SpaceSniffer User Manual
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1. Example tag 4or tag gor tag green filters green tagged files Example tag aor tag al11 filters all tagged files Example tag red green b filters red yellow but not blue tagged files Example tag 1 3 red Starting pipe always negate the following filter 6 6 Filtering by file attributes The file attributes filter specifier is attr or attrs then you can type your attribute filter The following attributes are available for filtering page 9 of 20 SpaceSniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 e archive archi arch arc ar a archive files e system sys s system files e readonly rdonly ronly rdo ro r readonly files e hidden hidn hid h hidden files compressed comprsd compr cpr c compressed by os files e encrypted encrptd encptd encle crypted crypt cptd encrypted by os files e offline off ol o offline files temporary temp tmp t temporary os files e notindexed notindx notidx noidx nidx ni not indexed by os files e sparse sp sparse files e alternatedatastream alternate altern alt ads alternate data streams this filters works only if the scan alternate data stream option is active in configuration T Note Possible combinations are similar to the tag filter Example attr archivethidden Example attr t ta ro h Example attr temp 6 7 Filter combinations If you need to specify more than one condition it is possible by separating e2. separated by char Paths can be local or network paths It works well also with Samba shares You can navigate your media structure by pressing the Path button or drag n drop one or more folders on the start dialog to avoid typing Then press the Enter key or click the Start button If you typed a path and that path does not exist an error message will appear If everything is ok the scan process begins the start dialog will close you can reopen it later and one or more scan views will appear You can also drag one or more folders directly on the main window bypassing the starting dialog For your convenience the start dialog is easily usable also with keyboard If you want the page 2 of 20 Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 dialog to close then press ESC key When you are in the main window the CTRL N shortcut will reopen the start dialog 4 The Scan Process The scan progress will be displayed on the main window This is a real time display of the scan operation Lots of rectangles appear on the screen Each rectangle represents a folder or a file generically an element Folder elements show other elements into them recursively A limit has been set to the display recursion to avoid graphic cluttering You can change this limit as you wish with CTRL and CTRL shortcuts or with the toolbar buttons Elements change in size proportionally to the real size of the file or folder Note Th
3. media device On the first view set an exclusion filter g On the second view set an inclusion filter g Now if you tag elements to green in the first view they will disappear from the first view and appear into the second view When you finished shopping you can export your cart with the export function see later page 11 of 20 Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 8 Configuration SpaceSniffer can be configured in behavior and aspect The configuration is stored in a XML file stored in the same folder of the application executable No registry messing Just one single XML file 8 1 Geometry tab Element font size Lets you to set the graphical panel font size to accommodate your monitor resolution Minimum element size pixel The minimum size in pixel an element must have to appear into view notice that only relevant items appear into view not everything This avoids display cluttering Element proportions If you like a more horizontal or vertical layout for elements play with this setting SpaceSniffer features a layout algorithm that tries to keep elements to the specified proportion Anyway it s not always possible due to view space constraints Initial detail level This is the initial detail level used by new views when they re created After creation each view can be configured independently with its own detail level as preferred Show free space If set auto activat
4. squeeze more CPU power DynaSmooth lets you set the Animation smoothness to smoother levels while keeping really good scan performances Keep it active to get maximum performance 8 3 Behavior tab Scan Alternate Data Streams Enable NTFS ADS scanning ADS are secondary hidden files attached to normal files This is a NTFS feature that can be used by some applications to store auxiliary data related to the main file However ADS can be used also by viruses because not all virus scanner are able to examine them When you turn on this option the scan goes slower so use it only if needed Flash window after scan if hidden If you start a scan and minimize the window at scan end then the window will flash in the task bar to warn you Keep element tooltip open on change When active and tooltip is visible if the mouse moves to another element the tooltip keeps visible and its content changes When inactive and the tooltip is visible a mouse movement to another element hides the tooltip Then you need to wait a moment for it to be visible again Show file date and time Activates creation modify access dates dd mm yyyy or whatever your O S date format is used visualization in the tooltip only for files Show file age Activates creation modify access ages 1 year 3 months visualization in the tooltip page 13 of 20 SpaceSniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 only for files Popup log console o
