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1. A F T WA RE TS Professional 4 User s Manual 1996 2007 by Joachim Marder TreeSize Professional 4 1996 2007 by Joachim Marder All rights reserved No parts of this work may be reproduced in any form or by any means graphic electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording taping or information storage and retrieval systems without the written permission of the publisher Products that are referred to in this document may be either trademarks and or registered trademarks of the respective owners The publisher and the author make no claim to these trademarks While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of this document the publisher and the author assume no responsibility for errors or omissions or for damages resulting from the use of information contained in this document or from the use of programs and source code that may accompany it In no event shall the publisher and the author be liable for any loss of profit or any other commercial damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by this document Printed April 2007 Development Contact JAM Software Joachim Marder e K Joachim Marder Bruchhausenstr 1 Tobias Pautz 54290 Tri Ajoschi Roth G nz Harald Binkle Volker Schumacher Christian Bettinger FAX 49 700 70707059 E mail support jam software com WWW hitp Avww jam software com Table of Contents 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
2. In this mode the size of the files in a folder including all sub folders will be shown This will show the amount of space that is allocated on disk for this folder again including all sub folders Shows how many percent of the parent folder s size each folder occupies Shows the amount of space that is wasted by the file system for the storage of all files in this folder including all sub folders This mode will show how much space a folder would occupy on a CD ROM Please keep in mind that some space on the CD will be needed to store the directory information Shows the number of files in each directory branch Use the next menu items to switch between different tab sheets for the right pane of the TreeSize Professional 4 main window Chart Details Extensions Users File Ages Top 100 Files Shows a chart on the right side of the window Shows a detailed list with all objects in the current folder For each object you can see the size the allocated and wasted space the number of files the last access and change date and the percent of the parent folder Shows a statistic for the currently selected file system branch that shows the size of each file type in this branch Shows a statistic for the currently selected file system branch that shows a statistic for the users with the summarized size of all files that he owns Shows the distribution of the file ages in a bar chart Shows a list with the Top 100 lar
3. Shows a dialog which lets you choose a folder for scanning After pressing OK TreeSize Professional 4 starts scanning the selected path You can also enter a path directly into the drive combo box in the toolbar Opens a XML report that has been saved earlier That way you can view earlier results without performing a whole scan again Save the information of the current file system branch to a XML file This file can be loaded in TreeSize Professional 4 again or can be used to perform a comparison at a later time TreeSize Professional 4 ships with a XSLT file that formats the data inside the XML file for output in a browser that supports XSLT processing e g Firefox gt V1 0 or Internet Explorer gt V5 5 Please note that the information about single files is not saved to the XML because this would increase the size of the XML files too much Thus only the information about folders is included in the file If you need reporting on file level our software SpaceObServer may be useful for you Loads a saved XML report and compares it to the current one by subtracting the old size information from the current one That way folders unchanged in size will show up with a size of 0 after the comparison folders that have grown will have values greater than O and will be displayed in red color Folders that became smaller compared to the loaded report will have negative values and will be displayed in green color Please note that since the informati
4. html drive d html PIECHART d html drive d jpg D MOVETO Allows to move the results of a file search to a ZIP file another path or the recycle bin It can only be used in connection with a SEARCH Start command line option To move the files to the recycle bin specify the name of the recycle bin as seen in the Windows Explorer The following command will search drive C for internet cache files and move them to a ZIP file called ObsoleteFiles zip tsizepro SEARCH Internet MOVETO C temp ObsoleteFiles zip C The second will use the previous search options and move all files that were found on Drive C to a path Obsolete Files tsizepro SEARCH Start MOVETO E Obsolete Files Ch NOGUI No window will be shown and the application will not appear in the task bar Useful for background scans Caution Use this switch only if you have tested the rest of the command line options because error messages cannot be displayed in this mode However it tries to log errors in the event log of Windows Make sure that this is the first command line switch when using it TreeSize Professional 4 Schedule TreeSize Tasks 32 TreeSize Professional 4 OPEN PIECHART PRINT PRINT1 RESTRICTED ISAVE SEARCH TITLE UNITTYPE N Opens a saved XML report on application start Example tsizepro OPEN C Reports Drive C xml Saves the pie chart o
5. 22 Tools Menu 24 Tooltips 15 Top 100 Files 14 TreeSize Explorer Column 3 U Unattended Installation FAQ 5 Unit 22 Update scan 22 User defined cluster size 16 Users 13 V View Menu 22 Visible columns 17 W Wasted Space 3 22 Windows Explore 20 Windows Explorer 3 A XML Export 20 XML Report 29 TreeSize Professional 4 Index
6. Options Columns you may choose the included columns after selecting one of the export options in the pull down box on top of the window TreeSize Professional 4 FAQ FAQ 9 Q A gt O would like to print an entire list of contents of my hard disk including the files Why does TreeSize Professional 4 not support this A normal Windows 2000 installation itself already has 6000 8000 files in the Windows directory Just printing this directory would produce 90 130 pages and printing a whole drive would produce many more pages Therefore TreeSize Professional 4 only supports printing the contents of the currently selected folder The Professional Edition of TreeSize Professional 4 allows you additionally to export a complete list of all files of the scanned drive or folder to the clipboard which then allows further processing of the list like inserting it in a database or a spreadsheet How can I generate a list of files that belong to a certain user Please make sure in the Options of the Scan tab that statistical data for the users is collected Scan the folder and wait for its completion Go to the Users tab in the right pane right click on a user and select Limit on this user Then right click on the root of the scanned directory and choose Export Copy List of Files which may take a while Then paste the file list e g to a spreadsheet Why does TreeSize Professional 4 Professional not expo
7. The number of sub folders in a directory branch The amount of space that is wasted by the file system see also Wasted Space The amount of space in percent that a folder or file occupies relative to its parent folder The last change date of the object TreeSize Professional 4 calculates the last change and last access date more precisely than the Windows Explorer so the values shown in the Windows Explorer may differ The last access date of the object The size in percent by which an object has been compressed using the built in compression of the file system see also Notes on NTFS The user name that owns a folder or file TreeSize Professional 4 Options 18 TreeSize Professional 4 CD ROM Size Current Date Attributes File Type Dir Level Creation Date Path Without Name Avg File Size Permissions File Version Title of Scan MS Office Author MS Office Last Save Date The amount of space that an object would occupy on a CD or DVD with ISO file system The current date This column can be useful if you want to process the collected data e g in a database The file attributes Readonly R Hidden H System S Archive A The file type e g Text file The level of an object in the file system This value can be useful when processing the collected data The date at which the object has been created The full path to object not containing the object s name The average
8. 9 1 9 2 9 3 9 4 10 10 1 10 2 10 3 10 4 10 5 10 6 10 7 10 8 10 9 10 10 11 11 1 11 2 11 3 11 4 11 5 11 6 11 7 Overview Installation Quickstart Tips amp Annotations TreeSize Column for Explorer Wasted Space Notes on NTFS Printing FAQ General Registration cssccssssseesseeesssnersseenssesesneesseeesesneneat Main Program s ccssscssscesseeessseensaneesseenseeesssnenssnenssaeeaseeenseeseeneneaees Printing Export ccssccsscesssseessrenssceeseeessseensseensssensseesnseesesneneaees Fil Search airaa Eege Eege EE AER EE AE Windows amp Tabs Ke ETC File System Tree csseccesccesseeessseeessesnseenseeessnenssanensaesnseeesseeessaees Drive Paniel irin eee ctenteageneteegiecitesieeteecdvehs Eed Chart ee ee RI CU Eviensieng har aaae aeaaeai dE EENS Heere o eteegege d ege eege File Ages cssesssesssenesstenseeenseeessneesssneesaesnseesnseeesseenssatensaesnseeesseeensates Top 100 Files ccccceeeeseeeseeeesecesesesesneeseneeseseeseesesaesasneesesnessenenss HiStOry vasarahai aa aa aa uaaa aaia Options Options Dialog sccsscseseeessrenssensseesseeesssnenssnensssensseeenseensseeneat VieW Tabs S E AE AE Scan Tab GEESS Incl de Exclude Tab cccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeneeenenseseeeseneneneeesenssseensneees Columns EC SE Staptopg Tabt oggesgee ge vEREeuEEEE EE edd Eer Shell Extensi hS ugeet d esh e DANN EE EC T ENEE SNE e de
9. FE petat 17 Extensions KR E rie ages Z top 100 Fles DEER E BW ebtitikten lzs e CH 74 9 MB Dustscher 616 0 MB Gr ie gt Ss A 432 3 MB Roth Drive Profiles on Server 312 6 MB Bettinger i 303 9 MB Schumacher 179 3 MB Sales 91 9 MB Praktikant 73 2 MB RECYCLER 50 0 MB Gap 41 7 MB Sausen 14 4 MB Sausen otd 1 0 MB Abxaz t L L 2 COCCOORRODG Nore See Free Free zech 15 968 oMa SE amp VServ BOB 10 6 B ss ree Space 34 229 MB of 39 996 MB 61 065 Fies 0 Bxckxded 1 On this toolbar the user can select which drive or path should be scanned Press the button with the arrow on the right to start scanning TreeSize Professional 4 here remembers the last paths that have TreeSize Professional 4 Overview TreeSize Professional 4 been used Here the user can get an overview of the currently scanned drive This and the other toolbars can be turned off in their context menu The Chart page shows a pie or bar chart of the currently selected directory Use the context to show a toolbar with advanced charting features The Details tab shows detailed information about the sub folders and the files inside the currently selected folder The Extensions tab shows the size information grouped by file types That way you will get an overview what file types take up most of the space The Users tab shows the size information grouped by us
