Directory Report

Directory printer, Find and replace duplicate files, rename files, and maintain your files - all in 1 tool

Latest Version: 33
Price: $25 US Dollars, €19 Euros, £17 British Pounds
    Unlike other programs, there is only one version of Directory Report
    You are never confused on whether to buy a standard, professional or enterprise version
Free Trial Period: 10 days
    Trial Version is fully functional
    Unlike other programs, the trial program has no limitations
Runs on Windows platforms

Directory Report has been downloaded at www.download.com over 91,734 times!!!

Read Download.com's review of Directory Report
Summary: Directory Report is faster and better than free duplicate file finding programs

Read Tucows glowing review (5 Cows!!! - highest rating) of Directory Report

Directory Report is featured in the Official Microsoft Windows XP Magazine (UK)
Microsoft Windows XP Magazine, September 2006

Read Brothersoft's review
Summary: a really powerful solution that has turned my file and folder management into a piece of cake!

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Summary: "an amazingly powerful solution that will make your life much, much easier"

Read SoftwareEditorial's review
At £16.00 it’s the best health check for life your computer will ever get.

User Dick W: I love it. In past years I used a program called "XTree Gold", but in later years it couldn't keep up with larger hard drives

Features:

Easy to use

Directory Report is easy to use since it looks just like the Microsoft Explorer  (Screen Shot)

High quality - Enterprise ready

Directory report can scan over 7 million files
Highly efficient use of memory

Directory printer

Print a directory tree of an entire disk or a list of directories
Prints DLL and EXE version information
Prints AVI, MP3, MSI, and WAV properties
Prints the file's attributes to a Printer, Text file, Clipboard, Excel (CSV) file, Excel program, HTML file or XML file
Print general file properties
   Name, Size, Dates, Attributes (read only, hidden, archive), CRC, Owner
Sample output files

The directory printer feature can be tailored to:
Print only the attributes you want
Preview the printout before sending it to the printer
Set the font
Set the width of each field

Find and replace duplicate files (Screen Shot)
Find and replace duplicate directories (Screen Shot)

Duplicate files are found by any combination of the same:
   Name, Size, Cyclic Redundancy Checksum (CRC) or Comparing byte by byte

Version 31 is 33% faster for finding duplicate files by comparing byte by byte

Plus Directory Report can show you who the file's owner is
Useful info when you are searching for duplicate files on a network drive

The Find and replace duplicate files search is multithreaded - making it very fast
It uses a multiple pass search method which quickly eliminates non-duplicates
Directory Report is the fastest duplicate file finder program

What sets Directory Report apart from all other duplicate file finding programs?
When you find a duplicate file - you might not know if it is safe to delete.
Just right click the file and select: Display in Main Window
The file is displayed with all the other files in its folder - just like the MS Explorer
This way you will be assured that it is safe to delete it

You can select files to be used a duplicate filter
Thus only files which are duplicates to these filter files will be shown after scanning your root directories
This will save time in searching for duplicates in an entire disk
For example: Find all duplicates to files that are on my CD

You can speed up finding duplicates based on CRC by preloading CRCs from a file.
This file will contain a list of files and their CRC
This is useful for files that never change (Example: CD or DVD)

The duplicate files search has been tested on drives containing over 450,000 files and 140 gigabytes
The duplicate files result window is colored by groups to make it easier for you to process

How can you verify that two files on two computers (not connected over a network) are identical?
Run Directory Report on both computers and generate the file's CRC
If the CRCs are identical and the sizes are identical => then the files are identical
CRCs are used by WinZip and WinRAR to verify files

Rename files

Rename files based on MP3 tags (Screen Shot)
Rename files in batch instead of 1 at a time (Screen Shot)

Directory Report has everything a single function file rename tool has
It has many options to change the front and the file extension
Feel confident by previewing the result

Change file date

Change the created date, accessed date, and modified date of multiple files instead of 1 at a time (Screen Shot)

