Change log, Bug reports and discussion

Version 7 now in store

David Overton — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:04:52 GMT

David Overton — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:04:39 GMT

Hi,

as always, led by your feedback, the following are currently on the plan of record for release 8:

Initial scan to only process root folder of SKyDrive
Folders will start collapsed and you can expand / collapse via the normal [+] next to it. At this point the next folder level down will be scanned and displayed
I will try to add "search" functionality so you can see files that match a keyword
Speed of screen updates will be back on the agenda to be improved
Drag whole group of files - so not just selected files, but also a file group header (eg all updated files)
List view - view the files as a single list with the operation information in a row with the file name and folder name

David Overton — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:24:08 GMT

There was a bug on the website that did not display the forum pages when using IE9/10. This is now fixed

David Overton — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:23:21 GMT

I've made quite a few changes to this version:

User Interface

Added a First time screen to ensure the product is setup properly and users understand what to do
Added the ability to show all folders or only those with changes in them in the folder list
Further enhanced snapped view
Added menus for Sync and catch up (see below for catchup)
Added a hint on the folder list to explain that double clicking can be used to select a whole folder tree when selecting folders to sync and right clicking (tap and hold on a touch device) will shrink the folder tree
Renamed the settings page to options to avoid confusion between the application settings and the generic Windows 8 settings pane
Added a tool tip to tell people how to select a whole tree for synching when in the folder selection mode (double click a folder and you change the whole sub-tree)

Scanning

I have re-introduced a fast scan feature. It only looks for folders on SkyDrive where the dates have changed. This speeds up the scanning process, however it will not find deleted files, renamed files or files edited with the SkyDrive web applications. This feature is optional, but it speeds up the scans after the first scan by approx. 80%
When clicking into a folder, if it was not fully scanned by fast scan, it is fully scanned to ensure accurate data
An option to show either changed folders only or all folders
Added the "Choose which SkyDrive folders to sync" to the app-bar
You can now click into a folder that is not set for automatic synchronisation and it will be scanned and any changes synchronised

Catch Up

For those users who have copied files from SkyDrive, they will have a different date/time stamp to those stored on SkyDrive. If you are confident that your files are in sync, you can get Sync for SkyDrive to match those with the same file size and mark them as synchronised, so only future changes will be flagged

Synchronisation

Thanks

David

David Overton — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:13:42 GMT

The previous change log seems to have disappeared, so here is a summary again:

Synchronising

Fixed some bugs in the synchronisation code. It now checks for files larger than 100MB when uploading to SkyDrive as this is not supported by Microsoft
Changed the synchronisation process to display a summary screen rather than updating the main screen
Added Sync Now pinned icon to run and sync automatically
Support for "root" drives to be selected

User Interface

Thanks

David