Backupery for Slack Desktop Changelog

Backupery for Slack Desktop

v. 2455 – 9 January 2025

Ask a user of it is necessary to clear export cache if it exists.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2453 – 13 December 2024

Comfortable HTML: process forwarded messages correctly.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2441 – 4 November 2024

Synthetic export mode authentication has been fixed.
Comfortable HTML conversion: process “mailto” links correctly.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2435 – 4 November 2024

Code Signing certificate has been renewed for the application so SmartScreen on Windows may temporary display a warning saying that the application is not commonly downloaded.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2365 – 3 September 2024

Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2335 – 17 August 2024

Generate names for JSON files based on the Pacific Time Zone (as native Slack export tool does).
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2326 – 29 July 2024

Download user list correctly.
Handle the OneDirectoryPerConversation option correctly.
Display exported data size during export correctly.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2311 – 22 July 2024

A bug that prevents the app from exporting all the files correctly has been fixed.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2306 – 9 July 2024

Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2304 – 8 July 2024

Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2303 – 6 July 2024

Ability to import the processed data to Microsoft Teams has been added.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2301 – 2 July 2024

Ability to specify a cache directory through a configuration file has been added.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2297 – 29 June 2024

Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2293 – 27 June 2024

Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2285 – 25 May 2024

Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2283 – 22 May 2024

Enterprise Grid installations: download files correctly.
Synthetic export mode: handle installations for Enterprise Grid workspaces correctly.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2252 – 30 March 2024

Selective channels export for Enterprise Grid mode has been fixed.
Ability to read conversations to export from CSV file has been added.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2245 – 7 March 2024

Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2242 – 29 February 2024

Stability and performance improvements have been added.

v. 2237 – 15 February 2024

Comfortable HTML presentation: embed images into HTML by default.
Slack-standard JSON presentation: preserve importable zip archive structure by default.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

5 February 2024

Backupery for Slack v. 2232

Comfortable HTML: split html files correctly if messages number is too large.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

3 February 2024

Backupery for Slack v. 2231

JSON export for Enterprise Grid teams has been fixed.
Comfortable HTML: display not available files properly.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

28 January 2024

Backupery for Slack v. 2218

The ability to export pinned items from threads has been added.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

27 January 2024

Backupery for Slack v. 2217

Stability and performance improvements have been added.

10 January 2024

Backupery for Slack v. 2209

Ability to pass export token in JSON export settings has been added.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

3 December 2023

Backupery for Slack v. 2195

Ability to pass file import token through config has been added.

2 December 2023

Backupery for Slack v. 2192

Handle installation to a workpsace that belongs to Enterprise Grid correctly (non-Org installation).
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

14 November 2023

Backupery for Slack v. 2190

Comfortable HTML conversion: present threads better.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

9 November 2023

Backupery for Slack v. 2187

Ability to generate ‘Per User’ Comfortable HTML exports has been added.
Show timestamps correctly.
Display usernames correctly.
Handle reserved names like “CON”, “AUX”, “AUX.”, etc. correctly.
Do not restore app on right mouse-click as it should show a tray menu.
Use an optimized way to move exported data if the source and the destination are on the same drive.
Do not remove obsolete backups permanently, send them to Recycle Bin instead.
Handle Out-of-memory error correctly.
Handle high DPI mode correctly.
Show a list of backup destinations on the wizard summary page.
Destinations wizard step page has been added.
Do not start backup scheduler by default.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

23 July 2023

Backupery for Slack v. 2077

Stability and performance improvements have been added.

16 June 2023

Backupery for Slack v. 2075

The ability to export the data without installing the related Slack app has been added.
Handle long filesystem paths correctly.
Display thread download process better.
Handle the “not enough disk space” error correctly.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

31 March 2023

Backupery for Slack v. 1920

Handle the ‘Not enough disk space’ error correctly.

Handle backslashes in file names correctly.
Fixed a bug that prevents the application from communicating correctly with Backupery for Slack Assistant apps.
The app now supports Windows 10 and higher; Windows Server 2016 and higher. The previous versions of the app continue to work on the previous versions of Windows.
Stability and performance improvements have been added.

2 February 2023

Backupery for Slack v. 1911

Handle JSON files uploaded to Slack correctly.
Set correct timestamps inside JSON files created for the “Slack Standard JSON Archive” exports.
Handle Windows NTFS long paths correctly.
Handle workpsaces/org names that have Windows-unacceptable characters correctly.

29 November 2022

Backupery for Slack v. 1878

Improved: processing of large number of users in a workspace/org.
Improved: handling of long filesystem paths.
Improved: incorrect logging setup may lead to an internal error under some curcumstances.

17 November 2022

Backupery for Slack v. 1875

Added: the ability to run Export Wizard by clicking the link on the Status tab
Added: users:read.email scope is now requested during app installation in order to get member emails properly.
Added: support Enterprise Grid installations.
Added: the ability to select DMs and Group DMs to export.
Added: refresh button to the conversation selection window.
Added: display a timezone for timestamps for HTML exports.
Added: keep track of data conversion process in order not to restart after a failure of a machine restart.
Added: download non-team members who participates in conversations.
Added: display deleted messages in HTML exports.
Added: display deleted messages in HTML exports.
Added: split large Comfortable HTML files by 50 MB.
Added: “charset=utf-8” to the html head in order to help web browsers to detect a correct encoding.
Improved: downloads of large files.
Improved: handle config file corruption correctly.
Improved: handle not_in_channel error correctly.
Improved: large HTML files generation.
Improved: processing of links in HTML export.
Improved: build a file list to export correctly.
Improved: Slack OAuth flow.
Improved: split JSON export files based on PST (GMT-8) timezone.
Improved: do not prevent Windows from restart/shutdown if the app is running.
Improved: username resolving for HTML exports.
Improved: sort coversations by name in the conversation selection window.
Improved: license text wording on the Help tab.

28 September 2021

Backupery for Slack v. 1571

Added: a new, Comfortable HTML conversion format. It provides human-readable export that is convenient to read and can be displayed by any web browser. The previous HTML conversion format has been renamed to Detailed HTML.
Added: the ability to select private channels.
Added: warn user if attempts to change the settings during backup.
Improved: if the NTFS Long Paths feature is not enabled on your machine, the application shortens the file paths if possible without the need to enable the NTFS Long Paths feature.
Improved: the app should support large font sizes (125%, 150%, 200%, etc.) correctly.
Improved: output installing user name and workspace name on the user interface correctly.