Archive for the ‘Release’ Category
December 24, 2007 3:07 pm
What’s new:
- New: Check new md5 items only option
- New: Be able to recognize and skip comments in an MD5 file
- New: Save Options dialog
- Improve: New wildcards matching algorithm - Adding large folder is about three times faster
- Improve: Be able to read MD5 files in various formats
- Fix: Count of checked items in the status bar is incorrect if there are md5 items in the Loaded category
- Update: Load all MD5 files by default while adding folders
- More …
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One tip: Hold the Shift key down and then press Start in the main Window, Md5Checker will check new md5 items only.
The version 3.3 has been updated once since last released, the latest version is 3.3.0.12. Please check again whether you downloaded the right version. Sorry for the inconvenience.
You can post comments, suggestions or bug reporting for the version 3.3 here, thanks!
Posted in Announcement, Release | 1 Comment »
November 27, 2007 11:29 pm
Thanks HS for bug reporting and great suggestions 
What’s new in version 3.2.3:
- New: Check for Updates command.
- Fix: Compare MD5 dialog should recognize lower case characters.
- Fix: Combo boxes should not be fix width.
- Update: Separate Unknown category into Unknown & Loaded.
- Update: Add *.zip & *.rar by default.
Regarding to #4, otkin asked how to check only new files (files have never been checked), I use this update to make this process easier:
- Add the containing folder into Md5Checker WITHOUT auto starting
- Switch to the Loaded category
- Remove all listed items <- Now only new files are left.
- Start checking
But I’m still thinking about a one-click solution, maybe it will be implemented in the next version.
Posted in Release | 2 Comments »
November 19, 2007 9:55 pm
Added Compare MD5 dialog - Can compare one file’s MD5 checksum with another automatically:
Compare MD5 with inputed/pasted one:
- Select one md5 item with calculated MD5 checksum
- Press F2, use the Edit | Compare MD5 menu item, or use the Compare MD5 right-click context menu item to bring up the Compare MD5 dialog
- Or you just double click the md5 item
- Input/paste MD5 in the lower edit control and watch the result in the top-right edit control
Compare two files’ MD5 checksums:
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Posted in Release | 6 Comments »
November 17, 2007 2:45 am
What’s new in version 3.2.1:
- New: ‘Save Each’ command
- Improve: ‘Store last folder used’ option - Thanks Ronald for the suggestion
- Fix: Three minor UI bugs
Save Each command:
This command is kind of common usage. It will create MD5 file for each checked file using the same file name plus an MD5 extension. For example, create MD5 file ABC.xyz.md5 for file ABC.xyz and store ABC.xyz’s MD5 checksum in the MD5 file.
What’s do you think about the new version? Any comments and bug reports are greatly appreciated.
Posted in Release | 3 Comments »
November 14, 2007 3:55 pm
What’s new in version 3.2:
- New: ‘Code page’ option
- New: ‘Add to Send To menu’ option
- Improve: Add files in background
- Fix: Load MD5 checksum of file from MD5 file will clear its calculated MD5 checksum
- Fix: No new line character is written when save md5 item if its path contains characters that system code page cannot recognize
- Fix: Could not discard saved MD5 checksum of md5 item if its path is a folder
- Fix: Height of dropdown list is too narrow in the Win9x version
- Update: ‘Folder context menu’ option -> ‘Add to Shell context menu’, work for both folders and files
- Update: ‘Checking in low priority’ option -> ‘Work in low priority’, work for both adding and checking
- Update: Removed Adding File dialog. (Use Stop button to stop adding)
- Update: Removed Unicode features from the Win9x version (Not supported)
Code page:
Md5Checker uses system’s standards and formats setting to convert between Unicode and MBCS when save/load by default. If there are any characters your system setting cannot recognize, the path of file will not be saved/loaded correctly.
Standards and formats setting (Click to show full size):
In Md5Checker 3.2, you can select an appropriate code page in the Options dialog, and do not have to change the system setting to suit every software.
Send To menu:
Send To menu is a convenient way to add a few files into a program. For instance, if you select multiple files in the Explorer and right click, and then select the context menu item - Check in Md5Checker, Explorer will launch multiple instance of Md5Checker like this: Md5Checker file1, Md5Checker file2… But if you use the Send To menu, Explorer will launch one instance of Md5Checker and pass these files to it like this: Md5Checker file1 file2…
Using Send To menu has one weakness - cannot add lots of files at one time, because the system has a command line length limitation. But don’t worry, you can always use Add command or drag-and-drop to add lots of files.
Any comments from you regarding bug reports for Md5Checker are greatly appreciated.
Posted in Release | 2 Comments »
October 14, 2007 12:40 pm
What’s new in version 3.1:
- New: ‘Add Options’ dialog for command line and drag-and-drop file adding (Default is hidden, hold the Shift key down to show)
- New: ‘Folder context menu’ option
- New: ‘Hide dialogs’ option
- New: Self-check command
- Improved: Use Save and Default buttons instead of ‘Save settings’ check box in the ‘Add Options’ dialog
- Improved: Added Homepage and Download links in the About dialog
- Fixed: Md5Checker may crash when adding files/folders via command line
- Updated: URL of the online help
- Updated: ‘Checking in low priority’ option is off by default
- Minor improvements and fixes
Since version 3.0.1 introduced a new bug - Md5Checker may crash when adding files/folders via command line, I recommend you to use this bug fixed version, plus there are many improvements and new features.
This is a Release Candidate (RC) version. I already did lots of test around, but I could not promise there is no bug. If you find any bug, or you have any suggestion, please leave a comment here. I will appreciate that.
Go to the Download page >>.
Posted in Release | 4 Comments »
September 16, 2007 8:29 pm
What’s new in Md5Checker 3.0:
- Re-implemented the core - faster, and take less CPU and memory usage
- Simplified the operational flow, more intuitive
- Removed unnecessary prompts
- Can remove saved items from .md5 files
- Provided an adding files progress dialog, can abort adding at any time
- Enhanced Open File dialog allows you to add folder and change adding settings
- Display count of md5 items for each category in the View toolbar
- ‘Checking in low priority’ option
- New UI mechanism - no delay when process large numbers of items
- New threading algorithm - faster
- Support both Multibyte character sets (MBCS) and Unicode well
- Provided for Win9x versions
- Provided versions in other languages
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