{"id":106,"date":"2008-05-25T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-25T15:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/foldersizes-v4-6-is-released.htm"},"modified":"2012-06-26T19:48:18","modified_gmt":"2012-06-26T19:48:18","slug":"foldersizes-v4-6-is-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/05\/foldersizes-v4-6-is-released.htm","title":{"rendered":"FolderSizes v4.6 is Released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about what we&#8217;ve been working on for our upcoming FolderSizes v4.6 release.<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost, v4.6 contains a new <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">integrated scheduling facility<\/span>. With this tool, you can schedule the execution of any FolderSizes report type and export those results in a variety of formats. Here in our development labs, we&#8217;ve scheduled the generation of <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">all<\/span> of FolderSizes&#8217; various report types, exporting each of them (in HTML format) to a shared folder on our network (effectively building an archive of data storage reports that speed and simplify storage hotspot identification, as well as providing historical context).<\/p>\n<p>The next major focus of FolderSizes v4.6 is performance. Nearly every feature has received a comprehensive performance and resource usage evaluation, and this has process resulted in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The introduction of a new file owner data lookup cache<\/li>\n<li>Numerous improvements to our folder analysis data caching technology<\/li>\n<li>A nearly 60% memory usage reduction in many file report scan scenarios<\/li>\n<li>Numerous performance boosts when scanning remote (network) paths<\/li>\n<li>New options that provide more granular control over scan-time performance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of these improvements might sound a bit technical and geeky &#8211; but believe me, they amount to a <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">serious<\/span> performance and resource usage improvement in v4.6.<\/p>\n<p>There are tons of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/content\/static\/releasenotes.htm\">other improvements<\/a> as well &#8211; improved visual theme switching, &#8220;filename only&#8221; duplicate file matching, a greatly improved duplicate file report HTML export format, a new &#8220;allocated&#8221; column in several of the file reporting detail views, and much more. We also threw in a handful of bug fixes for good measure.<\/p>\n<p>FolderSizes v4.6 is a free upgrade for existing v4 license holders. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/download\">Get yours now<\/a> &#8211; fresh off the compiler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s talk about what we&#8217;ve been working on for our upcoming FolderSizes v4.6 release. First and foremost, v4.6 contains a new integrated scheduling facility. With this tool, you can schedule the execution of any FolderSizes report type and export those results in a variety of formats. Here in our development labs, we&#8217;ve scheduled the generation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":488,"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foldersizes.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}