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1. Clicking the Show files menu item will open the Search Tab and list all files that have the selected extension aJl a _ mites Null Files and Folders Tab Shows empty files those with zero size and empty folders those that contain no other files or folders Mull files Ew ebpagest AD 2K OB wonderspoons history dat E Webpages freshney arg phpBB contig php E Webpagesfreshney org phpBB language ven smods index htm EX febpagestheshney org phpBB styles prosilverimagesetensindes htm E ebpages freshney org phpBB styles prosilverimagesetyindes htm ES Webpages freshney ong phpbb stules orosilvertemplatesindes htm EW Webpages freshney ong phpBb Vstules orosilvertheme images index htm E Webpages freshney ong phpbb stules orosilvertheme Mindex Atm Empty folders ES WebpagesVAD2k02 ara ES WrebpagesAD2k02 pugnas ES WrebpagesVAD2k02 sezeemcpuhimages E webpages t AD 2K OB cerberus Mew Folder E webpages AD 2K OB yogel EW ebpages 4D ROBA TA New Folder Ew ebpagestfreshnep argyc4g images E Webpages freshney arg sinorbiscom images Double click any folder to open it within Windows Explorer 293 2 Use Users Tab The users tab displays all the users that were identified during the scan along with the amount of files that belong to them by Size by Quantity Legend Size of files by user O Paul Slan Freshney gt Paul Alan Freshney 19230 100 541
2. E Pauls Piccies v5 supermegagamebox bak En Pauls Piccies stability br4 E iPauls PicciesySiwater came bak E Pauls Piccies yS supermegagamebox vue E iPauls Piccies PCslaardserver_bckg vue la ME ME ME ME Amb 13MB 13MB JLSME 303 94K oo 66K Foo de ber 06E 399 50K 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 390 14k Clicking the right mouse button on a selected entry in the table will bring up the following menu Move m Delete E Viewsopen File Open with custom viewer ca Explore Folder a File properties os Generate MDS checksum a le Copy 9 A a Open the selected file with the Windows default viewer b Open the selected file with the custom viewer as specified in Settings c Open the folder of the selected file in Explorer d Show the Windows File Properties dialog for the selected file e Generate and MD5 checksum for the selected file f Copy the selected file OR all of the files from the selected table to another location g Move the selected file OR all of the files from the selected table to another location h Delete the selected file OR all of the files from the selected table to the Recycle Bin i Add all of the files from the selected table to a zip compressed file j Copy the table as text to the clipboard aD 44 Other Tab If a file has an extension that is not recognised i e it doesn t appear in any of the 19 categories system graphics etc
3. The Table Tab is similar to the Chart tab except in table form Search for files and folders within any previous scan selectable from a list on the left The File History Compare Tab is more sophisticated version of the Search Tab that allows for two dates to be scanned viewed and compared simultaneously 10 Common Functions and Behaviour All of the charts and tables have extra functionality that can be accessed via a popup menu press the right mouse button over a table chart tree or list to access the menu Charts The following controls behave in the same way throughout all of Xinorbis tabs For each tab that contains a graph you ll find the following set of controls by Size O by Quantity Legend MD B A 5 1 Set the chart to Pie 2 Set the chart to Bar 3 Show by size of files 4 Show by number 5 Toggle the graph s legend Pressing the right mouse button over any chart will open up the following popup menu E Save chart O Copy chart to clipboard Advanced Options C Print 1 Save the chart as a bitmap image bmp 2 Copy the chart as a bitmap to the clipboard 3 Open the Advanced chart options dialog below 4 Print a copy of the selected chart 11 Advanced chart options Theses extra chart options allow for an increased level of customisation to Xinorbis charts Chart Options UNOS Chart Zoom level default is 100 b Show labels d
4. User Manual www freshney org www xinorbis com freeware freshney org www twitter com freshneydotorg Paul Alan Freshney 2010 Last Revision January 9th 2010 4 2 6 Contents OVE VIS Write das 4 CONVENLON Sassari idilio 4 A VOUL E EPEA EET AA E TAA E PEE A 5 Common Functions and Behaviour naciste atacada 10 CHAI Sarna E AAE EN 10 Adyanced chart ODUONS rio AA OAE A A A 11 PATO PIMaCIOMN E Derne E rakes a E 12 aN Ta Dera dani oia anni 12 Eie eE e A N E A I O EEE A ois as cons A E E E A I ea E E OE nia 13 TYDE Tai a E A 14 Folders Tab iS 15 More Detail dilatada 16 Madgnitude Tabs A 17 FING OCS a sts centage a teneassenaatuidameinmernneesecoaniouts 18 PISCO TaD std ati rdbnta 19 TOP LOL TaDirrrerantiraaraa ada 20 A aD e E carte ue recoecee ace mma E AA 21 N ll Filesand Folders Tai E dened asiaiaa aiatnaad E A 22 WS ICS Taranto cool ocios 23 Temporary FICS Paidos aa cis 24 A L T 25 DAVE Detallada 27 Navigate Tarinine AAA 28 Ae ISO Y cenistaec vetoes ak ciara aaa Nae acacia tare nana eG oe cee ae aang nat eae sea a tees 29 FAT OGIO Narda 30 Chatea dis 30 A A E E E A 31 File HISTORY Search nosinio a E E E aid 31 Fle TISLOFY COMPA iii ed 32 SELEKE RN ON 33 Serenidad DY Sia Me script toi 33 SSAC IN GD TS Siles 33 Seal china DY Gave taras an 34 Se al Chilli DY 34 Seal ChinG DY Categor Yara ia 34 Seal CHING DY Te ADUTE rs saciar A 35 Searching Dy User OWNEM A 35 File History Specife FUNCUON SiS 36 Combining Searc
5. trade Pienza 1 e156 Ri i e t o aaa laa a amo Sizt ea a CE 6 LOME an island_2 bmp 1 758 a r 5 m eet ee a ees i Thurnia 0 Cece ra Er a J E oo TRE E TRI Bi Y E P P P2 a g 5 a 5 S55 S loa 3 a ls foo Pom Lole Lada Lale Loke peas be heta La doo ls e la gt la E oe E E a la pa O File History Tabs Folder History is the place where details of previous scans can be analysed and compared The tabs found with the Information sub tab Table Type Folders Magnitude Dates and Users work the same as those found in the main Information tab Folder History is described in much more detail later on in this manual E Inicamatiorn E Merigale ki Folder History AO G E EE Table E Type ES Folders ia Magnrilude 9 Dates ez Users CUED Or sce Obuniy Eleos Category Files As Size As Wo An Programs 0 Obytes O E System a mes Obytes 0 J Graphics 101 a4 PAS 24MB 50 Tap E Movie os O bytes 0 E audo o ons Obytes 0 E office o 0 D bytes Dr Programmer O 0 O bytes 10 BE compressed o 0 O bytes E other 56 10 265 0MB S055 E cumomi o Th O bytes 4 E Custermz 0 g D bytes ort E Custo 0 0 O bytes Cueto a Os O bytes Customs 0 O bytes I oO gar 1 brutas Cusbora o OM O bytes Custom Dro O bytes born betes o bates The Chart Tab allows for the quick comparison of the type quantity and size of files at previous scan dates
6. Another Item command The asterisk signifies the end of a sub menu Commands A command can be any search command or list of commands To search for all files created after the 17th of April 2009 Menu Item date gt 20090417 However this isn t very useful so it s possible to have Xinorbis generate a date or get the user to select one Date Time Commands NOW Today s date Menu Item date gt NOW Clicking on this menu item will search for all files created on or after today DECWEEK A date one week ago from today Menu Item date gt DECWEEK Clicking on this menu item will search for all files created in the last week 60 DECMONTH A date one month ago from today Menu Item date gt DECMONTH Clicking on this menu item will search for all files created in the last month DECMONTH6 A date six months ago from today Menu Item date gt DECMONTH6 Clicking on this menu item will search for all files created in the last six months DECMONTH12 A date one year ago from today Menu Item date gt DECMONTH12 Clicking on this menu item will search for all files created in the last twelve months DECMONTH24 A date two years ago from today Menu Item date gt DECMONTH24 Clicking on this menu item will search for all files created in the last twenty four months GetDateDialogA Creates a search function dialog for searching for last accessed dates
7. Fede Folders Tab Similar to the Table view it shows how each of the folders with the search path constitutes the given search The graph below the table gives this information in an easy to read form by Size by Quantity Legend Filter Show all Director doy niloadecd O Root Root H 0 59 36 ASP NET asp wet da e C Builder Cobalt O cool 16 31MB 1 ASP MET 5 7 1MB Ti C Builder 1 22MB Oo Cobalt So 06ME 0 cool 19 3406 oso Builder 01 52 eee O Linux cool E O PocketPC O PocketPC O to play with ss 9275 Be Linux 3 12MB Oo PocketPC 470 51MB 2 o 55 0 16MB OM Eo play with 1 FOL S5MB 4 Click the button or double click a row in the table to get a detailed view of the contents of the highlighted folder Selecting the root folder will show a detailed view of the analysed folder Click here for more information on the More Detail display Use the Filter drop down list to limit the amount of information that is shown on the graph Add only those results where the percentage of files either by size or quantity in each folder is greater than 1 2 3 4 5 10 or 15 This can be very useful for making the graph easier to read if you have many folders listed that only contain a small amount of files Right mouse button on any folder listed in the table to bring up the following popup menu More detail EN Analyse this Folder 5 Explore this Folder O Copy table to clipb
8. Label Colour mm a f h 9 E saveen 6 Save a Example b Set the zoom level of the chart Pie charts only c Make the largest slice explode away from the rest of the pie Pie charts only d Toggle the display of labels e Select the background colour for labels f Select the contents of the label Value of the pie slice or bar Percentage The label Label percentage Label value Legend Percentage total Label percentage total i X Y value g Save the current settings to ALL Xinorbis charts h Save the current settings to only the selected chart so moOQA0 08 a12 Information Tab After a folder or drive has been scanned the fourteen tabs that belong to the C Information section will be filled with data and all tables trees and charts updated It s possible to configure Xinorbis to open a specific tab after a scan has finished please see the Settings pages for more information El Sumo Summary Tab The summary tab shows a simple summary of the information gathered from the latest scan Save the contents of the summary to a text file Configure the layout of the summary The summary can contain one or more of the following sections Header File folder count File sizes Null files folders Averages Largest file folder User Category statistics O O O O 7 0100 EA Table Table Tab 13 A disp
