FolderSizes Changelog

What's new in FolderSizes 9.6 Build 480

Apr 25, 2024

Improvement: FolderSizes now offers a core subset of features for free.
Improvement: Personal edition licenses no longer have feature restrictions.
Improvement: Greatly improved regular expression filter and search match performance.
Improvement: Greatly improved detail report column sorting performance.
Improvement: Improved performance for snapshot data import operations.
Improvement: Scheduled tasks can now be configured to run as the local system account.
Improvement: Updated version of embedded SQLite database engine.
Improvement: MFT file residency checks now need to be enabled via the Options window.
Improvement: Improved clarity of various icons for higher resolution displays.
Improvement: Improved consistency of default output file names when exporting data.
Improvement: Folder state icons have been redesigned and dark mode specializations added.
Improvement: Many user interface improvements, including dialog and icon updates.
Improvement: Added help button to Run as Admin feature activation dialog.
Improvement: Error review prompt is themed and provides option not to show again.
Improvement: Improvements to Filter & Zip progress display and error reporting.
Improvement: Optimized status bar layout to minimize size changes during scans.
Improvement: Improved detail report footer record contrast and readability.
Improvement: Improved folder tree control support for network branches.
Improvement: Light and dark variations of the product splash screen.
Improvement: All child dialogs now remember window placement.
Improvement: File system node tooltips now support dark themes.
Improvement: Improved HTML export file format formatting and colors.
Improvement: Improved column width calculations for duplicate file report PDF exports.
Improvement: Added event count indicator to snapshot generator "View Events" button.
Improvement: File Dates file report has been renamed to File Ages.
Bug fix: The relative age folder size report column was not displaying for files.
Bug fix: Folder map view mouse cursor tracking is now synchronized with rendering.
Bug fix: Fixed possible label overruns in the folder report bar graph view.
Bug fix: Fixed confusing mouse-over highlight for checkboxes when using dark theme.
Bug fix: Fixed discrepancies between tab states between the different themes.
Bug fix: Rule-excluded folders were not correctly increment the parent subfolder count.
Bug fix: File operations targeting the recycle bin will now abort if an item cannot be recycled.
Bug fix: Scan data docking panel toolbar wasn't updating consistently when switching themes.
Bug fix: Fixed incorrect table row colors when exporting duplicate file report to HTML.
Bug fix: Fixed possible crash when scanning case-sensitive (non-Windows) file systems.
Bug fix: The search tool toggle for matching all rules was not working consistently.
Bug fix: Fixed incorrect title on the schedule tab of the task editor dialog.
Bug fix: Fixed incorrect reset button selectivity in preset mask editor dialog.
Bug fix: Fixed misleading error text when failing to open an email link.
Bug fix: Fixed incorrect feedback dialog resizing behavior.
Bug fix: Fixed incorrect folder browser tree node colorization.
Bug fix: Fixed rare crash during search operations.

New in FolderSizes 9.5 Build 425 (Jul 28, 2023)

New in FolderSizes 9.5 Build 422 (Mar 31, 2023)

New in FolderSizes 9.5 Build 421 (Mar 21, 2023)

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New in FolderSizes 9.5 Build 409 (Jul 31, 2022)

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New in FolderSizes 9.5 Build 385 (Apr 7, 2022)

New in FolderSizes 9.5 Build 384 (Mar 24, 2022)

New in FolderSizes 9.5 Build 379 (Feb 26, 2022)

Change: FolderSizes now requires a 64-bit Windows operating system.
Improvement: Added new dark (black) theme (replaces existing dark gray theme).
Improvement: On first run, light or dark theme is selected as default based on OS settings.
Improvement: Main window bar graph now provides visualization of immediate children.
Improvement: File type groups report now allows user to drill down into the "no extensions" group.
Improvement: Folder map (treemap) view has improved layout, sizing, and rendering.
Improvement: Folder map view now allows drill-down into untracked file areas.
Improvement: Reduced memory usage when creating trend analysis reports.
Improvement: Added search preset for finding files without extensions.
Improvement: Normalized event log viewer indicators across all product toolbars.
Improvement: Status bars have improved icon resolution, pane layout, and sizing.
Improvement: Folder map view now renders higher-resolution shell icons.
Improvement: Size on disk calculation now accounts for NTFS resident files.
Improvement: All analysis subsystems now use on-demand thread creation model.
Improvement: Thread pool configuration changes no longer require an application restart.
Improvement: Detail view exports including graph images now use PNG format for smaller file size.
Improvement: Improved main window graph title position for high resolution displays.
Improvement: Splash screen now disables certain main window interactions while being displayed.
Improvement: Network share selection detail view list is now sortable.
Improvement: File type groups editor detail list is now sortable.
Improvement: File report range editor detail list is now sortable.
Improvement: Improved search job validation now checks for enabled rules.
Improvement: Extensive theme improvements across all control types.
Improvement: "Run as admin" ribbon bar button now hidden unless actually available.
Improvement: Improved composition of disabled ribbon bar and toolbar images.
Improvement: Improved path interpolation when server name is entered into the location bar.
Improvement: Network share dialog radio button position now restored between uses.
Improvement: Improved window focus handling when navigating via folder tree and location bar.
Improvement: Disk space history is no longer retained for read-only volumes.
Improvement: Trend indicators now use a dedicated symbol to represent equivalence.
Improvement: You can now successfully use the shell context menu on a folder shortcut.
Improvement: System sound is now played when version update notice appears.
Improvement: UI font is now embedded in application resources (no longer system installed).
Improvement: Product installation storage footprint reduced by approximately 40 percent.
Improvement: Upgraded to latest edition of SQLite embedded database library.
Improvement: Tree controls now use full row selection for improved accessibility.
Improvement: "TrackChildFiles" command line parameter now accepts true or false value.
Improvement: File reporter can now use folder report data from memory when file tracking is enabled.
Improvement: Access to file report creation is now accessible from folder report views.
Improvement: Reparse point message bar now allows navigation to the link target (when available).
Improvement: File reports launched from shell context menu now use options to determine enabled reports.
Improvement: Images in HTML report exports are now scaled to the page.
Improvement: Disk Reporter now includes graph images in HTML, PDF, and Excel exports.
Improvement: Improved default graph export image size calculation (now based on screen resolution).
Improvement: Added option to only send search results via email if results were found.
Improvement: Improved error reporting for scheduled task run from the task list window.
Improvement: Deleting files within file reports now updates folder statistics when tracking files in memory.
Improvement: Improved algorithmic performance of file reports that handle date/time comparisons.
Improvement: Added mail service provider preset selector to email configuration window.
Bug fix: Switching date comparison type in oldest or newest file reports resulted in incorrect column visibility.
Bug fix: Fixed rare crash triggered by moving or copying file system objects to an active scan target.
Bug fix: Fixed treemap view artifacts when hovering over very small file system nodes.
Bug fix: Fixed slow scrolling of bar graph when viewing many file system objects.
Bug fix: Fixed rare potential application stall due to disk query latency.
Bug fix: Event log files are now written after email delivery and include any SMTP errors.
Bug fix: Removed unintended window title bar theme from options window.
Bug fix: Double clicking a footer row in the disk reporter detail view triggered a crash.
Bug fix: Ribbon bar docking pane and status bar checkbox state was reversed.
Bug fix: Folder browser tree was not displaying encrypted folders in the correct color.
Bug fix: File type groups editor import and export functions were not working.
Bug fix: Fixed incorrect icon size in trial notification window.
Bug fix: Fixed issue with task schedule data entry validation for daily recurrence.
Bug fix: Fixed missing tab image in folder search rule editor.
Bug fix: Fixed minor column resizing bug in Disk Reporter dialog.
Bug fix: Allocated space graph display ribbon bar option was not being retained.

