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Dear Create Synchronicity users,

It is a great pleasure for me to announce today the product of 11 months of continued development: a new release of Create Synchronicity, now in version 6.0.

New logsCreate Synchronicity 6.0 comes with a lot of improvements, including much faster previews, prettier logs (see the screenshot on the right), better support for network drives, profile groups, and a wealth of minor updates and bug fixes. Power users will appreciate the introduction of 8 new expert settings[1], and of pre- and post-sync scripts, making it possible to send backup summaries by e-mail[2].... read more

Hi all,

I'm planning to release Create Synchronicity 6.0 any time now. A beta build is available from http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/current-build.html ; please feel free to report bugs before the final release.

Also, some translations are still missing strings. You can help translating online at http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/translate.html .

Thanks for using Create Synchronicity,
Clément (Create Software).... read more

Hi all,

I've updated the english tutorial, and a copy in italian is also available. Check both out at http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/tutorial.html and http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/tutorial-it.html ; they even come in PDF!

CFP.

Create Software - Open source, lightweight, and efficient software - @createsoftware
http://createsoftware.users.sourceforge.net - http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net
Please consider donating to express your support to free software - https://sourceforge.net/project/project_donations.php?group_id=264348

Hi all,

The next release of Create Synchronicity will include a new "expert" settings group, which includes compression (gzip and bzip), data integrity checks (prior and post backup), profiles grouping, and new comparison methods.

These feature are already available in the most recent builds; test them from http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/current-build.html if you want!

CFP.

Create Software - Open source, lightweight, and efficient software - @createsoftware
http://createsoftware.users.sourceforge.net - http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net
Please consider donating to express your support to free software - https://sourceforge.net/project/project_donations.php?group_id=264348

Hi all,

Experimental Linux builds are available from the latest builds page, http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/current-build.html .

Please keep in mind that this in only an alpha version: although the core syncing code is working well, the UI is still extremely unpolished, and still requires some work to integrate with the Linux desktop.

Hi Create Synchronicity users!

It is my great pleasure today to announce the 14th release of Create Synchronicity, now in version 5.1 (r1045) :) This new release, which you can download from http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/update.html , brings a new threading system, improved scheduling (with an option to catch up missed backups), a few cosmetic changes, and three new translations (to Danish, Estonian, and Polish). The scheduling engine has reached a high maturity level, with more complex settings available, and many command line options have been created, allowing for use on production servers, and in complex usage patterns.... read more

Dear Create Synchronicity users,

(To all new subscribers who heard of Create Synchronicity by reading the Lifehacker article a month ago: Welcome aboard!)

It’s my great pleasure to announce today the release of Create Synchronicity, version 5.0, available at http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/downloads.html . This update is focused on making your use of Create Synchronicity more intuitive and easy, by fixing many discreet yet annoying bugs, and by introducing new time-savers, such as path suggestion in the settings dialog, and double-click support in the preview window. We’re also welcoming three new translations, to Russian, Czech, and Hebrew, along with a fully localized installer. System administrators may like the new “/silent” switch that I introduced, as well as the new app-logging feature. The command-line bug that many of you encountered was fixed, and new options were introduced. Check out the full release notes at http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/latest.html for more!... read more

Dear Create Synchronicity users,

It hasn’t been long since the last update, but a few annoying, although benign, bugs had slipped in the last release of Create Synchronicity (version 4.1). This new release, 4.2, is therefore mostly targeted at fixing bugs and simplifying the existing code.

I’m glad to say that this has permitted for many improvements in the code, resulting in a more responsive interface, a better scheduler, and prettier log files. As a side note, some of you may have had trouble with log files (these were the main reason for the 4.2 release). Yet no release would be worth it if it wasn’t for at least a few new functionalities, and this one makes scheduling much simpler. When you change scheduling settings for a profile, the scheduler immediately catches up and updates its own settings to mirror your change. No need to reboot (or restart the scheduler) anymore =) There have been improvements also in the debugging engine, including an application-level events logger.... read more

Dear Create Synchronicity users,

I’m happy and proud to announce today the immediate availability of Create Synchronicity, version 4.1, which can be downloaded at http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/downloads.html . Although not as spectacular in terms of new functionalities than previous releases, this update brings a lot of minor improvements to the UI, installer, and marks the beginning of a large optimization work, to achieve ever- higher synchronization speeds (Good news: On Windows 7, copying files with Create Synchronicity is now faster than copying them using the default Windows copy handler). More of course in the release notes, at http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/latest.html . If you were to encounter any bugs, please report them at https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=1130882&group_id=264348 .... read more

Dear Create Synchronicity users,

I'm very happy to announce the immediate availability of Create Synchronicity, version 4.0. It comes with many new features, among which support for implicit paths such as "MyUsb"\MyFolder, and proxy support. The interface has been reworked to include help tips and allow for easier navigation, while folder selection has been rethought to allow for easier customization, without hindering configurability.
Create Synchronicity 4.0 also features one new translation (to Italian), and updated translations to English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese.... read more

Hello everyone!

I've just finished implementing a feature that I had been willing to include for a long time, aka name-base drive selection. When I plug in my mp3 player, it usually gets assigned to a random drive letter, meaning that I keep having to update my configuration. Well it's not so anymore. With the new features that I just finished designing, such paths as "MP3Player"\Music\Artists are now perfectly valid ; and Create Synchronicity will automatically detect the right drive letter.

Create Synchronicity 3.5 is out!
It comes with lots of exciting new features, including scheduling and support for various path formats. Below is the original release message:

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Dear Create Synchronicity users,

I'm very happy to announce the immediate availability of Create Synchronicity, version 3.5. It comes with noticeable performance improvements, 3 new languages (thanks to all our translators!), and many bug fixes. And the exciting news: Create Synchronicity can now schedule backups!... read more

Create Synchronicity now has an online translating interface, available at http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/translate.html

Please, do not hesitate to add your own language to Create Synchronicity!

Create Synchronicity has been translated to German! Many thanks to Florian Haag :)
Other translations are or course very welcome :)
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Version 3.0 brings a lot of great enhancements and new features, including many new options, regex support, and translations.

NB: Due to a minor bug when building Create Synchronicity 3.0, the "strict mirror" option was hidden on builds downloaded before feb. 26, 9 PM. This problem has now been fixed.

After a few tiring hours, Create Synchronicity can now be translated to any language. Anybody willing to help with the translation is very welcome to do so :)
French and English are already available, and will be included in the next release.

Version 2.2 adds support for time offsets (to compensate for DST) and pretty HTML logs.

Today Create Synchronicity made a step forward by moving to version 2.1. Many bugs have been fixed, ensuring a much more efficient and stable synchronization.

Yesterday, Freeware Mission published a very nice article about Create Synchronicity. Thanks !
The story can be found at http://www.freewaremission.com/
(http://www.freewaremission.com/2009/07/create-synchronicity-free-open-source-files-backup-software/)
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For this first stable release, I have fix many of the bugs I could find. No doubt some remain, but I'm sure you'll help me track them down. Everything is fully functional - have fun !
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The website presenting Create synchronicity, http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net, is now fully functional and ready :)
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Growing more and more stable, Create Synchronicity is a light but powerful synchronizing solution. Many bugs were fixed before this released, some of which are listed in the release notes. I'd like to move to stable version (1.0 before august). Please, do try it out, and report any bugs you may encounter.
Everything is explained at http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net.
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