Release Notes

Fixed

• Random crash on macOS 15 Sequoia (Thanks, Brandan, Luc, Martin, Nico and Ronald!)
• Potential crash when populating History view
• Excessive logging
• Rebuilt using Xcode 15.4 to fix crash on macOS 10.15 and 11

Fixed

• Random crash on macOS 15 Sequoia (Thanks, Brandan, Luc, Martin, Nico and Ronald!)
• Potential crash when populating History view
• Excessive logging

Fixed

• Random crash on macOS 15 Sequoia (Thanks, Brandan, Luc, Martin, Nico and Ronald!)
• Potential crash when populating History view

New

• Action "Compare to previous version" to compare a file to its previously backed up version
• When comparing files with identical content show the differences in meta data instead
• New command "Why has this item been backed up?" accessible via file-related menus; By showing the differences in meta data it explains why an item has been backed up although the file content has not changed since the previous snapshot
• Support for Kaleidoscope 4 and 5

Fixed

• History View's "Compare to selected version" compares to the version selected in the browser instead of the selected version in history view
• Display of OS version for snapshots was unreliable and has been removed
• Spelling error in one of the dialogs (Thanks, Rob!)

Improved

• Group created via BackupLoupe is no longer visible in System Settings (Thanks, Michael!)

Fixed

• Restore settings not honoured for symbolic links (Thanks, Paul!)
• Crash when opening Find window when an unmounted backup bundle has been found which has not been indexed yet (Thanks, Don!)

Improved

• Improved handling of snapshots with missing meta data (Thanks, Nicklaus and Scott!)

Fixed

• Graphics glitch in snapshot list
• Case where snapshots could no longer be selected (Thanks, Ulrich!)

Improved

• Dialog "Failed to mount some snapshots on APFS volume NAME" may now be silenced for NAME until BackupLoupe is restarted (Thanks, Norisato!)

Fixed

• Application bundle not notarized (Thanks, Andrew!)

New

• Action Copy Cache Path to Clipboard in snapshot context menu
• Action Copy Snapshot Path to Clipboard in snapshot context menu

Fixed

• Multiple selection in snapshot list
• Missing scan button for snapshots on NAS
• Crash when explicitly searching a given network destination (Thanks, Matthias!)
• Purged snapshots show up in section 1969 (Thanks, Stephen!)
• Caches of purged snapshots on NAS are not removed (Thanks, Oleg!)
• Browser displays wrong exclusion status for items sharing the same prefix (Thanks, LV!)

Improved

• Improved detection of system updates in Time Machine snapshots from macOS Big Sur and later
• Improved detection of status of backup network share
• Provide some details when BackupLoupe is initializing (Thanks, Rob!)
• The backup volumes shown between host popup and snapshots list now display the number of snapshots for the currently selected host only

New

• Display the actually used space of sparse files instead of their max size (Thanks, Wolfgang!)

Fixed

• BackupLoupe claims that comparing files with Araxis Merge fails if the files differ (Thanks, Karen!)
• Snapshot list not updated if a single snapshot on an APFS volume has been mounted/unmounted
• For snapshots on NAS tooltip of snapshot volume indicator does not match name of volume in volume list
• Showing/hiding of snapshots per backup volume does not work properly on macOS 10.13 and 10.14 (Thanks, Wolfgang!)
• Blurry scan button in Dark Mode
• Scan button not properly drawn after changing macOS' appearance
• Deadlock when trying to kill zombie scanner
• Improved performance/reduced memory usage of scanner (Thanks, Garrett!)

Improved

• Avoid unnecessary reloading of History View when changing to another snapshot via History View

New

• Added action "Index outdated snapshots" to Host and Volume popup buttons (Thanks, Michael!)
• Added keyboard shortcuts for Host>Index new snapshots (⌘X) and Host>Abort indexing (⌘.) (Thanks, Michael!)

Fixed

• When a file is selected in the browser (as opposed to a directory), the history view does not take into account the size of the resource fork (if any).
• Sorting by volume name in Find window does not work properly if currently unmounted volumes are part of the result set (Thanks, Michael!)
• BackupLoupe may show unchanged files (files which are not part of the selected snapshot) with names containing certain characters as both new and deleted when another file in the same directory has been modified and thus been backed up (Thanks, Arndt!)
• The size of hard linked files is not calculated properly when they reside in different directories (Thanks, Huy!)
• BackupLoupe stops detecting new snapshots (Thanks, Bruce and Lo!)
• Switching between host displays wrong message "No user data has been backed up."
• Find window result table: Text which exceeds the width of a column is truncated without visible indication (trailing ellipsis)
• Another case where one or more snapshots are grouped in section "1970" (Thanks, Oleg!)
• Path selector below browser does not show icons
• Restoring several items from the Browser via drag&drop sometimes not performed (Thanks, Troy!)
• Caches are deleted when BackupLoupe is quit while a HFS+ backup volume is unmounted (Thanks, Michael!)
• Snapshot endlessly rescanning on I/O error (Thanks, Bernhard!)

