Elegant Vault

Changelog

What changed in Elegant Vault, version by version. New things, improvements and fixes — always 100% local.

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What changes in 2.0.4:

  • A new icon at every size — from the taskbar to the Store showcase — plus refreshed listing images. Nothing changes in the app: identity only.

What changes in 2.0.3:

  • When a run is interrupted, the screen says why — and how to pick up where it left off.
  • Copying to a removable drive no longer stops midway for no reason: the missing-drive notice only appears when the drive really left.
  • Checking again always works: every check ends with its own receipt and its own confirmation on screen.
  • The results screen scrolls as one page, with no cards covering text and no repeated buttons.

What changes in 2.0.2:

  • Some messages that still showed up in Portuguese with the app in English or Spanish now come out in the language you chose.

What changes in 2.0.1:

  • The Move screen breathes: everything aligned in a single column, at any window size.
  • Freeing the source after a move got much faster, even with thousands of files.
  • Delete for good, no Recycle Bin: your explicit choice, confirmed by typing a word, never the default — and the receipt records what you chose.
  • The receipt is written next to the destination again.

What comes in 2.0:

  • Move mode: pick the sources and the new drive, see the numbers, and copy while you watch.
  • Verification reads back off the device, not out of Windows’ memory — and only then does the seal close.
  • The CSV receipt is kept on your PC, and a copy sits next to the destination with a LEIA-ME.txt that explains what it is.
  • Only after the seal does the program offer to release the source folders, and only what passed all three proofs. What does not pass stays, named, with the reason.
  • Where the drive has a Recycle Bin, that is where it goes — and the screen says the GB only come free once you empty it. Where there is none, it says this is permanent and asks you to type the word.
  • Bought 1.0? 2.0 is yours, without paying again. It is the same one-time purchase.
  • Version history, a schedule and network-drive (NAS) destinations are still promised, still free, and are now the 2.x line.

When there is a new version, it lands here.

What changes in 1.0.1:

  • The trial ended and you only found out when you clicked copy. Now the notice opens together with the program, with the purchase right inside it — and with the way out written down: carry on just to restore and check, which stay free forever.
  • The copy button looked normal and only locked after the click. Now the padlock is there first, with the reason — and someone who already bought and just needs the Store update reads that, not a request to buy again.
  • Bought on the Store with Vault open? The screen unlocks right then, with no closing and reopening.
  • Screen reader users got a button with no explanation. Now the lock says why, and the notice that turns up on its own is read out when it turns up.
  • Internal stability fixes, with nothing changed on screen.

What shipped in 1.0.0:

  • Pick the folders, pick the drive: the copy only starts after you see the numbers.
  • Every copied file gets a SHA-256 fingerprint, recorded in a text file you can actually read.
  • The vault opens in File Explorer on any PC — without this program and without a proprietary format.
  • Nothing is deleted and nothing is overwritten: at the source, Vault only reads.
  • The 40-second rehearsal brings files back and checks them, so you do not find out at the wrong moment.
  • Unplugged the drive mid-copy? That is a pause, not an error — and it resumes where it stopped.
  • "Verify the whole vault" finds the files that the media degraded in silence.
  • Restoring and verifying never expire, even after the 15-day trial.