IsoBuster 3.7 Beta Released!

December 9, 2015

The End-of-year release is almost ready. I hope you're able to test this new beta version. It's very stable and now is the moment to squeeze in last minute changes or improvements before IsoBuster 3.7 goes live. Focus this time was on the GUI with an easy to use Breadcrumbs control, virtually implemented, Powerful search functionality (something that was still missing) and also some focus on shortcuts and other GUI related functionality. Of course there were plenty of changes under the hood as well, to improve the overall experience with IsoBuster. I hope you enjoy this new version and please let me know how it goes. The good and the bad.

Here's a list of all the goodies:

Changes / New:

  • Implemented a Breadcrumbs control for easy navigation, with right mouse click Pop-up for easy task selection
  • The Breadcrumbs' edit control also interprets paths you copy in it (with limitations), or can show the current path, for easy copying to the clipboard
  • Support for typing in a limited list of commands in the Breadcrumbs' edit control (@close, @refresh:drives, @stop, @restart, @new, @find:\)
  • Ability to turn off TreeView trying to follow selections made in ListView and Breadcrumbs (faster and less memory use due to virtual implementation)
  • Elaborate Search functionality (Ctrl+F), to try and find file(s) and/or folder(s) with certain properties in existing file-systems or file lists. Not to be confused with data/file carving functionality to try and find missing files and folders (Ctrl+F3)

Improvements:

  • Improved use of, and added a lot more ShortCuts throughout the software
  • Different ListView columns layout for search results and ability to show the full path
  • Improved display of files and folders in the status bar, during exploration of folders etc.
  • Improvement in time stamp display and during file extraction, for files created in a different daylight saving time period
  • Ability to reload the drives' list (Shift+Ctrl+R) and all associated objects (files folders etc.)(To check if USB drives have been inserted or removed)
  • Improved the speed of finding a TreeView item exponentially
  • Make sure the size of an initial install is not bigger than the screen resolution (on systems with low resolution)
  • Workaround for Oracle VM VirtualBox 'VBOX CD-ROM' virtual drive that doesn't return correct information in case the ISO file is big (e.g. of a DVD)
  • Added Main menu item to allow you to Upgrade from a [Personal] license to a [Professional] license
  • Allow to properly resize the Properties (Ctrl+I) Window
  • Show blocks being read in status bar while doing a scan for missing files and folders
  • Added 'Copy path as text to clipboard' function (Ctrl+C)
  • Quite a few improvements, changes and re-writes in the core code / engine, as this is a living project and to deal with the ever growing new functionality
  • Various GUI improvements

Fixes:

  • Bugfix for HFS - Not all folder content was shown all the time (*)
  • Bugfix for FAT - Big folders covering multiple clusters would sometimes not be explored fully (*)
  • Fixed it so that the Save Dialog, Print Dialog and Font Dialog won't be displayed behind the SectorView window
(*) Bug introduced in IsoBuster 3.6 - "Extra tests to make sure a child folder doesn't have subfolders that are a parent folder, creating circular links, in buggy or recovered file systems"

Download this version here.

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Peter Van Hove,
Founder and CEO

IsoBuster 3.7 Beta Screenshot with Breadcrumbs control and Search Functionality