BulletProof FolderSizes

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In Brief

Hard drive space usage analysis utility.

Vitals

Posted:	20 Sep 2004
File Size:	3.6MB
License:	Shareware (15-day trial)
Download:	http://www.foldersizes.com/download-folder-sizes/fs-setup.exe
Home Page:	http://www.foldersizes.com
Publisher:	Key Metric Software, LLC

Disclaimer

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Details

FolderSizes is a powerful disk space analysis utility which provides users and network administrators alike with deep insights into how their local and network drive space is being consumed. It employs an advanced, multi-threaded file system scanning engine that works against mapped drives, UNC paths, and local devices. FolderSizes can export its disk space analysis reports in a variety of formats, including HTML, XML, and more - all accessible via a command interface for scheduling and systems integration. Free 15-day trial period.

Benefits:

• Quickly visualize disk space utilization
• Find largest, oldest, temporary, and duplicate files
• Visualize file distribution by file type or attributes
• Streamline storage to optimize backups
• Reduce storage ownership costs
• Reclaim gigabytes of disk space fast

Features:

• Fast, network-aware file system analyzer
• Interactive detail and graph views
• Exports to HTML, XML, CSV, and more
• Windows shell context menu integration
• Powerful FilterZip filtering compression technology
• Dedicated drive space report panel
• Highly customizable and friendly user interface
• Support for mapped drives and UNC paths
• Many other great features!

Novell Cool Solutions (corporate web communities) are produced by WebWise Solutions. www.webwiseone.com

Reader Comments

• Reports incorrect size
• Don't do archiving or backups without this tool - it saves a huge amount of time by streamlining file systems.
• Excellent quality software!
• Does a good job of working over the network.
• This tool gets better with every release. Very handy to have around.
• Excellent
• This is OK - Diskview is better
• Be careful. The download 1 file on this page contains a BackDoor-CIV file. Go to the website and download the file there. Note: 9-20-04: This download has been updated with the file from the FolderSizes Web site.
• With regard to the comment above, this was actually a FALSE virus alert. Please see this blog entry: http://www.foldersizes.com/blog/2004/06/notice-false-mcafee-virus-report.htm
• Very, very good software. Highly recommended.
• Excellent tool for network administration. Fast, remote scanning of network drives!
• This app freakin' ROCKS!
• Extremely useful indeed
• Awesome, and there's a new version 2.0 at foldersizes.com!
• Awecome utility. It gets my five stars!
• The best!
• The user interface is pretty childish - have you tried DiskView that provides all of this and more, all from Windows Explorer?
• though the software is average, performance and presentation can be improved
• Works pretty good. Love the GUI, but incorrecty reported the size of some files and directories on some NW volumes.
• One of the best disk utilities I've ever seen. - PJ
• Fantastic!
• Very powerful indeed.
• Added this one to my bag of tricks a couple weeks ago, and I find it incredibly valuable.
• Exceptionally fast disk analysis
• Awesome product, period.
• Powerful but elegant - we're finding FolderSizes very handy.