What's new in VisualDiffer 1.8.10
Jan 10, 2024
- Sonoma: Text labels in Confirmation Preferences Panel are not fully visible
New in VisualDiffer 1.8.9 (Dec 11, 2023)
- Fixed missing extended attributes (xattr) from folders
New in VisualDiffer 1.8.8 (Dec 6, 2023)
- Fixed UI problems on Sonoma
New in VisualDiffer 1.8.7 (Jan 23, 2022)
- Fixed - Crash during comparison
New in VisualDiffer 1.8.6 (Jan 3, 2022)
- Fixed - Missing folder icons (and colours) on Catalina
New in VisualDiffer 1.8.5 (Dec 20, 2021)
- Improved Finder Label and Tags comparison
New in VisualDiffer 1.8.4 (Nov 29, 2021)
- Fixed incorrect visualization for Orphan files
New in VisualDiffer 1.8.3 (Nov 7, 2021)
- Bug fixing
- Appearance (dark/light) can be changed from Prefernces
New in VisualDiffer 1.8.2 (Mar 23, 2021)
- Added Difference Navigator in Folder View
- Added toolbar icons
- Improved UI on Big Sur (preference window style)
- Fixed line numbers color in dark mode because they are barely visible
New in VisualDiffer 1.8.0 (Jan 17, 2021)
- Fixed crash on High Sierra
- Fixed infinite loop on Apple Silicon
- Fixed black text color on black background in Dark Mode, too dark is no good ;)
New in VisualDiffer 1.8.0 (Jan 11, 2021)
- Fixed compatibility with Big Sur
- Optimized for Apple M1
- Fixed incorrect timestamp results when comparing with external disks
- Fixed missed opening in external editor and improved error messages
- Fixed hang ups while comparing Time Machine backups
- Reduced memory usage while comparing big folders
- Added quick access to History sessions, no longer really needs to save manually comparison sessions
- Moved command line tool 'visdiff' to Contents/Helpers directory to be compliant with Apple guidelines (please read more at the wiki page https://wiki.visualdiffer.com)
- Full Dark Mode support
- Added support for AppleScript
New in VisualDiffer 1.7.20 (Jul 20, 2020)
- Added sort columns in Folder View (Sort by filename, size and modification date)
- Fixed crash on Big Sur Preview
- Fixed UI bugs (file path not visible, bottom bar disappearing)
- Fixed crash when comparing big files
- Fixed Dark Mode UI (Dark mode is not yet supported but at least the colors UI are correct)
New in VisualDiffer 1.7.0 (May 27, 2017)
New in VisualDiffer 1.6.6 (Jan 2, 2016)
- Now it's possible to compare by filename only (the missing most obvious compare method)
- Do not sleep the computer while running long comparisons (power assertions)
- Fixed folders colors icons issue (Colors seem to be all gray)
- OSX10.11: Fixed crashes (sync, copy, move, delete)
- OSX10.11: Fixed random slow comparison
New in VisualDiffer 1.6.5 (Oct 24, 2015)
- General: Fixed incorrectly stored sandbox paths
- General: Fixed several graphical issues and glitches under El Capitan (OS X 10.11)
- General: More detailed info about counters like "left orphans", "matches", "differences"
- Folder and File Diff: Starting file comparison from folder view now allow to move between files from file diff window
- File Diff: Allow to show/hide bottom line details
- File Diff: Character encoding names can be incorrectly edited
- File Diff: Persist the last set for "Show White spaces" and filter type
New in VisualDiffer 1.6.4 (Jun 2, 2015)
- A new great app icon designed by Pablo J. Malacara vonwhites.co
- Fixed bugs on UI
- Little improvement on comparison folder algorithm
New in VisualDiffer 1.6.3 (Feb 17, 2015)
New in VisualDiffer 1.6.2 (Jul 23, 2014)
- 'expand folders' flag now works when folder differ is launched from command line
New in VisualDiffer 1.6.1 (Jul 10, 2014)
- Fixed command line tool problems with sandbox
New in VisualDiffer 1.6.0 (Apr 24, 2014)
- Allow to stop traversing filtered folders: Folders matching 'file filters' by default are traversed, this can dramatically slows the folders reading. Now it is possible to choose if folders must be traversed
New in VisualDiffer 1.5.9 (Feb 27, 2014)
- 0000190: Allow Esc key to be used to exit application
- 0000218: Copy and Sync folders set invalid file time on samba volumes
- 0000223: Equal files still marked as mismatch with 'Compare file content ignoring line endings'-option (This bug was reopen for regressions)
New in VisualDiffer 1.5.8 (Jan 18, 2014)
- 0000200: Better support for locked files
- 0000201: Target move/copy size is double what it should be
- 0000202: Command+` key (backward single apostrophe) conflicts with system key
- 0000204: Resource fork difference not detected
- 0000206: Issue is display of filter options when rechecking them
- 0000210: Path breadcrumbs contain a final / when VD is open from Finder
- 0000212: Context menu doesn't appear when the selected item is a 'missing' path
- 0000213: Better support for aliases
- 0000214: Context menu items do nothing clicking the empty area on path control
- 0000222: Fixed bug with symbolic links when used with 'git difftool --dir-diff'
