VisualDisk

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VisualDisk is an extension to Microsoft (file) Explorer, offering information and possibilities that is not available in Microsoft Explorer. Besides using the shortcut, VisualDisk can also be started from the context menu of a folder or disk of Microsoft Explorer and start working immediately on that folder or disk. 

Some features not available in Microsoft Explorer are:

1. Showing the distribution of space allocation in folder and sub-folders with graphical bar.
2. View the thumbnails of ALL pictures under a folder or the whole disk.
3. Listing all files including files from all sub-folders in one list. Using some filter combinations the list can be shorten and irrelevant folder will not be shown.
4. Quickly doing repetitive file search operation in the above mentioned list without having to rescan the disk. Actually the result list changes while you type!
5. Showing changes that happen to a folder contents by comparing the current image with a saved image.
6. Showing contents of folder removable media without having to insert/access the media. For this, the disk needs to be scanned once and the result is saved as an image.
7. Copying (selected) files from many folders into one destination folder without overwriting. The same filename will be given a numbered suffix. 
   

VisualDisk is also handy when you need to clean-up your disk. Disk cleanup needs information about folder size and its contents, about the first huge files that consume the space and a quick way to search the whole disk contents for a certain kind of files. Ever try to do a search using Windows Explorer? Explorer will scan the whole disk to do a search matching your search request. What if the result is not satisfying? (In the most case we need to do more than one search) You need to go through the whole scanning process again. The reason is most likely because the search facility is meant also for text search in the file contents. 

We take a different approach. We don’t offer text search in the contents, only in the filename, but you will get your second and next search result immediately. VisualDisk will scan the disk only once and keep the result called Image in the memory. The scanning is done in a separate thread so you can work immediately with the available result. 

The Image can be saved as a file of a few Mb. Using the saved image you can search your removable disk (CD/DVD) without having to insert the disk first. Images can also be compared to see historical change. And yes. VisualDisk has a facility to show only the difference between two images.

VisualDisk visualize your disk in an intuitive way. It shows space allocated, number of files and depth of structure of ALL folder and its sub-folders graphically. You can expand this folder in Explorer-like style, sort on any column and customize what to show on the list. 

VisualDisk does not stop on the listing of folders. It also lists ALL files in ALL folders in one list. You can see immediately for an example, find the most space consuming files on the list. The list must be huge isn’t it? Yes. A list of more than 300 thousand lines is normal and thanks to the optimized technique, resorting can still be done in a few seconds. 

To improve the visibility of the file list by shortening the list, besides changing the sorting key, you can use file extension based filter and further you can combine it with letter combination filter in the filename. There are some ready-made filters for common kind of files, like documents, pictures, videos etc. You can edit the filter and add more filter of your own, saved for future use. 

VisualDisk also has a facility to list all similar files found. This would be very handy to clean up the room.

Using VisualDisk you can copy (selected) files from the file list coming from different locations into one destination folder. Files with the same name will not be overwritten; instead it will be given a unique suffix number. 

We learn alot from free materials on the internet, and as a good karma we provide the classic version as freeware. You can download the classic version here.


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