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Starting with Windows Vista / Server 2008, Microsoft introduced "Client Caches" with the SMB2 protocol in order to speed up queries about gathering file and directory meta information on network drives. This approach also helps utilizing the available network bandwidth more efficiently. However, these caches always return an incorrect value for  NTFS hardlinks (always shown as "1"). The responsible caches can be disabled with the following steps:

1. Run "regedit.exe".
2. Open the path "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters".
3. Choose "New > DWORD value" in the right click menu and set the name to "FileInfoCacheLifetime" and the value to "0".
4. Restart Windows

After these steps, TreeSize should work properly with hardlinks. For further information about client caches, please visit https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff686200(WS.10).aspx.

Yes, this is possible. 

Please go to the 'Help' tab and click on 'Check for update'. Doing so will check if there is an update and bring up a notification window stating the result of the check.

The checkbox at the bottom of this notification allows you to choose whether to 'Check for updates regularly'.

Read this knowledge base entry to learn how to disabale the automatic check for updates or the "Check for updates" button programatically.

Open the Treesize File Search, enable only the "Advanced Search", and define a filter on the right for "Name matches Regular Expression" and one of these patterns:

 [^[:print:]]  if you want to treat all non-ASCII characters as invalid (which would e.g. also treat German umlauts as invalid)

 [^\P{C}]  if you want to treat all non-printable Unicode characters as invalid
 
It can also make sense to search for files containing the non-breakable space (Unicode NOBR U+00A0). To find them, use the pattern [\xA0].

To search for specific characters like percent and ampersand use the regular expression [&%]. You can find more examples on searching with regular expressions in the manual.

You can get rid of unwanted characters using the bulk renamer of TreeSize.

You can change the behavior by enabling the setting "Tools > Options > Scan > General > Follow mount points and external symbolic links to directories".

Symbolic links are marked by Treesize with a small arrow on the folder icon.

Die Funktion "Auf Update Prüfen" lässt sich auf 2 Arten deaktivieren:

TreeSize mit speziellem Kommandozeilen-Aufruf ausführen

Durch den folgenden Kommandozeilen-Aufruf der Treesize.exe wird die Funktion deaktiviert:

TreeSize.exe /NOGUI /ShowCheckForUpdate False /SAVESETTINGS

Anpassen der Konfigurations-Datei ("GlobalOptions.xml")

Dazu müssen Sie die XML-formatierte Konfigurations-Datei von TreeSize editieren. Diese Datei liegt Standardmäßig in folgendem Pfad: "%APPDATA%\JAM Software\TreeSize"

Bevor Sie die Datei editieren versichern Sie sich bitte, dass TreeSize auf Ihrer Maschine nicht ausgeführt wird.

Bitte öffnen Sie die Datei "GlobalOptions.xml" mit einem Texteditor (z.B. Notepad) und suchen Sie darin nach folgendem Eintrag:<ShowCheckForUpdate>True</ShowCheckForUpdate>

Bitte ändern Sie hier "True" in "False" und speichern Sie die Änderung.

The "Check for Update" button in the "Help" menu can be hidden in two ways:

Running TreeSize with special command line options

If you execute this command line after the installation, the "Check for Update" button will be no longer available:

TreeSize.exe /NOGUI /ShowCheckForUpdate False /SAVESETTINGS

Please add the full path to TreeSize.exe, e.g.
"%ProgramFiles%\Jam Software\TreeSize Professional\TreeSize.exe"

Please note: Use the following command line call to deactivate the automatic check for update:

TreeSize.exe /NOGUI /CheckForUpdateOptions\CheckForUpdatesAutomatically False /SAVESETTINGS

Deploying a configuration file

First you need to edit the XML-based configuration file of TreeSize. The configuration file is located at the following path by default:

%APPDATA%\JAM Software\TreeSize Professional

(Please note that %APPDATA% is an environment variable that will be resolved automatically by Windows if it is entered in the address bar of the Windows Explorer.) 

Before proceeding, please ensure TreeSize is closed.

In the folder above, you will find a file called "GlobalOptions.XML" Please open the file with a suitable text editor (Notepad, Notepad++,...) and search for the following line: <ShowCheckForUpdate>True</ShowCheckForUpdate>

Please set the value "True" to "False". If you start TreeSize again, you will notice that the "Check for Update" button is no longer available.

Please note: In order to deactivate the automatic check for update in the configuration file change the following value from "True" to "False"
<CheckForUpdatesAutomatically>True</CheckForUpdatesAutomatically>

There is no TreeSize App for Android. But you can scan your mobile device using the TreeSize Windows desktop app, if your mobile device is connected to your PC via USB and is unlocked. For more details on this subject please visit our web page.

As an iOS protects its internal file system from running apps, an application like TreeSize wouldn't be possible for iPhones. You may use "Settings > General > iPhone Storage" the get a rough estimate what takes up the space on your iPhone.

There is a small  blue progress bar left of the root node which disappears when the scan is finished. Also the scan progress is shown in the status bar on the bottom of the window. During a scan the small hourglass on top of the folders indicate that the folder is not fully scanned.

Typically our products use the same ports and protocols as Windows Explorer. Port 445 is needed for SMB/CIFS communication. Ports 137-139 are needed for NetBios/Name resolution only . Without it you will have to access machines by IP address opposed to NetBIOS name. Example \\192.168.1.100\share_name opposed to \\my_file_server\share_name. So port 445 is sufficient if you can work with IP addresses only.

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