http://blog.windirstat.info News and discussions around WinDirStat Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:49:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Please welcome our new project member Juan (aka neglox) :wink: // Oliver http://blog.windirstat.info/20091119/new-project-member/ So far WDS has proven to be fairly stable, but there are people who claim to have seen mysterious crashes every now and then. Now my question: if I was to implement a method in WDS that allows me to get a crash dump (or call it "snapshot") of WDS ... http://blog.windirstat.info/20090907/need-feedback/ In order to implement this feature, there is a clear tradeoff: memory. The memory usage will, at least temporarily, spike more than it currently does. However, given that Microsoft surely has put a lot of thought into the structure of the MFT we can at least assume that the respective ... http://blog.windirstat.info/20090907/mft-again/ Just a few comments on my progress. As it appears there is no way to get access to a volume unless one has administrator rights (or - presumably - the volume ACL was changed?). That, of course, creates the problem that the speedup is only available to admins. However, I think ... http://blog.windirstat.info/20090824/mft-woes/ Recently I got an email asking for a trimmed down English-only version of WinDirStat. To be honest I was quite flabbergasted and upset. After all both developers involved in WinDirStat are native Germans, so why not make it a light version that is German-only? I think everyone knows and accepts ... http://blog.windirstat.info/20090707/cmon-keep-it-real-guys/ After a user has provided feedback with a potential way of increasing the speed of a scan manifold, I'm currently exploring the USN journal as well as using the MFT (on NTFS drives only) in order to enumerate the contents of a drive or subfolders on it. // Oliver http://blog.windirstat.info/20090628/exploring/ Although I'm not fully back to normal, I'll start development again and hope to have a version ready around September. // Oliver http://blog.windirstat.info/20090530/will-resume-development-now/ I dislocated my right shoulder a few days ago and will therefore not reply to emails or work on WDS in the next three weeks - minimum. Update: I'll undergo orthopedic surgery on 27th of April, which will most likely prolong the break. // Oliver http://blog.windirstat.info/20090408/forced-technical-break/ When the project was still under Bernhard's rule, he was always going to release only versions that had passed his test plan. I hope to break this tradition soon and release more often and release earlier. My goal is to put all of the code-base under a testing harness that ... http://blog.windirstat.info/20090330/more-foss-like-release-cycle/ Hi, just wanted to let everyone know that I am currently working out a format for what's now the resource scripts in XML. You can find a first draft version in revision 174 in the Subversion repository. As you can see, you will have the translations "side-by-side", which should also make ... http://blog.windirstat.info/20090330/translations-in-xml/