Changes in V5.5.3 (18 Oct 2011)
| • | Bug fix: An occasional repaint problem of the folder dropdown box on the top left of the main application has been fixed. |
| • | Bug fix - File Search: "Edit > Check all matching a pattern" now also works correctly for the duplicate search and now considers not only the full path but also the file name. This allows using more simple patterns like "New*.txt". |
| • | Bug fix - File Search: The behavior of the command line option /MOVETO has been improved. |
| • | A few minor fixes have been incorporated. |
Changes in V5.5.2 (10 Aug 2011)
| • | Bug fix: Saving an XML report for a virtual root folder caused an error, this also applied to the command line options /GROUPSCANS /XML. |
| • | Bug fix - File Search: An error was fixed that occurred when merging the permissions for deduplicated files. |
| • | Bug fix - File Search: A possible error was fixed that could occur after using "Check all but newest" from the right click menu of the Duplicate Files search. |
Changes in V5.5.1 (28 Jul 2011)
| • | Bug fix: The chart on the "History" tab is now working again for mapped network drives. |
| • | Bug fix: If a [Files] item is deleted using the right click menu, it is now removed from the Directory Tree. |
| • | Bug fix: When performing multiple scans from the command line with multiple /PIECHART command line options, then the exported charts sometimes contained the wrong content. |
| • | Bug fix: Entering paths like \\Server\A* in the edit field on the top left of the TreeSize Professional window is now working again. |
| • | File Search: The custom file search now allows again a minimum value of "0" for the date fields "Since XX days". This allows to search for files that have been created, changed or accessed today. |
| • | Personal Edition: The menu item for comparing XML reports is now available again. |
Changes in V5.5 (18 Jul 2011)
| • | The new columns "Inherited Permissions" and "Own Permissions" have been added to the "Details" tab and all export options. The column "Own permissions" simplifies finding folders that do not inherit all their permissions from their parent folder. Both columns are not activated by default, but can be enabled using the context menu of the list header or at "Tools > Options > Columns/Export". |
| • | The columns "Quota Limit" and "Quota Usage" have been added to the "Users" list. This allows a quick overview about the usage and limit of the Windows built-in quota features from within TreeSize Professional. |
| • | The "File" menu now includes a list of recently scanned paths and recently saved XML reports. |
| • | You can now scan paths like "S:\Users\R*" or "R:\*\MyVideos". Only one root folder will be created in this case. |
| • | File Search - Move Checked Files: It is now possible to burn the checked files to an optical media. |
| • | File Search - Move Checked Files: Because of many customer requests, it is now also possible to copy all checked files to a different location instead of moving them. |
| • | File Search: It is now possible to check or uncheck all search results which are matching a certain pattern using the "Edit" menu. |
| • | File Search - Duplicates Files: It is now also possible to search duplicates solely by their file name. |
| • | File Search - Duplicates Files: The deduplication feature now has an enhanced dialog. It shows the number of all checked duplicate files and the disk space that will be recovered. You may specify a log file that logs all performed operations in detail. Furthermore you may configure in detail how to handle duplicates that are not located on the same volume. |
| • | File Search - Duplicates Files: When deduplicating files using hardlinks now a union set of the original access privileges is applied to the remaining file, so that all users can still access the resulting file. |
| • | File Search - Oldest Search: You may now alternatively specify the minimum age of a file in number of days instead of a certain date. |
| • | The saved XML reports now include the owner of each folder in case the file owner statistics was turned on in the Options of TreeSize Professional. |
| • | TreeSize Professional is no longer shown in the context menu of virtual folders like the recycle bin. It is now also available in the background context menu of folders. |
| • | Bug fix: The command line option /TREEMAP did not work in combination with /NOGUI. |
| • | Bug fix: Right clicking on a very large file could cause the application to freeze for several seconds as this triggered calculation of checksums shown in the "TreeSize" submenu of the right click menu. |
| • | Numerous further improvements and a few minor bug fixes have been incorporated. |
Changes in V5.4.4 (13 Dec 2010)
| • | Now the language which is chosen in the first step of the installer decides about the language of the user interface, the regional settings of the system are no longer taken into account. |
| • | Exporting Excel files is faster now, especially for a large amount of data (>60.000 rows). |
| • | Bugfix: After clearing the exclude filter at "Tools > Options > Include/Exclude", the necessary rescan is now performed correctly. |
| • | Bugfix - File Search: The checkbox "Save only checked items" in the dialog of "Save Results" now has the desired effect of exporting only those items which have been check-marked. |
| • | A few minor fixes and improvements have been incorporated. |
Changes in V5.4.3 (23 Nov 2010)
| • | The function "Update this branch (Shift+F5)" from the context menu of a folder is now also working for a directory tree loaded from an XML file. |
| • | Bugfix: When a saved XML report of a server is loaded that is currently not reachable, the delays that occur are minimized now. |
| • | Bugfix: A rare error when loading a saved XML report has been fixed. |
| • | Bugfix: If the TreeSize File Search is added to the Explorer context menu using the option at "Tools > Options > Miscellaneous", the correct caption for this menu item is used now. |
| • | Bugfix - File Search: The results of the search type "Internet Files" were possibly incomplete. |
| • | A few minor fixes and improvements have been incorporated. |
Changes in V5.4.2 (22 Oct 2010)
| • | Bugfix: An error when exporting the settings at "Tools > Options > Miscellaneous" has been fixed. |
| • | Bugfix - File Search: When moving files, the "Yes to All" button is confirms all further confirmation dialogs of the same type. |
| • | A few minor fixes and improvements have been incorporated. |
Changes in V5.4.1 (06 Oct 2010)
| • | The default sort order of the "Top 100 Files" list is now again descending by size. |
| • | Improved saving and restoring of the toolbar positions |