10. REENEN TreeSize Professional 4 Table of Contents TreeSize Professional 4 12 The Menus 20 121 FAG MOM ls eebe eege E a aa aaea raaa aaa Na eaa aa a aan aaea aae o Seege 20 12 2 Export Submenu sece a A EA AEAEE AEA EE 21 aP eaaa E 22 42 4 View Mem a a A E E EES 22 92 5 ET A E TEE 23 12 6 Tools Menu NEE 24 12 7 The Context d EI TEE 24 13 File Search 26 13 1 The File Search Window cccccccssseeeceeceesseeeeceeecasneeneneesenssneneeaeeeasesenneneseesenranseaecesenseseneeeeeeaeans 26 13 2 File Search Options seess daadaa aada ala ana EEEa ENE SANA AEE ATEA EaR 27 13 3 Temporary File Search Configuration s s ss ssssssessseunseusnnnsnunnunnnnnnnunnnnunnnunnunnnnnnunnnnnnnunnnnnnnnnnnn 28 14 Schedule TreeSize Tasks 28 14 1 Schedule Dialogue cccssccsssssceessensseenesseeesseseseesnseeeseseessanensaeseseesneeessseensseenssaeesseeenseeseseeneaes 28 14 2 Command Line Options o seseina teanen meee ernaar eane aar apr Sarrea a r apaa hE NoE reep eara E EEn EE 29 15 Copyright amp Contact 33 Index 35 TreeSize Professional 4 Table of Contents Overview 1 Overview TreeSize is a powerful and flexible hard disk space manager for Windows 98 ME 2000 XP 2003 Vista Find out which folders are the largest on your drives and recover megabytes on them TreeSize shows you the size allocated and wasted space the number of files 3D bar and pie charts the last access date the
11. and the date of last access and last change TreeSize Professional 4 Windows amp Tabs Windows amp Tabs 13 S015 td Xx ra a m By right clicking the mouse in the table s head you may toggle on off different columns 10 6 Extensions The tab Extensions shows information on size grouped by file types Thus you ll have an overview of the types of files that use up most of the disk space Use the toolbar Data in order to select specific information for view and the sorting of data By clicking on the corresponding icons at the upper part of the tab you may also save the file type list in a file print it copy it or view a chart on the same tab as well 10 7 Users The tab Users shows information on size grouped by users At a glance you may inspect which user uses how much space in which folder By using the icons in the upper part of the tab you can save this list in a file print or copy it or view a chart on the same tab as well User that do not own files in the TreeSize Professional 4 Windows amp Tabs 14 TreeSize Professional 4 currently selected file system branch will not be listed The statistics on file owners can be activated in the Options dialog 10 8 File Ages The tab File Ages shows the distribution of the age of scanned files Basis for ascertaining the file age is the date of last change Values for the specified peri
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13. file owner the NTFS compression rate and much more information for several folders or drives you choose It also lets you search for old big and temporary files The application has an intuitive Explorer like user interface it is fast multithreaded and supports Unicode and scheduled scans You can print detailed reports and the Professional Edition can export the collected data to Excel and to an HTML XML or ASCII file TreeSize Professional can be started from the context menu of every folder or drive For every button and menu item a short description is displayed in the status bar If you have further questions please contact JAM Software Installation To install TreeSize Professional 4 execute the setup file and follow the instructions The setup program will copy the necessary files to your hard disk and will create a new program group in the Start Menu TreeSize Professional 4 may be uninstalled using the Software applet in the Control Panel of Windows The password needed for installing the registered version is printed on the disk label and is also available online in our customer s area Quickstart gt TreeSize Professional Size Drive Profiles on Server Fie Badh Vew Sot Took h Ss Wserver Pretori AE O ze Abe w wexs SO 2L mwee GEE ie VGerver2Proties Sizer 3 2127 M Alocated 33358 M Files 45509 Wastedt124 1 MO Last Change 25 032006 Last Access 26 032008 Compr200 Owner Administrators gt meci chet
14. just one user s files Please make sure that the option Group by user is activated in the Options of TreeSize Professional 4 After the scan is finished please right click on this user on the Users tab and choose Limit to this user from the context menu On a Novell Netware volume TreeSize Professional 4 reports compressed files as uncompressed and the user names are missing in the Owner columns Why A Unfortunately the Netware client for Windows does not support information about compression and P E ds file owners through standard Windows API functions So developers have to integrate special support for Netware in their applications We may address this issue in a later version of TreeSize Professional 4 but so far we do not actively support Netware All other parts of TreeSize Professional 4 work fine with Netware volumes Is it possible to perform a silent installation of this software Starting the setup with the command line parameters SILENT PASSWORD YourInstallPassword will perform a silent and automatic installation with the default settings Please replace YourInstallPassword With the installation password that you received after your registration Using VERYSILENT instead of SILENT will prevent any visual feedback The option DIR x dirname can be used to override the default install path Is it possible to search for file extensions with TreeSize Professional 4 You can for ex
15. levels of the current folder Expand Folder over This menu item allows you to expand only those folders in the tree which are larger than a certain size Remove Folder lt xxxMB Selecting this menu item will remove all folders which are smaller than a certain size from the directory tree Set Size Allows you to specify the folder size for the above two operations Detailed List The detailed list shows the Windows Explorer context menu when you right click on an item Additional a submenu labeled TREESIZE is included which shows all information that is available about the selected item including the columns that are currently not activated This submenu may also be used to activate or deactivate columns TreeSize Professional 4 The Menus 26 TreeSize Professional 4 13 File Search 13 1 The File Search Window The File Search window allows you to search for big old and temporary files You will find the following tabs on the top of the window Biggest Files Oldest Files Temporary Files Internet Files Duplicate Files Scan Options View Options This page allows to search for the biggest files on your hard disk You can specify a minimum size in kilobytes or megabytes All files larger than this value will be shown in the list This page allows you to search for files that have not been changed or accessed since a certain date You can limit the search to entire folders In this case only folder
16. size of a file in a folder The access permissions of the object in the format Username R W X Usernamez2 where means the right is granted and means that the right is denied R stands for read access and W for right access For files X means the right to execute for directories the right to list the directory content The version number that is included in EXE DLL OCX and similar binary files By default the title volume label and drive letter of a scan It can be changed using Set Title in the File menu This value can be useful for archiving purposes This column shows the author information that is extracted from the meta data of the file taken from MS Office and compatible files This column shows the date on which the file was saved the last time taken from MS Office and compatible files This information is extracted from the meta data of the file Note The column settings of the text export also effect the export to clipboard The column that should be visible in the details list can easily be selected by right clicking on the column header TreeSize Professional 4 Options Options 19 TreeSize Professional Eile Branch View zer Tools Y mie x DAX Help Dn Ee o p a Chart BC Details S Extensions S Users Top 100 Files d Wasted ofPar Alle meted rise Name Par v Name Full Path v Size v Allocated v of Pa
17. the result with a saved XML report for this drive tsizepro COMPARE C temp TSP XML c xml Ch Alternatively you can compare two already saved XML reports e g c1 xml and c2 xml by using this command tsizepro OPEN C temp TSP XML cl xml COMPARE C temp TSP XML c2 xml The OPEN command prepares the comparison of the two files by expanding the first file c1 xml into a scan file The second file c2 xm1 will be compared to this expanded scan file just like it would happen if we would compare c2 xml to a real scan This switch will add the current date to all file names occurring after it on the command line This is useful if you want to do scans regularly every night or every weekend If you want the date included in all filenames then DATE should be your first command line option The following example will scan the network path host share and save the result to a file like C scans name 03 12 20 1550 xls tsizepro DATE EXCEL C scans name xls host share Sends the collected data to the given e mail address using MAPI Your e mail application must be configured properly for MAPI Multiple recipients can be separated with semicolons or commas Example tsizepro EMAIL sysadmin company com SERVER C Exports the collected data to Excel and saves it under the given file name If the file name already exists the file will be open
18. Drives Panel 22 E Error messages 16 Excel Export 21 Exclude from scanning 17 Expand directory trees 24 Expanding big folders 24 Expanding directory tree 24 Explorer Context Menu 20 Export FAQ 8 Export complete list of files 21 Exportdata 21 Export Options 17 Extensions 13 F FAT file system 3 File Age 14 file extensions statistics 6 File extensions statistics 16 File list 21 24 FileMenu 20 File owners statistics 16 File Search FAQ 9 File Search Options 27 File System Tree 11 File Types 13 Filter 16 G Group by extensions 16 Group by users 16 H History 14 TreeSize Professional 4 Index 36 TreeSize Professional 4 Installation 1 Installation FAQ 5 J JAM Software 33 L Links 4 Load Report 20 M Macfiles 6 Mountpoints 16 N NTFS 4 NTFS file system 3 NTFS Kompression 24 O Occupied Space 6 Options 15 Overnight Scans 28 Overview 1 P Pie Chart 12 Print Chart 5 Print directory 5 Printer Setup 20 Printing 5 Printing FAQ 8 Program Start 19 Q Quickstart 1 R RAID arrays 6 Removing small folders 24 Reparse Points 4 Report 5 S Save Report 20 Scheduled Scans 28 Settings 15 Shell Extensions 20 Silent Installation 6 Silent Installation FAQ 5 Sorting 23 Sparse Files 4 Startup 19 Symbolic links 4 16 System Volume Information 6 T Temporary File Search Configuration 28 Temporary files 26 Tips amp Annotations 2 Toolbars 10