9. Start looking for duplicates b Save the list of duplicates to a text file les 1 37MB 1 37MB amb 2 05MB 6 59MB 6 59MB a oMB a 7MB 8 Duplicate Files by Name A list of files that all share the exact file name is available from the Detail menu Detail Tools Help File size spread Ctrl F 1 Duplicates File name Cbril F2 Ctrl F3 Duplicates File size The display lists all files with the same file name that exist within the current scan folder Sh Duplicates Joa lal Found 8 duplicate filenames b pa a E Pauls Picciest4DTITL 1 8MP 1 57 MB E E Pauls PicciestiP AQ ADTITL 1 BMP 1 37MB E Pauls Ficciesicool new cow on cart bmp 2 85M6 E Pauls Piccies iPAQ cool new cow on cart bmp 2 65ME E Pauls PicciestuStisland_2 wes bmp 6 59016 E Pauls Picciestisland_2 ws bmp 6 59MB E Pauls Picciesinucleus2 bmp 3 75MB E Pauls PicciesiwS5 nucleus bmp 3 75MB c Start looking for duplicates d Save the list of duplicates to a text file _4 Reference File Extensions Find information on a specific file extension or group of file extensions Currently Xinorbis has information on over 6000 file extensions File Extensions windows Files Windows Files Find information on a Windows XP or Windows 7 DLL Xinorbis currently holds information on around 3300 files File Extensions Windows Files a P O Windows 7 oie Combine Multiple Paths The combine dialog lets you
10. choose which drive or folder paths to merge into the same report Combine Drives Folders Choose folders to add to scan list 2 3 1 O icp Folders to scan 5 6 7 9 F q 1 Type the folder to add in this box or 3 2 Add the chosen folder to the list 3 Use the folder picker dialog to choose the folder to add 4 Complete list of drives folders to combine 5 Delete an entry from the list 6 Load a previously saved list 7 Save the current list of folders to a file 8 Scan this list of folders now 9 Cancel this operation and return to Xinorbis 10 Open the selected folder in Windows Explorer When the combine has finished you will have access to the same types of reports and information as when you analyse a single drive or folder Don t forget that it may take some time to analyse if you add a lot of drives Click on the Scan button to continue with the analysis or Cancel to cancel the compare operation and return to the application 44 Settings General Show start up screen Enable this to show the drives and folder selection window when Xinorbis is opened Automatically check for updates on start up Enable this if you want to check for updates every time Xinorbis is opened If this option is disabled then it s still possible to check for updates from the help menu Enable folder history For more information on Folder History see the Folder History section Enable full file loggi
11. data Categories and file extension Mull files folders File dates Created User details Top 101 largest Files Top 101 smallest Files Cancel The left hand side of the XML report layout window lists all of the available report sections Click on each section individually to add it to the report the items on the right hand side Each section can only be added once To remove an item from a report double click the selected item on the right or press the button To alter the order in which the items appear on the report click an item and use the and buttons to move it around the report The Categories and file extension section can be customised by clicking the Advanced button This will open up a list of available categories that can be included excluded from the report It s worth noting that selecting either of the File dates items may slow down the XML report generation as this data will have to be generated before the report can be saved For more information on the XML structure that Xinorbis uses see the Xinorbis report structure section 58 Using Xinorbis as a portable application By default Xinorbis will store user preferences to the Windows registry To stop all registry access and to force Xinorbis to store user preferences locally to the application create a file called custom ini and place it in the same folder as the x4 exe file An example file is included in the same fol
12. identify any bugs then please email me at the address on the credits page The software is capable of giving you a quick analysis of how the space on the folder is drive is used For desktop users and network administrators it should make finding unwanted content much easier Being able to compare drives or folders Folder History to how they were many days weeks months or even years ago is going to make spotting space wasting material or wasteful users much easier Once a folder or drive has been scanned then you have the ability to create many reports from that data Xinorbis is a powerful program so please read and print if possible the whole of this manual you ll find lots of interesting information on features that allow you to make the most of the application There are several ways of accessing help from within Xinorbis should you need it Most of Xinorbis windows have this button located at the bottom right Clicking it will open window specific help The search tabs have these buttons Open the main search parameters help page B Opens the search parameters tool window or press F3 or Select the Help item from the Help menu or press F1 Select the Context Help item from the Help menu or press F2 Conventions When dealing with file sizes Xinorbis uses the following conventions 1 kilobyte 1K 1 megabyte 1MB 1048576 bytes 1024 x 1024 1 gigabyte 1GB 1073741824 bytes 1024 x 1024 x 1024 1 terabyte
13. ignores it Only the file name is mandatory all of the rest are optional but will result in inaccurate reports if they are missing If no size value is given then all files are treated as 1 byte If the CSV file you wish to import contains a title or header record as its first record as in the above example then you can stop Xinorbis trying to process this by checking the Ignore first record tick box This first record is often added as it can be useful when importing the data in to Excel as it acts as column titles Xinorbis supports importing from the first seven fields all of the rest are ignored automatically Most programs that create the sort of data that you d want to import in to Xinorbis such as XYplorer allow you to customise their output so this shouldn t be a problem 25 Saving Reports Select which report s to create by clicking the check box in the top left corner of a report type Enter a file name or use the automatic file name generator Lume Generate flenames h For each report type Xinorbis stores five presets Autosave Quick Other Customi and Custom2 These come with default settings but can be edited either from Settings press F6 or from within the individual report sections below Clicking the Options gt gt button will open the full range of options for the selected report For those reports that use the presets select from the drop down box labelled Edit and click the Edit b
14. of total analysed combined size of files combined size of files as percentage of total analysed one section for extension within this category that has more than one file associated with it number of files in analysed folder number of files as percentage of total analysed combined size of files combined size of files as percentage of total analysed lt top50large size gt path to file lt top50large gt lt top50largest gt lt top50smallest gt lt top50small size gt path to file lt top50small gt lt top50smallest gt lt nullfiles gt lt nullfile name gt path to lt nullfile gt lt nullfiles gt lt xinorbisreport gt If you need any help with the XML output please don t hesitate to contact me Credits Programming Development Cat Database Engine ZIP Compression French Translation Thanks to 63 Paul A Freshney Orion SQlite www sqlite org TZipMaster www delphizip org Christian Perronnet Julie Monpelaud Dave Mahadevan Damiaan Peeters Mike Dutch Robert Pallot Peter Garrety Fred de Vries Glyn Selwyn Tom Grimes and Ferdie Botha A very big thanks for all of those people that have donated it s very much appreciated A big thanks to all those that have sent me bug reports comments and feature requests please keep them coming END www freshney org freeware freshney org www xinorbis com
15. then its extension will be put in to this table The table lists the extension and the number of files found with it Extension Size suggested File Type WOE 153 59MB VUE Animation File 30 Studio bak 109 829MB BAK Backup File bre B97 66K BR4 Bryce3D scene File 375 00K DE Borderland s Paradox 7 table database 328 03K IFF Interchange File general purpose data storage Format 263 81K PRY Internet provider template File psilmMail 147 23K JEF Image browser File Paint Shop Prod lt name gt 2 56K unknown SCC 480 bytes SCC Source Safe File Microsoft 12 SCC Source Sate file Microsoft e Clicking an extension will bring up list of possible file types e g in the example above Xinorbis suggests that this is a file from Microsoft s Visual Source Safe Xinorbis can identify over 3000 file extensions Use the Right Mouse Button on an extension to bring up a menu which allows you to fast track an extension to the correct category without the need to go in to preferences It s possible to fast track more than one extension at a time to the same category Select multiple rows using SHIFT CLICK Or CONTROL CLICK Add to E E Programs ql Show files El sil _ kl Graphics SA Movie Audio E Office 3 Programming Cy Compressed Custom E Ei Custom ES Custom Es Custom Eu Custom Es Customs Es Custom 5 custom Ca Customs Es Custom An customit
16. want to find all sound files that start with cat cat pond Or we want to find all MP3s that end in dog dodg mp Use of the wildcard restricts the search to file names only Searching by file size Limit the search results to files with sizes less than or equal to 100k size lt 100k Limit the search results to files with sizes greater than or equal to 100k size gt 100k Limit the search results to files with sizes greater than or equal to 100k and less than 1 megabyte size gt 100k size lt 1lmb When using the size gt or size lt functions you have four options for units size gt 500 blank this is interpreted as bytes e g everything above 500 bytes in size size gt 500k k this is interpreted as kilobytes e g everything above 500 kilobytes in size size gt 1mb mb this is interpreted as megabytes e g everything above 1 megabyte in size size gt 1gb gb this is interpreted as gigabytes e g everything above 1 gigabyte in size IA Searching by date Each of the date search functions can be used with the following date formats dd mm yyyy yyyy mm dd or yyyymmdd If the Date Format configurable in Settings is set to mm dd yyyy then Xinorbis will accept dates in mn dd yyyy format instead of dd mm yyyy For files with created dates greater than or equal to 30 10 2005 date gt 30 10 2005 For files with created dates earlier than or equal to 30 10 2005 date gt 30 10 2005 For files with created da
