Freeze Changelog

  • Maintenance: update bundled 3rd party software.
  • Allow drag and drop to upload even if archive list takes up entire window.


  • The download part size is now configurable in the advanced preferences.
  • Fixes a bug that could cause an incorrect "insufficient disk space" error.
  • Adds support for AWS region: Asia Pacific (Jakarta).


  • Optimized build for Apple Silicon Macs.
  • Improves compatibility with macOS Monterey, drops support for macOS Sierra.
  • Improves file access error messages in the transfer log.
  • Adds the ability to negate search queries by prefixing them with an exclamation mark.


  • Fix issues uploading large files from network shares with Big Sur.
  • Stability improvements and bugfixes.


  • Compatibility-update for upcoming macOS 11 (Big Sur).
  • Adds support for AWS regions: Europe (Milan) and Africa (Cape Town).
  • AWS key pairs with restricted access to AWS regions are now supported.


  • Fixes a bug that could prevent deleting or initiating archive retrieval for an entire folder.


  • Adds support for AWS region: Middle East (Bahrain).
  • Adds the ability to search for archives across multiple vaults (as described in the Guide).
  • Stability improvements and bugfixes.


  • Fixes a crash that could occur when invoking Compare Mode.


  • Fixes sorting by archive description in inventory table.
  • Fixes the mapping file import.
  • Stability improvements and minor bugfixes.


  • Adds support for AWS region: Asia Pacific (Hong Kong).
  • Allows configurable part size up to 4 GB.
  • Adds new vault option "Remove local inventory".
  • Stability improvements and bugfixes.


  • Adds a warning if you choose "Expedited" as retrieval tier (because it can get very expensive).
  • Adds a warning if you try to upload many small archives.
  • Adds an option to remove the license.
  • Adds an option to remove successfully completed transfers when you quit the app (Advanced Settings).
  • Simplifies the region selection UI.
  • Fixes a random crash that could occur when choosing "Initiate Archive Retrieval".
  • Fixes a bug that could prevent an archive retrieval from downloading if you removed the target directory during the archive retrieval phase.


  • Improves auto-retry handling for flaky internet connections.
  • Adds support for AWS regions: EU (Stockholm), South America (São Paulo), GovCloud (US-East).
  • Shows folder contents (number of archives and total size) in info box.
  • Stability improvements and bugfixes.


  • Adds support for Dark Mode (macOS Mojave).
  • Improves automatic database optimization.


  • Adds an option for case-insensitive inventory-search.
  • Fixes an issue that could cause the vault inventory to be empty after a crash.
  • Shows download progress in Finder for archive retrievals.
  • Identical archives (same hash and same destination path) are skipped automatically when initiating archive retrievals.


  • Adds support for AWS regions: Singapore, Beijing, Ningxia, Osaka-Local.
  • Stability improvements and minor bugfixes.


  • Adds support for new AWS region: EU (Paris).
  • Improves transfer queue performance.
  • Improves compatibility with SSL-decrypting firewalls.
  • Transfers with expired upload IDs will now be re-initiated automatically.
  • Other bugfixes and performance improvements.


  • Workaround for a High Sierra bug that can crash the app while performing a window resize.
  • Database integrity check after unclean shutdown can now be skipped.
  • Fixes for german translation.


  • Fixes crashes on macOS High Sierra.
  • Improved compatibility with Synology NAS mapping files (Thanks Andreas).
  • Uploading files from within "Compare mode" now preserves directory structure.
  • Added a global log file to simplify support troubleshooting.


  • Compatibility fix for upcoming macOS release 10.13.


  • Adds automatic crash recovery for the internal database.
  • Fixes a bug that could prevent the folder compare mode from being dismissed.
  • Fixes an erroneous "No free disk space" error message for archive retrievals.


  • Fixed a bug where transfers could get stuck for too long before they time out.
  • Other minor bugfixes.


  • Adds support for new Glacier retrieval methods (Bulk, Standard, Expedited).
  • Transfers can now be filtered by status (e.g. Failed, Completed).
  • The "Clear" button now allows you to keep failed transfers.
  • Fixes a bug that could prevent the "Preventing Sleep" feature to function properly.
  • Some minor bugfixes.


  • Adds support for new AWS region: EU (London).


  • Adds support for new AWS region: Canada (Central).
  • Fixes a crash when changing the data retrieval policy.
  • Bugfixes and performance improvements.


