| 5.6 (1082) |
Bug fix release (Aug 18 2010)
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- Improved searching for MS Office 2007/2010 files, e.g. DOCX, XLSX etc.
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| 5.6 (1077) |
Feature release (July 15 2010) |
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- New NEAR Boolean operator for proximity searching.
- New LIKE Boolean operator for matching similar search terms.
- Improved error messages on expression compilation failures.
- Improved performance when displaying results for files on network drive.
- Bug fix: Boolean operator precedence issues.
- Bug fix: PST searching issue with PST files over 2GB in size.
- Bug fix: Right-click menu crash when SnagIt installed.
- Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.
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| 5.5 (1067) |
Bug fix release (June 11 2010) |
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- New DOS Expression characters < and > to match beginning and end of name.
- Improved Compressed Doc Interpreter to read extra information, such as VBA macros.
- Bug fix: Date/time issues if user settings different from system wide settings.
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| 5.5 (1061) |
Bug fix release (June 3 2010) |
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- Installer has a new USB Drive installation option.
- Configuration and log file folders now default to a location within AppData for non-USB Drive installations.
- Bug fix: 'Required resource was unavailable' error on expression help.
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| 5.5 (1055) |
Bug fix release (May 25 2010) |
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- Bug fix: Context menu wasn't working properly on Vista and Windows 7 with some anti-virus products.
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| 5.5 (1054) |
Bug fix release (May 17 2010) |
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- Improved shell extension stability.
- Improved cut feedback behaviour.
- Bug fix: Send To menu wasn't always working with Vista and Windows 7.
- Bug fix: Window positioning now allows negative coordinates on start-up.
- Bug Fix: Focus issue with Ctrl + A on file list.
- Bug fix: Crash in Basic view if search with containing text checked but no text entered.
- Bug fix: Wizard labels needed resizing.
- Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.
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| 5.5 (1044) |
Feature release (Feb 26 2010) |
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- Outlook PST file searching support.
- Added Create and Last Access date criteria.
- Improved ZIP searching efficiency.
- Bug fix: Toolbar repainting issue.
- Bug fix: Occasional hanging with Explorer shell extension.
- Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.
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| 5.2 (1037) |
Bug fix release (Jan 29 2010) |
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- Contents view can now be navigated with keyboard.
- Auto thread configuration on multi-core machines.
- Sub-expression options moved back to main tab.
- Improved UTF-8 speed.
- Check for new version functionality (off by default).
- New command line option -viewfile to open file in internal viewer.
- Bug fix: Problem using location filters with zip files at root.
- Bug fix: Statistics sometimes incorrect.
- Bug fix: Tab while renaming file issues.
- Bug fix: Corrupt PDF files causing unwanted message boxes.
- Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.
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| 5.2 (1025) |
Bug fix release (Oct 29 2009) |
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- Speed improvement on single phase searches.
- Significant memory management improvements on very large searches.
- Allows UTF8 default format for UTF8 files without BOM.
- Bug fix: Rename on mouse select wasn't working.
- Bug fix: Crash with Nino Copy Path shell extension.
- Bug fix: Multiple folder dialog added invalid items.
- Bug fix: Date/time issues.
- Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.
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| 5.2 (1010) |
Feature release (Oct 6 2009) |
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- New Boolean Sub Expressions functionality [more].
- New File Lists functionality for loading keywords from file [more].
- Regex speed improvements.
- Improved native handling of compressed doc formats, e.g. DOCX, XLSX, ODS etc.
- Drop down list behaviour fixes.
- Bug fix: Very long lines weren't drawn.
- Bug fix: Unicode problems in Zip files.
- Bug fix: Problems exporting custom format to clipboard.
- Bug fix: Date/time rounding issues.
- Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.
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| 5.1 (981) |
Bug fix release (Jul 2 2009) |
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- New Whole Word expression type (Exact Match behaviour reverted to original).
- Improved loading times.
- Variable line number widths.
- Shell ext bitmap transparent sections.
- Bug fix: Calendar control oversized on Vista.
- Bug fix: Crash on Tab key in contents view.
- Bug fix: Crash on Print Preview.
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| 5.1 (975) |
Feature release (June 26 2009) |
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- Using XP/Vista visual styles.
- New Boolean RegEx hybrid expression type.
- Simplified regex wizard.
- Exact match limits to whole word only.
- Search statistics.
- Improved memory management on very large (TB) searches.
- Bug fix: IFilter loading issue.
- Bug fix: -mb command line switch.
- Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.