17. 100MB 100MB lt x lt 150MB 150MB lt x lt 200MB 200MB lt x lt 250MB 250MB lt x lt 500MB 500MB lt x lt 1GB 1GB lt x lt 2GB gt 2GB Files less than or equal to 1K 1024 bytes Files greater than 1K but less than or equal to 1MB Files greater than 1MB but less than or equal to 10MB Files greater than 10MB but less than or equal to 50MB Files greater than 50MB but less than or equal to 100MB Files greater than 100MB but less than or equal to 150MB Files greater than 150MB but less than or equal to 200MB Files greater than 200MB but less than or equal to 250MB Files greater than 250MB but less than or equal to 500MB Files greater than 500MB but less than or equal to 1GB Files greater than 1GB but less than or equal to 2GB Files greater than 2GB Use the File Size Spread display from the Details menu for a more detailed look at the distribution of files by size by Size by Quantity 1K Ik lt x lt 1MB IMB x lt 10MB 10MB lt x lt 50MB ai 1 11 14 14 SOME lt x lt 100MB 2 gt 1O0ME 0 Legend as Yo Size E Wisual Studio 2003 28 266MB 0 6 56 265 73MB 30 2 1k Hna 1 325 67MB 34 O 227 14MB 24 0 116 46MB 12 0 D 00K 0 ee mem 1K x lt 1MB 34 01 1MB x 1 0MB 500 000 0 Double click on any row to see a list of all files within the selected range Click the right mouse button to open a popup menu whic
18. 10M6 100 Double click within the list on the right to see all the files belonging to the selected user in the Search Tab Right click on the tree to open a popup menu with some extra functions 1 E Export selected to file 2 E Add to zip file 3 O Copy table to clipboard 1 Export all of the file details belonging to the selected user to a CSV file 2 Add all of the files belonging to the selected user to a zip compressed file 3 Copy the table as text to the clipboard d Temp Temporary Files Tab The temp tab shows all of the files that have been identified as temp from Preferences O by Size by Quantity Legend 291 files 4 12MB Temp files as of total number of files Filename E Delphi2007 projects CyberFrescolpspbriyse jor E Delphi2007projectsiCvyberFrescol Thumbs db E Delphiz00 1projectsiCvberPrescoldata Thumbs db E Delphiz007 projects CvberFrescoldatalintrolpspbrise jor E Delphiz007 projects CvberFrescoldatalintroThumbs db En Delphi2007projectsiCvyberFrescoldataltipsipspbrise jbF En Delphi2007projectsiCvyberFrescoldataltipsiThumbs db E Delphiz007 projects CvberFrescolhelpipspbriwse b E Delphiz007 projects CvberFrescolhelpic Freditipspbriwse bf E Delphiz007 projects CvberFrescolhelplimagesipspbrise jbF En Delphi2007projectsiCvberFrescolhelplimages buttonspspbrwse b Right mouse button on a selected file in the table to bring up the following menu
19. 12KB Each bar represents a spread of this amount J SUMB gt 4 00MB 24 230 In the example below the gradient colour mode is shown The mouse is located over the bar that represents files of 15MB up to but not including 16MB of which there are 3 15 00MB 16 00ME 3 Benford s Law Benford s Law describes how the distribution of a set of numbers should vary with the leading digit of each number Numbers beginning with 1 should be around 30 1 2 17 61 3 12 49 4 9 69 5 7 92 6 6 69 7 5 80 8 5 12 and those beginning with 9 would only be expected to account for 4 58 of the total The Benford s Law display will show you the distribution of the file sizes according to the file size s leading digit Duplicate Files by Size A list of files that all share the exact file size is available from the Detail menu Detail Tools Help File size spread Ctrl F Duplicates File name Ctrit F2 Ctrl F3 Duplicates File size The display lists all files with the same size that exist within the current scan folder s Duplicates al Found duplicate filenames E E Pauls PicciestADTITL 1 BMP E Pauls Piccies iPAQ A0TITL 1 BMP E Pauls Piccies cool new cow on cart bmp E Pauls Piccies iPAQ cool new cow on cart bmp E Pauls PicciestuStisland_2 wes bmp E Pauls Picciestisland_2 ws bmp E Pauls Picciesinucleus2 bmp E Pauls PicciesiwS5 nucleus bmp a
20. 1TB 1099511627776 bytes 1024 x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 1024 bytes Not all applications follow this convention but as well as being the most commonly used throughout the industry it s also how Windows reports file sizes It s worth noting that hard disk manufacturers tend to use a slightly different method when reporting hard disk sizes 1 gigabyte 1GB 1 terabyte 1TB 1000000000 bytes 1000 x 1000 x 1000 1000000000000 bytes 1000 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 Layout The Xinorbis window is split in to seven discrete sections The first is the menu bar located at the very top of the main Xinorbis window Menu bar a b c d e f Clear all displays Import from CSV or Xinorbis data Save many reports at once Print the contents of the current tab Configure print options Exit the program Printing with CTRL P will always ask you to confirm printer settings before printing starts Use ALT P to print using the previous settings without confirmation a b Open the Search Tab Open the search Wizard for Search and File History Open an HTML report using the Quick settings Open an XML report using the Quick settings Open a CSV report using the Quick settings Open a Text report using the Quick settings Save a Xinorbis report using the Quick settings Save a Tree report using the Quick settings View the report that was generated most recently Copy the last report to the clipboard Open the report fol
21. 3 75MB E Pauls FicciesiwSidead_tree bak 10 84MB E Pauls Picciestw5ldead tree bmp 3 75MB a Toggle accessed date modified date owner and attributes respectively b Show the full file path in the search results shown or just the file name c Colour code each entry in the table according to the type category of file shown below d Information on search results O A AAA m 4 Show FullPath E Colour code Found 15 matches ES a 69 18MB ml e Filename Using the default colours this table shows me that the search results are made up of files belonging to the graphics yellow and other purple categories Click E to access many default searches and quick access to category and attribute specific searches The quick search menu can be customised see the Information for Advanced Users section towards the end of this manual Execute the search Open the search documentation Open the floating search syntax window F3 Save the search results as a text file or CSV file Show information for the selected file or folder CB 6060 we Toggle the chart display 26 The search chart shows the current search results in the context of the current scan O by Size by Quantit It can show either the size of the search results as a percentage d d l l of the size of the whole of the last scan or the number of files in search results as percentage of total size of files the search result
22. ED user paul alan freshney EN File Size Spread The File Size Spread display is a more powerful version of the magnitude display Detail Tools Help File size spread Ctrl F Duplicates File name Cbril F2 Ctrl F3 Duplicates File size a Build the graph b Select the resolution of the graph Small numbers make for more detailed graphs but at the expense of build time and memory usage The default is 512K so they first bar of the graph will show the number of files between O bytes up to but not including 512k the second bar c Range for files of 512k up to 1MB and so on in intervals of 512K c Build the graph from only a selected range of file sizes form d to e da jo Kilobytes inclusive 7 d Start size for the range l e End size for the range e di f Use a multi coloured graph or colour based on y axis value darker colour for larger values g Use a logarithmic Y axis Dj 512 Kilobytes Wt Colours ey 6 Multi Se gt Gradient g Logarthmic Largest file 0 bytes In the example below the multi colour mode is shown There is too much information to show on the X axis so the information is available by moving the mouse over a bar The mouse is located over blue bar next the end the top part of the example shows that this bar represents files of 3 50MB up to but not including 4 00MB of which there are 24 The interval in this example is 0 5MB or 5
23. a E tiewpopen File D Open with custom viewer C Cj Explore Folder d a File properties e os Generate MOS checksum F Copy d 9 ES move n m Delete d 1 a Add to zip file j O Copy table to clipboard Open the selected file with the Windows default viewer Open the selected file with the custom viewer as specified in Settings Open the folder of the selected file in Explorer Show the Windows File Properties dialog for the selected file Generate and MD5 checksum for the selected file Copy the selected file OR all displayed files to another location Move the selected file OR all displayed files to another location Delete the selected file OR all displayed files to the Recycle Bin Add all of the temporary files to a zip compressed file Copy the table as text to the clipboard 105K a SOK 4 50K 14 51K 4 50k 30 64K o 00K 10 29K 15 45K 0 96K 15 20K _ 24 25 E y Seh Search Tab b c d ICE 8 Y Show FullPath E Colour code Found 15 matches 11 28 69 18MB 13 90 4 Bgo Filename iza En Pauls Piccies christmastree bak 144 83K E Pauls Picciesichristmastree bmp a5 77K EPauls Picciesichristmastree vue 450 07K E Pauls Picciesicow and two trees bmp 3 75MB E Pauls Picciesicow and two trees jog 173 54K EsPauls Picciesitree_mountain_ws bmp 6 59MB En Pauls Piccies TREE _TRI BMP
24. an be gathered Just in time processing Enabling this setting will cause Xinorbis to only build certain displays when they are required This will speed up the initial scan but may cause slight delays when selecting certain tabs although this will only happen once for each tab display Don t build date tree When a drive or folder with many thousands of files has been processed the routines that create the Date tree can take a while to build the display If you aren t interested in the time and date stamps of the files being scanned then enabling this optimisation will decrease the time of the initial scan After the scan has finished it s still possible to see the Date tree display by selecting from the drop down list Created Modified and Accessed The ability to search by dates created modified and accessed is not affected by this option 45 Add file names to Date tab If this setting is selected the every file in the current scan will be added to the relevant Date node in the Date tree display Disabling this option will save processing time and Xinorbis memory footprint When there s less than this many files Enabling this setting will mean that file names are only added to the Date tree when there s less files in the current scan than the specified amount the default is 1000 Don t get file owner details Enable this option if you are running on a system that only has one user or you aren t interested in who each file
