Version 4.0 Beta 6

[Iridium-IO]

Changes

NEW Added Scheduler

• Adds the ability to schedule background compression of watched folders, with the following choices:
  • When system is idle (existing functionality)
  • On Schedule
  • On Schedule if system is also idle (for example you want to run it at 6pm every day, but only if you're not actively using the computer)
• If the Scheduler is running and you wish to cancel it, you can do so from the Watcher tab as below
• Note: Scheduler will only run if the computer is already on and CompactGUI is running.

 

NEW Manual compression of all watched folders

• You can now compress all watched folders manually from the Watcher tab
• Any scheduled background compressions can also be cancelled from this tab when they are running too.

NEW Logging
Hopefully this will make error reporting easier - logs are now generated and saved to %IridiumIO%/CompactGUI. If you run into issues with CompactGUI, please share these logs when creating an issue! Hopefully they catch the reason for any crashes or problems.

TWEAKS UI Updates

• Improved Compression Mode option buttons and layout of main area of CompactGUI
  • the hover effect can be disabled in settings if you prefer to always see more details
• Tweaked results view (not sure if this looks better or not - probably will change again later)
• Adjusted Watcher page layout - now includes button to compress all watched folders on command
• Changes to base background colour and image use

 

Fixes

• Fixed several memory leaks
• Major performance improvements in several areas and reduced overall memory usage
• Fixed a crash that could occur when opening the skiplist
• Fixed the watcher list nuking itself if a monitored folder is deleted [Suggestion] Back up Watcher list #546
• Fixed instances where the background watcher simply doesn't do anything
• Fixed the compression buttons showing the wrong estimates Possibly showing incorrect estimated saving from database #543
• Fixed spamming disk writes when the user changes settings (previously every change in the settings menu would immediately write the new settings file to disk - now this is debounced)

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Installation

Binaries

CompactGUI.exe (10MB):		 Smaller size, but requires .NET 9 Runtime to be installed
CompactGUI.mono.exe (64MB):	 Fully self-contained and embeds the necessary .NET 9 libraries

WinGet

winget install CompactGUI

Note

Installing from WinGet automatically installs .NET 9 if required, however it can often take a few days for new releases to become available.

Checksums

MD5: 		F6722CD43AA8169DB1F960A258639889
SHA-256: 	5CB2DB4EC39B8FA3E11BC3824BBFDC55214373D27714BFA2C1DF306576F06D81

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Full Changelog: v4.0.0-beta.5...v4.0.0-beta.6

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This discussion was created from the release Version 4.0 Beta 6.

[MrNico98]

But if I compress a Steam game, is it still playable or does it have to be uncompressed before being launched?

[sys27]

It is playable. Windows uncompresses it automatically, on the fly.

[AndreAIsecs12]

When does this software support windows compression if enabled? since version 4 it doesn't support it, so I can't recompress files anymore when windows compression is enabled.

[Iridium-IO]

What are you asking