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Disk Space Manager

     Disk Space Manager (DSM) helps you manage the space used on your disk.  It will display the true size of directories, delete directories and give you a constant accurate availability of your disk.

     Open the disk you want to examine and the disk's availability is automatically shown.  Double click on the root drive to view all directories.  Click the "Read Size" button and each directories size is displayed including all sub directories.  If you find a directory you don't want, simply highlight the directory, click the "Delete Dir" button and the entire directory structure is removed.

     DSM also works at the sub directory level.  Double click the directory you want to examine and all sub directories are displayed.  Click the "Read Size" button and the size of each sub directory is displayed.  You can also remove sub directories.  This is very useful for removing parts of applications you no longer need.

     The following sections explain DSM's functionality in more detail:

Read Size

Delete Dir

Update Avail

Edit - Copy


Read a directories size
Read Size

     The Read Size Button will give you an accurate size of a directory.  It gathers the size of all the files under the directory and sub directories no matter how deep the sub directories may be.  The path of where its reading is displayed in the inf. box at the bottom of the screen.

     Read Size will read either a group of directories or a single directory depending on how you click the directory tree.

     To read a group of directories, double click the directory to examine.  At this point the directory folder will be highlighted and open.  Read Size will now read the size of all sub directories and display each on separately.

     To read the size of a single directory, first double click the parent directory.  Then single click a directory folder.  This will highlight the directory but will not open the folder.  Now Read Size will display the size of that directory only.


Delete directory structure
Delete Dir

     Delete Dir deletes a directory and all files and sub directories under that directory.  It can also delete multiple sub directories, or a singular directory.  A confirmation is required in either case.

     To delete a directory's sub directories, simply double click the directory in the directory list box.  This will open the directories folder and highlight that directory.  Then click the Delete Dir button to delete the sub directories.

     To delete a single directory, double click on the parent directory or drive letter.  All sub directories will then appear with a closed folder.  Single click on the directory you wish to remove.  Click the Delete Dir button to delete that directory.

     Delete Dir will return an error if it finds files it is unable to delete.  These files are hidden, read-only or are in use.  To delete these directories, first mark all files Normal, Unhidden, and make sure no files are open.

     On completion, Delete Dir will refresh the directory list box and update the drive availability box.


Update the disks available space
Update Avail

     Update Avail updates the drive availability box.  It determines the drives total bytes, bytes used, and bytes available.  This information is then displayed under the drive letter box.

     The availability box is also automatically updated.  Automatic updating occurs when:

            *  DSM first starts

            *  The drive letter box is changed

            *  At the end of deleting directories


Copy selected data to the clipboard
Edit - Copy

     The Edit - Copy copies the selected directory size inf. to the Windows Clipboard.  From the clipboard it can then be pasted into most Windows Apps.


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