Thomas Hurst

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I can't reproduce this - launched Discord half a dozen times with its folder compacted, including doing so while it was running and it had no issues. Can you confirm...

VirtualStore is meant as a compatibility measure for legacy apps which write their configs/data to Program Files (and the global registry) instead of %USERDATA% while having tighter access controls to...

I'm sorry to hear that. This would seem indicative of a hardware problem - could be an outright flaw in memory, disk, IO controller, etc, or hopefully just an unlucky...

I tend to be using my computer when I'm running Compactor, so leaving resources free is seen as more of a feature than a bug. This also ties in with...

This is probably related to #3. The compression estimator samples a number of blocks from across file and compresses them to try to determine if it's worth trying to compress...

Suggestive of a hardware fault or driver bug. Probably nothing specific to Compactor beyond it just being a workload that happens to trigger it. Check [Event Viewer](https://www.windowscentral.com/how-use-event-viewer-windows-10), particularly `Windows Logs`...

Will be getting to it soon!

Impressed to see someone actually diving into this mess, thanks! I like the more thoughtful use of crossbeam and select - had good experiences with that sort of thing in...

Yeah, closing the window quits the app (fairly) gracefully - it'll finish doing whatever file it was handling in the background before exiting completely. There's currently no mechanism to re-open...

Probably after I get around to refactoring stuff.