New in FolderSizes 9.3 Build 362 (Nov 23, 2021)

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New in FolderSizes 9.2 Build 319 (Aug 23, 2021)

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New in FolderSizes 9.1 Build 289 (May 8, 2021)

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New in FolderSizes 9.0 Build 253 (Dec 17, 2019)

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New in FolderSizes 9.0 Build 227 (May 28, 2019)

New in FolderSizes 9.0 Build 224 (May 21, 2019)

New in FolderSizes 8.5 Build 185 (Jul 3, 2018)

New in FolderSizes 8.5 Build 183 (Jun 26, 2018)

New in FolderSizes 8.5 Build 174 (Mar 6, 2018)

Feature: Delayed redraw of treemap view while resizing main window has been improved.
Feature: Upgraded to latest edition (3.22.0) of SQLite embedded database library.
Feature: Improved folder map (treemap) performance and text clarity.
Feature: Folder report pie graph now supports exploding of sections by various criteria.
Feature: Improved disk space history tracking performance via volume serial deduplication.
Bug fix: File report range editor was incorrectly restricting the minimum and maximum range values.
Bug fix: Excel report exports could become corrupted when produced by multiple, concurrent FolderSizes instances.
Bug fix: Duplicate Files Report was exporting incorrect column order for some (HTML, PDF, Excel) file formats.
Bug fix: Options import and export functions were not reporting error conditions correctly in all scenarios.
Bug fix: NTFS attribute strings were missing the L character for reparse points (symbolic links, etc.).
Bug fix: NTFS attribute letter ordering has been modified to match Windows Explorer.
Bug fix: Fixed bug in location bar customize context menu.
Bug fix: Fixed rare potential for shell context menu crash.
Bug fix: Shell context menu icon now fully supports transparency.
Bug fix: Fixed small product splash screen when running in high DPI environments.
Bug fix: Fixed incorrect main window location bar icon sizing when running in high DPI environments.
Bug fix: Fixed incorrect default splitter sizing in trend analyzer when running in high DPI environments.
Bug fix: Fixed incorrect text sizing in various graph views when running in high DPI environments.
Bug fix: Fixed disk reporter detail view icon sizing when running in high DPI environments.
Bug fix: Fixed various search tool defects that occurred when running in high DPI environments.
Bug fix: Fixed incorrect button icon scaling when running in high DPI environments.
Bug fix: Fixed incorrect treemap icon and text positioning when running in high DPI environments.
Bug fix: Fixed numerous incorrect menu icon sizes when running in high DPI environments.
Bug fix: Fixed incorrect file reporter progress animation size when running in high DPI environments.

New in FolderSizes 8.4.155 (Jun 7, 2017)

New in FolderSizes 8.3.150 (Sep 28, 2016)

New in FolderSizes 8.3.149 (Aug 19, 2016)

New in FolderSizes 8.3.145 (Aug 10, 2016)

New in FolderSizes 8.2.137 (May 9, 2016)

New in FolderSizes 8.2.134 (May 3, 2016)

Feature: Added the ability to retain original folder structure during file move or copy operations (from search or file report detail views).
Feature: File reports now include summary (total) footers, visible by default (see options window to disable).
Feature: HTML and PDF export functions were updated to include new summary (total) footers.
Feature: File reports Excel format exports were updated to include new summary (total) footers, including new SUM formulas for byte values.
Feature: Task scheduler detail list view now supports sorting.
Feature: Added duplicate file report option (on by default) that causes it to ignore files currently being managed by Windows Server data deduplication.
Feature: Additional fields added to duplicate file report CSV/TXT export format.
Feature: File report default column layouts have been revised and made more consistent.
Feature: Exporting search results for large data sets can take some time, so we've added an on-screen wait message.
Feature: Zip compression progress dialog now shows a count of remaining files to process.
Feature: The path of a text file containing multiple scan paths (one per line) can now be passed into the "search" command line parameter.
Feature: Help file updates, including a new topic for file processing operations and associated options.
Bug fix: Fixed rare (hard-to-reach) crash condition when attemtping to export empty report contents.
Bug fix: Fixed extremely rare detail report printing crash condition.
Bug fix: Fixed Search report crash that could occur when deleting items (via delete key) while the search was still in progress.
Bug fix: Ribbon bar option "Graph | Show Allocated" was not retaining state between application sessions.
Bug fix: Fixed incorrect column name in duplicate file report CSV/TXT export format.
Bug fix: Fixed UTF-8 encoding problem that could occur with text-based export file formats.
Bug fix: Fit for file processing log file browsing unnecessarily warning about file replacement if the file already exists.
Bug fix: Minor theme fixes and improvements.