19. again with full administrative privileges Opens a window that helps you to schedule scans Opens the Add Remove Software applet of the control panel Empties the recycle bin of Windows Opens a window that allows you to connect a network drive to a drive letter Professional Edition only 12 7 The Context Menus File System Tree When you right click on a folder or file in the tree on the left TreeSize Professional 4 will display the Explorer context menu Additionally you will find the following menu items in the TreeSize Professional 4 submenu Apply NTFS Compression Decompress New Folder Update this Branch Remove from TreeSize Temporarily Copy Branch Data to Clipboard Copy Files of Branch Compresses the entire directory branch using NTFS Compression TreeSize Professional 4 updates its statistical data while it compresses the branch This operation can take a long time depending on the amount of data that needs to be compressed Decompresses all files in the selected directory branch for which NTFS compression is turned on This operation can be used to reverse the above operation Creates a new folder in the selected folder Updates the statistical data for the selected subdirectory This is usually faster than updating the whole directory Using this menu item you may remove a folder from TreeSize Professional 4 and its calculations The removal is only temporary the folder will not be deleted physica
20. ample apply a filter for a scan in the Options by adding patterns like bmp to the edit field A second possibility is to enable the Group by Extension feature in the Options This will provide a detailed statistics for the file types in each sub tree and you will be able to limit the values in the directory tree to one file type A third possibility is to use the Temporary File Search of the File Search module by adding your custom extensions on the Temporary files tab after pressing the Configure button Our new product SpaceObServer has extended and more flexible reporting features if needed The wasted space shown by TreeSize Professional 4 is extremely high How can I reduce the wasted space A Most likely you are using the FAT32 file system which usually produces a lot of wasted space due to its large cluster size Please read the chapter Wasted Space in the help file to understand what wasted space is and to learn how to reduce it Q The folder System Volume Information in the root of my drive uses a lot of disk space What is the purpose of this folder A This folder is part of the Windows System Restore You shouldn t delete any files in this folder manually Its size can be reduced by changing the appropriate setting in the System applet of the Windows Control Panel Printing Export Q A How can specify the columns that should be included in the printed report exported Excel file Under View
21. ange to a folder higher up in the tree II lt lt Change settings for viewing and folder scan T Opens the Software dialog from the Windows System Control Shows the window for file search see File Search Toolbar Data The second toolbar Data includes icons for the viewing of collected data t Opens up the folder tree up to a certain level Shows folder size Shows how much disk space a folder requires Shows how many percent of the superordinated folder each folder takes TreeSize Professional 4 FAQ Windows amp Tabs 11 Shows space wasted by the file system Shows how much space a folder would need on a CD ROM Shows the number of files in a folder Sorts elements alphabetically Sorts elements according to their size Shows elements without sorting Shows values in kilobytes Shows values in megabytes Shows values in gigabytes Uses an adequate unit of measurement according to the size of the elements Shows a pie chart for the active folder Shows a bar chart for the active folder Shows all information for sub folders MHATHAR e kl Toolbar Overview et Size 15 859 67 MB Allocated 15 252 79MB Files 106 024 Wasted 237 42 MB Last Change 19 01 2007 Last Access 19 01 2007 Compr 3 83 Owner Administratoren The third toolbar Overview shows you the active drive as well as its usage and seizure 10 2 File System Tree The file system tree of the drive or folder scan
22. can will be scanned a special set of drives and paths can be specified on the command line separated with blanks Usage example tsizepro SEARCH Internet The settings of the last performed file search will be used However you can specify the search patterns for the temporary file search using the FILTER command line option Tip You can use the SAVE command line option to save the results of the file search to a text or CSV file Can be used to change the title of the printed or exported report That allows you to supply additional information to the user when using TreeSize Professional 4 in an automated environment tsizepro TITLE This is drive C on Server3 PRINT Server3 Cs This option can be used to specify the unit that should be used for displaying size values N can have the values 0 to 4 which mean 0 Bytes 1 KB 2 MB 3 GB Without this option the value will be used that was set the last when the TreeSize File Search was used TreeSize Professional 4 Schedule TreeSize Tasks Schedule TreeSize Tasks 33 USERSLIST This option allows you to save the statistics showing the results grouped by username to CSV file The following example scans drive C and creates a CSV file in C Temp with the statistics of the users on this drive tsizepro USERSLIST C temp C_users csv Ch XML Saves the results to a XML file that can be loaded again later and can be used for comparisons ts
23. chart In the pie chart small folders may be summarized in a slice named Other If a root of a drive is displayed in a pie chart and you have switched to the Allocated Space mode the free space of this drive will also be displayed as one slice of the pie There is an option in the right click menu of the pie chart to turn this behaviour on or off Clicking on a slice or bar shows detailed information about the corresponding folder double clicking will change into the selected folder Under View Toolbars or in the context menu of the chart the chart toolbar can be turned on or off It allows you to manipulate the charts in several ways for example zooming turning on or off the grid lines switching between 2D and 3D mode changing colors etc Using this toolbar you can also copy the current chart to the clipboard or save it as a file The color of a chart element can be changed by selecting the appropriate color in the color pull down menu and then clicking on the chart that you would like to change Choose Print Chart from the File menu to print a chart A chart will be printed exactly as you see it on the screen 10 5 Details The tab Details lists detailed information for sub folders and files of the selected drive or folder You ll see a list of all elements in the selected folder For each element many details are shown such as size space usage wasted space number of elements share in super ordinate folder in percent
24. d TreeSize Professional 4 will additionally generate a statistics for the file extensions in each subtree The results can be viewed on the Extensions tab of the main window where you are also able to limit the values in the directory tree to one file type If this checkbox is activated TreeSize Professional 4 will additionally generate a statistics for the file owners in each subtree The results can be viewed on the Users tab of the main window where you are also able to limit the values in the directory tree to one of the users Since it is necessary to query the owner of each file this option will slow down the scanning process if activated Use this option to see what the values for allocated and wasted space would be with a different cluster size or file system Changing this option will make a rescan necessary This options will not be saved when you exit TreeSize Professional 4 in order to avoid wrong results when using it the next time TreeSize Professional 4 Options Options 17 11 4 Include Exclude Tab The Include Exclude tab allows you to filter the scanned files and folders File Types If you need information about certain file types only you can specify a filter here You may use multiple filters separated with blanks So if you for example want to see how much space your executable files and their libraries occupy use the filter exe dll here If you want to include all files use Chang
25. e optional They will be included if they are activated for the text export in the Options Please note that activating these columns will significantly slow down the export process because querying this information under Windows is a slow operation The main menu bar has a Branch menu that contains some actions that can be applied to complete scans branches Update Automatic Updates Expand Remove From TreeSize 12 4 View Menu Toolbars Show Drives Panel Rescans the current directory branch completely Allows you to turn automatic updates on or off for the currently selected scan If automatic updates are turned on TreeSize Professional 4 keeps track of the Windows change notifications and updates the changed folders It will also update the size of a folder if it gets listed on the details sheet If you don t want the size information to change after the scan has finished you should turn off Automatic Updates The Expand submenu equals the one in the context menu This menu item will remove the currently selected scan from the view Allows to turn the toolbars on or off Allows to turn a list with local and remote drives in the lower left corner of the main window on or off You can choose different types of values for displaying in the tree on the left side TreeSize Professional 4 The Menus The Menus 23 Size Allocated Space Percent Wasted Space CD ROM Cluster Size File Count
26. ecdnas 90 Objekte e Freier Speicherplatz 3 53 GB 0 Byte 15 10 2004 09 19 AOIL NINNA ASO d Arbeitsplatz 6 Wasted Space The wasted space is the amount of space in clusters on your hard disk that are not entirely filled Keep the following formula in mind size wasted space allocated space Windows 9x with its file system FAT32 may have very large cluster sizes depending on the partition size TreeSize Professional 4 Tips amp Annotations TreeSize Professional 4 FAT32 Partition Size Default Cluster Size 01 08 GB 08 16 GB If you have for example a single FAT32 partition on a 32GB hard disk you have a cluster size of 32KB on it If you store 10 files of 1 KB on this partition this would use 10 32KB 320KB of your hard disk space and 320KB 10KB 310KB would be wasted Especially a huge number of small files significantly increases the amount of wasted space on FAT partitions To reduce the wasted space there are the following possibilities e Avoid using the FAT32 file system on partitions larger than 16GB e Windows NT 2000 XP provide the possibility to format your hard disk with the NTFS file system It usually operates with 512 4096 Byte clusters and has the best storage efficiency of all Windows file systems Furthermore NTFS is able to compress selected directory branches NTFS partitions cannot be accessed from Windows 9x or DOS without use of 3rd party software Note
