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Originally Posted by sdspieg
Does this mean that the beta 4 is close to public release? With also the changes you talked about with respect to the incremental update (with the \Temp folder solution)?
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I am hoping so!
There is a certain amount of GUI work outstanding that David Pierron needs to do relating to some of the new features. Pressure of work has stopped him finding the time to do this. However I believe (hope) that he should be able to do this shortly.
The incremental update is using an approach which means that only files that have really changed get copied to the target folder. It improved impractical to stop them being generated to the local temp folder, but tht is reasonably effecient - the saving comes from not putting them onto the (possibly slow) target location. The amount of gain depends on the amount of change to the library. If you have only changed/added a few books or added them concentrated on a small numnber of authors then there is a large gain as around 90-95% of files in the catalog are not copied. If you have changed a significant number (say around 1-2%) with the changes scattered all over the library then the gain is smaller - about a 30-50% reduction in the number of files that get changed. There is a small runtime penalty at generation time to get this gain as the tests for change are applied rectroactively after the files have been generated in the local temp folder. However the cost is small, and it will be possible to disable this feature via a GUI option. The log file now adds some messages about the files changed so that you can see how much it helps you.
Hope that is good news!