Enterprise Storage Management w/ FolderSizes

I've received quite a few emails lately from corporations who have successfully integrated BulletProof FolderSizes into their storage management plans, and I've learned some interesting things from these conversations.

Many of the IS / IT people I talk with use BulletProof FolderSizes to streamline their disk space backup processes. With FolderSizes, it's easy to scan local and network drives to determine how best to "cut the fat" prior to running scheduled backups. Someone recently told me that they used FolderSizes to decrease the time required to perform nightly backups by over 40%.

FolderSizes is also often used to hold network attached storage users accountable for the disk space they consume. Network and storage administrators can quickly generate reports that help to evaluate the distribution of storage resources. Admins can even use FolderSizes' ability to generate HTML reports from the command-line to publish reports to a web server folder.

Anyway, these are just a couple examples of real-world use cases. Don't forget, I love to hear how people are using BulletProof FolderSizes out in the wild - always feel free to email me with your thoughts.

FolderSizes v2.2 Released

The official release of BulletProof FolderSizes version 2.2 is out.

You can download the new version from here. In addition to the release notes provided below, the official 2.2 release adds some report printing options, a new command line switch for exporting CSV files, and resolves a couple minor bugs.

BTW, SnapFiles (formerly WebAttack) just gave the 2.1 version of FolderSizes a 5-star (rating. These guys gave me quite a bit of feedback while I was developing the 1.x versions of FolderSizes. Thanks guys!

FolderSizes v2.2 beta

Pssst, hey you. Interested in having a quick peek at the new BulletProof FolderSizes version 2.2 release?

Here's the beta build download link:

http://foldersizes.m6.net/beta/bpfs.exe

Release notes:

- New feature: Introduced a new graph-oriented file report for displaying distribution of file attributes. Provided usual array of menu and keyboard accessors.
- Improvement: Added new command-line switch called "attribs" for accessing the new "file attributes" file report. Example: foldersizes.exe /path:"d:\temp" /filereport:"attribs"
- Improvement: Shell context menu extension was updated to provide access to "file attributes" report.
- Improvement: The pie graph view now reveals the amount of space consumed by files in the scanned folder. This is displayed as an additional pie slice labeled "[files]", followed by a percentage value.
- Improvement: Added the ability to right-click on the drive space pie graph and copy it to the Windows clipboard. By request.
- Improvement: Reduced the size of the FolderSizes download package by over half a meg.
- Bug fix: Resolved a problem the main pie graph showing incorrect slice ratios under specific conditions.
- Other minor improvements, documentation updates, and bug fixes.

If you find any problems or have any questions/comments, just shoot me an email. And thanks!