About File Reports

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In addition to the interactive drive space exploration provided through the main interface, FolderSizes can produce a range of useful File Reports. These are reports that are specifically focused on the files within your system; they are extremely valuable in identifying drive space usage patterns throughout your system.

It's easy to generate and view File Reports within FolderSizes. Simply click the File Reports button in the application toolbar (or click the arrow to the right of the button to go directly to a specific report type). The Report Generator window will appear.

When the Report Generator window appears, you must first tell it which folder or drive you wish to report on. If you know the path of the drive or folder you wish to use, you can enter it manually (e.g. type "C:" into the edit box to have your C drive scanned or a UNC path to scan a network share). Or, click the Browse button to browse the folders, drives, and shared available on your system or on the network. You can also click the down arrow to the left of the edit box to view your most recent report path entries.

Note: It is also possible to generate File Reports against multiple file system scan paths. See Multiple File Report Paths for details.

Use the Options button in the toolbar to customize the File Report generation process, including the selection of which specific File Reports will be generated during a scan. Please note that you should always consider disabling File Reports that do not interest you – doing so increases file system scanning speeds and reduced memory utilization. Also: a note about the File Owners reports

Once you have selected a reporting path, click the Start Scan button. This will begin the file system scanning process, which will ultimately result in the output of every enabled file report.

The File Reports have a number of common properties and capabilities, available from the toolbar:

•	Exclusions - Modify the excluded folders list.

•	Print - Print the currently selected File Report.

•	Export - Export the currently selected File Report in HTML, CSV, or TXT file format.

•	Options - Shortcut to the File Reports section of the FolderSizes options window.

•	Filtering - Allows for advanced filtering during File Report generation. Be sure to engage the "Apply scan filtering to File Reports" switch in the Scan Filtering window.

•	Help - Shows this help file.

•	Close - Closes the File Report generation window.

Note: once a reporting scan begins, a small window will appear indicating that the scan is currently in progress. This window also allows you to cancel the reporting scan at any time.