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Upon the first start of SpaceObServer you have to configure the database connection.

If you want to use a connection to a SQL-Server in your network (recommended) commit to this dialog with 'OK'.
The Options dialog opens, where you can configure the connection settings.

To ensure optimal performance and work of the application, please refer to the section Recommend Settings.

Please refer to the numbers in the picture when reading the following description.

1.        Here the user can select which drive or path should be scanned and stored in the connected database.

2.        Here the user can get an overview about the currently scanned drive. This toolbar (as well as the other toolbars) can be turned off in their context menu.

3.        Select a previously scanned directory or a directory-to-scan here. A user can also enter a directory path. If the directory is not scanned yet, a scan is started. Otherwise the directory is shown in the directory tree.

4.        The File System Tree of the scanned folder or drive gives you an immediate overview about the size of each folder.

5.        In the "List of Scans" you can see an overview of all scanned root directories, there allocated space, size growth and some more useful information.

6.        The "Charts" tab shows a pie or bar chart of the currently selected directory. Use the context to show a toolbar with advanced charting features.

7.        The "History" tab shows changes in size of the selected directory in a line chart. Use the context menu to show a toolbar with advanced charting features.

8.        The "Details" tab shows detailed information about the sub folders and the files inside the currently selected directory.

9.        The "Extensions" tab shows the size information for the selected directory, grouped by file types. That way you will get an overview, what file types occupy most of the space.

10.        The "Users" tab shows the size information for the selected directory, grouped by user names. This allows you to see which users occupy most of the disk space.

11.        The "Top 100 Files" tab lists the 100 largest files of the scanned directory tree.

12.        The "Duplicated Files" tab lists files of the same size with identical names. No longer required files can easily be deleted, moved or archived into ZIP-files.

13.        The "Distributions" tab holds two graphs. One shows the "Age of Files" distribution and one shows the "Size of Files" distribution for the currently selected branch.

14.        The status bar informs about the allocated and free space of the current drive, the number of files selected folder contains, and the "cluster size" of the current drive.