What's New
XYplorer is continuously enhanced and updated, and a new version is released every one or two months. There are also occasional Maintenance Releases with minor bug fixes and improvements.
The following list shows the highlights of recent releases. Registered Users can download a detailed Change Log in the License Lounge.
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Maintenance Release 12.40.0200
Released 16-May-2013
File Times in UTC. Now you can show all file times in UTC
(Coordinated Universal Time), i.e. in the universal time format
that is independent of your current time zone.
Minor bug fixes and enhancements.
Maintenance Release 12.40.0100
Released 08-May-2013
Custom File Icons. Now you can customize the icons of the
currently selected tree folders.
Custom File Icons Toolbar Toggle. The new toolbar button "Enable Custom File Icons" lets you quickly toggle custom and standard icons. No restart required.
Minor bug fixes and enhancements.
What's new in 12.40?
Released 30-Apr-2013
Custom File Icons. This version comes with some serious eye candy.
Windows can assign icons to file types, but here are new icon
tricks that go much further: Assign custom icons to all folders
with a certain name, e.g. "movie" or "docs", or on a certain
drive. Assign custom icons to particular files, e.g. to
"C:\pagefile.sys", or to all files called "readme.txt", or to all
JPEGs containing "2013" in the name. It gets even better: You can
take your associated icons with you wherever you go: Custom File
Icons are fully portable without changing a single byte in the
host system. It all runs from a USB stick, full stealth.
Maintenance Release 12.30.0200
Released 17-Apr-2013
Minor bug fixes and enhancements.
Maintenance Release 12.30.0100
Released 20-Mar-2013
Minor bug fixes and enhancements.
What's new in 12.30?
Released 15-Mar-2013
Type Stats and Filter. Pops a menu of all file types contained in
the current folder or search results, ordered by count. Click any
of the types to filter the list by this type. Killer feature.
Recent File Operations. Pops a menu by which you can apply recent
file operations (Copy and Move) to the currently selected files,
using the same operation and target path as recently.
Maintenance Release 12.20.0400
Released 07-Mar-2013
Address Bar. Now Ctrl+Click on the edit box icon will open the
match list to the parent of the current item.
Auto-Complete. Minor enhancements and refinements.
Maintenance Release 12.20.0300
Released 05-Mar-2013
4 Key Navigation. Now you can browse the whole computer by just 4
keys (Ctrl, Shift, Tab, Enter) in the Address Bar.
Mouse Click Navigation. Now you can browse the whole computer by
just using the Left and Right mouse button in the Address Bar.
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 12.20.0200
Released 26-Feb-2013
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 12.20.0100
Released 25-Feb-2013
6 Key Navigation. Now you can browse the whole computer by just 6
keys (Ctrl, Left, Right, Up, Down, Enter) in the Address Bar.
Address Bar. Now the dropdown list optionally shows all matching
files (not just folders) and you can open them right from there.
Bug fixes.
What's new in 12.20?
Released 20-Feb-2013
Portable Tags. Now you can carry around a stick full of tagged
items (Labels, Tags, Comments) together with the application
(XYplorer) that displays them. Regardless of the drive letter
assigned by the host system. Another milestone in portability
technology.
Custom Toolbar Buttons. Now you can drop files or texts on all
buttons and process them with the scripts assigned to that buttons.
In other words: Now you can do to files anything imaginable simply
by dropping them onto freely programmable buttons. (Pro Edition Only)
Accessibility. Full support for high contrast color schemes.
Multilingual Support. Added support for Chinese (Traditional),
Croatian, Russian, and Spanish.
Safety. Now XYplorer protects you from the so-called "Unitrix
Exploit" where certain Unicode characters are used maliciously to
disguise executables. To date, no other Windows file manager
offers this protection.
What's new in 12.10?
Released 08-Feb-2013
Language Support. Now you can download a language file from the
server and load it into the interface in one go. Ultra-slick!
Mouse Down Blow Up. Now you can move zoomed images like you know
it from a touch screen.
Access Control. Now you can use environment variables and XYplorer
native variables when stating AllowedDirs and DisallowedDirs. That
way you can easily assign account-specific user rights. A powerful
corporate feature.
What's new in 12.00?
Released 28-Jan-2013
Multilingual Support. XYplorer now supports interface languages
other than English. Currently translations for French, German,
Italian, Korean, Polish, and Portuguese are available.
Languages can be loaded and changed on the fly without restarting
the program.
Interface Translation Tool. You can easily edit a translation or
create a new one yourself.
