There's something quite unsurprising, yet thoroughly annoying about discovering an issue with your product that only exists on the MD's laptop!!

Our MD has clocked up more usage on file@home than anyone we know; he's been using it since it was FileIT 0.1 (our alpha code), so it's not actually that surprising that his historical database had a few "issues", and ones we would not have been able to replicate in testing, because we didn't know that it could happen in the first place!

After a multitude of "debug" builds, we've pinned down the offending section of code, given it a sound thrashing and told it that if it should ever fail to report errors correctly again it'll be decompiled and deleted for ever; that'll learn it ;o)

The latest update is available now on the web site, and from the update feature within the program itself - chances are you'll have never noticed that the problem was there - now we've made certain.

On a different note, if you haven't noticed, you can follow us on twitter these days too. We're using this more frequently than any other platform at the minute so why not follow us (we do tend to wander off topic a little, but it's all good fun)

Until our next exciting installment.

Labels: changes, fixed, home filing, updates, v2

Thank you to all who have downloaded (and purchased) file@home since the launch of version 2, we're extremely proud that it's been received so well.

There have been a couple of minor updates since it was launched, but the update that has just been added is our boldest moved yet. Inspired by our good friends over at NeverOverwrite.com we've made a change to our licensing.

Before this change, when the evaluation period expired, you wouldn't be able to get back into the application to retrieve the documents you'd added - talking this through, it's akin to holding your documents to ransom - pay us or you can't get them back (which is not what we were trying to do at all - it's just how the majority of the license models are and like sheep we followed).

So, what have we done? well come the end of the evaluation, you'll now be able to retrieve your documents, what you won't be able to do is add new ones. Every other feature of the program will remain intact.

Now if you've come to the end of your evaluation already and you're locked out of the software - never fear, just download the latest version from our web site and install it over the top of the current installation and all will be good. for those of you still within your evaluation period, you can run "Check for Updates" from the Help menu.

Happy Filing

Labels: 15 days, add documents, changes, license