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DirSync Pro Changelog

What's new in DirSync Pro 1.53 / 1.54b1

Dec 28, 2018
  • - Fixed: Crash when trying to check for updates with no active connection.
  • - Fixed: Crash when synchronizing the timestamp for some folders under Windows.
  • - Improved: JRE 1.8 is now required to run DirSync Pro.
  • - Improved: Regenerated DirSyncPro.exe wrapper based on JRE 1.8 for the Windows users.

New in DirSync Pro 1.53 (Mar 7, 2018)

  • Improved:
  • Startup shell scripts for Linux and MacOS are now user executable in the download package.

New in DirSync Pro 1.53b5 (Feb 18, 2018)

  • Improved: The enabled tabs in the filter dialog have now a green ball icon which help OSX users to distinguish them.
  • Improved: Default window size for the filter dialog is optimized.
  • Added: Filter by Date can now be configured to filter only files, only directories or both.

New in DirSync Pro 1.53b4 (Dec 7, 2017)

  • Improved: Check for update uses HTTPS now.

New in DirSync Pro 1.53b3 (Nov 12, 2017)

  • Fixed: Some typos
  • Fixed: Issue when some include filters didn't work in combination with '*' include filter for directories.
  • Improved: '' is now allowed to be included in filter patterns.

New in DirSync Pro 1.53b2 (Sep 15, 2017)

  • Improved: Memory performance improvements on logging to the message table
  • Fixed: Issue with the wild card in the log filenames

New in DirSync Pro 1.53b1 (Aug 7, 2017)

  • Improved: Memory performance improvements on logging to the message table.

New in DirSync Pro 1.53a1 (Mar 15, 2017)

  • Added: Support for UTF-8 encoding when writing the logs.
  • Improved: Some typo's are fixed!
  • Improved: Renamed "Include subfolders" to "Traverse subfolders" to make the behavior clearer.
  • Improved: Some minor performance improvements.
  • Improved: The Java wrapper for windows will prefer the 64-bit version of JRE if available.

New in DirSync Pro 1.52 (Aug 8, 2016)

  • Improved: Some code cleaning.

New in DirSync Pro 1.51b2 Unstable (Sep 29, 2015)

  • In some cases the Job dialog did not show the selected conflict resolution mode. Fixed!

New in DirSync Pro 1.51b1 Unstable (Jun 9, 2015)

  • Fixed: A typo in the application setting dialog
  • Improved: Some performance improvement for the file analysis

New in DirSync Pro 1.51a1 Unstable (Jun 9, 2015)

  • Fixed: Fixed the issue when the filter by time unit did not load correctly from a saved config file
  • Fixed: Fixed the issue when the command line generator did not add the right command option to the batch file

New in DirSync Pro 1.50 (Oct 28, 2014)

  • Fixed: One typo.

New in DirSync Pro 1.50 Alpha 4 (Sep 27, 2014)

  • Fixed the issue when an I/O Error (like corrupted files) caused DirSync Pro to crash (Thanks to David Baum for the report).
  • Fixed the issue when an I/O Error (like corrupted files) caused DirSync Pro GUI to freeze (Thanks to David Baum for the report).

New in DirSync Pro 1.50 Alpha 3 (Sep 19, 2014)

  • Fixed the issue when being unable to copy the timestamp caused a crash

New in DirSync Pro 1.50 Alpha 2 (Sep 18, 2014)

  • FFixed the issue when some include filters caused a crash
  • Fixed the issue when 'Copy Larger' option did not get updated in the GUI after loading a jobset
  • Fixed the issue when the day number in monthly schedules could not be higher than 12

New in DirSync Pro 1.50 Alpha 1 (Sep 8, 2014)

  • Fixed: Fixed the issue when default filters got dupplicated in some cases
  • Fixed: Fixed the issue when the delete files options was reset to true
  • Fixed: Fixed the issue when the log file was recording debug information when the log level was set to minimal
  • Fixed: Fixed the issue when the Time Unit did not get persisted for adding filters by Hours/Days/Months/... ago

New in DirSync Pro 1.49a4 Unstable (Jul 1, 2014)

  • Improved: Analysis performance is enhanced a little more.

New in DirSync Pro 1.49a3 Unstable (Jun 30, 2014)

  • Improved: Analysis performance is enhanced a little
  • Improved: Memory usage is reduced a little

New in DirSync Pro 1.49a2 Unstable (Jun 30, 2014)

  • Fixed: Adding a filter through the right mouse context menu in the sync queue table will clear the sync Q visually
  • Fixed: Saving an absolute path for a job log file is possible again
  • Improved: After adding a filter through the right mouse context menu in the sync queue table the user could choose not to reset the sync queue.

New in DirSync Pro 1.49a1 Unstable (Jun 30, 2014)

  • Fixed: The job dialog did not show some filters properly.
  • Fixed: Some schedules could not be removed.