Improved

• Alignment of popup button for backup volumes

Fixed

• Rare case where excluding an item from future backups would fail (Thanks, Frank!)
• Rare case where BackupLoupe fails to correctly identify the configured Time Machine destinations
• Adding/removing a Time Machine destination does not hide/show manual indexing buttons in snapshot list
• The preferences setting "Highlight items with deleted original" is not honoured by the Find window
• Double-clicking on an item in the Find window result table does sometimes not reveal the item in the Browser
• p4merge does not open the selected diff anymore
• Problems handling snapshots of different hosts sharing the same name
• Actions "Index all snapshots" and "Index new snapshots" now start at most recent snapshot (Thanks, Walter!)
• Settings in Warnings section not persisted (Thanks, Emmelie!)

Improved

• New Icon
• Changes to snapshot list (snapshots being added and removed) are now animated. The scroll position is no longer affected.
• Setting "Highlight items with deleted original" is now enabled by default
• Ask user how to proceed in case individual files cannot be restored instead of aborting the whole operation
• Prevent system from idle sleep while indexing (Thanks, Walter!)
• Improved Full Disk Access dialog

Fixed

• Rare case where one or more snapshots are grouped in section "1970" (Thanks, Ronald!)
• (Another) rare case where caches are deleted although the snapshots they have been created from are still existing/unchanged (Thanks, Frank!)
• macOS Ventura: Application and helper tools do not appear as BackupLoupe in the Login Items section of General tab of System Settings

New

• Support ordering by number of items a directory contains (Thanks, Hendrick!)
• New search criterion: Item exists on live filesystem; Use it to locate items which have been backed up but don't exist outside of the backup or vice versa (Thanks, Andy!)

Fixed

• Revealing an item in Browser sometimes fails
• Snapshots on network volumes are sometimes displayed as Queued; Such snapshots will never be picked up by Monitoring and can only be indexed manually (Thanks, Lance!)
• Rare case where caches are deleted although the snapshots they have been created from are still existing/unchanged (Thanks, Nico!)
• When quitting the application by closing the window while at least one scanner is active the user is presented a dialog offering options to either quit, stop the scanner and quit, or cancel the operaration. Selecting Cancel does not work. (Thanks, Paul!)
• Open Security #description#amp; Privacy button does not work on macOS Ventura when asking for Full Disk Access

Improved

• Switching sort order now keeps selection in browser intact
• Moved preferences controls related to the Browser from the Display tab to a new Browser tab
• Inform user about timed out snapshot mount operations and offer option to retry the operation (Thanks, Lance!)

Fixed

• Dialogs mentioning backup bundles sometimes contain the string "(null)" instead of their names (Thanks, Dimitry!)
• Rare crash when starting BackupLoupe (Thanks, Paul!)
• Progress indicator in Disk Manager sometimes shown for wrong row
• Deleting snapshots on HFS+ volumes on macOS 11+ broken (Thanks, Bernd!)
• Random crash when mounting of network share faile

New

• Support for ForkLift and QSpace file managers

Fixed

• Crash on macOS 10.13 (Thanks, Bernd!)
• Araxis Merge fails to start
• Scan error messages are displayed for scans triggered by auto-index and auto-update (Thanks, Lance!)
• Some external Diff utilities block BackupLoupe while running (Thanks, Sanjiv!)

Improved

• Column widths of Browser are now persisted (Thanks, Gerard!)

New

• Limit search to specific hosts and/or backup volumes
• Support for unmounting network shares on quit

Fixed

• Removing of snapshots does not work for snapshots on APFS volumes
• Queries with multiple search criterions may fail (Thanks, Michael!)
• Results in the search window sometimes do not show correctly whether the original still exists or not
• Disk Manager sometimes shows backup volumes/network shares/bundles twice or in the wrong place
• Random crash when updating snapshot state
• BackupLoupe tries (and fails) to set user and group of restored items when running in unprivileged mode
• Problem restoring a delta from a snapshot on an APFS volume

Improved

• Faster startup
• Improved mounting/unmounting of backup bundles and network shares
• Extended documentation

Fixed

• Grouping snapshots by week does not honor the system settings about the first day of the week
• Indexes of snapshots on APFS volumes sometimes erroneously marked as outdated