| • | File Search: Scrolling in the duplicate list could be slower than in V5.3 if the columns "Creation Date" or "Last Access" were visible. |
| • | Bugfix: On a few systems with Outlook 2003 an error in MSMAPI32.DLL occurred on startup of TreeSize Professional. |
| • | Bugfix: The toolbar button for copying the history chart to the clipboard was always disabled. |
| • | Bugfix: Fixed rare OLE exception ("Not implemented") caused by the code for showing the progress in the Windows task bar. Affected were some Citrix systems and Windows 2008 Server on which TreeSize Professional was started as RemoteApp. |
| • | Bugfix: Removing single points from the "History" tab via the context menu ("Remove this point") could lead to an error. |
| • | A few minor fixes and improvements have been incorporated. |
Changes in V5.4: (21 Sep 2010)
| • | Paths that are exported to Excel files are now exported as clickable hyperlinks. This allows you to quickly jump to the appropriate path in Windows Explorer. |
| • | The automatic mode for size units ("View" > "Automatic Units") is now also supported for the export to Excel files. Please note that it will be difficult to do calculations based on these values. |
| • | Personal Edition: TreeSize Personal now scans network drives if the computer running TreeSize Personal is not part of a Windows domain and the remote system is not a Windows server. This enables customers of the Personal Edition to scan network drives in their home network, including NAS systems based on Linux and Samba 3. |
| • | All lists, including the results lists of the file search, can now be saved in HTML and RTF format by choosing the appropriate format in the "Save" dialog. |
| • | All printed lists now include the icons, text formatting and indents. |
| • | Printed reports now show compared scans in red and green, just like on the directory tree, if the option "Use bold Text and Colors for Printed Reports too" is activated in the Options dialog. |
| • | The tree map on the "Charts" tab now not only supports drag operations but also drop operations. Additionally, drag operations with the right mouse button are possible as well. The right click menu of the tree map now offers the possibility for elements like *.doc to list all files that belong to this element. |
| • | The progress of the currently selected scan is now indicated in the Windows 7 task bar. |
| • | The indicated progress of a scan is now calculated more exactly by using the results of previous scans (if available). |
| • | Options: On the new tab "File Groups" the file groups shown on the "Extensions" tab can now be customized. |
| • | The incremental search, which is started when you type characters in the directory tree on the left, now searches all sub folders, even the ones that are not visible or expanded. This allows you to quickly locate folders by starting to type their first characters. |
| • | A new option (Tools > Options > View) allows you to display folders containing long paths (> 255 characters) in red. |
| • | Drives are now displayed in the directory tree including the volume name, e.g.: C:\ (System) |
| • | The new command line option /SHEETNAME allows you to specify the name of the Excel sheet that will be added when using the /EXCEL command line option. See help for details. |
| • | History: The new option "Purge Old History Values" in the context menu of the "History" tab can be used to permanently remove older values from the chart. |
| • | The small chart on the bottom of the "Extensions" and "Users" tab can now be exported in scheduled tasks as well. |
| • | The Windows defragmenter can now be started from the TreeSize Professional "Tools" menu. |
| • | A new option (Tools > Options > Startup) allows you to always start TreeSize Professional as administrator for Windows 7 and Vista, not just if the appropriate entry from the Windows Start menu has been used. |
| • | If TreeSize Professional is started non-elevated and it encounters a folder which it does not have access to, it now asks the user if TreeSize should be started again with administrative privileges. |
| • | The Include Filter at "Tools > Options > Include/Exclude > Include" now supports paths and path fragments, too, not only file extensions. A dialog for editing the pattern more comfortably can be opened using the button on the right. |
| • | The shortcut for copying the selected entries of the Details list to the clipboard as text is now Shift+Ctrl+C. Ctrl+C in the "Details" list now copies the selected files or folders to the clipboard, just like the Windows Explorer. |
| • | The shortcuts Alt+Left, Alt+Right and Alt+Up now behave like in Windows 7 Explorer. |
| • | In the Restricted mode, which can be started using the command line switch /RESTRICTED, the Explorer context menu is now available in the directory tree, the Details list and the Top 100 list. |
| • | A new option under "Tools" > "Options" > "Miscellaneous" allows you to add the TreeSize Professional File Search to the Explorer context menu of folders and drives. |
| • | File Search: The Duplicate file search now supports SHA256 check sums. While it is very unlikely that the MD5 hash algorithm produces the same hash value for different files, the SHA256 algorithm further reduces the statistical risk of such hash collisions. |
| • | File Search - Custom File search: The tabs of the custom file search that have filters set (= have actual influence on the search result) are now marked by a bold text in their tab. |
| • | File Search: The File Search now decides, in a more intelligent way, if it should match a given pattern against the full path or just against the file name. In previous versions it was difficult to keep certain substring matches out of the search results. Additionally, you can now use quotes around your search pattern and so force a strict matching. |
| • | File Search: It is now possible to search for files that do not have a certain attribute set. |
| • | File Search: The export format of the Duplicate files list has been improved: The groups are easier to identify because files are indented now. |
| • | File Search: A new option "Show Time with Date Values" was added to the "View" menu. It allows you to turn on or off the displaying of the time values next to the date values. |
| • | File Search: The right click menu of the drive list on the "Search Options" tab now has a feature to import and add paths from a text file. |
| • | Bugfix - File Search: If the "Move Checked files" function needed to create a new directory in the root of a drive, it sometimes had the hidden and system attribute set. |
| • | The support for Windows 2000 has been dropped because Microsoft dropped it in July 2010. TreeSize Professional V5.3.4, which is compatible with Windows 2000, remains available in our customers area for registered customers with valid maintenance. |
