Those pesky users
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Most users of SPACEWatch work in IT departments - they're forever trying to understand how those pesky users are exploiting the storage they're given in ways you don't expect - and often don't want.
One of the useful features we introduced into SPACEWatch a while back was the ability to collect together different (but related) types of files into what we called 'highlight groups' - and then highlight how much space they were taking up. We bundle some default highlight groups with the product, like 'audio files' and you can create your own too.
Well following customer feedback we've gone one step further and you can now immediately answer questions like 'so who are the top users creating audio files' --- rapidly followed by 'and where are their files so I can delete them'.
The picture above shows what you can expect from v5.7.65 onwards --- a while new 'Top space users' tool that lets you group top users by highlight group or server. As with most other areas of SPACEWatch, just double click on one of the items and you can see all the detail behind it.
Why don't you share your ideas about useful additions to SPACEWatch --- just post a comment to the this story and we'll try our best to include it in a future update.
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Most users of SPACEWatch work in IT departments - they're forever trying to understand how those pesky users are exploiting the storage they're given in ways you don't expect - and often don't want.
One of the useful features we introduced into SPACEWatch a while back was the ability to collect together different (but related) types of files into what we called 'highlight groups' - and then highlight how much space they were taking up. We bundle some default highlight groups with the product, like 'audio files' and you can create your own too.
Well following customer feedback we've gone one step further and you can now immediately answer questions like 'so who are the top users creating audio files' --- rapidly followed by 'and where are their files so I can delete them'.
The picture above shows what you can expect from v5.7.65 onwards --- a while new 'Top space users' tool that lets you group top users by highlight group or server. As with most other areas of SPACEWatch, just double click on one of the items and you can see all the detail behind it.
Why don't you share your ideas about useful additions to SPACEWatch --- just post a comment to the this story and we'll try our best to include it in a future update.
