SharedSafe 1.0.3085  

SharedSafe is an advanced utility designed to turn email accounts into online file storage. With SharedSafe you can share and synchronize any number of local folders across multiple computers. SharedSafe uses an encrypted file system to store your files in Email accounts.

The keys for this encryption will not be known to the provider of the Email account and they will not be known to the makers of SharedSafe. Server based file sharing which is truly confidential. You remain the true and sole owner of your data. And that is the way it should be. Details about SharedSafe SharedSafe is a file sharing application. In order to use it you only have to install it. SharedSafe is not a service.

There is no sign up involved. Once you have created a set of linked folders - possibly on a number of different computers - you rarely need to interact with SharedSafe again. Whenever you add some files to a linked folder the SharedSafe synchronizes them in the background to all other linked folders regardless on which computer.

And when someone else has added files to a linked folder on another computer then SharedSafe downloads them for you and notifies you with its tray icon. SharedSafe is seamlessly integrated with Windows. When you need to interact with SharedSafe it is just a mouse click away in Windows -  Explorer's context menu.

Requirements:



· .NET Framework

Limitations:



· 30 days trial period

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]



Configuration Tool:

· New: Implemented two column layout in all interaction dialogs.

· Changed: Made some help texts easier to understand.

· New: Use and support default folder “My Safes”.

· Fixed: Handle edge cases in which paths of new Linked Folders conflict with existing ones.

· Changed: New Layout for Email, Account Details and Password input fields.

· Changed: Make title and description of the export dialog more specific to the current context (share or export).

· New: Added a new “New Folder / Create Safe” option “Use existing Account”, which is now the default as soon at least one account is configured.



Setup:

· New: Create Default Folder “My Safes” and Desktop Shortcut to it.

· Removed: Uninstall Feedback Dialog.



IMAP Filesystem:

· Changed: Prefix new SharedSafe IMAP Folders with “SharedSafe “, so that they are clearly identifiable.

Version History
Version 1.0.3085 added on: 13 Nov 2011



Changes on the new version:
What's new in SharedSafe 1.0.3085: November 1st, 2011

Configuration Tool:
· New: Implemented two column layout in all interaction dialogs.
· Changed: Made some help texts easier to understand.
· New: Use and support default folder “My Safes”.
· Fixed: Handle edge cases in which paths of new Linked Folders conflict with existing ones.
· Changed: New Layout for Email, Account Details and Password input fields.
· Changed: Make title and description of the export dialog more specific to the current context (share or export).
· New: Added a new “New Folder / Create Safe” option “Use existing Account”, which is now the default as soon at least one account is configured.

Setup:
· New: Create Default Folder “My Safes” and Desktop Shortcut to it.
· Removed: Uninstall Feedback Dialog.

IMAP Filesystem:
· Changed: Prefix new SharedSafe IMAP Folders with “SharedSafe “, so that they are clearly identifiable.



What's new in SharedSafe 1.0.3032: September 12th, 2011

Synchronization Engine:
· New: Reimplemented Directory Locking. Linked Folders can not be deleted, moved or renamed while SharedSafe is running.
· Fixed: Implemented proper handling for files that should be ignored. This fixes another issue with system files like “thumbs.db”.

Configuration Tool & Dialogs:
· Changed: When a new Safe is created and linked to a folder, the folder must now be specified after the Safe is probed. This should improve the usability in cases when the probing fails.
· Changed: Folder names are suggested based on the Email or account name of the Safe.
· New: In the folder tab, show tooltips for the paths in the listbox.

Launcher:
· New: Tab “Get Started” to clearly communicate what new users should do next.
· Changed: Moved descriptive titles on top of the context menu screenshots.

Tray Menu:
· Changed: Synchronized the menu items with the new options in the launcher’s “Get Started” tab.

Tray Notifications:
· New: Show the folder name in which the files have changed.

Recent Changes:
· New: Show the folder name in which the files have changed.
· Fixed: Paths shown in the tooltips should only contain the native directory separator.

License Management:
· Fixed: Encoding problems with licenses that contained UTF-8 names.



What's new in SharedSafe 1.0.3003: September 7th, 2011

Tray Icon Notifications:
· Fixed: When a feature license runs out, don’t show warnings more often than once.



