FolderSizes - Disk Space Manager

Today, Key Metric Software released FolderSizes v4.8.3.10. This is a minor update, containing most bug fixes and minor feature / performance enhancements.

Please feel free to download immediately or review the latest product release notes online.

Today, Key Metric Software is releasing v4.8.2.92 of FolderSizes – our powerful disk space analysis software product.

This release includes a number of minor feature enhancements, as well as several bug fixes. New features include:

• Enhanced theme support – Now users can choose between blue, black, silver, aqua, scenic, white and traditional themes. These themes are also now better integrated into the application overall (including matching graph backgrounds, by default).
• New search columns – The search detail list now includes file and folder count columns. These are not visible by default, so right-click a column header and select them to make them visible.
• Improved Windows 7 taskbar support – FolderSizes now shows indeterminate progress in the Windows 7 taskbar during normal, file report, and search report generation.
• Improved status bars – All status bars now auto-resize themselves intelligently, ensuring better use of screen real estate. We’ve also added a “excluded” pane to all report generating windows to reflect the number of folders current being excluded.
• Stop file reports and show results – The stop button in the file report generation window now allows users to cancel report generation while showing results accumulated thus far.

The remaining changes are bug fixes, again most of them minor. Please feel free to download the new release and/or review the complete release notes.

Ever wondered about the difference between the “size” and “allocated” (the latter is also know as “size on disk”) columns shown in nearly all FolderSizes detail reports?

If so, please check out this article on www.disk-space-manager.com for a discussion of “cluster overhang” and its impact on file systems.

Many of our valued FolderSizes users also leverage the duplicate finding power of Duplicate File Detective – our professional-grade duplicate file management software.

So it is with great pleasure that I announce the release of Duplicate File Detective v3.0. This new version provides a wealth of new features, including Unicode support, support for Windows 7, a greatly enhanced user interface experience, improvements to the integrated file hash calculator tool, support for very long file paths, vastly improved performance, and much more.

With this new release, you can find and remove duplicate files with unparalleled ease and safety.

For a more thorough review, please see What’s New in Duplicate File Detective v3.0.

FolderSizes v4.8 has been tested to meet all of the technical requirements to be Compatible with Windows 7.

Microsoft recommends “Compatible with Windows® 7″ applications because they have passed Microsoft-designed tests to help ensure they install readily every time and minimize the number of crashes, hangs, and restarts that you experience. This all helps ensure a compatible and reliable experience with any edition of Windows 7, including 64-bit.

“Compatible with Windows 7″ software:

• Is tested for compatibility and reliability on Windows 7.
• Passed Microsoft designed tests to minimize the possibility of crashes, hangs, and reboots.
• Represents a commitment that the product will continue to work over the life of Windows 7.
• Meets privacy standards set forth by the Anti-Spyware Coalition.
• Installs cleanly and reliably.
• Eliminates unnecessary reboots.
• Ensures compatibility with Windows 7, both 32-bit and 64-bit editions.

FolderSizes v4.8.1 is a maintenance update that provides automatic update checking (with notifications), incremental display of the folder map data visualization during the file system scanning process, as well as a handful of other minor improvements and bug fixes.

Full release notes are available here.

Today, Key Metric Software of Traverse City, MI releases version 4.8 of FolderSizes, the world leader in disk space analysis and visualization software.

New features include:

• Support for Windows 7
• Improved support for 64-bit Windows operating systems with a new 64-bit version of the FolderSizes shell context menu
• Broader, more scalable, and more resource efficient support for exporting reports as XML
• New support for visualizing allocated disk space (e.g. “size on disk”), which accounts for cluster overhang, compression, etc.
• New ability to search and filter by allocated file system object size
• Numerous performance enhancements, especially in file report detail view sorting
• A new column in search results that shows file system object name length
• New ability to exclude folders from search results
• Improved drill-down from within range-based and categorical file reports
• Many other improvements and minor bug fixes

This release is a free upgrade for any existing FolderSizes v4.x license holder.

The full v4.8.0.55 release notes can be viewed here. Or proceed directly to download.

Key Metric Software has now sold more than ten thousand unique FolderSizes product licenses.

And the actual user count is much higher. Why? Because we have numerous large enterprise customers, such as ExxonMobil and Chevron (just two examples), who have worldwide license contracts with many, many individual users. What’s more, a large percentage of our license sales are for multi-user “license packs” and site-wide licenses (even though we only count these as one license sale).

Why has FolderSizes become so pervasive? Because regardless of how many cheap clones and open-source freebies (with a fraction of the features) appear on the market, FolderSizes is the obvious “professional grade” choice for businesses. Not only does FolderSizes support advanced functionality not available in other solutions, it’s also backed by a software company that’s deeply committed to customer satisfaction. As other disk space visualization and management tools have come and gone, FolderSizes continues to be developed and vigorously supported.

When you (or your company) licenses FolderSizes, you’re ensuring the continuity of the best disk space analysis and management software tool on the market today.

And you know what – we’re not slowing down. More about the next major release of FolderSizes in a future blog.

A lot of people use FolderSizes for its integrated search facility, which we’ve engineered from the ground up to be super-flexible. You can get answers to a vast number of data storage questions using FolderSizes search, and one of the most popular questions is – where are my empty folders?

Of course, with FolderSizes you can find empty folders not only on your local computer file system, but on any file system accessible to FolderSizes (including other machines accessible via your local area network, etc.).

I’ve talked before about how to use FolderSizes to find empty folders – we’ve even made a video about it. But in this blog entry, I’m also going to provide a sample FolderSizes search definition file for getting this job done. Here it is:

Empty_Folders_Search_Job.xml

Using this search job with FolderSizes is very simple:

1. Download the search job XML file above and save it on your computer somewhere (you can right-click it and choose “save as” from the resulting menu).
2. Start FolderSizes v4.7 and click the Search toolbar button.
3. In the search window, click the Load toolbar button and navigate to the search job file saved in step 1.
4. Tweak the search paths to suit your needs. This sample search definition file scans the “C:\” drive, but any file system (local or remote) is fair game.
5. Click the Start toolbar button.

That’s it – you’re off and running. When the search process completes, you’ll have a list of empty folders, which you can then sort, export for later analysis, print, etc.

Here at KeyMetric Software, we have a deep and ongoing commitment to releasing safe and secure software products to our customers. For example, our flagship software product – FolderSizes – is in use by many thousands of organizations and individuals across the globe, and we take seriously our responsibility to ensure the security of those product installations.

Toward this end, here are the most recent results of our comprehensive anti-virus scanning process (performed against the latest publicly available build of FolderSizes):

Note: a virus scan result of “-” means that the anti-virus product detected no threats.