for scanning from the main menu - Added "Properties" to context menu of topmost tree item. This allows you to call the properties dialog of your drives which contains the pie chart. - Added toolbar images to main menu - Recompiled with Borland Delphi V4.0 - Fixed problem: Sometimes wrong icon for the '' node - Fixed problem: Files >2GB were not handled correct. - Fixed problem: Allocated space was calculated slightly wrong. - Some minor bug fixes Version 1.44: Released on Aug 1 1998 - An error is removed which sometimes occurred when refreshing a folder - TreeSize now shows free space >2GB correctly Version 1.43: Released on Feb 1 1998 - Included a workaround for the problem which occured on some systems when scanning the Channels folder of IE4. - The Recycled folders now show the correct size on IE4 and Windows 98 systems 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 calculated 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 are 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 correctly now - Added status bar 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/status bar 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