Generals and Majors
For those whose time is so valuable that my blathering would be too costly, SuperDuper v4.0.3 is now available for your enjoyment.
For the Smart (Update) Set
There are a bunch of changes in this update, covered, as usual, in the release notes, but the one that you might notice immediately is that ⚡️Turbo Smart Update should happen more often, and start more quickly than before.
Sorted
For those with a lot of volumes, there’s now a sort control for the source list: you can alphabetically by type, or purely alphabetically.
There’s now an option in the sort pop-up that adds a few sections to the source list. SOURCES is for, well, source volumes that have Jobs, as well as the startup drive, which is always at the top of the list.
Volumes that are used as the destinations of those Copy Jobs are under (you guessed it!) DESTINATIONS.
Volumes that aren’t either sources or destinations are in OTHER VOLUMES.
SuperDuper remembers whether or not the sections are expanded or collapsed across launches, so if you never want to see destinations in the list, you don’t have to. And any drives that aren’t involved at all are readily suppressed as well.
Really Big Folders
macOS is really bad at handling huge folders. When you ask for information about them, it can be very slow returning that info…and then you have to process what it gives back.
I can’t do much about the former, but I made some changes to the latter that should significantly improve performance.
And Speaking of Folders
After all files are copied, SuperDuper makes sure to correct all of the various folder modification times so they match the source. It was previously doing this silently, and now the step is called out, and accounted for in the time remaining.
VoiceOver Improvement
I’ve always tried to make SuperDuper accessible—one of the reasons for the text is so that the actions could be described and not inferred by folks using screen readers—but the initial releases of SuperDuper 4 weren’t as VoiceOver friendly as I’d hoped.
I’ve made some progress on that in this release, and I’m not done. Apologies to those frustrated by the issues…know I’m working on it.
Take this Job and Shove It (to another location)
Drag and drop job reordering was broken in the last update, and it’s fixed in this one. Drag away.
Jobs can also be reordered with Cmd+Option+Up/Down.
Availability
Now, of course, via the internal updater, or by downloading and installing manually.
Enjoy!