Author Topic: Space Management : there is a new competitor - SpaceSniffer (Read 35,720 times)

MerleOne · « **on:** May 06, 2009, 03:00 PM »

Hi,

I just found out a few days ago a really nice software, somewhat comparable to spacemonger or windirstat. It's free and can be found on :
http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html

I like it a lot. I have tried to convince the developer to join us here. Maybe this will happen...

ewemoa · « **Reply #1 on:** May 06, 2009, 03:25 PM »

Looks like a pretty nice find (perhaps even portable!)

PhilB66 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 06, 2009, 03:35 PM »

Yes it is portable. freewaregenius reviewed spacesniffer couple of weeks ago.

40hz · « **Reply #3 on:** May 06, 2009, 05:45 PM »

Very cool app. Fascinating to watch in action too!

Deozaan · « **Reply #4 on:** May 07, 2009, 08:35 PM »

Neat!

lanux128 · « **Reply #5 on:** May 08, 2009, 09:05 AM »

i spotted it from Gizmo's feeds.. just did a simple try-out and it looks like a nice app.

ayryq · « **Reply #6 on:** May 08, 2009, 03:51 PM »

I've always liked "scanner" by Steffen Gerlach. Its biggest problem is that it's impossible to find when you have to, for example, set up a new system. Try searching google for "scanner." Good luck. Anyway, it uses a pie chart and it's a single, portable file. Hold your mouse over any particular box and it will tell you what it is and how big, click anywhere and that becomes the new center.

http://www.steffengerlach.de/freeware/

PhilB66 · « **Reply #7 on:** May 08, 2009, 04:31 PM »

@ayryq

Scanner writes to the registry @HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Steffen Gerlach\Scanner and @HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FSOnlineScanner

ayryq · « **Reply #8 on:** May 08, 2009, 04:41 PM »

I guess I subscribe to a "looser" definition of portable. I should have said, "it runs fine from a flash drive." Thanks for the correction.

Eric

4wd · « **Reply #9 on:** May 08, 2009, 06:28 PM »

Quote from: ayryq on May 08, 2009, 04:41 PM

I guess I subscribe to a "looser" definition of portable. I should have said, "it runs fine from a flash drive." Thanks for the correction.

No, I'd say you're definition of portable is correct, however the program is not 'stealthy' - it leaves traces behind.

uuderzo · « **Reply #10 on:** May 25, 2009, 12:10 PM »

Hello,

I recently subscribed to DonationCoder (last week) and wish to introduce myself.
My name is Umberto Uderzo, I live and work in north Italy as a computer consultant
and freelance programmer.
Maybe you had occasion to give a look at my freeware SpaceSniffer, hope it can be
considered a welcomed "new entry".

Thank you to MerleOne, that pointed me to this great site.

Greetings... Umberto

Carol Haynes · « **Reply #11 on:** May 25, 2009, 12:26 PM »

Welcome Umberto

MerleOne · « **Reply #12 on:** May 25, 2009, 01:18 PM »

Nice to see you here !

noutters · « **Reply #13 on:** May 25, 2009, 05:55 PM »

Hello Umberto,

you've coded a nice and neat little treemap piece of software I have been waiting for since Spacemonger stopped beeing freeware and became too complicated. It is far more useful than Windirstat since it shows block frames and text. Colors are tasteful and nicely shaded. Almost nothing to improve, except maybe the possibility to:

define in the settings the block resolution (and not only by buttons)
user defined colors by file types

Cheers,

f0dder · « **Reply #14 on:** May 25, 2009, 07:18 PM »

Really tasty program, also faster at scanning than WinDirStat (for some reason I can't figure out how to stop WDS from using multiple scanning threads, which is about the lamest idea ever when not split across physical drives). The visual effect when populating is great, I really like the highlight-and-fade thing (exect on mouse hovering, but of course that's at thing you can disable).

Nice work, Umberto!

urlwolf · « **Reply #15 on:** May 25, 2009, 07:48 PM »

congrats, impressive work.

uuderzo · « **Reply #16 on:** May 26, 2009, 07:47 AM »

Thanks all for the warm welcome!

Noutters, i'll put the "initial detail level in config" in my to do list.
Speaking about the color encoding by file type, well... I really fear that with this feature SpaceSniffer would become a kind of carnival and would produce more unreadable maps. That's the reason that lead me to avoid too many colors.
Anyway, I'm thinking about something (cool I hope) to better understand displayed files.

Cheers! Umberto

dluby · « **Reply #17 on:** May 27, 2009, 11:47 AM »

Hi Umberto, that is a very neat app and it impressed the hell out of me and my colleagues.

May I suggest something? The display shows at a glance where space is being consumed. Could the graphical output be converted to a list/report? So for instance if I see an element (folder) that has 2.5GB of files/sub folders and I need alert a number of people about the size of the folder, I'd need to present a list of the files/folders in an easy to read format.

Keep up the good work.

Damian

uuderzo · « **Reply #18 on:** May 27, 2009, 03:23 PM »

Hello Damian,

I'm currently working on an export module that lets the user produce text files from a filtered SpaceSniffer view. The export module should be flexible enough to let you export a simple path+file list, a tree-structured layout, even a batch file containing commands for each file (example: delete).

Should this feature be enough for your needs?

Greetings! Umberto

rgdot · « **Reply #19 on:** May 27, 2009, 03:35 PM »

Welcome Umberto, that is a really nice piece of software you have made

dluby · « **Reply #20 on:** May 28, 2009, 07:32 AM »

Hi Umberto,

If you could add the file/folder size? Will it have an option to sort by size or name...

Many thanks and keep up the great work.

Damian

uuderzo · « **Reply #21 on:** May 29, 2009, 03:55 PM »

Damian,

I'll try to put as much infos as I can in the export tags.

Greets! Umberto

uuderzo · « **Reply #22 on:** June 26, 2009, 08:33 PM »

Just for all to know...

New release of SpaceSniffer (1.1.0.0) available.
I tried to push as much requests as I could into it

Hope you will like it. download here

Greetings! Umberto.

sajman99 · « **Reply #23 on:** June 26, 2009, 10:15 PM »

@PhilB66: I have the latest version of Steffen Gerlach's Scanner (v2.10) and I see a registry entry at
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Steffen Gerlach\Scanner, but HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\FSOnlineScanner throws me for a loop.
Not that it's of any great significance, but could somebody confirm this registry entry for Scanner. Curiosity killed the cat, as they say.

@Umberto: Great work, SpaceSniffer is a keeper.

PhilB66 · « **Reply #24 on:** June 27, 2009, 01:21 AM »

@sajman99

You are correct. The second entry must be from another application I was trying at the same time I was looking at Scanner. Thanks for noticing.