This list of changes for each release is a good place to learn about new features that were recently added, bugs that were fixed, and other changes made to OmniDiskSweeper during development.

• Hopefully worked around an issue on 10.5 Leopard which would sometimes cause our normally well-behaved "lsbom" child tasks to turn into zombie processes that would fill up the user's process table, leading to "No more processes" errors in other applications. (We weren't able to reproduce this here, so we can't prove that this fixes the issue. If you were seeing this, please let us know if this fix works!)
• Rewrote the package scanner to find all the system packages on 10.5 Leopard.
• If we can't find the factory-installed font "Helvetica-Oblique" (which we normally use for linked files), we now fall back on using the system font rather than crashing.
• The built-in software update can now automatically download and install its updates.

No changes since 1.5.1 beta 2

Changes

• fixed a problem with SMB volumes not showing up under Network.

Changes

• Fixed an off-by-one error that was preventing some users from seeing mounted network drives.
• Fixed a text formatting error in the application's About box.

Requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

Changes

• Fixed the help button in Software Update Preferences.
• Replaced "OmniGraffle" with "OmniDiskSweeper" in the licensing help page.

Requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

Changes

• OmniDiskSweeper is now a Universal binary that runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs.
• Drives are now listed using their proper display name.
• The drive list now correctly identifies more types of network drives, and no longer lists virtual mount points from the automount daemon.
• Fixed some typos and awkward phrasing in the online help.

Requires Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

Improvements

• Added the ability to resize columns by dragging them (just like in Columns mode in the Finder).
• Added on-screen help.
• Added a "Send Feedback…" item to the Help menu.
• Made Command-Comma the keyboard shortcut for "Preferences…".
• Updated internals for Universal Binary support.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed our most common crash, where we could crash when updating our scan of the disk to notice new changes (such as we do following a delete operation).
• Fixed an occasional crash in the code which inventories the package receipts from Mac OS X's installer application.

Updated With Latest Omni Frameworks

• Multiple users on the same machine can share the same license at the same time.
• Software Update can optionally (and anonymously) report the user's operating system, allowing us to better determine which versions of Mac OS X are being used by our customers as well as the hardware in use.
• If you enter another Omni application's license into the license panel, it will now tell you which application that license is for instead of just complaining that the license is not valid.

Requires Mac OS X 10.1.x or later.

Changes

• No changes since 1.4 beta 2.

Requires Mac OS X 10.1.x or later.

Changes

• Fixed the crasher when deleting files and then telling OmniDiskSweeper to update the directory.
• Fixed the bug where OmniDiskSweeper didn't mark directories as having finished sizing if a file has an odd name on UFS or the file was deleted between the time we got the list of files and we sized the file.
• Modified the "Squishy" text field so that it wraps onto 3 lines and never shrinks the text more than 50%.
• Changed the keyboard shortcut for deleting the currently selected files to Command-Backspace (to match the Finder).
• OmniDiskSweeper no longer loses multiple selection or keyboard focus when updating the browser so you can use the arrow keys to navigate the browser.
• The selection in the file well should now always match the selection in the browser.
• Made the drive list more closely mirror the Finder's Computer list: iDisks and AudioCDs show up at the top level instead of inside Network.
• The drive list now refreshes anytime you bring the drive window forward.

Requires Mac OS X 10.1.x or later.

Changes

• Prevented the application from writing messages to the console on launch; they were all benign, but some users found them alarming.
• No other changes since the beta.

Requires Mac OS X 10.1.x or later.

Changes

• Fixed the following error which occurred at launch for some users:
  Unable to license application OmniDiskSweeper:
  Conversion to cString failed for string "<User's Name Here>"
• Changes for compatibility with GCC 3
• Changes for compatibility with Mac OS X 10.2
• Omni Software Update now remembers the update tracks you've used, so if you run a sneaky peek build and then later run a beta build, you'll still get notified of future sneaky peek releases.
• If multiple updates on different tracks are available, we now present the alternative with the newest version number, rather than just presenting the "first" alternative we find.
• Turned off Omni Software Update log messages except in debugging builds.

Requires Mac OS X 10.1.x or later.

Changes

• No changes since 1.3 beta 1.

Requires Mac OS X 10.1.x or later.

Changes

• We now completely disallow people from deleting directories under which files are mounted; we also draw them in grey.
• We now draw different sized files in very different colors. Very easy to see where the big files are
• We now draw links in italics
• We now draw files that are part of a package in grey. This makes it easy to see what files the user added, and thus not accidentally delete something which might crash your system.

Requires Mac OS X 10.1.x or later.

Changes

• Customer found a bug in 10.1 -- the window no longer refreshed automatically when sizing. Turns out we checked to see if our lastRefreshUIDate was more than two seconds ago, but we never actually initialized that variable to anything. How did this work under 10.0? I dunno. All fixed now.
• We now remove the prefix path "/private/automount/Network" if present, which is where all NFS mounted drives are under 10.1. Left in the old code from 10.0, which removes "/private/Network".
• We now remove the directory "/automount" from the list of directories we'll actually display in our drive list, since we're really only interested in its children. (10.1 only, but doesn't hurt 10.0 users.)
• Revised icon with new blue OMNI logo.
• Added clickable About panel links in 10.1.

Requires Mac OS X 10.0 or later.

Changes

• Fixed the only crasher that was reported. One crasher! How cool is that!

Requires Mac OS X 10.0 or later.

Changes

• Updated user interface and packaging for Mac OS X 10.0.
• Main list of drives is much prettier, much more like Finder and less like UNIX.
• Faster parsing of installed packages.
• Each drive window saves its window frame independently.
• Added in OmniCrashCatcher.
• Changed licensing so app works just fine without a license, but if you get one you get to delete from within the app.

Requires Mac OS X Public Beta or later.

Changes

• Updated user interface and packaging for Mac OS X Public Beta.
• Display the installed packages which contain the selected file or folder.
• Save and restore window positions and table column widths.
• More responsive user interface.
• The drive list is no longer confused by a negative amount of "space available" on a UFS filesystem (where some disk space is reserved to avoid fragmentation).
• Fixed a hang which was triggered by deleting files while still sizing the disk.
• When we discover a file has been deleted, we now just remove its size from its parent folder's size rather than recalculating the entire size of the parent folder (very slow if the parent folder was the disk).
• Fixed some memory leaks.

Requires Mac OS X Developer Preview 4.

Initial release. No known bugs at this point, but please send any bug reports, or features suggestions you have to omnidisksweeper@omnigroup.com