April 30th, 2012New functionality:
· Added color mappings based on creation, modification and access
· time
· Added heatmap palettes optimized for usage in time-based mappings.
· Extended the focus panel to also show the creation, modification
· and last access time for the selected file.
Minor improvements:
· Sorting items in pop-ups alphabetically.
· Removed dependencies on deprecated methods.
Bug fixes:
· Fixed bug: Revealing of files did not work on loaded scan data.
· Fixed bug: Scan data could not be loaded when file names contained
· strange characters (e.g. linebreaks and non-printing characters)
· Fixed bug: Application could crash because disposed views were still
· observing events.
April 6th, 2012Minor improvements:
· Automatically show Scan dialog when opening application.
· Added preference for showing entire volume.
· Improved labels and layout of preferences dialog.
· Changed keyboard short-cuts for File commands to match standard look & feel.
· Made source code compatible with XCode 4.3.
Bug fixes:
· Fixed bug #3498256 by removing check introduced to track bug #2989277.
· Fixed bug: Using path-based tests in filters or masks in combination with zero sized directories could prematuraly free memory.
· Fixed bug: Mask settings were not carried over when twinning or duplicating windows.
May 24th, 2010Minor improvements:
· Made usage of memory zones for scan tree configurable (default,
· dedicated shared, or dedicated private). Now defaulting to default
· memory zone.
· Added checks and verbose logging in TreeBuilder to help trace bug
· #2989277: Crashes on Scan of Boot Volume.
· Minor fix to TmpDirInfo-dealloc (may fix bug #2989277?)
Bug fix:
· Plugged a big memory leak: The scan tree was never released.
· Plugged a small memory leak in UniformTypeInventory.
April 17th, 2010· Has been released and is available for download. Inspired by recent feedback, I have added some new functionality. There are now three rescan actions to choose from. Also included are some minor fixes and improvements. Check the release notes to see exactly what has changed.
March 19th, 2010Minor improvement:
· Application now also accepts drops of folders and volumes (Feature request #2789715)
· Exported Scan Folder and Load Scan Data as a service.
· Added Services menu item to application menu (it wouldn't be fair otherwise now, would it?
Bug fix:
· Fixed bug #2935266: Cannot open or reveal files with slashes in their names.
January 18th, 2010New functionality:
Improvements to filters (and masks):
All filters now have names that can be used to select them:
· Select filters from the new filter selection panel.
· Select masks using a pop-up button in the Display panel.
· The application comes with a couple of filters out of the box.
· User-created filters are automatically stored in the preferences so you can use them again later.
· Scan dumps now include information about filters that were used, both their names as well as the filter tests they contain.
· Enabled individual inversion of tests in a filter.
Refactoring:
· Converted all NIBs to XIBs.
· Renamed several windows and their control classes.
Bug fix:
· Fixed bug #1947382: Typing return in Rule Name field can cause rule completion.
September 27th, 2009Minor improvements:
· Added number of scanned and deleted files to Info panel.
· Added Rescan button to toolbar.
· Rescan can now optionally close the old window.
· Added context menu to views to let you Reveal, Open and Delete selected files.
· Added ability to store user-editable comments with saved scan data.
· Scan data is now stored in files with a .gpscan extension.
· These files have their own icon and filetype, and are associated with the application.
You can now invoke the application from the command line with:
· a path of a folder to scan, or
· a path of a scan data file to load.
Bug fixes:
· Fixed bug #2562846: Failure to load scan data.
· Incorrect saving of scan data in OS X 10.4 should be fixed now.
· Freed space did not correctly reflect deletion of hard-linked files.
Documentation:
· Added various advanced "How To" sections to the help documentation.
December 22nd, 2008New functionality Added a customizable toolbar, including new controls:
· Added control for changing the focus (which previously could only be done using the keyboard or scrollwheel).
· Added new "Open with Finder" action (not to be confused with existing "Reveal in Finder" action).
Minor improvements:
· Improvements to the appearance of the view window. Moved info about selected item to statusbar. Removed borders around view. Not showing rectangle around outermost item in the selected path unless necessary.
· Positioning newly opened view windows so they cascade.
· When creating a derived view window its size matches that of the original window.
· Sorted the available tests in the "Edit Filter" window by name.
