runs fine (!) except on my SSD-Drive

[avogelba]

Originally reported by: Oliver (Bitbucket: assarbad, GitHub: assarbad)

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Anonymously reported through SF.net

Tried to run it on my SSD-Drive (ADATA SSD S510 120GB) and it freezes. With the Pacman-Animation turned on, it goes up to 32%/13 seconds; when I turned the animation off, it worked for 29%/11 seconds, then stopped (no response). Added a screenshot for you. I LOVE this tool - great work ! Thank you, good luck, Gerald (geraldsude att gmx dott de)

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/windirstat/windirstat/issue/4

[avogelba]

Original comment by Oliver (Bitbucket: assarbad, GitHub: assarbad):

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@bitbucketmarker thanks a bunch. That's really helpful. Hadn't quite expected to see exFAT here. This is something to investigate. I will also contact the original reporter of this defect to confirm there's a similar cause.

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Original comment by first last (Bitbucket: bitbucketmarker, GitHub: Unknown):

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#!windows command line
#thanks to http://learn-powershell.net/2013/04/01/list-all-files-regardless-of-260-character-path-restriction-using-powershell-and-robocopy/
robocopy . NULL /L /S /NJH /BYTES /FP /NC /NDL /XJ /TS /R:0 /W:0 > c:\listing.txt

• around 360 thousand files (368,961 files according to right-click properties, 371454 according to robocopy)
• around 28 thousand folders (28,069 folders according to right-click properties, 28776 according to robocopy)
• filesystem: exFAT
• USB 3.0 confirmed per http://superuser.com/a/846973/26398
• maximum folder depth I found was 23 folders (not counting root D:\ as a folder)
• yes, 28 path names longer than 260 characters

[avogelba]

Original comment by Oliver (Bitbucket: assarbad, GitHub: assarbad):

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Thanks, so far. I'll see whether I can reproduce this somehow. Can you give me a few more pieces of data, please?

• how many files are on the disk? (approx.)
• how many folders are on the disk? (approx.)
• what is the volume formatted to? (NTFS or ...?)
• USB 3.0?
• how deeply nested are the folders? (number of levels down)
• any path names longer than 260 characters?

Thanks!

[avogelba]

Original comment by first last (Bitbucket: bitbucketmarker, GitHub: Unknown):

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Trying it now. Same external SSD, different laptop. Windows 10. RAM usage is at 45.2 MB. Stuck at 59% progress after about 47s. I let it run for 35m 14s and it is still at 59%. I clicked on it and it says "Not Responding."

[avogelba]

Original comment by Oliver (Bitbucket: assarbad, GitHub: assarbad):

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@bitbucketmarker: did you try waiting it out or did you simply close it when Windows claimed the program was unresponsive?

[avogelba]

Original comment by first last (Bitbucket: bitbucketmarker, GitHub: Unknown):

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Same issue.

• OS: Windows 8.1

• Program Version: WindirStat 1.1.2.80 (Unicode)

• Drive info: 232 GB External SSD from Samsung

• Observed behavior: It ran for about 12 seconds before Task Manager said "Not Responding" and used around 14MB of memory.

• Configuration: In settings the checkbox is empty/unchecked/not checked for "Follow Junction Points (except Volume Mount Points)"

[avogelba]

Original comment by Alexander Riccio (Bitbucket: alexander_riccio, GitHub: Unknown):

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Any updates here? This is a curious issue.

[avogelba]

Original comment by Oliver (Bitbucket: assarbad, GitHub: assarbad):

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My response on SF.net was:

In task manager, does the memory usage go up when it happens? There's only one thing that I think would make sense and that would be a circular symlink or junction. In case of junctions you can already change the behavior in 1.1.2 in the settings.

Also, what exact OS version etc? ...

Please see: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html [English] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs-de.html [German]

// Oliver