25. ax section later in this manual for more details 2009 03 22 13 17 41 Eb 2009 03131312 38 in Most convenient da Show Full Pat F Colour code di E 0 0h 2009 0225 14 29 27 20097 01729 17 34 10 File Size Size OD Created Accessed Modified Owner Status a 1 Press or press enter when the cursor is in f to run the search a A list of scans listed by date time yyyy mm dd hh mm ss b Select how the file size should be display most convenient all in kilobytes or as bytes c Show the full file path for the file or just the name and extension d Colour code the files the colour represents the category that the file belongs to e Click for a list of predefined searches f Type the search command in here g Click for more information on the search commands h Save the search reports i Search results 28x BB information 9 crar E Table E File Histo Search E File History Compare File History Compare Use the File History Compare tab to compare the contents of a folder at two specific dates a NAAA B sng eee as shew Full Path Colour Bae 0 M k M Wm p m GEA rr aAa File Size Created Accessed Modified File Size Created Accessed Modified a Select from a set of predefined searches b Run the search c Enter the search commands in here see here for more information d Open the floating search command syntax window e Select from three different file size formats f Toggl
26. belongs to If you are scanning many thousands of files then enabling this optimisation can significantly speed up the scanning process Scanning progress update refresh speed This setting has six distinct steps that will make the Xinorbis window more or less responsive during scanning but at the expense of scan speed The more responsive it is during scanning then the longer it will take For small scans this will make no perceivable difference but for scans of entire drives it could add 10 or more on the Highest Process Update File Association Categories sinorbiz General File Associations Temp Files Chart Options Output Options Quick folders Navigate Associated File Extensions 4 Programs L System 2 ld 2 um Graphics Movie Audio oo Office o Programming O Compressed Other Custom Custom P 7 Customs Custom Customs Custom Custom Custom Custom Customid Restore defaults 6 For extensions that appear in more than one category 39 Ignore duplicate extensions in custom categories standard categories take precedence e Import List Export List 5 10 7 8 O O O O O O O O O O O 1 Select a category to edit 2 Type the extension in the box no need for the leading and click add or press enter 3 List of extensions in this currently selected category 4 Click here to delete a selected entry from the list 5 Click to change the displa
27. between two user selectable dates Menu Item GetDateDialogA Clicking on this menu item will search for all files accessed within the user s selection GetDateDialogC Creates a search function dialog for searching created dates between two user selectable dates Menu Item GetDateDialogC Clicking on this menu item will search for all files created within the user s selection GetDateDialogM Creates a search function dialog for searching modified dates between two user selectable dates Menu Item GetDateDialogM Clicking on this menu item will search for all files modified within the user s selection File Size Commands GetSizeDialog Creates a search function dialog for searching for between a set of file sizes Menu Item GetSizeDialog Clicking on this menu item will search for all files with the user s selection XML Report Structure 61 Xinorbis outputs fully v1 0 compliant XML Structure for XML file list lt xinorbisfilelist gt lt file gt lt name gt lt path gt lt sizewords gt lt sizebytes gt lt sizeondiskwords gt lt sizeondiskbytes gt lt owner gt lt datecreated gt lt datemodified gt lt dateaccessed gt lt category gt lt directory gt lt readonly gt lt hidden gt lt system gt lt archive gt lt file gt lt xinorbisfilelist gt Structure for XML report output lt xinorbisreport gt lt information gt lt directory gt lt date gt lt number
28. ble report sections Click on each section individually to add it to the report the items on the right hand side Each section can only be added once To remove an item from a report double click the selected item on the right or press the button To alter the order in which the items appear on the report click an item and use the and buttons to move it around the report The Categories and file extension section can be customised by clicking the Advanced button This will open up a list of available categories that can be included excluded from the report The report can be saved by clicking the Save as button Saved Text reports can be executed as quick reports by right clicking the Quick Text report icon and selecting Open It s worth noting that selecting either of the File dates items may slow down the Text report generation as this data will have to be generated before the report can be saved XML 57 Customise XML Report Layout Avallable ML report items Click to add Header Simple summary File attributes Categories Folders within root Magnitude data Categories and file extension Null tiles folders File dates Created File dates Accessed File dates Modified User details Top 101 largest Files Top 101 smallest Files Top 101 newest files Top 101 oldest files ML Report Layout Header Simple summary File attributes Categories Folders within root Magnitude
29. d therefore it makes it a common choice There is no single specification for how a CSV comma separated values file should be laid out for the purposes of storing file data The CSV format only specifies how the data should be stored not in what order or format That s where the import system comes in Import CSV data Contents of first record File name we Name ay 27 oc Aa CL oo of m a u Ci z 91 Ignore Ext File path Path File size bytes E Size Ignore w Type Ignore Created Ignore w Modified Ignore first record Dr The Xinorbis import CSV data screen allows you to tell Xinorbis the structure of the CSV file you wish to import To make it easier to decide which field of the file contains which data Xinorbis will show you the first item of data available for each field From this it should be easy to decide how to import the data For each item of data in the file you can decide whether it is Full file path e g c some folder somefile txt File size in bytes e g 10000 this field has to be a number only characters 0 9 allowed File date dd mm yyyy e g 17 04 1975 File date mm dd yyyy e g 04 17 1975 US style date format File path e g c some folder File name e g somefile txt If the CSV file you wish to import contains data that Xinorbis doesn t need such as modified data in the above image then setting that field to ignore will ensure Xinorbis
30. der as the Xinorbis executable and is named custom ini The custom ini should be a text file with the following structure main portablemode 1 This will tell Xinorbis to operate in portable mode disabling all registry access All user preferences are saved to the custom ini file copyprefs 1 When not running in portable mode this option will tell Xinorbis to save a copy of Settings to the custom ini file datapath The location to use for all reports and saved files The path specified in datapath will be created if it doesn t exist There are two special variables that can be used within the datapath entry xdrive the drive where Xinorbis is being run from xfolder the folder where Xinorbis is being run from lt gt where is any environmental variable If your copy of Xinorbis is installed to P utils xinorbis4 then xdrive would be equal to P xfolder would be equal to P utils xinorbis3 Any user additions to the file extension categories will be stored in lt install folder gt data The following files are used audio txt Sound music or other audio files compressed txt Compressed archives of files graphics txt Graphics 3D objects etc movie txt Movie or animation files office txt Text file spreadsheets etc programming txt Project files includes source code etc programs txt Executable files system txt Operating system files custom1 txt Create these as necessary they aren t d
31. der path within Windows Explorer View one of the information tabs Toggle the various toolbars Open the Search Syntax window m Open the Category Colours window a b c d Open the File Size Spread window Open the Duplicate File Name window Open the Duplicate File Size window Show detailed folder information File Clear a Import data D A Sawereports Ciries 0 ca Print Ctrl P 0 Print Setup e Exit f Search Search Ctr4 F a b VIEW 22 HTML report Fl2 Tel XML report Fil Ba SY report FLO E Text report F3 24 Xinorbis Fa E Tree report Fs Report browser Information screen Toolbars Search syntax FS Category colours F4 Detail File size spread Ctrl F 1 Duplicates File name Cbri F2 Duplicates File size Ctrl F3 Folder detail Ctrl F4 a b C d Open the settings and configuration window Open the Folder History information window Backup the contents of the Xinorbis data folder Select Xinorbis language Open the HTML help pages Open a help page specific to the currently opened tab Open the Frequently Asked Questions pages Open the Donate page Open the Xinorbis website Check for an updated version of Xinorbis Register your interest in Xinorbis Show version information Tools Settings F a 4 Folder History info D ES Backup your Xinorbis data Cc Language dd Help amp Help Fi a Context Help Fz D FAQs c Dona