5. switch back to run time mode The design time mode shows more icons on the upper tool bar and a new design section in the middle of the window This section is splitted in many parts each one reachable by its own tab This is where you customize your configuration The first tab contains global informations about the export configuration The following tabs contain the export configuration itself There is a tab for the header a tab for the detail and a tab for the footer 10 1 The global information panel This panel contains global information about the current configuration You can specify the preferred file name and extension there is a syntax to correctly define the file extension please have a look directly at the example in the panel You can also specify the primary and secondary sorting Block sorting It s the primary sorting where you specify if for each folder you want listed first all sub folders first all contained files or if you don t care page 16 of 20 Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 Fine sorting It s the secondary sorting where you specify how to sort folders and files If you don t care you can specify here The descending check box is used to invert the sorting The header detail footer panels All these three panels work the same The header is used to define a report header the footer to define a report footer and the detail is used for each folder or file to be exporte
6. Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 Space Sniffer Find lost space on your disks the easy way Copyright 2007 2011 Uderzo Umberto www uderzo it 1 1 What s that It may happen that a day you discover your compter disk is nearly full And you have no idea why The main purpose of SpaceSniffer is to help you to visualize the content of your computer storage media the easy way The approach is to hilight big files This is done by drawing each file with a shape related to the media occupation The bigger the file on screen the bigger it is on disk This helps in finding what s eating your storage To better help in your quest a versatile filtering system is available You can search by file and folder name extension size dates attributes and even more In few words e Easy find where big files reside on your storage even network paths e Fast and simple to use simple interface easy to understand e Lets you easily search with file masks jpg txt by file size gt 1mb file age lt 3months attributes archive hidden folder names temp internet combinations negations and more e File and folder tagging lets you bookmark elements for later processing e Direct access to the Windows Explorer files folders popup menu with mouse right click e Reacts to external storage modifications keeps always in sync warns you about external modifications by elements bl
7. ach condition by the character Rules are e File mask and tag conditions are or ed together excluding masks are and ed together e All other conditions are and ed together Example jpg gif gt 100kb lt 6months will show all JPEGs and GIFs bigger than 100kb and younger than 6 months VY Hint You can change the filter string also during the scan process The display will react to the new filter but the process will always scan all elements This is because you can change your mind and alter the filter whenever you want If you do that a new scan is not required because the filtering is applied to the view and not to the smart cached data page 10 of 20 Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 WARNING Note that if you delete a folder by Windows Explorer popup menu that is currently showing part of all the container files folders due to a filter rule you are deleting ALL THE CONTENT not only the visible content This is because you are deleting the folder and Windows Explorer knows nothing about the filter applied into Space Sniffer 7 The Tagging System If you want to track files or folders for better handling you can tag them There are four different tags red yellow green blue Simply hover the mouse on a file and press CTRL 1 for red tag CTRL 2 for yellow CTRL 3 for green and CTRL 4 for blue By pressing the same key again you clear the tag it s an on off switch The CTRL digit c
8. but you can prepend creation modification access and variations because of the fuzzy match algorithm to specify which file date you want to filter for Example by typing a gt lyear SpaceSniffer will show files never accessed in last year 6 5 Filtering by tag If you want to find tagged files see next chapter about tags you can use the 1 4 syntax the colon is part of the syntax Instead of 1 4 for your convenience you can use red oy yellow green blue allor r y g b a By placing a pipe character in front of tag filter you negate it and this becomes an exclusion filter 1 red yel Low green blue Example by typing 1 or red you filter red tagged files Example by typing all or a you filter all tagged files Example by typing 3 or green you exclude green tagged files Example by typing a11 or a filter all but tagged files Note Since release 1 1 2 0 to accomplish the need of many additional filters a new syntax has been added for the tag filter The new syntax needs that the filter starts with the tag or tags filter specifier then you can specify one or more colors for filtering For tag filtering the old syntax is presented for backward compatibility Example tag 1or tag ror tag red filters red tagged files Example tag 2or tag yor tag yellow filters yellow tagged files Example tag 30r tag bor tag bluor tag blue filters blue tagged files
