The reports “Only Files” and “Folders and Files” show modified date. Moreover an advanced option allows you to use modified time as “later” of create and modified time making it even more useful.
Other useful reports from this point of view are Unused Files report and Active Folders report. Unused Files report shows files not used (by access date) in last so many days. The Active Folders Report allows you to see how much activity occurred in the folders by Size Modified, Number of files Modified, Size accessed and number of files accessed in last so many days.
ShowSize has many reports now. Moreover they are highly customizable. Hence, exporting columnized text output is not possible.
But we have given the CSV file export just for this purpose. Just export to a CSV file either from Tools menu or on command line. Then you can open it in Microsoft Excel to get the columnized spreadsheet. Once in Excel, you can do your own calculations too.
If you have Microsoft Word you can do a database insert from the CSV file to make a proper document. If you have a database program, you can do the same thing and create a database. The options are limitless with CSV export.
It is still there, in a better form. It is a button that you will see over a report if that report supports pie charts. For example, you will see the Pie Chart button on the toolbar on top of the Folder Sizes report.
The wasted space is a part of the operating system (Windows). Please see the help topic on wasted space in ShowSize. The files are allocated in fixed size chunks called clusters. Usually, the last cluster is not fully used and hence the remaining part of the cluster is a waste. ShowSize can only show you the wasted space. The only way to reduce wasted space is by allocating lower size clusters when formatting the volumes. FAT32 and NTFS do it for you anyway by allocating only 4K clusters by default as compared with FAT (32K). Perhaps, in future, the OS developers will think of a way to reduce this waste.
On NetWare volumes, regardless of the default cluster size, a feature called “Block Suballocation” can be enabled. This feature allows the NetWare file system to “reuse” the wasted cluster space by allowing other files to write to the “wasted” portions of existing clusters.
If you are using NetWare volumes all the time and don’t want wasted space reported at all, in ShowSize, you can remove the columns “Wasted Space” and “Size on Disk” by dragging them off the report or by using the “Columns” toolbar button.
If you are a paid version user and want to reinstall ShowSize for any reason, please go to a special web site support.showsize.com.
There, you need to login with your email address. After login, you can get an email giving you the download location of the latest installer. The login email address is the one on which you purchased ShowSize. You can also write to us to change this email address if necessary.
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