With terabyte hard drives now costing somewhat less than refueling
your car, disk space on the average PC has exploded--and it can be
difficult to manipulate all those hundreds of thousands of files.
FlexTK Express is a powerful tool for discovering just what's on
your hard drive, and doing something about it.
FlexTK Express is not another Explorer substitute. Instead, it is a
program which performs bulk analysis of files and directories,
followed by operations on them. For example, suppose you have a
directory with a mix of picture and movie files, in a variety of
formats. You want the pictures moved to a separate directory, and
the movies left behind, except for AVI formats. FlexTK lets you do
this easily, and further lets you save this operation to be run at
any time.
FlexTK operates by means of categories. The default breaks files
down by type (Media, Document) and then by further and further
sub-types. Other options available include Time and Size. This
allows you, for example, to analyze a directory and see what
percentage of the files are more than a year old, or how much of
your disk space is consumed by a few bloated files.
Nothing much can be done in FlexTK until you have classified a
directory, as it relies on classifications to do its job. Once this
is done, you can use the Organize option to perform a variety of
tasks, including copying, moving, and deleting files. Find every
movie file in a huge disk and move them to cheap external drive?
Not a problem. Locate duplicate files scattered all over your
system and get a report on them, so that you can delete extraneous
data? Easy.
The only hitch is that no work can be done until the directory or
drive has been classified, and FlexTK does not alert the user that
this is the case. It just happily processes nothing. Beyond this
minor quirk, I found little to dislike in FlexTK Express. Because
it is a powerful tool which does a lot to your files, user caution
is recommended, especially when using the Delete function.
More powerful versions, the Professional
and Ultimate versions, include data migration, command line tools,
and the capacity to handle larger numbers of files.
--Ian Harac
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FlexTk Express
- Version: 2.1.18
- Downloads Count: 470
- License Type: Free
- Price: Free
- Date Added: Apr 23, 2008
- Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows XP
- File Size: 3.906 MB
- Author: Flexense
Editorial Review of FlexTk Express
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