Exporting

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FolderSizes has powerful report exporting capabilities built into it. Exported report contents can often be imported or otherwise consumed by third-party applications for additional processing.

 

A wide range of export formats are available, including:

 

HTML – The files produced by the HTML report will depend upon the report context. For example, if you are exporting the main application window's contents (e.g. the detail view and the graph) to HTML, both a web page and image file will be produced. A CSS (cascading style sheet) file will also be copied to the export destination folder – this file is used to format the HTML page's appearance.
XML – Cxports in XML format are created with "full subfolder depth". This means that whatever drive or folder is selected in the Folder Browser pane is used as the root of the XML report, and everything beneath that point is included. XML can be consumed by a variety of third-party applications.
CSV / TSV – Comma and tab separated value export formats, respectively, allow you to produce simple delimited, text-based exports that be consumed by applications such as Microsoft Excel.
Clipboard – The main application detail view contents can be exported directly to the Windows clipboard.
Image – The main application graph can be exported directly as an image file in a range of formats (including JPEG, PNG, Bitmap, and Tiff). The graph image can also be exported to the Windows clipboard.

 

Report exporting functionality can be accessed by selecting File | Export from the main application menu.

 

All of the File Reports also support exporting their contents to a variety of formats.

 

Note: FolderSizes ships with an XSLT file that transforms XML export files into HTML and renders them in compatible browsers (e.g. IE 5.5 or greater, Firefox, etc). You can modify the XSLT script yourself if you like - it's located in a directory named "xslt" beneath your FolderSizes installation root.