32. e the full path of the file when unselected only the file name will be shown g Colour the files according to the category they belong to h Select which scan date and time to search i Save the search results j Toggle the created date column k Toggle the accessed date column Toggle the modified date column m Toggle the user name column n Toggle the file attributes column o Toggle the size on disk column p Highlights the items on the selected side that aren t present on the other side 3 Search Syntax To access a comprehensive HTML based search syntax reference from within Xinorbis press F5 Xinorbis has a powerful search system that allows for detailed filtering of all the files from the previous scan as well as the File History The search commands are not case sensitive so size gt 100k is the same as SiZe gt 100k The order in which the commands are entered won t make a difference to the search results Searching by file name A simple or search find files with the words city or java in the path city java A simple and search find files with the words city and java in the path oity Java Combining and with or find files that contain city and java or aardvark in the path city java aardvark The above examples will look for the specified keyword s anywhere within the file name and path of the file the following examples allow for more targeted searches Lets say we
33. ection of the Text settings is where all of the presets can be edited Select from b the preset you wish to edit and press a to open the editing window The current layout for the selected preset b is shown in c Xinorbis Output Options Autosave HTML XML CS Text Xinorbis a Choose report type 2 Normal Detailed Select the preset to edit using a Normal Stores only the file names folder names and file sizes This produces a smaller file at the expense of detail Detailed Stores all file and folder information much more detailed but produces much larger files around 300 larger 51 Quick Folders Quick Folders are a list of Folders drives local folders or remote that can be accessed from the button on the main toolbar Quick folders E GoogleDesktop DAD Office EXDELPHI2007 a EXMWEBRAGES a The list of current Quick Folders a maximum of 20 b Move the selected Folder up one c Move the selected Folder down one d Add a new Folder e Delete the selected Folder Navigate Lett side progress bar Aight side progress bar i Click either of the blue grey or purple grey parts to change the relevant colours on the Navigate Tab display 25 gt Importing from a CSV file Xinorbis allows you to process data that has been created with other applications as well as those created by Xinorbis CSV files can be created from many other applications an
34. efined by default custom2 txt custom3 txt custom4 txt customb5 txt custom6 txt custom 7 txt customs txt custom9 txt custom10 txt These can be edited if required Each file is a standard ASCII text file and contains one file extension per line No need to add the leading Please email me if you would like more options and customisations added to to Xinorbis portable mode 59 Information for advanced users Customising the QuickSearch popup menus The information that Xinorbis needs in order to build the popup menus that appear when the quick search menu button is pressed is stored in two files called FHQuickSearch menu and QuickSearch menu There is copy for each language stored in data languages which is located in the folder where Xinorbis was installed The files are standard text files that can be edited with any decent ASCII editor I ve written an application that will let you test the menu scripts it s called MenuBuilder exe and is located in the data languages folder Each line of the text file is an instruction to the menu builder code A greyed out title is created by putting some text between a set of A separating line is created by having a single hypen on a line A clickable menu item looks like this Some Text command See further down for information on available commands A clickable sub menu item looks something like this The name description of the menu An Item command
35. er select the Computer where the folder is located with a select the folder from the drop down list b and press c to select Press d to see a list of scans and basic information for the selected computer and folder a and b Clicking on d will open the following window which shows details of scans performed on the selected Folder History folder b 4 amp 7OM EA Date Time Size of files Folders 2009 05 27 15 09 23 259839 09 006 1455 For each scan the following details are shown Time and date of the scan The number of files found The total size of the files within the folder The number of folders found _ 30 A Information 9 Chart ER Table File History Search E File History Compare Information The information tab is similar to the main information tab The Table Type Folders Magnitude Dates and Users displays work exactly the same as those on the main information tab a bj cjtd ES Table Type Wey Folders Ji Magnitude Dates QA Users a A list of scans listed by date time yyyy mm dd hh mm ss b Click to populate the information tabs with data from the selected scan in a c Export all of the data from the scan a to XML d Export all of the data from the scan a to CSV format E Information e Chart ER Table File History Search File History Compare Chart At the top of the Chart section is a toolbar that is used to customise the chart s content Fi
36. from the selected category to a zip compressed file 3 Copy the table to the clipboard _14 Type Tab See how the individual file type categories are broken up in to each extension The user can see how many graphic type files exist and how many of each type of graphic exist i e how many gif jpg etc Right mouse button on the category will allow you to toggle a graphic representation of the contents of the category Double click on any extension in the tree to see a list of files matching the selected extension oa ES by Size by Quantity W Legend Program 0 files 0 0 00 0 Office l System 1 files 0 7 25 0 Graphics 673 files 61 79 39MB 762 Movie 0 files 0 000K 0 Sound 0 files 0 0 00 0 Office 149 files 14 lt 4 67MB 422 Code 0 files 0 7 0 00 0 Compressed O files 0 0 00 0 Custom O files 02 0 006 0 Other 131 files 122 7 19 99MB 192 Right click on the tree to open a popup menu with some extra functions 1 E Export selected to file 2 Add to zip File 3 O Copy table to clipboard 1 Export the contents of the entire tree to a text file 2 Add all of the files from the selected category OR with the selected file extension to a zip compressed file 3 Copy the entire tree in text format to the clipboard _15 gt
37. ful when excluding folders from the scan as this will affect all of Xinorbis displays and reports More information is available on creating reports see the Customising Xinorbis reports section It s possible to quickly create and open a new HTML or Text report by pressing the right mouse button over the HTML or Text buttons and selecting Custom File History toolbar Folder History Computer Folder History Folder fo e NG 1 2 3 4 1 The computer where the folder lies only really useful for portable users 2 The currently selected folder 3 Open the selected folder 2 within Folder History 4 View a list of scans for the selected computer folder combination Information Tabs The tabs within the Information section are built from the current scan location data They are all described in much more detail later on in this manual Information CF Navigate T Folder History 7 a ah p A gt 3 Table EE Type E Folders UE Magnitude Ae Dates E History E Top 101 Dither Nut BE Users EA Temp GR Search Se Drive Number of Piles 162 Programs I D 3 O bytes yaten O O bytes sraphi 10 265 38MB i 1 o he Navigate Tabs The navigate tab is a quick and easy way to navigate the folder and file structure of the current scan location This tab is described in more information later in this manual A Irigaraik lewya 10 Folder History 2a2eao05
38. gs c Open the folder of the selected file in Explorer d Show the Windows File Properties dialog for the selected file e Generate and MD5 checksum for the selected file f Copy the selected file OR all displayed files to another location g Move the selected file OR all displayed files to another location h Delete the selected file OR all displayed files to the Recycle Bin i Add the selected files to a zip compressed file j Copy the table as text to the clipboard Select multiple rows by selecting with CLICK CTRL Or CLICK SHIFT _29 O Folder History Fi le H isto ry When enabled the File History feature of Xinorbis will allow you to track the changes of drives and folders on your PC or network Every time a folder drive or network share is scanned its details are stored so that they can be referenced again and compared against the same location on previous dates For each scan Xinorbis stores Number of files number of folders combined size of files magnitude details and the quantity size of each of the fifteen categories programs graphics etc Xinorbis also stores details of every file that s scanned so that detailed analysis of the folder or drive is possible The File History Tab works in conjunction with the File History toolbar ATOM a e E Digital Pictures b Gal E ci d b shows the currently selected folder all the following tabs work with it To work with a different fold
39. h FUNCTIONS vivir a a aa ae 37 PIC SIZO op ddp ooo orde 38 BEMIOFd S AW sss ica otero ocio OAA 39 Duplicate FES DY SIZC mestre 40 Duplicate FiIlES DYjINGING nuts terror tara 41 RETEREN CE ccc secsanat veer E neon aneecacse maaosmnaalcecasunsnecances naees wesc ennselseonesasaaesensesnaceseees 42 SCING S eae teases gaa eac deat tetera ase aeean eee beara a ew gene der ea aeet seams 44 Generali iii 44 File ASSOCIATION Categonesiiiia ii 45 Temporary FICS aia 46 Char OPHON S acia doi os 46 OUTPUT ODUGIS apra EIA EA 46 AUTOS AVE OPON Sue EIA E ie ISR 46 ATM OUtPUC ODHUONS AAPP gg EA EI 47 O C ODHON G oraaa rra a T R 48 CoV OUMU EO DUONG o o A EAA NA a AA A 49 WVEXt OUUDUE ODUIONS A OPE o a ENEE 50 MIMOF DIS QULDUE ODIOS nai aa 50 QUIER FOIS 51 INAV IG AUG ioneina a tech Decne oo eae ce ae Bee Dee Se ee a 51 IMporunda Om CSV Mia reenter renee trsre enn nerve tReet en CUA tT Tene ne A A 52 CUSEOMISING AINOrBIS TEPORES airada 55 ATM ana 55 A OR 56 A tat tcaavaaa eaeieian dances sani A aoe eaued aun acuusauneates A A renee 57 Using Xinorbis as a portable application vestida 58 Information f r advanced US Sutil 59 Customising the QuickSearch POPUP MENUS 0cccccccccccccncccnncrnnnn rr rr rr rr rr rr 59 Ml REDOTCOUUCTUTG teta ato E EAER PEAN EOE EAA titan EAE 61 PEA in eo bas 63 Overview Xinorbis was designed to be a simple to use but powerful disk analysis tool If you have any suggestions on how to improve this software or