Fixed

• Empty line in disk manager when no details are known about backup bundle
• Show 'excluded' badge on browser items only for snapshots of current host
• Menu item "Exclude from future backups" is inactive when original does not exist
• Graphic glitches in Disk Manager
• Sometimes outdated snapshots are not properly recognised and thus not re-scanned
• Tooltip in Disk Manager sometimes shows volume as unmounted

New

• Added support for Kaleidoscope 3

Fixed

• Long volume or host names break layout of statistics view
• Blurry or misplaced scan/abort buttons when switching screen resolutions or moving window between retina and non-retina displays
• Changing the cache location for privileged scanners on one user account is not reflected in BackupLoupe instances running on other accounts without restarting them

Improved

• Adjusted layout of Display preferences panel to fit on low resolution screens
• Cache location of privileged scanner may now be changed without having to create the new directory first.

Fixed

• After a restart BackupLoupe does not remember whether the list of backup volumes should be displayed
• Rare problem recognising a snapshot's predecessor on APFS backup volumes
• Crash when opening History view when backups of a host are only found on a single backup destination
• Problem indexing some snapshots on APFS volumes

New

• Preferences option to draw volume indicators using different shapes in addition to different colors.

Fixed

• Scan fails for some snapshots on HFS+ backup bundles
• "Show Info" in Finder window references original item instead of the backed-up version
• Sometimes the wrong OS version is displayed for OS updates on Big Sur
• Crash when attempting to perform file operation via context menu in Find window when no item is selected

Improved

• Items in Find window which do not exist on the current live filesystem are displayed in a slanted font just the way as the Browser view displays them

Fixed

• Crash on macOS Monterey

New

• New menu item "Reveal backup bundle in Finder" in the backup volume popup

Fixed

• Changed "Total size of already indexed snapshots" to "Total size of snapshots" in statistics view
• Rare case where scanner leaves snapshots in state Queued forever
• Caches of APFS backups are sometimes deleted although the corresponding snapshots still exist
• Rare case where unprivileged scanner would create zero-size caches
• Some NAS destinations are listed twice in Disk Manager
• Aborting a scan operation started by a previous session of BackupLoupe does not work
• Disk Manager relies on Time Machine meta data instead of actual data to report number of snapshots in backup bundle

Fixed

• Backup bundles can sometimes not be mounted
• Selection glitch on first column in Browser
• Random crash
• A mounted NAS destination sometimes appears as a separate volume in Disk Manager
• Rare case where BackupLoupe is deleting all cache files of a mounted backup bundle

New

• Allow for searching by volume name

Fixed

• Crash when looking for backup bundles on network share
• Crash when BackupLoupe fails to determine configured Time Machine destinations
• Problem mounting HFS network destinations on Big Sur
• Backup destination is displayed twice in Disk Manager
• macOS version for unindexed snapshots of BigSur not properly displayed (Thanks, David!)
• In privileged mode when restoring a directory which is not readable BackupLoupe does not ask if it should restore all items or only items backed up in the selected snapshot
• In privileged mode the exclusion status is not displayed properly in the browser when the user does not have permission to access the item
• Non-uniform browser background in Dark Mode w/ the system accessibility setting "Reduce Transparency" unchecked

Improved

• Improved mounting of backup bundles
• Default cache location for new installations is now ~/Library/BackupLoupe (/Library/BackupLoupe for privileged scanners); Recent updates of macOS did remove BackupLoupe caches

Fixed

• Disk Manager sometimes shows network shared not related to Time Machine
• Menu Help>Manual did not bring up the user manual

Improved

• Extended user manual

Fixed

• BackupLoupe does not properly detect HFS backup volumes on macOS Big Sur. This bug was introduced in BackupLoupe 3.3.1.
• Unconditionally look for backup bundles has wrong default. It now defaults to On.
• Improved identification of network shares to avoid double listing them in Disk Manager

Improved

• Replaced menu Help>Safety Dialogs with preferences panel Warnings

New

• Preferences option to prevent BackupLoupe from scanning every filesystem for backup bundles in order to reduce BackupLoupe's startup time.

