IVAR Offload 1.0.0 beta 9

This version changes the words of the app, not what it does. All text now follows ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English.

Download

• IVAROffload-1.0.0-beta.9-win-x64.zip: most Windows 10/11 PCs
• IVAROffload-1.0.0-beta.9-win-arm64.zip: Windows on Arm (Snapdragon / Surface)

Extract the zip file. Then run IVAR Offload.exe. You do not need to install anything: the app is self-contained and does not need .NET. ivar-offload.exe is the optional command line.

Unsigned beta: Windows can show Windows protected your PC. If this occurs, click More info → Run anyway. Or, before you extract the zip file, right-click it and select Properties → Unblock. PCs with Smart App Control on block unsigned apps (see #1 for signing).

New in beta 9

• All text in the app, the command line, the reports and the README follows ASD-STE100 (Issue 9): short sentences, one instruction in each sentence, and one name for each thing.
• Some names changed:
  • The Sort tab fields are now Source folder and Target folder.
  • Look for cards is now Find cards.
  • Messages say "backup drive" (not "destination"), "check" (not "verify") and "click" (not "press").
• Job logs and receipts from earlier versions keep working. The app reads their old words and shows the new ones.
• Backup and Sort otherwise work as in beta 8.

582 unit tests pass (the ASC MHL ones against the reference tool). The 45 end-to-end scenarios pass against the ivar-offload.exe in the x64 zip. The arm64 build is the same code, but nobody has run it on real hardware yet.

Known issues: the issues list tracks the open bugs. Some of them can make a result green when it must be amber (#5, #6, #8, #9). On the command line, backup without --yes exits with 0 (#14). Real cards, card readers and disconnected drives have had only simulated tests so far (#4, #3). Please report what you find.

SHA-256:

• win-x64 zip: 7035BC82722E837E407A5AF004CA6A08C8D12C3C9C1AD66E83143B302C9E0B63
• win-arm64 zip: 272A81ECE521B87DD8A9C2A4011FC3C7BDE4E4FAE3D9D1416D9667AFD07529A3

IVAR Offload 1.0.0 beta 8

The first release as IVAR Offload, the app that was called IVAR Ingest. It follows IVAR Ingest 1.0.0 beta 7, and is now open source under the GPL v3.0.

Download

• IVAROffload-1.0.0-beta.8-win-x64.zip - most Windows 10/11 PCs
• IVAROffload-1.0.0-beta.8-win-arm64.zip - Windows on Arm (Snapdragon / Surface)

Unzip and run IVAR Offload.exe. Nothing to install (self-contained, no .NET needed). ivar-offload.exe is the optional command line.

Unsigned beta: Windows may show Windows protected your PC: click More info → Run anyway, or right-click the zip → Properties → Unblock before unzipping. PCs with Smart App Control turned on block unsigned apps outright (see #1 for signing).

New in beta 8

• The app is IVAR Offload (IVAR Offload.exe, ivar-offload.exe). New jobs log in _IVAROffload folders, and settings are kept in %LOCALAPPDATA%\IVAROffload.
• Coming from IVAR Ingest or Ingest Sorter? Everything they left keeps working. Their sorts resume, verify and undo in their own _IVARIngest or _IngestSorter folders. A backup IVAR Ingest made is resumed, checked again and added to in its _IVARIngest folder, and its ASC MHL history is continued. Settings and recent jobs are read from the old folders until the app saves its own.
• Backup and Sort otherwise work as in beta 7.

582 unit tests (the ASC MHL ones against the reference tool) pass, and the 45 end-to-end scenarios pass against the ivar-offload.exe in the x64 zip. The arm64 build is the same code, but it has not been run on real hardware.

Known issues: open bugs are tracked in the issues. A few can make a result green when it shouldn't be (#5, #6, #8, #9), and on the command line backup without --yes exits 0 (#14). Real cards, card readers and unplugged drives have only been tested by simulation so far (#4, #3). Please report what you find.

SHA-256:

• win-x64 zip: 80CB9BBAE185D992C04294FAD0530D82AC122B22EDBEA95C189350A510A74240
• win-arm64 zip: 6D38E9212A09632301CD510B9DC96DD92EB4015A6B54B2C812449377F419AA15