40. h has the following options 1 E Export selected to file 2 E Add to zip file r E 3 O Copy table to clipboard 1 Export the contents of the table to a text file 2 Add all of the files from the selected size range to a zip compressed file 3 Copy the entire table in text format to the clipboard 18 gt Das File Dates Tab The displays on this tab show the distribution of files by year month and date It shows the number of files and size of those files that belong to each day month and year The tree view is shown here without file names listed beneath each date this can be enabled in Settings Collapse nodes Legend 2006 files 118 452S7MByp O o 2007 fles 15 44 87 MB E April files 1 3 5MB 1 2008 16th files 1 3 75MmB 0 2007 May files 1 3 75MB 2008 Diet files 1 3 75MB July files 6 4 17 8MB Z2nd files 6 4 18MB l August fles 3 13 33MB bth files 1 6 59MB 30th files 2 6 74MB 5 September files 2 6 68hMB Ord files 1 6 59MB l 26th files 1 89 25 E November fles 2 13 186 5 2008 files 6 76 39MB a August Hles 1 1 76ME 24th files 1 1 76MB 5 November fhiles 5 4 63M8 05th files 5 74 63MB Display according to Created date Last Accessed date or Last Modified date The table has a popup menu available by clicking the right mouse button that has options for a El vie
41. hose of a fresh installation The other category is reserved for files with extensions that do not match any of those in the other categories You cannot add file extensions to it Temporary Files Tell Xinorbis what file types you would like flagged as temporary Use the filename or specific pattern such as temp Or thumbs db Use a wildcard such as tmp Or dat Chart Options Each chart within Xinorbis can have its gradient configured within this preferences section Single Compare Mam Chart ray BN t a Gradient start colour b Gradient end colour c Toggle the gradient fill Output Options For each report type Xinorbis allows for five layout presets Auto Save Always used by the auto save mode Quick Always used by the quick reports F7 F12 Other The default for the save reports window Custom1 User defined Custom2 User defined Autosave Options Autosave HTML ML CSW Text Autosave Options Autosave Drive Report s ASCII FP CS Minorbis Custom HTML C ML Organise reports Autosave Drive Report Will automatically save any drive analysis report using the Auto save report preset Files are saved to lt report folder gt lt computer name gt autosaves The format of all reports is drive_folder_yyyymmdd_hhmmss _AT HTML Output Options Sutosawe HTML ML Cov Test simobi Open in application O Report colours Report layout HTML report op
42. hrough Settings or the Other Tab Searching by file attribute It is possible to filter by various file attributes HIDDEN search only hidden files ASYSTEM search only system files ARCHIVE search only files with the archive file attribute NULL search only files that have null zero size READONLY search only files that are read only CREATED search only files that were created today ACCESSED search only files that have been accessed today MODIFIED search only files that have been modified today FILE search only files will ignore folders FOLDER search only items that are folders Add a minus to the end to exclude files with that attribute from the search results HIDDEN Will exclude system files from the search Searching by user owner The user name to search for is not case sensitive Filter your search results by the owner creator of the file user paul alan freshney Filter results to include files that aren t owned by a specific user user paul alan freshney Filter results to include files that are owned by a user whose name contains certain text user paul Filter results to include files that are NOT owned by a user whose name contains certain text user paul If multiple owner parameters are specified then files matching e ther are returned user Julie user Orion will return files owned by Julie OR Orion 36 File History Specific Functions List the top files by size simila
43. in which data is stored on the hard disk On Windows the most common types are FAT32 and NTFS E Navigate Navigate Tab Easily navigate the files and folders of the current scan The navigation tab is split in to two sections Double clicking on a folder in the left hand part will show all of the files and folders belonging to it in the right hand part f l t E EEIE T Dehi e Pere ale A e 0 u Lt we E E m E a g ho o am Toggles the created date column b Toggles the accessed date column AA ian i En A E T U hna PE Parar ln ey Tg e mares m Dore HN Aa AE al Diris c U iretsi wm a E mE J AA TE Li rae nn mas iT a on Sree r a Litres A LJ ae ri m FEE z r Himni aan u Dan i Im Fiji re a i per a s aarmt h oa ae nee c Toggle the modified date column Se ea aa a d Toggle the file owner column ere ss A TA e Toggle the file attributes column Lj ale SA El n E dd Dn lA Sweat Lane er aie TA f Toggle the size on disk column E A o sa a vee T as g Colour codes each file not folders Right mouse button on a selected file or folder in the table to bring up the following menu a E viewlopen File D Open with custom viewer j O Copy table to clipboard a Open the selected file with the Windows default viewer b Open the selected file with the custom viewer as specified in Settin
44. lay of the distribution within the various Xinorbis categories of the files from the drive or folder being scanned Displayed by size how the combined size of the files make up the drive and by quantity how many of the separate files make up the drive programs system graphics movie music sound office programming compressed other custom custome cushoms custorn customs o 1 o o 1 j j j j j 000K 0 00K 0 00 1 366 0 00 929 bytes 0 00K 0 00k 13 00K 0 00 0 O0 0 00 0 O0 0 00k aa a 0 LOU Ovo 1 Created Today 0 Accessed Today Oo Modified Today lt 1 Oo 0 Oo Ovo Uo 13 00Kk 13 00K 000K 1 3706 0 00k 13 00 474 92MB 13 00K The second table on the Table Tab displays the number of files that were found to be set as hidden system archive read only created today accessed today or modified today and those files of null zero length Double clicking on either table will automatically open the search tab and list all files belonging to the highlighted category or file type Right click on the top most table categories to open a popup menu with some extra functions 1 5 Export selected to file 2 a Add to zip File 3 O Copy table to clipboard 1 Export all of the file details of the selected category to a CSV file these can be imported in to Microsoft Excel as well as many others applications 2 Add all of the files
45. le view Files output every file that was found in the current scan along with size and date details Autozawe HTML XML ESV Test simorbis Default ES output settings Open in applications default is notepad Include column tithes Which data Category just fle categories and results Show sizes in Most convenient format v The last option is Show sizes in and will change the way that file sizes are displayed in the report For example a file of exactly 1MB would be shown as Most convenient unit 1MB As bytes 1048576 As kilobytes 1024 This is not always the case with all applications but Xinorbis uses the most commonly recognised convention 50 Text Output Options Autosave HTML ML CS Text sinorbis Default Text Report output settings Open in application notepad I Report layout a Auosave MO Header Simple summary File attributes Categories Folders within root Magnitude data Categones and file extension Null files folders File dates Created File dates Accessed File dates Modified User details When viewing a Text report within Xinorbis you can select which application to view the report with If no application is specified then Notepad is used For each report type Xinorbis allows for five layout presets Autosave Quick Other Custom1 and Custom2 that determine what data should be added to the report The report layout s
46. les Magnitude Category ee eae Eia Folders 68 Files 3765 File size 2 206 From left to right show by the number of files belonging to each category show by the size of files belonging to each category The centre fifteen buttons toggle the relevant categories from the chart display The magnitude buttons have the same effect as the equivalent Files buttons in that they show the size and quantity of files displayed according to the magnitude of the file s size 20087 10723 13 33 01 The left hand side of the Chart tab shows a list available scan dates Clicking an entry will show the number of files folders and total size for that scan in the area below the toolbar Selecting the entry tick the check box on the left will add that scan s data to the chart 31 fl Information e Chart E Table B File History Search File History Compare Table The Table view shows all of the scan data that is available Date Files delta Folders delta Total size delta Used space delta 2008 10 26 13 51 35 3765 O 50 O 2 2oOGb j 2 2 S056 j 2008 10 23 19 39 01 37065 j oF 1 2 20G 0 2 2205 O The delta column represents the difference between the row and the current the top data B Information e Chart E Table El File History Search B File History Compare File History Search Use the File History Search to search through the contents of the selected folder at any previous scan date time See the Search Synt
47. n be configure for 800x600 or 1024x768 displays from the window that s accessed from a Ag XML Output Options Autosave HTML XML cs Test AML output options Open in applications default 12 notepad notepad TE Report a a D Header Simple summary e File attributes Categories Folders within root Magnitude data Categones and file extension Null files folders File dates Created File dates Accessed File dates Modified User details When viewing an XML report within Xinorbis you can select which application to view the report with If no application is specified then Notepad is used For each report type Xinorbis allows for five layout presets Autosave Quick Other Custom1 and Custom2 that determine what data should be added to the report The report layout section of the XML settings is where all of the presets can be edited Select from b the preset you wish to edit and press a to open the editing window The current layout for the selected preset b is shown in c AQ CSV Output Options Setting the include column titles option will add an extra row to the top of the file which lists the titles of each column When viewing an CSV report within Xinorbis you can select which application to view the report with If no application is specified then Notepad is used The Which data option has two settings Category output the same information as in the tab
