What's new in QuickMirror 1.82
Mar 30, 2024
- added File menu option to Save the opened settings file
- added prompt for saving unsaved changes
- fixed freezing issue before or during mirroring/previewing if the System tab options to use the Windows/System backup exclude list was checked off in older versions of Windows or when the Windows internal backup exclude list has invalid paths
- included the final version of unicows.dll (needed by Windows 95/98/ME) which has bug fixes for previous versions
New in QuickMirror 1.81 (Feb 15, 2024)
- Fixed compatibility errors with Windows XP and earlier.
- Fixed potential issue when opening a settings file or getting defaults .
New in QuickMirror 1.8 (Nov 28, 2021)
- added buttons to set/clear all options on the Log tab
- added a main menu option and a command line option to keep the progress window above other common application windows
- added the System tab option to exclude system files/folders such as Recycle Bin folders that normally don't need to be mirrored, based on the Windows version
- added support for wildcards in folder pathnames to include/exclude
- added support for including/excluding groups of files with no filename extension
- added help clarification of wildcard use in include/exclude groups
- the current from/to pair being mirrored/previewed is shown on the progress window
- the current file name being copied/compared is shown on the progress window
- excluded additional unnecessary system files and folders from mirroring
- the System tab option to use the Windows backup exclude list is checked-off by default
- automatically saves/restores the position of the progress dialog window
- changed behavior of dropping files/folders on the location list and include/exclude lists
- fixed issue when a junction is encountered when copying an entire folder may cause the folder copy to fail
- fixed issue where an invalid log pathname would cause QuickMirror to close
- fixed issue where mirroring the security attributes of a very long pathname would fail
New in QuickMirror 1.71 (Aug 13, 2019)
- re-added ability to run on old Windows versions (95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP)
New in QuickMirror 1.70 (Feb 13, 2019)
- Supports environment variables in the source/destination
- Changed behavior of prompt for source/destination not found to prompt to retry or cancel, allowing you to connect a missing USB drive, etc. and continue
- Fixed issue where multithreading was not being used in some instances where it would benefit performance
New in QuickMirror 1.63 (Jan 23, 2019)
- fixed issue where previewing/mirroring stops if trying to read the contents of a folder fails
New in QuickMirror 1.62 (Jan 22, 2019)
- Fixed issue when not logging files and folders added to the destination would cause incorrect mirroring of files to the destination
New in QuickMirror 1.61 (Jan 16, 2019)
- fixed issue where any condition that caused reading a folder's contents to fail was ignored, causing mirroring operations to fail for that folder
New in QuickMirror 1.60 (Jan 11, 2019)
- Better memory management and performance
- Uses the latest visual styles depending on Windows version
- Added marquee to preview/mirror progress window (Windows XP and later)
- Added support to mirror all reparse point types
- Added support for drag/drop to location/include/exclude lists if running as an administrator (elevated privileges)
- Added additional system files to automatically exclude
- Fixed issue when clicking the Pause/Stop button on the progress window may not pause/stop previewing/mirroring until after many file/folder operations
- Fixed issue when a folder was encountered having thousands of subfolders would cause mirroring/previewing to stop and close
- Fixed issue when mirroring a secured file may cause mirroring to stop and close or the file not to be copied
New in QuickMirror 1.51 (Jul 29, 2018)
- The swapfile.sys file is now automatically excluded
- Fixed issue when a folder was encountered having hundreds of subfolders
New in QuickMirror 1.50 (Jul 26, 2018)
- A performance increase, possibly noticeable when previewing/mirroring a large number of files or previewing/mirroring where the source and destination folders are not on same physical drive or server
- Added optimization information on progress window
- Fixed issue where a separate instance of explorer.exe was created when displaying text files (readme, license, order or any log file)
- Fixed issue where excluded folders were not being logged
- Fixed issue where excluded files were being logged twice when previewing
- Fixed issue where drag/drop of files/folders to location, include and excluded lists was not working
- Fixed issue including/excluding files when using wildcard characters
New in QuickMirror 1.4 (Jul 17, 2017)
- Fxed "accessing registry key" error on startup when not running QuickMirror as an administrator of the computer
- Added drag/drop ability to Location/Include/Exclude Lists
New in QuickMirror 1.31 (Apr 6, 2009)
- changed default settings file location to user's documents folder
- changed default log file location to user's documents folder
- added support for UNC pathnames (\servershare), which allows mirroring to
- network shares without having to map drive names
- changed help file format to compiled html help
- allow source/destination pathnames up to 32,767 characters (file system
- dependant)