Version History

Version Date Description
1.11.3 2010-12-31
  • Fixed bug causing results to be corrupted after a scan cancellation. (#120)
  • Fixed crash when fetching Fairware unpaid hours. (#121)
  • Fixed crash when replacing files with hardlinks. (#122)
  • Fixed crash when iPhoto can't be found. (#125)
1.11.2 2010-10-07
  • Fixed delta column colors which were broken since 1.11.0.
  • Fixed column sorting crash. (#108)
  • Fixed occasional crash during scan. (#106)
1.11.1 2010-09-30
  • Re-licensed dupeGuru to BSD and made it Fairware
1.11.0 2010-09-27
  • Improved UI with a little revamp.
  • Added the possibility to place hardlinks to references after having deleted duplicates. [Mac OS X, Linux] (#91)
  • Added an option to ignore duplicates hardlinking to the same file. [Mac OS X, Linux] (#92)
  • Added multiple selection in the "Add Directory" dialog. [Mac OS X] (#105)
  • Fixed a bug preventing drag & drop from working in the Directories panel. [Windows, Linux]
1.10.0 2010-08-21
  • Added the ability to save results (and reload them) at arbitrary locations.
  • Improved the way reference files in dupe groups are chosen. (#15)
  • Remember size/position of all windows between launches. (#102)
  • Fixed a bug sometimes preventing dupeGuru from reloading previous results.
  • Fixed a bug sometimes causing the progress dialog to be stuck there. [Mac OS X] (#103)
  • Removed the Creation Date column, which wasn't displaying the correct value anyway. (#101)
1.9.1 2010-07-17
1.9.0 2010-04-15
  • Improved error messages when files can't be sent to trash, moved or copied.
  • Added a custom command invocation action. (#12)
  • Filters are now applied on whole paths. (#4)
1.8.6 2010-04-08
  • Fixed a crash when performing very big scans.
  • Fixed a rare crash during results loading. (#90)
1.8.5 2010-03-01
  • Fixed a bug preventing some iPhoto Libraries to be read. [Mac OS X]
  • Improved results loading and saving speed.
1.8.4 2010-02-18
  • Fixed a glitch in the details panel causing it to sometimes show the wrong pictures.
1.8.3 2010-02-11
  • Fixed a crash when reading certain pictures. [Mac OS X] (#94)
  • Fixed selection glitches, especially while renaming. (#93)
1.8.2 2010-02-06
  • dupeGuru Picture Edition is now 64-bit on Mac OS X!
  • Improved scanning speed.
  • Fixed a crash upon quitting when support folder is not present. (#83)
1.8.1 2010-01-15
  • 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 crash when adding the iPhoto library twice. [Mac OS X] (#80)
1.8.0 2009-12-16
  • 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)
  • Clarified how directories' state are set by painting a combo box in the state cells. [Windows] (#76)
  • Fixed some crashes. (#78 and #79)
  • Dropped Mac OS X Tiger support.
1.7.8 2009-10-24
  • Fixed a bug sometimes causing some duplicates to be ignored during the scans. (#73)
1.7.7 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)
1.7.6 2009-10-03
  • Fixed a bug causing memory error when scanning a lot of pictures. (#58)
  • Fixed bugs preventing some duplicates to be found. (#64 #67)
  • Fixed a bug preventing some iPhoto Libraries to be read. (Mac OS X) (#61)
  • 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 were applied. (Mac OS X) (#55)
  • Improved error handling during delete/move/copy actions. (#62 #65)
1.7.5 2009-09-07
  • Re-introduced the Export to XHTML feature to Windows.
  • Improved Export to XHTML speed.
  • Improved the grouping algorithm to reduce the number of discarded files in non-exact scans.
  • Stopped showing the same file on the 2 sides of the details panel when a ref file is selected.
  • Fixed crashes in the Directories panel.
1.7.4 2009-06-20
  • Fixed bugs with selection being jumpy during "Make Reference" actions and Power Marker switches.
  • Fixed crash happening when a file with non-roman characters couldn't be analyzed.
  • Fixed crash sometimes happening during the file collection phase in scanning.
  • Fixed bugs with iPhoto integration.
  • Restored double-click and right-click behavior lost in the PyQt move (Windows).
1.7.3 2009-06-07
  • Fixed an occasional crash on Copy/Move operations.
  • Fixed bugs with iPhoto integration.
1.7.2 2009-05-27
  • Fixed a bug causing '.jpeg' files not to be scanned.
