April 30th, 2012What's new:
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File & Folder Log clipboard copy
· Users can now copy a CSV list of files either backed up or restored in the Macrium Reflect log view.
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Log Image File Sizes
· Backup file sizes are now included in the backup logs.
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Backup Drive Selection
· The drives/partitions selected in the main application window are now remembered between runs of Macrium Reflect.
Bug fixes:
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Startup Issue
· Macrium Reflect could hang at startup if the file system contained an NTFS MFT record with a attribute list > 64K in size. This has been resolved.
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File & Folder Search
· When cancelling a File and Folder search operation for restore, Macrium Reflect could generate a dump report. This has been resolved.
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Licensing
· When contacting the license server, Macrium Reflect could crash on button clicks. This has been resolved.
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Email Attachment Images
· Success/fail graphics were omitted from email log attachments. This has been resolved.
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Toolbar/Status bar State
· The state of the toolbars and status bar were not being saved between runs of Macrium Reflect. This has been resolved.
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Installer issue
· In rare cases, during an upgrade from existing v4 install, the Image Mounting service would prevent the install from completing. This has been resolved.
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Fix Boot Problems Issue
· An edge case where the Fix Boot Problems option under WinPE could reboot the machine when manually specifying an operating system path. This has been resolved.
April 13th, 2012Bug fixes:
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Installer
· When updating Reflect, if the installer is used instead of the normal patch procedure, email settings will be lost. This has been resolved.
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Email attachments
· Byte order marker being rendered in emailed log attachments in some email clients. This has been resolved.
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Image to DVD
· In some Vista/Win7 installs omaging to DVD could cause an 'Invalid (not writeable)' error. This has been resolved.
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VSS
· VSS snapshot creation could fail if a VSS writer component is configured to use a volume that no-longer exists on the system. This has been resolved.
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Unattended System restore
· Restore with auto reboot into the rescue environment could fail if the local drives were re-sequenced by Windows PE. This has been resolved.
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Rescue environment
· Hitting escape after clicking the taskbar may result in it being hidden. This has been resolved.
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Rescue environment
· The list of existing images was not always populated when booted into WinPE recovery. This has been resolved.
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File and folder backup incremental and differential speed isssue
· An issue where the NTFS permissions setting in full backups was not being honoured in incremental backups. This has been resolved.
March 31st, 2012Windows 8 Consumer Preview:
· Macrium Reflect is now fully compatible with Windows 8 Consumer Preview
Bug fixes:
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IMPORTANT: ReDeploy Device Database Improvements
· Users of the Pro and Server Editions of software who make use of ReDeploy are advised to create new rescue media
· This is due to enhancements and additions to the ReDeploy device database
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Splash Screen
· The Splash screen was momentarily shown during scheduled task startup. This has been resolved.
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ReDeploy and RAID Systems
· A ReDeploy issue was reported where certain RAID Controllers would not be correctly catered for. This has been resolved.
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Delete XML Definition Files
· If the XML View tab was selected and an XML file was deleted from the list then a 'Page cannot be found' error was displayed. This has been resolved
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Email Logs
· When emailing logs using the right click menu option on the Logs tab, users were unable to enter paragraphs into the email body text. This has been resolved
March 21st, 2012Scheduled Task Postpone:
· Scheduled backup tasks now present a postpone option if the backup notification delay has been set in the Defaults
Definition Filename Issue:
· A scheduled task may not run if the path or the xml file name contained '-full', '-inc' or '-diff'. This has been resolved.
Free Edition Fix Boot Problems:
· The Fix Boot Problems option may not work on 32 bit based rescue systems, this only affected Free Edition customers only. This has been resolved.
UEFI Rescue Media Creation:
· The creation of rescue media on UEFI systems would, on some motherboards, fail to create valid media. This has been resolved.
Network Logon Defaults:
· An issue where a configured network logon default would not match correctly with an XML definition was raised. This has been resolved.
Rescue Media Drivers:
· An issue where certain Perc RAID controllers were not being correctly handled for Server 2003 and SBS 2003 was raised. This has been resolved.
DVD Backup Verify:
· An issue where setting backup verification and using DVD media as the target would cause the optical drive tray to be ejected prior to the verify causing the verify to fail. This has been resolved.
