FolderSizes versions

View space distribution of files in hard disks and delete unwanted data
9.5
Feb 27, 2022
9.1
Jun 21, 2020
Review
Aug 16, 2016
Editorial review
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May 1, 2016
Review
Feb 5, 2016
Editorial review
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Jan 18, 2016
Review
Nov 26, 2014
Review
May 1, 2014
Editorial review
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Mar 17, 2014
Aug 5, 2012
Editorial review
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Jun 18, 2012
Review
Aug 31, 2011
Editorial review
rating
Aug 10, 2011
Review
Jun 12, 2011
Aug 9, 2010
Jun 7, 2009
Sep 1, 2008
Jul 29, 2008
Mar 4, 2008
Review
Mar 5, 2008
Oct 17, 2008
Review
Mar 13, 2008
Sep 5, 2008
3.4
Aug 5, 2008
1.3
Sep 21, 2008

What's new

v9.1 [Jun 21, 2020]
Version 9.1.274 (Released September 23, 2020):
- Bug fix: Fixed issue with default scheduled task name containing an invalid character.
Version 9.1.272 (Released September 15, 2020):
- Improvement: Improvements to text clarity in the folder map view.
- Improvement: Improved performance when executing specific file report scenarios from the command line or scheduler.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue with main window detail view horizontal scrollbar positioning.
- Bug fix: Fixed minor GDI handle leak in device context management system.
- Bug fix: Other minor fixes.
Version 9.1.269 (Released September 2, 2020):
- Improvement: Minor performance and memory usage improvements.
- Improvement: Improvements in file reporter progress window minimize behavior.
- Improvement: Improved default reparse point traversal and processing behaviors.
- Bug fix: Resolved rare crash involving folder tree map shell icon index retrieval.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue with snapshot exclusions using incorrect string case matching.
- Bug fix: Product splash screen was showing incorrect minor version number.
Version 9.1.264 (Released June 17, 2020):
- Improvement: Dark theme option has returned, and existing themes have been refined.
- Improvement: Improvements to resolution scaling systems, including icons for 200% scaled displays.
- Improvement: Improvements to product installer for high resolution environments.
- Improvement: Upgraded to latest edition (3.32.1) of SQLite embedded database library.
- Improvement: Improved safety of shell context menu integration functions.
- Improvement: User interface control persistence now operates independently of DPI settings.
- Improvement: Minor improvements to main window tab navigation semantics.
- Improvement: Reports exported to XSLX now include a warning if Excel row limit is reached.
- Improvement: PDF exports with multiple sections now provide headers and bookmark navigation.
- Improvement: Improved default experience when analyzing DFS shares.
- Improvement: Dozens of minor user interface enhancements and corrections.
- Improvement: Added option for disabling reparse point notices upon file system node selection.
- Bug fix: Docking scan data window toolbar was using incorrect resolution scaling factor.
- Bug fix: Implemented fixes for a rare potential node deletion and view refresh crash.
- Bug fix: Fixed issues with print (and print preview) scaling on high-resolution displays.
- Bug fix: Resolved issues with report view tooltips not being displayed.
- Bug fix: Resolved several minor memory leaks.
- CHANGE: Minimum OS requirements are now Windows 7 SP1 or later (Server 2012 R2 or later).

v8.3.150 [Aug 16, 2016]
Bug fix: Fixed multi-column sort regression introduced in v8.2.134.
Bug fix: Fixed font size issue that caused graph view text to be printed incorrectly.
Bug fix: Some Excel export operations continued to write data even after exceeding the Excel max row count limit.

v8.2.137 [May 1, 2016]
Bug fix: Fixed multi-column sort regression introduced in v8.2.134.
Bug fix: Fixed font size issue that caused graph view text to be printed incorrectly.
Bug fix: Some Excel export operations continued to write data even after exceeding the Excel max row count limit.

v8.1.128 [Feb 5, 2016]
Improved support for high DPI displays.
New setting in Options | Export that offers a choice between grouped and "flat" duplicate file report export formats.
Improved performance when exporting duplicate file reports to "flat" (non-grouped) Excel file format.
Improved sorting algorithms with equality fallback ordering for increased stability and readability.
Improved printing of main window folder report detail view.
Fixed appearance of links in the Options | Export window.
In certain cases, snapshots were incorrectly recording unknown file system object ownership state.
Resolved rare trend anzlyzer subfolder change crash relating to incorrect context menu state logic.
Some drive space docking panel UI elements didn't change immediately after switching themes.
Printouts of computer view incorrectly included command bar header.
Now handling rare numeric overflow condition associated with folder report bar graph view.
Now using whole number rounding in the file report range editor calculator field.
Fixed potential lockout user interface state during zip compression under specific error conditions.

v7.5.30 [Nov 26, 2014]
Version 7.5.20 (Released November 26, 2014)
Bug fix: Improved database error handling for disk history operations.
Version 7.5.18 (Released November 25, 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.

v7.1.92 [May 1, 2014]
Version 7.1.84 (Released June 12, 2014):
- Bug fix: File system objects in the main window folder report detail view would show the owner as "unknown" when sorting by that column.
- Bug fix: Trend analyzer subfolder change report was not responding correctly to start time changes.

v6.1.76 [Aug 5, 2012]
-Bug fix: Resolved problem with printing (and print preview) often forcing last detail report column onto second page.
-Bug fix: Scheduled task subfolder display depth was not carried over to command line execution string when set to "1" (the default), resulting in user changes taking precendence over the task settings.
-Bug fix: Sorting the main window detail view list via the command line (or scheduling interface) would result in incorrect sort if columns had been repositioned by user.
-Bug fix: Some wildcard string matching operations were not properly supporting unicode file names.
-Bug fix: Minor help file content corrections and updates.

v6.0.47 [Jun 18, 2012]
Feature: Minor (primarily cosmetic) improvements to PDF exports.
Feature: Mapped the backspace key to the "previous path" command in main window (Alt + Left Arrrow is also still supported).
Feature: Added keyboard shortcut (Alt + D) for accessing the main window location bar. This shortcut works within the File Report Generator window as well.
Feature: Added support for navigating between file report types via keyboard (use Alt key + underlined letter in the report navigation panel).
Feature: Modified main window ribbon bar tab shortcuts to ensure that only a single letter keystroke combination is required to access them.
Feature: Various help file clarifications and additions.
Bug fix: Exporting a duplicate file report in PDF file format could result in a crash.
Bug fix: Main window detail information panel was not updated properly when switching current view depth (or toggling visibility of files).
Bug fix: Resolved occurrence of "the parameter is incorrect" error when drilling down into file report detail views. The error would appear only if generating the file report from a drive letter without a trailing backslash.
Bug fix: Removed the expression "temp*" from the default temporary file report match string to reduce probability of false positives.
Bug fix: Corrected control tab orders on a handful of application dialogs.
Bug fix: Resolved a handful of installer-related issues.

v5.6.52 [Aug 31, 2011]
Bug fix: Resolved problem that could cause FolderSizes to become unresponsive in very specific circumstances.

v5.5.40 [Aug 10, 2011]
- Many improvements to hierarchical Folder Map graph
- Huge increases in Search tool performance
- More flexible attribute matching in filtering, search
- New path history navigation pop-up menus
- New Relative Age main window detail view column
- Numerous improvements to our “super tooltips”
- New Graph ribbon bar tab with several new functions
- Improved file owner reporting and search
- Lots more!

v4.5.1.1 [Mar 4, 2008]
Unicode support, command line access to the search facility, improved natural file sorting algorithm, improved folder searching capability, revised user interface, and more.

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