Directory Printer
Directory Report is a powerful directory printer
The Microsoft Explorer cannot print directories.
Prints the directory tree of an entire disk or a list of directories.
Prints all file attributes you see when you select a file in MS-Explorer,
right click and select properties.
Prints .AVI, .DLL, .EXE, .MP3 .MSI, .MSM and .WAV properties.
Prints to a Printer, Text file, Clipboard, Excel file, Excel program, HTML file or XML file.
Prints every file attribute or pick which ones you want.
Preview the printout before sending it to the printer
Displays and prints Sybase DLL version information
Since many of the Sybase DLLs are in a custom format,
their version information is not viewable with the MS Explorer
Easy to use
Its as easy to use as the MS-Windows Explorer since it looks and feels just
like the MS-Windows Explorer
Runs on Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP.
Directory Report is a true WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get)
There are seven windows
- Main window.
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- Largest files window
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- Largest directories window(Screen
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- Duplicate files window.
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- Duplicate directories window.
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- Directory compare window.
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- Owner file size summary window.
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All seven windows show every file attribute.
Aside from displaying the file's version information, there is no need to
right click any more.
All windows can be sorted by any attribute.
MS-Explorer doesn't allow you to sort by creation date or access date only
by modification date.
Since MS-Explorer doesn't compute directory sizes, you can't sort
directories by size.
All windows display the folder's size
To view the size of a folder using the MS Explorer you have to right click
and choose properties
After a few folders, right clicking becomes very annoying
With the Directory Report program, you never have to right click anymore
This simple feature shows where all of your disk space is going
A must have feature for those who don't have gigs of free space available.
All
sizes are shown as the number of bytes and all sizes are separated by
commas.
There is no need to right click any more to get a file's true size.
You never have to be annoyed by trying to figure out if a number is 100
thousand or 1 million.
Duplicate Files
Directory Report has everything a single function
duplicate file finder tool has.
You can search for duplicate files based on any
combination of size, name, CRC checksum or comparing byte by byte
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The Directory Report program uses a multiple pass searching algorithm that quickly
eliminates possible duplicates.
The actual comparison uses multiple
threads to be as fast as possible.
The duplicate file feature has been extensively tested on network drives
containing over 450,000 files and 140 gigabytes.
The new colored duplicate file groups make the output easy to process.
What sets Directory Report apart from all other duplicate file finding
programs
Is that when you find a duplicate file - you might not know where it is
coming from.
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 more confident that it is safe to delete it
Duplicate Directories
Searches for duplicate directories can be based on any combination of
size, name, total files and CRC checksum.
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Auto Find Duplicate Files
You can automatically search for duplicate files and directories after scanning files
is finished
To turn on this feature select menu:
Duplicates / Auto Print Duplicates
Selecting files in each group
There might be thousands of duplicates found
To help you in automatically selecting which files to keep, select menu:
Duplicates / Select files in each duplicate group
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Multiple File Rename
Directory Report has everything a single function file
rename tool has.
With the multiple file rename capability you can rename these files all at once
instead of one at a time
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You can change the text of
the front of the file and to the file extension.
Rename files based on MP3 tags
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Change the front and file extension.
Use regular expressions.
Preview the renamed files.
Multiple File Change Date
You can modify the creation, access and
modification dates of one or many files.
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.
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Directory Compare
Every window allows you to choose two directories for
comparison.
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This screen is printable.
You can filter the display by showing only:
Files that are different
Files that are identical
Files that are unique to one directory
File Compare
Every window allows you to choose two files for
comparison.
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This screen is printable.
Side by side viewing of
file properties
Every window allows you to choose two
files to view their properties side-by-side.
This is great for comparing DLLs or EXEs
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There are
three comparison modes:
1. Side by Side
2. Side by Side (Ignore leading and trailing blanks)
3. Binary: compares each file byte by byte and reports the byte
number at which the files differ.
File Owner
An optional file owner column is added to all windows.
All windows can be sorted by the file's owner.
The file's owner can be printed in all reports.
Ever wonder who the space hog is on your network?
You can now calculate the size of all files by file owner.
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This screen is activated by the menu items:
Largest / Compute Largest Owner
Largest / Display Largest Owner
Ever wonder where are all the files
owned by a certain user?
Just open the "Largest Files" window and sort by file owner.
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Multiple File Change Owner
You can change the ownership of one or
many files by:
Right click and select from the popup menu: Change Owner
The change owner feature is fully integrated into Directory Report
It will update all totals in the "Compute Largest Owner" screen
File and Directory Cyclic Redundancy
Checksum (CRC)
The CRC checksum algorithm is used by many programs (such as FTP, WinZip) to verify
if two files are identical.
The CRC32 algorithm is used.
It passes each byte of the file through the CRC checksum formula and generates a
unique 32 bit number.
Any change, no matter how small, will generate a different CRC checksum.
There are two directory CRCs shown
1 - CRC checksum of all files in all subdirectories
2 - CRC checksum of just the files in that subdirectory.
The directory CRC checksum can quickly show you if two directories are identical.
Best of all, you can use the CRC checksum feature to check if two files on two
computers are identical.
Even if the two computers are not on the same network.
Run Directory Report on computer 1 with CRC checksum on
Run Directory Report on computer 2 with CRC checksum on
If the CRCs are
identical then the files are identical.
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.
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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
Filters
You
can narrow the files scanned by filtering any combination of the
following
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Minimum / maximum creation date.
Minimum / maximum access date.
Minimum / maximum modification date.
Minimum / maximum size.
One or many file name matching wildcards.
One or many file name exclude wildcards.
One or many directory exclusions.
Date mismatch - creation date > (access date or modification date).
Any dates = zero. MS-Explorer displays this date as
"(unknown)".
NTFS Streams
File is a system file
File is compressed
One or many file owner matching wildcards
One or many file owner exclude wildcards
NTFS streams
The
NTFS file system has a new feature called streams
All files have an unnamed stream
This unnamed stream's attributes are what you see with the MS Explorer
The MS Explorer is incapable of displaying any the file's streams
Thus a file can have a 100 megabyte stream and you won't even know it
With the Directory Report program you can:
Set a filter to only scan for files that have streams
All stream attributes are displayed
All streams are displayed with a special icon to make them stand out (a
water faucet)
Display the stream's CRC
You can save each stream as a separate regular file
To create a stream:
Create a file my_stream.txt (2 bytes in size)
Enter: dir > my_stream.txt:a
Enter: dir > my_stream.txt:b
To view a stream:
Enter: more < my_stream.txt:a
The MS Explorer:
Is incapable of displaying any of the file's streams
Only shows the file's size as 2 bytes
Saving program settings to a file
You can load and save all program settings to/from 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.
This feature requires that you enclose the full path of the wDirReport.exe
and the settings file in double quotes.
Automatically running with a saved settings file
Edit your shortcut properties to run Directory Report followed by the
full path to your settings file
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
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