What's new in SharedSafe 1.0.2974: August 22nd, 2011

IMAP Client:
· Fixed: TLS server connections were not working properly.

Configuration Tool:
· Changed: TLS is now the default again for accounts that are created by entering details.



What's new in SharedSafe 1.0.2971: August 22nd, 2011

Garbage Collector:
· New: Implemented specific deletion strategy to effectively get rid of unused mails on GMail servers.

IMAP Client:
· Fixed: Add quotes to strings that need to be escaped.

Synchronization Engine:
· Fixed: Verification Synchronization was uploading all files, even in situations when it was not required.
· Configuration Tool
· Changed: SSL is now the default for accounts that are created by explicitly entering details.



What's new in SharedSafe 1.0.2951: August 22nd, 2011

Configuration Tool:
· Changed: Show “OK” button instead of “Cancel” when an export or backup dialog is finished.

License Management:
· Changed: Updated the release Product Type and the preinstalled license.
· New: Upload license is now treated as a trial relevant license.
· Fixed: When a license was running out in less than 3 days, the resulting notifications were not leading to the SharedSafe website.

Setup:
· Changed: Updated the license text for the release version.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.8.2938 Beta: August 22nd, 2011

Configuration Tool:
· Changed: Safe Keys with different IMAP passwords are treated separately. This supports the import of a new Safe Keys with the intension to fix a password change.

Configuration Tool & License Management:
· Fixed: Applying a configuration crashed the Configuration Tool when SharedSafe.exe was exited before.
· Fixed: Accept and import licenses and Safe Keys that contain accidentally changed line endings.
· Fixed: A Deadlock could happen when a configuration was applied and SharedSafe.exe was starting up at the very moment.

Synchronization Engine:
· New: Mark files that are not safe to be uploaded with an error overlay icon (for example System Files).
· Fixed: Report errors only once!
· Fixed: Related files were not synchronized after an error occurred.
· New: Treat the Hidden and System file thumbs.db as redundant and delete it if the parent directory needs to be removed.
· Changed: Don’t write synchronously to the folder index database. This improves the general performance and responsiveness a lot.

IMAP Client:
· Fixed: Support personal namespaces that return no hierarchy delimiter. This fixes a problem with the IMAP servers of Yahoo.
· New: Added a hack to handle a syntactically invalid QUOTA response returned by Arcor’s IMAP servers.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.8.2908 Beta: August 22nd, 2011

Configuration Tool:
· New: Ask users if Linked Folders should be restored.

Synchronization Engine:
· Changed: Create Safe IMAP Folders lazily, so that applying a configuration does not need an Internet connection anymore.

Tray Status Window:
· New: Show a tooltip if a file name does not fit into the download or upload labels.

License Management:
· New: Max Users for Commercial Licenses.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.8.2898 Beta: August 22nd, 2011

Synchronization Engine:
· New: Enabled new asynchronous synchronization engine.
· Removed: Rename and Move detection.
· Changed: Specific error handling for scan, hash and transfer stages.

Setup:
· New: Install sqlite3.dll.
· Fixed: Don’t start programs registered in the Startup folder when the Explorer was restarted on Windows XP.

Tray Icon:
· Changed: Menu “Exit” to “Quit”, “Configure SharedSafe” to “Configure…”

Tray Status Window:
· Changed: Don’t show scanning and hashing errors in “Recent Changes” tab.
· New: Transfer Tab shows the files currently up and downloaded, their progress and their transfer speed.
· New: Remember current window size.

File System:
· Changed: Hides are now sticky and separated into different change sets.
· Removed: GC propagation (made redundant by sticky hides).

Shell Extension:
· Fixed: Files currently downloading are marked with the processing overlay icon.
· Changed: Processing overlays have precedence over conflict or error states.
· New: Context menu to configure the linked folder.
· Fixed: Show the context menu only at times when SharedSafe.exe is running.

User Interface:
· Changed: Cosmetical adjustments for XP and W2K styles.

