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Old 19 January 2009, 10:53 AM
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My boss is asking about how to get a print out of our servers tree structure for an impending spring clean and has been complaining that the old DOS method he used to use no longer works.

Is there a way to do this from inside Windows (2000, XP or Vista) or are there any freeware apps that can do this?

thanks in advance.
Old 19 January 2009, 11:29 AM
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The DOS command Tree still works in vista and if your structure isn't too big, works well.

If you just want folders as a starting point, I'd use
dir /b /s /ad path
Old 19 January 2009, 11:39 AM
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My knowledge of DOS is a tad rusty.

I can't change the directory to look at a network drive - any way to print the tree structure from windows?
Old 19 January 2009, 11:43 AM
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Old 19 January 2009, 11:44 AM
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Path in the dir command can include \\servername\sharename so will allow the tree to be captured for any network share you have access to.

Add '> logfile' to capture the data to a file
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Originally Posted by DJ Dunk
TreeSize
Agreed - Treesize is v.useful and quickly shows up where huuuge files may be hiding...

JAM Software - TreeSize Professional - Hard Disk Space Manager that shows folder size and many more statistics
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Treesize does seem to do the trick - not figured out how to get the whole expanded directory to print out yet but can see it on screen.
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+1 for Treesize - invaluable tool for.... users who...are... tools....
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Treesize is a very powerful tool, I used to run nightly scans, export as xml, have it compare the previous night, week and month and mail the management with a report to let let them know where the disk space was going. All automatic.

But for just getting a tree, I stand by tree or dir!
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