v0.8.0 (2020-08-10)

• Added:
  • If you create a file called ludusavi.portable in the same location as the executable, then Ludusavi will store its config file and the manifest there as well.
• Fixed:
  • Read-only files could only be backed up once, since the original backup could not be replaced by a newer copy, and you could not restore a backup if the original file was read-only. Now, Ludusavi will try to unset the read-only flag on backups before replacing them with newer backups, and it will try to unset the flag on target files before restoring a backup.
  • Invalid paths like C:\Users\Foo\Documents\C:\Users\Foo would be shortened to just C:\Users\Foo, which could cause irrelevant files to be backed up. Now, the extraneous C: will be converted to C_ so that it simply won't match any files or directories.
  • When some games were deselected, the disk space display only showed units for the total space, not the used space, which could lead to it showing "1.42 of 1.56 GiB", where 1.42 was actually MiB and not GiB. Units are now shown for both sides.
• Changed:
  • When backing up or restoring a file, if it already exists with the correct content, then Ludusavi won't re-copy it.
  • In GUI mode, Ludusavi now tries to be smarter about when a full scan is needed. Previously, every backup and backup preview would trigger a full scan. Now, Ludusavi will remember which games it found and only re-scan those games (until you change your roots, change the "other" settings, or reopen the program).
  • In CLI mode, --try-update will use a default, empty manifest if there is no local copy of the manifest and it cannot be downloaded.

(See also: experimental variant with OpenGL)