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ALL SALES of licenses, USB-sticks and support-units, and formal support has been ceased

Starting the 15th of July 2024, DFSee and any related products and services will not be offered for sale anymore, and support will be strictly on a best effort basis.

DFSee support guidelines and procedures

Informal support for DFSee is limited to the latest versions only (16.x and 17.x). If you have issues with older versions, please upgrade to the latest version first, before trying to get help or support on the issue.

Required information

Almost all support issues require some information to be collected. The best and easiest way to do that is use one or more of the standard analysis procedures that come with DFSee:

In all cases, a description on the actual PROBLEM, and on what you remember from what the system/partitions looked like (sizes, partition-types and so on), will also help with a quick and successful analysis.

Email support and recovery assistance (best effort only)

DFSee support supplies email support and some assistance on using the program. However, all such support is on a best effort basis, normally with an email response within a few days, but it might be a few weeks as well, when I am traveling.

DFSee support group on groups.io (mailing list)

You can also use the DFSee forum, on the groups.io platform.
Intended as a meeting and discussion place for all issues regarding DFSee.

You can join by responding to an invitation sent to you, or manually using the small form below.


As an alternative, send an empty email to: dfsee-support+subscribe@groups.io and to unsubscribe, use dfsee-support+unsubscribe@groups.io

To change your preferences for emails, or using the web-interface instead, you need to create an account for your subscription email address at the groups.io website.


VIDEO of Warpstock 2022 presentation on DFSee 17.x, Open Source Edition



DFSee instructional and showcase videos

The DFSee instructional and showcase videos is a collection of short videos showing several DFSee program features.

DFSee menusystem and related help text

Compiled from the actual DFSee applications menu-system and help-pages, there is a separate chapter for each of the pull-down menus.

The DFSee menu documentation is a complete reference to every menu-item in the DFSee menu, both BASIC and EXPERT, including the help-screens for every item as well as over a thousand screen-shots documenting the flow of many DFSee functions and showing many of the dialogs. Browsing through this reference is probably the fastest and safest way to learn about the capabilities of the DFSee program.


DFSee Presentations

DFSee and TxWin presentations

Presentations in PDF format on DFSee and TxWin functionality, inner working and scripting

DFSee ASCII-text command references and help files


DFSee help system and other information sources

DFSee is in no way an 'easy to use' program, however there is lots of material available that helps even the casual user with most tasks to be performed.
In general people look for two very different kinds of help when using the program:
  1. HOWTO, as in: How do I do or fix this ? Where the this is some high level description of a user task or problem

    This is hard to catch in built-in help systems or systematic program descriptions since it starts in the problem rather than the solution domain, and is often expressed in terms that do not relate directly to DFSee functionality. It is addressed for DFSee to some extent by providing a summary of HOWTO chapters and by directing users to on-line fora and the public DFSee support forum at IO groups.

    And as a last resort you can always call in private help of DFSee support through email, but be aware that that could take some time to get answers.

  2. HELP, as in: What does this DO ? Where the this is some DFSee menu item of command

    This is much easier to answer in a systematic way than the HOW kind of questions, and several mechanisms for DFSee exist:


Tips and DFSee usage information, HOWTO

Several important DFSee procedures and topics explained in in HOWTO chapters or a single Howto PDF in PDF

DFSee release history

The DFSee release HISTORY shows new features and solved issues for almost all past releases.
DFSee Awards

Some external DFSee reviews and awards

DFSee tutorial A tutorial on DFSee by Tony Butka (Southern California OS/2 User Group)
Voice IRC 1 Original English version A review by Paul Floyd in the february 2002 VOICE newsletter
Die Deutsche ubersetzung The German translation by Manfred Agne
Voice IRC 1 ASCII transcript VOICE speakup session on the #voice IRC channel about DFSee on the 11th of September 2004
ASCII transcript VOICE speakup session on the #voice IRC channel about DFSee on the 25th of September 2004
Voice IRC E Original English version A tutorial on 'Hard Drive Disaster Recovery using DFSee' by Julian Thomas january 2006 VOICE newsletter
Die Deutsche ubersetzung The German translation by Thomas Klein and Christian Hennecke
Voice USB E Original English version 'USB Removables - Care and Feeding FAQs' by Lon Hooker june 2006 VOICE newsletter
Die Deutsche ubersetzung The German translation by Christian Hennecke and Holger Manthey

DFSee award

OS2-world 2005 Award DFSee AWARD by OS/2 World.com
Voted BEST individual software 2004 and best commercial software 2005!

Award eCs best utility 2009

eBall AWARD by eComStation and eCoSoft
DFSee choosen as best eComStation Utility by eCS users in 2009!

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