January 10th, 2012· Bug fix: Resolved problem that could cause FolderSizes to become unresponsive in very specific circumstances.
November 7th, 2011· Bug fix: Resolved rare crash that could occur when ribbon bar not present during shutdown.
· Bug fix: Resolved problem with email attachment of search results when using the "date" command line switch (or its corresponding checkbox in the task scheduler).
· Bug fix: Resolved rare Winsock heap corruption anomaly that could occur on x64 platforms.
· Bug fix: Resolved unhandled exception during construction of date/time objects related to scan filtering.
· Bug fix: Date/time selection controls now enforce minimum and maximum date/time entry.
October 19th, 2011· Bug fix: Resolved problem with update checking causing a crash in rare circumstances.
· Bug fix: Resolved rare issue with enumerating invalid folder name in shell namespace.
· Bug fix: Resolved rarely encountered bug in analysis event log output using incorrect format string, resulting in a crash.
September 2nd, 2011· Feature: New threading subsystem for File Reports improves file report generation performance significantly when reporting against multiple paths (network paths benefit the most).
· Feature: Achieved a near 40% reduction in memory usage in many common file report generation scenarios.
· Feature: Performance of duplicate file report CSV export has been significantly improved.
· Feature: The temp path filename used when zipping email attachments is now time-stamped to improve concurrency potential.
· Feature: XML load and compare functions now show true file read progress (rather than using an indeterminate marquee progress indicator).
· Feature: Personal edition licenses are no longer contrained from analyzing network storage paths with FolderSizes (feature limitation has been removed).
· Feature: FolderSizes now exposes several file system analysis "tasks" to the Windows 7 taskbar.
· Feature: The user interface now allows users to execute File Reports and Searches while a main window analysis is in progress.
· Feature: Added the ability to save program options to (and later re-load from) file.
· Feature: Added a new "loadoptions" command line argument that can be used to re-load previously saved program options during command line execution. See help for details.
· Bug fix: Duplicate file report export was not honoring "include column headers" and "merge CSS into HTML" configuration options.
· Bug fix: FolderMap option for highlighting rectangles as the mouse moved over them was not working.
· Bug fix: Minor fix to command line argument spacing generated by task scheduler (did not affect command line parsing).
· Bug fix: Certain scan data window icons were incorrect for specific file system node states.
· Bug fix: Improved error handling in rare cases where XML import thread initialization fails.
· Bug fix: Enabling the early file owner data binding option would negatively (and improperly) affect scan data import functionality.
· Bug fix: Resolved rare crash that could occur when a command line job contained only invalid paths (and then attempted to export the results).
· Bug fix: Triggering a command line export against an invalid path will no longer result in an empty file.
August 10th, 2011· Feature: Search tool now uses much more advanced threading logic. When searching multiple paths, a separate thread will be used for each logical (root) device. This new behavior can improve the performance of multi-path searches dramatically.
· Feature: Performance of search tool has been improved (very) significantly by deferring file owner and type resolution until absolutely required.
· Feature: Added a tool that can highlight folder map tiles based upon user-specified criteria. The highlight color can be selected by the user.
· Feature: Added a range of folder map highlight presets. These can highlight folder map entries by modification date, file system attributes, and more.
· Feature: Added the ability to save/load folder map highlight definitions to/from file.
· Feature: Added a switch that determines whether or not folders are included in calculated date/time computations.
· Feature: Added a new Graph ribbon bar tab, designed to provide direct access to several key graph-related functions.
· Feature: Added a new "map mode" selector to the ribbon bar graph tab - you can now visualize the file system hierarchy by object size, file count, or folder count.
· Feature: Added Save and Copy commands to the new Graph ribbon bar tab, both of which affect the currently selected graph view(s).
· Feature: Added validation step to use of email integration from scheduler. It now checks to ensure that SMTP configuration is valid before saving the scheduled task.
· Feature: Improved error reporting when sending reports via email. Certain errors, such as the inability to attach report files, are now reported in the email message body.
· Feature: Added the ability to include the current scan path in file report chart titles.
· Feature: Added validation to scheduler to ensure that file report output paths resolve to a file name (with extension).
· Feature: Improved performance of temporary file classification string matching subsystem.
· Feature: The file owner data cache has been improved. It is now faster, more memory-efficient, and has a smarter cache entry eviction policy.
· Feature: Added two new letters to details list attribute columns ("I" = "Not indexed" and "P" = "Sparse file").
· Feature: Numerical columns in the main window detail view are now right-aligned by default, making certain visual comparisons a bit easier.
· Feature: Improved folder map rendering performance and memory efficiency.
· Feature: Added new button (upper right of main window frame) for minimizing / expanding the ribbon bar.
Feature: Attribute matching (available in scan filtering, search rule, etc.) has undergone the following improvements:
· A new explicit "off" switch has been added, improving consistency and performance.