Funny Characters. Flabbergasted by strange, weird, funny, unknown
characters in a filename? Now you can analyze the characters in a
filename and optionally replace the funny ones using the new
command "Convert to ASCII". This includes, among other
conversions, Cyrillic to Roman transliteration.
Licensing. The Standard License (US$ 29.95, EUR 24.95) is now the
only license on offer. And there is a new upgrade discount of 20%
off for those who already own an older Standard License.
Of course, all Lifetime Licenses already sold in the past are NOT
affected by this at all. They will continue to work with all
upgrades to come and without any additional costs.
Maintenance Release 11.90.0200
Released 08-Jan-2013
Licensing. Now Unicode usernames are supported.
Maintenance Release 11.90.0100
Released 28-Dec-2012
Renaming Files. Now optionally invalid characters are auto-replaced by a character of your choice.
Secondary Sorting. Now you can sort files by the day they have
been modified, and then sub sort each day by Name, Type, Size, or
any other column.
Bug fixes.
What's new in 11.90?
Released 17-Dec-2012
Power Filters. Now you got a powerful set of predefined one-click
visual filters, like "Modified Today", "Image Files", "Empty
Files", and many more. The set is freely customizable.
Visual Filters. Now Attributes, Size, Date, and Age filters are
supported additionally to the Name filter.
Inline Rename in Tree and List. Now you can paste multiline
clipboard contents into the edit box.
Exclude Items from Search. Since long you can exclude particular
folders from being searched. Now you can also exclude particular
files or file types from being found.
Home Edition. The new "Standard License Home" buys you everything
the current Pro Edition has -- apart from a handful of advanced
features -- at an unbeatable price of 14.95 EUR / 19.95 US$.
Maintenance Release 11.80.0100
Released 04-Dec-2012
Configuration. Reorganized parts of the Configuration dialog.
Bug fixes.
What's new in 11.80?
Released 27-Nov-2012
Total Report. Now you can export the complete set of metadata of
all files in a folder in CSV format. In other words, everything
that the system knows about a file is exported in a well-defined,
easily processable, and widely portable file format. It's the
documentation junkie's wildest dream come true.
Floating Preview. The status bar now shows the aspect ratio of the
previewed image (3:2, 16:9, 3:4, etc.).
Remote Control. Now you can run an XYplorer script from an external
program using the WM_COPYDATA command with XYplorer's hWnd. This
means if you are a programmer you can fully remote control
XYplorer. (Pro Edition Only)
Maintenance Release 11.70.0100
Released 16-Oct-2012
Bug fixes.
What's new in 11.70?
Released 08-Oct-2012
Floating Preview Zoom. Now you can freely zoom in and out using
the keys Numpad Add and Numpad Subtract. Extra-fine stepping, Lock
Zoom, and Toggle Zoom is supported.
Floating Preview Rename. Now you can rename items directly from
the preview using F2 or the right-click menu.
Rename with Dialog. You don't like inline rename? Now there is an
alternative. Optionally have a nice modal dialog for renaming
operations in Tree and List.
Copy Tags. Finally copying tags along with the copied files is
supported.
Maintenance Release 11.60.0200
Released 24-Sep-2012
Copy Containing Folders. The right-click menu of items in Search
Results and Branch View got a fabulous new command to copy the
containing folders of all selected items to the clipboard.
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 11.60.0100
Released 18-Sep-2012
Bug fixes.
What's new in 11.60?
Released 10-Sep-2012
Duplicate File Finder. Finds duplicate files by name, date, size
and/or content in any location. Spotting duplicates, especially
those by content, can be useful for freeing up storage space.
Tree Path Tracing. Always know your place in the folder tree,
without even consciously looking at the tree. You might get used
to it sooner than you think...
PSD Previews. More good news for photographers: Enhanced support
for PSD Preview, Thumbnails, and Mouse Down Blow Up.
Rotate. Now you can rotate the Floating and Full Screen Preview.
Works for all previewed file types, even for RAW images, PSD, TGA,
PDF, and video thumbs.
What's new in 11.50?
Released 22-Aug-2012
Highlighted Groups. A revolutionary display style where every
group of files is highlighted depending on the sorted column.
Ignore Diacritics. Find Files, Visual Filters, Color Filters, Spot
and Jump, Type Ahead Find now all optionally ignore diacritics
(accents on letters: ΰηφρ...) and thus let you find or mark files
with letters your keyboard cannot easily produce.
Replace with File in Clipboard. New optional context menu command
to replace the contents of the selected file with the contents of
the file currently in the clipboard.