This feature is great for those of you who are developing scripts that are date sensitive
This feature is also useful for correcting files with dates in the future or prehistoric dates

Change file owner

Change the owner of multiple files instead of 1 at a time

Synchronize and Compare directories

In every screen you can select two directories for comparison (Screen Shot)

The result will show:
    If the file is identical
    If the file is present in one directory and missing in another
    The line in which they differ (ASCII mode)
    The byte in which they differ (Binary mode)

You can also compare directories by computing their CRC checksum
Duplicate directories will have the same CRC checksum

Compare files

In every screen you can select two files and compare them (Screen Shot)
The result will show:
    Binary mode - shows the bytes in which they differ
    ASCII mode  - colors the differences side by side

In every screen you can select two files and compare their version information (Screen Shot)

Reports total file size - totaled by file owners

For each owner, show their total number of files and total bytes (Screen Shot)
This is ideal for network maintenance
It will show you who is using up all your valuable network disk space
(Before scanning - select the option: Largest / Compute Largest Owner)

Do you want to see all files owned by a certain user?
Display the largest files screen
Turn on the file owner column
Sort by file owner
or
Enter the user name as a filter

File maintenance

The main screen shows the total size of each directory (Screen Shot)
As you open each folder - the total sizes of their directories are shown
This quickly shows you where all your disk space is going

Shows the largest files on your computer  (Screen Shot)
Shows the largest directories on your computer (Screen Shot)

All screens allow you to link a file to another name (CreateHardLink)
This will only create a new directory entry but will not copy the file content
This allows you to create duplicate files without using any extra disk space

Directory Report is a powerful CRC software utility
Use CRC to verify if two files are identical even if they are not on the same computer

Computer forensics

Finds encrypted files and directories
Finds protected directories

Saving program settings to a file

You can load and save all program settings from/to a file

Running from DOS command line

You can run Directory Report from a DOS command prompt followed by a settings file.
Thus you can schedule Directory Report to run overnight when the network is free.
Example: "C:\Program Files\AMB Software\Directory Report\wDirReport.exe" "c:\temp\wdir.txt"

AutoPrint features

The main screen has a command: Print / AutoPrint
If set, this will automatically print all files in all directories to a file after all files are scanned.
This command is designed to be used when running Directory Report on the command line

Filters

You can narrow down the files scanned by filtering any combination of the following Screen Shot

Minimum / maximum creation date.
Minimum / maximum access date.
Minimum / maximum modification date.
Minimum / maximum size.
Date mismatch - creation date > (access date or modification date).
Any dates = zero.  MS-Explorer displays this date as "(unknown)".
File has NTFS Streams
File is a system file
File is compressed
File is encrypted
File is archived
File is read only
File is hidden
One or many file name matching wildcards.
One or many file name exclude wildcards.
One or many directory exclusions.
One or many file owner matching wildcards
One or many file owner exclude wildcards

Bulk Copying

When you use the MS Explorer to copy files/directories, it only shows you the progress of the current file.  This can be real painful when copying a huge amount of files (IE: a CD), especially when you are copying them over a network or slow medium.  The MS Explorer's estimated time to complete is very inaccurate.  You have no idea on how long a copy will take.
(Screen Shot)

The copy_to feature shows you three progress controls:
The progress of the total number of bytes
The progress of the total number of files
The progress of the number of bytes of the current file

The copy_to's estimated time to complete is constantly recomputed

Summary

There are seven windows
1. Main Window (Screen Shot)
2. Largest files window (Screen Shot)
3. Largest directories window (Screen Shot)
4. Duplicate files window (Screen Shot)
5. Duplicate directories window (Screen Shot)
6. Directory compare window (Screen Shot)
7. Owner file size summary window (Screen Shot)

Why buy separate programs for each feature when you can buy the one program that does it all !!!
All of the above listed features are integrated together
Making Directory Report a very powerful tool

Directory Report was written by Allan Braun (AMB Software)

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Last modified: March 10, 2010