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New release of Diff Commander and Visual Comparer

11 Sep 2011 13:45:54 GMT

New versions of Diff Commander and Visual Comparer released!

Visual Comparer 1.70 (build 0506):

What added:

List of fixed bugs:

Diff Commander 2.40 (build 0281):

What added:

completely redesigned profile manager;
new session and session manager. The session - is a logical element, which consists of a profile and comparison pairs (folders, archives so on). You can add multiple comparison pairs per session. Moreover, you can initiate a process of comparison for several sessions at once. The batch mode now is obsolete and removed;
total speed of scanning is increased;
speed of comparison of big zip-archives is increased.

List of fixed bugs:

reset of current column selection after check/uncheck of item;
app crash if you try initiate "cancel" in batch or session mode during comparing;
app crashing at choice attempt ftp connections from ftp context menu;
files without the extension from/to FTP sites aren't copied;
"Yes to all" and "No to all" confirmations for "Delete both" request not work properly;
GDI resource leaks in a very complex directory structure, as result - app crash;
problem with unicode file names in snapshots and zip archives;
incorrect work with some types of zip-archves;
reseting of all profiles and sessions after reinstalling.

Nikolai Egipko — 16 Dec 2008 15:19:38 GMT

Today new versions of Diff Commander and Visual Comparer released!

Visual Comparer 1.65 (build 475):

What added:

manual/auto codepage selection support. Now you can select required codepage for a file before comparing (only unicode version);

List of fixed bugs:

Diff Commander 2.20 (build 0230):

List of fixed bugs:

new created folders is not visible in snapshots and zip archive after synchronization;
forcible canceling of the scanning sometime raise a application exception;
incorrect binary comparison and crc calculation of files that are bigger than 512MB or about it; files always shows them as "differing" but does not copy these files;
illegal displaying of unicode/language specific characters in message boxes;
application crashed, when you try copy/move some file to/from local network path;
external tools not cretated after installation;
app cannot copy local file to Ftp server if destination folder not exist;

support@nikeware.com — 17 Dec 2007 00:58:11 GMT

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support@nikeware.com — 17 Dec 2007 00:37:57 GMT

Now Diff Commander and Visual Comparer correctly installed and worked on Windows Vista.

Visual Comparer (build 441):
Added:

comparison map now show bookmars also;
switch focus by tab between file selection comboboxes;
new command line parameter - "fullscreen". You can run Visual Comparer in full screen mode from command line;
now you can change eol character for each line(s) individually (see popup menu);

List of fixed bugs:

if app in non active state, the external file change notification popup arise in any case;
the crlf type of new line always is DOS type (fixed, now inherithed from current line);
the crlf type in virtual lines always is DOS type (fixed, now calculated from source file);
saving failed on UTF8 files that contain many utf specific symbols;
full screen mode on multimonitor systems;
indenting a selection which contains empty lines created superfluous whitespaces;
the placholders for tools do not change when you press "swap panes" (ctrl-u);
drag and drop text operations from one pane to other is not unicode compliant. As result, your unicode/language specific characters may by corrupted);
app not use Windows themes on Windows Vista;

Diff Commander (build 216):
List of fixed bugs:

support@nikeware.com — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:26:30 +0200

Fixed:
- incorrect processing of "delete empty folders" flag in mirror sync. modes;
- slow operations with zip archives;
- some files cannot be copied from zip-archive on the local directory;

download links:
DiffCmd 2.0 (build 0206) - unicode
DiffCmd 2.0 Bundle Edition (build 0206) - unicode