Find & Select

You can use Disk Space Analyzer to search for files and folders on your disks. Search commands can be found in the Edit Menu, in the context menus of the Disk Diagram Pane and in the Disk Diagram Pane Top Toolbar (note button). You can also bring the Find & Select dialog up by pressing Ctrl-F.

 

Find & Select Dialog

Note: please be careful when choosing search options. If your search is too broad and finds thousands of matching folders, then the results of the search may be discarded and you will be asked to narrow your search down. Also if you choose to look in All folders on the current disk then it is advisable to tick at least one of the following options: List results in Output Window or Add matching folders to the diagram.

 

Search Progress Dialog

You can stop the running search before its completion at any time by closing the Search Progress Dialog. The analyzer will prompt you if there are any results and will offer to show partial results or to discard them.

 

Search Results

The results of a search can be viewed

They are also reflected

 

Output Window
The search results appear in a separate tab:

Use the List results in Output Window checkbox to output your search results to the Output window. By doing so you can be sure that even when you choose to look in All folders on the current disk and not to Add matching folders to the diagram, you will still be able to see all the matching folders listed in the Output window.

 

Log
The search results also output to the Log:

 

Disk Diagram
The matching folders or the folders that contain matching files are added to the selection:

 

Contents Pane
The folders selected in the Disk Diagram (if there is more than one selected) are also listed in the Contents Pane: