v9.20.0208 - 2010-07-15 10:51

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• ! Find Files: Search Results were not updated on deletion when at least one folder was among the deleted items. Fixed.

v9.20.0207 - 2010-07-14 21:28

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• * Updated the help file.
• * Upgrading: Auto-assigning unused default keyboard shortcuts to their function now only happens if no other shortcuts already point to that function.
  FYI, this feature was added in v8.80.0318 - 2010-02-21 19:24.

v9.20.0206 - 2010-07-12 20:58

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• * Info Panel | Find Files: Made the controls area 100 pixels wider and stretched those controls that could need a stretching. In particular you now got more space for Name and Location.
• ! Tree: Moving the current folder into another not yet opened folder under a special node (e.g. Desktop) resulted in a wrong situation since v9.20.0205. Fixed.
• ! Using scripting and a bit of (bad) luck it was possible to launch two backup operations simultaneously which is currently not supported and leads to undetermined results. Fixed: Now you cannot launch a backup operation by any means while another one is still in progress.

v9.20.0205 - 2010-07-12 14:39

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• * List: Now in an unfocused List any selected but not focused items are not drawn with a gradient anymore but with a plain color (as defined in Configuration | Colors & Styles | Sel. Items Back). This way they are better distinguished from the focused+selected item.
• * Configuration | Shell Integration: Now, if you try to change these settings and fail because you are not admin, you get this message:
  "You need administrator rights to change this setting."
• * Raw View: Now the selection colors conform to the global Windows color schemes.
• ! Raw View: Would not view a selected file on startup. Fixed.
• ! Configuration | Colors & Styles: Fixed some glitches in the color previews (some fields were not set).

v9.20.0204 - 2010-07-10 14:54

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• +++ Configuration | General: Added option "Remember state of tree".
  Tick it to remember which nodes are expanded in the Maxi Tree (the Mini Tree state is remembered anyway ever since).
  The tree state is retained across sessions and also when switching between Maxi and Mini Tree. It also works with a Locked Tree. Also the scroll position is remembered. So now you have a pretty good chance that you find your tree exactly as you left it last time (unless another app changed the folder structure). Of course, recreating the tree does involve additional browsing, so the startup time will be slightly longer depending on the complexity of the tree.
  Cool feature, not every file manager can do this.
• + Configuration | Preview: Added option "Keep playing when info panel is hidden". Tick it to keep a running audio/video preview busy when you close the Info Panel.
  Note that "keep playing" was the hard-coded default before, but now it's optional and defaults to unticked (= stop preview on panel down).

v9.20.0203 - 2010-07-09 15:36

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• + Thumbnails Caching: Now, in the thumbnails cache folder a file "XYThumbs.txt" is created and maintained. This file contains an index of your cache files which is used to handle renaming or moving of cached folders gracefully, i.e. avoiding the need to recreate a cache from scratch only because a folder has been
  renamed or moved.
  The overwhelmingly cool thing about it is that it also works in non-thumbs view and non-cache mode and with non-current folders. So you don't have to think about your thumbs anymore, and no thumb has to be created twice. Whenever you rename or move a folder within XYplorer, any affected thumbs cache is adjusted to the change in the background.
  The format of the index file is simple and self-explaining, so that you can even edit it manually or programmatically if needed. Note that the folder list is expected to be sorted.
  Of course, all of the above only applies when you use disk caching for thumbnails, i.e. when "Configuration | Thumbnails | Cache thumbnails on disk" is ticked.
  
  *** Upgrade Note ***
  To add an already existing cache to the index file, you have to browse to the cached folder once in thumbnails view. This will auto-add the folder's cache to the index. Only folders that have been added to the index enjoy the service described above.
  
  *** SAFETY NOTE ***
  As always, remember this is BETA stuff and might be only near to perfection but not quite there. If you have many GBs of thumbnail data on your disk you should change your thumb cache to some temp folder (under Configuration | Thumbnails | Cache thumbnails on disk) before testing this version.
  
