SpaceMonger - 2 important features missing

I like SpaceMonger - just bought it as a much nicer replacement for SpaceSniffer.

If the product-owner / dev team reads these, I would like to humbly request you consider 3 features that would make SpaceMonger much more useful:

  1. The file-path bar needs to be activated with Alt+D shortcut, same as Windows Explorer and many other file-browsing/managing software.
  2. The file-path bar needs to auto-complete as you type (same as Explorer).
  3. (most important) selecting a file or folder in the Treemap, there needs to be a way to access the native System right-click menu, not only limited to the in-built SpaceMonger right-click menu. (I really like how ACDSee does this, with an accelerator key like SHFT+Right-Click gives the Windows right-click file or folder menu instead of the application's.)

Maybe it helps if I describe my use case....

I primarily use a tool like this to help find and eliminate duplicates, especially larger files and where the folder-structures don't match other instances. So when I browse in the Treemap for larger folders, the next step I often take is to compare that folder with another similar folder somewhere else using something like Beyond Compare.

But since I can't simply right-click in SpaceMonger and select the "Beyond Compare > select left side for compare" and "Compare with ...", I have to completely separately use Explorer to browse to the same folders I just found with SpaceMonger, and then invoke comparisons from there. Many many extra steps.

(Even adding a "copy full path" right-click option would help this use case quite a bit. But I prefer getting the native Explorer right-click menu as an advanced option...)

 

Thanks for listening. Overall, a very nice piece of software that I'm quite pleased with.

-Eric

 

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