| • | Several minor improvements have been incorporated. |
Changes in V5.3.4: (21 Jan 2010)
| • | Bugfix: On systems that are not part of a Windows domain, delays could occur when expanding items in the directory tree or when the information for the long hint text was compiled. |
| • | Bugfix: In the column "Permissions" sometimes usernames were not displayed correctly, instead "S-1-0" was displayed. |
| • | A few minor improvements have been incorporated. |
Changes in V5.3.3: (11 Dec 2009)
| • | Bugfix - File Search: A long list of duplicate files could contain invalid items in some cases. This caused an error if the list was scrolled to the bottom or if it was exported to a file. |
| • | Bugfix: "Show Files" in the right click menu of the "Age of Files" chart as well as a double click on one of the bars produced empty result lists on some systems. |
| • | Bugfix - File Search: When loading search options from an XML file, the date values were not restored correctly on some systems. |
Changes in V5.3.2: (24 Nov 2009)
| • | Environment variables can now be used in paths to be scanned, e.g. if they are entered in the directory dropdown box in the top left of TreeSize or passed via command line. |
| • | The function to list files of a user / extension / file age interval now takes the currently set exclude filters into account. |
| • | File Search: The search progress is now visualized in the Windows 7 task bar icon. |
| • | File Search: The Explorer context menu is now also displayed if more than one file is selected, as long as the selected files are on the same drive or share. |
| • | Bugfix: Tools > Options > Include/Exclude > File Types: Multiple patterns separated by blanks were no longer working correctly. |
| • | Bugfix: The exclude filter did not work for patterns with an absolute path. As a consequence, the feature "Remove from TreeSize (permanently)" in the right click menu of the directory tree did not work too. |
| • | Bugfix: The shortcut "Ctrl" + "-" for the feature "Remove from TreeSize (permanently)" did not work. |
| • | Bugfix - File Search: It was no longer possible to enter a server name as origin for the search (e.g. \\Server1). |
| • | A few minor bug fixes and improvements have been incorporated. |
Changes in V5.3.1: (15 Oct 2009)
| • | Bugfix: The regular check for update could crash TreeSize Professional on application start. |
| • | Bugfix: After using "File > Compare With XML Report", folders could appear multiple times in the directory tree. |
| • | TreeSize Professional has passed the "Compatible with Windows 7" logo test. |
| • | Introduced new toolbar buttons "Back" and "Forward". You can use these buttons to navigate like in the Windows Explorer. |
| • | In the directory edit field in the upper left corner of TreeSize Professional it is now possible to enter multiple paths at the same time by separating them using semicolons. Each of these paths may contain wildcards. Example: d:\data\;e:\logfiles\;h:\user*\ |
| • | Top 100 List: Added columns Creation Date (by default visible), Attributes, Version, Permissions (by default not visible) |
| • | Added column "Full User Name" (by default visible) and "User Comment" (by default not visible) on the "Users" page. Use the column header context menu to adjust columns. |
| • | The "Printed Report" and the lists printed using the "Print" button above the "Details" list now also contain the icons. |
| • | Added possibility to export a subbranch of the scanned file system to the right click menu of every folder. |
| • | Under "Tools > Options > Columns / Export" there is a new export type for CSV files now. This way CSV files can now be configured independently from the text export. |
| • | You can now export the user settings to a file ("Tools > Options > Miscellaneous > Settings") and import them later, or provide them to another instance or user of TreeSize Professional. You can also reset the user settings to the factory settings here. |
| • | The drives panel is no longer blocking TreeSize Professional on startup for a while if an unreachable network path is included in the list. |
| • | Introduced new menu "Edit" to the main menu. It provides similar features like the Windows Explorer "Edit" menu and includes: "Cut", "Copy", "Paste", "Select All" and "Invert Selection". |
| • | F5 now only updates the "Details" list if the Details list is focused. Otherwise it will, like before, perform a rescan of the currently selected directory branch. |
| • | Improved progress dialogs when printing or exporting. They showed a wrong progress sometimes. |
| • | Added new command line option /OPTIONS to pass formerly exported user settings to the application. (Professional edition only) |
| • | The new command line switch /APPENDTOFILES will make TreeSize Professional to always append its output to existing files when exporting a list in text format. (Professional edition only) |
| • | In file names passed on the command line, e.g. for the Excel or XML export, now environment variables can be used. (Professional edition only) |
| • | Charts: The colors assigned to the chart are now memorized for the next start. The context menu of the chart has an option to reset the colors to their default values. |
| • | Charts: The bar and pie charts now also display Unicode characters. |
| • | Charts: All charts can now be copied, saved or printed through their right click menu. |
| • | Charts: Introduced new buttons in the toolbar of the "History" and "Age of Files" tab to (de)activate the gradient, patterns and hint marks. |
| • | Charts: In the right click menu of the pie chart you can now define the threshold for items to be merged in the "Others" slice. |
| • | Charts: You can now zoom the active chart by using the mouse wheel while the "Ctrl" key is pressed. |
| • | Charts: Saving to a PNG file is now supported. |
| • | Charts: You can now scroll the treemap by keeping the space bar pressed while dragging the treemap using the left mouse button, similar to imaging software (e.g. Photoshop). |
| • | A new feature "Manage Scheduled Tasks" has been added to the "Tools" menu of the main application and the File Search. It allows to edit or manage previously created TreeSize tasks. (Professional edition only) |
| • | Schedule TreeSize Tasks: Added "Execute this Task" to the right click menu of the "All Tasks" list and the box showing the current command line. (Professional edition only) |
| • | Schedule TreeSize Tasks: Added the new functions "Activate Task" and "Deactivate Task" to the context menu of the "All Tasks" page. This state is now also shown by the icon of each task in the list. (Professional edition only) |