New in DirSync Pro 1.48 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • Fixed: Saving a brand new jobset caused an error. Fixed!

New in DirSync Pro 1.47 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • Improved: Some minor issues.

New in DirSync Pro 1.47b5 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • Fixed: Issue with the filters while synchronizing disk roots (like c:\) in MS Windows.
  • Changed: Comparing the file meta data is now only preserved to custom synchronization modes.
  • Improved: Some visual enhancements.
  • Improved: In case of multiple monitor, the open file chooser dialog will now open on the screen in which DirSync Pro is active.

New in DirSync Pro 1.47b4 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • Fixed:Fixed the bug making weekly schedules not updating 'next-event'.
  • Improved: The manual is updated

New in DirSync Pro 1.47b3 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • Added: Option in the settings dialog to start the Schedule Engine automatically upon startup
  • Added: Option to override the read-only attribute in the destination folder when copying/deleting files/dirs
  • Improved: Some performance enhancements
  • Improved: More debug info to the application log file
  • Improved: Emphasize the conflict files in monodirectional sync a bit more

New in DirSync Pro 1.47b2 (Mar 14, 2014)

  • Fixed: Crash in BI-Custom mode while analyzing some files.
  • Fixed: Some minor sync issues in BI-directional sync algorithm.
  • Fixed: Filters were not persisted in custom Bi-directional sync mode; fixed!
  • Fixed: It's now possible to pause the Analysis.
  • Improved: Better icon lookup algorithm.
  • Improved: Toolbar icons do not have any border in Mac OS X.
  • Improved: Table grid color is enabled (in case it is disabled like in Mac OS X).
  • Improved: Some minor changes to improve stability of the filters.
  • Improved: Improved some texts in the GUI.

New in DirSync Pro 1.47b1 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • Fixed: When using the command line, the /schedule option started the schedule engine but did not gray out the corresponding button int he GUI.
  • Fixed: Custom BI-directional sync mode did not function well all the time.
  • Added: Option in the Command Line Generator window to add 'iconify' to the generated command line
  • Changed: DirSync Pro now loads the last opened config on start-up by default.

New in DirSync Pro 1.47a8 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • Fixed: Some GUI improvements in the SyncQ (since 1.47a1).
  • Fixed: Modified files showed sometimes twice in the syncQ. (since 1.47a1)
  • Fixed: Change to 'Force Copy B' works now properly!
  • Improved: Changing an item in the sync queue will update the overall size statistics.
  • Improved: The right click context menu to change the sync mode in the sync queue is now more context aware.

New in DirSync Pro 1.47a7 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • Fixed: Analysis of the non-recursive directories was not accurate (since 1.47a1).
  • Fixed: Forced deletion of excluded files/directories did not delete some files in some cases

New in DirSync Pro 1.47a6 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • Improved: More debug information is written to the application log.

New in DirSync Pro 1.47a5 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • Fixed: Deletion analysis did not end up with correct results in some cases; this bug was introduced since 1.47a1.

New in DirSync Pro 1.47a4 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • Fixed: Crash on analyzing a root source, introduced in 1.47a1
  • Fixed: Sync Q will not show an empty tooltip for not exisiting files.
  • Fixed: Some minor issues in the GUI.
  • Added: Number of bytes of the analyzed files is now also shown in the statistics

New in DirSync Pro 1.47a3 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • Improved: Cleaned up a little.

New in DirSync Pro 1.47a2 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • Fixed: Crash on 'Analyze' introduced in 1.47a1 (Thanks to Bill Brehm for the report.)
  • Fixed: Progress bar update issue introduced in 1.47a1.
  • Fixed: The last column in the schedule table will resize upon resizing application window.
  • Fixed: Double clicking a filter or a schedule in the job tree opens the job edit dialog and will not cause an exception anymore.
  • Added: It is now possible to add unlimited number of schedule tasks instead of one per category

New in DirSync Pro 1.47a1 (Dec 5, 2013)

  • Fixed: Exclude filter didn't filter files/dirs during the first run in some cases.
  • Fixed: Slow scrolling of the synchronization queue is fixed while synchronizing massive number of files over the network
  • Fixed: The GUI was freezing or got less responsive in some cases. Fixed!
  • Improved: New algorith implemented to search for files which improves memory usage and speed
  • Added: Right click context menu 'Open' for the DirSync Pro system tray icon

New in DirSync Pro 1.46 (May 16, 2013)

  • Fixed: The new compare mode 'Compare Contents' does not generate a warning on directories anymore.
  • Fixed: Fixed the issue with the current progress bar did not get updated after the sync was finished.
  • Fixed: Auto Shutdown did not function correctly in some cases. Fixed!
  • Fixed: File pattern based on Regular Expression did not work properly in some conditions. Fixed!
  • Improved: Sync queue context menu option to add filters based on file extensions checks now if the file actually has one.

New in DirSync Pro 1.46 Beta 3 (Feb 1, 2013)

  • Fixed:
  • Crash regarding the regular expression filter patterns bug since 1.46b2. Fixed!