9. can specify your preferred color for the drive folder file free space and unknown space entities Those are the base colors but they will be darkened to show nesting accordingly to the Level Contrast parameter File Classes tab Here you can define as many file classes as you wish Each file class has a description and a list of file extensions separated by the char Finally there is a color When you use the File Classes style matching files are displayed with the belonging class color If the same file extension exists in more than one class the choosed color is the color of the first matching class This style can help to understand the file type distribution on the analyzed media but it can also clutter the view with too many colors Hence it can be easily turned on off directly from the toolbar 9 The Export Module The export module is useful when you need to produce a file report of the current filtered zoomed view This means that only files starting at the current zoom level and shown by the filter rules are considered for the output The report is outputted on file and its layout can be configured You can range from a simple text file to a more complex HTML file for example The export procedure is as follows e First of all you isolate the files that you want to report by navigating and filtering the media structure e Then you activate the export module by File Export menu command e The export window
10. d The only difference between the three panels is that for header and footer panels only the information of the root container is available consider the root as the currently zoomed element in the active view Let s now consider the detail panel There is a small text editor where you can type the text that will be exported to file If you type simple text this will be exported as is without modifications Even tabs and newlines are considered for the export When you type something the preview panel reflects your changes Typing simple text is boring What we want is to export file and folder data Here we introduce the two main elements of the scripting engine e Tags a tag is a keyword surrounded by lt and gt For example lt path gt When you type a tag into a script it is expanded with the corresponding value of the folder or file There are lots of tags just explore all of them by right clicking the mouse over the script editor A popup menu will appear listing all tags by category Commands while tags contain textual information about the exported element command are used to adapt the output to your needs Commands are always enclosed in chars There are commands for formatting for testing and so on You can find all available commands by right clicking the mouse on the script editor Hint You may notice that everything you type is exported So you cannot indent your code because the indentation will be expo
11. dden in file and folder names it is a path separator hence it cannot exist in an element name with exception if you start sniffing from a folder instead of a drive but this affects only the root element When you apply a folder name mask filter only files whose path contains a matching folder are included Moreover folders whose names match the mask are hilighted with the BOLD style in their name This makes easy to understand why stuff has been included by the filter If on the other hand you are using an exclusion filter by prepending the whole pattern string by the negation pipe char excluded folders are not hilighted just because they are not displayed page 7 of 20 SpaceSniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 Example by typing temp every file under a temp folder at any nesting level is included For example C Windows temp data abc txt would be included Example on the contrary by typing temp every file under a temp folder at any nesting level is excluded 9 Hint You can consider folder and file masks as a two dimensional filter The first axis is the folder mask the second axis is the file mask Both axis work independently When you apply a folder file mask you are defining some kind of coordinate in a 2D space You first cut the directory tree structure and isolate the searched folders then examine the wanted file names by the other mask 6 3 Filtering by file size You can look for file
12. displays Then you can choose an export configuration from the drop down list Some built in configurations are provided for your convenience e After choosing the export configuration the preview panel will display a short preview of the output Notice that only the first files are considered for the preview production so the preview will likely show a partial result e By pressing the export button on the tool bar you start the export procedure Hint The export module is configurable You can customize it by adding more page 15 of 20 Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 configurations and by customizing them with the built in export language Please experiment it may be more funny than you can think 10 Export Customization The SpaceSniffer export module is capable of producing textual reports The export engine is customizable and lets you store many export configurations one for each specific need When the export module is first shown in a SpaceSniffer work session it is in run time mode This means that it s hiding all its complexity and tries to appear as simple as possible to the user This is the default use behavior and all users except who wants to customize the export configuration should use this mode To enter customization mode you need to click the small wrench icon next the configuration drop down list Then the design time mode is engaged If you press again the wrench icon you
