Comments on: Poll about the future of WinDirStat

By: Stuart Kan

Stuart Kan — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 08:09:52 +0000

Is it possible to search for a filename? I have a need to search for files in NAS drives. Perhaps searching via windirstat would be much faster if it is possible!

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:54:59 +0000

love the program, have used it for years, thanks++

Feature wanted: snapshot/cache

At home, running WDS on my home PC, /indexing/ my NAS can take quite some time. Some sort of offline or caching mechanism to reflect the state of the NAS that might be loaded up on startup from the previous session (and perhaps updated in the background?) would be useful.

By: western wombat

western wombat — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:21:29 +0000

Libraries are a great feature of Win7. Although I run Win7-64 Ultimate, I would vote for support for the “obscure features” ahead of 64-bit support (I know it’s already done, but this is my opinion).
People who don’t know how Win7 Libraries are implemented may just want to point WinDirStat at the Libraries they have created, to know how much stuff is there (of course, it is mainly elsewhere).
When they do that, an interim measure might be to pop up a message with a simple explanation.
What do you reckon?

By: cavallogoloso

cavallogoloso — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:37:37 +0000

well … something like “windirstat [/q]” … this could be scheduled, also in quiet (no gui) mode…

it’s only an idea

THanks!

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:53:43 +0000

Command line version won’t happen. Using the GUI version in some unattended mode may become possible, but no guarantees.

The file format would likely be an SQLite database.

By: cavallogoloso

cavallogoloso — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:03:31 +0000

wonderful! 64 and 32 bit versions!
i like much to have win2000 –> win7 compatibility for 32 versions.

some features i wish:

- a “save” feature for reading pre-retrieved data and a “compare” function to see what is happening and where! (differences before/after)
- a commandline version! i know well this is a GUI util, but if i can launch unattended tasks all over the network, or perform scheduled tasks of unattended WDSC (windirstat_commandline!) and then collect results, read them when i can … this would be good!

commandline functions would be as powerful as you can imagine some useful features. Naturally the GUI program have to be used for “seeing” results.

if you can create a “.WDS” format … You can see something like this (LIKE!) in “OverDisk” program: let’s see!

THANKS FOR THIS GREAT UTILITY

By: moo

moo — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:24:43 +0000

i’m not sure if it does or doesn’t. but reading directory directly from lower level api would be faster if it doesn’t do it this way already.
like dfrg.msc (and mydefrag), and any other defragger.
like everything.exe that read directly instead of scanning through using api. i’m not sure how “low” level they use, but i do think reading data in disk-layout order would be faster than in directory order which might make the disk seek like crazy

By: foofiggle

foofiggle — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:14:56 +0000

It would be great to have a 64bit version of WinDirStat.

We occasionally would like to run it against a very very large file system and the current 32bit one crashes (guessing it runs out of memory)…

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:20:18 +0000

WDS runs on Windows 7 and on Vista as well as on x64 Windows versions. It just doesn’t support some obscure new features and in case of x64 Windows it runs in WOW64 mode (whose performance is nearly the same as for native x64 applications).

But the plan now is to drop 9x versions (i.e. ANSI versions) and concentrate on Unicode and NT versions with x86 or x64 processor. Itanium is not planned (specifically because I have no way of checking it!).

By: Sb

Sb — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:41:44 +0000

Yes please.

This would be nice to have support for x64 Vista and the new Win 7.

Thanks.