Fixed

• BackupLoupe fails to detect the OS version of a snapshot on Big Sur
• "Scan all snapshots…" for a specific volume does not work
• Properly handle diff tools requiring additional arguments
• Scanner crash on macOS Big Sur 11.1
• Random crash when resizing snapshots column
• BackupLoupe cannot be terminated while initializing
• Crash when switching GlobalMonitor
• DiskManager sometimes shows latest before first snapshot

Improved

• Handling of backup bundles on local storage

New

• ⌥-click the checkbox of a backup volume to show snapshots of this volume only
• Multiple selection in Browser

Fixed

• Snapshot remains in Queued state when scanner fails because snapshot does not exist anymore
• Highlighting of selected item in Browser does not work exactly as in Finder
• Restore and Utilities preferences are inaccessible on Big Sur
• Rare case where helper tool cannot be properly installed and the admin password is asked for over and over again
• Pointless warning "Failed to mount snapshots" when processing non-APFS volumes
• On Big Sur the preferences window does not show all toolbar icons at once
• "Remove indexes…" for specific volume does not work

Fixed

• Crash on startup on M1 Macs

Fixed

• Rare crash on startup

Improved

• Added tooltips to scan/abort buttons and popup menus.

Fixed

• Aborting scanners does not always work for backups on APFS volumes
• Graphic glitch in volumes table and active scanner popup
• Scanner crashes when host name cannot be deduced from snapshot

Improved

• Index newest snapshot first when adding multiple snapshots to the index queue

Fixed

• Rare case where BackupLoupe would fail to create indexes
Background indexing of APFS volumes does not always work
• Display glitch in Disk Manager
• Sometimes an operating system update is indicated for snapshots which contain no OS update
• Rare case where backup bundles are not found on network share

New

• Native support for Apple Silicon Macs

Fixed

• Crash when processing snapshots with data volumes not having the " - Data" name suffix
• Rare case where snapshots on NAS cannot be indexed anymore
• Progress indicator window has wrong color in dark mode

Improved

• Unscanned snapshots are now colour-coded as well
• Missing space between mount/unmount buttons and label in Disk Manager (Big Sur)
• Improved configuration of color coding of relative snapshot sizes and deviation from average relative snapshots size
• Updated manual

New

Support for backups on APFS volumes on macOS Big Sur
• For backups containing system data the OS version is shown in the tooltip of the snapshot's size/timestamp; An  symbol after the snapshot timestamp indicates an OS update.
• Browser and Finder now indicate items which are currently excluded from future backups

Fixed

• Volumes containing no snapshots for the selected host are displayed in the volume list
• Alignment of backup volume indicators of snapshots and volumes can be off depending on the "Show scrollbars" setting in the system preferences
• Snapshots which are in the process of being scanned while BackupLoupe starts are put into the group "1970"

Improved

• Disk Manager is now closed when clicking outside the popover in the main window
• Disk Manager and Active Scanners popover now disappear when user clicks elsewhere in the window
• Focus between snapshot list and browser can now be switched using arrow keys (right arrow when in snapshot list, left arrow when in first column of browser) or Tab key
• Better recognisability of which control has keyboard input focus

Fixed

• Error "OSStatus 5" when trying to mount network share
• Enabling Time Machine on quit does not always work
• Choice of dialogs with "Don't show again" checkbox not persisted

Fixed

• Monitor process stops working after running for a long time
• Scan operation is aborted without proper error message when Time Machine is backing up to the same backup destination
• The visibility state of a volume is reset when Time Machine starts a backup
• Random crash

Improved

• Tooltips show full names of truncated items in browser
• Reduced startup time by avoiding to look at mounted nfs volumes

Fixed

• In-place restore fails when the location of the original item cannot be determined
• Cancelling program termination because of active scanners does not work
• Scanner stuck in "Queued" state
• Crash when mounting FAT32-formatted disks
• Random crash when opening Disk Manager while a new snapshot is detected
• Random crash
• Crash when encountering backup destination w/o UUID
• Custom diff tool configuration did not stick
• Mount/unmount spinner sometimes displayed for multiple entries in Disk Manager although only a single mount/unmount operation is in progress
• Drag&drop can be initiated for deleted items from browser/history view
• Find lists deleted items

Improved

• Improved error message when backup bundle cannot be mounted

Fixed

• BackupLoupe sometimes stuck when enabling/disabling automatic backups
• "Abort indexing" terminates all scanners, not just the ones of the selected host
• Section headers in Dark Mode are translucent
• Random crash
• Freeze when opening History panel
• Problems when switching between privileged and unprivileged scanning
• BackupLoupe status view sometimes show status Waiting when it actually should be Scanning
• BackupLoupe sometimes freezes when switching automatic backups or turbo mode
• Snapshots queued for scanning because auto-indexing on startup has been enabled are not marked as queued
• Random crash when unmounting network share

Improved

• Added more information to Scanner preferences panel
• Improved feedback when adding or removing a snapshot to/from the scan queue
• Show info that local monitoring has been disabled when switching to privileged scanning

New

• Warn when Time Machine starts a backup while the backup bundle it is trying to access is mounted
• Warn about inaccessible network shares