Configuration Tool:
· Fixed: Redrawing errors of the License Manager table on Windows XP.
· Removed: Unused appearance settings.
· Changed: Don’t show columns “Product” and hide “Organization” when it is not set.
· Fixed: Notify SharedSafe.exe when a new license is installed.
· New: Tools tab and Backup + Restore configuration feature.
· New: Hide description labels by default to unclutter the design and show them only when the mouse cursor is nearby.
· New: Suggest recent export folder for when importing new Safe Keys.
· New: Show license owner in the About Box.
· Fixed: Restart synchronization when the account password was changed.
· New: Select first folder when the configuration is started.

License Management:
· New: Trial Edition logic and Buy options.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.7.2733 Beta: August 22nd, 2011

Shell Extension:
· Fixed: When linked folders were in the same directory and had similar names, for example “Folder” and “Folder2”, the shell extension was not able to show status information.
· Fixed: Status information were shown incorrectly when SharedSafe.exe was restarted.
· Changed: Processing states are up-closed now, meaning that when a file is uploading or downloading in a subdirectory, the parent directory will also show a “processing” icon.

Tray Icon:
· Fixed: Sometimes the Tooltip showed the wrong number of errors or files that are syncing right now.

Synchronization Engine:
· Fixed: Restarting the background synchronization sometimes deadlocked.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.7.2595 Beta: March 25th, 2011

IMAP Filesystem:
· Fix: When a GC propagation changeset can not be integrated, it needs to be marked sticky by the garbage collector, because other clients may not have seen it yet.

User Interface:
· Removed: scary warning in the About Box.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.7.2587 Beta: March 25th, 2011

Setup:
· New: Uninstall Feedback
· Changed: PrivateBetaLicense.rtf => PublicBetaLicense.rtf

Configuration:
· Changed: Use the Safekey’s filename instead of the IMAP Folder name to suggest linked folder names.
· Changed: Import: First probe, then select the folder name.
· Removed: Annoying hint “Pressing the button above confirms your selection”.

Synchronization Engine:
· New: Detect file extensions that indicate compressed file and don’t try compress them.

Terminology:
· Changed: Live Synchronization => Background Synchronization



What's new in SharedSafe 0.7.2429 Beta: March 25th, 2011

· Setup
· Removed: Don’t restart Explorer anymore (Launcher will do that now).
· Changed: Start only Launcher from Setup (SharedSafe.exe is started by the Launcher).
· New: Register ContentType for file association “.safekey” and “.rootlicense”.
· New: Setup help link (shown in “Programs and Feature” control panel) .
· Changed: Require version 3.1 of the Windows Installer (prerequisites will install 3.1 anyway).
· Changed: Don’t call regsvr32.exe, instead register the shell extension directly from within the MSI.
· Changed: New manifest: Don’t require an administrator to start up the Setup. Setup needs to elevate itself to be able to start the Launcher in the correct user context.
· New: Detect conflicting versions that need to be uninstalled first.

Launcher:
· New: Restart Explorer when the Shell Extension is not running.
· New: Start SharedSafe.
· New: Complain and stop when the Launcher is started from a different user account.

RestartExplorerVista.exe:
· Changed: Use WMI instead of RestartManager to restart explorer for non-elevated administrator accounts.

Safe Key Exporter:
· New: Artificial delay to make “Mail recipient” work.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.7.2385 Beta: December 10th, 2010

IMAP Filesystem:
· Fixed: GC cache propagation.

Proxy Support:
· New: Preliminary HTTP Authorization.
· Improved: Error messages.

Synchronization Engine:
· Improved: Handling of changed and new files in readonly safes.
· Changed: Filesystem caches of same safes in different folders are not shared anymore.
· New: Verification Synchronization clears the folder’s local and filesystem cache.

Shell Extension:
· Changed: Don’t start SharedSafe.exe from the shell extension.
· New: Hide overlay icons when SharedSafe.exe is not running.
· Fixed: Keep Shell Extension working after a restart of SharedSafe.exe.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.6.2336 Beta: November 11th, 2010

· IMAP Client
· New: HTTP, SOCKS v4, v4a and 5 proxy support.

· Automatic Updates
· New: Option to disable automatic update checks and notifications.

· Shell Extension
· Changed: Overlay Icons.