• + Configuration | Color Filters: Added option "Apply name patterns to files only". Check it to avoid that folders are colored when they match a pattern.
  FYI, "name patterns" describe the name of the items to color (usually with the help of wildcards), whereas "attribute patterns" define a file attribute and always begin with a "/".
• + Media Preview: Now the context menu (orange button) of the Preview tab has a toggle "First [...] Seconds Only". Gives you quick access to this setting.
• ! Panes: The size of the second pane wasn't always correcly saved between sessions when starting up in minimized state. Fixed.
• ! Mini Tree: Unavailable drives stored in the Mini Tree were sorted below Network and Recycle Bin nodes instead of above. Fixed.
• ! Command Line: Wouldn't select file by command line if XYplorer was already open. Fixed.

v9.20.0202 - 2010-07-07 10:58

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• + Media Preview: Now you can optionally play only the beginning of a sound or video file, and then stop, loop, and jump to the next file (depending on the Loop settings).
  The number of seconds to be played can be defined in Configuration | Preview | Play only the first seconds. Untick the checkbox or enter value 0 to play the whole file (= factory default).
  Note that for technical reasons the stop time cannot be exact to the millisecond but will usually be plus-minus 30 milliseconds off.
• * Configuration | Preview: Renamed "Play with panel down" to "Play also when info panel is hidden".
• - Configuration | Advanced: Removed setting "Quick scripting". Quick scripting (the ability to pass scripts through the Address Bar and similar ports by prefixing :: to them) is now internally always enabled. If you deem scripting too risky you can always turn it off completely using "Configuration | Features | Scripting".
• ! List: Since v9.20.0201, list styles that were turned off were not re-applied anymore to the current list when "Configuration | Colors & Styles | Apply list styles globally" was off. Fixed.
• ! List: In the white space context menu the New folder icon missing when the New Items folder was empty. Fixed.
• ! Variable <cursize> did not work for certain hard-to-access system files like pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys. Fixed.
• ! List: Drawing glitch (selection remained partly visible) when renaming drive in the drives listing. Fixed.
• ! Office Preview: Would not preview Office files with wide characters (e.g. Chinese) in the name. Fixed.

v9.20.0201 - 2010-07-06 11:31

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• * Changed the predefined Portable File Association coming to your home with a virgin run to this one:
    |"Copy file size in bytes" *>::copytext <cursize>
• * Folder Sizes: Now when you turn on Show Folder Sizes then the folder sizes are only calculated for the visible pane(s). Before, they would be also calculated for an invisible background pane, which lead to not immediately understandable delays.
• ! Under certain conditions the current file on the back pane was not updated correctly internally which surfaced as the need to focus the pane before a dbl-click would open the file. Fixed.
• ! List: List styles were applied globally also across list modes (e.g. pane 1 shows drives, pane 2 shows folder contents). Fixed:
  Now list styles are applied only to lists / tabs with the same mode as the current list.
• ! List: When moving between different list modes (e.g. Recycle Bin and a normal folder listing) using the history (Back, Forward) the sort order got confused uder certain conditions. Fixed.

v9.20.0103 - 2010-07-03 09:21

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• ! Find Files: The Name field was ignored since v9.20.0102. Fixed.

v9.20.0102 - 2010-07-02 10:39

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• * Tree: With Configuration | General | Expand tree nodes on single-click ON and Tools | Customize Tree | Rename on slow double-click OFF, you now can also *collapse* the current tree node by a single click on the name. Saves you many clicks if you are one of those who like the single click mode. I'm almost converted myself...
• ! Command Line: Would not process "Recycle Bin" (or whatever it is called in your locale) as startpath. Fixed.
• ! Image Preview: The compression ratio was not calculated correctly for animated GIFs. Fixed.
• ! Tabs: When right-clicking the Tab Bar to get the Tablist it always took you to the first tab, no matter which tab in the list you've chosen. Fixed.
• ! Preview: Crash on renaming a previewed ICO file. Fixed.
• ! Tags: After a cancelled Move operation, Tags and Comments of the source were still attributed to a target item of the same name as the source. Fixed.
• ! Find Files: The combination of Name * and Inverted should return an empty list but did not. Fixed.
• ! MP3 Info Tip: Depending on your locale and certain characters in the filename (e.g. ñ under Czech locale) hovering an MP3 file could lead to the creation of a zero-length file with a similar name (some characters altered, e.g. ñ replaced by n) in the same folder. Fixed.
  The bug could also surface in the image preview, the font preview, and some other places. All these places are fixed as well.