· The "match all" operating mode has been renamed to "match only" to better convey its purpose (matching exactly specified attributes).
· A new "match all" operating mode has been added, which matches (at least) all specified attributes.
· Attribute matching is now off (and no attribute checkboxes are checked) by default.
· Feature: Added an option to suppress main window detail and graph view tooltips while file system analysis is in progress (enabled by default).
· Feature: Windows shell icon now shown in main window file (detail view, chart, etc.) file system data tooltips.
· Feature: Node indention on the folder browser tree has been reduced to provide more navigation space.
· Feature: Extended the main window "previous" and "next" path history navigation commands with drop-down menus that can be used to access any entry in the path history.
· Feature: Several folder map visualization enhancements, including use of real Windows shell icons, dynamic icon orientation and sizing, and automatic title adaptation according to the user's preferred mapping mode.
· Feature: Added "check all" and "uncheck all" convenience functions to search paths list box.
· Feature: You can now search for (and filter against) file system objects with inaccessible security descriptors by specifying the "unknown" keyword as the file owner.
· Feature: Renamed "Extension Researcher" function to "Extension Database" and provided more direct access to the database browser through the main window ribbon bar.
· Feature: When FolderSizes encounters a file system security identifier that is not mapped to an account name, it will now convert the SID to a string (e.g. it will present something like "S-1-5-21-9259032911-4949815421-2563717148-1001 " rather than displaying "unknown"). Note that "unknown" will still be presented if the security descriptor itself is inacessible.
· Feature: Added new "Relative Age" column to main window results report detail view. Relative age is expressed in bar graph form, and is computed based upon the last modification date relative to its siblings (objects within the same parent folder).
· Bug fix: Removed non-functional Apply button from program options window.
· Bug fix: Path toolbar "go" button was not working as expected.
· Bug fix: Main window detail view info panel column widths not computed correctly for multiple selections.
· Bug fix: Resolved rare divide-by-zero exception in folder map rendering when used with snapshot comparison.
June 21st, 2011· Bug fix: Resolved potential incompatibility with Windows 7 Service Pack 1, experienced by a small subset of users.
June 14th, 2011· Feature: Introduced color (palette) selection mechanism for charts. See the Theme button in upper right corner of main window.
· Feature: Minor theme tweaks.
June 11th, 2011· Feature: Added command line (and scheduler) support for sending reports via email (e.g. SMTP). See help file for details.
· Feature: Added the ability to export the scan data explorer window contents as a hierarchical HTML tree.
· Feature: Path navigation buttons residing in the Home tab of the ribbon bar have been moved down to the path toolbar to better reflect the relationship between these functions.
· Feature: A new ribbon bar group has been created for operating system functions exposed through FolderSizes.
· Feature: In various instances, the opening of exported file contents is now managed through a user prompt (which also confirms export success).
· Feature: Improved export toolbar button in search window now shows menu options for each export format.
· Feature: Updated color palettes for all graph views and improved rendering quality.
· Feature: Updated application ribbon bar layout and themes.
· Bug fix: Use of the path-specific refresh button when viewing the "My Computer" report now refreshes the view correctly.
· Bug fix: Fixed crash that occurred when using the Help | Home Page ribbon bar button.
· Bug fix: Resolved issue with welcome wizard not updating "my computer" view during theme changes.
· Bug fix: The export progress indicator was incorrectly referring to all exports as being "XML report exports" (cosmetic only).
· Bug fix: Resolved a potential crash that could occur when using FolderSizes from the command line or scheduler.
· Bug fix: Main window graph image export operations were not enabled when the "My Computer" view was visible.
· Bug fix: Resolved rare hang that could occur with invalid configuration of range values for the file dates report.
· Change: Support the "noshowreport" command line switch has been removed. Exported files are now never shown when initiated from the command line (or scheduled task).
May 12th, 2011· Feature: Improved default behavior (and error logging) in instances where FolderSizes cannot load scan filter files.
· Feature: Improved XML import performance.
· Feature: Update check HTTP proxy authentication password is now stored in encrypted format.
· Feature: Added additional sanity checking / confirmation support to scan filter editor dialog. Also improved coverage of help file on this topic.
· Bug fix: Fixed lack of informative error reporting when update check proxy traversal failed.
· Bug fix: Ribbon bar customizations were not being retained between sessions.
· Bug fix: The support and feedback hyperlinks on the "Send Feedback" dialog were reversed.
· Bug fix: The task scheduler would not properly retain the subfolder display depth when set to "0".
· Bug fix: In specific circumstances, use of the Shift + Delete key combination in a detail report view would result in an incorrect confirmation dialog.
· Bug fix: Resolved rare crash that could occur when switching from "my computer" view to active detail report view.
January 21st, 2011· Feature: Added a help link to the file system event log display window to assist users in interpreting common events.