New in DirSync Pro 1.46 Beta 2 (Jan 26, 2013)

  • Added:Realtime synchronization option. DirSync Pro can now watch the source directory continuously and initiate the synchronization when a change is detected.
  • Added:It is now also possible to filter files based on some time unit, e.g. files older than 10 days ago.

New in DirSync Pro 1.46 Beta 1 (Jan 26, 2013)

  • Fixed:Some minor fixed.
  • Fixed:The schedule did not start if a task was scheduled on Sunday. Fixed!
  • Fixed:Some types of exclude filters did not go recursively if the filter excluded the parent folder. Fixed! (Thanks to Tolsicky for the rerport and Piotr Kolacz for patch)
  • Fixed:Conflict resolution tab is now enabled for the incremental synchronization A -> B or B -> A.
  • Added:Some more options to change the sync mode to in the sync queue.
  • Added:Option to change the sync mode of multiple selected items in the sync queue.
  • Added:Option to enter Regular Expression when filtering for file/directory names.
  • Added:New Synchronization preset for custom bi-directional Sync.
  • Added:Options to choose the comparison behavior: comparing file dates/sizes, comparing file attributes and even comparing file contents.
  • Improved:Some textual enhancements.
  • Improved:Some code cleaning
  • Known:Manual is not updated yet

New in DirSync Pro 1.45 (Aug 30, 2012)

  • Improved: 'Open' button in the directory chooser dialogs are renamed to 'Select'
  • Added: Right click context menu item for the synchronization queue to quickly add filters based on time stamps.
  • Improved: Manual is updated.
  • Fixed: The timestamp of some parent directories were not set correctly in some odd cases. Fixed!

New in DirSync Pro 1.44 (Jul 25, 2011)

  • Added: Right mouse click menu on in the sync queue contains now the option 'Change to:' to change the sync behavior of a single sync item.
  • Improved: Total synchronization time will now stay shown in the progress bar.
  • Improved: Online update dialog contains now a hyper link to the update changelog.

New in DirSync Pro 1.43 (Jul 25, 2011)

  • Added: Number of analyzed Files and Directories are now shown separately in the stats.
  • Added: Number of conflicts is now shown in the stats.
  • Fixed: The total time is now shown correctly in the upper progress bar during actual synchronization.

New in DirSync Pro 1.42 (Jul 16, 2011)

  • Fixed: Loading an old config file from a previous version did not succeed in some situations.
  • Fixed: Flickering redundant text in total progress bar is not shown anymore.
  • Fixed: Total number of Larger Files is now shown correctly.
  • Improved: Total numbers in stats are now printed in bold.

New in DirSync Pro 1.41 (Jul 15, 2011)

  • Added: Right mouse click menu on in the sync queue contains now the option 'Delete all selected from sync Q' to remove all the selected tasks from the synchronization queue.
  • Improved: Manual updated.

New in DirSync Pro 1.41 RC 1 (Jul 14, 2011)

  • Improved: Manual updated.
  • Fixed: Source and destination paths are now checked for space char at the beginning/end of the field (thanks to Graham Harris for the report).
  • Improved: Sync queue tab shows now the number of files/dirs separately.
  • Added: Right mouse click menu on in the sync queue contains now the option 'Delete all this kind from sync Q' to remove all tasks of a certain type from the synchronization queue.

New in DirSync Pro 1.41 Beta 4 (Jul 11, 2011)

  • Added: Conflict resolution is now extended and can be configured in details for custom synchronization modes.
  • Improved: Some fine tuning with daylight saving options for FAT file systems.
  • Fixed: Fixed the crash when using periodical backups in combination with 'subst' command (MS Windows XP) in paths (thanks to Graham Harris for the report).
  • Improved: Some fine-tunings in the config file syntax.
  • Improved: Minor cosmetic improvements in the GUI.

New in DirSync Pro 1.41 Beta 3 (Jun 28, 2011)

  • Fixed: Closing the application while synchronizing quits immediately.
  • Fixed: Conflict detection by 'warning user' in bidirectional sync didn't work properly in some cases. Fixed!
  • Fixed: Wildcards issues in log file names
  • Added: Messages table will now scroll to bottom of the list automatically after each analysis and/or synchronization.
  • Improved: File deletion analysis will occur now prior to file comparison analysis
  • Fixed: Option for forced deletion of excluded files/folders was not working recursively. Fixed
  • Improved: Forced deletion of excluded files/folders is now much faster.

New in DirSync Pro 1.4 (Jan 21, 2011)

  • Fixed: The command line mode didn't initiate synchronization.
  • Fixed: The command line din't respect the log level. Fixed!
  • Fixed: Manual section 'Advanced' updated on dirsyncpro.home property Fixed: The Edit en Remove buttons in the filter menu were deactivated. Fixed: Some typo's in de GUI
  • Fixed: Open Recent menu is now disabled when the synchronization is running.
  • Improved: When saving a command line batch file, DirSync Pro shows a warning if the batch file is being overwritten.