  • Adds support for new AWS region: US East (Ohio).
  • Auto-retry a transfer when Glacier replies with a ThrottlingException.
  • "Clear" doesn't clear failed transfers anymore. Only completed or user cancelled transfers are removed from the queue.
  • Minor bugfixes and performance improvements.


  • Fixes Layout issues with macOS Sierra.
  • Fixes failing uploads for older Yosemite releases (<=10.10.4).
  • Fixes failing uploads for files with leading or trailing whitespace in the filename.
  • Improved progress display for "Delete all archives".
  • Minor bugfixes and performance improvements.


  • New transfer engine for more accurate bandwidth throttling.
  • Improved import process for huge inventories.
  • New option "Delete all archives" to completely empty a vault.
  • Support for QNAP NAS archive description format. (Thanks, Steven)
  • General bugfixes and performance improvements.


  • Support for new AWS region: Asia Pacific (Mumbai).
  • Bugfixes.


  • Show a warning if you try to initiate archive retrieval without having set a Data Retrieval Policy.
  • Improved handling for transfers that have expired after 24 hours: Expired inventory retrievals are re-initiated automatically (as this operation does not produce additional costs). Archive retrievals can be re-initiated manually. These are not re-initiated automatically, as this may produce additional costs.
  • Reduced CPU usage.
  • Minor bugfixes.


  • Fixes a bug that could prevent automatic scheduling of retrieval jobs into the "Waiting" state upon exceeding the current data policy's retrieval rate limit.
  • Other minor bugfixes.


  • Adds support for Cloudberry's Archive Description format.
  • Data Retrieval Policy can be changed via the context menu of the info area for the selected region.
  • Adds german localization.
  • Bugfixes.


Folder support

Freeze now supports the concept of folders. Although Glacier has a flat structure with no hierarchy, it does that by using forward slashes in archive descriptions as folder separators. This is a common concept used by most Amazon S3 and Glacier clients. You can enable and disable folder view within the app by selecting "Inventory -> Folder View".

Folder synchronization

When you try to upload a folder that already exists at the destination, Freeze will ask you if the remote folder should be synchronized with the local folder, so that only new and changed files will be transferred. Additionally, you have the option to delete orphaned archives from the destination.

Drag&drop from Finder

To make uploading more convenient, you can now upload files and entire folders by dragging them from Finder to the desired destination vault/folder.

Other changes

  • Adds support for Synology database files. Allows restoration of empty archive descriptions for backups created with Synology NAS.
  • Adds new sorting options for the list of vaults.
  • Improved performance and bugfixes.


Features:

  • Archive retrieval adds support for folder structure reconstruction for archive descriptions that contain pathnames.
  • Adds support for CrossFTP's archive description format.

Bugfixes:

  • Fixes a crash that could occur while browsing large inventories.
  • Fixes a crash that could occur while restoring cancelled uploads.


Features:

  • Support for regions Asia Pacific (Seoul) and GovCloud (US).
  • Support for Notification Center.
  • Transfer progress visible in Dock.

Bugfixes:

  • Fixes a crash that could occur on startup of the app.


Features:

  • Support for vault tagging: You can now manage vault tags with Freeze. These are displayed in the infobox when you select a vault and can also be edited from there. Vault tags can be used for filtering, costs tracking and access control management (see Amazon Glacier documentation for more information about tagging).
  • Added search box to filter vaults.
  • Show progress for restoring/persisting a large number of transfers.
  • Incomplete multipart uploads are deleted when transfer is cleared.

Bugfixes:

  • Improved performance.
  • Better handling of the transfer queue processing a large number of items.
  • Minor bugfixes.


New features:

  • Support for URL-encoded archive descriptions.
  • Transfers can be opened in a separate window.
  • Minor UI improvements.

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent uploading a file which is owned by another system user, although readable for the current user.
  • Fixed a potential crash due to missing keychain items.
  • More accurate relative timestamps in the infobox.
  • Minor bugfixes.


New features:

  • Individual regions can now be deactivated per account. This makes it possible to use AWS credentials which are restricted to certain regions.
  • The progress of archive delete operations is now visible in the "Transfers" view.
  • Region endpoints can be extended to support special regions like GovCloud or AWS China. See FAQ for more information.
  • The upload part size is now configurable in advanced preferences.

Bugfixes:

  • Fixed an issue that prevented switching vaults while an archive delete operation was in progress.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent uploads to be properly resumed after restarting the app.
  • Fixed an issue that could prevent the "Show duplicates" feature from functioning correctly.
  • Fixed inaccurate display of upload progress for stopped transfers.
  • Improved retry behavior for unreliable network connections.
  • Other minor bugfixes.