This update helps libraries imported on different devices come together through Live Sync. It reduces duplicate policy listings while keeping your study material attached to the PDF you actually studied.
A cleaner Current Policy library
- When matching policies meet through Live Sync, PolicyVector selects the more recently uploaded copy. For example, downloading an older copy onto your phone today will not make it replace a policy you uploaded last week. This uses the upload date, not the revision date printed inside the policy.
- PolicyVector recognizes matching publications and chapters despite differences in spacing, capitalization, “Chapter” prefixes, and common contents or transmittal labels. Deliberately separate copies, saved snapshots, redacted versions, and distinct supporting documents remain separate.
- Once the replacement is installed, superseded copies no longer clutter Current Policy, category counts, text search, AI policy questions, or new snapshots. Earlier PDFs still needed by study material are retained.
Keep your study work and its original source
- Outlines, flashcards, and bookmarks made from an older PDF continue to open that exact version. Those PDFs remain available as Earlier policy versions, so you can check what your saved material was based on.
- If one device changes a flashcard question and another changes its answer, both changes can be kept. The same applies to independent outline edits. Competing edits to the same field remain available for review, and deleted material is not simply restored by an older edit.
- Windows and Mac 1.2.2 remain compatible with the updated library records. They may display retained copies separately until updated. Sync can also resume the compatibility work needed for previously uploaded records after an interruption.
More dependable reading and startup
- Fixed a preparation failure on table-of-contents entries where a long row of dots runs into a page number.
- If PolicyVector cannot open its library folder or database, it now identifies the access problem and gives recovery instructions instead of a generic startup failure. An inaccessible library is not treated as an empty one.
More reliable Windows updates
- Fixed valid signed installers being rejected merely because their signing certificate had since expired. Windows still checks that the installer was signed by the expected publisher and has not been altered.
- If an older version refuses the update, download and run the signed installer from the website. The updater fix takes effect after installing 1.2.3.
Live Sync recovery improvements
Companion service fixes help an approved device finish joining an existing workspace and allow retained study materials to be restored through Live Sync. These improvements support compatible desktop and Mobile clients.
This update changes the local library database. Returning to a version older than 1.2.3 requires restoring a backup made before the upgrade.