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T R E E S I Z E
=================
Version 1.43
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 ⌐1996-1998 by Joachim Marder
TREESIZE PROFESSIONAL
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
TreeSize Professional 2.0 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 and last change 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
* The contents of a directory can be printed, including all files and
the corresponding icons
* You can search for your oldest, biggest and for temporary files on your
drives
* A complete list of files in the scanned folder can be exported
* Small folders can be removed from the tree
* Command line options allow sheduled scans
* 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
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 1.43: Released on Feb 1 1998
- Found 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
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