New in DirSync Pro 1.4 RC 3 (Jan 17, 2011)

  • Fixed: Minor gui issues with the sync table auto resizing.
  • Fixed: The stop button did not work when Synchronize button was clicked and the sync queue was empty. Fixed!
  • Fixed: When adding an Hourly, Weekly and Monthly schedule, the next event will be the next coming hour
  • Fixed: When a new jobset file is saved as a new file, the Open Recent dialog gets updated right away.
  • Fixed: Issue with the warning "DirSync Pro started with low memory" is fixed!
  • Fixed: The tool tips for the buttons in the Message tab showed wrong text. Fixed!
  • Improved: The help file is converted to PDF.

New in DirSync Pro 1.4 RC 2 (Jan 12, 2011)

  • Fixed: Some typo's Fixed: Issue with stuttering/freezing GUI with huge sync queue
  • Fixed: Repeatedly opened jobsets will now appear once in the Open Recent submenu item.
  • Improved: Additional info text in the Generate batch command dialog.

New in DirSync Pro 1.4 RC 1 (Jan 10, 2011)

  • Fixed: Schedule constraint 'Timeframe From' and 'Timeframe To' did not affect correctly. Fixed!
  • Fixed: When editing a schedule in the schedule dialog, the basic tab was disabled. Fixed!
  • Fixed: Auto-resizing of the last column in the schedule queue did not work. Fixed!
  • Fixed: Some weekdays of the Weekly schedules did not get persisted to the saved config file correctly. Fixed!
  • Fixed: Issue that Cancel button in the schedule dialog saved the schedules anyway. Fixed!
  • Fixed: Weekly and Monthly schedule were sometimes inaccurate. Fixed!
  • Fixed: Warning of unsaved config appeared twice in some cases. Fixed!
  • Fixed: Some cosmetic issues in the GUI.
  • Fixed: Editing a schedule will reload the schedule engine without having to restart it.
  • Fixed: Synchronizing the time-stamps of the directory works now also for exisiting directories (thanks to Gijs Noorlander for the report).
  • Fixed: 'Open Recent' submenu gets updated right after loading a jobset file now
  • Improved: The items in the 'Open Recent' submenu have now a tooltip which shows the absolute path to the file.
  • Improved: Schedule start button will get now disabled if clicked once.
  • Improved: A Yes/No dialog is shown if the schedule engine is running and the user want to close the application, to load a new config or to create a new one.
  • Improved: Schedule engine queue scrolls now horizontally if the table gets wider than the application window.

New in DirSync Pro 1.4 Beta 4 (Jan 7, 2011)

  • Added: Implemented the 'Schedule Minutely' function to schedule a job recurrently every X minutes
  • Added: Status line on the schedule queue tab which shows the status of the schedule engine.
  • Added: Exit codes if an error has happened while synchronizing in batch mode: 0= Finished with No Errors, 1=Finished with Warnings or Non-fatal Errors, 2=Stopped due to fatal errors.
  • Added: DirSync Pro is now able to create three types of logfiles: 1) Job specific log file which contain the events of a job, 2) Jobset log file which contain the events of all the jobs within the jobset, 3) Program log file which contain the events of all jobsets.
  • Fixed: 'Default Config Path' and 'Default Log Path' issue is resolved.
  • Fixed: Redundant 'Aborted' warning in the messages.
  • Fixed: Done some rewriting on Logs to fix the issues around logs not being created in some cases
  • Fixed: Changing the application settings will not clear the message tab
  • Fixed: After filtering the generated sync queue, it was not possible to remove individual entries from the queue. Fixed!
  • Fixed: Look & feel issue in 'Java Metal theme' with the buttons 'Expand/Collapse All' and 'Enable All/None' is Fixed.
  • Fixed: Look & feel update issue for modal dialogs in 'Java Metal theme' is fixed.
  • Improved: The filename columns in the Sync queue table are now resizable.
  • Improved: The file size/date columns int he Sync queue get now automatically resized after Analyze/Synchronize actions
  • Improved: After loading a jobset or after creating a new one, the main tab jumps back to the Jobtree tab.
  • Improved: All the sub-dialogs are now decorated with DirSync Pro icon.

New in DirSync Pro 1.4 Beta 3 (Jan 3, 2011)

  • Added: Option (in Tools menu) to automatically generate a command line to run DirSync Pr in batch.
  • Added: Option to copy the generated command line to the clipboard.
  • Added: Option to save the generated command line to a batch file (MS Windows: .cmd, Linux-like: .sh).
  • Added: Option to ignore daylight saving granularity which could be useful when synchronizing between FAT and other file systems around the daylight saving period.
  • Added: "Open Recent" submenu to quick pick the most recent 8 opened config files
  • Fixed: The bug when the license dialog appeared twice.
  • Fixed: Missing "'" behind the Includes tree node in the job tree
  • Fixed: A typo in schedule dialog
  • Fixed: Bug with enabling/disabling the log file of a job is fixed
  • Fixed: Some tooltips contained old data. Fixed!
  • Fixed: In some cases the job specific log files got disabled in the GUI after sync. Fixed!

