dupeGuru version history

Version Date Description
2.9.2 2010-02-10
  • dupeGuru is now 64-bit on Mac OS X!
  • Fixed a crash upon quitting when support folder is not present. (#83)
  • Fixed a crash during sorting. (#85)
  • Fixed selection glitches, especially while renaming. (#93)
2.9.1 2010-01-13
  • Improved memory usage for Contents scans. (#75)
  • Improved scanning speed when ref directories are involved. (#77)
  • Show a message dialog at the end of the scan if no duplicates are found. (#81)
  • Fixed a bug sometimes causing the small files threshold pref to be ignored. [Mac OS X] (#75)
2.9.0 2009-11-03
  • Significantly improved speed and memory usage of big contents-based scans.
  • Added drag & drop support in the Directories panel. (#9)
  • Fixed a bug causing dupeGuru to be confused if a scanned file was moved during the scan. (#72)
  • Dropped support for Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
2.8.2 2009-10-14
  • Improved directory selection in the Directories panel (Windows). (#56)
  • Fixed a bug preventing dupeGuru from starting on certain machines (Windows). (#68)
  • Fixed a crash during very big scans. (#70)
2.8.1 2009-10-02
  • Fixed crash with filtering when regular expressions were enabled. (#60)
  • Fixed crash when setting directories' state. (Mac OS X) (#66)
  • Fixed crash with Make Reference when certain filters are applied. (Mac OS X) (#55)
  • Improved error handling during delete/move/copy actions. (#62 #65)
2.8.0 2009-09-07
  • Added support for all kinds of bundle (not just applications) (Mac OS X) (#11)
  • Re-introduced the Export to XHTML feature to Windows. (#14)
  • Improved Export to XHTML speed. (#14)
  • Improved Contents scanning speed for large files. (#33)
  • Improved the grouping algorithm to reduce the number of discarded files in non-exact scans. (#51)
  • Stopped showing the same file on the 2 sides of the details panel when a ref file is selected. (#50)
  • Fixed crashes in the Directories panel. (#46)
2.7.3 2009-06-20
  • Fixed bugs with selection being jumpy during "Make Reference" actions and Power Marker switches. (#3)
  • Fixed crash happening when a file with non-roman characters couldn't be analyzed. (#30)
  • Fixed crash sometimes happening during the file collection phase in scanning. (#38)
  • Restored double-click and right-click behavior lost in the PyQt move (Windows). (#34 #35)
2.7.2 2009-06-10
  • Fixed an occasional crash on Copy/Move operations. (#16)
  • Added automatic exclusion for sensible folders (like system folders). (#20)
  • Fixed an occasional crash when application files were part of the results (Mac OS X). (#25)
2.7.1 2009-05-29
  • Fixed a bug causing crashes when having application files in the results.
  • Fixed a bug causing a GUI freeze at the beginning of a scan with a lot of files.
  • Fixed a bug that sometimes caused a crash when an action was cancelled, and then started again.
2.7.0 2009-05-25
  • Converted the Windows GUI to Qt.
  • Improved the reliability of the scanning process.
2.6.1 2009-03-27
  • Fixed an occasional crash caused by permission issues.
  • Fixed a bug where the "X discarded" notice would show a too large number of discarded duplicates.
2.6.0 2008-09-10
  • Added a small file threshold preference.
  • Added a notice in the status bar when matches were discarded during the scan.
  • Improved duplicate prioritization (smartly chooses which file you will keep).
  • Improved scan progress feedback.
  • Improved responsiveness of the user interface for certain actions.
2.5.4 2008-08-10
  • Improved the speed of results loading and saving.
  • Fixed a crash sometimes occurring during duplicate deletion.
2.5.3 2008-07-08
  • Improved unicode handling for filenames. dupeGuru will now find a lot more duplicates if your files have non-ascii characters in it.
  • Fixed "Clear Ignore List" crash in Windows.
2.5.2 2008-01-10
  • Improved the handling of low memory situations.
  • Improved the directory panel. The "Remove" button changes to "Put Back" when an excluded directory is selected.
  • Improved scan, delete and move speed in situations where there were a lot of duplicates.
  • Fixed occasional crashes when moving bundles (such as .app files).
  • Fixed occasional crashes when moving a lot of files at once.
2.5.1 2007-11-22
  • Added the "Remove empty folders" option.
  • Fixed results load/save issues.
  • Fixed occasional status bar inaccuracies when the results are filtered.
2.5.0 2007-09-15
  • Added post scan filtering.
  • Fixed issues with the rename feature under Windows
  • Fixed some user interface annoyances under Windows
2.4.8 2007-04-14
  • Improved UI responsiveness (using threads) under Mac OS X.
  • Improved result load/save speed and memory usage.
2.4.7 2007-03-10
  • Fixed a "bad file descriptor" error occasionally popping up.
  • Fixed a bug with non-latin directory names.
2.4.6 2007-02-10
  • Added Re-orderable columns. In fact, I re-added the feature which was lost in the C# conversion in 2.4.0 (Windows).
