Version 3.0 beta 1

[Iridium-IO]

Changes

• Skip Poorly Compressed Filetypes
  • Has been enabled - selecting these options will now actually skip filetypes. You cannot submit results if you have these options enabled (that's to ensure that future results aren't compromised). For the User Submitted Filetypes option, in future this will be adjusted to only skip files with a certain confidence level (e.g. if only 1 person says it should be skipped that's not good enough, but if 40 do then it can be skipped)
  • In theory, compression should be at least equal or only slightly worse than without skipping filetypes, and the speed should be faster (in some cases much faster). Please submit an issue if the compression is much worse for a particular game/folder
• Added Notifications - shows a Toast notification when compression is completed (this can be enabled/disabled in the settings)
• Added Drag-and-Drop - Folders can now be dragged into CompactGUI to compress them. One folder at a time only.
• Updated Games Database - ~7400 new submissions since the last version (these are generally updated in the background but I haven't pushed a new database since July)

Bug Fixes

• Safely blocks System Windows directory from being selected without affecting other root folders that contain Windows [Bug] Weak matching of dangerous folder names #281
• Fixed crash when a watched folder is deleted or renamed and CompactGUI cannot locate it - deleted/renamed folders are now automatically removed from the watchlist
• Added checks to prevent non-NTFS folders from being compressed. Version 3.0 Alpha 7, Version 2.6.2, and Compactor.exe having Issues with Different File Systems #305

Known issues

• Watched folders will not play nice if you added a folder to the watchlist while in admin mode, and then went back to normal mode afterwards. It will still technically work, but the analysis will not be accurate (as it will skip over files it doesn't have permission to check)
• Clicking the Analyse button to check all the watched folders won't show any visual indication that it's doing anything until it is finished. It is actually working, but you just can't see anything. Feel free to spam click the button if it makes you feel better.
• The fading in/out bottom bar is a bit glitchy.
• The right-click context menu no longer works and gives an error that CompactGUI is already running, if you're using the Watched list.

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Important!

Because this application now uses .NET 6, you have two choices of downloads:

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  • 2.71 MB: If you don't have the .NET 6 runtime installed when you try to run this, it will prompt you to download it from Microsoft
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  • 152 MB: Includes all libraries required to run it completely standalone, however it's nearly 50x the size. I do recommend installing the .NET 6 runtime instead (which is itself only a 50MB download).

File Checksums

MD5: 		D5F3B0AB6A1A82AE1178B2647A9B9A4F
SHA-256: 	4D5BC15A1D8D1EB03DF5C710FF23BD5F214A4D1F089C36D16AFF54BE241F2192

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This discussion was created from the release Version 3.0 beta 1.

[norms360]

I'm not sure if this is the correct place, but is it possible to have LZX compression the default type when the app opens? Would save so much time for what I use it for. Is there a config or something I can change to allow this? If not then I think it would be a nice feature.

[brokeDude2901]

I would use the 152mb intergrated version, saving ~140mb is not worth it :D