Synk 7 Release Notes

7.0.12 (2011-08-09)

  • Worked around Lion throwing up connection dialogs at every possible opportunity. Guest access should now work again on Lion.
  • Fixed an issue preventing detailed information about errors and other events from successfully loading
  • Worked around Lion in certain circumstances providing bogus permissions info
  • The usual variety of general tweaks, improvements, and fixes

7.0.11 (2011-07-19)

  • Compatible with Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion"
  • Under Lion, automounting of network volumes as guest (i.e. without a password) may not function. Due to a bug in Lion, it was either this or have anybody not using the automount functionality be constantly pestered by Lion with connection dialogs. We will restore this functionality in a future release once the bug is fixed in Lion. Snow Leopard continues to work as intended.
  • The usual variety of general tweaks, improvements, and fixes

7.0.10 (2011-06-23)

  • Several changes to help Synk get more reliable notifications about volumes going away; non-receipt of these notifications could cause a variety of undesirable behavior
  • The usual variety of general tweaks, improvements, and fixes

7.0.9 (2011-06-02)

  • Fixed menu status area only showing scripts at the top level of the script list (not ones in folders)
  • Fixed an issue where copying large files over SynkSharing could time out
  • The usual variety of general tweaks, improvements, and fixes

7.0.8 (2011-06-01)

  • Fixed an issue preventing system log directories from being automatically excluded as they should be
  • Scans of Preferences folders are now rate-limited and will occur no more often than every several minutes. Immediate scans can always be requested via the action/"gear" menu; we welcome any feedback on how this change works for you.
  • Fixed several issues related to archiving of complete directories
  • File copies over SynkSharing are now usually compressed
  • Fixed an issue that could result in SynkSharing connections getting stuck and being unable to make progress (including reconnecting after being unavailable)
  • Fixed several issues with the authorization of new SynkSharing locations
  • Updated and added several help files
  • The usual variety of general tweaks, improvements, and fixes

7.0.7 (2011-04-11)

  • Updated automatic exclusions list
  • Worked around an OS bug causing incorrect "file name too long" errors with some long (but not illegally long) file names
  • The usual variety of general tweaks, improvements, and fixes

7.0.6 (2011-03-07)

  • Tweaked the busy file improvements from v7.0.5 to better handle files with incorrect modification dates far in the future

7.0.5 (2011-03-05)

  • Improvements to busy file handling
  • In some cases where the file modification dates indicate a conflict, Synk will now read and use the actual file contents to make a final determination. This will convert many kinds of conflicts flagged due to misbehaving applications or servers into simple slower performance; better to waste the computer's time than yours.
  • Reduced memory consumption under certain circumstances
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent Synk from updating its catalog of files, resulting in stale information being displayed or used to detect conflicts/deletions
  • Deletion of old files from the archive now is based on archival date instead of file modification date. (Only applies to files archived by v7.0.5 or later.)
  • The usual variety of general tweaks, improvements, and fixes

7.0.4 (2011-02-08)

  • Possible workaround for a crash when a lot of items come and go quickly in the file list view
  • Improvements and fixes to the SynkSharing implementation
  • Fixed issues that could cause internal error messages or engine crashes when archiving was enabled
  • Alternate approach to busy item handling that should result in proper behavior for truly busy items while not preventing operation on items incorrectly marked as busy
  • The usual variety of general tweaks, improvements, and fixes

7.0.3 (2011-01-08)

  • Backed out detection of busy files—too many applications have marked files as busy and just abandoned them that way permanently
  • The usual variety of general tweaks, improvements, and fixes

7.0.2 (2011-01-05)

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent changes from being detected live when using the "backup list of folders" script template
  • Fixed an issue that could allow a backup source to be changed in some circumstances
  • Fixed several issues related to restoring from archives
  • Worked around a race condition discovered on some filesharing servers; performance may slow when the bug is encountered, but it should no longer produce errors
  • Fixed addition of items to exclusion list when using "backup list of folders" script template
  • Fixed a potential crash importing Synk 6 scripts
  • The usual variety of general tweaks, improvements, and fixes

7.0.1 (2010-12-21)

  • This release addresses several issues found in the initial 7.0 release.
  • Fixed an issue preventing Synk 6 licenses in the upgrade grace period from being accepted by Synk 7
  • Improved handling and Finder display of network volumes involved in a sync
  • Tweaked ownership handling to better match more people's expectations
  • Fixed several issues preventing SynkSharing from working properly on archive locations
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent the restore interface for an archived item from appearing
  • Fixed an issue causing the "pause between X and Y" times to display incorrectly for certain values
  • Improved help text displayed for several common error conditions
  • The usual variety of general tweaks, improvements, and fixes

7.0 (2010-12-09)

  • Initial release of Synk 7