JAM Software’s new version of TreeSize, 4.1.0.302, packs quite a host of new features and improvements, but the highlight is surely its compatibility with Microsoft’s Windows Vista. Unfortunately, there’s also a drawback to this, but more on that later. First, let’s go through the notable additions to TreeSize 4.1 …
… starting off with the multithreaded scanning improvements which make network scans twice as fast.
In order to help users take advantage of every bit of free (or free-able) HDD space, a shortcut to the configuration dialog for the Windows System Restore has been added in the Tools menu. (System Restore typically reserves around 10% of each HDD partition, so changing this setting will free some space up).
Multiple changes were applied to the File Search module, mostly related to the program’s user interface. Check the changelog for full details…
Now on to fixes: a race condition bug sometimes caused the main program’s settings to be overwritten by the File Search module. Additionally, a minor GUI issue was resolved.
Earlier I was speaking about a drawback in TreeSize 4.1 caused by its compatibility with Windows Vista. The problem is that Vista’s Explorer does not (yet?) allow column extensions, so the useful “treesize” column cannot work.
*** RELEVANT LINKS ***
Get it now: Download TreeSize Professional 4.1
(.exe installer, 3.44MB, MD5=18824984E4D9317E144831BADAFEACA6)
Or: Download TreeSize Personal 4.1
(.exe installer, 3.44MB, MD5=24F0C83D245BB3AA2E879B2046057DEC)
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TreeSize Professional homepage
TreeSize Personal homepage
*** WHAT’S NEW IN TREESIZE 4.1.0.302 ***
· Multithreaded scanning has been improved which makes especially network scans up to two times faster.
· A new tab “File Ages” has been added to the right pane. It shows the distribution of the file ages for each directory.
· The Extensions, Users and Top 100 lists as well as the result list of the File Search now have a right click menu for their column headers which allows to show or hide individual columns. Columns can be rearranged using drag&drop. These settings are saved when TreeSize is closed and are restored on the next start.
· The list of file types on the tab “Extensions” now fills up faster.
· The Details tab now also has a toolbar. It can be turned off using the “Toolbar” submenu in the “View” menu.
· Folders that could not be scanned due to an error are now shown with a small exclamation mark in the directory tree. The error message is added to the tooltip of this folder.
· A new option allows to decide if date and time should be shown for the last access, last modified and the creation date, or only the date.
· The Tools menu now has a menu item that opens the configuration dialog for the Windows System Restore. The Windows System Restore by default uses 10-15% of every hard disk drive. A good source for freeing disk space is the reduction of this space reserved for the System Restore.
· The unit and the decimals of the TreeSize column for the Windows Explorer can now be configured in the Options of TreeSize Pro on the new tab “Shell Extensions”. Furthermore the Explorer extension can now be fully turned off here.
· The context menu item “Find deepest nesting” is now not only available in the context menu of the root folder but also in the context menu of the subfolders.
· The drive panel now uses a different color to show the free space as the Details view uses in the column “% of Parent”.
· It is now possible to copy the content of the drive panel to the clipboard in a CSV-compatible format.
· TreeSize is now compatible with Windows Vista. The Vista Explorer however lacks the interface for extending it with additional columns, so the TreeSize column is currently not available for the Windows Vista Explorer.
· File Search: The right click menu now allows applying the NTFS-compression to the selected files in a result list.
· File Search: The visibility of columns in the result lists can now be adjusted on the “View Options” tab.
· File Search: Compressed files are now shown in a different color, just like in the main application. For compressed files, their compressed size is now shown instead of the uncompressed size.
· File Search: The result list of the temporary file search now shows the reason why a file or folder was added to the list (e.g. the matching pattern, because it is a link with an invalid target etc.)
· File Search: Drives removed from the drive list window now stay excluded when the application is started the next time.
· Bugfix: The selected item of the tree in the main windows was not always drawn correctly.
· Bugfix: The File search module sometimes overwrote settings of the main module if both modules were running and the File Search module was terminated after the main module.
· Bugfix: Removing a currently scanned folder temporarily from TreeSize occasionally resulted in an error.
TreeSize Professional’s little brother got an update yesterday. As the minor version bump suggests, the changes won’t rock your world.