  • 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.
  • Improved scanning speed.
1.7.1 2009-05-26
  • Fixed a bug causing the "Match Scaled" preference to be inverted.
1.7.0 2009-05-20
  • Fixed the bug from 1.6.0 preventing PowerPC macs from running the application.
  • Converted the Windows GUI to Qt, thus enabling multiprocessing and making the scanning process faster.
1.6.0 2009-03-24
  • Improved scanning speed, mainly on OS X where all cores of the CPU are now used.
  • 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.
1.5.0 2008-09-10
  • 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.
1.4.2 2008-07-28
  • Improved iPhoto compatibility on Mac OS X.
  • Improved the speed of results loading and saving.
  • Fixed a crash sometimes occurring during duplicate deletion.
1.4.1 2008-04-12
  • Improved iPhoto Library loading feedback on Mac OS X.
  • Fixed the directory selection dialog. Bundles can be selected again on Mac OS X.
  • Fixed "Clear Ignore List" crash in Windows.
1.4.0 2008-02-20
  • Added iPhoto Library support on Mac OS X.
  • Fixed occasional crashes when scanning corrupted pictures.
1.3.4 2008-01-12
  • Improved scan, delete and move speed in situations where there were a lot of duplicates.
  • Fixed occasional crashes when moving a lot of files at once.
  • Fixed an issue sometimes preventing the application from starting at all.
1.3.3 2007-12-03
  • Improved the handling of low memory situations.
  • Improved the directory panel. The "Remove" button changes to "Put Back" when an excluded directory is selected.
  • Fixed the directory selection dialog. iPhoto '08 library files can now be selected.
1.3.2 2007-11-24
  • Added the "Remove empty folders" option.
  • Fixed results load/save issues.
  • Fixed occasional status bar inaccuracies when the results are filtered.
1.3.1 2007-10-21
  • Improved results loading speed.
  • Improved details panel's picture loading (made it asynchronous).
  • Fixed a bug where the stats line at the bottom would sometimes go confused while having a filter active.
  • Fixed a bug under Windows where some duplicate markings would be lost.
1.3.0 2007-09-22
  • Added post scan filtering.
  • Fixed issues with the rename feature under Windows.
  • Fixed some user interface annoyances under Windows.
1.2.1 2007-05-19
  • Improved UI responsiveness (using threads) under Mac OS X.
  • Improved result load/save speed and memory usage.
1.2.0 2007-03-17
  • Changed the picture decoding libraries for both Mac OS X and Windows. The Mac OS X version uses the Core Graphics library and the Windows version uses the .NET framework imaging capabilities. This results in much faster scans. As a bonus, the Mac OS X version of dupeGuru PE now supports RAW images.
1.1.6 2007-02-11
  • Added Re-orderable columns. In fact, I re-added the feature which was lost in the C# conversion in 1.1.0 (Windows).
  • Fixed a bug with all the Delete/Move/Copy actions with certain kinds of files.
1.1.5 2007-01-11
  • Fixed a bug with the Move action.
1.1.4 2007-01-09
  • 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).
1.1.3 2006-12-23
  • Improved the caching system. This makes duplicate scans significantly faster.
  • Improved the rename file dialog to exclude the extension from the original selection (so when you start typing your new filename, it doesn't overwrite it) (Windows).
  • Changed some menu key shortcuts that created conflicts (Windows).
  • 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 with the "Remove" button of the directories panel (Windows).
  • Fixed a bug in the packaging preventing certain Windows configurations to start dupeGuru at all.
1.1.2 2006-11-18
  • Fixed a bug with directory states.
1.1.1 2006-11-17
  • Fixed a bug causing the ignore list not to be saved.
  • Fixed a bug with selection under Power Marker mode.
1.1.0 2006-11-15
  • 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.
  • Fixed a bug sometimes making delete and move operations stall.
1.0.5 2006-10-12
  • Added an auto-update feature in the Mac OS X version (with Sparkle).
  • Fixed a bug sometimes causing inaccuracies of the Match %.
1.0.4 2006-09-21
  • Fixed a bug with the cache system.
1.0.3 2006-09-15
  • Added the ability to search for scaled duplicates.
  • Added a cache system for faster scans.
  • Improved speed of the scanning engine.
1.0.2 2006-09-11
  • Improved speed of the scanning engine.
  • Improved the display of pictures in the details panel (Windows).
1.0.0 2006-09-08
  • Initial release.