New in FolderSizes 8.1.123 (Feb 14, 2016)

New in FolderSizes 8.1.122 (Feb 14, 2016)

New in FolderSizes 8.1.121 (Feb 8, 2016)

New in FolderSizes 8.1.120 (Feb 6, 2016)

New in FolderSizes 8.1.117 (Feb 6, 2016)

Feature: Added new themes with orange accent colors
Feature: Extended available dark themes to provide optional blue, red, green, or orange accents
Feature: Extended use of theme colors into progress bars and other UI areas
Feature: Improved rendering style of progress bars in the main window Computer view
Feature: Added the ability to edit the names of scheduled tasks (during initial creation only)
Feature: All report detail views now honor the user's preferred grid style
Feature: The "Full owner lookup during export" option is now off by default (see Options | Export)
Feature: Added the ability to set the current file size display method from the File Reporter toolbar
Feature: Improved default row focus behavior in various detail report views
Feature: Exporting all File Reports as HTML now includes an index for improved report navigation
Feature: Exporting empty detail views now adds "no items to show" to the empty table
Feature: Docking drive space panel now offers new columns, improved column configuration, and improved theming
Feature: Docking drive space panel clipboard export is now comma delimted (with headers) for improved consistency
Feature: Docking drive space panel now shows tooltips for drive letter column only (for improved consistency with other reports)
Feature: Added the ability to purge the volume history database (see Options | Drive Space)
Feature: The docking drive space window can now export visible column data or complete detail data
Bug fix: Scheduler window could incorrectly show "One or more of the specified email addresses in invalid" in specific cases
Bug fix: Application manifest was incorrectly identified as being high DPI aware
Bug fix: Some controls weren't enabled (by default) when editing an existing file report scheduled task
Bug fix: Disk reporter list tooltips were not themed correctly
Bug fix: "Run as administrator" shortcut was not working correctly
Bug fix: Changing application theme would incorrectly reset tooltip visibilty preference
Bug fix: Resolved minor inconsistencies in available export file formats for some reports
Bug fix: Resolved application exit crash that could occur after using the task scheduler multiple times
Bug fix: Resolved application exit crash that could occur when changing application theme from within welcome dialog
Bug fix: Hyperlinks within the version update notification pop-up window where not functioning

New in FolderSizes 8.0.102 (Jan 13, 2016)

New in FolderSizes 8.0.91 (Jan 13, 2016)