· Feature: Added an option indicating whether or not the folder browser panel should rebuild itself in response to storage device change notifications broadcast by the Windows operating system.
· Feature: Added experimental support for low-priority I/O on Windows Vista and later. This option can be enabled on the Advanced pane of the Options window, and causes disk I/O generated by file system analysis and search threads to be scheduled at a low priority. This helps to reduce I/O contention at the expense of performance.
· Feature: Added several new how-to topics to the FolderSizes help file.
· Feature: Added the ability to Run a scheduled task directly from the Task Scheduler window.
· Bug fix: Resolved issues with scan filtering that could produce unintuitive results for top-level file system objects in specific circumstances.
· Bug fix: Sorting on the file types detail view file report was not being retained between analyses.
· Bug fix: Resolved memory leak in largest / oldest file reports, occurring only in specific circumstances involving sequential scans.
· Bug fix: Resolved potential delay in closing FolderSizes main window during a file system analysis.
· Bug fix: Resolved linebreak format defect in HTML report exports.
October 15th, 2010· Feature: Duplicate file report now generates HTML and CSV exports with group-level sorting that matches the on-screen report.
· Feature: Duplicate file report CSV export now includes group size metrics.
· Bug fix: Fixed potential tooltip crash in graph view.
· Bug fix: Fixed obscure potential crash condition during XML data import.
· Bug fix: Update check popup notification window has been re-engineered to support high DPI display modes.
· Bug fix: Resolved problem in the 32-bit product installer that would require license details to be re-entered after upgrading.
October 8th, 2010· Feature: FolderSizes now provides support for Windows high DPI display settings.
· Feature: The main window detail view now restores cursor selection when using the back button.
· Feature: The FolderSizes right-click context menu now exposes an "Explorer Operation" submenu for single-item selections.
· Feature: Improved main window detail view support for keyboard navigation (enter key opens select file system object, improved arrow key navigation, keyboard shortcut letter access).
· Feature: Significant improvement (decrease) in product installer package sizes.
· Bug fix: Resolved potential crash related to item selection in the main window detail view. The crash could occur when refreshing the detail view after altering its contents.
· Bug fix: On Windows XP, the primary detail view could show the wrong shell icon for root drive paths.
· Bug fix: Resolved a crash that occured when comparing duplicate file system results.
· Bug fix: Resolved a potential crash related to initiating a scan from the "my computer" view.
· Bug fix: Resolved a crash that could occur while exporting main window report data in HTML format.
· Bug fix: Resolved potential failure when editing very long search paths on Windows XP.
· Bug fix: Resolved issue with file ownership preference switches not working correctly for the oldest, largest, and duplicate file reports.
September 15th, 2010· Feature: FolderSizes 5 now offers to upgrade scheduled tasks generated by previous product releases. This check is performed when the Task Scheduler tool is launched.
· Feature: Improved crash handling system now reports errors over HTTP, rather than trying to launch the user's email client.
· Feature: Added a path set history drop down arrow to the Load toolbar button of the multiple path manager window. This drop down arrow allows users to load one of several recently used path set files (without having to browse for them).
· Feature: Improved overall file report generation performance / memory consumption, and added file counter to analysis progress window.
· Feature: Added support for entry of product licenses via the command line through use of a "/licensecode" switch.
· Bug fix: Sorting search results by file system object name was not working properly.
· Bug fix: Resolved analysis concurrency issues that could occur in several obscure circumstances.
· Bug fix: Analysis progress indicators were getting reset during File Report generation in rare multi-path scenarios.
· Bug fix: Scheduled task title strings now reference the current version of FolderSizes.
September 2nd, 2010· Feature: Added ribbon bar customization support.
· Feature: Added support for using the fourth and fifth mouse buttons to navigate back / forward through scan path history.
· Feature: Scan filter / search rule editor now specifies the rule type (e.g. file or folder) in the window title.
· Feature: Added HTML export option allowing primary report graph image to appear above detail listing (default is below).
· Feature: Added multiple selection and deletion capability to search paths area.
· Bug fix: FilterZip would erroneously report user cancellation as an error and not remove the target zip file.
· Bug fix: Resolved problem with crash reports being stored in wrong file system location.
· Bug fix: Resolved an issue with directory rule comparisons during searches.
September 2nd, 2010· Feature: Native 64-bit support (in addition to the existing 32-bit support) dramatically increases the scalability of FolderSizes within enterprise environments. Note that running the 64-bit version of FolderSizes requires a 64-bit processor and Windows operating system.
· Feature: Overall performance has been greatly enhanced. Core analytical and thread models have been re-engineered for improved performance.
· Feature: A completely overhauled in-memory database model provides superior tracking of all file system objects that have been analyzed.
· Feature: It is now possible to re-load file system analysis data that was previously saved in XML format.