27. ed and a new sheet will be added The application will terminate itself after saving Example tsizepro EXCEL C Documents c xls C This option allows to specify patterns for files and folders that should be excluded from a scan Multiple exclude patterns can be separated using a semicolon If one or more of the patterns contain spaces the complete pattern string must be set into quotes This command line option is equal to the Exclude list in the Options dialog The following example will ignore folders that end with 001 and folders that are named system tsizepro EXCLUDE 001 system server Users TreeSize Professional 4 Schedule TreeSize Tasks Schedule TreeSize Tasks 31 EXPAND This option lets you specify how many levels in the directory tree will be expanded after scanning If you don t specify a number all folders will be expanded Instead of a directory level you can also indicate an amount in MB In this case all folders larger than the given amount will be expanded The unit MB must follow the number without a blank The following example will scan the folder H user expand all folders larger than 10MB and save the result to the Excel file c Results Allusers xls tsizepro EXCEL C Results Allusers xls EXPAND 10MB H user EXTENSIONSLIST This option allows you to save the statistics on file extensions file types of the scanned file system bra
28. er names This allows you to see which users use most of the disk space The File Ages tab shows when folders have been created The Top 100 files lists the 100 largest files in the scanned directory tree The file system tree of the scanned folder or drive gives you an immediate overview of the size of each folder 10 The drive panel provides an overview of all local and mapped network drives Additional network drives can be added using the context menu Double click on a drive to start a scan in TreeSize Professional 4 11 The status bar informs you about the allocated and free space of the current drive the file system type etc Tips amp Annotations Especially scans of network drives may take a long time With the Professional Edition you may perform such scans overnight using Scheduled Scans and save the results to a XML file which can be loaded again later The last access date is the day when a file was used the last time for example when a program was executed a DLL was loaded or a bitmap was shown the last time So if a file has not been accessed for a long time it may probably not be needed on your system This is a great possibility to recognize and remove unused files from your Windows and System directory Use the TreeSize File Search to find large or obsolete files on your hard drives In the main windows TreeSize Professional 4 supports drag amp drop file system operations All folders that are visib
29. es in specified directories over a certain age and if so can this be scheduled TreeSize Professional 4 FAQ 10 TreeSize Professional 4 A TreeSize Professional 4 can search report and delete files over a certain age using the file search For security reasons we have designed the deleting operation to be not scriptable with the exception of the possibility to move the files which is available through a command line option Professional Edition only 10 Windows amp Tabs 10 1 Toolbars Directly beneath the menu bar you ll find three toolbars showing icons for fast access to frequently used functions Every single toolbar may be turned on or off in the context menu right click on the toolbar Toolbar Scan Uc Je al The first toolbar Scan includes on the left side a pull down box with drives Here you can determine which drive should be scanned TreeSize Professional 4 saves those paths that were last used in the pull down box for faster access Next to this box you ll find various icons for scanning of folders and drives Starts the scanning process Scans the drive or folder selected in the pull down box on the left Lets you select a folder for scanning Lets you scan the whole folder again Turns on off the automatic updating based on news from the Windows Shell Wi ee Remove this folder from scanning by TreeSize Professional 4 e Prints a report for the active folder w Ch
30. eted because they are necessary for the operating system or other software to run Files known to be important for a system can be added to the exclude list here and will then not be shown in the results any more New entries in this list can be easily added using the right click menu of the result lists TreeSize Professional 4 File Search 28 TreeSize Professional 4 Fitter fur Dateien Ordner TEMPL TMPL Greef af Muster hinzuf gen INDEX DAT FAT DB SYSTEM DLL EXE Dateien ausschlie en die RECYCL ge ndert wurden in den letzten 0 la Stunden Le Additionally you may exclude files that have been changed in the past hours If a file has been changed recently there is a high probability that the file is not truly obsolete 13 3 Temporary File Search Configuration 14 14 1 Patterns The main part of the Temporary File Search is based on typical filename patterns You may customize these patterns using the Customize button on the top of the Temporary File Search You may change or delete existing patterns as well as add new patterns Using the checkboxes on the left you can deactivate certain patterns without deleting them Include files with temporary attribute Applications that create a temporary file may inform the operating system with a special flag about this fact With this checkbox activated TreeSize Professional 4 will include such files in the search results Include files that do
31. f the scanned directory to a bitmap PNG or JPEG file The following example will scan the drives C and D and produce a chart for each one in PNG format tsizepro PIECHART C Temp c png C PIECHART C Temp d png D Prints a report for the scanned folder to the default printer The application will be terminated after printing Usage example tsizepro PRINT CA Di Prints only the first page of a report for the scanned folder to the default printer The application will be terminated after printing Usage example tsizepro PRINT1 SERVER USERS Starts TreeSize Professional 4 in a readonly mode in which the user does not have access to Explorer context menu may not rename or delete files or folders and the buttons for the Software applet and to connect a network drive are not available in the tool bar Saves the results to a text file after scanning is finished The application will terminate itself after saving Example tsizepro SAVE C Results c txt C Opens the File Search window of TreeSize Professional A If start is added to this command line option the search is started immediately with the settings used the last time Files that are added to the result lists will be checked automatically If TreeSize Professional A finds Internet added to this command line option it will start searching for temporary internet files and delete them The drives activated during the last regular s
32. gest files in the scanned directory or drive You can change the way TreeSize Professional 4 displays the sizes using these menu items or the corresponding toolbar buttons The number of decimals can be changed in the Options dialog Values as KB Values as MB Values as GB Mixed Units All size values will be shown in Kilobytes All size values will be shown in Megabytes All size values will be shown in Gigabytes For each value an appropriate unit KB MB GB is chosen automatically To change the main settings of TreeSize Professional 4 Options 12 5 Sort Menu Sort by size Sort by name Shows the Options dialog The largest folders will be displayed first The folders will be sorted alphabetically TreeSize Professional 4 The Menus 24 TreeSize Professional 4 No Sorting 12 6 Tools Menu Update all TreeSize File Search Start TreeSize as Administrator Schedule TreeSize Scan Add Remove Software Empty Recycle Bin Connect Network Drive No sorting is done This can be useful when scanning large folders drives because folders don t permanently change their position Rescans all folders which are currently listed in the TreeSize Professional 4 main window You can update an individual folder through the context menu of this folder Shows the File Search window which allows to search for obsolete files This menu item which is only available under Windows Vista will start TreeSize
33. ing this option will make a rescan necessary This options will not be saved when you exit TreeSize Professional 4 in order to avoid wrong results when using it the next time Include only Files Created in This option is quite self explanatory and can be useful to calculate the size the Past XX Days Include only Files with Archive Bit Set Excludes 11 5 Columns Tab of backups or to identify heavy growing folders This option is useful if you are interested in the size of a backup that will be performed on the basis of the Windows Archive Bit If you want to exclude certain files or folders from scanning add matching patterns here A pattern may look like Windows or tmp Files or folders matching one of the specified patterns will be ignored during a scan The Columns tab allows you to choose the columns that should be visible You may choose the columns separately for each output media details view Excel export printed report text file etc by first selecting the appropriate entry in the pull down box on the top The following columns are available Name Full Path Size Allocated Files Folders Wasted of Parent Last Change Last Access Compr Owner The name of the folder or file The full path including the object s name The size of the object The space that the object currently occupies on disk see also Wasted Space and NTFS Compression The number of files in a directory branch
34. izepro XML C Results Allusers xml H users Directories At the end of the command line you may pass one or more paths that should be scanned by TreeSize Professional 4 The wildcards and are allowed Example tsizepro H users A To start one instance of TreeSize Professional 4 for each folder you may use the Windows or command like this for D i in C Windows S do start w tsizepro exe Si Scheduled Start You can use the Scheduled Tasks folder of Windows to run TreeSize Professional daily at a certain time the Schedule dialog of TreeSize Professional will help you setting up a scheduled task If you are using Windows NT4 or later you can also use the at command to perform scheduled scans If you for example want to scan the drives C and E next night at 03 00 a m and save the results to an Excel file you must enter the following on the NT command line at 03 00 C Program Files JAM Software TreeSize Professional tsizepro exe EXCEL c temp tsp xls EXPAND 2 c eh If you want to see the results of the file search on your screen when you come into your office in the morning you should enter something like at 06 00 INTERACTIVE C Program Files JAM Software TreeSize Professional tsizepro exe SEARCH Start Read more about the at command in the Windows NT help Error messages occurring during scheduled scans are listed in the Event Log of Windows Windows Scri
