Navigating Folders

FolderSizes provides you with an array of options for navigating to various folders located throughout your computer system. Navigating to a specific folder will cause a file system scan to begin automatically, the results of which will be displayed (in the detail view and graph view) progressively.

•	Folder Browser – The docking window panel on the left hand side of your screen. You can use the Folder Browser to select any folder on your system for scanning.

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Toolbar Buttons – The primary application toolbar provides you with a number of navigation-oriented buttons, similar to Windows Explorer. These can be used to move back, forward, and up within the folder hierarchy contained within the Folder Browser. The refresh toolbar button can also be used to refresh the contents of the currently selected folder.

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Path Field – There is a drop-down edit box on the primary application toolbar that remembers each folder you visit (up to a certain number). You can then easily select folder paths from this drop-down box in order to access them quickly. You can also enter file system (including UNC) paths directly into the path edit box.

•	Double-clicking – Subfolder names displayed within the upper right-hand window pane can be double-clicked, which has the effect of "drilling into" them (e.g. opening them for scanning and display of its subfolders).

•	Right-clicking – There is extensive support for right-clicking throughout the FolderSizes user interface. Right-clicking a folder or drive name will expose additional navigation and functional options.

Note that you can also stop any folder scan in progress by clicking the stop button on the primary application toolbar. When you stop a folder scan, the system will halt scanning immediately and present the results aggregated thus far.

A you may already be aware, the Windows operating system contains a number of "special" folders, designed for specific non-storage functions. Examples of special operating system folders include "My Computer" and "Control Panel", neither of which actually stores any file system objects. Selecting a special folder within FolderSizes will simply result in the note "there are no items to display", since there's nothing to scan.

The FolderSizes Folder Browser window exposes the contents of your "Network Places" folder, which may contain your network drive mappings and/or recently accessed network folders. Please note that if the user running FolderSizes does not have the proper access rights to enumerate (or scan) files within the network folder, the folder scan will fail to complete properly. Further, scanning of network folders may be considerably slower than scanning local folders, since they are being accessed via a network connection.