Features:
Added official support for Windows 10.
Significant performance improvements when generating Folder Reports (especially against network file systems).
Significant performance improvements when generating Snapshots (especially against network file systems).
Significant performance improvements when generating File Reports (especially against network file systems).
Significant performance improvements when importing trend analyzer data on multi-core computers (especially from network file systems).
All new set of windows, dialog, and ribbon bar themes with green, black, red, and blue accents.
All detail reports now support multi-column sorting (hold the shift key and click multiple column headers in sequence).
Search tool can now locate folders based upon the number of files and/or folders that they contain.
Search tool and File Report windows now offer file processing capabilities, including copy, move, delete, and archive functions.
Improved colorization of the treemap file system visualization helps to differentiate children of the current view root.
Added an option to widen the folder bar graph label area, thus increasing object name visibility.
Folder bar graph now uses right-aligned labels by default (can be toggled in Graph tab of ribbon bar).
Scan filtering and search have been simplified via removal of the "Include all files" and "Include all folders" switches (this behavior is now deduced automatically).
The scheduler (and cmd line) can now automatically purge old report files from the output folder(s) associated with a scheduled task.
When exporting data to XML, date/time values are now represented in standards-compliant ISO 8601 format (UTC).
The duplicate file report presentation has been completely re-designed so that master/detail interaction is no longer required.
The duplicate file report can now be printed directly from within FolderSizes (no longer necessary to export and print externally).
Added duplicate file report options for ignoring special and numeric characters when comparing file names.
The duplicate file report now honors the current report layout when exporting to file formats intended for human consumption (HTML, PDF, etc.).
File report detail views now offer superior header column customization support that is retained between uses.
Many file reports now provide a default sort column (where it makes sense to do so).
Largest, oldest, newest, temporary, and duplicate file reports now expose attribute, depth, and file type columns (hidden by default).
Search tool can now find folders based upon their (immediate or aggregate) file/folder count.
Search results list now offers immediate file and folder count columns (hidden by default).
Added multiple new scan filter samples that can used to limit results by file owner, file creation time, and more.
File report navigation has been improved and simplified, with graph views now shows as child tabs where applicable.
File report detail views now offer improved column selection, tooltips, theme support, and layout.
You can now enter environment variables (e.g. "%TMP%") in place of scan paths anywhere that manual path entry is permitted.
You can now search for folders by their calculated modified, accessed, or created date/time stamp.
Search results report now offers optional (hidden by default) "Modified (calculated)", "Accessed (calculated)", and "Created (calculated)" columns.
Search result detail view now offers enhanced theme support, improved tooltips, and improved column configuration options.
Added "from address" validation to the email section of the options window (validation occurs during testing).
Trend analyzer detail reports can now be exported in XML and PDF file formats (in addition to existing format options).
File report owner lookup options have been combined into a single, master lookup switch.
Temporary file report default file matching mask has been extended to include partial downloads, .temp files, and more.
Trend analyzer detail report exports now match on-screen report layout when exporting to file formats intended for human consumption (HTML, PDF, etc.).
Added an option (on by default) to shorten pie graph labels when showing file or folder names.
Excel export improvements to column auto-sizing logic as well as minor compatibility enhancements.
Disk history detail view dialog now includes the drive label in the graph content.
Disk reporter now includes a history graph that shows trend lines for all volumes included in the report.
Disk reporter trend reporting mechanism now shows absolute change in used space (in addition to existing percentage change).
When scheduling a disk report with the task scheduler, you can now elect to export the disk history graph image.
Disk report export data is now more consistent across file types and exposes normal, percentage, and byte values in separate columns.
Trend analyzer graphs now have titles, making them easier to identify when exported as image files.
Trend analyzer subfolder change report now exposes starting and ending file/folder counts (folder count columns are hidden by default).
Trend analyzer now allows users to view files/folders associated with any snapshot/directory combination (when using .fssx files as a data source).
Trend analyzer subfolder change report now allows display of starting/ending snapshot files/folders (when using .fssx files as a data source).
Trend analyzer is no longer limited to a single instance across multiple FolderSizes processes.
My Computer view now displays actual drive icons, extracted from the Windows shell.
Folder reports, file reports, and snapshot generation now show a "files per second" performance metric during file system scans.
Improved item deletion sequencing in the file report range and file type group editors.
Folder report graph views now retain high/low sorting regardless of detail view sorting or active display mode.
Duplicate file report export to Excel now includes size and allocated size expressed in raw bytes.
Largest Files banding graph now shows file names when space is available; report item indices are no longer used.
Improved shell icon extraction and caching mechanisms make for smoother, faster report displays.
Added an environmental variable path chooser tool that is accessible from all path management locations.
Environment variables are now expanded when processing the (non-regex) name masks (and the owner match pattern) of search and scan filter rules.
Default folder report column orders have been altered for improved discoverability.
Folder report export includes additional size-in-bytes values when exporting to Excel, CSV, and XML.
Windows shell Libraries can now be selected in the Folder Browser docking panel, which will cause FolderSizes to analyze all associated physical paths.
Any report export that exposes a "size (bytes)" column now also exposes an "allocated (bytes)" (e.g. size on disk) column.
Exporting duplicate file report to MS Excel now includes a "flat" (non-grouped) render in an adjacent worksheet.
Scroll position, row selection, and row focus are all now retained between automatic refreshes of the main window folder detail view.
Improved sorting of search results to separate folders and folders in a manner similar to the folder report and Windows Explorer.
When the main window View|Sort function is used to sort the current folder report, the associated column is made visible if necessary.
The "Find empty folders" search sample has been improved to use contained file/folder count (rather than cumulative folder size) for reporting.
Added two new search job samples - one for finding folders with many files, and another for finding recently created document files.
Added a terabyte (TB) file size size display option to the File Sizes selector of the main window View tab.
Added new "/search path" command line argument for overriding the paths of a search job file (useful for scripting, etc.).
Excel detail report exports now include date and times in the headers (and page number in the footers) during printing.
Improved XML element name normalization when exporting XML data directly from a detail list view.
Folder report "% parent" and "avg. file size" columns now honor the graph view allocated mode switch.
Folder map highlighting now supports custom filtering via file/folder count and includes an additional preset.
XML folder data file layout has been improved to reduce overall output file size (significantly).
The XML style sheet has been updated to match new folder data file layout (styling was improved as well).
The detail report context menu can now show properties for multiple selected file system objects (rather than just the first one).
Product installer now offers the ability to choose whether the Windows shell context menu extension is included.
The Windows shell context menu extension was updated to include the "file depths" report.
The Windows shell context menu extension can now be used against multiple selected folder objects at once.
Interactions with disk space history database are now roughly twice as fast as previous releases.
Regular expression support has been extended, and now supports the ECMAScript (JavaScript) expression grammar.
FilterZip regular expression presets have been updated for ECMAScript compliance and extended.
Computer view tooltips now show volume paths (GUIDs) and also lists any additional mount points for the volume.
When creating a new trend analysis, users can now constrain the scope of the data import to a specific number of days.
Added a minimize button to the general (file report, snapshot, etc.) progress window that minimizes the application.
Added status bar to scan filtering configuration dialog to help clarify current feature engagement.
Improved handling and management of tasks (including orphaned tasks) via the integrated task scheduler tool.
Improved event logging during FilterZip operations and a new button for viewing events (shown in the progress window).
FilterZip tool now produces zip files with Unicode extension support.
Various improvements to disk history storage mechanisms to improve performance and provide better process instance isolation.
The performance of some text-based export operations (such as CSV and HTML) have been improved considerably (up to 3x faster).
The disk history database has been re-located to an unversioned file system location so that it isn't lost after major version upgrades.
The File Report range editor dialog now provides min/max value edit controls with embedded calculator buttons.
The File Dates file report can now switch between showing modified, created, and accessed date/time stamps without needing a rescan.
The File Names file report can now switch between showing file name and full path lengths without needing a rescan.
The File Sizes file report can now switch between showing file sizes or allocated sizes without needing a rescan.
FilterZip dialog window can now be resized horizontally, with size and position now retained between uses.
Improved layout and theming for extension database browser dialog.
Bug fix:
Resolved crash that could occur on x64 systems when drilling into a file system node via the main window pie graph view.
Searching of snapshot files would incorrectly attempt file owner resolution (ownership should only be shown when contained by the snapshot).
Searching a snapshot file with the "include all folders" option engaged didn't work unless the "search subfolders" option was also engaged.
Changing the "set allocated size of offline files" scanning option didn't enable/disable the adjacent drop-down box immediately.
Specific file report toolbar shortcut keys were not working as expected.
Resetting the temp file report file name mask field to its default values did not take effect immediately.
Option to suppress folder report pie graph labels was not being applied.
File types report graph view was not showing the extension part of the label.
Changed search dialog samples toolbar button hotkey to avoid conflict with "select all" CTRL+A key combination.
Search dialog file size totals (shown in status bar) were displayed incorrectly.
When searching for file system objects by name, commas in the name mask were being interpreted incorrectly.
Update check notification pop-up couldn't be closed while a modal dialog was on screen.
The docking drive space panel would not show drives with duplicate volume serial numbers.
Fixed crash that could occur when refreshing a multi-path folder analysis from the main window.
Fixed crash that occurred when removing all elements via the file report range editor.
Resolved a number of bugs relating to the display of folder report graphs when using the allocated space display option.
File report graphs were not honoring master graph tooltip display option.
The used and free disk space columns were reversed on the network share share selection dialog.
Sorting from the header context popup menu of the main window folder view didn't work.
NTFS compression option was not being applied to certain qualified export file types.
Applying "best fit" to a single folder detail report column (from context menu) was not working.
Reparse point folders may now be reported in search results even when configured not to follow them.
Corrected the fidelity and transparency of toolbar images in the search window (noticeable when using dark theme).
Triggering snapshot creation from the FolderSizes shell context menu extension was not populating the snapshot path correctly.
Starting a new trend analysis with an existing tree node selected could potentially cause a crash.
Trend analyzer window could be slow to launch initially in some environments.
File system object ownership lookup could fail for extremely long paths.
Ribbon bar groups now show representative icons when collapsed through user resizing action.
Fixed a rare NTFS reparse point traversal bug that could prevent certain linkages from being followed.
Fixed bug in the "open with" file open fallback logic introduced in v7.1.
FilterZip was not correctly honoring the user reparse point traversal preference.
FilterZip dialog was not correctly restoring all UI configuration elements from saved default job.
Fixed auto-hidden docking panel redraw problems in main window and trend analyzer dialog.
Some child dialog were loading incorrect icon size, causing them to appear less sharp.

