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The right-click menu

Moving around the map

The map zoomed three folders down, with the crumbs in the path row above it

Action How
Zoom into a folder Double-click it
Up one folder Backspace, the Up button, or a crumb in the path row
The whole map Home, or the home button
Zoom in and out freely Mouse wheel, or + and −
Pan while zoomed in Drag the map
Back to the start screen Ctrl+W, the × next to Rescan, or Close the scan in the right-click menu

Zoom animates by default (Settings › Behavior › Animate zoom).

The path row

Under the toolbar: the path to the folder you are looking at, each part a button. On the right, the Filter button (The filter).

The side panel

On the left; L or the panel button hides and shows it, and its edge drags to set its width.

  • Drives: every drive with its label, kind (NVMe, SSD, USB, network), how full it is, and free space. Click one to scan it. The line under the list drags to give the list more or less room.
  • Largest items: tabs for Files, Folders and Types, and Changes while a scan is compared. Click a row to go to it on the map; hover for its path.

The side panel's Changes tab while a scan is compared

The three views

The toolbar switches what fills the map's place: Map, Insights (Insights) and Changes (Changes); B cycles them. Zoom and the path row belong to the map; the other two have their own controls.

The right-click menu

On any box:

  • Inspect (Ctrl+I): the item in depth (Inspect).
  • Zoom to folder, Up one folder, Show whole map.
  • Open, Show in Explorer, Properties (Alt+Enter), Copy path (Ctrl+C), Copy name.
  • Show only this file type: filters the map to files with this extension.
  • Select everything in this folder, Rescan this folder (F5 rescans the whole scan), Close the scan (Ctrl+W).
  • Scan file: Save scan as… (Ctrl+S), Open saved scan… (Ctrl+O), Compare with a saved scan…, Stop comparing.
  • Export to CSV: Largest files, This folder, or Filter matches.
  • Move to Recycle Bin (Del) (Cleaning up).

The status bar

Left: the hovered or selected item and its share of the scan, or the last thing that happened. Right: a meter of how full the drive is (orange from 85%, red from 92%), the file count, and SpaceSharp's own memory use as a bar against the PC's memory.

Selecting several

Ctrl+click adds a box to the selection, Shift+click selects a range, and Ctrl+A selects every file the filter matches. The right-click menu, Inspect and Del act on the whole selection.

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