New! Easy, secure, one-click Disk Image (.dmg) archival with Click Archive!
As software developers, we’ve noticed we’re frequently taking archival ‘snapshots’ of files and folders. These snapshots aren’t backups, per se, so we don’t rely on Time Machine for archival purposes… each archive is simply the frozen ‘state’ of a file or folder, at a particular moment in time.
Now, there are ways to take these snapshots with existing tools already built into OS X- you could simply right-click in the Finder and select ‘Compress…’, in which case you get a .zip archive. Or you could use Disk Utilities to create a double-clickable Disk Image (.dmg).
Either option works fine if you’re infrequently making simple archives… but what if archival is something you do regularly… perhaps as often as several times a day? And wouldn’t it be nice if you could secure your archives with encryption, and maybe add timestamped notes to them (and to a history log of every note you’ve made)? How about timestamping the archive filenames themselves, so you can see at a glance when an archive was made, and order your archives chronologically by filename?
Enter Click Archive: the tool that makes streamlined archival as easy as a single mouse click. You add files or folders you want to archive regularly to Click Archive’s Palette, and it remembers them… and displays them as widget-like Panels through which you can easily configure and perform archival.
Instead of selecting encryption options and entering passwords every time you make an archive, enter your security options just once, and let Click Archive apply them for you automatically.
Want to add notes to archives? Just select the ‘Add Notes’ checkbox and Click Archive will prompt you for your notes during archival- all as a seamless part of the process. Click Archive makes frequent, secure, and organized archival astonishingly easy and quick.
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