The final pre-release of the next version of Toucan is now up. This has a few new features that have been requested including:
- Language Support - The pre-release comes with German translations built-in. Just select them on the settings page.
- Rijndael Encryption - This new mode of encryption should keep data a lot safer by appending an extension to encrypted files. It is also usually faster than the blowfish algorithm that 1.1 used. IF YOU HAVE ENCRYPTED FILES FROM 1.1 YOU MUST USE THE BLOWFISH METHOD TO DECRYPT THEM.
- Password protected backups - Simply input your password and you're away!
- Command line updates - Although the syntax remains the same (although you need to input all passwords twice) you now get proper output to the command line.
- Drag and Drop support - You can now drag files or folders into Toucan from Explorer
- Lots of other little things - The insert portable variable dialog is nicer and faster, environment variables are supported (just wrap them in @ signs), log messages now get put in the progress box, the progress box is resizeable and many more little fixes
Please note that this version of Toucan has had a pretty major rewrite and therefore is not guaranteed to work, do not use it on important files. Please post comments/bugs below.
Pre-release 2
Should fix all of the bugs listed below. Make the exclusions non case sensitive and add the ability to add an entire path to the exclusions (i.e. C:\System32). It should also stop the backup window from freezing (although it will need more testing)
Pre-release 3
Fixes the recursion bug, removes the ability to use a whole path as an exclusion.
Pre-release 4
Should fix all of the other little bugs listed below, hopefully the last release before final.
Pre-Release 5 (October 31, 2007)
John T. Haller: I've uploaded (for Steve who just ran out) what should be the final Pre-Release of Toucan for the 1.2 release. This release fixes a couple of path bugs that were present, hides the command window, updates the included help files with the new theme and includes a new multilingual PortableApps.com Installer that will let you choose from English, French and German on install and automatically set Toucan up to use that language.
Pre-Release 6 (November 1, 2007)
Fixes a bug in packaging that overwrote settings.
Download Toucan 1.2 Pre-Release 6
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