FOLDER SIZE REPORTING

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.).

For up-to-date info, please see how to search for empty directories with FolderSizes.

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.