35. le in the directory tree on the left will also occur in a printed report or the exported file In the Options of TreeSize Professional 4 you can set all folders of the current directory tree to be printed or exported The Filter and User defined cluster size settings in the Options are not saved to the registry in order to avoid wrong values when using TreeSize Professional 4 the next time You can use the CD ROM view to determine how much space a directory tree would occupy on a CD or DVD with ISO file system In the Recycled Folders you will not see the same file names as in the Explorer This is necessary to get the size and the last access date of these files You can scan all shares in a domain by entering the domain name in the drive combo box TreeSize Professional 4 Quickstart Tips amp Annotations 3 e TreeSize Professional 4 ships with an XSLT file that formats the data inside the XML file for output in a browser that supports XSLT processing e g Firefox gt V1 0 or Internet Explorer gt V5 5 e For continuous analyzing of disk usage on large servers we recommend our product SpaceObServer It collects the data using a background system service and stores it in a SQL database It uses less RAM than TreeSize Professional 4 and the reporting capabilities are more flexible because it is built on a database More information is available at http www jam software com spaceobserver 5 TreeSize Column for Exp
36. lic links work similar If you for example have an empty folder C Documents Images you can create a symbolic link to E Pics in it Applications will then see the content of E Pics in C Documents Images If the Option Follow Mount Points and Symbolic Links is turned on TreeSize Professional 4 will include the contents of these folders when scanning Since they are not physically stored on the drive you are scanning this may produce irritating results A final note If you are scanning an NTFS volume via network with the Professional Edition file based compression and reparse points can only be handled correctly if you are scanning on a Windows NT 2000 XP client The API of Windows 9x cannot handle these features thus reparse points and compressed files will appear as normal folders and files Printing TreeSize Professional 4 has flexible printing functions You may print a detailed report by selecting Print Report from the File menu or by pressing the print button in the toolbar The report will show the directory structure of the current folder including directory lines and the information you have chosen in the Options There you can also decide if the whole directory tree should be printed or just those parts that are expanded in the TreeSize Professional 4 window This way you are able to choose the folders that will be included in the printed report If the Details tab is active in the right pane of the TreeSize Pr
37. lick on the topmost icon or use the Expand submenu of the Branch menu select Expand and then Remove Folder lt XX MB Is it possible to add the free space to the bar chart The free space is added to the pie chart if TreeSize Professional 4 is in the Allocated Space mode and the root of the scanned drive is selected In other situations e g if a sub folder is selected or the Wasted Space mode is active it doesn t make sense to add the free space because the relationship between the free space and the other values displayed is wrong gt O Q Can scan network drives and hidden shares like Server C without connecting them to a drive letter TreeSize Professional 4 FAQ TreeSize Professional 4 Yes in the Professional Edition you can use UNC names like SERVERNAME Share to access a network drive by entering them in the drive combo box on the top of the main window You can also use UNC names on the command line would like to save a set of drives and folders that are scanned each time start TreeSize Professional 4 How can do that A You can specify the startup behaviour of TreeSize Professional 4 in the Options dialog Or you can gt O simply create a shortcut to Tsizepro exe on your desktop or Start Menu and add those drives and folders to the command line separated with a space character See chapter Owner for more detailed information How can I limit a scan to
38. ller than its normal size As a consequence for folders that are partially or completely compressed the allocated space reported by TreeSize Professional 4 may be smaller than the size reported for this folder TreeSize Professional 4 is able to show the compression ratio in an extra column on the Details tab Additionally it can show compressed files and folders in a different color These features can be turned on in the Options dialog TreeSize Professional 4 is able to compress and decompress entire file system branches using the context menu The NTFS version that comes with Windows 2000 supports an additional concept that is similar to compressed files sparse files Files which are large but only partially used are called sparse files Because the operating system does not allocate disk space for the unused parts of a sparse file it occupies less disk space than its actual size is TreeSize Professional 4 treats sparse files like compressed files and also calculates the compression ratio for them TreeSize Professional 4 Wasted Space Notes on NTFS 5 9 1 Reparse Points Volume Mount Points and Symbolic Links Since Windows 2000 NTFS supports volume mount points and symbolic links A volume mount point is an existing path where you mount another volume Given this users and applications can refer to the mounted volume by that path It allows you to unify disparate file systems into one logical file system Symbo
39. lly from the disk Thus it will show up again during the next scan Copies the collected statistical data of all folders in the selected directory branch to the clipboard Copies a list of all files in the selected directory branch to the clipboard The topmost item of each scanned folder has a different context menu which looks like this TreeSize Professional 4 The Menus The Menus 25 Open Explore ai Properties f NewFolder Ctri E Expand gt Full Expand Export Data b To Level 1 Find Deepest Nesting To Level 2 H Remove from TreeSize To Level 8 E Update PR To Level 4 Expand Folder over 10 MB Remove Folder lt 10 MB Set Size Open Opens the selected folder in a simple Windows Explorer window Explore Opens the selected folder in a Windows Explorer window with directory tree on the left Properties Shows the Properties dialog of the folder or drive New Folder Creates a new folder Expand See below Export data See Export Submenu Find Deepest Nesting Searches the folder with the deepest directory level This can be useful to find folders that violate the path limit of Windows of 255 characters Remove From TreeSize This menu item will remove the currently selected scan from the view Update Rescans the current directory branch The Submenu Expand Full Expand Expands the selected folder and recursively all its sub folders To Level x Selecting this menu item will show the first x
40. lorer TreeSize Professional 4 now ships with a shell extension that adds an additional column to the Windows Explorer which shows the size not only for files but also for folders This feature is intended for a quick overview The new column can be activated using Choose Columns Details in the View menu of the Windows Explorer or through the context menu of the column headers of the Windows Explorer If you would like to enable this column in the Windows Explorer for all folders then you have to configure this in the Folder Options of the Windows Explorer using the button Apply to All Folders This column requires Windows 2000 or later and can be configured or fully turned off in the Options dialog e Programme DER 2 Date Bearbeiten Ansicht Favoriten Extras Q Zurack S Ki p gt Suchen VC Ordner EZ Adresse IO C Programme Si Wechseln zu Geandert am 31 03 2004 06 05 2004 Gr e TreeSize 8112 1 MB 811 1 MB Ordner Eigene eBooks CN Eigene Musik Eigene Webs Fun My Virtual Machines zs CH Privat a ER ShellBrowser SmartBackup SmartPOP2Exchange CH SpaceObServer SR TreeSizePro Arbeitsplatz H 3 2 Diskette A Dev auf Server2 B 2 ze Lokaler Datentr ger C Dokumente und Einstellungen Programme sti Temp WINDOWS zs DVD RW Laufwerk D S Dokumente auf server2 H a g FAT32 T Test ggg U zs ZE Mp3 auf Server2 X S Install
41. m in the View menu It allows you to change the view and scan options and consists of the following tabs e View e Scan Include Exclude Columns e Startup Shell Extensions 11 2 View Tab Determine Icons based on File Extension onl Different Colors for Compressed Files and Folders Show Long Tooltips in the Tree Show Gradient Bars in Directory Tree Show Time with Date Values Automatically Update Right Pane During Scanning Decimals If this option is turned on then TreeSize uses the default icon for files based on the file extension only This is much faster especially on network drives because Windows opens many file types in order to see if there are any icons inside By default this option is turned on If this option is turned on compressed files on an NTFS volume are shown in a blue color Folders that are partially compressed will have a dark blue color files and folders that are entirely compressed will show up in a light blue color For more information on file based compression see Notes on NTFS If this option is active a tool tip window with detailed information will be shown if the mouse cursor pauses over a folder for a while This is useful if you want to take a look at some detail information of a folder without switching to the Details tab If this option is active below a folder in the directory tree now a gradient bar is shown that indicates the size of the folder in relatio
42. n to the entire scanned file system tree This option allows you to decide if time values should be shown with the last access last modified and the creation date If this option is turned on the right pane of the main window will be updated from time to time This allows you for example to watch the bars of a chart growing while scanning large drives Use the drag bar to set the interval of the updates Choose the number of decimals that should be used when TreeSize Professional 4 displays or prints values TreeSize Professional 4 Windows amp Tabs 16 TreeSize Professional 4 Number of Folders in the Recently Used list Bold Factor 11 3 Scan Tab Adjust the number of recently scanned folders that TreeSize Professional 4 should remember for quick access in the the pull down box in the toolbar If the size of a folder is greater than the set percentage or absolute value of the complete size of the scanned folder the folder label will be shown bold This allows you to quickly find the largest folders If you don t want bold folder labels choose 100 You can apply these settings for printed reports as well by using the checkbox below The settings on this page affect the behaviour of TreeSize Professional 4 during scanning Changes on these settings usually require a rescan of the currently scanned drives and folders to take effect Thread Priority Follow Mount Points and Symbolic Links Show Error Me