New in FolderSizes 7.5.30 (Feb 10, 2015)

New in FolderSizes 7.5.28 (Feb 4, 2015)

New in FolderSizes 7.5.24 (Dec 9, 2014)

New in FolderSizes 7.5.23 (Dec 5, 2014)

New in FolderSizes 7.5.22 (Dec 2, 2014)

New in FolderSizes 7.5.20 (Nov 27, 2014)

New in FolderSizes 7.5.18 (Nov 26, 2014)

Feature: Added disk usage history tracking features, including a dedicated Disk History graph/details report.
Feature: Percentage growth indicator has been integrated into the main window computer view, Disk Reporter, and docking drive space panel.
Feature: Disk reports can now be scheduled for execution and data export. Also useful for ensuring regular disk history data capture.
Feature: Disk Reporter is now accessible via the command line (see new "/diskreport" command line switch).
Feature: The trend analyzer can now consume snapshot (.fssx) files directly (support for folder report XML data is also retained).
Feature: Snapshot (.fssx) reports now include disk level data for improved compatiblity with the trend analyzer.
Feature: Added percentage of parent indicator to pie graph slice labels.
Feature: Pie graph slice labels now display relative paths (useful when using a non-default view depth).
Feature: Excel exports now offer improved column width sizing so that they adjust to their contents.
Feature: FolderSizes now applies NTFS compression to text-based export file types (HTML, XML, CSV & TXT).
Feature: Added the ability to reset file report ranges to their default values (within the range editor dialog).
Feature: Added a new "Files (Immediate)" column to the main window folder detail report (including exports, etc).
Feature: Discover Shares dialog now remembers last server and domain field values between uses.
Feature: Main window and disk reporter detail views have improved vertical spacing and readability.
Feature: File report, search, and other detail list views have improved font sizing and readability.
Feature: Progress bars in all report detail views are now slightly larger and use theme colors for increased prominence.
Feature: Search, Disk Reporter, and File Report windows now have Schedule toolbar buttons to assist with report scheduling.
Feature: Improved default search and disk reporter window sizes.
Feature: Multiple revisions have been made to the product help file.
Feature: Various user interface improvements and additions.
Bug fix: Disk reports exported to PDF were missing columns.
Bug fix: Keyboard shortcut for the Samples toolbar button in the Search window wasn't working.

New in FolderSizes 7.1.92 (Sep 24, 2014)

New in FolderSizes 7.1.84 (Jul 3, 2014)

New in FolderSizes 7.1.80 (May 26, 2014)

New in FolderSizes 7.1.79 (May 20, 2014)

New in FolderSizes 7.1.77 (May 16, 2014)

New in FolderSizes 7.1.75 (Apr 30, 2014)

Feature: Added a new File Depths report, with customizable range configuration and detail/graph views.
Feature: Updated command line and scheduler interfaces to support new file depths report.
Feature: Snapshot file generation now provides a means of excluding paths.
Feature: Added "loadExclusionsFile" snapshot command line option (see help for details).
Feature: Added the ability to right-click the scan data panel virtual root node and refresh all top-level children.
Feature: Where applicable, detail view tooltips are now shown only when the mouse hovers over the "name" column.
Feature: Using the "graphtype" command line parameter will now select the associated graph view in the user interface.
Feature: Columns in the task scheduler list have been re-ordered for improved readability.
Feature: Added new support for themed window frames (Windows Vista and later).
Feature: File type groups list dialog is now resizable and retains sizing between uses.
Feature: Introduced new help file topics for new features and clarified several existing topics.
Feature: Exporting file report graph images now triggers the export complete dialog (with option to open exported file).
Feature: Minor improvements to the file report range editor dialog to increase usability.
Bug fix: Snapshot window control state was not being retained between uses.
Bug fix: Resolved hit test failure when right-clicking the icon portion of a scan data tree node.
Bug fix: Resolved crash that could occur when right-clicking an unavailable path in the folder browser docking panel.
Bug fix: When using the dark application theme, folder report detail view text could become obscured upon row selection.
Bug fix: When expanding scan data tree nodes to specific levels, the selected node is now automatically collapsed first.
Bug fix: Resolved installer problem that prevented creation of .fssx (snapshot) file type association on 32-bit systems.
Bug fix: Resolved dynamic text layout discrepancies (associated with default font sizes) on Windows XP

