FileCopyEx FAR plugin

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May 13, 2005

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Version 1.9.0 beta (bugfixes by Axxie & slst)

• Implemented checking of Esc press during directories scanning. Now Esc cancels operation.
• Progress indication has been added to the directories scanning dialog. The dialog show number and total size of scanned files.
• Free space on the destination drive is checked before copying.
• Hot keys in copy and overwrite dialogs are now similar to the standard hot keys.
• Directories scanning is now faster than before.
• After rename cursor is moved to the new file name.
• Quotes are completely ignored in destination path.
• Bug with help is fixed. Only Russian help is available.
• Bug with network target paths is fixed again. Previous fix didn't work for network share top-level directories.
• Bug with streams copying in NT4 is fixed.
• Bug with silent copy dialog closing if source and destination paths were the same is fixed. Now error message appears in this case.
• Plugin was not able to start from directory with non-ANSI name. Fixed.
• Now plugin correctly works with files, which are opened by another process. If a file is open for writing by another process, plugin shows error message. The new option that allows reading files opened for writing from other processes has been added.
• Bug with incorrect time estimation in copying in parallel mode is fixed.
• File names were displayed incorrectly during copying. Fixed.
• Waiting for the user reply was added to the elapsed time, but not to the total time. Fixed.
• Plugin was not able to copy directory to the nul in 9x. Fixed.
• Now plugin does not break hard links.
• Volume Mount Points were not handled correctly. Fixed.
• Plugin was not able to copy file if access to one of the parent directories was not granted. Fixed.
• Plugin was not able to copy symbolic link from different machine on the network. Fixed.
• Bug with encoding in 9x is fixed. Plugin sometimes was not able to copy files in 9x because of this bug.
• Bug with attributes cleaning if file is renamed with case changing only is fixed.
• Bug with description entry deletion if file is renamed with case changing only is fixed.
• Bug with description entry doubling if file with description was overwritten is fixed.
• If while copying files, some of them were skipped, it could lead plugin to skip other files, which needed to be copied. Fixed.

Version 1.8.2 beta (bugfixes by Axxie [ axxie-no-spam@filecopyex.org.ua ])

• Initial state auto-detection of the "Allow parallel copy" checkbox now works in NT4.
• "Allow parallel copy" was allowed by default when user pressed Shift-F5/Shift-F6. Fixed.
• Denis Porfiryev has kindly allowed to include his FileCopyEx AutoAW plugin in the package.
• Visual Studio 6 project has been added.
• Fixed bug with network target paths.
• Fixed bug with setting "Encrypted" attribute.
• Changed hotkeys for "Rename" action (thanks to CDK).
• Fixed bug with error message during moving file with streams from one partition to another (thanks to CDK).
• [experimental] Thousands delimiter is now space (previously comma was used).

Version 1.8.1 alpha (bugfixes by CDK)

• Improved compatibility with FAR plugin panels containing real file names (TempPanel, Branch).
• [experimental] Fixed low speed issue when copying to Flash media.
• [experimental] Color of the progress dialog labels is changed to dark-blue.

Version 1.8 beta (bugfixes by slst [ slst-remove-me@mail333.com ])

• Plugin hanged during copying of symbolic links. Fixed.
• Sometimes copying of recursive symbolic links resulted in stack overflow. Fixed.
• Quotes in destination name/path resulted in "error creating output file". Fixed.
• "Allow parallel copy" checkbox initial state auto-detection didn't work in Windows 2000. Fixed.
• FDLG_WARNING style added for "ask for overwrite" dialog (red background color).

• FileCopyExW.dll (Unicode version) was tested on Windows 2000 SP4 / Far v1.70 alpha 6 build 2039.
• FileCopyExA.dll (ANSI version) was not tested.

Version 1.7 beta (author of versions prior to 1.8 - craZZy [ crazzy-remove-me@magnusoft.com ])

• Description files with spaces and russian characters in file names correctly processed.
• Fixed bugs with copying files from queue in Far 1.70b5.
• ESC correctly handled during confirmation of copying termination.

Version 1.6 beta

• Disk space preallocation for large files (threshold is adjustable).
• Added "Confirm termination by ESC" setting.
• "GetSectorSize failed" fixed.
• Fixed parallel copy crash bug.
• More accurate time calculation.
• A little bit improvement of small files copying.
• Added "Append" feature (always works in buffered mode).
• Small fixes.
• Included plugin source code.

Version 1.5 beta

• UNICODE support.
• Fixed bug with calling Extended Copy from plugin panels (e.g., archive).
• Copy queue, which is a more convinient implementation of temporary panel.
• Unbuffered read and write, which should speed up copy operation even more.
• Option to limit reading/writing speed.
• Resuming after copying was cancelled by user or interrupted due to an error.
• Extended error handling: "Skip All" button, an option to reopen the file before retrying (for recovering after network failures).
• Precise detection of different physical devices on Windows XP.
• Bugs with descriptions are hopefully fixed :)
• Option to use CONNECT-like progressbars.
• Many other features...

• Some descriptions may not be copied if copying was aborted by the user.
• Append mode not implemented.
• Putting skipped files to temporary panel not implemented.
• Renaming files in Win9x may be too slow.
• Auto-rename mode is not always working.
• (?) Copying to NUL on Win9x may not work.
• (?) Sometimes (rarely) plugin crashes when "Parallel Copy" is on.
• (?) "Invalid buffer" error may appear when using "Resume" mode.
• (?) File contents may become broken after "Reopen and Retry".
• After moving, some empty directories may remain.
• The Help system is not yet updated.

Version 1.34

• Renaming directories didn't work when some file inside them were opened (plugin copied and deleted then instead of just renaming).
• Multiline description support.
• Buffer size can now be specified both in percent of RAM size or in kilobytes.
• Options to confirm interruption by ESC and to beep after long operations.
• Copy progress window uses FAR colors in FAR 1.70 or higher.
• Copying of NTFS streams now works.
• Read-only volume warning doesn't appear anymore when copying to CD-RW.
• Plugin now correctly works with files larger than 2GB.
• Correct write errors handling (file is not being read after write error).
• Some more options for description handling.
• Descriptions were lost after renaming without moving to another directory.

• Description handling doesn't always work properly and sometimes causes the descriptions to be lost. So, it is better to turn this option off.
• Plugin crashes when summary size of copied files is zero.
• When activating plugin from archive or other plugin panel, standard copy dialog must be shown, but it doesn''t.

Version 1.33

• Doesn't show "Memory allocation error" on machines with more than 128 MB of RAM.
• Removes directories with read-only attribute.
• Correctly saves "Clear read-only from CDs" option.

Version 1.3

• New copy options - "Skip if destination is same or newer" and "Place skipped files to temporary panel". These options are located in Copy and Overwrite dialogs.
• Buffer size is now specified in percent of total memory size.
• New configuration options - "Parallel copy by default", "Clear Read-only attribute from CD", "Show advanced NTFS options".
• NTFS-specific options are shown only in Windows NT/2000, and only if corresponding checkbox is turned on in configuration dialog.
• There is no more need to register plugin with FileCopyEx.reg - hotkeys are set up in configuration dialog.
• Full-featured description management, including updating descriptions in subdirectories (see help).
• Showing total size of files currently copying.
• Showing copy progress in console title.
• Understanding environment variables in Copy dialog.
• Warning when it's not possible to copy streams, rights, or to set compression and encryption attributes on destination volume, or if destination path is invalid.
• Quick move within one device (via renaming) now works in Windows 95/98.
• Russian and English interface.
• Small bugs fixed.

Version 1.02

• Access Denied now doesn't occur when overwriting files on FAT32 drives.