| • | File Search: Use the new option "Tools > Schedule Current Search Options" to open the TreeSize Schedule Task dialog with the currently configured search settings. (Professional edition only) |
| • | File Search - Duplicate Files Search: Introduced new "Deduplicate Checked" button on the right side of the file search window. This button replaces all checked duplicates with links to the same file. If the files are on the same partition, then all files will be hardlinks to the same content. If creation of a hardlink is not possible, a symbolic link is used under Windows Vista and later. If this is not possible too, a Windows shortcut will be created instead as fallback. |
| • | File Search: Added column "Author" to the result lists which shows the author included in most MS Office files. |
| • | File Search - Move Checked Files: We enhanced the option "Leave shortcut at original location", so that you can now decide to leave a (hard) link instead of a Windows shortcut. |
| • | File Search - Move Checked Files: Introduced new option "Automatically rename existing files". If this option is activated, files will be automatically renamed if a file with the same name already exists in the destination. |
| • | File Search - Move Checked Files: We introduced a new option "Preserve directory structure". This option is activated by default, because the directory structure was preserved in former versions of TreeSize Professional. You can now deactivate this option to move files directly to the chosen destination. Existing files located in the destination will be renamed (e.g.: "..\file.name" -> "..\file.bak0.name") if the option "Automatically rename existing files" is activated. |
| • | File Search - Move Checked Files: When moving files from one drive to another, the creation date is now preserved. |
| • | File Search - Custom Search: You can now search for folders by checking the "Directory" attribute on the "Size/Attributes" tab. |
| • | File Search - Custom Search: You can now search for files and folders having the attribute for Reparse Points / Mountpoints set. |
| • | File Search: The command line options /SIZEUNIT and /NOUNITS are now also supported in the File Search. (Professional edition only) |
| • | File Search: The /FILTER command line option no longer sets the patterns for the temporary file search, it now sets the patterns of the custom file search and allows an easy file search for certain file types or patterns. (Professional edition only) |
| • | Bugfix: In the right click menu the "Open" command for folders ("Open containing folder" for files) did not work on 64Bit Windows systems. |
| • | Bugfix: File Search: When using the "Move Checked Files" function in combination with the "Preserve permissions of the original file" option, in rare cases an error could occur. |
| • | Bugfix: When editing the scheduled time or day or trigger type (once, daily, weekly) of an existing task in the "Schedule TreeSize Task" dialog ("Tools > Schedule TreeSize Task"), this change was not stored. |
| • | Bugfix: The command line option /TREEMAP was not working in combination with /NOGUI. |
| • | Bugfix: When terminating a duplicate file search with MD5 checksums before it was finished, the result list could incorrectly include some entries that were not checked for equal file content. |
| • | Many further enhancements and a few minor bug fixes have been incorporated. |
| • | The command line parameters /USERSLIST, /EXTENSIONSLIST and /TOPFILESLIST now support writing to Excel files. |
| • | File Search: While calculating MD5 checksums, the duplicate file search now shows the number of remaining files in the status bar. |
| • | File Search: The "Duplicate Files" result list now shows the number of files and their summarized size in the status bar, and no longer the number and size of file groups. |
| • | File Search: If more than one file is selected, the number and size of the selected files is shown in the status bar. |
| • | Bugfix: File Search: The duplicate file search occasionally locked when identifying duplicate files using MD5 checksums. |
| • | Bugfix: File Search: A problem has been fixed when using the "Move Checked" function for complete folders that were moved to a ZIP-File. |
| • | Bugfix: If a user defined cluster size was reverted to "Original" in the "Options" dialog, this was not applied to current scans even if a rescan was performed. |
| • | Bugfix: A problem with the view of the bar chart when it was displaying many folders has been fixed. |
| • | A few minor bug fixes and improvements have been incorporated. |
| • | Now the shadow of the pie chart is deactivated as well if the gradient in the background of the chart is deactivated |
| • | Bugfix: The total and free space was no longer shown for UNC paths in the drives panel. |
| • | Bugfix: The file extensions and users statistics was no longer working for virtual root folders |
| • | Bugfix: If a single file was dragged from the "Details" list to the directory tree, an error could occur. |
| • | Bugfix: When scrolling in the bar chart that had a lot of elements, the chart was corrupted. |
| • | Bugfix: On systems that had the Windows printer spooler service not running an error message occurred at the startup of TreeSize. |
| • | Bugfix: Deactivating the statistics for "Age of Files" in the Options dialog did not persist when TreeSize was started again. |
| • | Bugfix: The option "Include only files created in the past XX days" did also check the creation date of folders in V5.2 and therefore returned unexpected results. |
| • | A few minor bug fixes and improvements have been incorporated |
| • | File Search: The "Move Checked Files" feature is now able to handle paths of more than 255 characters and optionally is able to preserve the permissions of the moved files. |
| • | File Search: The "Move Checked Files" feature as well as the /MOVETO command line option (Professional Edition only) now allow to pass the checked files to any executable file as parameter. This offers system administrators a lot of possibilities to manually and automatically process the search results of a TreeSize Professional File Search. |
| • | File Search: The search results can now be saved to a native Excel file. If multiple result lists are saved, each list will be placed on a separate sheet. |
| • | File Search: With a new option on the "Move Checked Files" dialog you can now automatically remove empty parent directories that are left over after moving / deleting the checked files. |
| • | File Search: In the list of search patterns of the "Custom Search" type it is now possible to use patterns that include fragments of a path, e.g.: "C:\Windows\*\*.exe" or "*\Temp\*.old" |
