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WinDirStats - Windows Directory Statistics, private clone from:
https://bitbucket.org/windirstat/windirstat
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Historical snapshot reporting on files which have increased over time #128

Open avogelba opened 9 years ago

avogelba commented 9 years ago

Originally reported by: Mr B (Bitbucket: mr-b, GitHub: mr-b)

It would be very useful if WDS could indicate which files have changed size e.g. over a certain amount, over a certain time period. Obviously this requires some form of historical snapshots of the filesystem to be saved so that a diff report on files can be produced.

This is related: #111/save-output-as-file-for-later-viewing

The problem this would solve is my C: drive filling up incessantly over time, with none of the obvious culprits. Searching for "big" files at any one particular time just doesn't do it unfortunately.

This kind of snapshot functionality would highlight things like log files that are buried in obscure appdata folders that have increased due to verbosity levels changing or some errors that have been occurring.

avogelba commented 8 years ago

Original comment by Mark Hurd (Bitbucket: markehurd, GitHub: Unknown):

I'd like, as a first step to this option: to see the change in space used between one scan and the next.

I imagine the current display, except each block represents the delta of the size, probably with three options:

  1. Ignore space savings (treat all negative deltas as zero)
  2. Ignore extra space used (treat all positive deltas as zero)
  3. Treat size of blocks as the sum of the absolute deltas and display positive and negative deltas differently.