UEFI Recovery Boot Menu Option:
· An issue where the recovery boot menu option failed to be set for some UEFI systems on install. This has been resolved.
Recovery Boot Menu:
· Pressing the 'OK' button twice when adding the Windows PE boot menu option could cause multiple boot menu entries. This has been resolved.
Browse For Folders:
· If Windows Explorer was set to hide system and hidden files then system and hidden files were also excluded from the browse dialogs in Macrium Reflect. This has been resolved.
Rescue Media USB3 Root Hub Detection:
· Some USB3 root hubs were not being correctly matched during the rescue media creation process. This has been resolved.
WinPE Boot Process:
· During the WinPE boot process some USB devices would not be detected or have drivers loaded due to being uninitialized. This has been resolved.
Fix Boot Problems:
· Running Fix Boot Problems would render the bootmgr file to become visible and thereby accessible to standard user accounts. This has been resolved.
February 22nd, 2012Rescue Wizard Driver Copy:
· A rare case where a security catalog was not being copied for a driver in the rescue media. This has been resolved.
Custom File names:
· When using custom files names, the file name could have a '1' unnecessarily appended to the end to ensure uniqueness. This was caused by DSM purge and file name generation sequence. This has been resolved.
Rescue CD WAIK Files:
· Issue when creating the standard WinPE rescue CD. Was copying the WAIKFiles folder if present. This has been resolved.
Dynamic Disk Restores:
· The restore process was updating the BCD if the target disk was dynamic. This has been resolved.
TextEdit in WinPE:
· TextEdit in WinPE was not correctly handling UTF8 and UTF16 based text files. This has been resolved.
PEExplorer in WinPE:
· The 'Del' key in the directory path edit control of Windows PE Explorer would not delete characters in the directory path. This has been resolved.
x64 WAIK Rescue Media Creation:
· The driver copy function for the 64 bit WAIK based Windows PE rescue CD could fail if the standard Windows PE component was installed. This has been resolved.
Dynamic Disks Fix Boot Problems:
· The Windows PE function "Fix Boot Problems" may fail to work for system that boot into a dynamic disk. This has been resolved.
WinPE Dynamic Disk/Volume Imaging:
· If a dynamic disk/volume was imaged while running Windows PE the image may fail with error 'Access Denied'. This has been resolved.
February 1st, 2012ReDeploy 64 bit issue:
· A very infrequent issue where ReDeploy was not setting the correct drivers on 64 bit platforms with certain chipsets. This has been resolved.
February 1st, 2012New:
· Windows Home Server
· Macrium Reflect Standard and Professional Editions now fully support Windows Home Server platform
· File And Folder Backup - folder filter mask specification improvements
· The file and folder filter has been improved to include the full path when matching. The previous filter methods are still valid.
· Free installer registration details
· The Macrium Reflect Free Edition installer now allows for the modification of existing registration details.
· Improved USB3 device detection
· Macrium Reflect has been extended to take advantage of more USB3 controllers and hubs
Bug fixes:
· Alternate Locations hint text
· After adding a folder as an alternate backup location, clicking into the folder edit box caused the hint text to not be selected. This has been resolved.
· Time remaining countdown
· An infrequent issue was raised where the time remaining at the end of a backup was being misreported as 1 second. This has been resolved.
· Autocomplete edit box visible during backup
· Pressing any key during a backup process would result, incorrectly, in the locations autocomplete edit box to become visible. This has been resolved.
· Installer Return button
· The button on the 'License Already Installed' error dialog was Cancel and should have been OK and Cancel. This has been resolved.
· Interactive backup auto shutdown
· Automatic shutdown of interactive backups would not initiate as Macrium Reflect was still running. This has been resolved.
· Rescue media USB device selection
· When creating a rescue environment to USB pen drive media, it was possible to select a blank USB device from the list. This has been resolved.
· Scheduled task deletion confirmation
· Macrium Reflect was not prompting the user for confirmation of scheduled task deletion. This has been resolved.
· Rescue media device detection
· When creating the rescue environment, Macrium Reflect could include devices that were not relavant to the WinPE environment. This has been resolved.