| • | File Search: The ZIP files created by the "Move Checked Files" feature are now able to store Unicode file and folder names in the ZIP file. ZIP files containing Unicode paths can only be unzipped properly by Unicode compatible ZIP tools like WinRar or WinZip. |
| • | File Search: It is now also possible to start the File Search with Full administrative privileges from the Windows "Start" menu and the "Tools" menu of TreeSize Professional. |
| • | File Search: In the "File" menu it is now possible to print a result list or to copy its contents to the clipboard. Use the right click menu of the lists to copy only the selected items. |
| • | File Search: It is now possible to copy the contents of the drive list to the clipboard using its right click menu. |
| • | File Search: The /DATE command line parameter is now also supported for the file search. This way you can automatically add the current date and time to file names specified for the /SAVE parameter or the /MOVETO parameter with a ZIP file. /DATE will change all file names that appear after its occurrence on the command line. |
| • | The new command line options /NOHEADERS and /NOUNITS allow to omit the headers and units from exported files, which simplifies getting plain data for later postprocessing. |
| • | A new option allows to exclude files that are marked as Offline. Offline files are often not physically present on the disk or are only cached temporarily on the local disk. |
| • | The new command line option /LISTSEPARATOR allows to define the separator that is used when exporting text files. |
| • | The new command line parameter /EXPORTDRIVELIST has been added, which saves the contents of the drives panel to a file. |
| • | Now the Excel 2007 format (file extension XLSX) is supported by TreeSize Professional. This enables you to export Excel files with more than 65,000 rows. |
| • | All Excel files saved by TreeSize Professional now have numbers and units separated, which simplifies performing calculations with size values. When saving the "Details" list to an Excel file now only the selected items will be saved if more than one item is selected. |
| • | All pattern editors (e.g. View > Options > Include/Exclude, the custom file search, etc.) now have checkboxes in front of their patterns. This allows to deactivate certain patterns temporarily without the need to delete them. |
| • | You can now choose to install the Professional Edition as portable version, e.g. on an USB stick. The settings are stored in the application path in this case. |
| • | TreeSize Professional now stores the user settings in an XML file in the user's profile. |
| • | Treemap: Added OLE drag support to the treemap chart. Drop support will follow in the next version. This allows dragging folders from the treemap to other locations. |
| • | Treemap: Ctrl + und Ctrl - can now be used to zoom the treemap. The cursor keys, Home, End, PgUp and PgDown can be used to scroll the zoomed chart. |
| • | Added a context menu item that allows to copy the underlying data from the "Age of Files" chart to the clipboard as text. |
| • | Ctrl+X now executes the Windows Explorer "Cut" operation in the directory tree and the "Details" list. The keyboard shortcut for "Automatic Units" has been reassigned to Ctrl+U. |
| • | When saving a scan to an XML file, the XML stylesheet is now copied next to the exported XML file and is referenced using a relative path. This simplifies using the XML files on systems not having TreeSize Professional installed. |
| • | Several minor improvements and bugfixes on the treemap, the bar and the pie charts. |
| • | The memory consumption for storing the file types and the user statistics has been reduced. |
| • | Bugfix: In the "Duplicate Files" search, when checking all selected items using the context menu (if file group items get selected as well) the check state of the group items was set too, which resulted in an error when using the "Move Checked Files" function. |
| • | Bugfix: Fixed a memory leak that occurred on Windows Vista when scanning with the option "Track NTFS Alternate Data Streams and Hardlinks" activated. |
| • | Bugfix: It is now also possible to pass domains and servers like \\domain or \\server at the command line. Previously this worked in the user interface but caused an error message at the command line. |
| • | Many further enhancements and a few minor bug fixes have been incorporated. |
| • | All lists now provide a new button in their toolbar that allows to save their contents to an Excel file. |
| • | Added possibility to export the tree map and the file ages chart in the "Schedule TreeSize Task" dialog.
Here a new function "Save to Batch File" has also been added to the context menu of the text field containing the full command line. |
| • | Retrieving the file version of EXE, DLL and similar binary files no longer changes their last access date. |
| • | The context sensitive help via F1 key now also works correctly under Windows Vista. |
| • | File Search: It is now possible to search for files whose path is longer than a certain number of characters.
This allows to find paths longer than 255 characters which make problems e.g. in the Windows Explorer. |
| • | File Search: A selected "Since" interval on the "Date" tab of the Custom File Search is now saved for the next start and to XML files (File > Save Search Options). Previously it was only saved implicitly as lower and upper border of the date interval. |
| • | Bugfix: The "Since" date intervals were not working as expected if the negated date filter "Not Changed", "Not Access" or "Not Created" were selected. |
| • | Bugfix: The date picker controls of the Custom File Search did not always report the state of their integrated checkbox correctly. This could lead to files missing in the search results. |
| • | TreeSize is now able to handle paths with more than 255 characters when searching or scanning the disk. |
| • | TreeSize now applies NTFS compression and removes it from files that are marked as readonly. |
| • | The compatibility with 64Bit systems has been improved. |
| • | The treemap chart is drawn much faster now for large file system trees. |
| • | File Search: When saving a result list, now the visibility and order of the columns is taken into account. |
| • | File Search: When performing a move operation with the option "Create Shortcut ..." activated, now a description is added to each shortcut that contains the destination path, the responsible user and the date of the move operation. |
| • | A few minor improvements and bug fixes have been incorporated |
Changes in V5.1 (04 Mar 2008)
| • | Many improvements for the new tree map:
- If a folder has no subfolders and file extensions statistics was activated during the scan, the file types are now shown as subitems in the tree map.
- Some graphical changes result in an improved appearance of the hierarchy.
