SizeMe makes it possible to scan a directory and compare it to how many floppy/zip/CD-R/DVD-discs you need. (Many calls it spanning or span of elements over a medium). It tries to fill each disc up as much as possible, and gives you the result on each disc.
v2.0 is here, click here to read about the update!
Maximize your output!
SizeMe scans a directory and compare it to how many
floppy/zip/CD-R/DVD-discs you need. Not to be mistaken with the movie
Super Size Me 🙂 Visit Morgans great site on SuperSize Me dot com or visit Super SizeMe at IMDB.com
This is your ultimate file organizer for burning a huge collection of files!
Screenshot
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Download
Download current version by clicking the link v2.0.0 build: 1926
Features:
Latest:
- MusicMode a “Playlist generator” added
- Wizard for setting your options
- Some critical bugs fixed!
Standard:
- ISO file creation on a disc
- Possible to use hotkeys for functions
- Context menu handle on every item
- Copy, move and delete function on each disc
- Each scan is done in only once instance
- Drag’n’Drop support so you can simply drag the Disc into Nero (or any other preferred burning software) and it will add the maximized disc. Remember that you can right-click on the discs to, functions like: copy, move and so on are there
- Customizes as you select
- Context menu handling by right clicking on a drive anywhere in Explorer
Feedback and links to other sites
memlane.com:
“Tool Of The Week@ Week of July 24, 2005”
lifehacker.com:
“Download of The Day – August 12, 2005”
Great job, but I second Marcelo’s request to use a double-click to drill down (and scan) a subdirectory. Not sure if a tree control would help you there, but it might. I’ve also gotten the same error that Ben ran into, usually on system-protected directories.
Fantastic!!!
Just one question: Is there a way to activate a double click when selecting a directory and perform an scan on it instead to right click and select scan this directory?
Cheers mate!
Ingenious thing!
I love the program. But I had an error that instructed me to let you know about it. I can’t really tell you anything about it so I took a screenshot of the error box for you to check out. You can find it at http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/1717/capture15ak.jpg
This program is awesome, great job!!! Keep it up, I’m really looking forward to the features in upcoming versions!
would have liked to spend time and read all about your programs, but the font you are using is tiny and very hard on the eyes ( even with glasses) might be an idea to change that to make reading a pleasure instead of a pain?
Will Sizeme software work on a Mac?
Nice idea. It has yet to do anything correctly on my
HP 873n Media Center computer. Locks up every time trying
to make iso files. I used the iso feature because I was
unable to drag and drop into the Veritas ‘record now’
program. I’m not giving up on it yet, but it is disappointing.
I would love this program if it would only search down more then one directory level at a time. I have a large directory with many small file and many sub dir that I would like to backup to DVD but as soon as it hits a dir with more then a single dvd the software acts like it is a file that is to big.
almost great
Erny
Great program! I have a couple suggestions. The first is a repeat of what somebody else said and I was wondering if you’ve made any progress on it.
1) It would be cool if the software would break a large subfolder across multiple discs. I realize this would require the software to scan and retain data additional levels deep but I think you could safely limit this to 5 levels and it would work well for most people.
2) My second suggestions is to have an option to make the software believe the folder I selected is the root of the virtual discs. Right now when I select something from c:\folder1\folder2, this is what I see on the disc as well. I’d prefer folder2 to become the root of the new disc.
Thanks.
-Sam
hello,
good idea with your program. I was looking for something like that and it is quite unique!!
so i tried it today but when i drag a disk somewhere it told me “file not found” .. except if there is only file and no sub dir in my disk ?? is it a bug or is it me…
and I have a stupid question… is it be possible to have a comparaison just “in directory name order” without any space optimisation… I know it may seem stupid but could be quite usefull in certain circumstance…
Thanks a lot in advance for your answer.
Fantastic program! I have been doing this manually for way too long.
I would like to see more features though.
– Option to disable the system context menu’s.
– Ability to select multiple disks to move to the “To be burned file. Instead of right clicking each one.
– An option to change the default directory of the “To Be Burned” folder. So I can automatically batch move all the files to another drive for example.
– Option to change the move to directory names I.E. in options you could put “DVD %d” and the directories would be “DVD 1, DVD 2, DVD 3, etc”. The default would be “Disc%d (%p%%)” showing “Disc1 (98%)”.You could also add other variables like time and date.
– Option to set an offset from the disk number I.E. Instead of numbering the directories starting at disk 1 you could get it to start from disk 20
mark: Could you please sendt me an email with some spesific information on how you get it to crash? I haven’t been able to reproduce it.
Every time i try to input a new size on “custom size”, the program crashes. If i paste using the right-click context menu it doesn’t crash.
Chris: I am currently working on the “musicmode” and after that I am going to start on the “Backupmode” that will work just as you describe.
Peter: I will try to add a feature so you can “add” different directories into the match…
Riaan: I had the same problem when using Firefox, it uses the cache no matter what. Please try a different browser, because the valid version is out.
This program is awesome, the only idea I have is: for folders that are too big to fit on the CD/DVD, can there be an option to split it up so that folder is on multiple CD’s/DVD’s instead of just not being added at all? I love the new ISO creation. I will donate however much you want to add this, just let me know.
Hi I have download your sizeme progam but when I run it its show that v1.8.4 build: 1232 is availble if I click on it to download the newversion it still download the older version
Your program is a nice idea. It drives me always crazy to find the best fit for a DVD. But I could not find a way to take folders from different partitions. For instance I have data on Drive E,F,G. Some folders of each drive should be burned on DVDs – but not a DVD for each folder/drive. Is there a way to to this? Otherwise you always have to copy those folders to a new partition what is impossible because of the size.