13. e filter in the filter entry field then press the Enter key or click the Filter button 6 1 Filtering by file name mask It is possible to filter the view by file mask Masks are defined with special characters and Just like the O S command line The question mark character means a single character while the asterisk character means some characters It s possible to type also a complete file name if you know what are you looking for By placing a pipe character in front of file mask you negate it and this becomes an exclusion filter Example by typing jpg and pressing the Enter key only JPEGs files will be displayed Example by typing jpg and pressing Enter key everything but JPEGs will be displayed 6 2 Filtering by folder name mask The filter by file name mask applies only to files Sometimes you may want to search only under certain folders say temp folders You don t know where they are and at which nesting level on your media device but you know they are there and possibly more than one In this case you can use a folder name mask filter Folder name mask filters are the same as file name mask filters except they apply to folders ok it s obvious To identify a pattern as a folder mask pattern simply prepend it by the backslash char The backslash char doesn t have the meaning of root folder it is simply a switch It has been chosen as switch char because it is forbi
14. ed page 3 of 20 Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 Note There are particular cases when a zero byte length file is displayed This happens only when you have zoomed into a folder that contains a zero length file But also this condition is transient Anyway the mission of SpaceSniffer is to find big guys so this should not be a real issue Note Due to the limited available screen area also smaller elements are not displayed You can configure the minimum size of an element to be shown into the view anyway there are cases with lots of elements that cannot be fully displayed This doesn t mean that SpaceSniffer ignores such elements It always takes them into consideration but it just don t display them If you cannot discover them by zooming into you can find them by the export function see next chapters Once again SpaceSniffer is to find big guys 5 Navigation You can navigate the disk structure by the tool bar buttons Please refer to the Quick Start for a visual representation of the user interface The following commands are available in order 5 1 New view CTRL N Opens the Start Dialog letting you start with a new scan view Space Sniffer lets you open more windows and watch different parts of your disks If you open more than once the same path or part of it the disk will be scanned only once Space Sniffer features a smart caching system that links also to the disk event system of
15. es the Show free space option on new views Show unknown space If set auto activates Show unknown space option on new views Sort items If set items are graphically sorted by size so you can easy see what s big Bigger element will be placed near the top left edge letting smaller elements to the bottom right edge 8 2 Animation tab Zoom animation duration Controls how long the zoom effect takes The zoom effect is useful to make it clear where you are heading when digging into folders page 12 of 20 Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 DynaZoom Dynamic zoom animates elements layout as long as the zoom animation goes on It needs more CPU power but looks better IMHO Standard zoom effect simply works with a precomputed screen shot that may also look nice and needs less CPU It s a matter of taste Animation smoothness Controls the frame rate of the scan animation Higher the frequency the better and smoother the look but slower the scan Default is mid way Anyway consider that no screen update is done if no new information is gathered DynaSmooth Dynamic smooth changes the frame rate accordingly to user interaction If the user works with the mouse over the view the animation is kept at high frame rates the value is set by the Animation smoothness parameter When the user stops working on the view the frame rate decreases smoothly to the lowest frame rate letting the scan progress
16. ft side of the view This small bar will show you how much of the entire media is currently showing If you go to the view root the bar will fill the vertical space entirely If you zoom in the bar will lower its height because you are displaying less and less disk space as you keep zooming in 5 13 The progress bar Another item you can notice is the progress bar in the upper right side of the view This will show you the scanning or the filtering progress Since the total size to be scanned is known only if you select a drive the progress bar is shown only if you select a drive path In all other cases a simple message will be displayed On the other hand if a filtering operation is in progress it will take precedence over the scan percentage progress At the end of the filtering operation the scan progress will become visible again Hint The scan process and the filtering process are multi threaded so you can keep changing filters to search what you are looking for and don t mind the scan process that will go on in the background Simply explore your media you don t need to wait SpaceSniffer terminates the scan page 6 of 20 Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 6 The Filtering System The filtering system is the most powerful tool that Space Sniffer offers to find what you are looking for By filtering you can virtually slice amp dice your media molding the view content to suit your needs Just type th
