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"Piotr Makley" <pmakley@mail.com> wrote in message
news:94F373D2EF13C31E75@130.133.1.4...
> I am looking for a file manager similar to Windows Explorer which
> shows a folder "tree" with the size of each the folders.
>
> Does such a utility exist?
>
> Prefereably freeware.
I have decided to spool so here goes.
I made FileAnt http://www.fileant.com/ for fun 'g' and a resume piece. Which
not many people have looked at (it is ramping up this week though). It can
show you the folder sizes in the size column of the list view if you turn it
on in config. You can also telescopically browse the folders as pie slices
(with % or MB/KB), I hand coded the pie drawing routines so it is quite
neat. FileAnt does most standard things the same way as explorer however it
had one of the first tabbed/split panel interfaces and it also has a lot of
unique features to speed up file management which I will not mention here.
With FileAnt, read the website and the help (takes 30 mins) because there
are some feature which by design are not obvious because making them obvious
was not possible, purpose defeating or would have added to the bulk of the
exe (the apps memory footprint is the size of the exe and custom dll's not
what you see in task manager... task manager includes shared dlls such as
user32, kernel32, advapi32, winsock etc in the memory calc).
Over the years FileAnt has been shaped heavily by the people who use it as I
make almost every change/fix asked for. I have never bothered to market it
much yet though... too much software on the internet. IMHO the net is almost
too big now and needs to wipe some parts of itself clean. Many File Managers
have blatant problems if you fully tested them even explorer (try opening a
folder with many many icons in the one you use). Many do not list properly
on common ftp servers etc etc but the big sites will still push them for the
money because they look good. Another problem with some file managers is
that they fill/alter your registry with all sorts of stuff outside the
software key (I always image the hard drive before installing). If the
download is > 3 meg it is probably guaranteed to look good but it will not
be after close examination. Another indicator I use (and it may just be me
that thinks this) is the installer used... InstallSheild packaged software
is almost always real bad. FileAnt has had many bugs (most of which have now
been ironed out) but never a file related one or one destructive in any way.
Free software is almost always guaranteed to be unfinished or have a catch.
I made FileAnt very un-annoying when it expires and you could use it free
forever if you wanted to, I do not mind at all. The flip side is that paying
for software helps authors with some of the costs for websites, getting it
out to others and sometime spurs them on. Many authors write software at
there own cost, physical/mental/monetary and not for big direct sales $, but
for resumes, to explore computers, and in some cases to satisfy a base human
need to enhance the tools.
kind regards,
will
"Piotr Makley" <pmakley@mail.com> wrote in message
news:94F373D2EF13C31E75@130.133.1.4...
> I am looking for a file manager similar to Windows Explorer which
> shows a folder "tree" with the size of each the folders.
>
> Does such a utility exist?
>
> Prefereably freeware.
I have decided to spool so here goes.
I made FileAnt http://www.fileant.com/ for fun 'g' and a resume piece. Which
not many people have looked at (it is ramping up this week though). It can
show you the folder sizes in the size column of the list view if you turn it
on in config. You can also telescopically browse the folders as pie slices
(with % or MB/KB), I hand coded the pie drawing routines so it is quite
neat. FileAnt does most standard things the same way as explorer however it
had one of the first tabbed/split panel interfaces and it also has a lot of
unique features to speed up file management which I will not mention here.
With FileAnt, read the website and the help (takes 30 mins) because there
are some feature which by design are not obvious because making them obvious
was not possible, purpose defeating or would have added to the bulk of the
exe (the apps memory footprint is the size of the exe and custom dll's not
what you see in task manager... task manager includes shared dlls such as
user32, kernel32, advapi32, winsock etc in the memory calc).
Over the years FileAnt has been shaped heavily by the people who use it as I
make almost every change/fix asked for. I have never bothered to market it
much yet though... too much software on the internet. IMHO the net is almost
too big now and needs to wipe some parts of itself clean. Many File Managers
have blatant problems if you fully tested them even explorer (try opening a
folder with many many icons in the one you use). Many do not list properly
on common ftp servers etc etc but the big sites will still push them for the
money because they look good. Another problem with some file managers is
that they fill/alter your registry with all sorts of stuff outside the
software key (I always image the hard drive before installing). If the
download is > 3 meg it is probably guaranteed to look good but it will not
be after close examination. Another indicator I use (and it may just be me
that thinks this) is the installer used... InstallSheild packaged software
is almost always real bad. FileAnt has had many bugs (most of which have now
been ironed out) but never a file related one or one destructive in any way.
Free software is almost always guaranteed to be unfinished or have a catch.
I made FileAnt very un-annoying when it expires and you could use it free
forever if you wanted to, I do not mind at all. The flip side is that paying
for software helps authors with some of the costs for websites, getting it
out to others and sometime spurs them on. Many authors write software at
there own cost, physical/mental/monetary and not for big direct sales $, but
for resumes, to explore computers, and in some cases to satisfy a base human
need to enhance the tools.
kind regards,
will
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