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New version in the works...

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  • Started 3 years ago by Roland
  • Latest reply from monkeyesque
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  1. Roland
    Roland

    There's no way to recover only selected folders/files in the current version. It's whole drive only. That is something I want to add once I have a UI in place to make it reasonably straightforward.

    And yes, recover should have a "force" mode where it skips files it can't recover due to errors. Out of curiosity though, any idea why it could not access that one file? Sounds like another app might have had it locked at the time. When I originally wrote disParity, I never intended it to work well if other applications are accessing the data drives at the same time.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  2. cybrsage
    Member

    I do not think any program had the txt file open...since I deleted both it and the folder it was in.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  3. Roland
    Roland

    Oh I see, you deleted a file, then attempted a recover with running update first? Yeah, that's not going to work.

    Still I agree a "force" or similar option for recover would be nice for this situation.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  4. Roland
    Roland

    Just a quick note to say that I am in fact still spending every spare moment working on the new version. There are just an astonishing number of pesky details that need to be handled when transitioning a simple command line utility to a full blown Windows app. Also I'm not much of a UI design expert and I keep feeling the need to tweak the design because I'm not 100% happy with it. At some point soon I will just have to call it good enough and get on with it!

    Thanks for your patience, your feedback and your feature requests!

    Posted 2 years ago #

  5. Porcus
    Member

    Likely too late in the process to be useful, but with the AutoIt scripting language ( http://www.autoitscript.com/site/autoit/ ), even such clumsy guys as myself can build simple GUI dialogue boxes. One master window with a lot of checkboxes and a Run button, calling the CLI?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  6. Roland
    Roland

    Yeah, this rewrite is going way beyond just slapping a window on top of the CLI. disPariy is becoming a full blown Windows application (although the CLI still exists.)

    It's written in C#, using Windows Presentation Foundation for the UI bits, targeting version 4.0 of the .NET Framework.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  7. cybrsage
    Member

    Is there going to be the ability to restore a single file instead of an entire drive?

    Posted 2 years ago #

  8. Roland
    Roland

    Not in the initial beta, but that is something I very much plan to add shortly after. The UI sets the stage for adding new features like that.

    EDIT: The "undelete" command in the current release version does something very much like that, though. It simply restores any files on the drive that have been deleted since the last update.

    Posted 2 years ago #

  9. monkeyesque
    Member

    Really looking forward to the latest version. I'm sure it will be as rock solid as previous versions.

    Posted 2 years ago #

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