In general there are many internal changes to the code that improve performance and operation. The changes listed below only show the main additions or changes to functionality that are visible to the user. The help pages may contain fuller descriptions of changes, so these should be consulted.
Changes in version 1.31
Note that version 1.30 was not widely circulated. The changes listed here include all those since version 1.29.
- Modified the drag and drop load so that the writable fields in the main control dialogue will not import text or data if such a file is dropped on them inadvertantly.
- In all previous versions a single zone (ignore) file was used, and every sync used this file, which could slow up the process. It is now possible to use a different zone file or none at all for each sync. The main control window has been modifted to allow the use of zone files to be controlled.
- The # symbol can be used as a comment marker in zone files, any line starting with # being discarded when zone file is first loaded
- A syncjob file can now be dropped anywhere in the control window.
- The lengths of buffers used to store filepaths in memory and in writable fields is increased from 255 to 510 characters.
- Syncjobs can now do compares as well as full syncs. Multi jobs can now include a mix of sync and compare jobs. If a log file is defined, the results of compares are now written to the configured logfile. If no logfile is configured, then compare results are still written to a scrap file.
- For anyone who actually uses the command line to run SyncDiscs, a new parameter has been added, viz. -cmp or -compare to do a compare. The command line parameters now allow 3 char abbreviations; -pri, -sec, -scr.
- The Settings dialogue has had the user interface updated.
Changes in version 1.29
- Modify behaviour when a sync is running so that the SyncDiscs window can be opened to allow a new job to be queued. A select click on the iconbar icon will reopen the progress window if it is not open (as before) but if the progress window is open, the SyncDiscs main control window will be opened. Alternatively, if the progress window close icon is clicked with adjust while shift is held down, the syncdiscs main control window will open. It is therefore now possible to add further jobs to the queue manually from the syncdiscs window while a sync is in progress
- Now asks for confirmation if an attempt is made to quit while a sync job is still in progress
- It is now possible to add another path to the contents of the filepath fields using the popup menu with SHIFT held down
- Right click on iconbar icon now opens settings window
- Added option to iconbar icon menu to open settings window
- Added code to try to intercept unknown or unmounted drives on various filing systems or remote machines. The success or not varies depending on actual situation
- Increased range of times allowed in time stamp difference setting
- Added menu button to recall recent directories used in the scrap path field
- Added option to prevent ignored objects being deleted from secondary directory. Write ignored files in secondary into log file
- Fix: Verbose filer action option in settings window was not honoured
- Fix: Flex memory for lists of differences not released correctly if there was no difference when comparing two directories
Changes in version 1.28
- Added menu button to recall recent directories used in the primary and secondary directory fields - saves a lot of dragging
- Better handling and recovery from unexpected os sys errors
- Two bugfixes to deal with full zero page protection - for when it finally makes it into RISC OS 5
Changes in version 1.27
- Added settings option - verbose log file
- Fix for possible buffer overrun in copy code in single tasking mode if file paths are very long
- Shade/unshade and prevent selection of contradictary settings in control window
- Now use ResFind for resources location
- Now use Boot:Choices as location for configuration files
- Fix: Possible zero page dereference
Changes in version 1.26
- Fix: Command line operation didn't honour quit and always multitasked
- Fix: check for fat32fs and read only - now case insensitive
Changes in version 1.25
- Added filer action count to progress window
Changes in version 1.24
- Added 'job waiting count' to progress window
- Now accepts archive or zip files as primary or secondary directories
- Added 'Verbose' option for Filer_actions
- Ctrl-Shift drag to secondary directory field adds leafname automatically
- Added code for interactive help
- Increased range for 'ignore timestamp difference' to 5 hours
- Shade/Unshade number range settings according to state of option button for those range settings
- If secondary is on Fat32 medium, now checks files to be updated for Read Only access and sets access to RW (Fat32FS ignores the Force flag used by filecore)
Changes in version 1.23
- SyncDiscs now has a unique filetype, allowing the complete details of any synchronisation to be saved to file. When this file is double clicked in a filer display, then the synchronisation is immediately run using all the stored values. A SyncDiscs job file (or selection of files) can also be dragged to SyncDiscs to start the job(s).
- SyncDiscs will now queue jobs, and process them in turn. Up to 20 jobs can be queued at any one time. New jobs can be queued while a synchronisation is already in progress.
- Checking for incompatibilities between dir paths improved
Changes in version 1.22
- Status field in progress window showed garbage when a zip file was being ignored. Fixed
- Objects that will be ignored during a 'Sync' are now listed in the 'Compare' output listing
- When checking for open files - now checks whether file is open for read only, or write as well. If open for read only, then file can be copied
Changes in version 1.21
- Select click on 'Save' in settings window now closes window
- Blank lines in the zone file are now ignored (previously a blank line was unintentionally treated as a 'super-wildcard' which matched anything)
- Now correctly saves 'auto open log' setting
- Added new user option: ignore filetype differences. This may be required when copying to a 'foreign' format device, using e.g. Fat32FS, when filetypes are controlled by the Mimemap file, and may change when copied.
Changes in version 1.20
- This new version has seen major changes to the user interface of SyncDiscs. The most obvious change is that the user now has the option of running the synchronisation (or comparison) process in full multitasking mode. There are therefore a large number of 'under the bonnet' changes to support this, too numerous to list individually.
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