· Rescue media update driver
· Macrium Reflect would allow the user to specify (or search) the Windows\Inf folder for drivers, which can lead to incorrect or unsupported drivers being included in the rescue media. This has been resolved.
· WinPE Unsupported Devices dialog
· The Unsupported Devices dialog in WinPE was displaying devices which were unrelated to the process of backup/restore. This has been resolved.
January 30th, 2012· Windows PE network config issue
· The network configuration dialog in Windows PE could fail to set the second and subsequent Network Interface Cards. This has been resolved. If this issue affects you then please build fresh Windows PE rescue media after updating
· Crash during cloning operation
· A crash could occur at the end of a cloning operation if the source file system had errors in the NTFS $bitmap file. This has ben resolved.
· Free Edition Windows PE startup error
· For a few customers, the Windows PE rescue media could abort at startup. This has been resolved. If this issue affects you then please build fresh Windows PE rescue media after updating
· Free Edition startup issue
· A few customers have reported a program crash at startup. This has been resolved.
· Error reporting dialog improvement
· In the event of a program error, the error reporting message box would sit and wait for a response. This is now an auto canceling dialog if Macrium Reflect is running as a scheduled task.
· Free Edition installer registration details
· When re-installing the Free Edition of Macrium Reflect existing registration details were not remembered. This has been resolved.
January 30th, 2012· Error in destination path when editing an existing backup defintion
· When editing an existing backup definition an incorrect path could be populated in the destination field. This has been resolved.
· A local disk may not be detected
· Some customers have experienced a problem with disks missing from the Reflect backup tab. This was caused by an out of sync registry entry and has been resolved.
December 8th, 2011What's new:
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Linux rescue CD update.
· Improved Linux CD restore performance and compatibility
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Automatic conversion from MBR to GPT.
· Pro and Server editions. If an MBR partition is restored to an empty disk and expanded to > 2TB in size then the target disk is now automatically converted to GPT to accommodate the new partition size.
Bug fixes:
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Installer update issue.
· When upgrading using the Macrium Reflect installer, if the current installation was not on drive 'C' then the upgrade would not install to the same path as the existing installation. This has been resolved.
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Restore defaults.
· The global default setting 'Restore MBR' was not honoured when restoring a disk image. This has been resolved.
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Image file deletion error.
· If an image file that was split (e.g, into 4GB chunks due to FAT32) and was deleted using the Reflect GUI, this could cause a program crash. This has been resolved.
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XML validation error.
· Disks numbered > 9 could cause an XML validation error. This has been resolved.
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Windows PE (WAIK) download retry.
· If the WAIK download timed out then subsequent retries could time-out at the same point during the retry. This has been resolved.
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Linux rescue CD disk matching
· When restoring with the Linux rescue CD the incorrect disk could be defaulted for the restore process. This occurred for a a very specific sequence of disks and disk signatures and has been resolved.
December 8th, 2011What's new:
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Network authentication
· Improved network authentication reliability in application defaults
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INF file parser improvements
· Improved INF file parser to support QLogic fibre channel controllers
Bug fixes:
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IMPORTANT: v5 Free Edition WinPE WAIK bug
· Some users of the free edition WAIK rescue CD found that booting resulted in Macrium Reflect not being loaded correctly. This issue has now been resolved.
· If this issue has affected you, please update Macrium Reflect and create a fresh WAIK resue CD.
December 8th, 2011Bug fixes:
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Daylight Saving Time (DST) issue with incremental and differential file and folder backups
· A bug in the Windows _get_daylight() function could cause Reflect not to recognize that DST had changed. This caused files to be incorrectly flaged as modified when the last modified time was updated by Windows for DST. This has been resolved.
December 8th, 2011Bug fixes:
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Error saving XML file to a path with non ANSI characters
· The XML file save would fail if the destination path contained non ANSI characters. This could cause a problem where accented or non western characters were used. This has been resolved.
· Please burn a fresh rescue CD if this affects your saved files.
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Backup notifications and logs for XML validation errors
· If a backup definition (XML) file failed validation then no email or error log was produced. This has been resolved.
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Screen power management disabled during backup
· Macrium Reflect will now honour screen power management settings during a backup.
