Blog: ShowSize, Articles and tips

How I analyze user disk space with ShowSize

Sanjay Kanade — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:41:38 +0000

“I use ShowSize as a tool to assist in the development of Excel Workbook Reports for our IT staff. The tool has also become valuable in the migration (virtualization) of our servers into an IBM Data Center running VMware Infrastructure and analyzing data at the multi-terabyte level. At my most routine use, ShowSize allows me [...]

Please send more articles and tips

Sanjay Kanade — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 07:15:11 +0000

I am beginning this Usage Notes section with an interesting article sent by William Devlin. In the coming weeks, I hope to add more such notes or tips on the actual usage. If you are a ShowSize customer and have some usage tips to share, you are welcome to send them to our support email [...]

ShowSize update 5.0.5 released

Sanjay Kanade — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:55:10 +0000

We just released an update 5.0.5 for the paid version of ShowSize and ShowSize PE. It contains some minor fixes for a bug that affects the File Types report and Owners report when the filters are ON. This version also contains some improvements in the Save/View Report feature available in the 5+ license editions [...]

The report I use most often

Sanjay Kanade — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:30:24 +0000

As a developer, the “Only Files” report is most useful to me. When using Visual Studio 2005, I often have my ASP.NET web site projects several levels deep. I keep a copy of the actual web site in another location from where I upload it by ftp to the server. This is so because [...]

Holiday Discounts Are Here

Sanjay Kanade — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:41:34 +0000

The discounts are now closed.

Redirecting the working folder used by ShowSize

Remya — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:38:14 +0000

I’m scanning a huge disk with ShowSize and Windows is reporting a disk space shortage error. What folder does ShowSize use to keep its scanned results? Can that folder be redirected? ShowSize uses the default “temporary” folder set up in Windows. You can redirect it by using any of the tips found on microsoft.com or other [...]

Reporting last used files

Sanjay Kanade — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:07:16 +0000

I am looking for a Utility to report when files were last used on a Windows 2003 server. This is to allow me to determine what can be archived and the disk space required. Can ShowSize do that? Yes, it can. Please scan one of your drives by using ShowSize. Then see the “Unused Files” [...]

Exporting CSV with a separator other than comma

Sanjay Kanade — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:33:48 +0000

Is it posible to change the deliminator (field separator character) for the export to CSV operation? ShowSize uses the List Separator set up in Windows Control Panel’s Regional Settings. To change that, please click on Control Panel–Change Display Language (Vista) or Regional Settings in XP. Go to the Formats page and click Customize. There you [...]