Drive Genius 6 Release Notes

Support macOS Ventura (BootWell with Cryptexes; update Drive Pulse and Activation UI).
Allow APFS Clone / Create BootWell to a drive smaller than source drive physical size.
Fix Free / Used Space monitoring for APFS Volumes and Volume Groups on macOS Monterey.
Support Protective MBR with GPT entries in Windows format (Master Boot Record parser).
Improve macOS Monterey support (update build SDK, internal and third-party libraries).
Update malware scan engine to version 0.105.1.

Full APFS Clone (support bootable signed sealed volumes / volume groups with snapshots).
BootWell options "Open Clone Tool" / "Download and Install macOS" (create bootable drive on M1).
Allow running Drive Pulse tasks when Time Machine daemon is loaded (avoid constant task rescheduling).
Prevent "is an app downloaded from the Internet" popups for installed Drive Genius / Drive Pulse executables.
Update malware scan engine to version 0.104.0.

Fix crash in embedded webview when browsing webpages with audio/video notifications.
Consistency Check: fix no error information after HFS+ "Invalid B-tree node size".

Add support for macOS 11.0 Big Sur.
Drive Pulse live malware scan now resolves and scans embedded file paths in Launch Agent config files.
Add Data Rescue 6 support.
Updated malware engine.

Fix Drive Pulse Clone auto-sync task not running for 10.15 system volumes.
Tweaked Drive Pulse task scheduling to be less agressive in canceling tasks when Time Machine is active.

Malware Scan now displays a data-loss warning when automatic Move-to-Trash is enabled.

Fix BootWell required restart failing with 'drive not availble' when using an APFS startup drive.
Fix Bootwell drive update failing when the startup drive was APFS and the Bootwell drive was HFS+.
Fix Consistency Check potentially failing with 'can't open drive' on 10.13+ HFS startup drives.
Fix Apple Hardware Encryption being spuriously detected for external drives on machines that did not have a T2 chip.
Fix Malware Scan re-scanning infected files that were previously moved to the Trash.

Fix a minor resource leak during APFS volume discovery.
Fix potential virtual memory thrashing during a malware scan on machines with 4GB of RAM.
Fix a potential stability issue when launching Drive Genius from Drive Pulse.

macOS 10.15 Catalina support.
Speed can now be run on on the startup drive without needing to reboot to a Bootwell drive.
Find Large Files and Find Duplicates results can be previewed using Quicklook (in List view only).
Find Large Files and Find Duplicates now ignore all hidden files and folders. This greatly reduces "noise" in the results.
Updated malware engine.
Data Rescue can be opened from the Drive Pulse menu.
Moved Defrag, Rebuild and Repartition utilities to a new "Legacy" group. Speed has been moved to the "Clean" group.
The Help book now supports dark mode.

Fix Clone/Bootwell drives not working as startup drives when the source APFS drive contained multiple startup volumes.
Windows Restore volumes are now hidden.
BootWell will only allow external drives or SD cards to be used for creating a BootWell drive.
Reduce possibility of Drive Pulse using an inordinate amount of memory.
BootWell drive creation now ignores the Backblaze library folder. This folder can be quite large, unecessarily bloating the BootWell drive.
Fix Find Large Files and Duplicates potentially taking an inordinate amount of time to cancel.
Fix Clone hanging when the target was a disk image (6.0 regression).
Fix Malware Scan indicating that it's still scanning files when it completed with 0 files scanned.
Fix APFS Fusion drive physical drive detection for 10.14+.
Fix Instant Pulse not working in Lite mode.

Better detection of system hibernation file when calculating optimal Free Space for the startup drive.

Fix potential failure to recognize a new activation without a relaunch.
Fix Bootwell creation failure due to copying extremely large database files created by Acronis True Image.
Fix stability issue when support folder creation failed due to a permissions issue.

Added automatic synchronization support for cloned drives. When enabled Drive Pulse will continually update clones in the background.
Updated UI, including full support for 10.14 Dark Mode support.
Malware Scan can now generate a report of all files scanned.
DrivePulse displays the temperature of drives in the DrivePulse menu (if supported by the drive).
DrivePulse "Live" Malware Scan is now a better energy citizen while the computer is on battery.
Duplicates and Large Files export now include a column showing if the file was removed or not.
Drive Pulse scheduling is now adaptive to system load allowing Drive Pulse tasks to run even when the system is constantly busy.
Drive Pulse will now cleanup log files on launch. This prevents unbounded log growth when Drive Genius has not been launched for an extended period.
Basic support for 10.15. Full support is forthcoming.
macOS 10.12.6 or later is required.