43. nch to a text or CSV file The following example scans drive C and creates a CSV file in C Temp with the statistics of the file types on this drive tsizepro EXTENSIONSLIST C temp C filetypes csv Ch FILTER Allows to set a file filter so that only files with certain extensions e g MP3 or DOC will be counted Multiple patterns may be passed you can use spaces commas or semicolons as separator between the patterns The following example will search for AVI and MP3 files in the users directory on the server tsizepro EXCEL C Results MediaUsers xls FILTER mp3 avi Server Users When performing a File Search you can also use the FILTER command line switch to specify the patterns for the Temporary File Search HTML Saves the collected data to a HTML file which can be viewed with any HTML browser later If you also have a PIECHART or BARCHART parameter in your command line the image will be included in the HTML file The following example will generate an HTML report for the drive C and saves it to D html tsizepro DATE HTML d html treesize html PIECHART d html treesize jpg C If you would like to scan and export multiple drives or folders we recommend that you either use one call for each drive or folder or that you use the command line option like in the following example tsizepro HTML d html drive c html PIECHART d html drive c jpg Ch HTML d
44. ndows and can be turned off here if not needed Columns can also be activated or deactivated by right clicking on the column header of a result list You will find the following buttons on the right side of the window Start Stop Save Results This button will start the search You can now already look at the partial search results by selecting one of the tabs You will hear an acoustical signal when the search is finished Stops the currently running search This button allows you to save the search result of the currently active search type in a text or CSV file The separator char that is set in the regional options of the control panel will be used as separator in CSV files The save dialog has an option to save all result lists instead of the active one only and an option to save the checked files only TreeSize Professional 4 File Search File Search 27 Move Checked This button allows you to move all files in the lists which are checked to the left of their file name to the recycle bin or to a position in the file system that you may specify If you choose a file system location all files will be moved there under preservation of the file system structure You may also move the checked files to a ZIP file TIP You can easily check a group of files by keeping the space bar pressed or by selecting multiple files with the Shift or Ctrl key and then use the context menu With the File Search Menu items yo
45. ned by TreeSize Professional 4 can be viewed in the left column It gives you a quick overview of the size of each folder You may use this tree just like a folder tree in Windows Explorer If you place your mouse cursor on a folder you ll be shown an elaborate tooltip with detailed information With Branch Update you may update this window with Branch Expand you can determine until which level the tree should show sub folders Try the menu bar and the context menu right click on a folder in order to use more functions see Context Menu 10 3 Drive Panel The drive panel shows the local drives and connected network drives More network drives many be added by using the context menu You can see the size of the drive as well as free disk space Double clicking starts a scan of the selected drive TreeSize Professional 4 Windows amp Tabs 12 TreeSize Professional 4 10 4 Chart TreeSize Professional 4 is able to visualize folder sizes as pie or bar charts A chart always shows the size of the sub folders of the currently selected folder A pie chart shows the size allocated space wasted space etc depending on what kind of view the user selected in the toolbar The bar chart shows the size allocated and wasted space together in one chart because branch size wasted space allocated space If a bar chart doesn t fit in the window a scrollbar is displayed on the right side which allows scrolling in the
46. not belong to a valid account If a Windows account is deleted files belonging to this account are not deleted automatically and may keep occupying space on the hard disks With this checkbox activated TreeSize Professional 4 will include such files in the search results Since it is necessary to get the owner of each file on the searched disks activating this option will slow down the scanning process Include links without a valid target path With this checkbox activated TreeSize Professional 4 will check for LNK and DIE files if the destination path exists If this is not the case such a file will be included in the search results Schedule TreeSize Tasks Schedule Dialogue It is possible to schedule tasks using the Scheduled Tasks folder of Windows The dialog below will help you to create a scheduled TreeSize Professional task with the appropriate command line options This feature is only available in the Professional Edition TreeSize Professional 4 File Search Schedule TreeSize Tasks Path to scan Export Options Scheduler Command Line TreeSize Professional Schedule TreeSize Tasks Add Scheduled Tasks Eat Scheduled Tasks Path to scan Export 0 Excel file C HTML file Mr fie C XML file C Bar chart Options C Pie chart C Statistics on file types O typ C Statistics on usernames C Title for this report C Print report C Add
47. od do not include the other younger periods The toolbar offers export features equal to the Charts tab E Chart E Details Extensions SS Users II File Ages Top 100 Files Gau E Drive Profiles an server3 al EE EES KEE EE wgl HEET iin ine 10 9 Top 100 Files The tab Top 100 lists the 100 biggest files in the scanned branch together with some details By using the tool buttons in the upper part of the tab you may save this list to a file print it or copy it 10 1 History In the History tab you can see line charts visualizing the size development of the selected root folder After each scan the total size of the root folder is stored automatically in an XML file in users profile of the logged in user These sizes are used to create this view So the shown interval and frequent depends on the scans you have done for this root before If you are interested in the size development of subfolders in the scanned file system tree we recommend using our disk space manager SpaceObServer which archives file system information in a database and is able to track size development down to file level TreeSize Professional 4 Windows amp Tabs Windows amp Tabs 15 The History toolbar includes the options to copy save and print the shown graph 11 Options 11 1 Options Dialog This Options dialog of TreeSize Professional 4 can be opened using the appropriate menu ite
48. ofessional 4 TreeSize Professional Options View Scan Include Exclude I Columns Export Startup Shell Extensions When starting the application without a path to scan then Do nothing Scan the same paths as last time oO Always scan theses paths 11 7 Shell Extensions This tab allows you to configure the shell extensions of TreeSize Professional 4 for the Windows Explorer Explorer Context Menu With this option you can decide if TreeSize Professional 4 should appear in the context menu of folders in the Windows Explorer A click on this menu item will then start TreeSize Professional 4 which will start scanning the selected folder immediately Explorer Column Use this option to enable or disable the TreeSize column for the detailed view of the Windows Explorer which shows not only the file sizes but also the folder sizes If enabled you can control the unit and the number of decimals here 12 The Menus 12 1 File Menu The File menu allows you to select folders for scanning to remove folders from the TreeSize Professional 4 Window and to print or export the collected data TreeSize Professional 4 Options The Menus 21 Select Directory Load XML Report Save XML Report Compare With XML Report Export Set Title Print Report Print Report for All Print Chart Print Folder Contents Page Setup Printer Setup Exit 12 2 Export Submenu
49. ofessional 4 main window you can print the contents of the folder which is currently selected by using Print Folder Contents from the File menu You will see all files and direct sub folders in the printout including the icons and the other information If you want a listing of all files in the scanned folder or drive you can copy a list of all files to the clipboard and paste it into your favorite spreadsheet or word processor by selecting Export List of Files from the File menu not supported in the Personal Edition If the Chart View is active in the right pane of the TreeSize Professional 4 window you can print the current chart by selecting Print Chart from the File menu You can use the Page Setup dialog to adjust the margins for printing Use the Print Setup dialog to choose a printer Both dialogs can be accessed from the File menu FAQ e General Registration e Main Program e Printing Export e File Search General Registration Q Which operating system does TreeSize Professional 4 run on A Currently the following operating systems are supported Windows NT4 Windows 98 Windows ME Windows 2000 Professional Windows 2000 Server Windows XP Windows 2003 Server Windows TreeSize Professional 4 Notes on NTFS TreeSize Professional 4 ds ds gt O E E Vista Does the setup copy any files to the Windows directory No all files of TreeSize Professional 4 are copied
50. olders or by using the context menu TreeSize Professional 4 The Menus 22 TreeSize Professional 4 Save As Text Save as HTML Export Data to Excel Copy to Clipboard Send by E mail Customize Use Plain Numbers Copy List of Files 12 3 Branch Menu Save the collected data to a tab separated text file Allows you to save a report as HTML file which can be viewed with any HTML browser later HTML files are more easy to read than text files and don t require a special application like MS Excel If a chart is currently visible in the right pane of the window then it will be embedded in the HTML file as an image The HTML file will be UTF8 encoded and thus includes Unicode characters In the Options dialog a stylesheet file can be set for the HTML export Exports the collected data to an MS Excel 97 compatible file Copies the data of the current file system branch to the clipboard in text format Sends the current data as a text e mail via MAPI Opens the Options dialog which allows to customize the output columns Activating this option will save the results not in the format 10 2 MB but will save the size information as the number of bytes in plain e g 10695475 This may make processing of the data easier Copies a list of all files in the current folder and its sub folders to the clipboard You can paste this list to your favorite spreadsheet or word processor The columns for owner and permissions ar
