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”
Hi… great app.. or so it seams…. I do not understand what i am ment to do with “red” directores. I scann my directory.. and most of the dirs are green and spanned across teh disks (awesome!) but then one or two dirs are red. Now what?
I can rightclick the red dir and go “scan blah blah directory” but this then makes a new set of ISOs for that dir alone?
Now what?
How do i get that “spanned” dir to also fit with the other “spanned” dirs so it is all a nice fit?
I second Mardurk’s feature request, Unicode support would be really nice. I have some files that include characters from other alphabets and SizeMe doesn’t handle them.
During install the install boxes are all correct until I get to the include delete option. Then the box is very small and can not see enough of the box to read the choices. I installed it on my Vista Box and was able to see the boxes in full, but my XP pro boxes both showed small windows about 1.5 inches by 1.5 inches. Could see the next button and finish, but not much else. All updates to the boxes are done, and have the same version of AV on both. Any suggestions?
Hi, I have used your software and it is a real time saver (still waiting for your backup mode though!)
I have some small suggestion tho (if you don’t mind)…
-In the Directory/filesize scanning view. Is it possible to add “..” to go to the parent folder?
-Add InfraRecorder engine (http://infrarecorder.org/). It is open source. I think it would be better than Nero.
-Add a .html or a .pdf when an Iso is complete, with the list of all the files/folder in the certain disk. Add an option to add that in the root of the project disc.
-Make renaming discs easier; instead of adding disc to the image creator and then renaming, allow renaming in main window by double clicking the name.
-Also about renaming the disc, maybe the possibility to add a default suffix for a project: instead of Disc1 Disc2, something like MainBackup1 MainBackup2
-While the backup mode is not done yet, not deleting the content window when selecting a new folder.
example.
I select a folder, Disc1 appear, but theres a folder in red named “music”.
When I double click on music, Disc 1 disappear and a new disc 1 appear, with the content of “music”.
I think it would be better in the meantime if, instead of a new disc 1, it would be separated by ——— and that the content of “music” should appear as Disc2.
I’m a programmer too, I would like to help you with the programming if possible. I really need this program for this project, and I do not have alot of cash for donations.
Good luck
I’m using vista. There is one small bug. I used sizeme on a directory that had many subfolders in it. I try to delete the folders after they are burned. It is the bottom one of the subfolders that can’t be deleted each time. I get file is in use by another program error. I have to close sizeme then I can delete the folder. Can you make sizeme release the folder so it can be deleted without having to close and reopen sizeme?
I you try and run this program in wine in linux, it may attempt to load and the hdd will flash a but then stop.
The reason for this is
err:module:import_dll Library MFC42.DLL (which is needed by L”C:\\Program
Files\\SizeMe\\SizeMe.exe”) not found
err:module:import_dll Library MSVCP60.dll (which is needed by L”C:\\Program
Files\\SizeMe\\SizeMe.exe”) not found
Looks like that app forgot to bundle two important runtime libraries.
The fix is (copy and paste each line to a shell command prompt)
wget http://kegel.com/wine/winetricks
sh winetricks vcrun6
The app starts ok for me then.
its been a long time since this was updated, i assume the author is very busy, but if the writer released the source code to GPL at sourceforge then others could pick up the software and continue to develop it.
The author can still ask for donations for the project at sourceforge
win win for everyone !
First, many thanks for a fine program! I have helped people for free for decades with computers, programs, and tutoring math. The last is done for a donation to cancer research.
Is there a way, please, to include lower level subdirectories? I have music files organised into folders, such as “Opera”, “Country”, “Jazz”, … all on the same HD in a “Music” folder. Each folder has more subfolders. “Opera” would have one folder for each piece, with the tracks in that folder for the one piece. In order to apply your program to include all files, I would have to disorganise them. That is, instead of Mucic/Opera/Don Giovanni, I have to have Don Giovanni under “Music”, so the Don Giovanni folder is alongside Stompin’ Tom in the Music directory.
I hope this is clear. I’d like to have Music, containing Opera and Jazz, then Opera to contain its set of folders and Jazz its own set, as I do normally. Then choose Music to include all, or just Opera to include all of that. As it is, sub-subfolders are omitted so far as I can tell. So, choosing Opera would include all of that category, but choosing Music would not.
please update this very important and great software, thanks from Turkey.
Lars- SizeMe is a great app and your future plans look great. But I have a problem in that I suck at math w/percentages. I can never determine how much free space is in the DVD folder. I have several folders @ between 95% & 97%, but I doubt if I will have anything elsewhere that would fill them w/o going over. I could lower the fill percentage, but that would defate the purpose of SizeMe. If I saw that a 96% folder had only 100 MB free space, I would burn the DVD. I don’t even know if “free space” for DVDs (or other media) can be added to SizeMe but it sure would help us math dummies.
Thanks
Mike Mc – NYC
heres how to make it run in Wine in Ubuntu
install it in wine.
create a spare directory on a hdd somewhere that has enough spare space to save enough data to fill a dvd, say 4.4 gig.
call the directory for example
sizeme-output
now, fireup sizeme and point it to the directory you need sized up.
when it makes the cd listing in green, click on disc one and then right click on it and select “copy to”
point it to the directory you just created.
it will copy these files to that directory.
now fireup K3b or whatever and tell it to make a new dvd complilation and copy/paste the files from the sizeme-output directory to the K3B layout and burn away.
do this for each disc.
a little time consuming, but it works!!!
hooray for me!!!
I love this app, bloody magic.
is it possible to get it ported to Ubuntu Linux??
Thanks
thats really excellent.
Excellent application – it took me too long to find it, but at least I found it. I am experimenting with it now and if it does I will gladly donate. I have one quick question, if I have a folder that is 8.35 GB, and is highlighted in red, and I am using DVD-5, will your application split that folder across two DVD’s?
Greetings Lars!
You create wonderfull program! Thank You!
I hope what Barnaby Claydon`s idea with solid, open-source, GUI-based application to be to smb.’s taste for you.
From Russia, with love! 😉
Hi Lars,
I’ve been talking to several developers of Bin Pack / Knapsack / Subset sum algorithm applications and I have expressed by keen desire to create a solid, open-source, GUI-based application with ongoing development. I really would appreciate it if you could contact me about your SizeMe project; if you have any future plans, if you have decided to open-source, new features planned, etc.
Feel free to email me.
Thank you Lars,
-Barnaby
The software is lovely but as said, it’d be lovely if u could add option to add more than 1 folders to analyze. U’ve said u’ll look into it 2 years ago. how is it coming?
It is beeing developed, but because of the work time I haven’t got around to update it. If I consider it “dead” I’ll go opensource.
Is this program still being developed? If not, would you consider making it open source?