Fixed

• Some scan operations fail
• Control-clicking on a snapshot does not bring up the popup menu
• Disk Manager: Error "Cannot eject volume because it is not mounted"
• Disk Manager: Time Machine destinations sometimes show up twice
• Issue with disappearing cache files

Improved

• Browser performance when exploring folders containing many items
• Faster mounting of backup bundles and network shares

Fixed

• Disk Manager: Does not report the proper number of snapshots in a backup bundle when the network share the bundle exists on is not mounted
• Disk Manager: Backup bundles are not displayed for network share when Time Machine is active on this share
• Disk Manager: Don't allow mounting of backup bundles and network shares while Time Machine is using them
• Disk Manager: Trying to mount some backup bundles yields error "Failed to unmount bundle"

Improved

• Disk Manager: Backup bundles are now mounted more quickly

BackupLoupe 3 is a major update

If you have purchased your license for BackupLoupe 2 on Oct 1st 2019 or later this update is free. It is a paid update otherwise.

New

• New UI centered around machines, not backup devices; All snapshots belonging to a machine are listed in chronological order, no matter where they are stored
• Integrated Disk Manager allows for mounting of network backup filesystems from within the application
• Immediately shows approximate size of snapshot. No indexing required.
• Reduced size of caches by ~80%
• Entire snapshots may now be removed from withing BackupLoupe
• Improved History View with support for QuickLook drag&drop restore
• Still recognizes machines and volumes after they have been renamed
• Proper handling of volumes sharing the same name
• Shared caches for users with admin privileges

Fixed

• Search would sometimes not return (Thanks, Marco!)

Fixed

• Exclusion list would be not completely drawn when an excluded volume was not mounted (Thanks, Cüneyt!)
• Properly handle whitespace in home directory name (Thanks, Udo!)
• Text in "About BackupLoupe" and "Help>Acknowledgements" hardly readable in Dark Mode (Thanks, Cüneyt!)

New

• Command Edit>Find Similar opens a new Find window and carries over the selected item's name and path (Thanks, John!)

Fixed

• Proper handling of user accounts in non-standard locations (Thanks, Gerard!)
• Machines popup would not allow bulk indexing of snapshots of another machine when background indexing was enabled (Thanks, John!)
• Fixed a rare crash in the scanner
• Reduced memory consumption of scanner
• Fixed a scanning issue with macOS Catalina (Thanks, Luc!)

Changes

• The Find setting "Search initial backup" is now persisted across restarts
• Updated help file

New

• Added support for excluding entire volumes from future backups (Thanks, Andrea!)
• New preferences option to restore without admin privileges

Fixed

• Rare case where BackupLoupe would freeze when new snapshots were created by Time Machine while BackupLoupe was running
• Random crash when revealing item from Find window in Browser (Thanks, Ronald!)
• Sorting of entries in exclusion list
• Reduced memory usage when restoring
• Browser display glitches
• QuickLook in Find window would display wrong item
• "Show in Browser" action in Find window would sometimes not work properly
• Display glitch when resizing window while scanning is in progress (Thanks, Mike!)

Changes

• Requires macOS 10.9 or later

Fixed

• Excluding an item from future backups would sometimes not work
• Rare case where BackupLoupe would report "File not found" when restoring directories
• Rare case where cache direcory could not be created
• Performance degradation when backup filesystem was modified frequently

Changes

• Cache directory is now created with permissions 0700
• Cache files are now created with permissions 0600

Fixed

• Snapshots would appear as not scanned yet when cache location has been changed from the default value (Thanks, Radoslaw!)
• Random crash when updating list of snapshots due to changes on the backup filesystem (Thanks, Don!)
• Sometimes snapshots would appear to be scanned forever although the scan operation has been finished (Thanks, Don!)

Fixed

• Proper handling of snapshots created while BackupLoupe is running
• Improved scanner/frontend communication
• Further stability improvements

Fix

• Random crashes of the scanner process

Fixed

• On some systems the Full Disk Access dialog was not closed even after BackupLoupe has been granted access.
• Snapshots would sometimes appear to be not scanned altough they were.
• A scan process which was still running when BackupLoupe was terminated would fail silently.

Important

• This version requires macOS 10.8 or newer
• BackupLoupe versions 2.13.6 and older cannot be updated from within the application on macOS Mojave. Please get the latest version from www.soma-zone.com.

New

• Compatible with macOS Mojave
• Dark Mode support
• Notarized by Apple

Fixed

• Possible crash crash when copying large directories (Thanks, Victor!)
• Memory leak in Scanner

Fixed

• Crash on startup when a machine directory has been removed from a Time Machine backup for which index files exist (Thanks, Scott!)
• Reduced logging when indexing in background (Thanks, Rahul!)

