Free Up Hard Disk Space
When a video services consultant needed
more space in a hurry for a new client, he used FileBoss and File
Sets to display all the files on his main drive sorted by size in
descending order.
He then quickly deleted several
of the larger files that he knew were temporary files
left over from previous projects and started on the work
for the new client.
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First
Create a File Set
 A
File Set contains files across multiple folders
on a disk, multiple disks or even network
drives. The search that creates a File Set can
be simple (just include all files) to the highly
specific (these type of files greater than xx
bytes and created since, etc., etc., etc.)
Click
here to see how to create a File Set.
For
this job, a File Set was created of the files in
D:\Video Projects because the
consultant knew that the really big files were
there. Knowing that he only wanted to delete
video files he specified that only files
matching the patterns *.tmp | *.bak | ~*.* |
*.~ | *.vid should be included in the File
Set.
Remember
that you can save File Set definitions for later
use making it easy and quick to repeat this
operation another time.
Sort the Entries in the File Set
Simply
click on the Size column header to sort by size.
Clicking on the Size header once will sort with
the smallest file at the top, clicking a second
time will sort with the biggest file at the top.
Select the Files to Delete
Use
any of FileBoss' advanced selection methods to
pick the files you want to delete. From simply
selecting 'All' to selecting by almost any
criteria you can think of FileBoss will make
this step really easy.
Click
here find out more about selecting files and
folders.
Delete the Files
Use
the Actions | Delete...
command from the main menu
or
press Shift-Del
(or just Del to send them to the Recycle
Bin.
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