What's new in Permadelete 0.6.2
Apr 1, 2023
- Fixes # Installer can't create shortcut #43 . Thanks to @blitzkrieg99 for his PR #55
New in Permadelete 0.5.2 (Oct 10, 2017)
- Fixed a bug where the app would have crashed when attempting to delete a folder that needed admin's privileges.
- Update website url
New in Permadelete 0.5.1 Beta (Jul 3, 2017)
- Updated some of the dependencies, you shouldn't notice anything different. I updated the Dropbox SDK because they are going to stop supporting the old version soon.
New in Permadelete 0.5 Beta (Feb 14, 2017)
- The update status is shown in the about window. See #11
- A preview of the files and folders being dragged is now shown beneath the mouse when dragging and dropping. See #17
- A Complete redesign of the app, see #21
- Change the name from RudeFox to Permadelete
- Changed the "Delete" words on the UI to "Shred" to avoid confusion.
- Show notifications when errors occur during the shredding of files and folders
- Show a notification when a file is skipped inside a folder because of errors
- Files are now overwritten with pseudo-random numbers instead of zero-s.
- Many bug fixes and improvements to the overall app stability.
New in Permadelete 0.2 Beta (Feb 14, 2017)
- Files on SSDs are not overwritten to death anymore, they are just deleted normally. Why? See #3
- When a file is sent as a command line parameter (i.e opened from "Send To> RudeFox" or drag and dropped over the app icon/shortcut), the main window is not opened. Instead a small dialog is opened. See #2
- Updater will now continue downloading where the last failed attempt stopped, making updating process faster and more efficient. See #9
- Some more improvements to the updater. See #8 and #10
- Now overall progress is shown on the Taskbar. See #5.
- Main window is now a bit more responsive when resized to a small size.
- You can now select multiple folders when clicking on "Delete Folders" on the sidebar.
- Fixed a few minor bugs. See #7
New in Permadelete 0.1 Beta (Feb 14, 2017)
- A new dress for the main window
- Only one instance of the app can be running at a time
- 3 more ways to delete files (the more the merrier hehe)
- The sidebar
- Double clicking the listbox when empty
- It supports windows explorer context menu (#4), see below for instructions.
- Plus the old way: Dragging and dropping files/folders into the app
New in Permadelete 0.0.0.6 Alpha (Feb 14, 2017)
- In this release an autoupdate mechanism has been added to the app.
- How the autoupdate works:
- 5 seconds after startup the app checks for new updates
- If there was an update, it will be downloaded to a folder in temp (only new files will be downloaded)
- When the user closes the app, the update will be applied
- The next time the user opens up the app, they will see the new version 😀 💯
New in Permadelete 0.0.0.5 Alpha (Feb 14, 2017)
- Changes:
- Integrated NLog
- Added handlers for unhandled(global) exceptions
- The app now logs handled and unhandled exceptions
- Integrated Sentry.io client (Crash reports)
New in Permadelete 0.0.0.4 Alpha (Feb 14, 2017)
- Changes:
- Added custom messagebox and error dialogs
- Better and more correct progress reporting
- The content that is pointed at by a syslink is not deleted, instead only the syslink is deleted now.
- Bug Fixes:
- Empty files were still shown in the queue even after they were removed.
New in Permadelete 0.0.0.3 Alpha (Feb 14, 2017)
- What's changed:
- Better exception handling
- Destroying the file metadata (File name and dates)
New in Permadelete 0.0.0.2 Alpha (Feb 14, 2017)
- New:
- Delete Files
- Delete Folders
- Use Drag and drop
- Deletes the items simultaneously.