· Sibling directories are scanned depending on their creation date (oldest first). This deterministic ordering is particularly helpful when scanning an entire TimeMachine backup as hard-linked files will be included in the backup where they first appeared.
· Made selection automatically stick to end-point when reaching a file after moving selection down a level.
· When resizing the window the view is still being shown.
· Added keyboard shortcuts for zooming.
· Added menu item for visiting the GrandPerspective website.
· The selection only follows the mouse when the view window has main status.
· Now also setting hardlink and package status for root of scan tree.
· Showing an alert when an invalid date value is encountered when loading scan data.
· Alerts created by a view window are now all shown as sheets of that window.
· Moved horizontal drawers away from the window's left edge.
· The initial size of windows and the color gradient for drawing rectangles in the view are now taken from the user defaults.
· Moved description of file type in Focus panel from separate text field to tooltip of the file type identifier.
Bug fixes:
· Included workaround for bug #2243134 (crash while scanning NTFS mounted filesystem).
· Coloring by Level would end up in endless loop for packages at level zero when package contents were hidden. Not anymore.
· Aborting a drawing task that was just about to complete could result in premature aborting of next task. Not anymore.
· Closed Edit Mask windows would reappear when the application got activated again after reactivation. They now remain hidden.
Code clean-up:
· Renamed FileItem -isSpecial to -isPhysical (and inverted meaning).
· Simplified abortion of background tasks (removed enabled state from TaskExecutor).
· Moved zoom and focus functionality to DirectoryView.
· Updated localizations: Japanese, French and Dutch.
August 29th, 2008· This release fixes two bugs in 0.9.13 that could (on some systems) cause crashes when scanning in folder contents.
August 27th, 2008· Scan data can now be saved to an XML file and loaded again at a later time.
· Progress of ongoing scan, filter, save, and load tasks is now reported.
· All text fields in the view's drawer are now selectable.
· Views are immediately cleared when they are resized.
· Reduced the amount of memory needed when scanning and filtering.
· The trees used to store scan results are now stored in a dedicated memory zone to minimise fragmentation and optimise memory usage.
· Plugged a big memory leak. The image was not released when the view was resized. This has been fixed.
· The drawer of the Edit Filter window could be detached from its window. This cannot happen anymore.
· Aborting a filter task would create a view anyway. Not anymore.
· Now obtaining readlock on the tree before filtering.
· Replaced all remaining NSBrowsers by NSTableViews.
· Moved TaskExecutor protocol from "util" folder to "task".
· Placed ProgressPanelControl and its new subclasses into the "control/progress" subfolder.
· Renamed various classes and methods.
June 16th, 2008· It fixes a bug in 0.9.12 that could cause the application to crash when using a Path test applied to folders in a filter.
June 11th, 2008· Hard-linked files and folders are recognized and handled appropriately.
· Mask and filter rules can now optionally be applied to folders.
· Added Filtered Scan command, which lets you apply a filter while scanning.
· Optionally showing package contents.
· Added several new tests for mask and filter rules (on file type, package status, and hard link status)
· Improved application-default ranking of uniform types.
· Added new application-provided tests (Packages and Hard-linked items) and updated existing ones.
· Improved GUI of "Edit Filter Rule" window.
· Made progress panel resizable.
· Case-sensitivity of string tests is now reflected in their description.
· Files inside a package can now be revealed (unless the package is itself in a package).
· Filtering produced corrupt trees (PlainFileItems were replaced by FileItems), which could trigger various exceptions. This has been fixed.
· Fixed synchronisation in TreeContext.
· AsynchronousTaskManager now unlocks its locks before releasing them.
· Introduced ItemPathModelView for managing view-specific selection path state.
· Introduced FilteredTreeGuide for applying masks and filters.
· FileItems are now duplicated using factory methods.
· Refactored TreeBuilder.
· Removed several warnings when compiling using XCode 3.0.
· Renamed "filter" folder to "test".
· Renamed various classes, methods and member variables.
· Removed some unnecessary nesting.
March 19th, 2008· It includes two long-awaited features: deletion of files and folders from within the application, and the ability to color files by their file type.
December 13th, 2007· Newly added is the ability to select folders in the view, and the ability to show the entire volume (including free space). There have been a few other improvements as well.
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