- A legend for the colors has been added.
- It is now possible to zoom and scroll the chart in order to see more details. |
| • | Improvements in multithreading makes scans up to two times faster. |
| • | The Explorer context menu is now available as a submenu in the charts and the root folder of a scan. |
| • | When exporting the data to a file, the save dialog now has a checkbox that lets you decide whether or not the file should be opened after saving. |
| • | When saving the extensions statistics to a text file, you now have a checkbox in the save dialog that allows you to save the expanded groups only, just as you see it on the screen. |
| • | The users and extensions statistics now allow to select multiple items, which is useful if you want to export / print them partially only. |
| • | The context sensitive help has been improved. Pressing F1 should now always lead to the correct chapter in the help file. |
| • | A new column has been added that shows the error message if a folder could not be scanned. This is useful in particular for scheduled scan that export their results to an Excel, HTML or Text File (Professional Edition only) |
| • | If the Mixed Mode for sizes is turned on, the charts will now also use an appropriate size unit for displaying size values. |
| • | It is now possible to delete single values from the history chart using the right click menu. |
| • | Some other minor bug fixes and improvements have been incorporated. |
File Search:
| • | Added new columns to the result lists that show the attributes of the files, the version number of binary files, the permissions and the creation date. Some of the new columns are by default turned off and can be turned on using the "View" menu. |
| • | The "Move To" dialog of the File Search now has an option to create shortcuts for moved files at their original location that point to their new location. |
| • | Added possibility to search for files with NTFS alternate data streams in the custom file search (tab "Attributes"). If this search is active and alternate data streams are found, their sizes are added to the file size and in the column "Attributes" a "*" is added to the attributes. Checking for alternate data streams is slow and requires read access to the files that should be checked. |
Changes in V5.0 (23 Nov 2007)
| • | It is now possible to group scans under a virtual root folder. This virtual root folder shows a summary of all scans that are part of this group. This way you can merge different scans together e.g. for printing or exporting. You can access this feature through the context menu of a root folder or through the "Tools" menu. |
| • | A new kind of chart called treemap has been added. It shows a hierarchical view of the file system. In this treemap chart each folder is shown as a rectangle with its subfolders inside, again as rectangles. |
| • | The list on the "Extensions" tab can now be grouped by file types like "Audio Files", "Video Files", "System Files", etc. This feature can be turned on or off by a new toolbar button. |
| • | The tabs "Extensions", "Users" and "File Ages" now have a feature "List Files" that generates a list of files of the selected item. |
| • | The selected items in the various file and directory lists of TreeSize now show the selection using a style similar to Windows Vista. This makes colored text and the small embedded charts easier to read. |
| • | The number of decimals can now be set in the View menu instead of the "Options" dialog. |
| • | The gradient colors of the optional indicator bars in the tree can now be chosen in the "Options" dialog. |
| • | In the Options dialog you can now change the maximum number of threads that TreeSize Professional creates for each scan. Like before TreeSize Professional will still adjust the number of threads to the current system load and so often create less threads than the maximum number. |
| • | In the Options it is now possible to customize the intervals that are used to generate the chart on the "File Ages" tab. |
| • | TreeSize Professional has a new option that allows taking hard links and alternate data streams into account when calculating disk space, which produces more accurate results. However this makes it necessary to open the files and therefore slows down a scan. |
| • | The "View" menu now allows switching to plain Byte values. |
| • | The Excel, Text and HTML export options now allow to specify whether or not units like "KB", "MB" or "%" should be added to exported values. By omitting units the thousands separators will also be omitted, which simplifies further processing of exported values. This replaces the former option File / Export / Use plain numbers. |
| • | The command line options /FILEAGESCHART and /HISTORYCHART have been added. They allow to save the charts on the "History" and the "File Ages" chart. |
| • | The new command line option /TOPFILESLIST allows exporting the top 100 files list. |
| • | The executable has been renamed to "TreeSize.exe". |
| • | The support for Windows 98 and ME has been dropped. Registered customers are still able to download the Windows 98/ME compatible TreeSize V4 from our customers area. |
File Search:
| • | An additional search type "Custom Search" has been added. This search type allows you to freely define and combine search criteria like file name, date, size, attributes and owner. The results can be printed or exported like you are used from the other available search types. |
| • | Improved multithreading support, especially for the MD5 checksum calculation, which should produce results faster on multi-core machines. |
| • | It is now possible to export and import the results as simple paths only (DIR /B /S format). This simplifies post-processing of TreeSize results and allows to import lists of paths in TreeSize. |
| • | It is now possible to pass an XML file to the TreeSize File Search on the command line, which contains previously saved search options. This simplifies scheduled scans with predefined search options. |
| • | The Move operation now optionally logs the performed operations to a log file. |
| • | The result lists do now work as a source for drag and drop operations. |
| • | A new feature "Check all but Newest" has been added to the context menu of the duplicate file search results. |
| • | A new feature in the context menu of the duplicate file search allows to replace duplicate files with hard links. This way all the duplicate files remain at their position, but only one file occupies disk space. |
Changes in V4.3.2:
| • | On 64Bit Windows systems TreeSize now turns off file system redirection for its threads. The file system redirection hides some system folders in the Windows directory from 32Bit processes. |
| • | Bugfix: The TreeSize File Search Option "Exclude files that have changed in the past XX hours" did not consider the local time zone. |
| • | Bugfix: The Duplicate File Search with MD5 checksums did not include readonly files. |
Changes in V4.3.1:
| • | If the "Go to Parent Folder" button is hit and the currently selected folder is the top node but not a drive, TreeSize now asks if it should scan the parent folder. |
