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Xinorbis

This software runs on Microsoft Windows (All)

Description

Xinorbis is a freeware disk usage analyser for Microsoft Windows. Being released for the first time in 2002, it is one of the oldest and also a mature hard disk analyser tool that uses tree display, graphs and tables in order to reveal the content of files and folders that otherwise might proove a difficult and time consuming task. It has a long list of features (see below) that allows you to explore the content of your hard drive and obtain as much info as possible regarding the number, size and category of your files and folders. All statistics can be exported in several formats. The current version is available as an installer and a zip archive.

Features

- powerful analyser for hard disk, SSD, network drive, external USB drives or FireWire, memory card or any other removable drive
- powerful report engine that can export in: CSV, HTML, Text, Tree, XML, Xinorbis (its own format)
- advanced web reports: it allows you to upload all reports to any FTP web server - making your reports available online
- automatically saves copies of your scans in an archive: access "Tools" - "Folder History info" from main software interface
- makes use of database engine SQlite to store the Folder History archive
- customizable search options: you can search by file name, size, date and time, category, file attributes and file owner
- view distribution of files by: date and time, location, size, owner, attributes, type
- merge the analyse report in a single one for different scans
- powerful built-in search engine: save results to clipboard or a file
- allows you to find duplicate files by size or name
- shell support: you can scan a certain directory from Windows Explorer
- available as a command line version (XinorbisCOM command-line only)
- allows you to use XinorbisCOM using the command line to update File History archive through batch files
- excellent support via User Manual in PDF format and regularly updates with new features and bug fixes

Xinorbis Review

Note: There is an excellent help file, available in PDF format which, according to the official homepage it is included in both installer and portable versions (unfortunately for me, it didn't launched from the software interface). Just in case that you encounter the same issue, you can download it from here.

Setup: This tool is available in two versions (three if you count the Command-line version) as a standard installer and a portable version. The current version is clean (no bundles, adware or anything like that) and unless you want to customize the setup process, there are no warnings, it's one of those software titles that you can hit "Next" without thinking too much. Just install and launch the program.

Usability: I suppose that most users will just want a tool that can help them identify the current space usage distribution on their hard drives or any other USB or storage device. For such simple tasks, just open the program, choose "Select" button and hit "Scan". Wait a few seconds or minutes (depending on the size and your computer resources) and when it finish the scan, the "Summary" page will open automatically revealing all kind of interesting stats.

If you browse all the sections listed in the main "View" category, you will notice a long list of options such as "Folder properties", "Folder structure", "Search", "File size spread", "Duplicates (File name)", "Duplicate (File size), "Folder detail" and "File age".

Important: You should pay attention to the first feature named "Folder properties" which also has a long list of sections: "Categories", "Type", "Extensions", "Folders", "Magnitude", "Dates", "History", "Top 101", "Null", "Users", "Temp".

Some of these sections will allow you to identify easily the files that you might want to remove from your hard drive to clear some space. Please, be careful when you attempt to use the "Delete" function. If you choose a section, let's say "Top 101" (to see which files takes the most space) and perform the standard "right-click" with your mouse on a certain file and choose to delete that file, make sure that you select "Delete - Selected" and not "All".

If you choose "All" it will delete all the files from that category. Obviously make sure that you know what file(s) you want to delete, otherwise you might accidentally delete operating system files.

The last section named "Quick Reports" is probably "optional" for most users, you can use it only if you need a report.

Conclusion: Until a few days ago, I never heard about Xinorbis and I was quite surprissed about its long list of features. After playing with this tool for several hours I can honestly say that I am not aware of any other tool (right-now) in this area that offers the same amount of features. I might be wrong but I would name it the most complex disk space analyser for Microsoft Windows users. Also, I noticed that the author seems to be quite dedicated to his work, eagerly looking to add new features and improve Xinorbis all the time. Therefore, dear fellow, please consider a donation to support future development of this marvelous tool!

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