Managing Disk Space Usage with FolderSizes
The following video demo provides a brief overview of how FolderSizes can help you manage disk space. It touches on just some of the amazing features in FolderSizes - download it today and experience it for yourself!
Video Transcript
Hello and welcome to this video overview of FolderSizes.
FolderSizes is award-winning, network-enabled disk space analysis software for Windows. It can quickly analyze storage devices of any type to produce stunning, incredibly useful reports that show not only HOW disk space is being used, but exactly WHERE and by WHOM.
Today, we'll take a brief tour of just some of the features of FolderSizes version 5.
Let's start with a common scenario. We're running low on disk space on our system's root drive, but we're just not sure where that disk space has gone or how it's being used. So, let's have FolderSizes take a look!
Selecting our root drive within FolderSizes causes it to spring into action. FolderSizes begins its deep analysis of the drive and all of its contents, and starts showing results immediately - even while the analysis is in progress.
With the analysis phase complete, we're presented with a ton of useful information. By default, FolderSizes sorts the largest file system objects to the top of the detail report - and right away we can see which folders on our root drive are eating up the most space. Hey, that Windows system folder seems awfully huge - over 40 gigabytes in size. Let's take a closer look.
We'll double-click the Windows system folder, which causes FolderSizes to drill into it. Now we can plainly see that the Windows LOGS folder has grown abnormally large. Looking at the bar and pie graph panels confirms that this is the largest object within our Windows system folder. And the map graph shows us that the LOGS folder itself contains several very large subfolders. Let's double- click the LOGS folder to get more details.
Now we see that Product XYZ has been very busy writing out log files over the last couple of days. We'll want to investigate why that product is generating so many log files. In the meantime, we could free up some space now, or we might print or export the report for later review.
Next, let's look at another way that FolderSizes can help us understand how disk space is being used.
The FolderSizes File Report Generator analyzes one or more storage devices or file system paths once - and produces a broad range of file-based reports that help us to understand disk space usage. For this example, we're analyzing our local Windows system folder.
Once the analysis is complete, you'll see that FolderSizes has produced a number of useful reports that allow us to isolate large, old, temporary, and duplicate files. It also shows us the distribution of files by type, attributes, owner, size, file name length, and age.
Each of these detail reports can be printed, exported in a variety of formats, and much more.
Finally, we'll take a brief look at the FolderSizes Search tool.
Let's start by indicating which file system paths we want to search. We'll include our local root drive and that of a machine on the network. For this example, we'll define a rule for finding old image files within our target paths. Click the New Rule button and select New File Rule from the drop-down menu. Optionally give your rule a descriptive name. Next, we indicate that we wish to include only common image file types, and specify our interest in files that have NOT been modified within the last full year.
Run the search, and process these files however you see fit. You can also print the search detail report, export it in a variety of formats, scheduled it for deferred execution, and much more.
So there you have a brief overview of just some of the features in FolderSizes 5. There's obviously much more to talk about and experience, and so the best thing for you to do is to download FolderSizes and try it for yourself.
Thanks for watching.