Fixed

• Adding paths to exclusion list would sometimes add wrong paths (Thanks, Zafer!)
• Crash when changing snapshot color codes to a black&white scheme (Thanks, Rahul!)

Fixed

• Rare crash on startup
• Removed confusing log messages

Changes

• Preferences option 'Clear caches of unmounted volumes on quit' renamed to 'Clear caches of unmounted volumes'
• Index files are now immediately deleted if a backup volume is unmounted and the preferences option 'Clear caches of unmounted volumes' is checked

New

• Software licenses for Open Source components now accessible via Help>Acknowledgements( Thanks, Alex!)

Fixed

• Rare crash when trying to determine configured backup device (Thanks, Kuno!)
• Rare failure to properly detect if a filesystem is currently configured for use by Time Machine (Thanks, Mike!)

Fixed

• Rare crash when modifying search parameter ind Find window (Thanks, Arne!)
• Scanner would sometimes appear to hang (Thanks, Mike!)
• Indexes would sometimes appear as 'Not scanned yet' although they have been scanned already (Thanks, Julia!)

Fixed

• Random crash when using search function with certain Time Machine configurations

New

• Search now defaults to case-insensitive. May be changed by toolbar item in Find window. (Thanks, Douglas!)
• Search option to find backed up items which are currently excluded/not excluded from future backups (Thanks Tobias!)
• Add items to exclusion list via drag&drop from browser
• Configurable dynamic or fixed size units (Thanks, Saman!)
• Configurable number of decimal places for snapshot/item sizes (Thanks, Saman!)
• Colored items sizes in History panel to indicate order of magnitude of item size

Fixed

• When dropping an item from the browser on a terminal window, the path of the selected item would be typed instead of the path of the dragged item

Fixed

• In very special circumstances the number of deleted items in a directory would be displayed for another directory as well. (Thanks, Christian!)
• Rare crash when indexing MobileBackups (Thanks, Luc!)
• Improved detection of currently running Time Machine (Thanks, Sean!)
• When opening BackupLoupe while a scan operation is in progress, the progress indicator if the currently scanned snapshot would not be displayed. (Thanks, Luc!)
• Properly update info message when job status changes from 'waiting' to 'scanning' or vice versa
• General stability improvements on macOS versions 10.6–10.10
• Scanning of Mobile Backups was broken in v2.11 (Thanks, George and Tobias!)
• Random crash when mounting new backup device while BackupLoupe is running (Thanks, Paul!)

New

• Made scanning of Mobile Backups an opt-in config option
• Much improved responsiveness when browsing snapshots
• Added button to start/stop indexing from info view.
• Added search by file size

New

• Inform user about disconnected backup volumes (Thanks, John!)
• Added tooltips to colored size indication bars (Thanks, Peter!)
• Double-click on item in Find window now opens it in the Browser

Fixed

• Excluding items from future backups was broken on OS X 10.9 Mavericks (Thanks, Andrea!)
• Color bars would sometimes display wrong color (Thanks, Peter!)
• Changes to avoid Core Animation warnings

Fixed

• Core Animation warning
• Layout problem in preferences
• Reliably find files/folders with names containing decomposed characters (e.g. umlaut) (Thanks, Bernd!)

Fixed

• Rare crash when opening the preferences panel (Thanks, C.R.!)

Fixed

• Fixed warnings in log file about NSRequiredContext having an invalid value (Thanks, Andreas!)
• Description: Count file size of hardlinked files only once per directory (Thanks, Matteo!)

Fixed

• Crash when reading invalid Time Machine snapshots (Thanks, Daniel!)

Changes

• Sparkle updates now available via secure connection

New

• Added support for 3rd party diff tools: Araxis Merge, Kaleidoscope and p4merge (Thanks, Scott!)

Fixed

• random crash on OSX 10.11 El Capitan
• fixed auto-update on El Capitan

Fixed

• Progress indicator would not be displayed on OSX El Capitan (Thanks, Luc!)
• Preferences panel would sometimes not display its contents on OSX 10.6
• Accessibility: Tabbed panes in preferences window were not selectable in VoiceOver mode (Thanks, Jonathan!)

Fixed

• Broken image links in help file (Thanks, Dave!)
• Adding/removing items from exclusion was broken on OSX Yosemite/El Capitan (Thanks, Dominique!)

