New in 1.2.0
All Platforms:
- Added the ability to easily backup or restore the entire game list.
- Use the "Run Full Backup" or "Run Full Restore" options in the File menu or Tray menu to easily backup or restore your entire game list.
- Any confirmations or checks requiring user input are automatically handled when using these tools. See the "Full Backup and Restore" section of the manual for details.
- Added the ability to "link" game configurations.
- This allows any linked configuration(s) to automatically run a backup or restore each time their parent is triggered. This can continue in a chain.
- This feature allows for the proper configuration of rare games that stored their saved games in multiple unique locations. It may also have other creative uses.
- Please read "Link -> Configuration" in the "Game Manager" section of the manual for details on exactly how this feature works.
- Metadata is now added to all backup files.
- This is a small XML file that contains important information about the archive and the configuration used to make the backup.
- This allows GBM and possibly any other software to easily identify and use GBM backup files.
- This file is not extracted when restoring a backup, it will not be cluttering up your saved game folders.
- All backup operations are now performed in a temporary folder before the resulting file is moved to the backup folder.
- This change was required to fix periodic issues with cloud software (Dropbox) locking backup files while they were being created.
- The temporary folder can be manually set in "Settings -> Backup and Restore", it defaults to %LOCALAPPDATA%\gbm (~/.local/share/gbm).
- Improved the ability to import backup files using metadata.
- There is a now a global tool to import backup files or entire folders available in the "Tools" menu.
- Only backup files with GBM metadata can be imported using this new tool.
- You may still force the import of any 7z archive using the "Import Backup Files" tool in the Game Manager.
- GBM now properly checks for available disk space when doing batch operations.
- GBM no longer attempts to search for a game when the process name is a regular expression, it isn't supported.
- Fixed various long-standing problems with the "Cancel" button.
- Using "Cancel" during a backup or restore now properly cancels out of batch operations.
- Using the "Cancel" button no longer prevents future operations from executing properly.
- The Help menu is no longer disabled unnecessarily when the application is busy.
- Various other small improvements have been made to the GUI and messages to improve usability.
Changes from 1.2.0 Pre-Release 1
All Platforms:
- Fixed various issues when linking to or from "Monitor Only" configurations.
The entire version history of GBM releases is available at http://mikemaximus.github.io/gbm-web/versionhistory.html