· Feature: FolderSizes now has the ability to compare current file system analysis data with existing data (loaded from a previously saved XML scan file).
· Feature: A new scan data explorer docking panel is available, providing a powerful new way to navigate (and act upon) the data that FolderSizes stores about the file system nodes it analyzes. With this new feature, it is now possible to view multiple file system root paths from the perspective of a single virtual root.
· Feature: Excluded folders have been merged into the scan filtering user interface, and now are saved and loaded along with other scan filter criteria. Folder exclusions now also use an improved wildcard pattern matching engine, and can optionally be case sensitive.
· Feature: A new report summary area has been introduced, providing detailed insight into any file system object(s) selected in the detail report. When multiple objects are selected, a summary of their totals and date ranges is displayed in the docking properties window.
· Feature: The main analysis window now supports the entry of multiple paths, which will be scanned in succession. Users can enter multiple paths directly into the path input box (separating each of them with a pipe symbol) or use the multiple path manager window to browse for multiple paths individually. FolderSizes will detect when multiple paths are being analyzed, and will automatically bring the new scan data explorer docking pane into view in such cases, allowing the user to see (and navigate) the entire hierarchy of paths being analyzed.
· Feature: Main window toolbar has been replaced with new ribbon-style tabbed command bar. This new command interface exposes richer controls, provides better organization (including smart resizing), and improves accessibility. All other window toolbars (e.g. search, file reports, etc.) have also been updated.
· Feature: All window status bars have been re-designed with new, more informative and consistent indicator areas and intelligent use of available screen space.
· Feature: The folder browser docking panel now supports keyboard navigation, and behaves more like Windows Explorer in various situations (selection state when closing an expanded node, etc.).
· Feature: All file system node tooltips have been overhauled to show more information in an improved format, and are also now more pervasive and consistent.
· Feature: A rich, new graphical view now appears when "My Computer" is selected within the Folder Browser panel. It also provides a simple mechanism for initiating the scan of multiple drives. Printing support has also been added.
· Feature: Drive space data (as utilized by the Drive Space docking panel and "My Computer" views) is now collected on a separate thread, eliminating potential slowdowns in some circumstances and improving consistency amongst various views.
Feature: The main FolderSizes detail report view has been completely overhauled. Enhancements include:
· Vastly improved printing and print previewing.
· A powerful new file / folder properties area that shows data about current selection(s).
· Improved application theme support.
· A new column chooser mechanism, making detail view column management easier and more flexible.
· Support for column alignment customization.
· Improved column sizing for better use of available screen real estate.
· Many other enhancements.
· Feature: Bar graph drawing tolerances have been sharpened, with improved use of space overall. Horizontal label areas now resize themselves dynamically.
· Feature: The main window bar, pie, and map graphs are now contained within independent docking panels for increased flexibility and customization support.
· Feature: Error handling has been greatly improved across all file system analysis mechanisms, and error reporting has been enhanced significantly. There is now a common event log viewer with common access semantics and better usability (e.g. sorting, etc.).
· Feature: On Windows Vista and later, new-style file and folder browser dialogs are used to select folder paths in various locations throughout the application.
· Feature: The map graph has been improved substantially, and now better supports visualizing blocks of space consumed by files (not just folders). Performance has also been improved significantly.
· Feature: The logic used to determine folder reparse point (symbolic link and junction) traversal safety has been greatly improved. Link targets are now fully resolved and compared against their parent folder path.
· Feature: Scan filter system has been completely overhauled, and now provides the ability to specify multiple rules - each with their own match criteria. Scan filter rules can now also be specified for folders, with full include / exclude support and natural hierarchical result rendering.
· Feature: The search facility also now uses rules-based criteria, similar to that used by scan filtering. The key difference is that search rules control what files and folders are returned as search results, whereas scan filtering controls what portions of the file system are analyzed.
· Feature: Scan filtering can now be applied to searches for additional control over the scope of file system enumeration during the search process. Search scan filters are saved as part of the current search job (which can be written to / loaded from file). This feature also allows FolderSizes to provide seamless drill-down from many File Reports when the user double-clicks a detail item.
· Feature: It is now possible to choose which columns are shown in every File Report detail view (by right-clicking the list header). This, in turn, affects the output of File Report data export operations (only visible columns will be exported).
· Feature: The product "welcome wizard" has been overhauled to produce a richer, more useful introduction to FolderSizes.
· Feature: There is now a switch (in graph section of options window) that causes all graphs to be rendered using allocated size (e.g. "size on disk").
· Feature: A new command line switch, "/saveeventlog" can be used to save logged events to file. See help file for usage details. Note that if the "/date" command line option is used, the event log path will be appended with the current date and time.
· Feature: The multiple path manager dialog window has been re-designed to be more usable, and enhanced with additional features such as the ability to save and load path sets to / from file.
· Feature: Enhanced task scheduling to include support for multiple scan paths, as well as saving logged events to file.
