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IridiumIO / CompactGUI

Transparently compress active games and programs using Windows 10/11 APIs
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Watcher Utility - User Interface #370

Closed FolkSong closed 6 months ago

FolkSong commented 6 months ago

First of all I think the always-running watcher utility should be something you can disable, a lot of people aren't going to want that.

Also, can there be some kind of GUI to see your watched folders and their status? And remove folders from the list.

Iridium-IO commented 6 months ago

If you hover near the bottom of the window, it will show you the tab to switch to the watcher list.

All it does is hook into Windows' own filesystem watcher and does absolutely nothing until it receives a ping from Windows that a file in the watched folder has been modified. So if you have no watched folders, it's not doing anything.

I should have added an option to explicitly disable it, but if you have no watched folders, then closing the application won't leave it running in the tray.

FolkSong commented 6 months ago

Thanks, I see the option to show the list now.

Yes I think the option to disable it would be good - even if I want to use watched folders, I might just want to check on it once in a while rather than have it on all the time.