
The Sky & XTV Disk Copier
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Release History
Release 1.2.0.2 - February 2008
- Support for MySky in Italy (Thanks to Giorgio).
Release 1.2.0.1 - September 2007
- Major new feature to convert endian order of files transferred between different makes and models of box! See compatibility chart. (Thanks to Peter B and John H for alpha testing).
- Double buffer and multi-thread video stream copies - Significantly reduces copy time where drives are on different controllers.
- Fix issue when disk size spin control is increased above 1,000.
- Add "Type" column to identify Sky UK Anytime and DirecTV Showcase recordings in planner view.
- Utilise deleted flag from planner data to improve handling of deleted recordings and pause buffers (Spurious RBFx and RBSx recordings).
- Installer sets registry to ensure Vista always prompts for Administrator rights when running Copy+.
- Fix "Out of Memory" error when a drive or drives do not have a "Friendly Name" available.
- Remove default selection of 250GB partition size for Sky+ boxes. Now use full drive size by default.
- Add icons and "Why is my drive not visible?" help to drop downs (if no drives detected of correct type).
Release 1.1.0.9 - March 2007
- Corrected fatal flaw in 1.1.0.8 which meant all recordings on destination were unplayable.
- Updated help file.
Release 1.1.0.8 - March 2007
- Support for DirecTV DVR in the US and SkyLA in Latin America (Thanks to Daniel and Fernando).
- Display disk name for easier drive identification.
- Improved bad sector error detection and correction.
- Fixed FlexGrid column alignment.
- Use ClearType compatible font.
- Implemented auto drive list refresh on device attach or removal.
Release 1.1.0.7 - January 2007
- Uses generic planner field layout table
- Support for Sky HD EPG 5.02.eHD (Thanks to Chris for HD box testing)
Release 1.1.0.6 - November 2006
- Multithreaded drive copy - Thanks Neil.
- Ability to select/deselect recordings to be copied.
- Save/Restore image of Sky drive to local disk.
- Minimise/Maximise window and dynamic window resizing.
- Added graphics to Start button, and change button to act as Cancel during copy.
- Correct for missing default dialog buttons - Oops.
- Handle zero byte files with no FAT start cluster.
- Do not copy recordings missing from the planner (resulted in null pointer exception).
- Do not list RBF0 recordings in planner or copy RBF0 directory, even if it exists (temporary record buffers).
- Ignore apparently stray video files in root directory (known Sky+ issue).
- Account for adjusted Total Sector Count in BPB structure.
Release 1.1.0.5 - June 2006
- Support for drives over 500GB and FAT over 64MB (buffer limit on Windows ReadFile and WriteFile).
- Added single instance check.
- Added time of recording to planner grid and implemented column sort feature.
- Estimate time remaining to complete copy and display.
- Added Sky HD compatibility details to help.
Release 1.1.0.4 - March 2006
- Use correct directory cluster (0) for second level directories parent pointer.
- Updated FAT and VFAT size calculations to allow correct detection of 120GB drive.
- Updated help file compatibility table.
Release 1.1.0.3 - March 2006
- Removed Beta warnings.
- Handle "dump to planner from pause buffer" recordings.
Release 1.1.0.2 - March 2006
- Fix for endian auto detect bug on little endian boxes (e.g. PVR2).
- Fixed total sector count bug on retry following disk errors.
Release 1.1.0.1 - March 2006
- Added nullsoft installer - Visit the open source project at SourceForge.
- More information on the file system format has now allowed for moving of files (the previous versions insisted all recordings stayed at the same LBA, and hence some recordings could/would have been lost on a drive resize).
- Because of the above extra information, removed restriction on which files can be copied during a resize. Everything is now copied regardless.
- Additionally, because moving video is now allowed, every copy now performs a full defragmentation of all the video data.
- Copying is now on a recording by recording basis - Added progress bar and description of current recording being copied. This is in addition a total progress display.
- Change background colour of recording as it is copied in the grid.
- Added more logging to the Copy+.log file for diagnostic purposes.
- On successful copy, the Copy+.log file is renamed with the current date and time appended. This is so it does not get overwritten.
- Added check to ensure destination partition is large enough to contain source contents.
- Added Retry/Ignore/Ignore All/Cancel dialog on video cluster read/write errors to allow for CRC errors on drive. Ignoring video errors will result in a few skips in the resulting recordings.
- Added Retry/Ignore/Cancel on file system read/write errors - Ignoring errors in the file system is not recommended however!
- Handle Window Close request while copying cleanly with confirm dialog.
Release 1.0.0.2 - Feburary 2006
- Removed error checking on copying video files - A Beta tester had CRC errors on his drive and as a result the copy process was aborting.
Release 1.0.0.1 - February 2006
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