New in FolderSizes 7.0.67 (Apr 7, 2014)

New in FolderSizes 7.0.58 (Mar 25, 2014)

New in FolderSizes 7.0.56 (Mar 19, 2014)

New in FolderSizes 7.0.55 (Mar 19, 2014)

New in FolderSizes 7.0.51 (Mar 19, 2014)

Feature: New file system snapshot feature can capture the state of an entire file system branch.
New .fssx file association introduced for snapshots, with double-click (to open) and drag-and-drop support.
Snapshot (.fssx) files can be used to generate folder reports, file reports, and search reports (with or without scan filtering).
Snapshot (.fssx) files are fully supported by the scheduler, command line interpreter, and shell context menu.
Path selection and management features have been updated to support the selection of snapshot files.
Feature: Added extensive support for exporting report data in Microsoft Excel Workbook (.xls or .xlsx) format.
Feature: Added the ability to export all File Reports at once, creating a single HTML or MS Excel export file.
Feature: Added option (on by default) for embedding images directly into HTML export files (works with nearly all modern browsers).
Feature: New disk reporter tool has been added to allow custom reporting for any number of local or remote disk drives.
Feature: Drag and drop support has been added to the main window detail view, which can target itself, the folder browser panel, or the scan data window.
Feature: Cut, copy, and paste support has been added to the main window detail view (via right-click context menu).
Feature: Main window reports and data visualizations have been moved into tabs within the main client area, increasing available space.
Feature: View tab of main window ribbon bar now has a dedicated sort button that can be used to affect all detail/graph views.
Feature: File system type and volume label fields have been added to all disk space export file types (e.g. xml, pdf, html, and csv).
Feature: Main window pie graph has been redesigned for superior appearance, performance, and use of screen real estate.
Feature: Main window graphs now share a common display mode that can switch between size, file count, and folder count metrics.
Feature: File report graphs have been re-engineered for improved performance, printing, exporting quality, and more.
Feature: File report graphs can now be switched between size and file count views.
Feature: File report graphs can now be rendered as either bar graphs or pie graphs (switchable at runtime).
Feature: Introduced new major version settings migration process. User will be prompted on first run of new major version installation.
Feature: Network share discovery features have been expanded, and can now optionally enumerate shares on entire domains (or workgroups).
Feature: All XML file operations (including export, import, etc.) are now significantly faster and more memory efficient.
Feature: File report window browse button now allows for selection of multiple folders.
Feature: Folder map view now suspends recalculation and rendering while main window is being resized, improving performance.
Feature: Main window status bar now shows current application memory usage (private working set).
Feature: Implemented a number of memory optimizations, particularly valuable for large file system data sets.
Feature: File system object context menu now adapts based upon whether files/folders are actually available.
Feature: Added new option (on by default) that causes report printing to default to landscape mode.
Feature: Updated the file extension database to include several thousand new entries.
Feature: Updated networking subsystems for improved SMTP/HTTP compatibility and performance.
Feature: Improved performance of file extension browser tool to accommodate increased database sizes.
Feature: Toolbar buttons used to enter multiple paths now have drop-down menus that allow for faster selection of specific path types.
Feature: Network share enumeration functions were extended to include administrative shares (such as C$, ADMIN$, etc.).
Feature: Trend analyzer top subfolder growth report has been re-purposed into a general-purpose subfolder change report (now shows all data points).
Feature: The trend analyzer start date is now automatically initialized based upon imported data.
Feature: Trend analyzer default docking pane layout has been improved to provide more vertical space to non-client views.
Feature: Trend analyzer subfolder change report now uses color to better show folder growth or contraction.
Feature: Trend analyzer history charts now provide tooltips that expose additional information about their data points.
Feature: Added "path length", "name length", and "link target" columns to the main window detail view.
Feature: Significant performance improvements (roughly 3x) when using the File Report Generator to create a File Owners report.
Feature: Significant performance improvements when using the FolderSizes Search tool.
Feature: Drive views now expose device bus type (e.g. SCSI, SATA, RAID, etc.) data, including in tooltips and exports.
Feature: Computer view now shows processor count and current logged in user name.
Feature: Computer view print and print preview functions now automatically hide the command bar portion of the screen.
Feature: Improved (more informative) search result list tooltips with a new option that allows them to be disabled entirely.
Feature: Storage devices of indeterminate size (e.g. that are offline) are now displayed with faded icons in the computer view.
Feature: The drive space docking panel now updates itself without altering the current list scroll position or item selection.
Feature: Added "depth" column to the Search results detail view.
Feature: Added the ability to search and/or scan filter by file system object depth (computed as an absolute depth from the path root).
Feature: A number of scan filter and search job sample files are now accessible from their respective dialog windows.
Feature: Event logs now have a fixed maximum size (102,400 entries) which, when exceeded, will trigger log entry rotation.
Feature: Path input menus now offer an explicit option for manual path entry, with syntactic examples.
Feature: Path input menus now offer a method of choosing specific local disk drives (e.g. a disk chooser dialog).
Feature: The Newest Files and File Type Groups file report types have been added to the shell context menu.
Feature: Improved date/time serialization/deserialization in trend analysis data import procedure, providing broader locale support.
Feature: Detail view context menu now allows mapped network drive paths to be copied to the clipboard in Universal (UNC) format
Feature: Added a new, "Modern Office" graph palette option to the main window theme selection button.
Feature: Improved tooltip trigger area trigger for devices shown within the computer view.
Feature: Improved crash reporting to recognize modern Windows OS releases and send additional information.
Feature: Added advanced option for folder reports that allows all child files to be tracked in memory during scanning and snapshot import.
Feature: Added a switch that allows file ownership resolution to be disabled for search jobs.
Bug fix: The confirmation that appears when deleting files to the Windows Recycle Bin now notes that network file system objects are deleted permanently.
Bug fix: Sorting of top subfolder growth detail view (by name) in the trend analyzer window was (incorrectly) case sensitive.
Bug fix: Pie graph slice count was one less than the user-configured maximum value.
Bug fix: Resolved minor thread memory leak that occurred during import of XML folder report data.
Bug fix: Resolved issues that could occur if user clicked main frame close button to close print preview.
Bug fix: Largest files report banding graph tooltips showed incorrect file/folder count values.
Bug fix: Trend analysis graph colors weren't conforming to user-selected graph palette.
Bug fix: Scan data window tooltips are no longer shown while right-click context menu is on-screen.
Bug fix: Renaming a file system object and then deleting it (in the main window detail view) would cause a crash.
Bug fix: Up path navigation button would fail to be enabled in specific circumstances.
Bug fix: Oldest and newest file report detail views were not processing multiple file deletions correctly (only processed first selection).
Bug fix: Resolved a rare problem with file system enumeration that could cause the analysis to loop within inaccessible paths.
Bug fix: Splash screen wouldn't show on first run under certain specific conditions (contingent on screen resolution).
Bug fix: Clicking the main window detail info panel hyperlink for an offline (unavailable) file system node didn't work as expected.

