TreeSize Professional’s little brother got an update yesterday. As the minor version bump suggests, the changes won’t rock your world.

Nevertheless, TreeSize 1.7.9 is important since it fixes some (small) bugs that manifested under Windows Vista. Oh, and one more thing, the scanning process doesn’t stop anymore with a message box when an “access denied” error is encountered.

Wanna be up-to-date? Check the download links below…

*** TREESIZE FREE DOWNLOAD LINKS ***

Get it now: Download TreeSize Free 1.7,9
exe installer, 803KB, MD5 Hash: 1DC2BB0F05CCE977D05EA10F13A26CE8

You might want to try: Check out TreeSize Professional and TreeSize Personal

JAM Software’s new version of TreeSize, 4.1.0.302, packs quite a host of new features and improvements, but the highlight is surely its compatibility with Microsoft’s Windows Vista. Unfortunately, there’s also a drawback to this, but more on that later. First, let’s go through the notable additions to TreeSize 4.1 …

… starting off with the multithreaded scanning improvements which make network scans twice as fast.

In order to help users take advantage of every bit of free (or free-able) HDD space, a shortcut to the configuration dialog for the Windows System Restore has been added in the Tools menu. (System Restore typically reserves around 10% of each HDD partition, so changing this setting will free some space up).

Multiple changes were applied to the File Search module, mostly related to the program’s user interface. Check the changelog for full details…

Now on to fixes: a race condition bug sometimes caused the main program’s settings to be overwritten by the File Search module. Additionally, a minor GUI issue was resolved.

Earlier I was speaking about a drawback in TreeSize 4.1 caused by its compatibility with Windows Vista. The problem is that Vista’s Explorer does not (yet?) allow column extensions, so the useful “treesize” column cannot work.

*** RELEVANT LINKS ***

Get it now: Download TreeSize Professional 4.1
(.exe installer, 3.44MB, MD5=18824984E4D9317E144831BADAFEACA6)

Or: Download TreeSize Personal 4.1
(.exe installer, 3.44MB, MD5=24F0C83D245BB3AA2E879B2046057DEC)

You might want to try:
TreeSize Professional homepage
TreeSize Personal homepage

*** WHAT’S NEW IN TREESIZE 4.1.0.302 ***

· Multithreaded scanning has been improved which makes especially network scans up to two times faster.
· A new tab “File Ages” has been added to the right pane. It shows the distribution of the file ages for each directory.
· The Extensions, Users and Top 100 lists as well as the result list of the File Search now have a right click menu for their column headers which allows to show or hide individual columns. Columns can be rearranged using drag&drop. These settings are saved when TreeSize is closed and are restored on the next start.
· The list of file types on the tab “Extensions” now fills up faster.
· The Details tab now also has a toolbar. It can be turned off using the “Toolbar” submenu in the “View” menu.
· Folders that could not be scanned due to an error are now shown with a small exclamation mark in the directory tree. The error message is added to the tooltip of this folder.
· A new option allows to decide if date and time should be shown for the last access, last modified and the creation date, or only the date.
· The Tools menu now has a menu item that opens the configuration dialog for the Windows System Restore. The Windows System Restore by default uses 10-15% of every hard disk drive. A good source for freeing disk space is the reduction of this space reserved for the System Restore.
· The unit and the decimals of the TreeSize column for the Windows Explorer can now be configured in the Options of TreeSize Pro on the new tab “Shell Extensions”. Furthermore the Explorer extension can now be fully turned off here.
· The context menu item “Find deepest nesting” is now not only available in the context menu of the root folder but also in the context menu of the subfolders.
· The drive panel now uses a different color to show the free space as the Details view uses in the column “% of Parent”.
· It is now possible to copy the content of the drive panel to the clipboard in a CSV-compatible format.
· TreeSize is now compatible with Windows Vista. The Vista Explorer however lacks the interface for extending it with additional columns, so the TreeSize column is currently not available for the Windows Vista Explorer.

· File Search: The right click menu now allows applying the NTFS-compression to the selected files in a result list.
· File Search: The visibility of columns in the result lists can now be adjusted on the “View Options” tab.
· File Search: Compressed files are now shown in a different color, just like in the main application. For compressed files, their compressed size is now shown instead of the uncompressed size.
· File Search: The result list of the temporary file search now shows the reason why a file or folder was added to the list (e.g. the matching pattern, because it is a link with an invalid target etc.)
· File Search: Drives removed from the drive list window now stay excluded when the application is started the next time.

