AllDup 4 release candidate

[Administrator]

The 4. release candidate of AllDup version 4 is now available.

If you have any questions or feedback, we'd love to hear from you.
Please send your questions, suggestions, error reports or any other kind of information about the new version to the email address beta@mtsd.de.


IMPORTANT NOTES

- The stored search results, profiles and program settings of the previous version 3.4.24 will not taken over to the new version.
- Windows 2000 is no longer supported.


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AllDup 4 RC4 (Installer): ./.
AllDup 4 RC4 (Portable Edition): ./.


INSTALLATION

- The release candidate don't need an existing installation of AllDup version 3.x.
- The release candidate can be installed over an existing installation of AllDup version 3.x.


CHANGE LOG

4.0 RC4

UPD: Search Result: The creation of the thumbnail preview of a group is now much more faster.
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.0 RC3

NEW: Thai translation of the user interface. (Translator: Ladapa)
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.0 RC2

NEW: Added a Quickstart Guide to show the first steps to run a search for duplicates.
NEW: Search result / Menu Bar: Added the menu entry "Toolbars" to hide/show a toolbar.
UPD: Main window / Toolbar: Rearranged some of the buttons.
UPD: Search method / comparison criteria: Added new descriptions (mouse tooltip).
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

4.0 RC1

NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Select: Added the action "Expand all groups contain files with different names".
UPD: The option to ignore exif data inside JPEG files was improved.
UPD: Search Method "Similar Pictures": The compare method "Pixel by Pixel" was removed.
UPD: Search Method "Similar Pictures": All compare methods are improved.
UPD: Search Method "Similar Pictures": We have done several tests with the compare methods to determine the recognition rate with different image changes. See table "Recognition Rate" at the help file.
UPD: File Filter: The option "Ignore hard links" was removed.
UPD: The content of the manual was updated.
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.30

NEW: Search Result / Toolbar / Search: Added the button "Search Options".
NEW: Search Result / Toolbar / Search: Added the option "Case-sensitive search" at the button "Search Options".
NEW: Search Result / Toolbar / Search: Added the option "Use wildcards" at the button "Search Options".
NEW: Search Result / Toolbar / Search: Added the option "Search all visible columns" at the button "Search Options".
NEW: Search Result / Toolbar / Search: Added the option "Wrap the search after reaching the end or the beginning of the search result" at the button "Search Options".
NEW: Search Result / Context Menu: Added the action "Open file with".
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.28

NEW: Chinese translation of the user interface. (Translator: Sishentibu)
NEW: Spanish translation of the user interface. (Translator: Andrés Fulco)
NEW: Source Folder / Options: Added the option "Compare only files within the same source folder".
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.24

NEW: Ukrainian translation of the user interface. (Translator: Xemera)
UPD: Source Folder List: Now you can select multiple folders and delete them via the context menu.
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.22

UPD: Profiles: The name of the loaded profile will be shown at the title of the main window.
UPD: Search Result / Toolbar: The search through the search result is now case-sensitive and supports wildcards.
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.21

NEW: Dutch translation of the user interface. (Translator: Fred van Waard)
NEW: Toolbar: Added the command 'Create language file lang.txt' at the button 'Language'.
NEW: Toolbar: Added the option 'Use language file lang.txt' at the button 'Language'.
NEW: Toolbar: Added the command 'Open language file lang.txt' at the button 'Language'.
NEW: Toolbar: Added the command 'Restart AllDup' at the button 'Language'.
UPD: Added the columns 'Size' and 'Create Date' at the search result list.
UPD: User interface: The display of languages with unicode characters was overall improved.
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.18

NEW: Russian translation of the user interface.
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.15

FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.14

UPD: Source Folder List: Now the user can add and remove drives.
UPD: Source Folder List: Now all existing drives will be added to the list only at the first start of AllDup.
UPD: Search Result / Toolbar: Now for each Select Mode will be a different icon displayed.
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.11

FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.10

UPD: File and Folder Filter: Now you can specify multiple filters using the special character '|' as a separator. Example *.bmp|*.jpg|*.jpeg|*.png
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.8

