Changes

After you installed (or removed) applications and customized their configuration, all changes made to the reference device system need to be found. This is done in the second step of the snapshot package creation of the console.

In the tabs of this node you can view the details of the changes found and you can also delete any unwanted or irrelevant entries. The console will always find all changed files, regardless of whether they were created as part of the software installation or otherwise. For this reason, it is possible that the console can find system changes, which are not required to be part of the distributable software package. If this happens, you can manually edit the Change lists by removing entries in any of the lists, which you do not think are correct. You cannot add any entries to any of the lists, but if required you can add any changes or new files directly to the package file later on.

The Changes node displays the following general information about the selected package. If the package has just been created the values for all these attributes will be 0, because the list of changes has not yet been created:

Parameter	Description
Creation Date	This field uses the system clock to fill in the date and time of creation of the list of changes.
File Size (KB)	This field displays the total size of the file containing the list of changes in bytes.
Total Archived Files	This field displays the total amount in bytes of the files that were added since the snapshot was taken.
New	The entries of the following fields display the number of new objects added to each group, that is, the number of directories added during installation/uninstallation/update, and thus were added to the list of changes. Total New Directories Total New Files Total New Registry Keys Total New Registry Values Total New Services/Drivers
Changed	The entries of the following fields listed the number of modified objects of each group, that is, the number of registry keys that were changed during installation/uninstallation/update, and thus were added to the list of changes. Total Changed Directories Total Changed Files Total Changed Registry Keys Total Changed Registry Values Total Changed Services/Drivers
Deleted	The entries of the following fields listed the number of objects deleted from each group, that is, the number of files that were removed during installation/uninstallation/update, and thus were added to the list of changes. Total Deleted Directories Total Deleted Files Total Deleted Registry Keys Total Deleted Registry Values Total Deleted Services/Drivers