· Tray Icon
· New: Visit sharedsafe menu item.

· Configuration Tool
· New: Proper attribution in the About Box.

· Setup
· Changed: Install 90 days beta test license file.
· Changed: Reflect 90 days in the license agreement.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.5.2249 Beta: November 4th, 2010

IMAP Client:
· Fixed: Timeouts for socket reads after “APPEND” command.

Miscellaneous:
· Fixed: License warning displayed a negative day counter when a feature was run out.
· Fixed: Annoyingly repeating “Welcome to SharedSafe” message after repair or reinstalls.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.5.2243 Beta: November 4th, 2010

Error Handling:
· New: Implemented Network Error Tracker, which handles errors that need to be ignored after hibernate or stand-by.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.5.2233 Beta: November 4th, 2010

· Usability
· Fixed: Update quota display on initial synchronization.
· New: Support manual live synchronization for non-live synchronized folders.
· Fixed: Avoid confusing “Target Invocation Exceptions” by presenting the most inner exception to the user.
· New: Don’t synchronize automatically if the system is offline.
· New: Linked folders are now read-locked, so they can’t be deleted.

Email Probing:
· New: Help-Links for Email Problem error results.
· Optimized: Don’t try to resolve MXs when SharedSafe can connect to an ISPDB server, but could not log in.
· New: Option to trust any certificate (even the ones with certificate chain errors).

Security & Privacy:
· Fixed: Don’t show quota if a Safe is read only.

Cosmetics:
· Changed: Changed all occurrences of “SafeKey” to “Safe Key”.

Internals:
· New: Use “SequentialScan” system flag for almost all file read operations.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.5.2210 Beta: November 4th, 2010

Usability:
· Fixed: “Open” in the explorer context menu.
· New: Additional “ExportTo” Options (built from the Explorer’s SendTo menu).
· New: Suggest “Readonly” suffix to the default export filename.
· New: IMAP QUOTA support (shown in the SharedSafe context menu).

UpdateServer:
· Fixed: Development version was detected incorrectly.
· Changed: Update-URL now opens the change history instead of starting the download immediately.

Shell Extension:
· Fixed: The Linked Folder's’ shell overlays were not updated properly.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.5.2184 Beta: November 4th, 2010

Usability:
· New: Implemented ISPDB queries.
· Fixed: SharedSafe.exe and Configuration.exe refused to startup when Linked Folders were missing.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.5.2175 Beta: November 4th, 2010

Synchronization Engine:
· New: Detect and handle file system moves.
· Changed: Unified internal file system change tracking.

Usability:
· New: Made resynchronization accessible from the Linked Folder menu.
· New: Made offline-mode accessible from the Tray menu.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.5.2164 Beta: November 4th, 2010

Synchronization Engine:
· New: Detect and handle file system renames.

Safe file system:
· New: Added the possibility to pin file content parts.

Configuration Tool:
· Fixed: Import readonly Safekeys.
· Fixed: Removed badly rendered line break characters from the About Box resource string.



What's new in SharedSafe 0.4.2131 Beta: November 4th, 2010

Synchronization Engine:
· Changed: Synchronization is now “eventual consistent” for simultaneous uploads.
· New: Implemented error handling when change sets from newer versions are detected.
· New: Display unexpected synchronization errors. Discriminate between fatal and temporary errors.
· Changed: Completely re-implemented state handling. Several states can now coexist. Up-closed user-states are now updated lazily and do not interfere with the actual states anymore.
· New: Implemented live state updates for uploading files.

Setup:
· Changed: dialog and banner.
· New: added uninstall icon.

Usability:
· New: Added specially designed 13x13 context menu icons for XP.
· New: Added live tooltip to the tray icon that shows how many files are currently synchronized.
· New: Added ‘in-sync’ overlay icons to the shell extension.

Miscellaneous:
· Changed: default graphics in configuration/about box.
· Changed: Obfuscated Toolbox.dll, SharedSafe.Shared.dll.
· Changed: Moved tray icon to SharedSafe.exe and removed SharedSafeTray.exe.
· Removed manual synchronization tool, context menus and tray menu.
· New: Added shadows to the screenshots in the launcher.