New in DirSync Pro 1.4 Beta 2 (Jan 3, 2011)

  • Added: Option to synchronize directory timestamps, relevant for MS Windows Added: Option to load the last loaded config automatically upon start-up Added: Option to keep the sync queue after the synchronization so that it can be run again. This might help in case some items are not synchronized because of file system errors
  • Improved: Definitive icons for schedule types.
  • Improved: Some minor improvements.
  • Fixed: Wild cards were skipped in some cases, fixed!
  • Fixed: Copy options to all/enabled jobs will also copy the schedules.
  • Fixed: Loading a config file after right a synchronization warning/error was not possible. Fixed! Fixed: Issue with the Synchronize button not starting the synchronization in some cases.

New in DirSync Pro 1.4 Beta 1 (Dec 28, 2010)

  • Added: Implemented the 'Schedule Once' function to schedule a job on a certain time in the future.
  • Added: Implemented the 'Schedule Hourly' function to schedule a job recurrently every X hours.
  • Added: Implemented the 'Schedule Daily' function to schedule a job recurrently on a certain time every X day.
  • Added: Implemented the 'Schedule Weekly' function to schedule a job recurrently on a certain time and on specific weekday every X week.
  • Added: Implemented the 'Schedule Monthly' function to schedule a job recurrently on a certain time and in specific month every X month.
  • Added: A new dialog is introduced to define all above schedule types for a job.
  • Added: A new tab is introduced in Edit Job dialog to view, add, edit and remove schedules for each job.
  • Added: A schedule engine which takes care of all schedules of all jobs.
  • Added: A new tab is introduced in the main window to view all active schedules inclusive up-coming events.
  • Added: New buttons and menu items are added to the short-cut bar and the 'Run' menu.
  • Added: System tray icon and feature in the application options dialog to minimize to system tray.
  • Improved: Some changes to file analysis algorithm to improve the speed enourmously.
  • Improved: The total progress is now more transparent en intuitive
  • Improved: DirSync Pro generates now a warning if JRE is started with memory lower than 512MB.
  • Improved: After converting an old-formatted config file, it is loaded automatically.
  • Improved: It is now impossible to edit a job when the analysis/synchronization is running.
  • Improved: The user gets a warning if there are unsaved changes to the job settings, while opening a config file ore creating a new one (Thanks to Svend Claussen for the suggestion).
  • Improved: The linux run-script is improved to run also from directories including the space character. (Thanks to Manuel Buser for the suggestion).
  • Improved: If the synchronization/analysis is finished and an error has occurred, the GUI switches to the Messages tab.
  • Improved: "Synchronize A -> B (incremental)" and "Synchronize B -> A (incremental)" are now called "Mirror A -> B (incremental)" and "Mirror B -> A (incremental)".
  • Improved: Possible range for the granularity is now 1-86401 (1 second to a just over a day) which make it possible to work around the daylight saving time problem on FAT systems.
  • Improved: 'GB' (Gigabyte) abbreviation added and implemented for the Sync Queue.
  • Improved: Many minor improvements.
  • Fixed: The GUI is now rendered fine on some Linux distro's when choosing 'System look&feel' in combination with very large fonts.
  • Fixed: It is now possible to delete excluded files from both Dir A and Dir B separately (Thanks to Svend Claussen for the report)
  • Fixed: Null Pointer Exception on some JRE's after editing a job. Fixed!
  • Fixed: DirSync Pro icon on Windows 7's task bar is not blurry anymore!
  • Fixed: Many minor issues.