New

• Find Window: Long running searches may now be aborted

Fixed

• Find Window: Adding predicates now resizes the find window.
• Find Window: Resizing the window with more than two predicates would break the layout

New

• Colors indicating the relative size of snapshots and the deviation from average size of snapshots are now configurable

Fix

• Change of location of cache files was not reflected in preferences

Fixed

• Crash when running on Macs using CPUs not supporting SSE 4.1

New

• Inform user when waiting for Time Machine to finish
• Warn about unusually small/large snapshots in NotificationCenter (Requires OSX 10.8+)
• New Preferences panel

Fixed

• Can't copy/paste from/to text fields in search panel predicate editor
• graphic glitch when changing file size display format while a snapshot is selected

Changes

• Dropped support for PPC
• Dropped support for Intel 32bit
• Dropped support for OSX 10.5 (Leopard)
• Exchanged glossy size/deviation indicators agains flat ones
• New toobar icons

Fixed

• Properly remove stray temporary files (Thanks Andrew!)
• Crash when restoring files w/ root privileges (Thanks, Joseph!)

New

• Added command "File>Reveal original in Finder"
• Added command "File>Reveal original in Path Finder" (requires Path Finder)
• Added command "File>Compare with original" (requires FileMerge.app, part of Xcode)
• Added preferences option to highlight items with deleted original (files which exist in the backup but not on "the computer" anymore)

Fixed

• The preferences value for tracking deleted items would sometimes not be communicated to the scanner/monitor process. This bug was introduced in v2.5.5. User who want to track deleted items should re-index the snapshots indexed with version 2.5.5. (Thanks Cüneyt!)

Improved

• Changed some error messages to debug messages (Thanks Julia!)
• Improved help file
• Removed preferences for non-standard backup locations

Fixed

• Rare case where list of snapshots would not be displayed (Thanks Norbert!)

Changes

• Improved help section about snapshot color codes (Thanks Colin!)
• Performance improvement when scanning new directories containing many files

Improved

• Changed background color of selected items in browser view to improve readability of item sizes

Fixed

• Some sizes would be displayed in MB instead if GB (Thanks, Cüneyt)
• Artefacts in browser view when displaying files with long names (Thanks again, Cüneyt!)

Fixed

• Background indexing did sometimes not honor the 'Record deleted items' preferences setting (Thanks, Sean!)
• Visual glitch with very narrow columns, long file names and large number of deleted files (Thanks again, Sean!)
• Columns in Find window are now sortable (Thanks, Bernd!)
• Display file size of deleted files in proper units (not bytes only)

Fixed

• Improved handling of snapshots containing multiple volumes
• Dead-lock when device is mounted/unmounted while BL is initializing

Fixed

• Properly mark deleted folders (not only files)
• Adjusted font size of folders containing deleted items

New

• Optionally track deleted items

Fixed

• Don't use discrete gfx card on dual GPU MBPs

Fixed

• Background indexing now works for OSX Mavericks as well
• File type information would be truncated when file could not be read due to insufficient permissions

Improved

• Updated documentation

Fix

• Fixed an issue where BackupLoupe would remove valid cache files, forcing the user to re-index

New

• Added config option to order by name (instead of size)

Fixed

• When changing the cache folder location, don't complain when old folder does not exist
• Stability improvements

Changes

• Make it clear that changing the location of the cache folder will move the the cache files from the old location to the new one

Fixed

• Rare crash when mounting a new volume while BL initializes
• Avoid endless indexing when encountering directories with zero-length names (Thank you, Markus!)

Fix

• Rare crash when BL fails to determine configured Time Machine devices

Fix

• Proper handling of backups of machines w/ non-ASCII characters in their name

New

• Scanner rewritten to reduce memory consumption

Changes

• Does not traverse AFS file systems when looking for backup devices

Fixed

• Selecting a snapshot would work only once (introduced in 2.3.1, sorry about that!)
• 'Show History'/'Show Excluded items' did not work when selected via menu

Fixed

• History panel: 'Show differences' and 'Goto snapshot' would sometimes not work
• Removed cause of CoreAnimation warning 'deleted thread with uncommitted CATransaction'

New

• Fully functional from OSX 10.5 - 10.8
• Display absolute date when backup drive will probably fill up
• Interface change: Turned history/excluded items drawers into regular views
• BL now offers to move an item to the trash in case the item to be restored already exists

Fixed

• Symbolic links were not properly handled when the preceding snapshot contained a directory with the same name (#DNJDVZJUJY)
• Auto-update works again
• Menu item 'File>Show Finder Info' did not work

New

• Added in-place restore
• Added support for MobileBackup (Lion)

Fixed

• Issue w/ snapshots which appeared as 'Not scanned yet' after scanning
• Should TimeMachine create/remove snapshots BL is running, BL will update its list of snapshots accordingly (Lion)
• "Show/Hide History" menu item did not reflect state of history drawer
• Resolved issue where multiple instances of BackupLoupeScanner were started
• Restored support for PPC

New

• Restore: Hold down Option-key while drag#description#amp;drop to restore whole directory instead of modified files only

Fixed

• Snapshots would be recognized as outdated when background indexing was enabled and the volume was mounted while BackupLoupe was running. (#D143MYRLEQ)
• Compatibility fixes for OSX Lion: background indexing was broken

New

• Added support for diff via FileMerge.app (#DA1U448QD1); See included help file for details.

