Saturday
Oct292011

Ukopp 4.1

This release has many small improvements in usability and a few minor error corrections.

  • At startup, inform if ukopp is running as root or not.
  • If backup and verify are done together, report both statuses at the end.
  • If target directory does not exist, warn and offer to create it.
  • Better visual separation of fields in target chooser dialog.
  • Clarify the backup menu as "backup (no verify)".
  • Widen the input fields in the target chooser dialog.
  • Change the mouse pointer into a clock during a long-running function.
  • Stop the job name from disappearing from the main window title.
  • "include /aaa/bbb" is equivalent to "include /aaa/bbb/*" if bbb is a directory.
  • Expand the input fields along with the window in restore files dialog.
  • Restore original target device and directory if edit job is canceled.
  • File names can be quoted to handle files ending in a blank character.
  • Some error messages were improved, and dialogs kept open for easier correction.
  • The file chooser dialog no longer hides the restore files dialog.
  • New report: summary statistics for new/modified/deleted files by directory.
  • The tolerance to consider a backup file to have the same modification time as its source file was increased from 1 to 2 seconds. This is because the Microsoft FAT time resolution is 2 seconds. 
  • All error messages are now shown in the main window (not in a log file).
  • Bugfix: purge expired backup versions also for unchanged files NOT being copied.
  • Prevent Choose Target and Edit Job dialogs from running in parallel.
  • Many small improvements were made to the user guide.