Click in Tree should imply "ESC"

[The_Dude]

Hi !

Perhaps "should" is a little strong, more apprpriate would be "hopefully can".

I have all the "show folder sizes" options turned on.

If a tab is currently set to the top level of a hard drive, say "E:\" (from use perhaps minutes or hours ago), then if I bring up that tab, TrackerV3 will immediately compute all the new folder sizes (of all the top folders in that disk).

If I immediately click on a folder in the Tree, all those folder sizes are irrelevant, and best possible behavior would be for TrackerV3 to stop computing them and immediately show the folder instead. However, currently it continues in the computation until done.

So, the user really needs to first press "ESC" to stop the compuration and then click with the mouse on the folder, but shouldn't have to press "ESC" since that is implied by the mouse click in the tree selecting a folder.

So, can the code for mouse click in the tree automatically stop the folder size computation? It would be helpful if so, thanks !

PS In Configuration -> General, there is an option "Show folder sizes in file list" and under that is an undocumented sub-option "Report the disk space used". What disk space is reported, and where ?

[admin]

PS In Configuration -> General, there is an option "Show folder sizes in file list" and under that is an undocumented sub-option "Report the disk space used". What disk space is reported, and where ?

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v4.20.0004 - 06.10.05 12:00
    + Configuration, General: added checkbox "Report the disk space 
      used". If checked the folder sizes displayed in the file list are 
      based on the actually occupied clusters of each folders' contents. 
      If unchecked the folder sizes are just the byte sum of all contained 
      files. The two values will differ strongly for folders with many 
      small files.

As for the ESC: makes sense...

[admin]

So, can the code for mouse click in the tree automatically stop the folder size computation?

Well, it already does! Just checked it, works great.

[The_Dude]

PS In Configuration -> General, there is an option "Show folder sizes in file list" and under that is an undocumented sub-option "Report the disk space used". What disk space is reported, and where ?

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v4.20.0004 - 06.10.05 12:00
    + Configuration, General: added checkbox "Report the disk space 
      used". If checked the folder sizes displayed in the file list are 
      based on the actually occupied clusters of each folders' contents. 
      If unchecked the folder sizes are just the byte sum of all contained 
      files. The two values will differ strongly for folders with many 
      small files.

Okay, that's that option we requested.

Am I correct that "unchecked" would make it work the way it used to work before it was changed ?

[admin]

Am I correct that "unchecked" would make it work the way it used to work before it was changed ?

Yep.

[The_Dude]

So, can the code for mouse click in the tree automatically stop the folder size computation?

Well, it already does! Just checked it, works great.

Hmm - it works now on my system as well .

Actually, the previous day, there was a lot more going on on my PC - so I think that an overburdended memory and/or CPU caused a delay in the program receiving and acting on the click - meanwhile the get-folder-size was continuing.

So, I guess the conclusion is "oops, never mind".

But, actually the whole thread was valuable to me, as somehow I would have assumed that you had made the default of "show the disk space used" checkbox to be the original behavior. I do want the same folder with the same contents - but on two different disks - to be the same size number, so that I can tell at a glance that it has the same contents.

This is because the Windows drag-and-drop GUI is convenient, but occasionally you end up dropping in the wrong folder. Every so often, I open a rarely used folder and discover a long lost file.

In fact, the whole Folder Size feature has been very helpful in finding such things - particularly the first time you turn it on, and see that a folder that should only have a tiny software program, is unusually large...