PowerFolder is an innovate tool that will let you to share any folder of your hard disk in public or private mode (requires invitation from the owner) trough a local area network or by Internet. You can also synchronize files automatically between two or more PCs. In this way, you will be able to share pictures, videos or any file or folder with your friends, synchronize, for example, your computer at home with your office's PC, and interchange any big content in an easy way.
PowerFolder uses P2P (Peer to Peer) technology, so it does not need a server to be functional. It has a very intuitive and easy to use interface. You can choose among many synchronize modes, and limit the bandwidth you use. Besides, it works over LANs, Internet or in Intranets.
Some interesting features of PowerFolder are:
- You can synchronize some parts of a file that have been modified without having to do a complete synchronization.
- Chat messages are displayed as pop ups on the system tray icon.
- The program will display wizards for any action you want to do, so in this way, any task you desire is really easy to do.
Note. PowerFolder requires Java installed on your system.
v4.5 [Jan 11, 2011]
1. New Features
- Sync and shutdown. Right click the PowerFolder tray icon to start it.
- File browser: New options on directories: Restore and download.
- Minimum height of main window can now be smaller.
- Tell a friend link: Now supports tell to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn
- On 64 bit Windows platforms java 64 bit is automatically downloaded and installed if not found.
- New file browser option: Files of other computers and unsynchronized files can now be viewed.
- UDT / Hole punching protocol now fully supported on 64 bit platforms
- Added new fresh default skin "LightSky".
- Instant change detection (Instant sync) is now enabled by default.
- New wizard option "All typical" to easily sync, share, backup all common directories such as Documents, Music, Pictures, etc.pp.
- Windows Installer now supports command line options to control the installation process: http://www.powerfolder.com/wiki/Windows_installer
- Ignore patterns/exclusion list now gets synced between clients.
- Added file browser filter settings to view files of other computers.
- Extended security control for PowerFolder Server clients. It's now possible to delete all folder files from a client by revoking the permission.
2. Improvements
- Mass delete detection warnings are now preserved on restart.
- Folders tab now shows the local target directory for each folder.
- Several internal security improvements.
- Simplified downloads/uploads cleanup slider.
- Removed several unclear warnings dialogs.
- Default excluded "ithmb" files (iPod Photo temporary files).
- Parallel uploads to other computers is not longer limited to 10.
- Several internal changes in preparation of PowerFolder Server 2.2
- Computers, that are offline 15 days or more, automatically get removed from the folders member view.
- Added chat typing notice.
- Added chat formatting options.
- Folder tab is now start tab.
- Improved drag and drop support: Simply drop a directory into PowerFolder to share, sync or backup that directory.
- Backup (Source) mode now uses instant change detection
- The file archive is now easier reachable in the user interface
- All system tray notification popups now directly open the correct wizard when clicking them.
- Introduced a new type of protocol which reduced the overhead traffic by 50-70%. The new client is still downward compatible.
- Speed improvements when transferring many small files.
- Synchronization of the "Documents" folders on Windows XP is handled better. PowerFolder now by default excludes the sub directories "My Pictures", "My Music" and "My Videos". These can be optionally selected separately.
- Drastically reduced CPU usage.
- Several memory improvements.
- Reworked notification system for invitations, friendship requests and warnings.
- Wording change: "Online folders" are now renamed to "Not local folders". They may exist on other computers only - not necessarily in the cloud.
- Installer java detection now downloads 64 bit java on 64 bit systems.
- Many improvements of the simplified/backup only client mode.
- Incoming files info line on status tab is now clickable.
- License information now gets displayed in Info/About dialog.
- Improved communication between client and server to reduce number of remote calls.
- Many other user interface improvements.
3. Bugfixes
- Fixed connection bug with more than 500.000 files on a single folder.
- Ignore patterns are not longer reset when changing the local directory.
- File browser filter setting "Unsynchronized files" does not longer show files, that are excluded from sync.
- File browser correctly updates view when restoring whole subdirectories.
- Warning about not unsynchronized folders now shows the correct number of days.
- Fixed a problem when filename starts with "/" (slash).
- Fixed bug that prevented to store the local archive setting correctly for new shared folders.
- Uploads and downloads detail information are now correctly displayed again.
- File browser/information window closes when the folder is removed.
- Fixed connection bug (Invalid stream header).
- Corrected synchronization when directories with temporary/meta files like "Thumbs.db" or ".DS_Store" in it get deleted.
- Corrected recovery from MD5-Hashsum problems after download.
- Many speed improvements and bug fixes of the file browser.
- Now correctly handles invitation when folder with the same name already exists.
