AN EXTREMELY RARE BUT CRITICAL BUG AFFECTING 3D TOPICSCAPE PRO AND LITE HAS BEEN FIXED

New versions with fixes are now on line: 3D Topicscape Pro 1.57 and 3D Topicscape Lite 1.11

A user reported a problem resulting from an action that we had never anticipated: If you drag a partition (that is, a logical disk drive, not a folder) into 3D Topicscape Pro 1.56 or earlier, or Topicscape Lite 1.10 or earlier, the software gave an error report and lost files and folders.  In the nearly two years that users have been making 3D mind maps and organizing their information with Topicscape, we believe no one has tried this operation on a partition before, or even thought of it.  Fortunately, we were able to help the user to rescue all his files.

Do not try the action described with any versions of 3D Topicscape Pro before 1.57 or Lite before version 1.11 because you WILL loose files and folders.

Using the import functions to make a new Topicscape or a floating topic from a partition was already prevented by earlier versions of Topicscape Pro, but not Lite.

3D Topicscape Pro version 1.57 and Topicscape Lite version 1.11 now detect and prevent such a drag operation and give an explanatory message.

To import an entire partition into Topicscape, you could make a new folder in the root directory of the partition, and drag all the other folders into it.  Then drag that single folder to Topicscape.  Note that generally an entire partition would make a very large Topicscape, and if you chose the move or copy option, the contents of the whole partition would end up as a sub-sub-folder of your ‘My Topicscapes’ folder.

You may download the latest Topicscape installers here:
http://www.topicscape.com/download5.php

Roy

P.S.   A note to avoid uncertainty: This does not apply to the Student Edition, because that does not support dragging in folders.

The April (print) edition of PC World will have a review of 3D Topicscape Lite.  PC World’s site here:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,69200/description.html
already has 3D Topicscape Lite on it.

Argey

Dragging and dropping of files and favicons into Topicscape has been re-designed.  Difficulties with this action had been observed occasionally on a few computers and the computer code for this process has been re-written.

Some minor bug fixes have also been done.

The new version is here: http://www.topicscape.com/download5.php

Roy

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Topicscape.com’s  amazing mindmaps directory has just grown. More than 700 mindmaps assiduously gathered from across the globe.

This is the only mind maps library that allows browsing, filtering by map type (we have spidergrams, bubble diagrams, concept maps, pure, pure mind maps and other types), and is fully tagged with a tag cloud filter and search by subject capability.  Each map is linked to its original source.

So useful for business mappers, students and creative types, looking for fresh ideas and a new approach.

To see the new maps, go to the end (page 48, with 15 maps per page) and work back to page 39 at least.

Roy

I just found this - a dynamic mindmap of cognition.  An elegant piece of analysis and a neat web mini-application that lets you view the map and see some of the meta-data behind it.

Will Tom Van Buskirk release this as a general tool, I wonder?

Click below to view a local image, or above to see the real thing.

Roy

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