  • Changed the behavior of the scanning engine when setting the hardness to 100. It will now only match files that have their words in the same order.
  • Fixed a bug with all the Delete/Move/Copy actions with certain kinds of files.
2.4.5 2007-01-11
  • Fixed a bug with the Move action.
2.4.4 2007-01-07
  • Fixed a "ghosting" bug. Dupes deleted by dupeGuru would sometimes come back in subsequent scans (Windows).
  • Fixed bugs sometimes making dupeGuru crash when marking a dupe (Windows).
  • Fixed some minor visual glitches (Windows).
2.4.3 2006-12-08
  • Fixed a mishandling of ".app" files (OS X).
  • Fixed a bug preventing files from "reference" directories to be displayed in blue in the results (Windows).
  • Fixed a bug preventing some files to be sent to the recycle bin (Windows).
  • Fixed a bug in the packaging preventing certain Windows configurations to start dupeGuru at all.
2.4.2 2006-11-18
  • Fixed a bug with directory states.
2.4.1 2006-11-15
  • Fixed a bug causing the ignore list not to be saved.
  • Fixed a bug sometimes making delete and move operations stall.
2.4.0 2006-11-10
  • Changed the Windows interface. It is now .NET based.
  • Added an auto-update feature to the windows version.
  • Changed the way power marking works. It is now a mode instead of a separate window.
  • Changed the "Size (MB)" column for a "Size (KB)" column. The values are now "ceiled" instead of rounded. Therefore, a size "0" is now really 0 bytes, not just a value too small to be rounded up. It is also the case for delta values.
  • Removed the min word length/count options. These came from Mp3 Filter, and just aren't used anymore. Word weighting does pretty much the same job.
2.3.4 2006-11-07
  • Improved speed and memory usage of the scanning engine, again. Does it mean there was a lot of improvements to be made? Nah...
2.3.3 2006-11-02
  • Improved speed and memory usage of the scanning engine, especially when the scan results in a lot of duplicates.
  • Now I wonder if Sparkle is going to work well...
2.3.2 2006-10-16
  • Added an auto-update feature in the Mac OS X version (with Sparkle).
  • Fixed a bug preventing some duplicate reports to be created correctly under Windows.
2.3.1 2006-10-02
  • Fixed a bug preventing some duplicates to be found, especially when scanning lots of files.
2.3.0 2006-09-22
  • Added XHTML export feature.
2.2.10 2006-08-31
  • Added sticky columns.
  • Fixed an issue with file caching between scans.
  • Fixed an issue preventing some duplicates from being deleted/moved/copied.
2.2.9 2006-08-27
  • Fixed an issue with ignore list and unicode.
  • Fixed an issue with file attribute fetching sometimes causing dupeGuru to crash.
  • Fixed an issue in the directories panel under Windows.
2.2.8 2006-08-17
  • Fixed an issue in the duplicate seeking engine preventing some duplicates to be found.
2.2.7 2006-08-12
  • Improved unicode support.
  • Improved the "Reveal in Finder" ("Open Containing Folder" in Windows) feature so it selects the file in the folder it opens.
2.2.6 2006-08-07
  • Improved the ignore list system.
  • dupeGuru is now a Universal application on Mac OS X.
2.2.5 2006-07-26
  • Improved application (.app) dupe detection on Mac OS X.
  • Fixed an issue that occasionally made dupeGuru crash on startup.
2.2.4 2006-06-27
  • Fixed an issue with Move and Copy features.
2.2.3 2006-06-15
  • Improved duplicate scanning speed.
  • Added a warning that a file couldn't be renamed if a file with the same name already exists.
2.2.2 2006-06-07
  • Added "Rename Selected" feature.
  • Fixed some minor issues with "Reload Last Results" feature.
  • Fixed ignore list issues.
2.2.1 2006-05-22
  • Fixed occasional progress bar woes under Windows.
  • Fixed a bug in the registration system under Windows.
  • Nothing has been changed in the Mac OS X version, but I want to keep version in sync.
2.2.0 2006-05-10
  • Added destination path re-creation options.
  • Added an ignore list.
  • Changed the main icon.
  • Improved dramatically the delta values feature.
2.1.2 2006-04-18
  • Added the "Match similar words" option.
  • Fixed Power marking issues under Mac.
2.1.1 2006-04-14
  • Added the "Display delta values" option.
  • Improved Power marking sorting speed under Mac.
  • Fixed Power marking sorting issues.
2.1.0 2006-04-03
  • Added the Power Marker feature.
  • Fixed a column sorting bug. The results would sometimes lose their sort order.
  • Fixed a bug with the Make Reference feature. The results sometimes wasn't correctly refreshed after the reference switch.
2.0.1 2006-03-23
  • Fixed an issue occasionally occurring when trying to reload results from removable media that is no longer present.
2.0.0 2006-03-17
  • Complete rewrite.
  • Now runs on Mac OS X.
1.0.0 2004-09-24
  • Initial release.
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