NEW: Search Criteria 'File Content': Added the option "Ignore metadata of FLAC files".
NEW: Search Result: Now you can re-arrange the column order via drag & drop.
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.7

NEW: Search criteria 'Similar Photos': Now you can use the new checksums aHash (Average Hash), dHash (Difference Hash) and pHash (Perceptual Hash) to find similar pictures.
NEW: Search criteria 'File Name': Added the option "Compare only characters at the beginning of a file name".
UPD: Search criteria 'Similar Photos': Removed the option "Grey-Scale".
UPD: Now the logfile is encoded in Unicode.
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.5

NEW: The new search criteria 'Similar Photos' enables you to find similar or almost identical photos between the image file formats BMP, JPG/JPEG, GIF, PNG and TIF.
NEW: Search Options: Added the option "Log every x minutes the search statistic of the scan progress info".
NEW: Manual: Added the article "Speed Comparison Test" to show the speed difference between the search methods "Byte for Byte" and the checksum "SHA-1".
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.3

UPD: Search Criteria / File Content: Now you can use the the options "Ignore ID3 Tags of MP3 files" and "Ignore Exif metadata of JPEG files" with all compare methods.
UPD: Search Criteria / File Content / Compare method: Removed the checksum CRC32.
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.2

UPD: Search Criteria / File Content: The option "Ignore ID3 Tags of MP3 files" ignores now the tags "Lyrics3 v2" and "APE v2".
UPD: Search Criteria / File Content: The option "Ignore Exif metadata of JPEG files" was optimized. Now you can specify the maximum search area at the beginning of the file to determine the start position of the image data inside the jpeg file.
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.1

NEW: Search Criteria / File Name: Added the option "Partial name matching of not less than x percent".
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

3.9.0

NEW: The product logo of AllDup was changed.
NEW: The user interface was revised and equipped with new icons, arranging the program in a clearer manner.
NEW: Unicode-Compatibility: Text with Unicode characters from languages such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean or Russian will be displayed properly.
NEW: According to our measurements, the search by file content is now up to 50% faster than the previous version.
NEW: Search Criteria: The search by file content supports now the checksums MD5 (128-bit), SHA-1 (160-bit), SHA-2 (256-bit), SHA-2 (384-bit) and SHA-2 (512-bit).
NEW: Search Options: Added the option "Show only files without duplicates at the search result".
NEW: Options / General: Added the option 'Unicode-Text Support'.
NEW: Options / General: Now you can choose between 19 different color themes for the user interface.
NEW: Options / Log: Added the option "Log all non-duplicate files".
NEW: Options / Search Result: Added the option "External program to open a folder".
NEW: Search Result: The new option "Select Mode" enables you to choose what groups will be affected from a select/unselect action.
NEW: Search Result: Now you can choose between the modified and created date at the select action 'Select all files except the newest/oldest file'.
NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Options: Added the option "Resize column width of all rows".
NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Options: Added the option "Hide all toolbars".
NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Remove: Added "Remove all groups with x file(s)".
NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Remove: Added "Remove all groups where the files not exist at all source folders".
NEW: Search Result / Toolbars: Now you can hide each toolbar via the context menu.
NEW: Search Result / Toolbar: Added the buttons "Show previous/next non-selected file".
NEW: Search Result / File Context Menu: The action "Copy to the clipboard" enables you to copy the file name and/or file path to the clipboard.
NEW: Search Result / File Context Menu: The action "Remove File" enables you to remove a single file from the search result.
NEW: Search Result / Marked Files Context Menu: Added the action "Deselect marked files".
NEW: Search Result: Clicking on 'Search Result' will show up the search log at the file preview pane.
NEW: A log window will be displayed at the search progress.
NEW: File and Folder Filter / Context Menu: Added the actions "Escape wildcards" and "Unescape wildcards".
NEW: Command-Line: The command -c enables you to specify the compare method for the search criteria 'file content'.
NEW: Command-Line: The command -n prevent that the passed folders will not added to the source folder list.
UPD: Search Result / Toolbar: Now you can search forward and backward at the search result.
(!!!): The stored search results, profiles and program settings of the previous version 3 will not taken over to the new version.
(!!!): Windows 2000 is no longer supported.
FIX: Various optimizations have been introduced in various sections of AllDup. Various bugs have been fixed.

