Directory(s) to be Sized
This field is where you enter the directory (or directories) to be sized/analyzed. This edit field can contain either a fully qualified directory name or a network share. So either 'c:\xxxxx' or '\\server1\share1' are both acceptable 'directories'.
You can enter multiple directories by seperating them with a Vertical Line ( | ). This will then have Disk Triage automatically create a 'root' node to provide totals for the multiple directories. This is a very powerful feature for creating consolidated views of a machine with multiple harddrives or SANS that have been logically divided into multiple Volumes.
NOTE: The choice of '|' was made because of the restricted characters that can make up directory names. The only ones available were (\,/,:,*,",<,>,|) - of which a few are used in directory paths or as wild cards in file names.
The three icons to the right of the edit box are as follows:
Directory Selection
This icon will provides a directory picking dialog that allows the user to choose a single directory to be sized.
Up one Directory
This icon takes the currently selected directory in the edit box and removes the last directory - basically moving up one level to the parent directory
Select Multiple Directories
This icon provides a dialog (similar to the excluded directory dialog below) that allows the user to choose multiple directories to be sized.
Configure FTP Servers
This icon provides a dialog where you can configure FTP servers that you would like to size
Excluded Directories
This field allows the user to enter any directories that they would like to have excluded from the sizing. This is very useful if you want to size a larger directory branch - while excluding only certain directories from the sizing.
This field can be entered manually - making sure to seperate each directory entry with a semi-colon (;) - or use the Select Excluded Directory Entries dialog. The dialog can be accessed by clicking the speed button to the right of the field. This is the button with the picture of a Windows folder with the circle and line through it. The dialog looks like...
This dialog allows you to enter multiple directories to be excluded. It keeps each entry as a seperate line in the list box at the top of the dialog.
It should be noted that if you want to exclude a particular directory - you should specify the full path. This is because the program take each entry and searches the current directory of the scan to see if the entry is found in it. If it is found then that directory is not included in the search. This also means that you could specify a unqualified name and it will cause any directory that contains that string to be excluded from the search. For example if you specify a string of 'doc' - then every directory that contains the string doc would be eliminated from the sizing. This would include directories such as 'Docs', 'Documents', 'Doctor', etc. So you can see that you should be very careful about speicifying simple strings and not fully qualified paths.
File Specs
This field is broken into two parts. The first are the file specifications that you want to search for. The second are the ones you want to exclude from the sizing.
Include: This field allows the use of wild cars such as '*' and '?'. You can seperate different file specs by using the Semi-Colon between them.
Exclude: This field allows the use of wild cards as well. You can seperate different file specs by using a Semi-Colon between them.
This could be used to search your directories for all files starting with the letter 'M' and having the suffix of either '.Bat' or '.exe'. You could also exclude all files that have an extension of '.com' from the scan by using the Excluded Directory field.
Show Size In
This field allows you to choose in which units of measurement you want to see the results in. You can choose from Bytes, KB, MB and GB. You can change this selection and press F5 to refresh the display in the desired unit of measure.
Gather Additional Stats
File Extension Stats
Checking this option will gather information about how much space and number of files are used up by each file extension. This differs from the File Type stats - in that it does not worry about registered file types - just the extensions (ie *.bat, *.exe, *.mp3, etc). It has little impact on the speed of a sizing - unlike File Type Stats.
File Type Stats
Checking this option will gather information about how much space and number of files are used up by the various registered Windows file types. This option slows the sizing down dramatically!! We recommend using the File Extension Stats option - which is much faster and more acurate.
File Owner Stats
Checking this option will gather information about how much space and number of files are used up by each file owner. It should be noted that this option only works with file systems that record this information such as NTFS. FAT and FAT32 do not hold this information and therefore do not work with this option. When this option is selected you can view this information in the last column of the Directory Details listview. This option can only be used when running on an NT/2K/XP machine. This option slows the sizng down a moderate amount.
File Name Size Stats
Checking this option will gather information about how much space and number of files are used up by the various file name sizes. The catagories are user defined on the Analysis options tab.
File Permissions Stats
Checking this option will gather information about the permissions for each directory. This gathered information is displayed in the NT Permissions window and on the NT Permissions report. It should be noted that this option only works NTFS partitions - or those that report the same information as NTFS. FAT and FAT32 (Windows 9x/Me) do not hold this information and therefore do not work with this option. This option can only be used when running on an NT/2K/XP machine.
Top 10 Size Stats
This option will gather the 'Top X' of the Largest files in the directory being sized. The number of entries in this list are controlled by the File Size/Date Top 10 field on the Analysis Option tab.
Top 10 Date Stats
This option will gather the 'Top X' of the Oldest files in the directory being sized. The number of entries in this list are controlled by the File Size/Date Top 10 field on the Analysis Option tab.
Top 10 Folder Stats
This option will gather the 'Top X' of the Folders with the most files and largest size. This is for individual folders - not including sub-directories. It is a great way of quickly finding the largest folders on your system! The number of entries in this list are controlled by the File Size/Date Top 10 field on the Analysis Option tab.
Activity Stats
This option determines whether the program will gather "Activity" statistics while scanning the disk space. These stats show how many files have been created, modified and accessed during the the specified time period (specified on the Tree Options screen) and are shown in the TreeView columns.
Root Title
This edit box allows the user to choose which 'Title' will be given to a Root Node when it is created. A Root Node is used to provide a consolidated view of multiple directories that have been scanned.
As well - you can change the root node title by double clicking on the Root Node itself. A small dialog will be displayed allowing you to change the title.