New in DirSync Pro 1.3.1 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Added:It is now possible to delete every individual entry (file/directory) from the synchronization queue by right mouse clicking it.
  • Added:New dialog to edit filters.
  • Added:Filtering files (include/exclude) based on file sizes (smaller/equal/larger).
  • Added:Double clicking the job title in the job tree will open the edit dialog (Thanks to Gijs Noorlander for the suggestion).
  • Added:Right mouse clicking the job title in the job tree will open he edit dialog (Thanks to Gijs Noorlander for the suggestion).
  • Improved:Clicking the job title in the job tree will not (un)check the enable/disable checkbox (Thanks to Gijs Noorlander for the suggestion).
  • Improved:Opening a file or its path right from the sync queue (using right mouse click) is more reliable for files on the network shares or when file contains special characters.
  • Improved:Double clicking the root node in the job tree, does nothing now (Thanks to Gijs Noorlander for the suggestion).
  • Improved:Job edit dialog has now a title (Thanks to Gijs Noorlander for the suggestion).
  • Improved:Filenames are now left justified in the current progress bar while copying.
  • Improved:Logs are now appended to existing logfiles.
  • Improved: The user gets a warning if there are unsaved changes to the job settings, while closing DirSync Pro (Thanks to Dave canvasbackdave for the suggestion).
  • Improved:Some icons updated.
  • Fixed:The issue with the command line option /quit during the analyze mode is fixed (Thanks to Pearl Paul & Orlando for the report).
  • Fixed:Granularity bug fixed! (Many thanks to Angelo D'Agnano for the report and the solution!)
  • Fixed:Bug when forcing the deletion of excluded dirs/filee (Thanks to spc666 for the report).
  • Fixed:Sync modes 'Backup and Restore' work fine now(Thanks to Orlando and SteveA for the bug report).
  • Fixed:Disabling/enabling a Job in the job tree will updade the tree right away (Thanks to Gijs Noorlander for the report).
  • Fixed:'Copy Option to All/Enabled Jobs' work now fine again. (Thanks to Orlando for the report).
  • Fixed:Some output lines at SDTOUT were written twice. Fixed!
  • Fixed:If the global log is enabled, it will also be created when using the command line mode (Thanks to Janek for the report).
  • Fixed:Some typo's (Thanks to kmwade and Orlando for the report).
  • Fixed:Some minor issues..

New in DirSync Pro 1.3 (Sep 7, 2010)

  • Improved:Toolbar buttons have now new tooltips to reduce confusion between New buttons for the job and the job set. (Thanks to Pablo Stern for the suggestion).
  • Improved:Help files are updated.
  • Fixed:In some cases it was not possible to suppress the log creation. Fixed! (Thanks to Orlando for the report).
  • Fixed:Some minor issues.

New in DirSync Pro 1.3 b5 (May 14, 2010)

  • Fixed: Quick Sync Modes set now the delete options correctly (Thanks to SternByName for the bug report).
  • Fixed: The synchronized files in the sync queue are visible again after the sync.
  • Fixed: Updating the job settings clears the sync queue.
  • Added: It is now possible to open the files and directories in the System File Explorer by right clicking the entry in the sync queue.
  • Fixed: Some minor issues.

New in DirSync Pro 1.24 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Fixed: In some cases the default log file was generated regardless of settings. Fixed!
  • Fixed: Filtering the synchronization Q works properly again now.
  • Added: The destination directory will no be created if it does not exist.
  • Fixed: Some minor issues.

New in DirSync Pro 1.23 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Fixed: A typo fixed in the GUI
  • Added: New option in the 'Options window' to set the default path for log files to the program folder
  • Added: New option in the 'Options window' to set the default path for config files to the program folder.
  • Added: New button to clean the messages log
  • Added: New option in the 'Dir Settings tab' to enable/disable logging for the directory profile.
  • Added: New option in the 'Default Settings tab' to disable/enable logging when the directory profile is set to default settings.
  • Added: The update dialog shows now the major changes since the last version.
  • Improved: Illegal characters in the directory profile label are now replaced with '_' when using the label as a file name for logging.
  • Fixed: Default logging for directory profiles is now set back to 'disabled'.
  • Fixed: Warnings on bidirectional conflict resolution are now shown properly
  • Fixed: Some textual errors are fixed in the Help files
  • Fixed: Some minor issues.

New in DirSync Pro 1.22 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Fixed: Error when loading a saved configuration with no log filename defined

New in DirSync Pro 1.21 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Fixed: Log file home dir is now set properly through the options window.
  • Fixed: Deleting redundant files/directories works now fine in reversed sync directions.
  • Fixed: 'Beta' notification is now deleted from the license window; version 1.2/1.21 is marked as stable.
  • Fixed: Some minor issues.
  • Improved: Help is extended with an 'Advanced features' section covering some advanced stuff.

New in DirSync Pro 1.2 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Improved: The default directory for saving the DirSync Pro settings is now: 'user_directory/.DirSyncPro'.
  • Added: Option to set the default DirSync Pro home directory
  • Fixed: New empty directories were always synchronized regardless of the directory profile. Fixed!
  • Fixed: Directory Progress Bar showed sometimes a weird character . Fixed!

New in DirSync Pro 1.2b4 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Added: It is now possible to filter the messages for Info's, Warnings, Errors and File operations.
  • Added: The total progress bar shows now the elapsed and estimated total analysis/synchronization time.
  • Added: Added scroll bars to the directory profile list.
  • Fixed: Some GUI pop-ups were opened occasionally in the commandline mode. Fixed!
  • Fixed: View and Sync didn't work properly. Fixed!
  • Fixed: Prior to each 'Analyze' the filtered queue is reset.
  • Fixed: Excluded deletion bug is fixed.
  • Improved: 'Preview' is renamed to 'Analyze' in the command line mode.
  • Improved: The size of a directories is not shown in the synchronization queue.
  • Improved: Some cosmetic improvements.