48. nd 300 larger e XML Report Output as mL Scan data 2 Full file list O E dit A XML report can contain either the scan data or a complete list of files along with size date type etc The selected presets are not used when Full file list is selected 55 Customising Xinorbis reports HTML Customise HTML Report Layout Available HTML report items HTML Report Layout Click to add Header Header Simple ummary Simple summary File attributes Categories File attributes Folders within root Categories Magnitude data Folders within root Categones and file extension Magnitude data Null files folders Categories and file extension eee a Null files folders Top 101 largest Files File dates Created Top 101 smallest Files File dates Accessed Top 101 newest files File dates Modified Top 101 oldest files User details Top 101 largest Files Top 101 smallest Files Top 101 newest files Top 101 oldest files Include images BOOx600 These may slow down HTML report generation The left hand side of the HTML report layout window lists all of the available report sections Click on each section individually to add it to the report the items on the right hand side Each section can only be added once To remove an item from a report double click the selected item on the right or press the button To alter the order in which the items appear on the report click an item and use the and buttons t
49. ng When enabled this causes Xinorbis to store the full details of very file and folder from the scan Allow SQL statements when searching Enable the use of SQL statements when searching Only valid in Folder History Table row height default is 17 Set the height of all the rows in each Xinorbis table Date Format default is dd mm yyyy Select which date format that Xinorbis should use within the application and reports Select from dd mm yyyy mm dd yyyy or yyyy mm dd Search result limit default is 5000 Sets the maximum amount of search results that will be returned on one page When the number of search hits is greater than this value then it s still possible to see them by paging through the results This setting affects Search File History Search and File History Compare Xinorbis data folder Set the location where Xinorbis stores reports and the File History database Open which data tab after scan Select which select do nothing for none data tab you would Xinorbis to open as soon as the search has finished Custom viewer Select an application such as a hex editor that you wish to use to view files instead of the default Windows setting The custom viewer option is available with the right mouse button on the Search table and Dates tree view Xinorbis has several settings that will increase processing speed and minimise memory usage although disabling some options will restrict the information that c
50. o move it around the report Reports can be generated with or without graphs by toggling the Include images check box The size of the report can be altered to fit either 800x600 or 1024x768 displays The Categories and file extension section can be customised by clicking the Advanced button This will open up a list of available categories that can be included excluded from the report The report can be saved by clicking the Save as button Saved HTML reports can be executed as quick reports by right clicking the Quick HTML report icon and selecting Open It s worth noting that selecting either of the File dates items may slow down the HTML report generation as this data will have to be generated before the report can be saved 56 Text Customise Text Report Layout Available Text report items Text Report Layout Header Header Simple summary Simple summary File attributes Categories File attributes Folders within root Categories Magnitude data Folders within root Categories and file extension Magnitude data Mull files folders Categories and file extension i a Mull files folders Top 101 largest Files File dates Created Top 101 smallest Files File dates Accessed File dates Modified User details Top 101 largest Files Top 101 smallest Files Top 101 newest files Top 101 oldest files The left hand side of the Text report layout window lists all of the availa
51. oard 1 Show more detail on the selected folder Same as clicking on the more detail button 2 Analyses the highlighted drive you can t analyse the root folder 3 Open the selected folder in Windows Explorer 4 Copy the table as text to the clipboard 16 More Detail display Double click any folder in the More Detail window to show more detail for that selected folder and its subfolders A Exploring E Microcontroller PiCaxe Graph sie 2 O Quantity b 1812 Files 35 Folders 178 91MB Folder Size As Graph of File Size y 11 11MB 6 B _ File Size Tunes 328 716 0 L Category Software 132 22MmB6 74 D File Attributes Schematics 209 79K 0 C Created Date Code 205 20K 0 AXE Projects 18 096 10 B Datasheets 16 77m6 3 M Containing Text Accessed Date Modified Date File Owner e a Switch the graph between relative quantities and sizes b Go up a level of folder hierarchy c Number of files and folders being shown Size of included files is also shown d Filter the contents of the folder display e Folders with size and quantity of files f Filter the contents of the folder al sertude Magnitude Tab The magnitude tab shows how the files from the scanned folder are distributed by size There are eleven ranges that are displayed in the table and graph lt 1k 1K lt x lt 1MB 1MB lt x lt 10MB 10MB lt x lt 50MB 50MB lt x lt
52. offiles gt lt numberofdirectories gt lt sizeoffiles gt lt diskspacefreee gt lt diskspacemax gt lt sectorspercluster gt lt bytespersector gt lt freeclusters gt lt totalclusters gt lt volumename gt lt serialnumber gt lt filesystem gt lt information gt lt categorylist gt lt category name gt lt numberoffiles gt lt numberoffilesaspercent gt lt sizeoffiles gt lt sizeoffilesaspercent gt lt categorylist gt lt dirlist gt lt dir name gt lt numberoffiles gt lt numberoffilesaspercent gt lt sizeoffiles gt lt sizeoffilesaspercent gt File name Full file path Size represented in most convenient format 1MB 500K etc Size in bytes Used disk space in the most convenient format 1MB 500K etc Actual used disk space in bytes File owner Date file created in DD MM YYYY format Date file modified in DD MM YYYY format Date file was last accessed in DD MM YYYY format File category 1 programs etc 1 if folder O if file 1 if file is read only 1 if file is hidden 1 if file is system file 1 if file is archive analysed path date of analysis number of files included in analysis number of folder in analysis total size of the files analysed disk space available on target drive disk space total on target drive number of sectors per cluster number of bytes per sector free clusters on hard disk total clusters on hard disk volume name of hard disk hard di
53. r to the Top 101 display Show the top largest files the top 20 is displayed below top 20 Like all search parameters it can be combined shown below is a method of showing the top 20 graphic files top 20 GFX List the bottom files by size similar to the Top 101 display Show the smallest files the bottom 10 is shown below bot 10 List the top files by created date Show a number of the largest files by creation date ctop 20 List the top files by accessed date Show a number of the largest files by last accessed date atop 10 List the top files by modified date Show a number of the largest files by last modified date mtop 10 ENS ae Combining Search Functions It s possible to combine two or more search functions together to create very powerful searches Find all the graphics files that contain the words bank and 2000 in the path bank 2000 GFX Find for all graphics files greater than or equal to 100k that have the words bank and 2000 in the path bank 2000 GFX size gt 100k Find all system files created today SYSTEM CREATED Find all of the graphics files created by me that are over 1MB in size GFX user paul alan freshney size gt 1MB Find all files created today that contain the text fish CREATED fish Find all system files greater than 5MB in size that were created today CREATED SYS size gt 5MB Find all audio and movie files created today and owned by me SOUND MOVIE CREAT
54. s as a percentage of the total files scanned The search results are shown in yellow with the grey portion of the chart representing the rest of the scanned files ie those files not in the search results When the number of matching search hits is greater than the maximum number of hits that can be displayed at one time then the following toolbar will appear at the bottom of the search tab 2 1547 Showing 11 20 of 15461 a b e d a Previous page of results b Next page of results c Current page total pages d The results currently being displayed Clicking the right mouse button on a selected entry in the table will bring up the following menu a E view open File D Open with custom viewer C Cj Explore Folder a a File properties e os Generate MDS checksum f Copy g E Pore H n m Delete 1 Add to zip File j O Copy table to clipboard k Open the selected file with the Windows default viewer Open the selected file with the custom viewer as specified in Settings m Open the folder of the selected file in Explorer n Show the Windows File Properties dialog for the selected file o Generate and MD5 checksum for the selected file p Copy the selected file OR all displayed files to another location q Move the selected file OR all displayed files to another location r Delete the selected file OR all displayed files
55. sk serial number file system type FAT32 NTFS etc one section for each of the 10 file categories number of files belonging to relevant category number of files as percentage of total analysed size of files analysed belonging to relevant category size of files as percentage of total analysed relevant category one section for each dir analysed number of files in analysed folder number of files as percentage of total analysed combined size of files combined size of files as percentage of total analysed lt dir gt lt dirlist gt lt magnitudelist gt lt magnitude name gt lt numberoffiles gt lt numberoffilesaspercent gt lt sizeoffiles gt lt sizeoffilesaspercent gt lt magnitude gt lt magnitudelist gt lt extensiondata gt lt extensioncategory name gt lt numberoffiles gt lt numberoffilesaspercent gt lt sizeoffiles gt lt sizeoffilesaspercent gt lt extension name gt lt numberoffiles gt lt numberoffilesaspercent gt lt sizeoffiles gt lt sizeoffilesaspercent gt lt extension gt lt extensioncategory gt lt extensiondata gt lt top50largest gt 62 one section for each magnitude category number of files in analysed folder number of files as percentage of total analysed combined size of files combined size of files as percentage of total analysed one section for each extension category number of files in analysed folder number of files as percentage
