What's new in Compare Folders 3.4.3
Dec 15, 2010
- Features:
- User editable difference ranges for criteria
- Size, date created, and date modified can be specified
- UI Enhancements:
- Duplicate Items includes Folder One and Folder Two result lists
- Bugs:
- Fixed inspector not updating for files
- Allow comparisons to be saved whenever two folders are selected
- Use case insensitive file extension checks for FilePeek
New in Compare Folders 3.4.2 (Apr 13, 2010)
- UI Enhancements:
- Added visual highlighting to folder icons during drag and drop
- Enabled truncation for last visible line for item paths in the Get Info window (10.5+ only)
- Bugs:
- Fixed "Copy To.." not replacing files
- When clicking Dock icon (or re-entering app), if there's no main window it re-opens automatically now
- Fixed drag and drop on folder icons not updating Recent Folders menu (and document)
- Fixed copied item not appearing in status text
- Fixed bug where setting folder 2 wouldn't update it's document properly
- Tweaked Date Created - Folder 2 default color to a darker yellow for legibility
New in Compare Folders 3.4.1 (Dec 22, 2009)
- Crashes:
- Fixed crash with "Copy To…" feature and large selections
- Bugs:
- Updated Help book.
- Fixed hang when copying items with / in the path.
- Fixed Results Layout toolbar item not showing the correct selection on launch.
- Fixed Comparison Finished Sound not selecting System Default by default.
- Removed embedded components (Growl, Smart Crash Reports); prompt directs to website[s].
New in Compare Folders 3.4 (Sep 28, 2009)
- UI Enhancements:
- Added Merge toolbar item, new default toolbar layout.
- Disabled autosizing on table columns.
- Icon and Name columns are now locked at the beginning of results' tables.
- Selecting a new path after a comparison automatically clears prior comparison results.
- Added a 'running from disk image' check to make installing in this case easy.
- Performance:
- Addressed a number of memory leaks identified by Clang Static Analyzer.
- Crashes:
- Fixed crash with "Save as Text" feature.
- Fixed crash/exception when showing comparison details with nothing selected.
- Bugs:
- Fixed broken sorting for type, extension, and difference columns.
- Fixed bug where double-clicking on a column header could open the selected item(s).
New in Compare Folders 3.3 (Sep 14, 2009)
- Features:
- Added support for alternate colors for differences.
- Performance:
- Optimized memory usage for comparisons, 10 - 15% reduction for results.
- Reduced memory usage on launch by over 20%.
- Crashes:
- Fixed crash that could occur when stopping an in-progress comparison.
- Fixed crash when saving large result sets as text.
- Bugs:
- Fixed issue where Step 3 of merge workflow wasn't shown.
New in Compare Folders 3.2 (Sep 2, 2008)
- Multiple selection support for editing comments and lock state for items in Item Inspector.
- Reset dialog removed, now clears all accordingly.
- Removed .mac/MobileMe and iDisk upload support (3rd party usage is no longer a focus of this service).
- Comparison Details is kept updated with information regardless of whether a file has been opened.
- Comparison Details remembers if open across launches.
- Added Item Inspector menu item and improve loading performance.
- Properly exclude any item that exists within a hidden folder or is hidden itself from results.
- Properly exclude only contents of .app (not .app*, like .apple or others).
- Added content exclusion support for .menu, .plugin, .preferencePane.
- Detect writability of license file and alert user accordingly.
- Leak and memory usage optimizations throughout the app.
- Fixed comparison sheet showing when saving an already completed comparison.
- Improved warning for merge workflow.
- Icon column: remove title and make it fixed width (not resizable).
- Fixed window title not updating when saving a comparison.
- Minor UI enhancements: truncate name and difference columns in the middle, alignment improvements.
New in Compare Folders 3.1 (Jun 12, 2008)
- Merge support
- Customizable, multi-threaded engine for merging results
- Allows moving or copying of results
- Folder size calculation now displays logical size [includes bundled file formats as well, like RTFD]
- New look and feel for the Welcome screen (accessible under the Help menu and on first launch)
- Added layout switcher toolbar item
- Display difference in size between items in Similar Items' Difference column
- Removed quit on window close behavior and adjust accordingly
- Recent Items/Recent Comparisons no longer adds duplicate items [as well as other optimizations]
- Info windows are now a 1:1 relationship and don't open duplicates
- Fixed incorrect formatting of file sizes which would create erroneous results
- increased file size precision to 2 decimal places
- Properly degrade to byte(s) in file sizes instead of using 0.XX KB
- Fixed copying to prefer local cp over bundled cp
- Fixed folder type registration (for drag acceptance) on 10.5
- Save Text Results now respects byte preference
- Rollovers only occur if the application is active
- Removed toolbar button and disable zoom button on preferences titlebar to match other apps
- Fixed uninstall window not going away if canceled
- Fixed clear button in iDisk Uploads to disable if no items are present
- Various memory optimizations