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Creating views

When the application starts it shows a Welcome window. Here you can select a folder that has been scanned before by double-clicking it in the list of recently scanned folders. Alternatively, you can select another folder by clicking Scan Other Folder. After you have selected a folder, the folder is scanned to determine the size of all files in it (including the files in sub-folders). Once the scanning is finished a tree map of the scanned folder is shown in a new view window.

There are other ways in which you can create a view:

In the Preferences window you can configure what should happen when the last view window closes: