ChronoSync versions

This Mac application helps you back up your files.
Dec 26, 2023
4.7
Oct 18, 2016
Editorial review
rating
4.6
Apr 2, 2015
Editorial review
rating
4.3
Feb 6, 2012
Editorial review
rating
4.1
Aug 15, 2010
Review
4.0
Jun 9, 2010
Review

What's new

v4.7 [Oct 18, 2016]
- Cloud Support: Connect & backup to Amazon S3 and Google Cloud storage.
- Disk Image Mounting: New options to help with mounting the disk image.
- Smart Readiness Warnings: Suggests & implements fixes to common configuration issues.
- SFTP Server Support: Connect & backup your data to an SFTP Server.
- Progressive Scanning: Pick up where you left off after an aborted sync.
- Encrypted Volume Mounting: Mount & unmount FileVault 2 encrypted volumes.

v4.6 [Apr 2, 2015]
- Implemented SmartScan which delivers significantly faster changed file detection.
- Implemented Checksum Data Verification to dramatically speed up 'verified copied data' Option.
- Modernized Memory Management to deliver performance increases.
- Implemented a Yosemite Native User Interface.
- Incorporated Gradient-free Controls.
- Developed New Icons.
- Activated new Visual Effect Views.
- Added Full Voice-Over Accessibility support.
- Added Document Info Popover in the Document Organizer.
- Added More Info Popover in Container and Syncronizer Document editors.
- Added Special Notes field to the 'Setup Panel'.
- Added a Readiness State Popover with expanded Readiness State Information.
- Added Last Run information Popover added to the 'Setup Panel'.
- Added larger Sync Direction buttons on the Setup Panel that run the sync.
- Animated the System Menu icon to indicate sync in progress.
- Added the 'Animate during scheduled syncs' preference setting in General preferences.
- Revised POSIX Rule Description to better resemble BSD-style file permissions.
- Implemented the, Yosemite-only, "Compact Toolbars" preference setting.
- Added Event Bookmarks that are automatically tagged in Sync Document Logs.
- Added Finder Tags Rule.
- Numerous User Interface tweaks and adjustments to be more consistent across localizations and OS versions.
- Created 'Only run if target volumes or agents are available' scheduling option.
- Created 'Prompt user before running' scheduling option.
- Created 'Abort is still running at...' scheduling option.
- Added Push notifications of sync success or failure sent to ChronoMonitor 1.1 iOS app.
- Added Mount/unmount locally attached drives to sync or backup.
- Added Option to Assert Volume Ownership when using Admin Access.
- Implemented a custom 'Tags' field in Analyze Panel, Trial Sync Selector and Conflict sheet.
- Added Quick Start Guide to the download DMG.
- Added dock-bounce mitigation which terminates the dock icon bounce after an elapsed time.
- When blessing a volume after a bootable backup operation, we now create a boot.efi, if necessary.
- When blessing a volume after a bootable backup operation, we now render a text label for the firmware-based OS picker.
- Tweaked the progress reporting logic to be more proactive about displaying folders being analyzed.
- Added the ability to invoke "Open Log" from the "Actions" menu when a synchronization is running.
- Improved compatibility with OpenZFS file systems by not erroneously thinking it was an MS-DOS/SMB filesystem.
- The list of volumes presented when choosing a target on an agent connection (including local agent) is now sorted.
- Ensured last chosen rule is retained in the intermediate and advance rule selection sheets.
- Mousing over the target tab on the Setup Panel now displays a "Pencil" icon, providing a visual clue that the tab is editable.
- Expanded path information display for each selected Target to avoid truncation.
- Target Icon may now be dragged to other sync documents or apps that accept drag & drop pathnames.
- Raised the demo mode file count limit to 5000.
- Implemented a potential fix for the hard-to-identify heartbeat/status crash.
- Fixed a potential document corruption that could occur if a volume icon provided by the OS contained system specific information.
- Fixed a bug whereby the Scheduled Documents Manager might not properly refresh itself at the end of a sync if it can't obtain a thread lock.
- Fixed a bug whereby the Registration and Prompt to Insert Media dialogs were not giving the current run-loop any execution time.
- Fixed a bug whereby switching from a bootable operation (backup or mirror) to a non-bootable operation would not apply auto-exclusions at the root level of the targets.
- Fixed a bug whereby when restoring from the Archive to a specific folder, the destination path would not be preserved in between successive restore attempts.
- Added some logic to Analyze panel that should prevent the rare occurrence of "(null)" filenames listed in the outline view.
- Fixed a bug whereby if connected to a ChronoAgent with no volumes available for selection (due to whitelisting), CS would just beep when the user tried to select a target.
- Fixed some logic problems associated with preparing the "Access Restrictions" sheet window for display after access restrictions were already enabled.
- Fixed a potential crashing bug that can occur when applying auto-exclusions to the root level of a synchronizer and the entries at the root level change while doing so.

v4.3 [Feb 6, 2012]
Features:
Improved performance of concurrent file copies.
Improved responsiveness when aborting a large file transfer in a scheduled synchronization.
Fixes:
Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause a crash when closing a previously created sync document with certain settings in effect.
Fixed a date/time conversion bug that could cause scheduled synchronizations to fail for users with non-U.S. region settings.
Fixed a case-sensitive filesystem bug that was generating a "File not found" error when a previously-synced file was modified and its filename's case changed.
Fixed a bug that would cause a crash if synchronizing a case-sensitive filesystem to a non-case-sensitive filesystem and the case-sensitive target had two files that differed only in case.
Fixed a bug that would, under certain circumstances, allow the same synchronizer document to execute concurrently and eventually lead to a crash.
Fixed several incorrect translations and/or user interface elements.

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