Maintenance Release 11.40.0200
Released 14-Aug-2012
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 11.40.0100
Released 29-Jun-2012
Bug fixes.
What's new in 11.40?
Released 25-Jun-2012
Color Filters by Properties. Now you can color-code files by their
extended properties, which gives you a vast number of options. For
example, give a specific highlight to all files of photos that
were shot on a certain day or in a certain date range. Or color-
code photos with certain dimensions, shot with a particular
camera, or using a certain aperture. Or highlight all MP3s with a
certain bit rate. Or all PDFs with a certain author AND more than
175 pages AND younger than 2 years. Or all files with a certain
SVN status.
High Quality Image Preview. Optimized the display quality by
applying high-end interpolation algorithms. Applies to all
previews (Preview Tab, Floating Preview, Full Screen Preview).
Captionless Thumbnails. Now you can hide the captions and enjoy
captionless thumbnails.
Metadata Popup. Now you can show all available metadata of a file
in a popup text box.
Sort Headers in All Views. Now you can show sort headers not only
in Details view but in all other views as well, e.g. in
Thumbnails.
For your interest, Windows Explorer in Vista had sort headers in
all views but for unknown reasons Microsoft removed this feature
in Windows 7. Now, XYplorer brings it back to Windows 7 and to all
other Windows versions.
Reverse Sort Order. Now you can reverse the current sort order
using a keyboard shortcut. This way you can even reverse a custom
sort order created by Manual Sorting.
Maintenance Release 11.30.0100
Released 13-Jun-2012
Thumbnails. Enhanced display options.
Bug fixes.
What's new in 11.30?
Released 05-Jun-2012
Preview. Added major RAW image types to the previewed and
thumbnailed image formats.
Metadata. The new Info Panel tab "Meta" displays file-specific
metadata, e.g. aperture, shutter speed, and ISO for photo files.
Thumbnails. Now you can choose between five display styles.
Report. Now you can show instant folder reports of various formats
in a popup text box.
What's new in 11.20?
Released 24-May-2012
Selection Style. Now the whole interface supports the Windows
Themes selection style. A vast improvement in look and feel if you
are running a post-XP operating system.
Floating Preview. Enhanced features, handling, and speed.
Full Screen Preview. Now it supports everything the Floating
Preview supports, including Mouse Down Blow Up.
Tree Full Row Select. The folder tree now supports Full Row
Select.
Show Grid. Now there is a toolbar button to quickly toggle
horizontal zebra striping in the file list.
New Prices!
16-May-2012
Prices have been adjusted for current international exchange rates:
Standard License Pro
BEFORE: single 29.95 -- US$ 42.95 -- £ 26.95 each
NOW: single 24.95 -- US$ 29.95 -- £ 19.95 each
Lifetime License Pro
BEFORE: single 49.95 -- US$ 69.95 -- £ 44.95 each
NOW: single 49.95 -- US$ 59.95 -- £ 39.95 each
Lifetime License Home
BEFORE: single 29.95 -- US$ 42.95 -- £ 26.95 each
NOW: single 24.95 -- US$ 29.95 -- £ 19.95 each
What's new in 11.10?
Released 14-May-2012
Floating Preview. A new preview pane separate from the main
window, supporting Mouse Down Blow Up and the transparency grid
for transparent images. One of the most demanded features.
Mouse Down Blow Up. Now it zooms exactly into the point where you
downed the mouse. A tiny change with a stunning effect and highly
useful for investigating details in images.
Delete Long. Fed up with "Path Too Long" errors when deleting
items? The new command Delete Long deletes file and folders with
overlong paths (> 260 characters) with ease.
What's new in 11.00?
Released 26-Apr-2012
Quick Name Search. A minimalist interface to finding files.
Combines ultimate power with ultimate ease.
Tags Tab. XYplorer lets you assign tags (labels, tags, and
comments) to individual files and folders. The Tags Tab provides a
new interface to adding, editing, and viewing the tags.
Copy Here with Path. A copy command that offers you smart choices
regarding the target location. Makes it very easy to mirror copy
individual items from/to deeply nested locations.
Smart Dropdown Buttons. Simply paste a plain list of documents,
executables, and folders into a User Button and enjoy the power of
type-aware default actions right from the toolbar.
Maintenance Release 10.90.0400
Released 16-Apr-2012
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 10.90.0300
Released 28-Mar-2012
File Tagging. Now you can drop files or folders onto user written
scripts to process them. For example, you now have a cool way to
tag files: Just drop them onto the tags! The possibilities are
endless. Mind-blowing feature. (Pro Edition Only)
Text Preview. Now you can add user-defined code pages to the list
of code pages available for previewing text files.
