Recent changes to feature-requests

#117 You are so wonderful, Erwin Bonsma

Erwin Bonsma — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:46:07 -0000

status: open --> closed

You are so wonderful, Erwin Bonsma

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:35:16 -0000

Thank you!!!

You are so wonderful, Erwin Bonsma

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:35:16 -0000

Ticket 117 has been modified: You are so wonderful, Erwin Bonsma
Edited By: Erwin Bonsma (eriban)
Status updated: 'open' => 'closed'

#107 text file from largest to smallest file?

Erwin Bonsma — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:39:17 -0000

status: open --> wont-fix

#109 Show SSD cumulated usage

Erwin Bonsma — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:36:40 -0000

status: open --> wont-fix

#116 Make progress window expandable for diagnostic readability

Erwin Bonsma — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:53:45 -0000

status: open --> closed

#116 Make progress window expandable for diagnostic readability

Erwin Bonsma — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 22:06:03 -0000

Thanks for the suggestion. One possibility that already was present was to start up the app with extra logging. See https://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/HelpDocumentation/HowToHandleHangsWhileScanning.html

However, I agree it is useful to be able to view the path from the progress dialog as well. I did not think this exceptional scenario justified adding resize ability to the progress panel. I preferred to use a tooltip instead as this is a typical method for showing the full contents of text controls that are truncated. I just implemented this logic. See the attached screenshot. (Not shown is the mouse pointer that triggers the tooltip). This functionality will appear in the next release.

Make progress window expandable for diagnostic readability

Macs R We — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:24:19 -0000

Today I had a client with a full drive. I tried to use GP to locate the biggest files, but GP got hung up for hours in what looked like a hierarchy left over by soe coversion tool who knows how long ago, one with hundreds of subdirectories without much (or possibly anything) in them.

The problem was, the pathname of the hierarchy was too long to fit in the progress window without truncation ("/Users/owner_na...ges/tmp/something") and the progress window could not be grown so that I could see where GP was hung up, visit there, and do a little manual pruning before trying again. My only option was to quit GP at the end of the client appointment without having found what I needed to find.

Make progress window expandable for diagnostic readability

Macs R We — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:24:19 -0000

Ticket 116 has been modified: Make progress window expandable for diagnostic readability
Edited By: Erwin Bonsma (eriban)
Status updated: 'open' => 'closed'

#115 ability to filter files on export

Erwin Bonsma — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:53:40 -0000

For my response to the error, see https://sourceforge.net/p/grandperspectiv/bugs/120/

To answer the feature request: It's currently not directly possible to filter on export. However, you can achieve the same thing by filtering the contents of a scan (via Window -> Filter....). That let's you create a custom filter to exclude small files. This creates a new view, which you can then save/export.