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!
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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”
Hello Lars,
thank you for such a useful tool:
Just what I was looking for.
Thank you very much again for your hard
work – much appreciated.
Kind regards,
Georg
First, i think this is a very useful utility, and thank you for your work. As a large dir. is scanned with many subfolders, some folders are not scanned, but a ? is left for thier total size. If i rescan sometimes the size is listed but other dirs have ? in them. I can not get a full list with out some of the dirs showing ? insted of total size. What is wrong here?
All works great but one thing so far. When taking files that are greater than 2GB and making DVD’s, I found the Standard ISO is the wrong format for them. It should be UDF ISO format. Other than that it works fine.
Hello Lars,
we would like to include SizeMe in ComputerBild Italia magazine cover mount CD/DVD (paid circulation of 160,000 copies).
Is it possibile? We need an explicit written permission (with an e-mail) from you in order to distribute your software in our country.
Your software will be downloaded from your Web site and published “as is” in our CD/DVD without any modification. Our CD/DVD-Rom is a gift for our readers and it’s not sold neither distributed without our magazine.
Thank you
Best regards
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ComputerBild Italia – CD/DVD staff
cdrom.edmaster@mail.inet.it
Edizioni Master
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james ford: The new v2.0 version have a optimize as “NONE” that means your able to accive just that, but the discs will not be maxed.
lars,
excellent program but i agree with ronan’s post from april 19. i have gigs of music sorted by artists in folders i play in my car. i like to mark them A through F and whatever but the program groups them randomly.
keep up the great work.
jim ford.
Hi Lars,
great program. Thank you. One snag can’t get around is that spreading 25,000 digital images into 20 DVDs cant keep names predominantly sorted. The files are named in numerical progression. 00001 to say 20000 but I cannot get your application to batch say 01001 to 02000 into disc 2 etc. If I could turn of comparison style altogeter and it allowed for tollerance of a few KB between discs as I have an overhead build into my custom value anyway then no reordering wshould ever be needed? Ronan
What a great tool. I�´d been looking for it for years!
Thank you.
Richard: You don’t need to burn the ISO-files directly. Either you drag’n’drop the files into a compilation, or you create a ISO-file and burn that (in another way). In Nero you have to “open” a ISO-file and Nero will burn it like it was files. ISO-creation is just a “xtra” feature.
Dear Lars:
I used SizeMe to back up a large 20MB folder. The program seemed to work just fine and it created ISO files that I then burnt onto DVDs. How do I now get the data off the ISO DVD’s? Nothing I have will open the DVDs.
Thanks
Keith: The v2.0 solution is on its way. But it is not a backupfunction for your mp3 collection. It is rather a playlist generator for your portable mp3-player. But with some creativity you can use to backup certain artists, genres and so on from your whole collection. Wait and see, I guess you’ll find it useful. Thnx for asking on the betatesting, but I already have 2-3 betatesters that removes a couple of bugs for me.
Jon: I don’t program for Mac so I guess that is out of the question 🙂 But I’ve seen an article written on the subject. It uses Java and is opensource. Check out this link: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/index.php?view=dvd_cd_optim
Maybe you can figure out a solution that is usable for the public. Let me know and I’ll link users to your location.
Great program, have been working with v1.8.4
and am really interested in the v2.0 feature to backup my mp3 collection.
any idea when this will become available?
need a beta testor?
Thanks
Please create a Mac version or maybe a java version that could work on all cpu. Great idea keep up the good work. Thanks.