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Drive Inventory makes an Excel spreadsheet of all the files on your hard drive. Or put the list into a web page, a text file, a rich text file, or an image file (JPG, GIF, or BMP). Use it to find and delete the "space-hogs" on your drive, or make a spreadsheet of all your photos or music files.

You can inventory a whole drive or just one folder. Sort the entire list in seconds. Sort by date to find your oldest files or sort by file attribute to find all your hidden or system files. Use a file mask such as *.jpg to find all your photos. Use size limits to find files larger than 1 megabyte or any limit you choose.

Get detailed information about each file or folder, change attributes, open it, or delete it. Folders will open in Windows Explorer and files will open in the default program for that file type.

There are 3 tabs: one for a complete file tree, one for files only, and one for folders only. Grab the headings and move the columns around to any order. Right-click on the headings to add or remove columns.

Here is an example of the Excel spreadsheet. It uses Excel data grouping to construct a tree just like on your drive. You can click on the small plus sign (+) on the left of each row and that folder opens to show its contents. The folders are grouped like a tree just like on your hard drive. Below you can see the folder "My Docs" contains folder "Documents in Desktop" that contains the folder "letters" that contains 2 files "standards.xls" and "system-info.txt." The name of each folder is indented as you move down through the levels and the level is shown on the left.



This is a 32 bit program and will run on Windows ME, NT, 2000, and XP.

See the bottom of this page if you would like to purchase Drive Inventory for just $15.00 (Fifteen US Dollars). This trial version will operate for 14 days. If you purchase the program I will send you a serial number by email that will enable continued operation with no time limit. Pay once and all future upgrades are free. Your serial number will work with all future versions. This demo version is fully functional. No features have been removed. It contains no spyware, no advertising.

See below for installation instructions.

The 3 Main Program Tabs

The Tree Tab in the program below shows all the files arranged in a tree. The left pane shows this is a display of the C drive. The right pane shows the contents on C drive. Click on the small plus sign next to each folder and it opens to show the contents of that folder. The Expand, Collapse, and Number buttons cause the tree to open of collapse the various levels for the entire tree. The numbered buttons open to the level of the button. For example, the "3" button opens all the folders in the tree to 3 levels deep. The small arrow at the top of the "Bytes" column shows that it is sorted by number of bytes so the largest folders are grouped at the top. Click on the top of any column and it sorts by that column. Click the top of the column again and it sorts in the opposite direction. The example below contains 170,000 files and it can sort this list in seconds. Sort by size to find the largest files or folders. Sort by date to find the oldest or newest. Sort by attribute to find all your hidden or system files and folders. You can also click and drag each column to arrange them in any order you choose. Right-click on the top row and you can turn the columns on or off by clicking on the column names in the drop-down menu. The program remembers and displays the selected columns the next time it runs.



The Folders Tab below shows just the folders. They are sorted by the number of bytes in each folder with the largest folders at the top. Click on the top of any column and it sorts by that column. Click the top of the column again and it sorts in the opposite direction. You can also click and drag each column to arrange them in any order you choose.



The Files Tab below shows just the files. It also shows each file icon and type name. They are sorted by file size with the largest files at the top. Click on the top of any column and it sorts by that column. Click the top of the column again and it sorts in the opposite direction. You can also click and drag each column to arrange them in any order you choose. The "R" column shows the Read attribute, the "H" column shows the Hidden attribute, the "S" shows the System attribute, and the "A" shows the Archive attribute.



Program Operation

The program opens on the "Start" tab shown below:



Use the left pane to navigate to a drive or folder. Then press the RUN button on the right. Then relax and have a cup of coffee or an adult beverage. This may take a few minutes if you are counting an entire drive. If you change your mind press the STOP button and the count will stop. Once the count finishes or stops you can switch to the other tabs to view the Tree, Folders, or Files information. The time elapsed is shown to the right of the progress bar.

At the bottom of the right pane are several count options:

Load Files Larger Than - Set then minimum file size to load using this drop-down box. The default value is 1,000,000 (1 million) bytes. Only files larger than this will be loaded in the lists on the other tabs. All the files and folders will still be counted, but files smaller than this value will not be listed. The program runs faster if it does not have to load all the files. Set this value to 0 (zero) if you want a list of all your files.

Load File Type & Icon - Check this box to display the file icon and type name in the Files list. The program runs faster if it does not have to load the file icon and type name.

Save Settings on Exit - Check this box to save these settings when the program closes.

