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BetterZip 2.3 Beta

2012-05-20T10:00:00Z

Are you the adventurous type who likes to play with the newest gadgets? Then the beta version of BetterZip 2.3 might entertain you a bit. If you find anything weird, please let me know! If it crashes, please submit the crash report with technical details turned on and maybe a short explanation of what happened.

Here’s a complete list of the changes since the last release:

New features:

You can now change the preview font and switch line wrapping in the preview on/off.
Added Czech and Brazilian Portuguese localizations.
BetterZip is now signed with my Apple Developer ID which lets it run with Gatekeeper. Because of this, you will have to allow BetterZip to use its own passwords. It will ask you for each password, but only once if you click “Always allow”.

Enhancements:

Enhanced the replace file panel when updating multiple files in an archive at the same time.
You can now reorder the list of presets in the preferences with drag-and-drop.
Display service and default markers in the presets lists.
Added a setting in Preferences > Advanced to control which Growl notifications to issue (only needed for Growl 1.2 users).
Handle incorrectly named tgz and tbz archives more gracefully.
Click on dock icon will once again open a new window, if no windows are open and the “new window” option is set in preferences.
Updated the included 7-zip commandline tool to the latest version (9.20).

Fixed bugs:

The BetterZip services were not translated correctly for some languages.
Fixed a possible crash when setting a new master password for the password manager.
Fixed the misleading error message when trying to extract or save to a read-only folder.
The Favorites sidebar’s background had drawing errors when BetterZip was in the background.
Creating a new folder inside a tar archive wouldn’t work under certain conditions.
In rare cases parts of multi-part rar archvies were not deleted correctly after extraction.
Fixed a possible crash after using the PDF preview on Mac OS X 10.7.4.
Fixed a possible crash when trying to print an archive from the Finder (cmd+o and cmd+p are neighbors on the keyboard).

Download it here: BetterZip-2.3b4.zip (8.3 MB).

BetterZip 2.2.1

2012-03-22T11:00:00Z

BetterZip 2.2.1 is here. It’s a bug fix release that greatly improves the stability of BetterZip and you should really update. I have submitted the App Store version to Apple and it should be available there in a few days.

Here’s a complete list of the changes since the last release:

Enhancements:

Allow merging of folders and “keeping both” when adding items that already exist in the archive.
The “Open With” menu is sorted and displays better results now.

Bug fixes:

Fixed a possible crash when deleting an archive in the Finder while it was visible in the favorites sidebar.
Fixed a possible crash when using the “open with” menu with unknown file types.
The percentage badge on the BetterZip icon in LaunchPad could get stuck.
In some cases BetterZip was not able to track moved or deleted archives.

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BetterZip 2.2

2012-02-28T11:00:00Z

I have just released BetterZip 2.2 and you are welcome to download it now. The new version adds two of the most requested features: An option to batch compress multiple items into individual archives and a more capable View command for files in the archive. Click the View button in the toolbar to get the normal behavior or click and hold to drop down the Mac OS X typical “Open with” menu.

Here’s a complete list of the changes since the last release:

New Features:

Added “Open with” to the contextual menu and changed the View toolbar button to a drop-down button with “Open with” functionality.
You can now specify a custom file extension in save presets.
Added a menu item to extract all archives in a folder recursively.
Added an option and menu item to compress each of multiple dropped items into an individual archive.
Added Japanese (by Koichi Matsumoto) and Polish (by Mariusz Nicpoń) localizations. Thank you, guys!
Added the Greenwich localization framework by Whitney Young, FadingRed LLC to allow super easy translation into new languages. Start BetterZip, hold down the Alt/Option key and drop down the Help menu. There’s a new menu item “Translate BetterZip” that will open the translation interface.

Enhancements:

Increased extraction speed for rar files.
BetterZip will now display exactly which part of a multi-volume rar archive is missing, if any.
In the save panel the standard file extension will be appended to the filename.

Bug fixes:

Fixed a possible crash when quitting BetterZip with the favorites sidebar opened.
Fixed a few errors in the Russian translation.
The registration window could lead to an infinite loop under certain circumstances.
Growl will no longer write a warning message to the log.
Fixed a bug that could lead to files being overwritten when extracting certain tar.gz archives.

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BetterZip 2.1.2

2011-11-18T11:00:00Z

BetterZip 2.1.2 is out. It fixes a few bugs and adds a Russian localization. Thanks, Eric!

New Features:

Added a Russian localization.

Enhancements:

Hold down the Cmd key while dropping a folder in the queue window to recursively extract all archives in it.
Hold down the Alt key while dropping an archive in the queue window to force compression.

Bug Fixes:

When starting BetterZip through one of the services in the Services menu, no empty archive window will be opened.
Fixed a possible crash when quitting BetterZip with the favorites sidebar opened.
The registration window could lead to an inifinite loop under certain circumstances.
The split size for 7z archives was limited to 4GB.
Fixed a bug in handling “additional options” when creating archives.
Using the option “show save panel” together with the queue could lock up BetterZip.
Trailing numbers are no longer cut off from the filename when saving with automatically created archive names.
Fixed “reuse passwords for subsequent archives” in queue.

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BetterZip 2.1.1

2011-10-01T10:00:00Z

After reorganizing my build environment, a few things got jumbled up resulting in a regression bug in the SIT archive handling module in BetterZip 2.1. Also the new French help got copied over the English help and – worst of all – the update mechanism was rendered useless. This means you will have to download and install BetterZip manually this time. I have fixed all these things now and checked everything twice. Speaking of the help system: does anyone actually read this nowadays?

Bug fixes:

Split size is now base 10 (1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes) like the rest of the application.
Search field was invisible on Mac OS X 10.6 under certain conditions.
Fixed the update mechanism. It will work again from now on.
Fixed a possible crash when creating previews.
Extracting all archives in a folder didn’t work under certain conditions.
The English help was replaced by the French help.
Some strings were not correctly translated in the French localization.

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