· Bugfix: The selected item of the tree in the main windows was not always drawn correctly.
· Bugfix: The File search module sometimes overwrote settings of the main module if both modules were running and the File Search module was terminated after the main module.
· Bugfix: Removing a currently scanned folder temporarily from TreeSize occasionally resulted in an error.

Windows and web-based application developer JAM Software probably called it a day early today, since their flagship software, TreeSize, got a brand new version update: 4.0.2.

Both TreeSize Professional and TreeSize Personal were bumped to version 4.0.2 with several functionality and speed bugfixes. Novelties include Unicode support in the Scan include/exclude patterns. Hurra for strange alphabets!

*** WHAT’S NEW IN TREESIZE 4.0.2 ***

- The Scan Include and Exclude patterns (View > Options > Include/Exclude) are now also Unicode enabled.
- Bugfix: Loading XML Reports that contained foreign language characters occasionally caused errors.
- Bugfix: A combination of the two command line parameters /OPEN and /EXCEL did only open the XML file, but did not start the Excel export.
- Bugfix: Double clicking on a file in the chart now opens the file also in a folder with no subfolders.
- Several minor bug fixes and improvements have been incorporated.

TreeSize Professional licenses can be purchased for 37.95EUR (single-user), whereas Personal licenses cost 16.95EUR (feature matrix)

*** RELEVANT LINKS ***

Download TreeSize Professional 4.0.2 (.exe installer, 3.1MB)
Download TreeSize Personal 4.0.2 (.exe installer, 3.1MB)
TreeSize Professional vs TreeSize Personal vs SpaceObserver Comparison
TreeSize Overview (Developer’s Page)
Purchase TreeSize Professional or Personal

TreeSize Professional and TreeSize Personal are not the only members of the family. They have a little brother - TreeSize Free. Well, TSFree may be “little”, but it’s actually quite nice if you don’t need the fancy graphing facilities in the other two programs.

TreeSize Free will analyze the drive of your choice and create a folder tree, displaying various information such as: size, bytes allocated, percent (out of total size) and wasted space. Switching between these display modes can be done instantly, without triggering a rescan of the drive being analysed.

Information must be sorted in order to be meaningful; TreeSize Free can do alphabetical and “by size” sorting, but it can also spit the results unsorted, as they come from the filesystem.

Free doesn’t mean “featureless” in TreeSize: there’s a useful setting (filter) which allows you to specify what files should be included in the scan (perfect if you want to check the size of the MP3s scattered everywhere on your hard drive).

The scan results can be printed for later reference (or as “hard” proof if you need to persuade someone to delete a few games to make room for your music).

TreeSize Free 1.78 is basically a bugfix release, improving error handling and solving several GUI issues. See below for more details.

*** WHAT’S NEW IN TREESEIZE FREE 1.78 ***

- Bugfix: Changing the cluster size to a user defined value in the Scan Options didn’t update the values of the wasted space.
- In some cases the error handling has been improved and error messages are shown less often.
- The flickering during the scan has been eliminated.
- The French UI was not always shown.

*** RELEVANT LINKS ***

Download TreeSize Free 1.78 (.exe installer, 803KB)
Check out TreeSize Professional and TreeSize Personal

The powerful hard drive space manager and reporter TreeSize received today a minor update. Both Professional and Personal versions have been upgraded, fixing a few bugs related to the drives list, sorting and the XML reports.

TreeSize is an excellent tool when it comes to managing your hard disks. It thoroughly calculates the disk space occupied by each file and folder, allowing for efficient usage of free storage space on each partition. Several display units can be chosen along with different sorting modes.

You can choose to exclude some files or folders from being analyzed by TreeSize, a helpful option for advanced users. The program also installs a handy Windows Explorer extension, which enables the display of a “real folder size” column in Explorer’s details view mode.

TreeSize creates multiple types of reports, including customizable 2D/3D pie or bar charts, grouping items by size, by extension or by user (owner). TreeSize also provides a Top 100 Files list and a details view, with extensive information about the files/folders being analyzed.

The reports can be exported as text or XML or even printed from within the program.

*** WHAT’S NEW IN TREESIZE 4.0.1 ***

• Bugfix: Adding an UNC Path to the list of drives in the TreeSize File Search failed with an error messages.
• Bugfix: Toggling the sort order for the first column in the extensions and users list didn’t work.
• Bugfix: Opening certain XML reports failed with an error due to an internal overflow.
• Some minor bugfixes and improvements have been incorporated.

*** RELEVANT LINKS ***

TreeSize Homepage
Download TreeSize Professional 4.0.1 (.exe - 3.2MB)
Download TreeSize Personal 4.0.1 (.exe - 3.2MB)
TreeSize FAQ & Online Help