51. on about individual files is not included in the XML reports the detailed view will not show the change of the size of individual files Only available in the Professional Edition See chapter Export Submenu Allows you to set a title for the currently active branch which will be used when the folder data is printed or exported The default title includes the path of the scanned folder and the volume name of the drive where the folder resides in Prints a detailed report of the current folder See Printing Prints a detailed report for all scanned drives folders in the left pane Prints the currently visible Chart Prints a list of all objects in the current folder including the icons size date etc Shows the Page setup dialog where you can specify the margins for printing paper size etc Shows the print setup dialog Closes TreeSize Professional 4 The export of the File menu submenu is only available in the Professional Edition and allows you to export the collected in data in different ways You may customize the kind of data columns that will be exported on the columns tab of the Options dialog For all ways of exporting applies that only those folders will be exported that are currently visible expanded on the left pane of the main window In the Options you can decide if all folders or just the visible folders should be exported That way you can control which data will be exported either manually by expanding and collapsing f
52. option below Tsizepro exe ARCHI VEBITFILESONLY EL filename HTML filename BAR PI EMAIL EXC FILTER patternl pattern2 OPEN PRINT SAVE XML filename Directories DATE filename EXPAND level xxMB MOVETOZIP SEARCH S tart Internet E CHART filename COMP ARI EXTENSIONSLIST filename im P filename US filename NOGUTI ERSLIST filename TreeSize Professional 4 Schedule TreeSize Tasks 30 TreeSize Professional 4 ARCHIVEBITFILESONL This option will include only files in the scans which have the archive bit set Y BARCHART COMPARE IDATE EMAIL EXCEL EXCLUDE This option can be very useful if you want to calculate the size of a backup In this case you can create a shortcut to TreeSize Professional 4 on your desktop or in your start menu that will automatically start calculating the size of your backup tsizepro ARCHIVEBITFILESONLY Server Backup This Saves the bar chart of the scanned directory to a bitmap PNG or JPEG file The file type depends on the extension of the specified file name This example creates a JPEG image of the bar chart for drive C tsizepro BARCHART C Documents c jpg C Compares the scanned path with a saved XML report The following example scans drive C and compares
53. permitted and violates the law In order to allow our customers to fully test our software products our evaluation versions usually do not contain significant limitations But the software may remember you from time to time that you should purchase the software after your testing is finished just purchased your product How can I now activate my trial version You have to download the full version of the software from our customer s area at http www jam software com customers The login data can be found in the e mail or in the printed license which you have received after the purchase In case that you do not have your login data any more you can request them to be sent to the e mail address that you have used for purchasing the software How much do updates costs Updates within 12 months after purchase are free After this period of time registered customers may purchase the updates to the newer versions for a reduced price in our customer s area at http www jam software com customers Why don t you use activation codes that turn the trial version into a full version We do not work with activation codes because you can find them very easily on the internet We are working with separate trial and full versions After purchasing our software customers receive the download address for the full version and a password which is needed for installation You should keep both in a safe place Q Although have purchased the f
54. pting Host If you intend to use the Windows Scripting Host WSH your command to start TreeSize Professional will look like Set Shell CreateObject WScript Shell Shell Run C Program Files TreeSize Professional tsizepro exe XML c temp drive_c xml c 15 Copyright amp Contact Copyright 1996 2007 by Joachim Marder JAM Software Joachim Marder e K Bruchhausenstr 1 54290 Trier Germany FAX 49 700 70707059 TreeSize Professional 4 Schedule TreeSize Tasks 34 TreeSize Professional 4 WWW http Awww jam software com Support http Awww jam software de customers contact php E Mail treesize jam software com TreeSize Professional 4 Copyright amp Contact Index 35 Index l BARCHART 29 DATE 29 EMAIL 29 EXCEL 29 EXPAND 29 JOPEN 29 PIECHART 29 PRINT 29 ISAVE 29 ISEARCH 29 IXML 29 A Access Control 4 Administrator 4 Allocated Space 6 22 Archive Bit 17 atcommand 29 Author 33 Automatic Updates 22 Automatic updates during scanning 15 B Bar Chart 12 Bold folders 15 Branch Menu 22 C Chart Type 22 Charts 12 Cluster Size 3 Columns 17 Command Line Options 29 Compare Reports 20 Compressed files and folders 15 Compression 4 Contact JAM Software 33 Contents 1 Context Menu 24 Copy to Clipboard 21 Copyright 33 D Data Export 21 dates in the future 6 Decimals 15 Details 12 Diagram 12 Drive Panel 11
55. rent v Wasted CD ROM Size v Files Eolders v Last Change v Last Access v Compr v Owner Current Date Attributes v File Type Dir Level Creation Date Path Without Name Export Full Export Free 11 1GB 13 6 GB 11 1 GB 8 04 GB 10 4GB 11 1GB Expanded Folders Only Header Line Default Export File Column Width 11 6 Startup Tab Free al Aug File Size KK Permissions M28 File Version KX Title of Scan my 25 MS Office Author E 27 MS Office Last Save Date EX With this option activated the whole file system tree that was scanned will be exported or printed Only those parts of the file system tree will be exported that are expanded on the left pane of the main window Use this option to control if a header line containing the column headers should be added to the exported file or the printed report Here you can specify an Excel file into which exported data should be written by default Professional Edition only This option is only available for printed reports and allows you to adjust the column width of the column that is currently selected in the list above On this tab you can now define what TreeSize Professional 4 should do when it starts without a path to scan It may scan a list of fix paths it may scan the paths that were active the last time it was used or it may simply do nothing which is the default behaviour TreeSize Professional 4 Options 20 TreeSize Pr
56. rt the file names to my Excel HTML Text file A The export functions of TreeSize Professional 4 Professional were mainly designed to export Q A Please open your Control Panel and select Printers Now right click on your Brother printer and information about folders and their size However you can copy a complete list of files to the clipboard using the context menu of any folder in the tree You may also try our freeware command line utility FileList which was designed to generate simple file lists without the overhead of a GUI application All prints on my Brother laser printer appear mirror inverted How can this be corrected select Properties In the Properties dialogue click on Advanced Here you will find a selection for the print processor modprint brprint winprint Please choose winprint and try to print again 9 4 File Search How can I search for files of the type XYZ The Windows file search already does this job in a quite good manner TreeSize Professional 4 has been created with a focus on cleaning up and finding obsolete files However there are of course possibilities to find certain file types You can e g activate only the search for Temporary Files deactivate all search patterns and add patterns for the file type s you are interested in Another possibility Set a filter in the Options dialog of the main application Then TreeSize Professional 4 will only include matching files when calculating
57. s But for storing the redundant information additional space is needed If a drive letter points to a sub folder of a network drive the allocated space correctly reported by TreeSize Professional 4 may also be much smaller than the physically allocated space on this drive reported by the Windows Explorer because possibly the whole drive is not accessible through the network A further possibility is that not all parts of the drive could be scanned due to access restrictions Q For some folders TreeSize Professional 4 shows last accessed changed dates that are far in the future Why A The last access change date that TreeSize Professional 4 shows for a folder is the latest last access change date of a file inside this folder and its sub folders Most likely somewhere in these folders are files with a last access change date far in the future and so the last change date of the whole folder has the same date You can try to search for these files using the Windows file search These files are often a result of Y2K test or of a client PC with a wrong system date Why do all files on my disk have the same last access date which is not far in the past Windows updates the last access date of a file each time when an application accesses or reads a file Many backup and virus tools access every file on your hard disk regularly without restoring the prior last access date gt O Q Why doesn t TreeSize Professional 4 include my disk into it
58. s calculation which is mapped to a directory using the Disk Manager of Windows A By changing the option Follow mount points and symbolic links in the Options of TreeSize Professional 4 you can control if mount points and symbolic links should be followed or if they should be excluded from the calculations Scanning a server disk via network is very slow Is it possible to speed up this process Scanning a drive via network is normally much slower than scanning a local disk because the speed of the network is much lower than the speed of your hard disk Additionally server drives are usually much bigger and contain more files than local hard disks But you can use the Command Line Options to perform your scans overnight Network drives and command line options are supported by the Professional Edition only For continuous analyzing of disk usage on large servers we recommend our product SpaceObServer It collects the data using a background system service and stores it in a SQL database It uses less RAM than TreeSize Professional 4 and the reporting capabilities are more flexible because it is built on a database More information is available at http Awww jam software com spaceobserver gt O Q Is it possible to have the program ignore folders that are less than a certain size when displaying them in the tree A In the context menu of the topmost folder you may choose to remove folders below a certain size To achieve this right c