Load Files Named - Set file names to load using this drop-down box or type in any file name. Leave default value of *.* to load all files. If you set this to *.doc then only files with extension of .doc will be loaded. All the files and folders will still be counted, but files that do not match this name will not be listed. The program runs faster if it does not have to load all the files. You can use Windows file name wildcards * (any name) and ? (any character) in the file name.

Default Settings - Click this button to restore the default values for the options above and for all of the columns on the Tree, Folders, and Files tabs. If you don't like these settings then uncheck the "Save Settings on Exit" box and restart the program and you will get your previous settings back.

File Operations

Right click on a file or folder in the program and the menu below pops up:


In the example above I right-clicked on the file "He's Dead Jim.wav" and the File Operations menu dropped down.

Open - Opens the file using the program associated with this file. Since the file selected above is a WAV file it will open in my WAV audio file player. If it is an image file it will open in the image viewer for that file type. If it is a program file the program will run. If it is a folder then the folder will open in Windows Explorer.

Properties - Opens the normal Windows property screen for this file or folder exactly like you see in Windows Explorer.

Attributes & Dates - Opens a special Attributes and Dates screen shown below. Here you can change the file attributes using the check-boxes along the bottom. Change the date/time the file was created/modified/accessed using the spin buttons, or by typing in numbers. You can also use the drop-down Set buttons to set the date/time to today or to zero, or to copy the same date/time to all of the other date/time boxes.



Save File List - Save the data from all of the loaded files to a file. This option applies to all of the files loaded, not just the file selected. This screen will popup:



Select whether you want to save the data for the Selected Items, Visible Items, or All Items. If you are on the tree tab you can also select the depth of the tree that will be saved. If you select 3 then the tree will include all files down to 3 levels from the top. Next you can choose to save the file in any one of the following 6 file types:

Text - Space Delimited (*.txt)
Text - SemiColon Delimited (*.txt)
Text - UniCode (*.txt)
CSV - Comma Delimited (*.csv)
Web Page (*.html)
Rich Text Format (*.rtf)

Here is an example of the Space Delimited Text file opened using Windows Notepad:



Make Excel File - Save the data from all of the loaded files to a Microsoft Excel file. This option applies to all of the files loaded, not just the file selected. You must have Excel loaded on your PC to use this option. The Excel file has 2 sheets that look like this:





Save Image - Save an image of the current screen tab to a BMP, or JPG, of GIF Image file. Here is an example of the image of the Tree tab:



Print File List - Print a list of all the files on the current tab.

Expand Node - If you are on the Tree tab the currently selected node (folder) will be opened and expanded. This is the same as if you click the plus sign to the left of the folder on the Tree tab.

Collapse Node - If you are on the Tree tab the currently selected node (folder) will be collapsed. This is the opposite of Expand.

Install

Run DRIVEINVENTORY-SETUP.EXE to install the program. This will create a folder, copy all the files to the folder, and create shortcuts on the desktop and the start menu. This is a 32-bit program designed for Windows 98, ME, 2000, NT, and XP. The installed size of the program is less than 2 megabytes. The program saves its settings in the Windows Registry when you exit from the program.

An alternate install method is to download the executable file DRIVEINVENTORY.EXE. Then just run the program. If you use this method, then to uninstall simply delete the files.

UnInstall

Open Windows Control Panel, select Add Remove Programs, select DRIVEINVENTORY in the list of programs, and click OK. The uninstall program will then run and remove the program. If you installed the program manually then delete the files to uninstall the program.

Saved Settings

When the program closes it remembers all of its settings by saving them in the Windows registry. It saves the size and location of the program on your desktop. The next time you use the program it will open the same drive or folder used in the last Drive Inventory.

Support

Send your questions and comments to: ElegantPie@HotMail.com

I fully support this program and will usually answer within 24 hours.

The latest version is always available on my Home Page:

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Legal Stuff

This program is Copyright © 2006 Michael Robinson.  All Rights Reserved.  Use this program at your own risk.   If you purchase this program and are not satisfied with it for any reason I will refund your money.  You may give this file away free, but you may not sell it.  It must be distributed as a package along with all files.  Modification of the executable file is prohibited.

Revision History

1.00  Nov 12, 2006  Initial Public Release.
1.20  May 30, 2007  Windows Vista update.

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If you purchase this program and are not satisfied with it for any reason I will refund your money.

This trial version will operate for 14 days. If you purchase the program I will send you a serial number by email that will enable continued operation with no time limit. Pay once and all future upgrades are free. Your serial number will work with all future versions. This demo version is fully functional. No features have been removed. It contains no spyware, no advertising.

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