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| 5.0 (948) |
Bug fix release (Apr 9 2009) |
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- Bug fix: Crash on very long path names.
- Bug fix: Rename not working on folders.
- Bug fix: Containing text check box not working in Basic Search.
- Bug fix: Date/Time parsing issues.
- Enhancement: Added resilience for bad/protected compressed files.
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| 5.0 (941) |
Bug fix release (Mar 20 2009) |
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- Bug fix: Crash when opening file in Internal Viewer on a non-content search.
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| 5.0 (939) |
Major release (Mar 16 2009) |
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- Automatic document format management
- Radically improved Internal Viewer [more]
- Support for relative date/times [more]
- Unicode support [more]
- MSI Installer
- File hash search (MD5,SHA-1/256/512)
- Additional formats: DMG, HFS, MSI, RPM, UDF, XAR, Z
- Core searching routine improvements.
- Additional configuration options
- Other improvements/bug fixes
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| 4.5 (842) |
Bug fix release (Oct 22 2008) |
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- Bug fix: Ctrl+F, F3 Explorer integration now working on Vista.
- Bug fix: Removed use of boost_interprocess temp folder.
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| 4.5 (840) |
Bug fix release (Oct 7 2008) |
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- Bug fix: Occasional program hang with multi-threaded searches.
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| 4.5 (834) |
Bug fix release (Sep 2 2008) |
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- Bug fix: Crash when right-clicking on thousands of files.
- Bug fix: Scroll wheel not working on contents view.
- Bug fix: Vista privilege escalation issue with Shell Integration options.
- Minor enhancements.
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| 4.5 (828) |
Bug fix release (July 10 2008) |
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- Reverted to older ComCtl version, due to problems selecting multiple files with the mouse.
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| 4.5 (826) |
Bug fix release (June 18 2008) |
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- Bug fix: Text sometimes clipped when using ClearType.
- Enhancement: Extra space for date time fields.
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| 4.5 (824) |
Bug fix release (June 10 2008) |
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- Bug fix: Floppy drive constantly spinning issue.
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| 4.5 (821) |
Major release (June 03 2008) |
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- Improved Vista support
- Run from USB Key
- Network drives listed
- Location filters [more]
- Location file lists [more]
- Location macros [more]
- My Documents shell extension
- Additional format: WIM
- Minor bug fixes
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| 4.0 (787) |
Bug fix release (Dec 02 2007) |
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- BugFix: Drag to CD
- BugFix: Additional error checking
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| 4.0 (775) |
Bug fix release (Aug 30 2007) |
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- BugFix: Installation issues
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| 4.0 (774) |
Bug fix release (Apr 10 2007) |
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- BugFix: Some IFilters not found due to alternative registration (inc. WordPerfect).
- BugFix: Search within search not clearing file list.
- BugFix: Copy Path not putting files in correct sort order.
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| 4.0 (772) |
Bug fix release (Apr 04 2007) |
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- BugFix: HotKey monitor crashes on Vista.
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| 4.0 (771) |
Bug fix release (Mar 30 2007) |
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- BugFix: Invalid reg code crashes application.
- BugFix: Redraw issues when moving or resizing columns in FileList View.
- BugFix: Search Criteria dialogs not opening correctly if location invalid.
- Moved to an updated version of C++ compiler and framework.
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| 4.0 (758) |
Bug fix release (Mar 7 2007) |
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- XML and HTML output now in UTF-8 format.
- Optimized -o searches for -ocn flag.
- Agressive memory management with -o searches to improve searching of very large drives.
- User configurable maximum lines per file (defaults to 10,000).
- BugFix: Locked files appearing but not searched.
- BugFix: -pc flag not working on -o searches.
- BugFix: Multiple threads on -o searches corrupting output.
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| 4.0 (754) |
Bug fix release (Feb 26 2007) |
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- BugFix: CPIO, DEB, GZ extensions.
- BugFix: Excluding file names in LookIn edit box.
- Changes for new 5 year reg codes.
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| 4.0 (746) |
Bug fix release (Feb 08 2007) |
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- BugFix: Unable to handle IFilters that have registry information marked as Read-only.
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| 4.0 (735) |
Major Release (Feb 01 2007) |
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File types:
- New supported file types: 7-Zip, ARJ, Bzip, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZIP, ISO, LZH,
NSIS, TAR
- IFilter support, extends supported types to: Open Office, Word Perfect, and
hundreds more
Functionality:
- Boolean search spanning whole file (not just line by line).
- Exclude folders list.
- Search within search (limits search to files found in previous search).