· Feature: Multiple enhancements to the FilterZip tool, including improvements in progress display window, retention of job state between uses, and a handful of bug fixes.
· Feature: The default XSLT file that ships with FolderSizes has numerous improvements, including display of summary data and full disk space information. Overall formatting has also been improved.
· Feature: All export file formats have been enhanced to improve consistency of data and formatting. Export performance has also been improved, and is supplemented by a progress indicator for all export file types.
· Feature: Deletion of file and folder objects from within FolderSizes has been greatly enhanced, with smart consolidation of target objects and improved Windows shell services integration. FolderSizes also now does a much better job of reflecting such changes throughout its file system hierarchy database.
· Feature: Product options window has been re-organized and improved (resizable, scrolling panes, theme support, etc.) and supplemented with additional options.
· Feature: Overall theme support has been improved, with better consistency and appearance throughout the application.
· Feature: FolderSizes no longer forces adminstrative elevation on Windows Vista and later when the executing user has a linked security token. On Windows Vista and later, a new "Run as Admin" ribbon bar command button will be enabled if the executing user is not already running elevated. As an added convenience, a special application shortcut also provides elevated execution capability (again, Windows Vista and later only).
· Feature: Rename via right-click context menu is now supported in all file reports and search results.
· Feature: Added "calculated" modified, accessed, and created date / time fields to the main detail view. These columns report the most recent date / time in the folder hierarchy, rather than the actual date / time reported by the Windows file system.
· Feature: Added the ability to find the deepest folder nesting from within the scan data explorer tree.
· Feature: When scanning multiple root nodes from within the main application window, separate threads are used to perform the analysis. This can result in greatly improved performance, particularly when the paths relate to distinct logical I/O channels (e.g. separate local drives, multiple network shares, etc.).
· Feature: Added support for login and password to update checker proxy configuration. The authentication method will be determined automatically.
· Feature: Added the ability to search one or more target folders using FolderSizes via the detail view right-click context menu.
· Feature: Added the ability to load rules only from within search window. This feature will extract search rules from the target search job (.xml) file, but leave existing paths and scan filter settings alone.
· Feature: Support for dragging and dropping of paths into FolderSizes has been greatly enhanced. Users can now drag and drop paths from Windows shell (and other apps) into the FolderSizes main window (anywhere), the file report generator window (anywhere), the search window (paths list box), or the multiple path manager window (anywhere). Support for multiple paths has also been added in all of these cases.
· Bug fix: Now reporting aggregate search result size using "size on disk", rather than just flat file size.
· Bug fix: Altered bar graph drawing routines to eliminate potential for minor visual artifacts under certain circumstances.
· Bug fix: The folder browser panel no longer attempts to enumerate the contents of .zip archive files, which cause app startup delays in some circumstances.
· Bug fix: Resolved issue with item selection in search / temp file detail listings when column sort changed.
February 24th, 2010· Feature: Options | Detail View now provides a switch that controls whether or not date-based detail columns will include times. Switch is on by default.
· Feature: Added a counter to status bar of the main window to show the number of files scanned.
· Feature: When a folder or drive shortcut (.lnk file) is dragged into the FolderSizes view window, the link will now be resolved (and the target folder will be analyzed).
· Feature: Significant file system scanning performance improvements, particularly when scanning network volumes.
· Bug fix: Scrollbars sizes did not always update immediately when adding columns to search / primary detail listings.
· Bug fix: Leading and trailing spaces were not being properly trimmed from paths directly entered into the main window path box.
· Bug fix: When using a preset date range within filter / search criteria, the times were not be adjusted to account for full days.
· Bug fix: File dates report now normalizes min/max dates to encompass full days.
· Bug fix: Resolved an issue with the "previous" path toolbar button not working in very specific circumstances.
· Bug fix: In the file report generation progress display window, clicking the cancel button drop-down error and then clicking outside of the menu would still trigger cancellation.
December 29th, 2009· Feature: The search facility now provides file and folder count columns. These columns are hidden by default - enable them by right-clicking the search listing header and selecting them from the resulting pop-up list.
· Feature: Broadened the range of preset date ranges available in search / filtering facilities, and changed the phrasing to be more specific.
· Feature: All report generation processes now show indeterminate task bar progress animation on Windows 7.
· Feature: The main report, file report, and search windows now have a status bar pane that shows the number of folders being actively excluded.
· Feature: All status bar panes now resize themselves as needed, rather than adhering to a fixed width.
· Feature: Added the ability to cancel file report analysis and still show results (default is to cancel and discard results).
· Feature: Enhanced and expanded existing visual themes. The "modern" theme now offers blue, black, silver, aqua, scenic, and white color sets (the "traditional" them remains unchanged).
· Feature: Graph backgrounds now have the option (on by default) of matching the current visual application theme.