| • | Bugfix: Some of the initial values in Tools - Options - Columns/Export were wrong. |
| • | File Search: The "Save Result" function now asks if it should overwrite an existing file, or append to it. |
| • | File Search: The "Save List" feature now creates Unicode text files. |
| • | File Search: For the duplicate file search the comparison of the content of large files with and without MD5 checksum has been improved. |
| • | Bugfix: The TreeSize File Search of the Personal edition did not restore the selected paths on the next start |
| • | Some minor improvements have been incorporated. |
Changes in V4.3:
| • | A simple history function has been added to TreeSize. Whenever a path is scanned, TreeSize saves the size of this path (but not their subpaths) and displays the size development of this path or drive in a chart on the new "History" tab. |
| • | XML Compare: You can now also compare two different directory structures. If the paths do not match, you will be asked if you want to proceed. |
| • | File Search: The duplicate file search now optionally compares files based on the MD5 checksum of their content. This makes it possible to find true duplicate files that differ in their name or last change date. The drawback is that the calculation of the MD5 checksum takes longer than the comparison of name, date and size. |
| • | File Search: The right click menu of a file group in the result list of "Duplicate Files" now offers the possibility to compare the files of a group byte by byte and remove those that are not equal. |
| • | File Search: All Options on the "View Options" tab have been moved to the new "View" menu. So these options are available on all tabs now, without the need of changing to the old "View Options" tab. |
| • | File Search: For each item a long tooltip is now shown that contains detailed information on the file. |
| • | File Search: For folders matching $NTUninstall*$, that are listed by default in temporary file search, their folder size is shown now. |
| • | File Search: These items have been added to the main menu: Tools / Empty Recycle Bin, Help / FAQ, Help / Check for Update, Help / About. |
| • | File Search: A new option allows to include cookies with the Temporary Internet Files. |
| • | File Search: When files are moved, their path is new prefixed with their drive letter. This makes it easier to restore the moved files again, if multiple drives have been searched. |
| • | Bugfix: The File Search sometimes mixed up file paths when moving files. |
| • | Bugfix: Fixed error that occurred under Windows Vista when someone logged into an existing session using Remote Desktop with TreeSize already on the screen. |
Changes in V4.2.2:
| • | Bugfix: When displaying the results in the TreeSize File Search, occasionally an error message occurred. |
Changes in V4.2.1:
| • | Bugfix: Sometimes a non critical error occurred when a folder was deleted using the right click menu. |
| • | File Search: A check box was added to the Duplicate Files search that allows to control whether or not the exclude filter should be used. |
| • | File Search: The exclude filter now accepts the wildcards '*' and '?'. |
| • | Bugfix: The Duplicate Files Search, did sometimes leave out some duplicate files. Other duplicate files were split into two groups because their time stamps were slightly different. |
| • | XML import: The error handling and user aborting within the XML import has been improved. |
| • | Some other minor bug fixes and improvements have been incorporated. |
Changes in V4.2:
| • | In the Options dialog (Tools / Options / Scan) you may now choose the priority for the scan and search threads. You may reduce their priority up to idle (use only unused CPU time), which allows you to run a scan with TreeSize without any impact on your PC or server. |
| • | The toolbar of the Top 100 Files List now contains a Delete button. |
| • | The style sheet treesize.xsl for XML files has been revised:
- It now works under Windows Vista with Internet Explorer 7.
- Formatting and performance have been improved.
- Errors that occurred during the scan are now indicated by a small exclamation mark in front of the folder name. |
| • | If the option "Follow mount points and symbolic links" is turned on, then TreeSize follows only links that point outside the scanned directory tree. This prevents circular references and folders from being counted twice. The link target is now also shown in the long tooltip of the directory tree. |
| • | In the background of the directory tree a gradient now is shown for each folder that indicates its size in relation to the entire scanned file system tree. We hope you will like this new visualization of the folder size. If not, you may switch it off in the Options dialog. |
| • | The context menu of the file extensions and user statistics now have a menu item that allows to copy a list of files of the selected file type / user to the clipboard. |
| • | The user statistics now use a caching mechanism which significantly increases the performance of a scan with the users statistics activated and also reduces the traffic to the Windows domain controllers. |
| • | The new command line option /UNITTYPE allows to set the unit (KB, MB, GB) that should be used for displaying size values. For detailed information please see the help file. |
| • | The small arrow indicating symbolic links and reparse points is now also shown in the Details list. System and hidden folders are now shown "ghosted" like in the Windows Explorer. |
| • | The TreeSize File Search can now be started from the context menu of any folder in the directory tree. |
| • | File Search: A new search type allows you to search for duplicate files. Currently files with the same name, size and change date will be listed. This feature will be further improved in the next release. |
| • | File Search: It is now possible to save and load the options of the File Search to/from an XML file. |
| • | File Search: The cache files of the Opera browser are now also found by the search type "Internet Files". |
| • | File Search: The temporary file search now has an option that lists all files in the "Recent" folder of the user profile. This option is turned on by default. Although Windows shows only the last 15 entries in the "Recent Documents" folder, it keeps shortcuts to all files ever opened in the "Recent" folder which are quite useless. |
| • | File Search: The size and the number of checked files is now displayed in the status bar. |
| • | File Search: The Save dialog now has an option to save all result lists (instead of the active one only), as well as an option to save the checked files only. |
| • | File Search: The new command line option /MOVETO replaces /MOVETOZIP and allows, in addition to a ZIP file, a folder path or the Recycle Bin as destination to which the files will be moved. For detailed information please see the help file. |
| • | File Search: If "Add To Exclude List" is selected from the context menu, all matching search results are now immediately removed from the result lists. |
