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Space Hound 4 Sniffs Out Wasted Hard Drive Space

Space Hound 4 Sniffs Out Wasted Hard Drive Space

February, 2006

For Immediate Release

Contact: Al Meadows - fineware@fineware.com

Space Hound 4 Safely Manages Your Duplicate Files

Fineware Systems has released Space Hound 4, a Windows 2000/XP utility that lets you recover valuable disk space by sniffing out duplicate, obsolete or lost files on your hard drive. Space Hound provides a battery of tools that let you determine which files you need and which ones you can safely delete from your system.

Space Hound can generate lists of duplicate files based on criteria as simple as your drive name or perform complex searches using complex folder selection, file masks, sizes, dates, attributes, and keywords. When searching for duplicate files, Space Hound can examine multiple drives and perform five different kinds of duplicate file searches: It can find files with duplicate filenames, files with duplicate filenames that are truly duplicates, files which are identical to each other despite having different filenames, files compared without regard to file extension, and a Microsoft Word Document content search that ignores file differences unrelated to content. In addition to deleting, copying, or moving, Space Hound lets you create space-saving .zip archives for files that you no longer need to keep on your hard drive.

Unlike dangerous sweep or cleanup programs, Space Hound deletes nothing from your hard drive. It identifies candidates for deletion based upon easy-to-define criteria, and gives you tools to examine the files before disposing of them. Space Hound's Duplicate File Suggestion feature offers expert advice on which files can be safely eliminated when duplicates are found. A unique dependency validation feature protects you from deleting files that should be left alone. Once the duplicates have been identified, you have additional options for managing them which include tools for removing all duplicates from selected drives or folders as well as removing all copies of a files except the most recent instance.

There are file viewers that let you examine your text, graphics, fonts and multimedia files, as well as a built-in hexadecimal viewer, and INI and XML file tree displays. For further analysis, you can export Space Hound's reports to database and spreadsheet formats. These sophisticated tools can help you manage your files, and uncover files that you thought were lost.

Another new feature with this release is a powerful folder synchronization tool that shows you the differences between folders at the file content level in addition to simply identifying missing files or files with different dates.

To help you zoom in on the files that are using up your disk drive, Space Hound's Storage Structure Map gives you storage totals for any directory and its nested sub directories.

Space Hound can display all of your application's programs, components and system elements. You can even look at the version information for each element. Space Hound will search for embedded text within files, and can perform proximity searches for words that are near each other in the files.

Space Hound 4 costs $40 for Home/Home Business users and $79 for a Business Usage License. Site license pricing is available, and can be ordered online at the Fineware Systems web site - http://www.fineware.com. Existing users of Space Hound 32 can upgrade for only $25. You can download a trial version of Space Hound from http://www.fineware.com.

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