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v20.4: Faster image downloads, faster Update from Core

June 25th, 2020

Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger!

Here’s another big update for your Comic Collector software, with two further performance improvements:

Faster image downloads

We were able to make several improvements to the way images are downloaded (covers, preview art and backdrops), making it much faster than before.

This change affects all places where images are downloaded from our servers, that is, when Adding Comics from Core, when Updating from Core and when down-syncing from CLZ Cloud.

Faster Update from Core

On large collections the old Update from Core feature was quite slow, as it updated your comics one by one, that is, doing separate requests to our server for each and every comic.

So for this update, we also complete rewrote the Update from Core feature to do the updates in batches of 100 comics at a time, making it much much faster! (roughly 4 times as fast).

Remember: Update From Core can be used to update your local comic entries with possible extra data from our Core online comic database. To use this feature, select some comics, right click, then choose Update from Core.

Fixed:

  • When using My Rating as the folder field, the “0” folder was missing.
  • When using multiple levels of folders in the folder panel, sometimes the displayed counters were wrong.
  • Images View: it is now possible to change thumb size using Ctrl + mouse wheel.

Recent changes

CLZ introduces new Key Comic levels per April 1 April 1st, 2024 v23.7.3: Several bug fixes September 6th, 2023 v23.7.2: Missing Add Creator/Character button in Edit Comic screen August 28th, 2023 v23.7: Cloud-sync your customized creator and character lists August 28th, 2023 v23.6.3: Several improvements June 1st, 2023 v23.6.2: Improved Add Screen stability April 18th, 2023 v23.6: New report after Updating Key Info April 14th, 2023 v23.5.3: Various Fixes April 6th, 2023 v23.5.2: Fix for “Access Violation” error in Add Comics screen March 30th, 2023 v23.5: Now supports our new CLZ Scanner barcode scanner app March 29th, 2023 v23.4: Three new slab-related fields, plus a new look for slabs! March 14th, 2023 v23.3.2: Fixed a couple of issues in the Add Comics screen January 5th, 2023 v23.3: Improved Pull List and new “Discover” mode! January 4th, 2023 CLZ Comics Wrap-up 2022 December 29th, 2022 v23.2: ReLink Core Variant November 2nd, 2022 v23.1.3: Couple of bug fixes October 27th, 2022 v23.1: Two improvements to the CovrPrice integration October 24th, 2022 v23.0.3: Fixed a sorting problem October 7th, 2022 v23.0.2: Fixed a problem with converting from older versions October 4th, 2022 v23.0: Get comic values from CovrPrice! October 4th, 2022 CLZ / CovrPrice : Launch date -> October 4!! September 23rd, 2022 Reminder: Try CovrPrice now, US $4 discount on your first month August 27th, 2022 CLZ / CovrPrice FAQ August 12th, 2022 CLZ / CovrPrice collaboration, August 11 update August 11th, 2022 CLZ is going to work with CovrPrice for comic values! ETA: Sept 2022 June 15th, 2022