56. te a xinorbis Home 8 Register Xinorbis 4 0 f Check For updates 0g About n Default iS C documents and settings lt your user name gt xinorbis Top toolbar OGOS8og 008 Save many reports from the same window Print the contents of the current tab using the previous print settings Open Xinorbis Settings Open the report folder in Windows Explorer by default c documents and settings lt your user name gt Xinorbis Refresh all displays and tables useful after changing settings Please donate Open the About dialog 5000 00 O E Opens help Middle toolbar 3 Analyse Drive or Folder Quick Reports QscanJ EsPusPecess NIB IGIG BS BAX SE 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 1 Click to scan the folder specified in 2 2 The folder to scan the last twenty scanned folders can be accessed by clicking the down arrow 3 Click to open a folder selector dialog 4 Exclude folders from the scan 5 Quick folders 6 Combine multiple folders drives in to the same scan 7 Explore the folder at 2 with Windows Explorer 8 Create and open a HTML report using the Quick settings 9 Create and open an XML report using the Quick settings 10 Create and open a CSV report using the Quick settings 11 Create and open a Text report using the Quick settings 12 Create a Xinorbis report using the Quick settings 13 Create a Tree report using the Quick settings Be care
57. tes of 30 10 2005 only date 30 10 2005 Replace date with mdate to filter by last modified date adate to filter by last accessed date Searching by time All times are in 24 hour format HHMM where HH is 00 23 and MM is 00 59 The seconds part of time is discarded For files created after or at 5 30pm time gt 1730 For files created early than or at 9am time lt 0900 For files created at exactly 2 30pm time 1430 Replace time with mtime to filter by last modified time atime to filter by last accessed time Searching by category Add the following keywords to filter your results by Xinorbis category PROGRAM or PROG Program files SYS or SYSTEM System files GRAPHICS or GFX Graphics photos and other images MOVIE Movie video or other animations SND or SOUND Sounds and music OFFICE or OFF Documents diagrams spreadsheets etc CODE or COD Programming and development related files COMPRESSED or COM Compressed files or other archives OTHER Files that don t fit in the other categories Cl to C10 User definable categories 35 Combine multiple keywords for more powerful searches SYSTEM COMPRESSED Will return SYSTEM and COMPRESSED files Add a minus to the end to exclude files from that category from the results SYSTEM Will exclude system files from the search The Xinorbis categories come populated with a selection of file types but these can be expanded on by adding new ones t
58. tions Report colours Report layout o Link hover Table Background Auto Save ill Table text colour atenas Table text colour 2 Header Simple summary File attributes Page background Graph background Text colour Bar graph colour Categories Folders within root Magnitude data Categories and file extension Null files folders File dates Created User details a Top 101 largest Files show tile sizes as Top 101 smallest Files i i Top 101 t fil Set bargraphs to a single colour ice We inh When viewing an HTML report within Xinorbis you can select a specific application to view the report with If no application is specified then the default Windows HTML viewer such as Internet Explorer is used Customise the output of the HTML report by altering the colours used within the report There are several predefined schemes available that can be imported using the Load button To save a scheme use the Save As button Click the preview button to see a preview of your scheme in an example report For each report type Xinorbis allows for five layout presets Auto Save Quick Other Custom1 and Custom2 that determine what data should be added to the report The report layout section of the HTML settings is where all of the presets can be edited Select from b the preset you wish to edit and press a to open the editing window The current layout for the selected preset b is Shown in c HTML layouts ca
59. to the Recycle Bin s Add all of the files from the last search to a zip compressed file t Copy the table as text to the clipboard 97 a Drive Details Drive Details Tab Information on the used and available space of the drive being analysed Analysed E Webpages November Sth 2006 13 51 55 240 000 000 000 Drive Type Hard Disk 220 000 000 000 space on Drive 2352 62G5 Free Space 160 68G5 200 000 000 000 180 000 000 000 Sectors per Cluster 6 Bytes per Sector Sle 160 000 000 000 Free Clusters 42120207 Total Clusters 61032935 140 000 000 000 120 000 000 000 100 000 000 000 80 000 000 000 60 000 000 000 40 000 000 000 20 000 000 000 o Total Used Free Volume Warne Serial Wumber File System Electron 4040641675 FOD 4C8B NTFS Drive type can be Unknown Removable Hard Disk Remote Drive CD ROM Or RAM Disk A cluster is the smallest unit of disk space that can be allocated to a file which is why clusters are often known as allocation units The size of a cluster is calculated by multiplying the number of bytes in a sector by the number of sectors in a cluster In the example above that would be 512 bytes x 8 4096 bytes 4k The drive E on the machine in the example can be said to have 4k clusters A file of 5k on this drive wouldn t fit in to one cluster it would need two and therefore take up 8k of Space wasting 3k File System refers to the method
60. ulative graph each bar is equivalent to its value plus all previous values When 3 is set to Hour the display shows the rate of usage over each hour of a 24 hour period not for each hour between the two selected dates Top 101 Tab 20 The Top 101 tab shows the top 101 largest and smallest files and the top 101 files listed by Created Last Modified and Last Accessed date Colour code Lar gest files E Pauls PicciestyS island_2 vue E Pauls Picciesiw Starch island bak E Pauls PicciestwSlarch_island wue E Pauls Piccies ySidead tree bak E Pauls Picciesiw5idead_ tree vue E Pauls PicciestwSiFog_island wue E Pauls Piccies y5ifog_ island bak E Pauls PicciesivScactus rock bak E Pauls PicciesiySicactus_ rock vue E iPauls Piccies v5i trees sunset vue Es Pauls Piccies v5 tree mountain vue E Pauls Picciesivoitree mountain bak E iPauls PicciestwSinucleus bmp E Pauls Picciesiw5baw bmp So 65 MB 15 4 0MB 15 34MB 15 32MB 10 064MBE 10 04ME 10 31MB 10 30MB 4 59MB 3 55MB 3 42MB n 36MB 2 SME 5 49MB 2 43MB se EsPauls Picciesipspbrise jbF Smallest Files En Pauls Picciestlogos1paf corm on rock vue En Pauls Piccies iP 4O 40TITL 1 BMP E Pauls Piccies 407T1ITL 3 BMP En Pauls PicciesiPCsImamebox_bckg bmp En Pauls Piccies 40 TITL 2 BMP En Pauls Piccies 40TITL 1 BMP En Pauls Piccies MOUNTAIN BMP En Pauls Piccies TORUS 1 BMP E Pauls Picciesimountainz brmp
61. utton to edit them The Quick reports F7 to F12 always use the Quick report settings so it s best not to edit and use that particular preset here The selected preset will be the one used when the Save button is pressed to create and save the reports CSW Report Output as ES Categories Full file list O A CSV report can contain either the list of categories audio video system etc along with the relevant data or a complete list of files with details size date file attributes etc HTML Report Output as HTML Edit Show file sizes az Most convenient unit The HTML report options are shown here along with the option of selecting how file sizes should be shown For example a file of exactly 1MB would be shown as Most convenient unit 1MB As bytes 1048576 As kilobytes 1024 This is not always the case with all applications but Xinorbis uses the most commonly recognised convention Text Report Test report filename Edit 54 The Text report options are shown here Any of the five presets can be selected and or edited e inorbis Report Inorbis report hleramne 5 Options lt lt Normal Detailed The Xinorbis report type only has two options Normal Stores only the file names folder names and file sizes This produces a smaller file at the expense of detail Detailed Stores all file and folder information it s much more detailed and produces much larger files arou
62. w open file b Open with custom viewer c a Explore Folder d O File properties e os Generate MDS checksum f Export content a Open the selected file with the Windows default viewer b Open the selected file with the custom viewer as specified in Settings c Open the folder of the selected file in Explorer d Show the Windows File Properties dialog for the selected file e Generate and MD5 checksum for the selected file f Export the entire contents of the tree to a text file 19 Haw History Tab Not to be confused with File History Xinorbis uses the created last modified and last accessed dates of each file to create trends of file usage The graph below is showing the quantity of files created over a period of one month 18 May 2008 to 18 June 2008 Over that period files were only created on six of those days 4 on the 19 May 5 on the 22 May etc From 1 File creation history from 18 05 2008 to 18 06 2008 18 May 2008 To 2 18 June 2008 Interval 3 Options Quantity O Size Cumulative 5 1 19 05 22105 26 05 29 05 04 06 05 06 Day Month The graph shows the number or size of files created within the selected date range 1 Select the date range you wish to see 2 Select the date range you wish to see 3 Select how the data should be shown by day week month or hour 4 Show the number of files created or the size of the files 5 Cum
63. y colour of this category shown in graphs and in the reports 6 Click to restore the default associations 7 Import a list of extensions for a text file one extension per line 8 Export the extensions from the current category to a text file 9 Select how Xinorbis should handle file extensions when they appear in more than one category See below 10 Rename the appropriate custom category Xinorbis allows you to decide how it should handle file extensions that appear in more than one category Ignore duplicate extensions in custom categories standard categories take precedence default 46 The file extension will be processed as if it only appears in the standard categories it will not appear as though it appears in any custom category Ignore duplicate extensions in standard categories custom categories take precedence The file extension will be processed as if it only appears in the custom categories it will not appear as though it appears in any other category Use extensions as specified in all categories charts and reports may be inaccurate The file extension will be processed for every category it appears in this will make charts and reports inaccurate so it is not recommended This control panel allows you to tell Xinorbis which file extensions should be associated to which category The software has a default setup of around 40 associations Click the restore defaults button to restore the associations to t

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