New in FolderSizes 6.1.76 (Aug 23, 2013)

New in FolderSizes 6.1.73 (Aug 23, 2013)

New in FolderSizes 6.1.71 (Feb 6, 2013)

New in FolderSizes 6.1.68 (Oct 13, 2012)

New in FolderSizes 6.1.66 (Oct 13, 2012)

New in FolderSizes 6.1.61 (Aug 8, 2012)

New in FolderSizes 6.1.60 (Aug 6, 2012)

Feature: Added formal support for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
Feature: Added a Newest Files report to FolderSizes, complete with command line and scheduler interface support, as well as all other features common to File Reports (printing, export, etc.).
Feature: Added a new "Folders (Immediate)" column to main window folder detail view. This new column provides a count of immediate child folders only (as opposed to a total recursive count, which is what the existing "Folders" column provides). This column is hidden by default.
Feature: Added "absolute change" column to trend analyzer detail views (including primary and "top subfolder growth" detail views).
Feature: Trend analyzer now normalizes file system node data distribution across all snapshots, making analysis results more intuitive.
Feature: Minor performance and resource consumption improvements in trend analyzer.
Feature: Trend analyzer now shows "---" for change percentages where the starting value is zero.
Feature: Added a setting to the Scanning section of the Options window that allows users to enable special "allocated size" computations for offline files.
Feature: Largest, temporary, and duplicate file report detail view now provide a means of showing created and/or accessed date (in addition to existing modified date). The new columns are hidden by default (right-click column header to enable them).
Feature: Oldest files report detail view now makes modified, created, and accessed columns available for display (right-click column header to enable them). There's also a new option that will keep the visible date/time columns in sync with the currently selected comparison attribute.
Feature: Added text to the update checker (and automatic update check notification) to clarify the product upgrade policy.
Feature: Improved folder map string drawing tolerances, resulting in improved overall data availability.
Feature: The FolderSizes "computer" view now shows volume labels (as maintained by the Windows shell), rather than volume names.
Feature: Tooltips on Largest Files report banding graph now use a re-show delay, making them less intrusive.
Bug fix: Fixed (somewhat rare) crash that could occur in trend analyzer window just after completion of data import.
Bug fix: Fixed minor text coloring defect in trend analyzer detail listing.
Bug fix: Resolved minor memory leak in trend analyzer.
Bug fix: Fixed layout issue with "computer" view where drive labels exceeded expected length.
Bug fix: Resolved rare crash related to drawing of an invalid shell icon image.
Bug fix: FolderSizes could fail to import data from XML export files exceeding 2GB in size.
Important: The syntax of folder report XML data has been revised slightly for increased brevity, reducing overall file sizes and increasing performance. This release can, however, still read XML files generated with older versions.

New in FolderSizes 6.0.47 (Jun 27, 2012)

New in FolderSizes 6.0.44 (Jun 14, 2012)

New in FolderSizes 6.0.43 (Jun 14, 2012)

