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- 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 '<Files>' node
- - Recompiled with Delphi 3
-
- Version 1.3: Releasedd on 25 Jun 1997
- - The <DEL>-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
-