New in DirSync Pro 1.2b3 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Added: It is now possible to make a selection of files to be synchronized in the synchronization queue.
  • Added: It is now possible to make a selection of files to be shown in the synchronization queue.
  • Fixed: The current progress bar was hanging on zero. Fixed!
  • Fixed: Pause and Stop button work in all cases now.
  • Fixed: Duplicating and adding directory profile works fine again
  • Fixed: The in-/exclude dir/files didn't affect sometimes, mostly for deleting those files. This is fixed
  • Fixed: Deleting a corrupted and locked file will not cause a crash anymore.
  • Improved: Moderate log shows now the name of the copied files.

New in DirSync Pro 1.2b2 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Improved: Copy process is optimized with a CopierFactory to use BufferdStreams if no NIO is selected. The copy buffers are also smaller (as large as possible). Thanks to Toj for the patch!
  • Fixed: Log level bug fixed
  • Fixed: In some rare cases some modified files showed up twice in the sync queue. This is fixed.
  • Fixed: Bidirectional sync conflict resolution by renaming works fine now.
  • Fixed: Reset the progress bars if a sync error occurs.
  • Fixed: No crash if a network file returns an error; just show a warning message.
  • Fixed: Backup folder is left behind when analyzing for deletion.
  • Fixed: Performance issues: In some cases the same sync queue got synced several times. It happens now only once which is much faster.
  • Fixed: No crash if a file is is unreadable or blocked; just show a warning message.

New in DirSync Pro 1.2b1 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Improved: The sync engine is rewritten completely for a better performance, better memory usage and to support some (upcoming) features.
  • Improved: Before the actual synchronization starts, a queue list will be generated. When you synchronize, only the queued (analyzed) items will be synchronized.
  • Added: The GUI is updated to show the Sync queue. You'll now get for each pair of files information like the modification dates and file sizes in the Sync queue.
  • Added: Synchronization statistics are now calculated and shown in the GUI.
  • Changed: Directory is now called Directory Profile.
  • Improved: Analyzing (formerly known as previewing) is done once now. If you have already analyzed your sync and you may want to synchronize, the synchronization will start immediately.
  • Changed: The text pannels (outputs) are converted into a message queue in which the messages will be shown.
  • Fixed: The synchronization will not get slower when synchronizing massive number of files.
  • Changed: The possible log levels are now: Minimal(events, warnings, errors), Moderate(events, warnings, errors and configuration data), Excessive (events, warnings, errors, configuration data and filenames)
  • Improved: Shiny 48x48 bit Windows program icon
  • Improved: The log file handling is optimized. Some reported problems are fixed.
  • Fixed: Some spelling errors
  • Improved: Lots and lots of code cleaning.
  • Fixed: Lots of minor issues.

New in DirSync Pro 1.24 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Fixed:In some cases the default log file was generated regardless of settings. (Thanks to Orlando to report).
  • Fixed:Filtering the synchronization Q works properly again now.
  • Added:The destination directory will no be created if it does not exist.
  • Fixed:Some minor issues.

New in DirSync Pro 1.23 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Fixed:A typo fixed in the GUI (thanks to M.S. for reporting).
  • Added:New option in the 'Options window' to set the default path for log files to the program folder (thanks to Dave P. for suggestion/reporting)
  • Added:New option in the 'Options window' to set the default path for config files to the program folder.
  • Added:New button to clean the messages log (thanks to M.S. for suggestion).
  • Added:New option in the 'Dir Settings tab' to enable/disable logging for the directory profile.
  • Added:New option in the 'Default Settings tab' to disable/enable logging when the directory profile is set to default settings.
  • Added:The update dialog shows now the major changes since the last version.
  • Improved: Illegal characters in the directory profile label are now replaced with '_' when using the label as a file name for logging. (thanks to John Erik Setsaas for reporting).
  • Fixed:Default logging for directory profiles is now set back to 'disabled'. (thanks to Carlos for reporting)
  • Fixed:Warnings on bidirectional conflict resolution are now shown properly (Thanks to B. Hata for reporting).
  • Fixed:Some textual errors are fixed in the Help files (Thanks to B. Hata for reporting).
  • Fixed:Some minor issues.

New in DirSync Pro 1.22 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Fixed:Error when loading a saved configuration with no log filename defined (Thanks to Carlos for reporting).

New in DirSync Pro 1.21 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Fixed:Log file home dir is now set properly through the options window.
  • Fixed:Deleting redundant files/directories works now fine in reversed sync directions.
  • Fixed:'Beta' notification is now deleted from the license window; version 1.2/1.21 is marked as stable.
  • Fixed:Some minor issues.
  • Improved: Help is extended with an 'Advanced features' section covering some advanced stuff.

New in DirSync Pro 1.2 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Improved: The default directory for saving the DirSync Pro settings is now: 'user_directory/.DirSyncPro'. (Thanks to Gijs Noorlander for the suggestion).
  • Added:Option to set the default DirSync Pro home directory
  • Fixed:New empty directories were always synchronized regardless of the directory profile. Fixed!
  • Fixed:Directory Progress Bar showed sometimes a weird character.

