Treat ".doc.zip" as ".doc" files

[ppass]

This is a bit difficult to explain, and you may consider it to be a very rare-case usage, but anyway, here I go.

I mirror my data to a USB memory and each file is compressed and encrypted. So, a file in the original drive called
C:\folderA\Sub1\myfile.doc

will become in the backup drive

Z:\folderA\Sub1\myfile.doc.zip

The good news is that SpaceMonger works and makes a nice treemap of Z:\folderA, even though all files are compressed and encrypted.

The bad news, is that they all fall into the [Packages] slice of the pie. The only work-around I found was to redefine my slices. For example, the new [Documents] slice is now:

*.doc;*.wpd;*.txt;*.rtf;*.pdf;*.xls;*.wb?;*.wq?;*.doc.zip;*.wpd.zip;*.txt.zip;*.rtf.zip;*.pdf.zip;*.xls.zip;*.wb?.zip;*.wq?.zip

But this works only for zip files. What if I have .doc.tar files? This is a nightmare to redefine each slice definition.

So my request is: could you add a mode where compressed files are treated inside Spacemonger with their original file extension. For example ".doc.zip" files seen as ".doc" files.

I hope that my explanation is clear enough and that this is easy enough to implement and that you do not consider this as too specific a request. Such a mode would make my (digital) life so much easier!

[seanw]

This is a bit difficult to explain, and you may consider it to be a very rare-case usage, but anyway, here I go.

I wrote up a long reply to this a couple of weeks ago and then didn't have the time to post it

The upshot of that reply is that this is an interesting notion, and I may consider it for a future version, not mainly because of .zip files, but because of the equally-common .gz and .bz2 extensions, which represent a specific single file that has been compressed. To support those two formats well, I really should add in a configuration page that lets you add "ignorable" file extensions for pie-chart sorting, of which ".gz" and ".bz2" would be the most common, and ".zip" would be something you could potentially add.

[ppass]

I really should add in a configuration page that lets you add "ignorable" file extensions for pie-chart sorting, of which ".gz" and ".bz2" would be the most common, and ".zip" would be something you could potentially add.

This is an extremely easy way to express my request. I hope that this can be added in the near future. Thanks.