Fixed

• Stability issues when handling indexes of multiple computers

Fixed

• crash when switching between info- and browser view
• crash during program start (#PMEY521H9N)
• crash when searching for items w/ names including quotes or brackets

Fixed

• Background indexing did not work under OSX 10.6.5; OSX 10.6.5 stores information about the configured Time Machine disk in a different way
• Some menu items would be enabled only when a file was selected (not a directory)
• Crash when searching an item "in currently selected snapshot" while no snapshot is selected

Fixed

• Addresses an issue where indexing of some snapshots would fail (#19A1D3YQ18, #P4JX6TQH6S, #83NR5LV29Y, #89B31YAR9X, #GD45UZ28VY)

Fixed

• Crash when BL cannot determine the currently configured Time Machine disk (#GD45UZ28VY)

New

• Added option to index snapshots in background
• Added Growl notification support. When background indexing is enabled, BackupLoupe can notify the user about unusually big/small snapshots

Fixed

• The devices and machines popups now remember their last selection
• Resource forks were sometimes ignored when calculating the size of a file (#JXZHQXP776)

Fixed

• Find window would sometimes report negative item sizes (#W55YE3HYXQ)
• Crash when acquiring the history of items contained in directories with restricted permissions (#89EJA8ZWEJ)
• Issue when selecting a snapshot after scrolling

Fixed

• BackupLoupe would sometimes refuse to index snapshots

New

• added support menu
• Made location of cache directory configurable

Fixed

• improved stability

Improved

• Enabled close button in main window
• Actions may be performed via menu (in addition to the toolbar)

Fixed

• Switched from Clang LLVM 1.0.2 to LLVM GCC 4.2, which solves various crashing issues under OSX 10.5

Fixed

• Indexing directories with enabled read- and disabled execute permission would fail
• Alignment issue in statistics view
• Application did hang when quit while Time Machine finished its work

Fixed

• The program was started whenever a folder w/ folder actions applied to it was modified

New

• Scanning backups does no longer block the user interface; scanning and browsing may finally be done at the same time
• Added search functionality; This feature is also available via system service from any system services enabled file manager
• Browsing and searching indexed snapshots is possible w/o the backup device being connected
• Scans may optionally be performed as superuser; This allows to monitor changes to directories the user doesn't have execute permission to
• History view now displays size of directories as well
• BackupLoupe detects snapshots made while the program is running and updates its window accordingly
• Display type of change in history: new, modified, removed
• Added statistics view for backup devices / machines
• Info/Reveal supports CocoaTechs Path Finder
• Added 'Request a feature…' and 'Report a problem…' to Help menu
• User may configure, how much backup data is unusual. This setting is considered when visualizing the relative size of a snapshot or its deviation from the average size of snapshots
• Extended documentation
• Added auto index feature; New (unindexed) snapshots may optionally be indexed automatically, as soon as they appear

Fixed

• Icons in path control where not displayed correctly
• Reduced memory usage
• QuickLook now working for Snow Leopard as well

Fixed

• Excluding items from backup did not work, when no items have been excluded using TimeMachine System Preferences before

Fixed

• Handle empty snapshots in a sensible way
• Adding/Removing non-standard backups now updates the list of devices

Fixed

• fixed a bug which could crash BackupLoupe while looking for backup devices

New

• added preference option: support for file sizes as calculated by Snow Leopard (base 10)

New

• Added drag&drop copying (restoring) of files/directories

Fixed

• Excluding files or folders from backups did not work for items in a users home directory

New

• color coded sizes of snapshots
• the auto-purge option is now split to distinguish between snapshots which cannot be found because they have been purged and snapshots which cannot be found because the backup device is not mounted.

New

• Provide information (type of file) about currently selected item in status bar
• Display how many times a file has been backed up and how much space this file occupies in all backups
• log level now configurable via defaults write com.soma-zone.BackupLoupe logLevel -integer [0..7], where 0 == emergence and 7 is debug; defaults to 4 (warning).

New

• Toolbar for improved usability
• Added 'Reveal in Finder' button