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This new product will be constantly developed with regular releases. We are very interested in our users experiences with our software and always ready to listen to new ideas.

When an archive storage directory goes offline, e.g. network/external drive is disconnected, the files waiting to be archived are flagged up with an offline archive icon. The offline location is then checked once per minute and when it comes back online, file archiving for those files resumes.

Fixed a problem where sometimes temp folders were left in the Windows temp directory.

The help file has now been changed to HTML help to be compatible with Windows Vista.

Some small cosmetic changes to make it display properly in Windows Vista.

An option has been added so that you can choose to have the modified date of an archive file set to exactly the same as the last file that was added to the archive.

The software settings are now saved to disk in the standard Windows user application data area instead of the registry. This makes the settings easier to backup and transfer between machines.

There is now a separate corporate version of AJC Active Backup that makes it easier to manage for larger organizations.

Setting up file patterns is now much easier with the suggestion tool. This searches for all file extensions in the directories you are monitoring and lets you select them.

When errors occur on the process tab you can now right click on a file to remove it from the list or retry the operation.

When exiting the application any files left on the process list are now saved so that they will appear on the list when you next start up.

In the file patterns for deciding which files to archive you can now specify a directory without a leading path e.g. Abc\ This allows you to match all files in an "Abc" directory located anywhere under the directory you are monitoring.

New command line options have been added for archiving existing files.

When purging archives if an archive file was deleted this would sometimes cause the program to fail.

The archive integrity checker had a bug where it was creating files in the local temp folder and not removing them.

A new View archives tab has been added to the main window. This allows you to list all archives or archives where revisions were added in a certain date range. From this list you can examine each archive or restore a group of files.

You can now restore a group of files using the Restore/Extract files wizard from the View archives tab. This allows you to restore files to their original locations or select an alternative location to extract files to. You can also choose to restore the latest files or files as they would have been on a certain date.

A archive integrity checker tool has been added so that you can be sure that your archives will restore and they are not corrupted in any way.

A new report tab has been added to show the progress of restore operations and integrity checks.

Some files can now be archived even when they are open. For example this is very useful for MS Word and Excel files because these programs keep the files open until the documents are closed. This now means that if you press save in Word your document it will be instantly archived. You can specify which files can be backed up when they are open in the options.

It now copes with very long file names.

First public release.

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