[therube]

XP, 391Beta Portable

Detect only duplicates from different source folders:

Option is missing?
http://www.allsync.biz/phpBB3/viewtopic ... 6786#p6786

[therube]

Vertical Scroll-bar blink:

Select Search Criteria | Search Options
Click a Criteria (say Extension) | Option (say Expand all)
Now click outside of that particular "frame", the whitespace area to the right of the frame, before the scrollbar
Scrollbar blinks

To stop it, again click a Criteria | Option

[therube]

Icons, main window:

Certainly not a big deal, & I'm not picky, but since we're here, but I actually like most of the old icons better.
Exceptions; Log definitely looks better in beta, & possibly the white Info button.

Otherwise, most of the ones in 391b look kind of "flat" & rather non-descript.
Language/Hello, Hello is an "application", if you will, & doesn't really convey "language", to me at least.

[therube]

UI Search Results:

Also looks kind of flat.
Like the "3D" (partially highlighted) of 3.4 better.

Initial look, with lack of any buttons, interface if you will, kind of leaves me with a, huh?

Help says to use context-menu, but I get no context-menu on my end?
(Unless the list is initially populated from elsewhere, but not sure offhand, at this point.)

[therube]

UI Source Folders:

Again tend to prefer the older UI.
Distinction between the column headers & the actual list.
The gridlines.
The physical buttons, at least some, instead of having to discover the context-menu.

Paste from clipboard is a nice touch.

Add special folder, not sure what that's supposed to do.
Other then expanding, a tiny bit, I get nothing there.

[therube]

UI Search Criteria:

The word "File" in the descriptions seems unnecessary, IMO.
Simply; Name, Extension,Size... I think works better, more concise, easier to digest.

Partial name match seems permanently grayed?

Ignore the following characters:

Perhaps a general diacritics checkbox.
RFE: Diacritics (Diacritical marks)
Otherwise, can "unicode" chars be entered into the checkbox.

Help, Checksum, talks about stored hashes?
Are they? Where? Should hashes be shown (option) in the results list?

[therube]

UI File Filter:
UI Folder Filter: (similarly)

Again the lack of buttons seems to make things a bit less discoverable.

To Add an item, cursor focus has to be outside of (below) any existing filters.
Initial thought was, Edit... Remove... OK, but how do I Add a new filter?

[therube]

(Heh, don't get me wrong, a great program . Thank you. I'll get to more when I've got some time...


Oh, & when I went through the UI "Designs", I happened to pick 11 as what I liked best. Later, when I opened the older 3.4, I saw that it uses "11".)

[therube]

(Again not an issue nor a concern, but...)

At least looking at memory numbers:

Code: Select all

	    Private/Working Set
3.4	  ~5 MB / 11 MB
Beta	~17 MB / 33 MB

Just saying.
And that's as things "sit" now & would have to compare again after running a decent scan, & then also taking anticipated scan speed increase into account...

[Administrator]

XP, 391Beta Portable
Detect only duplicates from different source folders:
Option is missing?

Please use the new option:

NEW: Search Result / Menu Bar / Remove: Added "Remove all groups where the files not exist at all source folders".

[Administrator]

Vertical Scroll-bar blink:

I cant reproduce this here (win7x64).

[Administrator]

UI Search Results:
Help says to use context-menu, but I get no context-menu on my end?

if no stored search results are available (empty list) = no context menu available

[Administrator]

UI Source Folders:
Add special folder, not sure what that's supposed to do.
Other then expanding, a tiny bit, I get nothing there.

Congratulations, you found a bug

Just click on the button "Source folder" at the tool bar to see how Add special folder should look.

[Administrator]

UI Search Criteria:
Partial name match seems permanently grayed?

No, its only available with "File name" selected only (and File Extension).

Perhaps a general diacritics checkbox.

Use 99% Partial name match.

Otherwise, can "unicode" chars be entered into the checkbox.

No.

Help, Checksum, talks about stored hashes?
Are they? Where?

Internally for comparing the files.

Should hashes be shown (option) in the results list?

Added to the ToDo-List.