Annoyingly, there is no official information about what those restrictions are. We know from testing, there is a limit of three profiles while email notifications, database logging, and custom actions are disabled.
However, file type monitoring, filters, categories, and rules are no longer disabled like they were in older versions. Disk Pulse will watch file and folder create, modify, rename, and delete changes. Finer controls like name, size, time, and attribute changes are in the profile options. Double click a profile to enter its options. The Charts option displays a nice bar or pie chart of the changes which can be printed, saved or copied to the clipboard.
Save will create a report with several different output formats available. The Wizard button offers some profile presets that are pre-configured for certain scenarios, such as monitoring for image files, newly created files, or Windows system files.
Note: A possible bug we encountered is Disk Pulse will just quit without warning if it has to deal with several thousand events in quick succession, such as when unarchiving or copying. Download Disk Pulse. This program is able to handle the real time monitoring of multiple folders at once and is a very small portable executable of just over KB. TheFolderSpy can watch for creation, deletion, attribute changes, access date, and file size changes.
NET Framework 3. TheFolderSpy has a wildcard option to include certain types of a file although only one can be applied at once. Something that users may find quite useful is a built in email option that can mail you every time an event is triggered. Obviously, this is only suitable for rare events. Any triggered events will show in the main window, optionally a log file, a system tray balloon popup, and a file can be executed including an audio file.
Download TheFolderSpy. Although the free version of Directory Monitor is still very capable, it has a huge amount of disabled functions reserved for the paid version. However, unlike Disk Pulse the restrictions are listed on the website.
The restrictions include emailing, database options, sound events, printing, inactivity events, snapshots, user event monitoring, running as a service, executing programs in the background, and Growl notifications. You can quickly add a folder for monitoring by using the text box or the browse button. The disadvantage is only new file events are monitored. To monitor more, either edit the folder or use the Add button which gives the available options when setting up a folder to watch.
Multiple folders can be added to the monitor list including network shares. The folder monitoring options also offer include and exclude wildcard patterns, logging to a text file, and executing a file on an event. Just about everything else there is disabled. Directory Monitor has a portable, installer, and Chocolatey version available for download. Download Directory Monitor. Folder Monitor is another portable tool that can monitor file and folder events for creating, changing, renaming, and deleting.
Windows 7 users will need. NET Framework 4. Multiple folders can be added to the window. Each watched folder has its own options. Other functions are found in the Options in the tray icon context menu. These are global and will affect all monitored folders. Some program must do it. Explorer freezes and never renders results. Next of Windows. Microsoft Announces Windows July 15, SpaceSniffer SpaceSniffer is a freeware disk space analyzer for Windows that make use of the Treemap concept to view the current disk usage to immediately provide the perception of where big folders and files are placed on your devices.
WizTree WizTree works pretty much the same way as the other tools listed in this post. GetFolderSize GetFoldersize allows you to determine the size of folders and sub-folders on your hard drive.
Xinorbis Xinorbis is one of the oldest but mature disk analyzer tool that uses tree display, graphs, and tables in order to reveal the content of files.
Which one to choose? Please enter your comment! Please enter your name here. You have entered an incorrect email address! You can extract the setup installer with 7-Zip to create a portable program.
Do any of these give the option of showing Owner? Matters if run on a multi use RDC Server. Any of these tools or any other which auto scans new files or folders created and updates list as soon as hardrive is plugged-in? Is there a directory printing program that can handle cloud files like dropbox, icloud, box, etc.? No Android app. There should be! The only solution is to use dir2html on a Windows machine and connect it to the phone or tablet.
The Dir List and Print 4 in the list above prints a lot of fields in the free version, with a more complete list of properties which are available only in the purchased version.
FileListCreator is better and free as well. Arclab have since taken the program full shareware. DriveZ is so simple and exactly what I was looking for. Just ready to use in one click.
Important: When I downloaded DriveZ using the link here, it asked for password for the zip file and it was looking a bit suspicious v. So I searched and downloaded from somewhere else v. The DriveZ download is hosted on our own server. We have to password selected files like DriveZ because they produce false positive alerts in some antivirus software and online services like Virustotal.
If you upload your 1. I have always like Directory Lister v0. There are portable versions online BTW. It has all the options I need to configure the output and the output can be previewed, modified, previewed and saved or copied to clipboard in text, html or csv formats.
It does everything I require, nothing more or less. Directory List and Print is the only one for me. THE single clincher is its ability to output to Word. And once in Word, editing is easy — using find and replace to produce a style uniformity. It makes the rest look amateur. Thanks for the helpful reviews. A King: Nobody is interested in your self-serving propaganda. A PC user has the right to control their own machine, including software made freely available for it,. It does exactly what I was looking for and I spent quite a bit of time searching!
So happy I found it! Its design is exactly what I was needing. Also file sizes is one of several future features not implemented after years of version 1. It is indeed a great tool and creates HTML file of the directory in a whisker and handy for the web designers.
It has built-in option to search the directory too. I used it for creating a directory containing nearly 4 TB of Files in thousands of sub-directories.
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