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DiskCat Changelog

What's new in DiskCat 0.9.8.9

Nov 12, 2015
  • The program will remember the last "browse to" directory if it was a folder on a computer. When the user browsed to a folder on the current computer, the program reverted to the user's desktop directory; we changed this behaviour so that the program will remember and open the last directory that was used in order to create a catalog for. The same rule will also apply when saving directory listings from inside the search dialog.
  • Changed code to reduce CPU strain when cleaning up temporary folders after a disk scan has been completed. This change applies to the two sub applications i.e. "dcexit.exe" and "retmp.exe".
  • Removed the "Show List > Catalog List" button and replaced it with a "Browse" button. The "Show List" button was hardly being used. The new "Browse" button opens Windows Explorer in the current database's store directory. NOTE: We are currently busy with coding an internal database store browser. This new browser will give the user an option to either browse the catalog and database store by using Windows Explorer or the internal function.
  • Removed the "Browse Store" context menu item inside the catalog list. Since the program is using the new "Browse" button function as mentioned before, we felt that the context menu entry has become redundant.
  • The program is now using and displaying a slighty larger UI font. It gathers the current system font settings when run i.e "Segoe UI" as in Windows 7. Font size in the program is set at 10. If the system font cannot be found or configured for use in the program then it will revert to the "Tahoma" font which is native on almost all Windows systems.
  • Changed the "About" dialog to be separated from the main program's interface.
  • Added a program settings button and dialog where the user can change and configure certain basic program settings. The help file for the program has also been updated accordingly.
  • Changed parameters on the 7za.exe (7-Zip) archiving utility to include options to scan and index empty folders within a path also.
  • Changed parameters on the 7za.exe (7-Zip) archiving utility to include scanning inside supported archives found in a path and also create zero byte replicas of the files inside. Recursion depth has been set to level 1 for now. This function is available and applicable only when creating catalogs for CD-DVD (CDROM) drives. Supported formats are .7z, .xz, .bzip2, .gzip, .tar, .zip and .cab. NOTE: A new sub application called "dcarch.exe" will take care of scanning inside archives in a given path. This sub is called from within the main application when a CDROM drive type is being scanned.
  • Changed certain parameters when using the Windows command processor. The Windows command processor is mostly used for helping to create file listings of target directories.
  • Added an option to include file listings inside catalog archive files. This will enable the user to view a directory listing of the contents of a catlog in text format when opening and browsing the ZIP archives of catalogs by using Windows Explorer.

New in DiskCat 0.9.2.2 (Oct 8, 2015)

  • Fixed some issues regarding anti-virus false positives found on retmp.exe and dcexit.exe sub applications used by the DiskCat main program. The "retmp.exe" application is used and called by the main program and it's primary function is to clean up all temporary working files for the main program when a new disk catalog is being created.
  • On the other hand, "dcexit.exe" is called when the user aborts a catalog creation process and aborts all processes and child processes used by the main DiskCat.exe program. The above changes are in fact related to sub programs or binary code related to the main application, but for the sake of keeping things simple, we will be lising all changes with reference to the main program's changelog and other documents like Readme's etc.
  • NOTE: At first, we packed these two sub executables by using ExeScript (EverStrike Software), but there were so many virus reports found on our applications that we have decided not to use ExeScript any longer for packing or compiling any of our code.