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Netbook screen size issue.
· The 'Image all local disks' dialog vertical height was too large for some netbook PCs. This has been resolved.
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Alternative backup locations error
· When multiple backup locations were used, the Disk Space Management purge logic was not executed and only full images and backups would be created. This has been resolved.
December 8th, 2011What's new:
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New shutdown/suspend options.
· The backup dialog now includes the option to shutdown/suspend Windows. This can be enabled/disabled as the backup is running.
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New support submission function.
· Log files and other information can now be submitted directly to Macrium support from within Reflect.
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Rescue media drivers page enhancements.
· New add drivers wizard and enhanced functionality.
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USB rescue media enhancements.
· Auto detection of inserted USB flash drives and improved error handling.
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Default WinPE boot menu time-out.
· The previous default value of 30 seconds has been changed to 10 seconds.
Bug fixes:
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Windows PE resolution incompatible with some Netbook PCs.
· Windows PE now detects for supported resolutions and adjusts according to availability.
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Linux logical partition problem.
· Some Linux installations, notably Ubuntu, could create extended partitions incompatible with Windows. This could cause restoration partition alignment issues. This has been resolved.
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Fixed crash in File and Filder backup search.
· If no .mrbak files were selected for search the a crash could occur if the search button was clicked. This has been resolved.
December 8th, 2011Bug fixes:
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Dynamic Volume Disk Size Error
· Dynamic disks may report the incorrect size in the Reflect main window. This has been resolved.
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PC entering sleep mode during backup
· Windows could enter sleep mode during a backup or image. This has been resolved.
December 8th, 2011Bug fixes:
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Windows PE - Synchronization fix
· Professional Editions of Macrium Reflect may have failed to update the Windows PE component files when patched previously. This has been resolved.
· Note: If Windows PE is out of date then two patches may be required to resolve this issue. Please run the update check directly after this update to download a full Windows PE patch
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VBScript scheduling problem with Windows XP
· The Windows XP task scheduler service failed to pass '-full', '-inc' or '-diff' parameters to scheduled VBScript files. This caused the schduled tasks to always run a full backup or image. This has been resolved.
December 8th, 2011Bug fixes:
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Windows PE - Dual boot restore issue
· If a multi boot system was restored and the restored system partitions were swapped then this could cause a boot failure. This has been resolved.
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Windows PE - Multiple error messages when scanning for drivers
· When selecting the option to scan for drivers at Windows PE startup multiple error dialogs could be shown preventing the main application from loading until all were cleared. This has been resolved.
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Window position bug
· On some systems, if Reflect was closed when minimized the application could not be seen after restarting. This has been resolved.
December 8th, 2011What's new:
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Create rescue media driver scanning
· The process of scanning for drivers to match devices will now include those previously matches.
· If you backup Files and Folders in WinPE then please recreate a new rescue CD/USB
Bug fixes:
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Power saving options issue
· Power saving options were not being correctly observed when running incrementals or differentials. This has been resolved.
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Rescue media creation on USB pen drive
· USB pen drives containing an active partition of less than 300MB were being refused by the rescue media creation process. This has been resolved.
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File and Folder backup add folder issue
· When adding a folder for a file and folder backup under WinPE, the browse dialog was blank and the user could not select a folder. This has been resolved.
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File and folder backup 'Failed to open file' message
· An intermittent issue where File and Folder backups, which had been password protected, could not be opened. This has been resolved.
December 8th, 2011What's new:
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VBScript incremental and differential run options
· Added VBScript file right click menu options for 'Incremental' and 'Differential'.
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Improved USB 3.0 host controller support
· Improved Windows PE driver file loading for USB 3.0 host controllers and hubs. If you are experiencing USB 3.0 problems then please burn a fresh Windows PE rescue CD after applying this update.
Bug fixes:
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Problem when restoring an image when there are more than 10 attached local disks
· Restore could fail to start if the destination drive number was greater than 10. This has been resolved
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Registration failure when using proxy server to access the Internet
· Support has been added for proxy servers in the installer registration dialog
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Fixed Windows PE (WAIK) Rescue CD driver loading at startup.
