Contents
Table Of Contents

Introduction

Menu Commands

File Menu

Quit

Options Menu

Show Drive Window

Other Commands

The ToolBar

Procedures

Analyzing A Drive


Introduction

RipSPACE is a Windows / Windows NT application that analyzes a drive and the space that each subdirectory on it, consumes.

RipSPACE is distributed as three seperate versions :

For Windows 3.1

For Windows NT 3.1

For Windows 3.1 in Windows NT format, with WIN32s.

This is the first release of RipSPACE and your comments are appreciated.

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Quit

Use this option to quit from RipSPACE.  No confirmation is requested.


Drives Window

A window titled Drives appears when RipSPACE is first run, and can be invoked by choosing Show Drives Window from the Options menu.

The Drives Window displays a list of all available storage devices connected to your computer.  Double-clicking on one of the drives, will begin the RipSPACE analyzer and produce a report for that drive.


Print

This command will print the active report printer.  RipSPACE will display the standard Windows Print dialog.  Use this to print to your choice of a printer, or file.


The ToolBar

RipSPACE has a toolbar for convenient access to various commands.

From left to right, the icons represent Print, Help, and Exit (Quit).


Analyzing A Drive

To get started, double-click on a drive letter in the Drive Window.  A new window will come up and RipSPACE will begin work.  Depending on the size of your drive, this may take some time.

While RipSPACE is working, you can resume work elsewhere in Windows-- RipSPACE can continue processing "in the background" even as you work elsewhere.

After the analysis is finished, you should see a display something like this :

As you can see, there is one line for every directory on the drive.

RipSPACE distinguishes between two types of directories : those that contain only files, and those that contain files and other sub-directories.

If a directory contains only files, RipSPACE prints the total size of the files (in bytes) in parentheses "()" to the right of the directory name.

If a directory contains both files and directories, RipSPACE prints the total size of the files (in bytes) in parentheses "()" to the right of the directory name, and to the right of this, prints the sum total size of all files and all the sub-directories in brackets "[]".

For example, the first line in the window above is displaying :

D:	(965,515)	[163,769,095]

So we have drive D: with files in the root totalling just over 900K and sub-directories and files totalling somewhere over 160MB.