Chart Views

The main FolderSizes chart tabs provide valuable visual information about the sizes of the sub-folders contained within the scanned path.

Different Types of Charts

FolderSizes provides several different types of file system data visualization mechanisms, as follows:

• Bar chart - This presents a series of horizontal bar charts correlative to the current detail view display. You can view more or less bar chart entries by manipulating the Subfolder Depth setting (via the View menu).
• Pie chart - Similar to the bar chart implementation, but within a fixed space (e.g. no scrolling) for a more compartmentalized view of spatial distribution of sub-folders.
• Sunburst - A specialized multi-level pie chart that uses concentric circles to represent hierarchical data.
• Folder Map - Based upon the TreeMap concept first designed by Ben Shneiderman, the folder map provides a complete view of all subfolders (at all levels of depth) within a single view. Unlike bar or pie charts, this view allows for deep visualization of the target file system structure without the need for scrolling or drill-downs.

The Chart Ribbon Bar Tab

Click the Chart tab of the main window ribbon bar to access a range of useful features relating specifically to the main window charts.

General options:

• Save - Save the currently selected chart type to file.
• Copy - Copy the currently selected chart type to the Windows clipboard.
• Display Mode - Toggles charts between size, file count, and folder count display modes.
• Show size on disk - Show size on disk values in charts.
• Chart palette - Allows you to choose the color palette to be applied to charts.

Pie chart options:

• Item display - Allows you to control which data points are shown in the pie chart.
• Show labels - Toggles the display of pie chart labels on/off.

Folder Map options:

• Highlight - Allows you to quickly highlight folder map tiles that meet specific criteria. Click the drop-down arrow to view a range of built-in presets, select the highlight color, etc.
• Scan Fonts - When enabled, folder map tile text will be scaled to fill available space.

Common Features

Hover your mouse cursor over any segment of any chart to view detailed information about the file system node it represents. These tooltips can be disabled.

Clicking sections of a FolderSizes chart will highlight the corresponding folder in the detail list at the top of the screen (where applicable). Double-clicking a bar will "drill into" the associated folder.

The chart panels also have a number of configuration options, outlined here.