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SpaceSniffer is a freeware (donations welcome) and portable tool that lets you understand how folders and files are structured on your disks. By using a Treemap visualization layout, you have an immediate idea of ​​how large folders and files are located on your devices. The Treemap concept was invented by Prof. Ben Shneiderman, who kindly allowed the use of his concept in this tool.

Start a scanning process and see the general situation. The larger the items on the view, the larger the folders and files on your disk. Need more details about a large folder? Just one click on it. The selected item will be detailed with its contents.

Need more and more details? Keep selecting items and they will reveal their secrets to you. Need a larger view of a small folder? Then double click on it and it will zoom to full view.

If you need to understand why there is no more free space on the media, continue to follow larger items. Maybe you just want to focus on certain file types… ok. Just enter the file type in the filter field (example: *.jpg) and press enter. The view will respond and show you JPEG files only.

Properties

• Quick and easy to use
• Supports drag and drop
• Export module allows you to create customizable text reports
• Intuitive structure layout, multiple views for different media
• Zoomable elements, navigate like a browser
• The Windows folders and files pop-up menu are available by right-clicking
• It is possible to limit the display content by writing simple but powerful filtering criteria
• Allows you to temporarily tag files with four different colors and perform filtering on them
• Different views of the same media may show differently filtered elements
• Can be customized in geometry, colors, behavior
• You can navigate yourself during the scan
• Smart buffered scan engine, multiple views, single scan
• You can delineate a zoomed area using a secondary scan process, even with the main scan active
• Responds to file system events, always keeps sync, alerts you by flashing items
• Can scan NTFS alternate data streams
• It doesn’t mess up your registry, just a plain XML configuration file
• It’s portable, no installation required, just put the executable somewhere and let’s go
• It’s a free item (donations are welcome)

Do you want to exclude files? Then type a start pipe before the filter (example: |*.jpg) and press enter. The view will show everything except JPEG files.

If you want to keep track of scanned files, you can mark them. Four colors are available. Just hover your mouse over a file and press CTRL+1 to mark it red. There are also buttons for yellow, green and blue markings. Use them as you wish. You can also filter by tags (example: :red shows only red marked files, :all shows all tagged files and so on). You can also exclude marked files (example: |:red will exclude all red marked files)

Want to know if you have old files? Enter the condition in the filter field (example: >2 years) and the view will react accordingly.

What is new

• It is now possible to start an export to file from the command line.
• Added class filter (example: multimedia, archives ecc…)
• Improved stability when deleting a focused folder.
• Added “SpaceSniffer” to all floating windows.
• Spaced paths now behave correctly again on the command line.