| • | File Search: In the View Options a new setting allows to adjust, if the compressed size or the normal size should be displayed for compressed files. |
| • | The support for Windows NT4 has been dropped. |
Changes in V4.1.1:
| • | The menu item "Remove from TreeSize (temporarily)" is now also present in the context menu of the Details list, which allows multiple items to be removed at the same time. |
| • | Errors that occurred during a scan are now saved in the XML-Reports for each folder. |
| • | If the selected node is deleted in the directory tree, the next or parent folder is now selected automatically. |
| • | A new option on the "View" tab of the Options dialog allows you to decide that icons should be determined based on the file extension only. This is much faster, especially on network drives, because Window opens many files to see if there are any icons inside. By default this option is turned on. |
| • | The "File Ages" Chart can now be printed, copied or saved using the context menu or a new toolbar. |
| • | Under Windows Vista an additional start menu item is created that runs TreeSize as administrator. |
| • | A new item in the Tools menu allows you to start TreeSize again as Administrator under Windows XP and Vista. |
| • | The File Search now uses the setting of the Options dialog "Follow mount points and symbolic links" from the main module when recursing through the file system. It is recommended to keep this option turned off under Windows Vista, because Vista makes excessive use of symbolic links, which produces a lot of duplicate results. |
| • | The command line Switch /SEARCH:Start now by default checks all items in the result list of the File Search. |
| • | Some other minor bug fixes and improvements have been incorporated. |
Changes in V4.1:
| • | 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 sub-folders. |
| • | 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. |
Changes in V4.0.2:
| • | The Scan Include and Exclude patterns (View > Options > Include/Exclude) are now also Unicode enabled. |
| • | Bugfix: Loading XML Reports that contained foreign language characters occasionally caused errors. |
| • | Bugfix: A combination of the two command line parameters /OPEN and /EXCEL did only open the XML file, but did not start the Excel export. |
| • | Bugfix: Double clicking on a file in the chart now opens the file also in a folder with no sub-folders. |
| • | Several minor bug fixes and improvements have been incorporated. |
Changes in V4.0.1:
| • | Bugfix: Adding an UNC Path to the list of drives in the TreeSize File Search failed with an error messages. |
| • | Bugfix: Toggling the sort order for the first column in the extensions and users list didn't work. |
| • | Bugfix: Opening certain XML reports failed with an error due to an internal overflow. |
| • | Some minor bugfixes and improvements have been incorporated.
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Changes in V4.0:
| • | TreeSize now scans a file system branch with multiple threads. The number of threads that are used is adjusted automatically dependant on the system load. Because of the latency of hard disks and network drives, this new feature drastically reduces the time necessary for scanning a file system branch. |
| • | In the new dialog "Schedule Tasks" (Tools / Schedule Tasks) you can now add customized TreeSize Tasks to the Windows Scheduled Tasks. |
| • | The XML import, export and compare have been improved. All XML operations are much faster now and use considerably less memory. The size of the XML-files has been reduced as well. |
| • | The tree control was replaced with a faster one, which increases the performance of a scan and expand operations in the file system tree. |
| • | The tree now shows large hint windows that include detailed information about each node. This feature can be turned in the Options. |
| • | Most parts of TreeSize are now Unicode enabled under Windows NT/2000/XP/2003. Windows 98/ME are still supported, but with limited Unicode capabilities. |
| • | The Options dialog now has a check box, that let's you decide, whether or not TreeSize should appear in the Explorer context menu of Folders for the current user. |
| • | A new drive list box in the bottom left corner provides a quick information about the size and the free space of the local drives. Additional remote drives can be added using the context menu. Double clicking on a file starts a scan in TreeSize. |
| • | The top 100 largest files of the scanned path are now shown on an additional tab on the right pane. |
| • | Added support for file system Drag&Drop operations in the main window of TreeSize. |
| • | The HTML export is now UTF8-encoded and exports Unicode folder names correctly. |
| • | The extensions statistics now shows the Windows description and the corresponding icon for each file type. |
| • | In the Options you can now define what TreeSize should do when it starts without a path to scan. It may scan a list of fix paths, it may scan the paths that were active the last time it was used, or it may simply do nothing, which is the default behaviour. |
| • | Two new columns have been added that show the MS Office author and the MS Office last change date. These values get extracted from all MS Office files. |
| • | The context menu of the tree now allows to create a new folder. The shortcut for this operation is Ctrl+N. |
| • | All percent values do now have a bar chart beneath them that indicates the percent value. |
| • | It is now possible to compress and decompress files and entire folders with NTFS compression using the context menu of TreeSize. The values inside TreeSize will be updated on-the-fly. |
| • | A style sheet can now be used with exported HTML files. The style sheet file can be specified under View / Options / Export / HTML. |
| • | The width of the columns in the printed reports can now be adjusted under View / Options / Columns / Printed Report. |
| • | A scan that has been opened and compared through command line options, can now again be exported through a command line option like /XML or /EXCEL. |
| • | A new menu item in the Help menu allows to check, if a newer version of TreeSize is available. |
| • | Several minor improvements have been added as well. |
File Search:
| • | The TreeSize File Search now uses multiple threads per drive which reduces the time that is needed for scanning a drive. |
| • | The list controls have been replaced with faster ones, which reduces the time needed during the scan as well as the time needed for move operations especially for a large number of results. |
| • | The selected items in a list can now be copied to the clipboard using the context menu. |
| • | The TreeSize File search does now fully support Unicode file and folder names. The speed and reliability of the "Move To" feature has been significantly improved. |
| • | The Move-To-Zip feature and the "Save Results" button now have a progress indicator. |
| • | The querying of the file owners can now be turned off in the View Options if not needed. Querying the file owner is a slow operation under Windows. |
