TreeSize v8：What has changed in version 8?

TreeSize v8 is now available for download. The new version contains many improvements and new features, some minor bugs have been fixed.

What has changed in version 8?

• The component for managing the installation key has been renewed. This fixes issues that some customers have experienced with the Windows Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) security option, Carbon Black security software, and Lumension Endpoint Protection. Therefore, all customers need new installation keys for V8, which are available through our customer area.
• A new dialog for selecting a scan targets has been added. Even complex paths and URLs can now be compiled with a few clicks.
• A search box at the top of the main window (available in Windows 10), as well as in the Options dialog, now allows searching for actions or settings quickly and conveniently.
• Scans of network drives are now up to ten times faster.
• Explicitly added network drives and UNC paths are now displayed in the drive overview even if they are currently not accessible.
• The function for restricting the view to one file extension has been improved and allows a restriction to a complete file group.
• The "Name" column is no longer scrolled out of the visible area in all lists. This makes it easier to view tables with many activated columns.
• Screen scaling for multiple monitors with different resolutions has been improved.
• If a drive locked with BitLocker is scanned, the dialog for entering the password now appears automatically if the drive has not been unlocked yet.
• Bugfix: The progress bar when comparing a scan with another path now starts at 0 instead of the number of files in the original scan.
  
  Directory Tree
• The small progress bar in the directory tree has been visually modernized. It now scales correctly on high-resolution monitors for which Windows screen scaling is enabled.
• A file selected in the directory tree is now opened or executed by pressing Enter.
  
  Details list
• In the Details list, checkboxes can now be displayed for the individual elements to simplify complex selections. File operations such as copy, move, rename or delete can then be applied to the selection.
• The background context menu of the Details list has been extended and now allows further actions, such as creating a new folder.
• The preview pane on the right of the Details list and the File Search results now shows more meta data, like: File version, keywords, "Last Saved By" for office files, etc.
• For EML, EXE and DLL files, the "Author" column now shows available values of the file.
  
  Charts
• All charts that show a part of the directory hierarchy now have a button to navigate up one level in the hierarchy. As before, you can navigate downwards in the hierarchy by double-clicking an element.
• The history now offers the option to display sizes of older scans for which different filters were used in the scan options, which may limit the comparability of results. The new option "Ignore Scan Filters" can be found in the ribbon bar "History" under "Show".
• An error was fixed in the file age statistics for the number of files displayed.
• The pie, bar, and tree map charts now also take a restriction to a file extension or a user into account and thus show the same values as in the directory tree and the Details list.
  
  SharePoint
• TreeSize now also supports multi-factor authentication when accessing SharePoint Online.
• The number of versions of files on a SharePoint are now correctly displayed in the corresponding column of the details list.
• When examining SharePoint servers, the file attributes are now determined correctly.
• For files and folders on SharePoint servers, available values are now displayed in the "Description" column.
• TreeSize now also supports the display of free and total available disk space on SharePoint pages.
  
  Amazon S3
• The syntax to scan all available Amazon S3 buckets has changed from s3:// to s3://* to be more consistent with similar cases. If you supply credentials within the URL please use: s3://Key:Hiddenkey@*
• You can now also delete folders from Amazon S3 Storage that contain non-empty subfolders.
  
  SSH / Linux Scans
• The available file operations for SSH scans have been extended. For example, it is now possible to create new folders in scanned SSH structures.
• SSH scans now support the ECDSA host key algorithm.
• The "Permissions" column now also shows the file permissions for SSH scans using the common Linux/Unix format. This applies to all lists in which the "Permissions" column is available ("Details", "Top 100 Files", file search result lists).
  
  Export
• Column headers are no longer truncated when exporting to text format and plaintext emails. Instead, they are wrapped to multiple lines if necessary.
• The file export in HTML format now includes all graphics in the HTML file. Previously, graphics were stored as individual files next to the .html file. As of now they are embedded. This change makes it more convenient to move or forward HTML exports. For technical reasons, this increases the runtime for HTML exports and the size of the resulting HTML file.
• When selecting the export options, you can now choose whether an additional "[Files]" element should be exported for each directory.
• The font used for PDF exports is now based on the system settings and the current application language. This means that Asian fonts can now be correctly exported to PDF.
• The size values in the exported data now also respect a filter set in the user interface for a file extension or a user.
  
  Command line (Professional Edition only)
• Using the parameters /EXCEL /APPENDTOFILES False, existing Excel files can now be completely overwritten during export.
• The new parameter /EXPORTTITLE allows to configure the title line in exports. The /TITLE parameter can still be used to replace the path with your own text for a single scan, or to change the name of a custom file search.
• When exporting to an Excel file via /EXCEL, the /APPENDTOFILES parameter can now be used together with /SHEETNAME to append the data to the specified sheet.
• The new parameter /IMPORTPATTERNS can be used to load filters from a file.
• For XML exports, the /DATE parameter now adds the date before the .XML.ZIP file extension, instead of between .XML and .ZIP as before.
• PDF files are now correctly attached to email exports with multiple scans (when exporting from the command line).
• When exporting to Excel via command line and only a file name is specified for the export file (instead of an explicit path), the export is now stored in the current working directory.
  
  File operations
• The File Operations dialog now provides separate radio buttons for selecting the move and copy operations.
• The “Move Elements to Recycle Bin” and “Delete Elements from Hard Disk” options have been merged to “Delete Elements” item. Using the new “Move to Recycle Bin” checkbox, elements can still be moved to the recycle bin (if supported for the drive).
• When selecting “Zip Items”, there is now an additional option “Keep original items after zipping” which prevents the zipped files from being deleted from their original location.
• The File Operations dialog now also allows to move or copy files to Amazon S3 Storages, SharePoint or Linux/Unix servers.
• The usability of the dialog for renaming multiple files at once has been improved.
  
  File search
• The order of the custom searches can now be changed using drag & drop.
• The search for duplicate files now offers the additional comparison method "Size and Date": This method compares files only by their file size and the date of their last modification.
• The column "Matching condition" is now also available in the custom search. It shows which of the search filters caused the element to be listed in the search results.
• The search patterns for searching for temporary and obsolete files have been improved.
• The dialog for scheduling automated tasks has been enhanced with additional elements so that for automated file operations (move, copy, delete), all options otherwise available in the user interface can now be set directly when creating the task. (Professional Edition only)
  
  Compatibility Changes
• The operating systems Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 are no longer supported, so at least Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 is required now, as well as .Net Framework 4.7.2 or higher, which should already be installed on your system by Windows Update.
• The TreeSize user interface is now also available in Chinese (Simplified), Danish and Czech.