Author Topic: IDEA: View full file system at once (all folders) (Read 11,869 times)

tmpusr · « **on:** October 28, 2006, 03:45 PM »

A zoomable view. See every folder on every hard drive. File lists popping into view on mouse hover or when getting close enough.

skrommel · « **Reply #1 on:** October 28, 2006, 04:58 PM »

What do you mean by zoomable?

skrommel

tmpusr · « **Reply #2 on:** October 28, 2006, 07:53 PM »

run cmd.exe

tree > folders.txt

or

tree /f > folders.txt

Open folders.txt in an editor that supports page zooming, so you can see multiple pages at once.
Use a small monospaced font.
If you don't plan to print it, resize the page. Make it huge so that everything fits on one page.
Use columns.
Zoom out, zoom in.

tmpusr · « **Reply #3 on:** October 28, 2006, 08:36 PM »

Chuckle... 1000+ pages of folder tree in font size 10, about 32000 lines.
Dir /S > files.txt is nearly 90 MB, 10000+ pages.
Better make the font size, like 0.1

mouser · « **Reply #4 on:** October 28, 2006, 08:55 PM »

skrommel posted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tmpusr · « **Reply #5 on:** October 28, 2006, 09:11 PM »

what's the party about?

Carol Haynes · « **Reply #6 on:** October 28, 2006, 11:02 PM »

Quote from: tmpusr on October 28, 2006, 09:11 PM

what's the party about?

skrommel posted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mwb1100 · « **Reply #7 on:** October 30, 2006, 08:21 PM »

Are 'treemaps' what you're looking for?

Do a Google search on that term, or look at these (free) examples:

http://windirstat.info/

or

http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/ (which is not really a Treemap, but a similar idea that shows only one directory level at a time instead of the whole set of files).

lanux128 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 31, 2006, 03:34 AM »

spacemonger is good at this. check out allen's mini-review here..

also, welcome back skrommel..

SexyLilDarkPaw · « **Reply #9 on:** November 02, 2006, 01:05 AM »

Haha!

http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

Its like crazy looking but you might love it. It's kinda like Space Monger - ish GUI but more colorful =P check it out. Its freeware too!

Hope it helps

-Felicia

tmpusr · « **Reply #10 on:** November 15, 2006, 06:31 AM »

Good stuff.

I want to see all my folders in one view. A legible font size 3-4 gets me somewhere with the Explorer, but the icons won't get smaller than 16. Know a way to make them smaller - like 8, 4 or 2 or turn them off?

I could use a similar view to Mac OS 9 Finder, with files in the folder tree.

tomos · « **Reply #11 on:** November 15, 2006, 09:02 AM »

try a different file manager?!

I know Opus has a "flat" view where you can see all subfolders too but dont think thats what you want?

Also you can turn off icons - sure this is an option in some other managers too ???

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