Feature: New Trend Analyzer feature allows users to import multiple scan data XML files to create historical views of disk and folder changes.
Feature: Added a new, fully customizable File Type Groups file report. Users can now generate file classification reports with named file type groupings (such as "Image files") that contain one or more file extensions (e.g. ".gif", ".jpg", etc.). There are both detail (with drill-down support) and graph views.
Feature: Command line and scheduling interfaces have been extended to support the new File Type Groups report (detail and graph). See help for details.
Feature: Added PDF report export capability throughout FolderSizes. PDF export is supported for all report types (e.g. normal, search, file, etc.).
Feature: Added command line and scheduler support for PDF export format. All scheduler dialogs have been updated with PDF export options.
Feature: When exporting main window reports as HTML or PDF, the currently selected graph type is used when creating the export file image.
Feature: Added support for sorting reports via the command line and scheduling interfaces. See help file for details.
Feature: New ribbon customization support now included in the program options window.
Feature: FolderSizes now offers a hard link tracking option that causes hard links to affect the computation of allocated file system object sizes (see Scanning section of Options window).
Feature: Added a new "drivespace" command line parameter, which can be used to export drive-level information (see help for details) independently of (or in combination with) other report exports.
Feature: The overall design of the File Report Generator window has been significantly improved. It now provides collapsible navigation groups and makes better use of available screen real estate.
Feature: The FolderSizes Search window now uses a splitter control to separate the search input (paths and rules) from the results list.
Feature: Users can now customize the message (subject and body) sent during email report delivery.
Feature: User-editable template files have been relocated to the user's application data folder.
Feature: Added hyperlinks to the Export section of the Options page for editing CSS and XSLT templates used by FolderSizes.
Feature: When exporting the "file dates" and "oldest files" reports as HTML, the report now specifies which date type was used for classification.
Feature: Main window detail view now supports smooth scrolling, and also now aligns column headers according to overall column alignment.
Feature: Folder-level scan filter rules are now evaluated for root paths during file report generation. This allows for additional filtering scenarios, such as constraining file report analysis to a single root path, etc.
Feature: The path manager window now provides checkboxes that can be used to select from available paths without removing them from the listing. Checkbox state is also now saved and loaded (via respective toolbar buttons).
Feature: The main window and File Report window path entry boxes now support dynamic expansion of server shares. Entering a server in UNC format (e.g. "\\server") will trigger the enumeration of its shares. When running in interactive mode, the user will be prompted to select from the among the enumerated shares.
Feature: The "Add" function of the path manager window has been extended to support browsing for directories, enumerating server shares, and adding local disk resources (fixed, network, removable, etc.).
Feature: Added support for loading program options file via the task scheduler. This works just like the "loadoptions" command line parameter (see help file).
Feature: When scheduling file system analysis tasks, the scheduling parameters set by the user are now fully validated before the task is saved.
Feature: A "set to present" button was added to the scheduling tab of the task editor (in relation to the task start date and time).
Feature: Added severity level filtering to error display window.
Feature: The task scheduler has been improved to make adding and editing file reports more intuitive.
Feature: File report export toolbar button now shows a drop-down menu with available export formats for the selected report.
Feature: The scan data window "find deepest folder" function now uses the currently selected tree node as the starting point (rather than always using the root node).
Feature: Total file size panel in search window now also shows allocated size (e.g. size on disk).
Feature: The file attributes, file sizes, file dates, and file names report detail views now include a percentage column.
Feature: Added right-click context menu to classification file report detail views, providing another means of locating specific file instances (works same as double-clicking).
Feature: The master and detail lists of the Duplicate File report are now separated by a resizable splitter control, allowing users to adjust the relative list sizes.
Feature: The columns of the docking drive space panel list control are now customizable (right-click the list control header). New columns have also been added, including a visual indicator of disk used percentage.
Feature: Added drop-down menus to several main window docking panels (drive space panel, graph panels, etc.) that expose a range of related commands.
Feature: Folder browser tree nodes are now colorized according to colors set in Options | Detail View.
Feature: XML import speed and efficiency was improved significantly.
Feature: Achieved significant memory savings in many common file search scenarios (up to 40% in some cases).
Feature: New, unified 32/64 bit installer automatically installs the correct x86/x64 executables for the user's environment.
Feature: Total (overall) average file size was added to summary section of XML, PDF, and HTML export file formats.
Feature: Added the option to suppress the linkage of XSLT files to XML exports from the command line and scheduled task interfaces.
Feature: For improved consistency, the File Types report graph has been converted to a bar graph.
Bug fix: Resolved problem with data type conversions in specific file size display scenarios.
Bug fix: Minor correction in HTML export (placement of total files scanned was off slightly).
Bug fix: Exporting the main window graph image directly to clipboard or file could result in the wrong graph type being saved (in rare circumstances).
Bug fix: Template files were being incorrectedly flagged as read-only during product installation.
Bug fix: In some cases, errors that occurred during report export were not being properly reported.
Bug fix: Corrected case where long paths in duplicate files report HTML export were not being wrapped.
Bug fix: XML export of file reports failed to produce a successfull export notification.
Bug fix: Resolved problem with scan data panel not updating parent nodes that were scrolled out of view (in specific cases).
Bug fix: Attribute file report detail view drill-down was not building correct file search parameters.
Bug fix: Parsing of "filereport" command line parameter argument is no longer case sensitive.
Bug fix: Resolved problem with two specific export options not being restored properly after application restart.
Bug fix: File types report graph was not honoring the "show allocated size in graphs" option.
Bug fix: File owners report graph labels showed percentage value twice (corrected to show actual value along with percentage).

New in FolderSizes 5.6.52 (Jan 10, 2012)

New in FolderSizes 5.6.51 (Nov 7, 2011)

New in FolderSizes 5.6.46 (Oct 19, 2011)

New in FolderSizes 5.6.44 (Sep 2, 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.

New in FolderSizes 5.5.40 (Aug 10, 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.

New in FolderSizes 5.1.26 (Jun 21, 2011)

New in FolderSizes 5.1.18 (Jun 14, 2011)

New in FolderSizes 5.1.16 (Jun 11, 2011)

New in FolderSizes 5.0.84 (May 12, 2011)

New in FolderSizes 5.0.73 (Jan 21, 2011)

New in FolderSizes 5.0.67 (Oct 15, 2010)

New in FolderSizes 5.0.64 (Oct 8, 2010)

New in FolderSizes 5.0.57 (Sep 15, 2010)

New in FolderSizes 5.0.53 (Sep 2, 2010)

New in FolderSizes 5.0.51 (Sep 2, 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.

New in FolderSizes 4.8.3.10 (Feb 24, 2010)

New in FolderSizes 4.8.2.92 (Dec 29, 2009)

New in FolderSizes 4.8.1.74 (Sep 29, 2009)

New in FolderSizes 4.8.1.72 (Jul 8, 2009)

New in FolderSizes 4.8.0.55 (Jun 6, 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.

New in FolderSizes 4.7.0.37 (Sep 12, 2008)

New in FolderSizes 4.7.0.36 (Sep 1, 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.

New in FolderSizes 4.5.1.1 (Apr 19, 2008)

New in FolderSizes 4.1.1.0 (Oct 23, 2007)

New in FolderSizes 4.1.0.0 (Jul 21, 2007)

New in FolderSizes 4.0.0.1 (May 22, 2007)

New in FolderSizes 4.0.0.0 (Apr 25, 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.

New in FolderSizes 3.6.0.0 (Mar 5, 2006)