· Bug fix: In specific circumstances, file report generation scheduled tasks would not start correctly.
· Bug fix: If the Search Subfolders checkbox was disabled during a search, top-level folders would not be included in the search results.
· Bug fix: When using the search facility, application-wide folder excusions were being incorrectly shown in the search results.
· Bug fix: In some cases, it was possible to modify scan filter settings while report generation was in progress (should not be possible).
· Bug fix: Resolved a cache logic defect that could cause report metrics to be miscalculated under certain specific circumstances.
· Bug fix: Improved robustness when encountering certain rare file system corruption scenarios.
· Other: Minor bug fixes and cosmetic improvements.
September 29th, 2009· Feature: Several improvements to the "modern" application theme.
· Feature: Underlying ZIP archive file libraries have been updated for improved efficiency, compatiblity.
· Bug fix: Resolved a problem with the excluded folder dialog allowing for the entry of paths already covered by existing entries.
· Bug fix: Resolved a rare crash that could occur upon shutdown, related to the new background update checking implementation.
· Other: Updated code signature with new security certificate.
July 8th, 2009· Feature: Added "Lost key" button to the product registration dialog to better assist users who have misplaced their product license details.
· Feature: Added an automatic update checking mechanism to FolderSizes, which is enabled by default (and can be disabled via the options window). This feature will check for software updates in a background thread when FolderSizes starts, and will display a tray area notification when a newer version is available.
· Feature: The map graph view is now drawn as the FolderSizes file system scan progresses. Previously, the map view did not render until scanning had completed entirely (in contrast to the other graph views, which rendered incrementally).
· Feature: The main window pie graph view now offers two means by which users can limit the number of slices it shows. The first mode is by percentage of the parent folder, and is the default. The second (newly added) mode allows users to show only the "top N" largest pie slices.
· Feature: Minor improvements to the product installer.
· Bug fix: Personal edition licenses were incorrectly restricted from using the shell context menu (in some cases) to launch a new instance of FolderSizes.
June 6th, 2009· Feature: Added support for Windows 7.
· Feature: FolderSizes now ships with a 64-bit version of its shell context menu for improved compatibility with 64-bit editions of Windows.
· Feature: Main window visualizations (pie, bar, and treemap graph views) can now show allocated disk space (a "size on disk" computation that factors in cluster overhang, sparse file sizes, compressed file sizes, etc.) through the use of a new button in the graph pane toolbar.
· Feature: Exporting reports in XML format is now vastly more scalable and memory efficient (the process now writes directly to disk, with minimal memory usage).
· Feature: Main window XML exports now include disk space information (similar to the information available within the docking drive space panel).
· Feature: A new "length" column has been added to the search window result list. This column is visible by default, and shows the length of the associated file or folder name. When the "count full path length" search option is engaged, the "length" column will reflect the full file system path lengths.
· Feature: Search results and all file report detail views can now be exported as XML (previously, only main window reports could be exported in XML format).
· Feature: Updated the integrated scheduler to provide support for XML export when scheduling file report or search tasks.
· Feature: The file system scan error reporting window can now be resized.
· Feature: If the "follow reparse points" option is engaged, FolderSizes will only follow links that point outside of the current scan directory. This prevents certain folders from being counted more than once during file system scans, and will also prevent recursion loops.
· Feature: Added an "exclude folders from search results" switch to the FolderSizes search facility. This feature is switched on automatically when drilling down into certain file reports (which launches a search), improving consistency between these two systems.
· Feature: Added "allocated" detail view column to the following file reports: file type, attribute, size, name, duplicates, and date.
· Feature: Added the ability to search (or filter) by allocated file system object size (e.g. "size on disk").
· Feature: Minor adjustments to allocated disk space calculations for compressed files of small size.
· Feature: Improvements to the bar graph drawing routines to sharpen the appearance of the bars.
· Feature: The options controlling the number of entries shown in the largest and oldest file reports has been moved to their respective report windows (and out of the general file report options window) for more intuitive access and improved consistency.
· Feature: The "largest" and "file sizes" reports can now optionally perform their comparisons by allocated file size (e.g. "size on disk").
· Feature: Sorting speed for the following file report detail views has been greatly improved: oldest, largest, duplicate, and file type.
· Bug fix: Keyboard shortcuts within the search and file report generation windows would stop working under certain circumstances.
· Bug fix: Resolved an issue with bar graph widths not computing correctly in rare circumstances.
· Bug fix: The banding graph of the largest files report would produce inaccurate results under very specific circumstances.
· Bug fix: The default number of entries in the largest and oldest file reports were inconsistent between the option display and the report generation process.
September 12th, 2008· Bug fix: Resolved a floating point runtime error that could occur in certain environments.
September 1st, 2008· Feature: Added a new "folder map" graph view, based upon the TreeMap data visualization method. This new view provides an alternative to the existing bar and pie graph views, showing the complete subfolder hierarchy at a glance.