New in DirSync Pro 1.2b4 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Added:It is now possible to filter the messages for Info's, Warnings, Errors and File operations.
  • Added:The total progress bar shows now the elapsed and estimated total analysis/synchronization time.
  • Added:Added scroll bars to the directory profile list.
  • Fixed:Some GUI pop-ups were opened occasionally in the commandline mode. Fixed!
  • Fixed:View and Sync didn't work properly. Fixed!
  • Fixed:Prior to each 'Analyze' the filtered queue is reset.
  • Fixed:Excluded deletion bug is fixed. (Thanks to Carlos for the bug report)
  • Improved: 'Preview' is renamed to 'Analyze' in the command line mode.
  • Improved: The size of a directories is not shown in the synchronization queue.
  • Improved: Some cosmetic improvements.

New in DirSync Pro 1.2b3 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Added:It is now possible to make a selection of files to be synchronized in the synchronization queue.
  • Added:It is now possible to make a selection of files to be shown in the synchronization queue.
  • Fixed:The current progress bar was hanging on zero. Fixed!
  • Fixed:Pause and Stop button work in all cases now.
  • Fixed:Duplicating and adding directory profile works fine again (Thanks to Hannu Terävä for reporting).
  • Fixed:The in-/exclude dir/files didn't affect sometimes, mostly for deleting those files. This is fixed (Thanks to Hannu Terävä for reporting).
  • Fixed:Deleting a corrupted and locked file will not cause a crash anymore. Thanks to Alexander Curtis for the bug report.
  • Improved: Moderate log shows now the name of the copied files.

New in DirSync Pro 1.2b2 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Improved: Copy process is optimized with a CopierFactory to use BufferdStreams if no NIO is selected. The copy buffers are also smaller (as large as possible). Thanks to Toj for the patch!
  • Fixed:Log level bug fixed
  • Fixed:In some rare cases some modified files showed up twice in the sync queue. This is fixed.
  • Fixed:Bidirectional sync conflict resolution by renaming works fine now.
  • Fixed:Reset the progress bars if a sync error occurs.
  • Fixed:No crash if a network file returns an error; just show a warning message.
  • Fixed:Backup folder is left behind when analyzing for deletion.
  • Fixed:Performance issues: In some cases the same sync queue got synced several times. It happens now only once which is much faster.
  • Fixed:No crash if a file is is unreadable or blocked; just show a warning message. (Thanks to Gijs Noorlander for reporting).

New in DirSync Pro 1.2b1 (Mar 31, 2010)

  • Improved: The sync engine is rewritten completely for a better performance, better memory usage and to support some (upcoming) features.
  • Improved: Before the actual synchronization starts, a queue list will be generated. When you synchronize, only the queued (analyzed) items will be synchronized.
  • Added: The GUI is updated to show the Sync queue. You'll now get for each pair of files information like the modification dates and file sizes in the Sync queue.
  • Added: Synchronization statistics are now calculated and shown in the GUI.
  • Changed: Directory is now called Directory Profile.
  • Improved: Analyzing (formerly known as previewing) is done once now. If you have already analyzed your sync and you may want to synchronize, the synchronization will start immediately.
  • Changed: The text pannels (outputs) are converted into a message queue in which the messages will be shown.
  • Fixed: The synchronization will not get slower when synchronizing massive number of files.
  • Changed: The possible log levels are now: Minimal(events, warnings, errors), Moderate(events, warnings, errors and configuration data), Excessive (events, warnings, errors, configuration data and filenames)
  • Improved: Shiny 48x48 bit Windows program icon (Thanks to Dan Gibson for drawing that)
  • Improved: The log file handling is optimized. Some reported problems are fixed.
  • Fixed: Some spelling errors (Thanks to Gijs Noorlander for reporting)
  • Improved: Lots and lots of code cleaning.
  • Fixed: Lots of minor issues.

New in DirSync Pro 1.02 (Feb 23, 2009)

  • Fixed:Verifying an opened file by another process caused a crash. This is fixed. You'll get now a warning that the file verification is failed. (Thanks to Bruno Courbage for bug report).
  • Improved: The file pattern text fields are now checked whether they contain the illegal character ''. (Thanks to Bobbie Stivers for the report).

New in DirSync Pro 1.01 (Jan 26, 2009)

  • Fixed:The default log file setting was not saved. This is fixed
  • Fixed:Some spelling errors in the GUI

New in DirSync Pro 1.0 (Nov 7, 2008)

  • Changed: The default Java copy mode is now NIO. The old fashioned Java copy mode can now be forced through options dialog.
  • Added: Forced-deleting excluded feature is added. You can now force deleting the excluded files/directories from the destination folder (Thanks to Thomas Brixel for feature suggestion).