FTPie Release Notes

Version 2026.8.2

New: Stop a running job

  • •You can now stop a backup or scheduled transfer that is already running. While a job runs, its Run now button becomes a Stop button. Until now the only ways out were waiting it out or closing FTPie
  • •A stopped run is recorded as Interrupted rather than counted as a success, and its partial snapshot keeps its unfinished marker so it is never mistaken for a complete backup

Backup encryption is now its own step

  • •Encryption has its own step in the backup wizard, ahead of compression - one checkbox and one password. It used to sit four levels deep: enable compression, open Advanced, tick password protection, then change the algorithm off its default
  • •Backups are always AES-256 now. The algorithm dropdown is gone, along with its old default - the legacy ZIP encryption, which is trivially breakable. Anyone who ticked the password box and left the dropdown alone had been getting weak encryption
  • •Encrypting no longer forces compression. You can encrypt without compressing, and the archive is then written without spending the time on it
  • •Your backup password is now protected by Windows and tied to your Windows account. It used to be stored as plain text in FTPie's local database - anyone who copied that one file had every backup password
  • •Restoring an encrypted backup always asks for the password. It used to fill it in from the stored copy and decrypt silently, which made "only you can open it" untrue for anyone with access to your PC
  • •If the password cannot be read - the database was copied from another PC or another Windows user, say - the run now fails with a clear message before anything is uploaded, instead of quietly uploading your files unencrypted
  • •Please check your encrypted backups after updating. The old password-protection settings are not carried over into the new encryption step, and a backup that loses them keeps running normally while producing unencrypted archives. Open the backup, tick Encryption and enter the password again. Snapshots you already have are untouched and still restore as before

Two backup bugs, both long-standing

  • •Successful backups could vanish from history. A backup with more than 50 runs and retention turned off kept working and transferring data, but left no trace - no history entry, no updated "Last run". The record being deleted was the run that had just started. The snapshots from those swallowed runs have no history entry pointing at them, so retention cannot reclaim them either; they need deleting by hand
  • •A folder sitting directly on a drive root lost the first letter of its name inside the archive - a backup of E:\Badania restored into E:\adania. Backing up a whole drive or a whole network share was worse: the archive stored full absolute paths, which many tools refuse to open. The damage happened while writing the archive, so re-run the backup once to get a corrected one; archives you already have still hold the old names. The same fix covers the Compress command and Scheduled Transfers

Scheduled transfers

  • •Run history is now capped at 50 entries. It had no limit at all, and the whole list was rewritten on every run - a five-minute schedule added roughly 288 records a day and got slower as it went
  • •The Delete button in the run history now reads Remove from history, and its tooltip says the transferred files are left alone. It shared its wording with backup history, where Delete really does remove the stored snapshot

Screenshot & screen recording

  • •Keyboard shortcuts. On a screenshot: Ctrl+C copy, Ctrl+S save, Ctrl+Shift+S share, Ctrl+Z and Ctrl+Y for undo and redo. The recording page had no keyboard handling at all and now has Ctrl+C copy, Ctrl+E show in Explorer, Ctrl+Shift+S share
  • •Right-click menus on both pages, mirroring the toolbar
  • •Fixed: a screenshot could not be scrolled while a drawing tool was selected - pressing the scrollbar started a stroke instead. Middle-drag now pans the image whichever tool is active
  • •The recorder gets out of the way before the countdown now, not after it. The delay is there to let you arrange the shot, which does not work with the recorder sitting on top of it - and in full-screen mode on a multi-monitor setup this could end up recording the wrong screen
  • •Both toolbars are translated now - see the Screenshot and Screen Recording pages

Language & wording

  • •Schedules, dates and countdowns are translated at last. "Every 5 min", "Daily at 09:00", "Today at 13:43" and "in 2 min" had stayed English in every language. Now translated in all 21, everywhere they appear
  • •The new-folder dialog is translated, including the name it suggests - folders created there were previously called literally "New folder" no matter what language you use
  • •Backup and Scheduled Transfers are named consistently across the sidebar, the main menu, the page header and Settings. Some languages had drifted into four different spellings of one page name
  • •Russian: Play in the music and video menus said "Играть" - the play-a-game verb. It now says "Воспроизвести"
  • •Still to come: weekday names, month names and the 12 or 24-hour clock follow your Windows regional settings rather than the language chosen in FTPie

Interface fixes

  • •Search on the Backup and Scheduled Transfers pages is now a collapsible box on the right - Escape or the close button hides it and clears the filter
  • •A search that matched nothing used to show the "you have no backups yet" empty state. It now says the search found nothing, with a way to clear it
  • •Card buttons stay visible once a card is selected, instead of only while the pointer is over it - so they can be reached from the keyboard too
  • •Text that overlapped or was cut off instead of wrapping: long storage names running into the quota on the dashboard, the sign-up banner, the reorder-storages hint, the sharing confirmation dialog, and the account connection notice that was clipped mid-word
  • •Webhook and script notification rules now list the eleven values FTPie passes to them, with an example - the hint said the run context was sent without ever saying what was in it. The method dropdown is properly aligned now too
  • •The Activity page no longer offers filters that could never match anything
  • •Smaller touches: the Backup icon in the context menu had the wrong colour, the split-view icon was drawn slightly smaller than the tree icon beside it, and the scheduled-transfer card menu now matches the backup one

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