- Attribute searching (e.g. Folder, Hidden, Read-only etc).
- Pause/Resume search.
- User configurable Alerts/Notifications when files found and/or search
finishes.
- Much better user configuration dialogs.
- User configuration moved out of registry to XML files.
- XSL Transform support for saving results in user configurable format
(requires Win XP or MS XML Core Services).
Performance:
- Dual/Quad core optimizations (user-configurable number of search
threads).
- Core searching routine improvements.
- Perl style regular expressions (Boost library) 2x faster.
Other features/fixes:
- 'Look in' expression handling improvements.
- Shell context menu improvements including 'Send To' and 'Open With' bug
fixes.
- Shell extension can launch search on specific files instead of whole
folder.
- 'Look in' now accepts paths of individual files not just folders.
- Title bar displays search progress during search.
- Log file rotations (stops log files from exceeding 100k).
- -r command line option to start search immediately.
- -dw command line option to search current working directory.
- Process priority settings.
- Extensions can now be run in Safe Mode to prevent them crashing main
application.
- Tab order optimization, with option to restore to standard Left-Right
order.
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| 3.1.1 (640) |
Bug fix release (Apr 20 2006) |
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- Redraw crash following file Cut fixed
- MS Office searching improvements (supports DOC/XLS/PPT)
- Other minor enhancements and bug fixes
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| 3.1 (638) |
Usability Release (Mar 22 2006) |
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- Enhanced shell functionality (Rename, Cut, Shift+Delete, Right-click drag
etc.)
- Ability to hide contents view (useful when searching large files)
- Option to show end of file path if full path won't fit
- Other minor enhancements and bug fixes
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| 3.0 (609) |
Major Release (Aug 17 2005) |
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- Boolean searches (e.g. AND, OR, NOT)
- Perl regexp support (via Boost library)
- Search navigation (similar to Internet browser navigation)
- HotKey support (Win+Alt+F)
- Improved User Interface
- Multiple highlights on same line
- Visual Studio.NET as external editor option
- Many minor enhancements and bug fixes
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| 2.0.2 (527) |
Bug fix release (Sep 18 2004) |
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- Installation now checks registration expiration before the install begins
- Minor fix on conflicting hot keys
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| 2.0.2 (526) |
Bug fix release (Sep 1 2004) |
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- Context menu handling handles badly behaved entries better.
- Two additional scripts in Sample Scripts folder showing how to do a 'NOT' and
use JScript regular expressions
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| 2.0.2 (521) |
Bug fix release (May 28 2004) |
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- Fixed problem with context menu opening folders
- Added -oc command line switch to control 'Save Contents' option
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| 2.0.2 (516) |
Bug fix release (Mar 25 2004) |
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- Double click problem with Win98
- Installation now no longer clears previous history
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| 2.0.2 (515) |
Bug fix release (Mar 3 2004) |
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- RAR Interpreter added
- Word Doc interpreter added (switched off by default)
- Minor improvements
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| 2.0.2 (510) |
Bug fix release (Feb 13 2004) |
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- Zip functionality within WinXP speed fix.
- Folder 'disappearing' bug fix.
- Results output double spacing lines fix.
- Installation now forces overwrite of prior install.
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| 2.0.2 (508) |
Enhancement release (Jan 31 2004) |
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- Full row select on file list.
- Tool tip completion if file information not completely displayed.
- Registration code modification.
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| 2.0.1 (494) |
Enhancement release (Oct 8 2003) |
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- Auto complete on folder drop down.
- Save surrounding lines option.
- HTML export results.
- Log files written to logs sub folder.
- Improved DOS expression support.
- Fixed Contents View bug.
- Fixed time not remembered in Advanced tab bug.
- Installation now no longer overwrites history.
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| 2.0 (482) |
Various minor build updates (to Jul 16
2003) |
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- Convert 8 bit chars to 7 bit chars option added.
- Contents resync problem following file delete.
- Registration/installation requirements simplified.
- Internal viewer not loading files correctly.
- CAB support added.
- File list sorting issue.
- Problem with badly formed ZIP files.
- Escaping special characters when regexp NOT used in containing text.
- Multi-threaded synchronization issues in progress notification code.
- PDF searching not working on certain long name locations.
- 'Look in' combo only retrieving 260 chars of previous searches.
- Command line loading of search parms with -o switch problem.
- Password protected ZIP entries causing problems.
- Last search DOS Expression not retained correctly after reload.
- Error if found expression exceeds 5,000 characters.
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| 2.0 (446) |
FileLocator Pro Released (Apr 8th 2003) |