- 0000223: Equal files still marked as mismatch with 'Compare file content ignoring line endings' option
New in VisualDiffer 1.5.7 (Nov 25, 2013)
- fixed regression disabling default filters in new sessions
- added ability to filters orphans folders
- allow to compare tags in OSX Mavericks
New in VisualDiffer 1.5.5 (Jul 26, 2013)
- Fixed wrong align when filenames contain umlaut and other characters
New in VisualDiffer 1.5.4 (Jul 17, 2013)
- Allow to compare finder (color) labels
- Fixed crashes when comparison is done on mounted AFP volumes
- Fixed minor bugs
New in VisualDiffer 1.5.3 (May 24, 2013)
- [General] copy does not preserve source file time stamps
- [General] Let user see and choose exclusion filters and compare options before initiating compare
- [Files differ] The UI remains 'dirty' after saving file with modification
- [Folders differ] Display filter set to 'No Orphan' hides not matching files
- [Folders differ] Filter files from 'Excluding by name/ext' doesn't update the UI correctly
- [Folders differ] Show difference count per folder on status bar
- [Folders differ] Folder timestamps misset when copying folders
New in VisualDiffer 1.5.2 (Mar 27, 2013)
- Fixed memory leaks
- Fixed various crashes related to symbolic links traversal
- Fixed File copy progress dialog show negative number of copied files
- Fixed Application hangs up while stopping comparison
- Reorganized Folder Diff Main and Context Menus
- Reorganized File Diff Main and Context Menus
- Change the tolerance for date comparisons
- It is possible to skip packages from folder traversal
New in VisualDiffer 1.5.1 (Jan 19, 2013)
- Fixed visdiff to work with sandbox
- Open With show all applications
- Added a preferred viewer/editor to show in 'Open With' menu
- Allow to skip confirmation dialog for Copy/Move/Delete
New in VisualDiffer 1.5 (Dec 13, 2012)
- [new] Merge file content: Now it is possible to copy lines from a file to the other and save the modified version, lines can deleted, too.
- Improved support for symbolic links, now it is possible to disable symbolic link following from Preference panel
- Improved support for encodings
- fixed visualization bugs after copy, move and touch operation
New in VisualDiffer 1.4.4 (Nov 6, 2012)
- Quick Look on Folder View
- Bug fixes
New in VisualDiffer 1.4.3 (Jul 31, 2012)
- Fixed 'Permission denied' on OSX Lion
New in VisualDiffer 1.4.2 (Jul 6, 2012)
- Improved File Diff performances for large files
- Fixed little bugs
New in VisualDiffer 1.4.1 (May 12, 2012)
- Fixed Memory Leaks
- Added log console on Folder View
- Format file size in Kb/Mb/Gb resized table column
New in VisualDiffer 1.4 (Mar 28, 2012)
- New Folder Actions - Move Files and Set Modification Date
- New File Filters - Exclude by: date, file size and relative path
- Allow user to set its own default file filters
- Bug fixes - Horizontal scroll doesn't work for very long lines, wrong path copied to clipboard, and other few bugs
New in VisualDiffer 1.3 (Feb 2, 2012)
- In file view:
- added Horizontal scrolling
- hide identical lines or only mismatched
- On Lion no longer ask to save invalid untitled session
- Many other bug fixes
New in VisualDiffer 1.2 (Nov 3, 2011)
- Fullscreen support on Lion
- Filters can be copied/pasted to/from clipboard
- Show progress bar for single file
- Compare RTF files
- Folder differ UI more reactive
- Show errors messages
- Added actions to path controls (set base, show in finder)
- Added find bars: find file names in folder view and strings in file view
- Jump to line dialog in find view
- Easily select sections in file differ view
- New command line visdiff allows to wait for document close
- Many bugs fixed expecially incorrect diff file detection
- Improved UTF-8 support
New in VisualDiffer 1.1.5 (Aug 31, 2011)
- Fixed bugs causing crash
- Now it's possible to copy to clipboard lines from File View
New in VisualDiffer 1.1.4 (Aug 16, 2011)
- Improved File comparison UI: thumb bar, better line number look and feel
- Improved Folder comparison UI: show selected file count in statusbar, optimized visualization after copy/delete operations
- New operations available: Open files with default application, paths copied in clipboard can be used by Finder for copy or move
- Support for command line from shell scripts
- Better user experience on Lion
- Many bug fixes
New in VisualDiffer 1.1.3 (May 29, 2011)
- 0000052: Move to a better position the line where cursor moves after a Go to prev/next difference
New in VisualDiffer 1.1.2 (Mar 26, 2011)
- Fixed crashes
- Added new Comparison excluding carriage returns differences
New in VisualDiffer 1.1 (Feb 2, 2011)
- Added Progress Indicators for long running tasks (reading folders and compare, copy, delete)
- Added Preference Panels
- Little enhancements for File Viewer