· Feature: Made the new folder map graph type available for inclusion within HTML exports (in addition to the existing pie and bar graph types). It can be accessed during HTML report exports via use of the /graphtype:"map" command parameter.
· Feature: Improved error handling during generation of XML export file data. The default XSLT file has also been improved to better display XML data generation errors when they occur.
· Feature: Added file owner to graph (bar, pie, and map views) tooltips. Also improved tooltip apperance timing when moving from one graph entry to another.
· Feature: Added a new panel to the options window for the folder map. The map start and end colors can now be configured, as well as a few additional options.
· Feature: Added support for a new "Personal Edition" license type, designed specifically for home users. See help file for description of this new license type, along with limitations.
· Feature: Right-click context menu can now add multiple selected folders to the folder exclusion listing (previously, only one at a time was possible).
· Feature: The folder browser panel shell tree now does a better job of staying in sync with the current file system analysis path, even in cases where that path are unknown to the folder browser. Unusual conditions (such as drilling into file system folders not visible to the shell, etc.) are now handled gracefully.
· Feature: Substantial improvements were made to XML export capabilities, including significant performance enhancements as well as overall output size reduction. Please note that the structure of the XML output has changed, so if you rely on external applications to analyze this data then you'll need to revisit those. Similarly, if you've customized the XSLT file that ships with FolderSizes, those customizations will need to be revised.
· Bug fix: The pie graph view now honors the label font selection made in the graph options panel.
· Bug fix: Fixed a rare crash that could occur under very specific report rendering conditions.
· Bug fix: The Oldest Files detail report view date column would be blank when using "date accessed" as the reference file system time stamp.
· Bug fix: XML file export "depth" column was providing incorrect value.
· Bug fix: The banding graph of the largest files report was not being updated when file objects were deleted from the detail listing.
· Bug fix: Minor corrections to internal cache database logic.
April 19th, 2008· Resolved a cosmetic issue with the folder browser and disk space docking panel titles.
October 23rd, 2007· Feature: When FolderSizes (a 32-bit application) is run on a 64-bit computer (with a 64-bit Windows operating system installed), it will now disable WOW64 file system redirection during the file system scanning process. There is a new switch within the scanning area of the options window that allows you to turn this feature on or off (it is on by default).
· Bug fix: Resolved a cosmetic defect that occurred when deleting items from the search results window. In some cases, the detail list control would not be updated correctly.
· Bug fix: Resolved a problem with the backspace not being processed correctly within the path entry field in the main application window.
July 21st, 2007· Feature: Integrated a new File Extension Researcher tool, allowing users to gather additional information on file extensions that they encounter across various file systems (including potential application associations). The ability to research file types by extention has been integrated (through context menus, buttons, etc.) throughout the various FolderSizes detail views.
· Feature: Implemented a new File Extension Browser window, designed to supplement (and currently accessible from within) the File Extension Researcher tool described above. This window allows users to browse a database of known file extensions in an intuitive fashion (e.g. extensions are grouped by their starting letter, numbers, and symbols).
· Feature: The results detail listing within the search window is now fully customizable. Right-click the detail list column header and select the field names you wish to view (de-select the ones you wish to hide).
· Feature: Added two new columns to the search window detail list that show the date the file was created, and the date it was last accessed. Note that these columns are hidden by default (right-click the detail list header to customize columns shown).
· Feature: File owner column added to "Largest Files" and "Oldest Files" file reports.
· Feature: Added file creation date column to main exploration detail view. This new column is hidden by default (to make it visible, right-click the detail view column header and select it from the popup menu).
· Feature: Within the search and filtering windows, the date range specification area now offers a handful of convenient presents (e.g. "within last day", "within last week", "within last month", and "within last year"). You can, of course, still elect to specify a custom date range if desired.
· Bug fix: Resolved a problem with the date range portion of the file search facility effectively preventing the "to" and "from" dates from being the same day.
· Various minor improvements and corrections.
May 22nd, 2007· Bug fix: Resolved problem with spurious floppy drive seeks during certain user interface refresh operations.
April 25th, 2007· Feature: File Reports now support the use of multiple file system scan paths. A new "multiple paths" button has been added to the main File Reports window for this purpose. Multiple paths are also supported during command line operations (which have been greatly expanded - see below) and file report drill-down operations (which now carry multiple paths into the FolderSizes Search window).
· Feature: Numerous improvements to the FolderSizes command line interface, including support for exporting the contents of File Reports, use of the "/exit" switch in combination with File Reports, application of scan filtering criteria, generation and export of multiple File Reports within a single command, a simplified syntax ("/xml", "/html", "/csv", and "/txt" switches were all replaced with a single "/export" switch), and more. See the "Command Line Support" section of the product help file for more information.
