Derman Enterprises - FileControl : Overview

FileControl - Overview

Did you ever wish you could find out which files were actually installed and/or changed by an installer ... well, now you can!.

help figure out what's causing a problem
determine what was changed ... when and how it changed
see what your kid's have been downloading

And you don't need to be a computer scientist! FileControl makes it easy to determine what's been changed anywhere on your system.

Features and Benefits

FileControl enables you to:

easily specify the collection of folders you want to examine for changes

you can efficiently determine what's been changed by narrowing the scope of your analysis

easily specify filters to eliminate folders and/or files you don't want analyzed

you can efficiently determine what's been changed by ignoring items of non-interest

rapidly view the changes grouped in New, Changed, and Deleted categories

you can easily isolate and review the kind of changes that are of interest

rapidly filter a collection of changes by name and/or by starting and/or ending dates

you can easily narrow down a large number of changes to the ones that interest you

you can perform successive filterings on a single collection of changes to help support various "what if" type of investigations

in many cases, the date-range filtering enables an effective analysis even when an analysis snapshot wasn't taken immediately prior to the change-causing event of interest (e.g., a product install)

easily inspect an item to determine how it has changed

you can easily determine exactly what kind of changes have occurred for a given item

reveal any changed item in a Finder window

you can easily visit items where changes are of interest

export the changed items formatted as tab-delimited text or XML

you can use the information produced with other applications

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Supported Environments

The current version of FileControl requires Macintosh OS X 10.4.x/10.5.x

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