Brighten the Corners Saturday, November 23, 2024
Welcome to the first Beta release of SuperDuper! v3.10—the cycle begins again.
For those who don’t know the drill: if you download and install this Beta release, you will automatically receive subsequent Beta releases until the final release of v3.10. Once that comes out, it will also be offered, and then you’ll only receive normal releases...until and unless you install a Beta release in the future.
Let There Be Light
As I’ve mentioned previously (in the Roll Up Some Fixes post), in the past we’ve tried to change the color of the status bar with a …
Brighten the Corners Saturday, November 23, 2024
Welcome to the first Beta release of SuperDuper! v3.10—the cycle begins again.
For those who don’t know the drill: if you download and install this Beta release, you will automatically receive subsequent Beta releases until the final release of v3.10. Once that comes out, it will also be offered, and then you’ll only receive normal releases...until and unless you install a Beta release in the future.
Let There Be Light
As I’ve mentioned previously (in the Roll Up Some Fixes post), in the past we’ve tried to change the color of the status bar with a hue filter, and it caused some older Macs to crash during testing, so we took it out.
Well, hope springs eternal...since we’ve dropped support for 10.10-10.12 in 3.9, and since we’ve implemented this with something that only works in 10.15 and later, we’ve put it back. The progress bar is more visible. Much more visible.
We’ll see how it goes...let us know if you have problems.
Data Clone Files
I explained in Fraternal Twins that it’s possible to put more data on an APFS volume than you have literal space for, due to “Clone Files”.
Basically, when you copy or duplicate a file or folder on an APFS volume, it doesn’t really “copy” it. Instead, it references the original file, at a low level, and effectively doesn’t take up any additional space.
Unless you copy the files to another volume, of course, at which point they take up their full size...and that can cause the destination volume to fill.
We’ve gone ahead and supported replication for APFS data sources and destinations in this version. That ensures clone files are copied in their “cloned” state when using “Erase, then copy”, so the data should fit in the edge cases where the expanding clones filled the volume.
Details, Details...
There are a number of other little tweaks and improvements detailed in the release notes (Help > Release Notes) for the curious/bored.
Have at It!
So that’s about it on this cold, rainy Saturday. Give it a try, and get in touch if you have any problems:
Download SuperDuper! v3.10 Beta 1
Enjoy!