Version 3.4 Alpha 1

New Features:

• Added Background Compactor: CompactGUI will now try to keep watched folders compressed in the background by running when the system is idle, under the following conditions:
  • The system has been idle (i.e. no user mouse/keyboard input) and the monitored folder has also not been modified (e.g. by Steam updates, user copying files, etc) within the last 5 minutes.
  • The background compressor will pause itself when user activity is detected, or if a manual compression/uncompression/analysing task is being run. It will then resume from where it left off after 5 minutes have elapsed, but it may skip any changes that were made to the folder in the time the compressor was paused. Before pausing, it will finish compressing the current file it is working on, to prevent corruption. If it unfortunately has to pause on a massive file on disk, this can take a minute.
  • The compressor will not run on any folder that has been totally uncompressed, as it uses the existing compression algorithms of the contained files to decide what compression to use. Totally uncompressed folders will still remain in the Watched list, but will need to be manually compressed again before the background compressor will take over again.
  • The background compressor ignores any skipped file settings for now.

While I've tested it in several situations, I cannot stress how important it is to be careful with this. There's currently no options to enable/disable the background compressor, or adjust the idle timeouts, hence the alpha tag. Please report bugs, especially runaway memory/disk/CPU usage

Optimisations:

• Speed up GetPoorlyCompressedExtensions by up to 10x
• Reuse FileInfo instances to make Core.Compactor.BuildWorkingFilesList() about 90x faster (from ~900ms to 10ms overall on a folder with 100,000 files)
• Smaller optimisations to Watcher and Analyser classes

Bug Fixes:

• Fix crash when a file is deleted after analysis starts but before it is completed
• Fix duplicating entries in the Wiki Results tooltip
• Fix Watcher continuously trying to update the WatchedFolders.json file on disk while idle.

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Important!

Because this application uses .NET 6, you will need to install .NET 6 for the prerelease version of this.

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  • 2.76 MB: If you don't have the .NET 6 runtime installed when you try to run this, it will prompt you to download it from Microsoft

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Full Changelog: v3.3.0...v3.4.0-alpha.1