17. inking Discover created modified files in real time e Intuitive navigation with animated zooming effects even during the scan process e Multithreaded scanning engine with smart caching system to minimize disk access e Lets you focus and complete the scan on a zoomed portion of your disk even if the master scan is in progress if you are in hurry page 1 of 20 Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 e Scans NTFS Alternate Data Streams if needed e Customizable interface geometry colors behaviors effects look styles e It doesn t clutter your registry only a plain XML configuration file e It s portable no installation required just put the executable somewhere and let s go You can keep it in your flash key ready to use e t s FreeWare or better DonationWare By using SpaceSniffer you may say Hei Look there A lot of old 10 Mb JPEGs Oh That old 2Gb database backup Better moving it out of the way Look here The application XYZ modifies all those files What is this biiiig folder Oh that s the O S folder Better leaving it in place eheh 2 Quick Start Page Please have a look at the Quick Start page You will find information about the tool bar that is not covered here 3 Start The Application The main window of the application appears and a smaller dialog the start dialog will ask what you want to scan You can choose one of your disks or type one or more paths
18. ion and encourage further product development You can do so on the donation internet page by choosing the donation tool bar button or the Support this project option in the help menu Thank you for your support Copyright 2007 2011 Uderzo Umberto please read the Disclaimer page 20 of 20
19. is type of graphical representation is called Treemap and was invented by Prof Ben Shneiderman Professor in the University of Maryland The bigger the element on screen the bigger the folder or file on disk Simple 4 1 Seeing stuff in detail If you want to examine an element in deep just left mouse click once on it and you will start digging You can dig into folders until you reach a file element displayed in a different color When you click on a folder or file it will be hilighted and it will drop a shadow to make it easy to track during a scan operation because SpaceSniffer is continuosly rearraging and moving all elements to best fit them in your screen If you wish you can zoom into a folder element by double clicking on it This will expand the folder to the entire view showing more smaller elements previously hidden because of the smaller size When you start zooming in and out you will notice that the navigation keys back and forward like a web browser will activate You can go back and forth by pressing them or by BACKSPACE and SHIFT BACKSPACE shortcuts Note The navigation keyboard shortcuts are active only when the filter field is not focused 4 2 What does SpaceSniffer display Due to the intrinsic nature of the Treemap concept Space Sniffer will not show files with zero byte size Because the display area is proportional to the file size a zero size file would occupy zero pixels hence they are not display
20. n event If a relevant event happens the log console will popup You can also open the log console from the main window drop down menu Log scan warnings By enabling this option you tell Space Sniffer to log events when it cannot scan a folder or a file due to any reason 8 4 Look tab Level contrast This setting lets you choose from a completely flat color scheme to a deep view color scheme Light levels are controlled by the nesting Border contrast Makes elements borders more or less noticeable This lets you to vary from a gummy look to a hard edge look Highlight halo levels When the mouse hovers on an element this is highlighted As the the halo levels setting increase more parent elements are affected by the highlighting If you exaggerate the effect can be pretty psychedelic Mouse hover Highlights the element under the mouse pointer Drop shadow Selected element will drop a shadow to make it easy to visually track expecially during the scan process Mouse trail Leaves an highlight trail on elements when mouse moves This can be annoying to some users In case deactivate 8 5 Styles tab This tab contains more tabs one for each available visualization style You can define the default style to be used at each new view When a view is opened you can control the style from the toolbar page 14 of 20 Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 Flat Colors tab Here you