· When booting with the WAIK Custom Windows PE rescue CD, drivers for unsupported devices may not load. This has been resolved. If you are experiencing problems with rescue CD device detection then please burn a fresh Windows PE (WAIK) rescue CD after applying this update.
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File and Folder backup 'folder exclusion mask' not saved
· File and Folder backup folder exclusions were not being saved to the backup XML file. This has been resolved.
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Program crash during driver scan
· Fixed crash if the driver scan dialog was closed during a scan.
December 8th, 2011What's new:
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Windows PE rescue media USB3 support
· Added feature to identify additional USB3 devices.
Bug fixes:
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Create WinPE rescue media
· Badly formed driver INF files could cause a problem when generating the Windows PE rescue CD. This has been resolved.
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Email
· emails may fail to be sent for non authenticated SMTP servers. This has been resolved.
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Windows XP add/remove boot menu
· This option could fail to work in Windows XP. This has been resolved.
August 6th, 2011Bug fixes:
· Allow selection of drive letter assignments 'A:' and 'B:' when imaging and restoring
· Previously, drive letters 'A:' and 'B:' were reserved for floppy disk controllers and local disks assigned either of these letters could not be imaged and images stored on these drives could not be selected. This has been resolved.
· Show error log if a file and folder backup 'root' folder has been deleted from the system
· Previously, a full file and folder backup would fail XML validation if a folder sected for backup had beed deleted. This has been resolved, and a full error log is now produced.
· Fix for Buffalo NAS devices
· Some buffalo NAS devises do not handle 8.3 (short) file names in a consistent way. This could cause a file and folder backup of NAS folders to fail. This has been resolved.
June 15th, 2011Bug fixes:
· Progress bar error when imaging partitions > 3TB
· The backup progress bar would prematurely show 100% complete when imaging disks > 3TB in size. This has been resolved.
May 31st, 2011Bug fixes:
· Double image verification issue
· Setting the automatic verification option could cause the verification process to be run twice. This has been resolved.
May 27th, 2011DSM purge sequencing problem:
· The Disk Space Management (DSM) file deletion would occur before image verification. This has been change to after verification.
File and Folder backup password problem:
· Selecting 'Append to a specific backup' type for incremental and differential backups would stop the backup wizard advancing to the next page if the selected file was encrypted or password protected. This has been resolved.
Verify Wizard resize error:
· If Windows is set to use a font size > 96 DPI then the Verify Wizard would not display correctly. This has been resolved.
File and folder backup and Daylight Savings Time problem:
· Incremental and differential File and Folder backups would backup all files if a DST change occurred prior to the backup. This has been resolved.
January 22nd, 2011· Linux CD update - Updated isolinux boot code. This enables boot compatibility with a larger number of CD/DVD drives. The Linux update is included with this patch.
· Windows PE rescue CD update is available
Bug fixes:
· Extra icon on Win7 desktop
· When browsing an image an extra 'Computer' icon could be created on the Windows desktop. This has been resolved.
· Windows PE recovery boot menu option in Windows 7
· After a recent Windows update, the 'Other Tasks' > 'Add recovery boot menu' option stopped working in Windows 7. This has been resolved.
· Slow restore for large FAT 32 file systems
· Images containing FAT32 file systems > 100GB could be very slow to load. This has been resolved.
· Incorrect image comment displayed for diff/inc images..
· Backup sets containing differential and incremental images/backup would display the comment text, if set, for the full image/back. This has been resolved.
· Update to VSS.dll
· A VSS writer could fail if a file location referenced by the writer no longer exists. This error could propagate and may cause the snapshot to fail. This has been resolved.
· Fix mount point destination issue.
· Selecting a mount point as a destination for an image file could incorrectly show the message 'the destination is included in the backup' if the mount point was located under the root of a drive. This has been resolved.
· Update command line un-mounting to only unmount mounted drives.
· The command line switch 'reflect.exe -u' could umnount drives that were not drives used to mount Macrium images. This has been resolved.
· Change the location of the default editor for VBScript files for Windows Server 2008 R2.
· Unlike other versions of Windows, 'notepad.exe' is not available in folder 'c:\windows' for Server 2008 R2. The default editor location has now changed to 'c:\windows\system32'.
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