What's new in Decloner 1.6.3
Jan 30, 2017
- Fixed partial file name filters. For example, if you add a filter ".jpg", files that have the string ".jpg" anywhere in their file name will be skipped during scan.
New in Decloner 1.6.2 (Feb 15, 2016)
- Sparkle updater now uses https protocol to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. For additional security please download this update manually from Decloner home page.
New in Decloner 1.6.1 (Nov 10, 2014)
- Fixed crash when deleting images from iPhoto or Aperture
- Fixed truncated button titles on Yosemite
New in Decloner 1.6 (Oct 20, 2014)
- New faster duplicate detection engine
- New Counting and Processing interface
- Elapsed and approximate remaining time is now displayed during file processing
- The Add button menu now shows a list of five recent locations for easier addition
- Scan location ranking: files in groups are now automatically sorted so that the higher the file's containing folder is
- located in the list of scan locations, the higher the file is ranked in a duplicate group
- Scan location reordering using drag-and-drop or keyboard shortcuts
- Whenever scan locations are reordered, files in duplicate groups are automatically reordered accordingly
- Auto-selection of duplicates has been redesigned so that files in groups are always sorted automatically in such a way
- that the top file is preferred to be left alone and the rest of the files are selected
- The list of duplicates is no longer expanded automatically. Use View → Expand All or press ⌘→
- Expanded groups now keep their state after restarting Decloner
- The preferred file in each group is now shown in green color
- New preference to keep Old or New files when auto-selecting duplicates
- It is now not possible to sort by the Name column anymore because of improved automatic duplicate ranking and selection
- Removed automatic preference of Aperture library images over iPhoto library images over ordinary files; reorder scan
- location to tell Decloner which files should be preferred when autoselecting duplicates
- When a scan location is removed, the files contained in it are also removed from the list of results
- The individual file size column is back, together with the option to sort groups of duplicates by the size of individual
- files in the group
- Added Creation Time column
- The process of displaying files in the list is now much faster
- Files and groups can now be deleted by pressing the Delete button
- After deleting files and groups the selection moves in a more sensible and predictable manner
- Decloner Trash has been renamed to Staging Area where files are staged for removal
- Number of files and the individual file size are now shown in groups' File Size column
- Improved accessibility, now much easier to use with VoiceOver
- HockeyApp is now used for crash reporting
- New feedback menu item
New in Decloner 1.5.5 (Apr 17, 2013)
- Added Aperture and iPhoto workflow help
- Fixed a memory leak
- Fixed crash when staging files to Decloner Trash
- Fixed crash when updating 'selected' status of displayed files
- Fixed crash when starting to process files
- Fixed crash when finishing processing files
- Fixed crash when refreshing list of duplicates
- Fixed crash when attempting to reveal Logs folder from Preferences
- Fixed crash when deleting photos from iPhoto or Aperture
New in Decloner 1.5.4 (Apr 6, 2013)
- There is a new way to add default iPhoto and Aperture libraries to the list of scan locations—via a drop-down menu of the Add button
- Logging folder now has a fixed location inside the application support folder; there is a button to reveal it
- There is now a confirmation before a scan location is removed from the list
- Decloner is now sandboxed
- Many bug fixes and tweaks for better user experience
New in Decloner 1.5.3 (Jan 3, 2013)
- Fixed detection of duplicate files with a resource fork
- Fixed detection of localized iPhoto and Aperture libraries
- Fixed memory leaks
New in Decloner 1.5.2 (Oct 29, 2012)
- Fixed crash when scanning Aperture libraries
- Fixed support for Aperture libraries created with old versions of Aperture
New in Decloner 1.5.1 (Aug 7, 2012)
- Fixes:
- Fixed support for iPhoto 9.3
- Fixed support for Aperture 3.3
- Trash sheet does not crash the app on Snow Leopard v10.6.8 anymore
- Files on network shares could not be deleted
- Photo deletion from iPhoto libraries is not so slow anymore
- Scanning of iPhoto and Aperture libraries is now much faster
- Fixed detection of running Aperture
- Fixed potential crash at startup
- System folders can no longer be selected
- Fixed naming of log files
- Fixed sorting of the duplicates list by name
- Fixed Aperture support for multiple duplicates in the same import group
- Table cells in Locations and Trash are not directly editable anymore
- Bottom line doesn't overlap duplicates list anymore
- Fixed accessibility issues
- Removed lock from Trash sheet for better usability
New in Decloner 1.5 (Jun 15, 2012)
- Redesigned interface for better usability
- Virtual Trash with Delete, Delete & Link, and Put Back actions
- Support for iPhoto 9 and Aperture 3 libraries (except the unified photo library introduced in iPhoto 9.3 and Aperture 3.3—a fix is coming soon)
- Persistent scan results
- Bug fixes
- Fair price
New in Decloner 1.4 (Apr 21, 2011)
- New features:
- Multiple folder support
- Files that could not be trashed or moved to the safe folder are displayed in a list after scan with an option to delete them permanently
- Decloner can optionally replace deleted files with aliases of the remaining file
- Decloner now shows detailed information and supports QuickLook for selected duplicate file groups (based on the first file in the group)
- Crash reporter
- Fixes:
- Hidden (dot) folders are not scanned anymore
- Redesigned Preferences panel
- Improved accessibility
- Fixed outdated display of registration information
- Improved responsiveness during file operations
New in Decloner 1.3 (Apr 21, 2011)
- New features:
- Decloner is now available in the Mac App Store.
- Decloner is now 64-bit only and requires Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or newer
- Fixes:
- Generating file previews does not block the UI anymore
New in Decloner 1.2 (Mar 22, 2010)
- New features:
- Safe mode: instead of trashing duplicate files, Decloner moves them to a folder of your choice (~/Desktop/Duplicates by default), preserving paths, for complete peace of mind
- A new feature to preserve at least one copy of a file: Decloner will now optionally ignore any marked files in duplicate groups that have all their files marked, and you will need to unmark at least one file in a group to have duplicates deleted in that group.
- Replaced action buttons with pulldown menu buttons
- Added Follow aliases preference, off by default
- Dock icon now only bounces once when Decloner displays sheets
- A new alert bar notifies you if any files could not be deleted
- Implemented smarter selection of files by date and name
- Files within each group of duplicates are now sorted
- Logging to file to assist troubleshooting
- 64-bit version
- Fixes:
- Fixed empty Minimum file size field when opening Preferences
- Removed Mark All action as potentially destructive
- Fixed selection size and wasted space wraparound at 4 GB
- Aliases are no longer treated as duplicates
- Improved speed of "Preparing display" stage of the scan
New in Decloner 1.1.1 (Oct 2, 2009)
- Improved scanning speed
- Optimized memory usage
- Fixed out-of-memory crash
New in Decloner 1.1 (Sep 20, 2009)
- Added buttons to auto-select duplicates, keeping the newest or the oldest file in each group.
- Option-click on a file selects all other files in the group.
- Added display of the last scan date.
- Added display of total space wasted by duplicate files.
- A placeholder icon is now displayed when no file is selected.
- Fixed result list sorting by count and total size.
- QuickLook function is now compatible with Snow Leopard.
- Fixed several memory leaks.
- Removed informational output to the Console.
New in Decloner 1.0 (May 24, 2009)
New in Decloner 1.0 RC1 (Apr 30, 2009)
- Fixed: Improved handling of non-latin file names.