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Version 2.2.1 released - see Release History for details.
Integer overflow error, which occurred on some large drives, is fixed. (On Windows NT, no error would be reported, but the program would freeze.)
Help and Setup - here at last.
Option to show folder totals at all times.
Added FAT32 support on Drive tab.
More info about drives.
Directory Statistics is a Windows app that shows disk space usage for each folder or drive, displayed in tree format. Any statistics include all subfolders, and you can expand the tree to any level of detail desired. Information can be saved or printed. No other program that I have seen presents this information this nicely. Network administrators - DirStats is for you. How can you manage a file server without a tool like this?
Version 1 was released in 1995 for 16-bit Windows. Version 2, for 32-bit
Windows, came in 1996.
Does stats on any drive recognized by
32-bit Windows operating systems - local hard drives, removable hard drives,
floppies, network drives, ZIP drives, CD-ROM's
Get statistics of an entire disk with one mouse click.
Accommodates up to 100,000 folders in one scan. There is no limit on number of files or total size. (OK, there is, but it's way up in the terabytes.)
All Windows 32-bit operating systems: Win 95, Win 98, NT3.51, NT4.x.
Calculates
actual space occupied as well as
aggregate file size
Supports any size drives (large network drives
have been fixed in V2.2)
Two-column Tree display shows size of every folder
at a glance
A selection of convenient expand and collapse
commands
Drive statistics
Nicely formatted, printed output, or save to a text file.
Directory Statistics is the easiest, fastest way to analyze your disk usage.
First, click on Drive and select a drive to scan. Or click
on Folders to scan just a folder. Then click Get Statistics.
We're doing the entire C: drive here. On my trusty old Pentium 133, this took 18 seconds,
All values display in bytes, KB, or MB and can be changed instantly.
By the way, you can get everything up to here except Space Occupied from
Windows (or NT) Explorer: just do Properties on a folder.
Now click the Tree tab for a Windows Explorer-style display, sorted by size:
We have switched units to KB just to show off.
Program Files is the biggest folder. I've expanded it, showing the other folders ordered by size. We are in "Always Show Folder Totals" mode, so the Borland statistics includes all its subfolders even though it is expanded.
At the bottom are further details for the selected folder, Internet Explorer. There is not much difference between Bytes of Files and Bytes Occupied, because this drive is using FAT32 (as we'll soon see). The full path of the selected folder shows in the status bar, handy when you're six levels down.
(NOTE for Novell NetWare servers. Netware offers a feature called sub-allocation. If sub-allocation is enabled, the file server is using space far more efficiently than DirStats indicates in its Space Occupied values.)
Right-clicking on a folder gives you some useful commands, especially opening Windows Explorer on the folder.
Click on the "KB Occupied" column heading to toggle the display to "KB of Files."
At this point you can use Print or Save As to archive these statistics.
Finally, click on the Drive tab.
Look at the Drive tab to get an overall picture of the disk, including the drive type (fixed, removable,
network, or CD-ROM) and file system.
DirStats is freeware for home or non-commercial use. The free version does not do network drives. The program can be converted to the registered, shareware version, which does do network drives, by obtaining an activation code from me.
Purchase price for the shareware version is $25 US. To receive an activation code, send a check, made out to Mark D. Gardner, to
Mark D. Gardner
302 Eisenhower Dr.
Louisville, CO 80027
USA
(this is a new address, as of April 1999)
I do this in my spare time. I am not set up to distribute diskettes, and I would prefer not to. If you require a floppy, the price is $27 in North America, $30 elsewhere in the world. Perhaps you have a friend whose e-mail account you could use?
To those who have registered - thank you!
Email comments on Directory Statistics are invited and encouraged. Send to
Mark D. Gardner