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 10.90.0200
Released 20-Mar-2012
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 10.90.0100
Released 12-Mar-2012
Accessibility. The configuration dialog now features a jump list
which quickly leads you to any of the currently 271 settings.
Accessibility. The Help menu now features a command list where you
can quickly call any of the currently 574 commands (plus any
number of user-defined commands).
Accessibility. Now you can choose which of the main interface
elements (List, Tree, Catalog, Address Bar, Tabs) adjust to the
custom font size set by Ctrl+Wheel.
Bug fixes.
What's new in 10.90?
Released 27-Feb-2012
Tag-Based File Management. A new interface makes searching for
Labels, Tags, and Comments more comfortable and powerful.
Multi Field Search. In a Boolean search you can now mix different
fields, e.g. find all images with 1024 x 768 pixels AND labeled
"Red" AND having "2012" in the name. Such a search can be wrapped
into a single click, e.g. as Favorite or Toolbar button.
Text Preview. Now you can select a different encoding for the
previewed text file, e.g. Cyrillic, Arabic, Chinese, or Japanese.
Branch View. Tree-like sort order now supports per-folder
secondary sorting, i.e. files can be sorted within their
respective parent folders.
Multi Branch View. Now it shows the containing/top level folders,
not just the files contained in those folders. Makes moving files
around quicker and simpler than opening a second pane. It's like
having dual pane, triple pane, quad pane, etc. in one list.
Maintenance Release 10.80.0300
Released 08-Feb-2012
Color-Coding Folders. Now name-based color filters can be applied to folders
in Tree and List.
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 10.80.0200
Released 06-Feb-2012
Maintenance Release 10.80.0100
Released 30-Jan-2012
Safety and Accessibility. Added optional safety belts and wider
support for large font sizes.
Scripting. Various enhancements, like a more flexible HereDoc
syntax, and an improved increment operator. (Pro Edition Only)
Thumbnails. Dimensions are now shown on a semi-transparent
background.
Bug fixes.
What's new in 10.80?
Released 19-Jan-2012
Multi Branch View. Quickly view the complete contents of two or
more folders in one list. These folders can even be in totally
different locations.
Tabsets. Now "Revert to Saved" is supported. Safely play around
with a tabset and quickly go back to the original state.
Automatic Rich File Operations. Now, where appropriate,
Copy/Move/Paste operations optionally copy the source folder
structure as well and thus avoid collisions of the sources in the
target location.
Info Panel. A shiny blue button at the right end of the Status Bar
makes the Info Panel more accessible to mouse users.
Paste To Selected List Folder. Now you can paste items from
clipboard (Ctrl+V) directly into a folder shown in the file list,
even in Branch View and Search Results.
Minimize Tree. Reduce the folder tree to just the paths of all
tabs in the current pane.
Maintenance Release 10.70.0200
Released 01-Jan-2012
Bug fixes. Unfortunately v10.70.0000 and v10.70.0100 showed intermittent crashes after using the shell context menu under Win7/64. This is fixed for good now.
Maintenance Release 10.70.0100
Released 29-Dec-2011
Bug fixes.
What's new in 10.70?
Released 21-Dec-2011
Tabsets. Now you can save and load the tabset of a pane, that's
all tabs including their layout (tab settings and tabwise list
settings) and contents (cached search data, find settings, homes,
history, etc.). (Pro Edition Only)
Visual Filters. Now Visual Filters support environment variables
and XYplorer native variables.
Flat View. Renamed it to "Branch View". Reason: "Flat View" had
been trademarked by a competing product.
Branch View and Name Search. Now you can branch view and search
whole servers.
Sorting. The new command Previous Order allows you to toggle
between the two recent sort orders.
Maintenance Release 10.60.0100
Released 26-Nov-2011
Bug fixes.
What's new in 10.60?
Released 22-Nov-2011
Flat View. Lets you view the contents of all subfolders of a
folder in one list.
Sticky Section. Now items in most-recently-used lists can be made
permanent by moving them into the Sticky Section.
User Buttons. Now you can easily build toolbar-based open-with
dropdowns. (Pro Edition Only)
Custom Copy with Verification. Now SHA-256 and SHA-512 hashing
works on all systems (XP, Vista, and Win7).
Selection Stats. Displays statistical information on the currently
selected items.
Move On Rename. Quickly move an item by entering a new path into
the inline rename box. Non-existing paths are created on the fly.
What's new in 10.50?
Released 25-Oct-2011
Grep. Finding files by content now supports Regular Expressions.
