v2.1.2

🚀 GameVault-Relocator v2.1.2

📅 Release Date: 2025-03-25

A major quality-of-life update introducing Preview Mode, enhanced file move reporting, and numerous bug fixes and performance improvements for users with large ROM collections.

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✨ New Features

✅ Preview Mode (Dry Run)

• Simulate moves without modifying files or creating symlinks.
• View what would happen before executing a real transfer.
• Perfect for planning large reorganizations.

✅ Transfer Stats Popup

• After a move, you'll now see:
  • ✅ Files moved, skipped, failed
  • 🕒 Time taken
  • 📦 Total GB moved
  • ⚠️ Warnings & errors
  • 📁 Log file path

✅ Dynamic Log Files

• Timestamped logs like move_2025-03-25_12-00-00.log
• Logged line-by-line transfer activity and final summary

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🧰 Enhancements & Fixes

🔁 Robocopy Improvements

• Max thread count raised from 16 → 32 (auto-detects up to 32 cores)
• Improved progress tracking during Robocopy
• Unicode-safe log reading (mbcs, error-tolerant)

🔍 Symlink Scanning (Windows)

• Resolved issues scanning C:\ drive (Invalid switch - "/")
• Now logs each symlink found to the main app log
• Real-time UI updates during scan

🛑 Cancel Button Handling

• Disables immediately on click to prevent multiple presses
• Fully re-enabled after cancel completes

🧪 Admin Privilege Detection

• Improved detection and automatic elevation on Windows/Linux

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🧱 UI / UX Improvements

📋 View Log Enhancements

• New Clear Log button inside the log viewer
• Encoding-safe log reading (no crashes on non-UTF-8)
• Centered layout and scrollable area

🖼️ Help & Info Windows

• Richer formatting
• Link styling improvements
• Additional tips for new users

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⚙️ Internal Logic Fixes

• Fixed bug where all files appeared to "fail" after native moves
• Accurate error tracking and retry logic
• Handles fallback removal of empty dirs
• Logs symlink creation success and verifies with os.path.islink()
• Improved exception reporting across all move stages

Full Changelog: v2.0...v2.1.2