What's new in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 6.0.11
Jul 24, 2023
- When filtering certain files and when moving them (instead of copying), Copywhiz used to delete the source folder. This is fixed.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 6.0.10 (Feb 10, 2021)
- The file copy progress window showed up late when Copywhiz could not find any matching files to be copied. This is fixed.
- It was not possible to cancel the operation when Copywhiz was busy creating folders (not copying files). This is fixed.
- Sometimes it crashed when using the option 'Skip empty folders'. This is fixed.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 6.0.9 (Feb 8, 2021)
- Sometimes, when copying to a network folder Copywhiz showed 'Destination does not exist' error. This is fixed.
- Copywhiz files by date used UTC file time instead of local file time. This is fixed.
- The time option was not taken into consideration when copying files by date. This is fixed.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 6.0.7 (Jan 13, 2021)
- Copywhiz truncated the destination folder paths when many were added together. This is fixed.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 6.0.5 (Nov 27, 2020)
- Added 'Paste as administrator' option to allow the user to copy system/protected files.
- The 'Add folders' button allowed only a limited number of folders to be added at a time. This is fixed.
- Fixed incompatibility with AceText app.
- Other minor UI issues fixed.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 6.0.3 (Oct 24, 2020)
- The destination folders were not visible after copying files directly from a root drive. This is fixed.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 6.0.2 (Sep 1, 2020)
- Version 6 Launched!
- Automatically organize files based on their file attributes.
- Automatically organize files based on MP3 file's metadata (Album, Artist, Genre etc).
- Sync destination files with source (Delete files from destination if deleted from source).
- Verify data integrity of the files copied.
- Copy files to every sub-folder inside the destination folder.
- Copy files to sub-folders having a specific name inside the destination folder.
- Copy files created/modified/accessed in last X days.
- Added an option to add/remove Copywhiz menu from Windows File Explorer's menu.
- Added an option to change number of simultaneous file copy operations (in case of multiple folders).
- It is now possible to run multiple instances of Copywhiz app.
- The folder dates (created, modified, accessed) are now retained.
- If a file copy operation is canceled, files/folders added to Copywhiz are not cleared. So that you can restart again.
- Various UI improvements and bug fixes.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 5.0.12 (Jun 2, 2020)
- Improved accuracy when displaying whether file a is identical or newer or older.
- The rename button on 'File already exists window' disappeared since previous version. This is fixed.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 5.0.9 (Apr 17, 2019)
- 'Paste as' feature added. Select a single file A into Copywhiz and then right click on file B so that you can copy A as B. Option added under Paste Special menu.
- Options added to log even names of files copied, skipped and renamed. In earlier versions, only errors were logged.
- Now, a sound is played indicating successful completion of a file copy task.
- On Hi-Dpi display resolution, the text size in Copywhiz is larger for better readability.
- The program windows do not wear any special skin. Uses default Windows OS skin.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 5.0.8 (Jan 15, 2019)
- Copying millions of files caused memory issues. This is fixed
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 5.0.6 (Jun 21, 2018)
- Copywhiz Portable version released.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 5.0.5 (Jul 18, 2017)
- Copywhiz window and Preview window made resizable. This greatly improves usability and productivity.
- It is now possible to hide folders when previewing.
- Improved startup performance. Adding items to Copywhiz the first time is faster.
- It is now possible to open/explore a file from the preview window.
- Copywhiz was not using the alternative file manager configured. This has been fixed.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 5.0.4 (Jul 18, 2017)
- Fixed a crash that occurred when adding about more than 1000 files to the basket.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 5.0.3 (Jul 18, 2017)
- Added support for exact file name match when filtering them. So now, you can use double quotes to match exact file name.
- You can now drag and drop Copywhiz project file over Copywhiz window to open the project.
- The %datetime% parameter inside destination folder path wasn't working. This has been fixed.
- Specifying 'Include Files' filter used to crash Copywhiz sometimes. This has been fixed.
- 'Include Folders' and 'Exclude Folders' did not work when full folder paths were specified. This has been fixed.
- When compressing files, the window that requests for the .zip file name did not appear on top. This caused confusion making the user wait indefinitely. This has been fixed.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 5.0.2 (Jul 18, 2017)
- On some systems, right clicking inside File Explorer (Windows Explorer) used to crash the Explorer after installing Copywhiz. This has been fixed.
- The 'Automatically clear items on paste' setting was not remembered. This has been fixed.
- Copywhiz overcomes the long file path limitation that Windows has. Copywhiz can now handle very long paths when copying/moving files.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 4.0 Build 8 (Jan 17, 2014)
- Tutorials page was launched every time Copywhiz was used. This has been fixed.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 4.0 Build 7 (Jan 17, 2014)
- Changed 'Copy' option to 'Copy (Add to queue)' for more clarity.
- Added option to view tutorial videos.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 4.0 Build 6 (Jan 17, 2014)
- 'Paste only new or modified files' option now auto-detects new & modified files. User need not specify dates. Very useful feature. Option to specify date now exists under a new option 'Paste files based on date'.
- New option 'Run Copywhiz' added to Copywhiz menu so that the app can be directly run from the menu. Use this option to open/create a project faster.
- When choosing 'Paste Advanced' option, the destination folder is auto-filled. Reduces extra steps to choose destination folder.
- 'Paste to multiple folders' option adds the current folder to existing list of destination folders. Keep selecting 'Paste to multiple folders' to grow your destination folder list.
- You can use date variables such as %year%, %month%, �y%, %hour% & %minute% as part of destination folder to dynamically create new destination folder each time. Good for taking backups.
- Copywhiz menu did not appear inside folders under Libraries in Windows. This has been fixed.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 4.0 Build 5 (Jan 17, 2014)
- Made it compatible with Windows 8
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 4.0 Build 4 (Jan 17, 2014)
- Added option to copy all files to a single folder (without creating any sub-folders)
- The 'Save As' option also saved the modifications to the current file. This has been fixed.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 4.0 Build 3 (Jan 17, 2014)
- Added an option 'Clear items on paste' so that it could be enabled/disabled when necessary.
- Preview list is now sorted for better clarity.
- The register dialog used to appear on every run of Copywhiz. Now it will appear only once every day.
- Help documentation updated.
- Folders having different icons did not retain their icons when they were copied to another location. This has been fixed.
New in Copywhiz (formerly Piky Basket) 4.0 Build 2 (Jan 17, 2014)
- Improved the way locked files are replaced at reboot.
- If files were added too fast in Copywhiz, sometimes they were missed out. This has been fixed.