Open Call For Testers

[NoMoreFood]

This issue is to identify folks that would be willing to test release candidates. If you could potentially help, please make a comment here and we'll tag you when something is available.

[tron2k]

I could support you.

[theonlyames]

I honestly didn't think windirstat was actively developed any more and was looking for the code to create my own fork, so I'm interested in testing.

[Anutrix]

I am interested in testing and development too.

[vittoso]

I'm interested in testing, as well

[PEERSOFTdev]

Hello,
I am unable to build it myself on Windows 11 so will be very grateful to receive any binary to test, whether alpha, beta, RC etc. I will do my best to make the Czech localization current as well.

[NoMoreFood]

@PEERSOFTdev and others,

The latest build can be found here: https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat-next/releases/tag/Release_1_3_0_2024_03_17

To test any location changes, you can download the Czech localization text file:

https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat/blob/master/windirstat/res/langs/lang_cz.txt

And put it in the same directory as WinDirStat.exe. This will cause WinDirStat to override the embedded version with the local version of the file (so you do not need to compile to test changes). There may be one or two strings in the English version (https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat/blob/master/windirstat/res/langs/lang_en.txt) that need to be defined yet in lang_cz.txt. For example, IDS_MENU_FILE_SAVE_RESULTS and IDS_MENU_FILE_LOAD_RESULTS.

[Anutrix]

Tried the x64 executable on a 2TB SSD with 2 partitions.
First run took 18 seconds.
Second run took 4 seconds.

1.3 million files.

Clicking the squares makes the application hang for some time. 2-5 seconds on average.
But if you click smallest/tiny squares, it can hang for a long time. It might be a crashed/permanent hang because it's been 5+ mins and it's in 'Not Responding' state.

Thx.

[NoMoreFood]

@Anutrix The timing sounds about right. The OS / drive caches some of the data that WinDirStat queries so subsequent runs are typically faster for awhile while everything is in-cache.

As for the "hangs", that's a consequence of the overhead of expanding and collapsing nodes in the UI. I'll see if I can speed it up. I am waiting for the new version of Visual Studio to fix an MFC profiling bug so that should help with tracking down performing issues. Thanks for the feedback! Please open a new issue for anything substantial you find. Thanks!

[NoMoreFood]

New build has been posted to address a crash when to attempting to delete files the user did not have permission to (or other common causes for deletion failing):

https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat-next/releases

[NoMoreFood]

@Anutrix, @PEERSOFTdev, @vittoso @theonlyames, @tron2k

Another new alpha release posted. At this point, I'm done making scale changes and entering the "working out bugs" phase. Please let me know if you see anything or whether it looks good. Thanks for any feedback thus far and in the future.

https://github.com/windirstat/windirstat-next/releases