21. ombinations works always also if the filter box has the focus If you are sure that the filter box is not focused you can also use the simpler 1 2 3 4 0 key With CTRL 0 you clear the tag on all elements in the zoomed view even elements hidden by a filter rule This means that the reset is applied on elements starting from the zoomed area files and folders outside the zoomed area are left untouched By tagging an element you put a temporary bookmark on it This lets you continue navigating the disk structure and be sure to find each tagged file by filter for example The tag is temporary This means that when you close all the views containing them they are lost Nothing is stored on disk everything is kept in memory So just play with tags VY Hint You can tag each element only once but elements will inherit the tag also from parents This gives lots of filtering flexibility But to avoid view cluttering only the element s own tag is shown Example You want to exclude some big folders from your view Define say a tag exclusion filter as explained in the filter chapter Suppose you want to exclude red tagged elements Type r and press ENTER key Then select the annoying file element and tag it red It will disappear from the view it has not been deleted only hidden To restore the element into the view clear the filter or clear the tag with CTRL 0 Example You want a shopping cart Open two views of the same
22. on is disabled When you are in a zoomed folder you can start a secondary scan process to force the scanning of the selected folder The purpose is to avoid waiting for the termination of the master scan to be sure the zoomed view is complete Only one active zoomed scan process is permitted for each view If you want to focus on another part of the structure and the secondary scan is in progress you must stop and restart it Hint Both master scan and sub scan are not really needed to keep the view in sync with media content if the O S gives modification feedbacks This usually happens with local medie storage If on the other hand you are dealing wit a network path for example you should rescan totally or partially to keep in sync 5 7 Less detail CTRL More detail CTRL Will dig less more into the display structure Note that the currently selected folder file element will always be shown to avoid you a lot of annoying zoom in out operations 5 8 Use File Classes style CTRL T Will switch between Flat Colors style and File Classes style When you feel overhelmed by too much information you can go back flat and take a breath 5 9 Show free space CTRL F Will show an element that represents the free space of the selected drive This option will work only if you select a drive or type a drive path and not with typed paths that are not drives Note The free space element is visible only in the root element if y
23. ou zoom into a folder the free space goes out of sight It s not possible to keep in sight the free space element also in zoomed views because of the nature of the Treemap A free space page 5 of 20 SpaceSniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 element into a zoomed folder would show a distorted information because of shape proportions VY Hint You can keep two views of the same media and use one to dig into and one to keep visible the root with free space element active 5 10 Show unknown not yet scanned space CTRL U Similarly to the preceding option but this will show unknown space Unknown space is space that SpaceSniffer is aware of but has not examined yet While the scanning process goes on the unknown space will become smaller and smaller giving space to examined elements Similar to free space unknown space will not be displayed if the root path is not a drive and it will be displayed ony in the root element 9 Hint Sometimes after the scan completes some unknown space is still visible This is due to the inability to scan some protected folders Try running SpaceSniffer with Administrator privileges if you want to examine completely the media 5 11 Donate Opens a web connection to the donation page Please support this software let me know that you like it by donating something Thank you in advance 5 12 The viewable percent bar When zooming in and out you may notice a small vertical bar on the le
24. r must be surrounded with chars Spacesna tier exe scan ar filter Jpg gir the filter command will apply to the previous scan command So this will scan the c drive for JPEGs and GIFs SpaceSniffer exe scan c filter jpg scan d e filter gif gt 100kb got the idea page 18 of 20 Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 12 Final Notes 12 1 File handling SpaceSniffer algorithms works in read only mode It is possible to access the Windows Explorer popup menu for a folder or a file by right mouse clicking on a view element So if you delete a file it s because you deleted it through Windows Explorer functions not SpaceSniffers The only exception is when SpaceSniffer saves the configuration into his configuration XML file If it s possible to save then it will be done On the contrary no saving is performed and the program quietly accepts the fact you will not be able to persist your customizations 12 2 Privilege request Whenever possible Space Sniffer tries to get the Backup Operator privilege that gives the possibility to examine protected folders If the application can obtain this right or not depends on your privileges in the O S If it s not possible to get this privilege the application still works but you ll probably notice that some unknown space will stay in the way also after the end of the scan process 12 3 File system events SpaceSniffer listens to file system e