59. s on NTFS The file system NTFS can be used with the operating system Windows NT or later It offers some special features which also have effects for TreeSize Professional 4 In the following we will describe some of these features and their impacts on this software Access Control Lists A user under Windows NT or later is able to restrict the way other users can access his files and folders He can grant or deny other users or groups certain rights like reading writing executing or deleting files That way a user may even deny the administrator to access his files and folders If an administrator tries to access a folder in the Windows Explorer to which the owner denied any other users reading access an Access Denied error message will be displayed However TreeSize Professional 4 is able to scan such folders if you are logged in as administrator or as a user that has the right to perform backups This option can be changed at Control Panel Administrative Tools Local Security Policy under Windows 2000 and with the user editor of Windows NT File Based Compression NTFS supports compression on an individual file basis Files that are compressed on an NTFS volume can be read and written without first being decompressed by another program Decompression happens automatically during the reading of the file The file is compressed again when it is closed or explicitly saved The space occupied by a compressed file is usually much sma
60. s will be listed in which all files match the search criteria This allows you to identify branches of the file system that are not in use any more This page allows you to search for temporary files Use the Configure Button to customize the settings of the Temporary File Search This page allows you to search for temporary internet files like the files in the cache of the browsers Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer The search for temporary internet files can be automated with the command line option SEARCH Internet This page lists files which are on your disk more than once You can choose if duplicates should be indicated by equal name size and last change date or by a compare of the md5 checksum of their content Comparing the file content provides more accurate results but the search will take longer A minimum size speeds up the compiling of the list and prevents you from looking through many small files A checkbox allows to control whether or not the exclude filter should be used Here you can choose which drives and which of the above search types will be included in the search You can add additional paths to the list by pressing the button below the list All checked drives will be included in the search Network drives are only supported in the Professional Edition Here you can adjust the unit used for displaying size values and set the columns that should be shown Querying file owners is a slow operation under Wi
61. ssages Create Statistics on File Extensions Create Statistics on File Owners User Defined Cluster Size Allows to define the priority with which the threads are running that are scanning the hard disk Idle means that they use the CPU will be used only if no other threads are using it Idle is a good setting if you want to make sure that a scan with TreeSize has no impact on the performance of the PC or server The default and recommended value is lower priority Choosing higher priority will result in the scan threads having a higher priority than the thread of the user interface which can make the user interface unresponsive during a scan This setting is also used for the threads of the TreeSize File Search You can decide if TreeSize Professional 4 should follow symbolic links and mount points see Notes on NTFS for additional information Links that point within the scanned directory will never be followed in order to prevent circular references and folders from being counted twice This option will be used in the File Search as well Use this option to decide if TreeSize Professional 4 should show error messages during scanning If you for example scan a network drive on a Windows NT server and don t have reading access to all folders Windows will pop up an error message for every unreadable folder If you don t want the scanning process interrupted by these message boxes deselect this checkbox If this checkbox is activate
62. the date and time to all filenames above Scheduler al Compare with a saved report Exclude following file types C Expand directory tree Only search for following file Es C Start TreeSize File Search Command line C Include only files in the scan which have the archive bit set Once Date Donnerstag 1 EI day s Every Daily Weekly Add Task Every Enter the path that should be scanned here Here you can choose which of the export options that TreeSize Professional supports should be used for the scan The export options correspond to the command line options that should be executed after the scan Here you can specify further options for the scan and activate certain actions Specify here when and in which interval the task should be executed Here you can see the full command line of the task If you don t want to use the Scheduled Tasks of Windows then you can copy this command line to the clipboard and use it elsewhere e g in a batch file The created command line can now be added to the Scheduled Task of Windows by pressing the Add Task button 14 2 Command Line Options The Professional Edition of TreeSize Professional 4 accepts command line options which allow you to do scheduled scans or to have the results of a scan on your monitor the next morning The Schedule dialog will help you to compile a command line with the
63. the folder sizes The results will provide a good overview of the distribution of these file type s and can be exported to a text file using the context menu Our product SpaceObServer which keeps the data of watched file system trees in an SQL database has faster and more flexible search and report features Is it possible to check several or all files in the File Search window at one time instead of checking them individually A You may select several files using a left mouse click while holding the lt Shift gt or lt Ctr1 gt key gt O down You may also press lt Ctr1 A gt to select all files in the list Using Check from the context menu then checks all currently selected files Some successive files can also be easily checked by pressing the space bar several times The space bar checks the currently focused file and advances to the next file in the list Which files can safely delete Unfortunately there is no short and easy answer to this question because usually one cannot know where a file came from and what it is used for Generally temporary files and cache files of the internet browsers can nearly always be deleted safely Besides deleting files the file search of TreeSize Professional 4 offers you to move files to a different drive or to a compressed ZIP file which can then be archived That way files that are still needed can be easily restored Does TreeSize Professional 4 have the capability to delete fil
64. to the selected installation path The main executable file is even able to run without installation Does TreeSize Professional 4 support Unicode Yes nearly all parts of TreeSize Professional 4 are Unicode enabled on Windows NT operating systems An exception is the chart component which currently does not support Unicode characters How can I order TreeSize Professional 4 and how will the product be delivered You may order TreeSize Professional 4 online at http www jam software com prices shtml We accept purchase orders from companies and will invoice them on NET30 terms After your order is processed you will be able to download the full version of the product in our customer s area If you choose to receive the software on CD shipping costs will be added to your order You will then receive the software by air mail within 2 to 7 days depending on where you are located What is the difference between the Professional and the Personal Edition The Personal Edition has the same features as the Professional Edition except that it does not support network drives Windows Server systems command line options and data export What is the difference between the evaluation copy and the full version Will there be additional features A The evaluation copy allows you to test the software before you buy it The maximum time to do this is ds ds P E 21 days Further usage of the software after this period is not
65. u can save and load your search settings File menu start and abort searches Search menu or customize the information shown in the result lists View Options 13 2 File Search Options The tab Scan Options allows you to configure the file search in different ways Drives and Paths to include Use the checkboxes in front of each drive to select which paths should be searched by the file search You can add additional paths and network drives using the buttons below the list The first button will allow you to type in a path the second one will open a folder browser dialog Drives and Paths to include Name Gesamtgr Be Freier Speicher Freier Spe O A 3 2 Diskette A Al D Den auf Server B 39 0 GB 10 1 GB 26 ep Lokaler Datentr ger C 43 8 GB 12 3 GB 25 C 4 DvD RAM Laufwerk D C S Wechseldatentrager E C S Wechseldatentrager F C S Wechseldatentrager G C Wechseldatentrager H C Dokumente auf Server M 39 0 GB 10 1 GB 26 C Ss Volume T 31 8 GB 13 2 GB 42 Fj S install auf server Dei 39 0 GB 10 1 GB 26 C S memory_card auf Npi5cb578 Add UNC Path Browse and Add Path Enabled Search Types Use the checkboxes in front of each item to enable or disable certain search types Files Folders to Exclude The file search was designed to identify obsolete or very large files in order to clean up a system Certain files like system files should however not be del
66. ull version of your software product it still shows UNREGISTERED in the window title Why A There are 3 possible reasons why UNREGISTERED still shows up 1 You did not download and install the full version from the URL you received after the purchase 2 You have accidentally installed the trial version again Have you been asked for a password 3 You have installed the full version to a different folder than the trial version which is now still on your disk Main Program Q Why is the occupied space that Windows shows in the properties dialog of the drive larger than the allocated space that TreeSize Professional 4 reports TreeSize Professional 4 FAQ FAQ 7 A The Windows Explorer shows the space that is physically allocated on the drive while TreeSize Professional 4 shows the space that is occupied by all files under a certain path Beyond the space that is needed for storing the files itself additional space is used for storing management data like the File Allocation Table of the file system or the boot sector It is not possible to free this space with TreeSize Professional 4 or any other tool This is usually 0 5 2 of the occupied space Another possibility is that you are using a Software RAID like Windows NT 200X offers it which spreads the data with redundancy over several disks These disks will appear as one logical volume and the failure of a single disk will not cause any data los

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