· Feature: The FolderSizes search and scan filtering facilities have been extended to support a new "file name length" criteria. This makes it possible to quickly identify (and filter against) file system objects by the length of their names. It is possible to count the file name alone (the default), or the fully qualified path.
· Feature: The File Names report (part of the File Reports window) now supports drill-down. Double click a report entry in the detail view to automatically launch a search for file name lengths with the selected range.
· Feature: Added a new "fast shell icon collection mode" switch to the Detail View section of the options window. This switch forces FolderSizes to deduce file system object icons from the type of file (rather than opening the file). This switch can provide a considerable performance boost when exploring remote file systems, and it is engaged by default.
· Feature: Added a switch to the general settings (tools | options | settings) that allows the shell context menu to be enabled or disabled.
· Feature: Numerous improvements to keyboard / shortcut handling. Existing shortcuts have been simplified and clarified, and a couple (such as support for Ctrl A to select all entries in file system object lists) new ones added.
· Feature: Added a visual bar graph indicator to all "% of Parent" columns in various detail views throughout the application.
· Feature: Added the ability to configure Windows System Restore via a new item in the Tools menu. Windows System Restore often has considerable impact on local disk space.
· Feature: Added a new "attributes" column to the main exploration view list (hidden by default; right-click the column header to reveal it) and to the search results window (represented in XML data exports called "AttribString").
· Feature: Added a new "avg. file size" column to the main exploration view list (hidden by default). Included in the XML export in both numeric and string formats.
· Feature: Added file owner column to duplicate file report detail view (as well as data exports).
· Feature: FolderSizes now displays a "landing page" when it starts up, designed to assist users in beginning a file system scan.
· Feature: Numerous changes to better support the Windows Vista operating system. For example, default per-user settings files are now stored in the user's "application data" folder, and not in the product installation folder, various registry settings have been re-located, etc.
· Feature: Use of the "/date" command line parameter now appends the current time (along with the date) to the export filename in "HHMMSS" format.
· Feature: When exporting any FolderSizes detail report (including search results, file reports, etc.) to CSV format, a new "Size in Bytes" column is now added automatically. This greatly facilitates analysis of export data within third-party applications such as MS Excel.
· Feature: Improved the overall robustness of the file system scanning engine, including enhancements to reparse point (e.g. junction, symbolic link) processing and error handling routines.
· Feature: Numerous minor improvements to the FilterZip file compression tool, including improved file system scan error handling and user interface consistency changes.
· Feature: The "My Computer" view (triggered when "My Computer" is selected within the Folder Browser panel) can now be exported in CSV format, and is now fully sortable (by any column).
· Feature: The bar graph view within the main application window has been improved to include file system icons (next to graph labels) for easier visual identification. The bars are also now drawn with an attractive gradient effect.
· Feature: When selecting file system objects in the main window detail view, the number of objects and their aggregate size now appear within the first pane of the status bar. This feature is also provided in the FolderSizes search window.
· Feature: Scan filtering criteria can now be loaded from (or saved to) file, and can be applied during command line operations (see documentation for details). The filter criteria can also now be reset to their default values.
· Bug fix: Resolved a problem with internal file filter matching algorithms not correctly comparing file system object attributes in some cases.
· Bug fix: Resolved a problem with automatically opening HTML reports exported from certain File Report windows.
· Bug fix: Resolved an issue with the toolbar Refresh button not always working consistently when dealing with UNC paths.
· Bug fix: Resolved a rare path length related race condition in the Oldest Files report display processor.
· Bug fix: Resolved a rare bug that would cause Oldest / Largest file report heap sizes not to initialize correctly between scans.
· Bug fix: Resolved an issue with the drive space panel graph view not always auto-refreshing.
· Many miscellaneous cosmetic and usability enhancements, documentation updates, and minor bug fixes.
March 5th, 2006· Improvement: Better overall support for very long folder & file names on the Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 platforms.
· Improvement: Search facility now returns folder objects (in addition to files). Note that a filename mask of "*.*" will cause the search results to contain only files (with extensions), whereas a filename mask of "*" will match both files and folders.
· Improvement: Added new right-click context menu to Drive Space Panel detail view. The detail view can now be printed and copied to the Windows clipboard.
· Improvement: The contents of the report that appears when "My Computer" is selected in the folder browser pane can now be printed.
· Improvement: The folder exclusions facility is now more flexible. Exclusions can now be selectively applied to normal scan results, file reports, and / or search results. By default, folder exclusions apply to all three areas.
· Improvement: Deleting objects larger than the recycle bin can accommodate will now prompt the user for confirmation.
· Improvement: Better overall usability in the Folder Exclusions window - previously browsed paths are now remembered, better path deletion behavior, and more.
· Bug fix: Some settings in the File Name Masks tab of the scan / filter definition windows were not being saved (or therefore subsequently re-loaded) correctly.
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