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NANY 2012 Release: Ethervane Echo
yarond:
Hi,
First thing, thank you for the program. I switched from ditto after a few years of using it, since Ethervane Echo covers some of the problems I had with it, without losing anything that I really used. So far, after a few weeks of testing it, it seems to work very well.
I do have a feature request, relating to the option not to store clips from certain programs (one of my issues with ditto).
For most cases basing this on the application is the right thing to do and exactly what is needed. But there are cases where it would be nice to be able to selectively not store a clip based on part of the title too (well, based on the context, but title is the only technically feasible way to do that usually), and not for the entire program.
For example in cases where maybe there are just a few business of financial documents that contain sensitive data that shouldn't be stored someplace else, or anything copied from the browser when on the site of a bank or some web/javascript password manager, cases where instead of a passwords are stored in a general encrypted note-taking application and other notes from there should be stored, and so on...
I don't think it's a widespread need, but there are some cases where it will make my life a bit easier (some, though happily not all, of the examples above), and I think it's also not that rare.
Adding to the application filter list some way to add modifiers to the program name, which must exist on the title of the window copying from, would probably be good enough.
I'm not sure if it's a good idea to also allow a title filter for all programs or not. On the good side it will work for websites when using multiple browsers, or documents that may be opened with multiple programs. But on the other hand it will probably complicate things, it will increase the chance of accidental matches, and realistically I think any file of website with sensitive information is probably not opened with more than one, or maybe two, programs on a regular basis.
Sascha:
possibility to configure the directory for saving the database
possibility to configure the directory for saving the application-settings (ini)
-Sascha (January 12, 2012, 01:27 AM)
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Done, the next release will have it. The custom folder can be specified in the master.config file or on command-line; the Help file will have all the details.
-tranglos (January 22, 2012, 05:07 PM)
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Hooray - thanks in advance :)
tranglos:
Adding to the application filter list some way to add modifiers to the program name, which must exist on the title of the window copying from, would probably be good enough.
-yarond (January 22, 2012, 05:24 PM)
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Welcome to DC, Yarond, and thanks for your suggestion.
I agree with you all the way and have added your idea to the wishlist. Just to be sure though: do you think it would be sufficient to simply have a list of (partial) window titles, independent from the list of filtered applications? That would be easy to do, but in that case these titles would match any application, so a filter might sweep too much.
A better alternative is to be able to say "this application *and* any of these (partial) window titles". It would provide for better fine-tuning of the filters.
yarond:
I agree with you all the way and have added your idea to the wishlist.
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Thank you.
A better alternative is to be able to say "this application *and* any of these (partial) window titles". It would provide for better fine-tuning of the filters.
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I agree.
I think that the potential disadvantage here (if someone does want to block storing from the same source for multiple different programs then they'll need to define it multiple times in the filter) is better than the, probably much more likely, alternative of a risk of matching also unwanted and unexpected windows.
kyrathaba:
yarond, welcome to the site! :D
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