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3D File System Visualizer For Windows

posted by Editor on Tuesday October 02, @09:29PM

Visual File System (VisFS) is a 3D file system visualizer for Windows. The tool scans a drive selected by the user, and then models the contents of the drive in 3D, based on the directories that are selected in a tree browser on the side of the display (see screenshot). The program can be downloaded here, but it may be tricky to install and operate if you can't read German.

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working under win2000? (Score:1)

by Greg Weiss on Wednesday October 03, @08:33AM EST (#1)
(User #10 Info)

Did anybody get this to work under Windows 2000? Mine doesn't seem to.

Re:working under win2000? (Score:0)

by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 03, @09:06AM EST (#2)

It worked OK under NT 4.0. I didn't try it on Win2K yet...what was the error condition?

Re:working under win2000? (Score:1)

by Greg Weiss on Thursday October 04, @11:36AM EST (#3)
(User #10 Info)

The application ran, but I never managed to get more than the red base, despite trying all the obvious mouse clicks on subdirectory names and various menu options, etc. It looked a bit like an OpenGL/application drawing error of some kind where the lower left and lower right hand sides of the square red base instead extended to the lower left and right hand sides of the drawing window, whatever size it was.

Re:working under win2000? (Score:0)

by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 05, @04:59PM EST (#4)

The red base represents the entire drive you have selected. You open up the drive by clicking on the "+" next to the drive letter, which should show the directories in the tree view and then draw the models of the various subdirectories in the main view.

What is the point ? (Score:1)

by Androse Rosewood (auguste at mac dot com) on Monday October 08, @05:07PM EST (#5)
(User #101 Info)

I just don't see the point of most 3D interfaces : they almost always break down to a transposition in 3D of a pre-existant 2D spacial metaphor : the desktop, containers and files.

Some of them are really laughable.

I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth. -- Fry