25. rted This mode is suited for very simple scripts but when you need to indent your code you need to switch to the script mode by inserting the script command at the start of the script This command will disable the exporting of tabs and newlines At this point if you really need to export a tab or a newline you must use the amp tab and amp br commands These commands work also in simple mode they just mix with normal tabs and newlines Hint Commands can be nested to get the desired result This is a really short introduction to the scripting engine Hope this is useful to introduce you to the export customization Now let s experiment have fun page 17 of 20 Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 11 Command Prompt You can start SpaceSniffer also through the command prompt SpaceSniffer can understand some parameters commands To view all the possibilities you can type in a command prompt SpaceSniffer exe help Or you can choose the Command line help in the About menu of the main window 11 1 Examples Let s explain how to drive Space Sniffer through parameters SpaceSniffer exe scan c will start a single scan on drive c SpaceSniffer exe scan c d will start two scan views on respective paths SpaceSniffer exe scan c Program Files c Windows you can type also a complete path just consider that if the path contains spaces all the compound paths paramete
26. s bigger smaller than a given file size The syntax of the search string is gt or lt character followed by the size and the measure unit disksize lclustersize filesize logicalsize size lt gt size b kb mb gb tb Available measure units are b byte kb kilo byte 1024 b mb mega byte 1024 kb gb giga byte 1024 mb tb tera byte 1024 gb Example by typing gt 100kb SpaceSniffer will show only files bigger than 100kb You can prepend the size condition by the keywords disksize clustersize synonims for disk space occupation or filesize logicalsize size synonims for logical file size The default is disksize VY Hint SpaceSniffer uses a fuzzy match algorithm to understand what you are filtering for So you can type disksize disk dsk dsksz and soon 6 4 Filtering by file age It is possible to search files by their age normally modification date The syntax of the search string is similar to the previous one but the measure unit is different creation modifylaccess lt gt age seconds minutes mours days weeks months lyears Available measure units are seconds secs sec s minutes mins min m hours hour h days day d weeks week w months month years year y page 8 of 20 Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 Example by typing gt 1year SpaceSniffer will show files not modified in the last year By default the filter applies to the modify date
27. the O S So if something changes outside the application SpaceSniffer will be aware of it and will reflect the change into the view VY Hint You can open twice the same path on two different views and examine it with different filtering criteria 5 2 Go back BACKSPACE Go forward SHIFT BACKSPACE When you navigate the disk structure by zooming in and out all locations you traverse are kept in memory like an internet browser So you can go back and forth as you wish 5 3 Go upper level CTRL UP Will zoom out by one folder level until you reach the view root The view root is the starting point of the scan operation the disk drive or the specified initial path page 4 of 20 Space Sniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 5 4 Go to home CTRL HOME Will zoom out at the root point of the view the disk drive or the specified initial path 5 5 Perform a new master scan While scanning the button lets you to stop the process While not scanning the button lets you start another scan process 9 Hint If you need to track only file change operations and you are not interested in the full media content a full media scan is not needed Just start a new scan then stop it with this button Even if not scanning SpaceSniffer will keep track of created deleted modified files and you will see them popping into your view 5 6 Performs a new scan of the zoomed view sub scan When you are on the view root the butt
28. vents so it can reflect changes made outside of the application This feature may not be supported depending on the O S and media type 12 4 Internet connection Space Sniffer plays polite It will never attempt to connect to the internet by itself The only exceptions are the Check for update option that will open the download page letting you check if a new version has been released the Support this project option that will open the donation page in your default browser and the About Box that contains a link to www uderzo it So if SpaceSniffer connects to the internet it s because you told it to do so 12 5 Compatibility SpaceSniffer has been tested on Windows 2000 SP4 XP Vista 7 32 64bit systems Currently SpaceSniffer code is 32 bit but when runned under a 64 bit environment it asks to the O S the permission to examine also the 64 bit O S folders so the result is correct even under 64 bit systems 12 6 Contact infos If you want to contact me for information or to submit hints or bug reports please write to info uderzo it and specify the keyword spacesniffer in the mail subject Remember to specify the keyword or your mail could be blocked by the antispam filter page 19 of 20 SpaceSniffer User Manual printed on 23 01 2011 12 7 Please support If you feel this software comes handy to you please consider donating to the project By donating you show me your appreciat
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