Rename Special. Now you can mass rename files using meta
properties like Camera Model, Width and Height, or Bit Rate.
User Buttons. Now user-defined colored labels are supported.
Full Screen Preview. Now the mouse wheel is supported.
Maintenance Release 10.40.0100
Released 11-Oct-2011
Bug fixes.
What's new in 10.40?
Released 04-Oct-2011
Wipe. A method to securely delete files beyond recovery.
What's new in 10.30?
Released 19-Sep-2011
Custom Move. Added Custom Move, Custom Copy's sister, a fully
configurable, queueable, verifiable, and backgroundable move
operation.
Undo. Now Custom Copy and Custom Move support multi-level
Undo/Redo.
Single Click Open. Now you can optionally open list items by a
left button single click on their icon.
Attribute Stamping. The new scripting command AttrStamp allows for
automated changing of file attributes. (Pro Edition Only)
Thumbnails. Added configurable multi-line captions (up to eight
lines), so also longer filenames can be fully displayed in
Thumbnails and Large Icons views.
Auto-Rotate. Now Image Preview and Thumbnails support auto-rotate
for JPEGs and TIFFs.
What's new in 10.20?
Released 29-Aug-2011
Droppable User Buttons. Create custom toolbar buttons within
seconds which point to a location or an executable and function as
drop targets. (Pro Edition Only)
Maintenance Release 10.10.0100
Released 28-Jul-2011
Custom Tab Icons. Now you can customize the icon of each Tab.
Custom Catalog Icons. Now you can customize the icon of each Catalog
item.
Custom Openwith Icons. Now you can customize the icon that's shown for
each item in the Portable Openwith Menu (POM).
Bug fixes.
What's new in 10.10?
Released 18-Jul-2011
Drive Bar. Now XYplorer offers a smart drive bar that flexibly
integrates into the toolbar. The availability of drives is
reflected in real time, and the individual drive buttons function
as drop targets.
Tab Bar. Now you can show a New Tab button on the tab bar of each
pane. It lets you quickly open a new tab.
Sort Order. Now you can sort filenames primarily by base, and
secondarily by extension. This is the Win7 way and it's usually
preferable to the XP way (sort by full name).
Empty Folder. The context menu of folders in Tree and List now
optionally features a command to empty the right-clicked folder.
What's new in 10.00?
Released 05-Jul-2011
Custom Copy. A widely configurable alternative copy method that
exceeds the Windows standard copy in many ways, e.g. verification,
reporting, and logging. Custom Copy operations can be backgrounded
and queued.
Backup. Backup operations now can be backgrounded and queued.
What's new in 9.90.1100?
Released 15-Jun-2011
Progress Dialog. Backup operations now come with a progress dialog
featuring the ability to pause/resume copying and detailed reports.
Verification. Backup verification now supports the following
methods: Byte-to-byte, MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-512.
Safe Overwrite. Backup operations now feature "Safe Overwrite", a
clever logic that minimizes the risk of data loss due to failures
while overwriting (e.g. power out).
Live Filter Box. Various lists in the interface now are provided
with a live filter box, aka "Instant Search".
Type Ahead Find. Now there's an option to "Match anywhere", not
just at the beginning of the file names.
Empty List Message. Now when the file list is empty a message is displayed right
in the list.
Overlong Filenames. Now you can delete a folder with overlong name
(more than 260 characters) with all its contents.
Access Control. An administrator now can define any number of
disallowed locations.
What's new in 9.90.1000?
Released 23-May-2011
Access Control. An administrator now can easily control which
paths can be accessed by the user of XYplorer, and which file
operations are allowed. A powerful corporate feature.
Eye Candy. Now there's a Translucent Selection Box with freely
configurable color.
Tag-Based File Management. Now you have immediate access to the
tags database (containing per-file Labels, Tags, and Comments) in
its current state in memory.
Maintenance Release 9.90.0900
Released 03-May-2011
Bug fixes.
What's new in 9.90.0800?
Released 15-Apr-2011
Scripting. Added Permanent Variables. They stay alive during the
whole XYplorer session, or optionally even across sessions. (Pro Edition Only)
Aliases. Aliases now support arguments.
Command Line Interpreter. Now you can define a custom command line
interpreter with arguments.
Bug fixes.
What's new in 9.90.0700?
Released 06-Apr-2011
Catalog. Added support for including multiple external catalogs.
This is a corporate feature allowing teams to include multiple
external sources for sharing items, and permitting management or
leads to control who can modify these items.
Items here include locations, drop targets, scripts, filters,
searches, and programs.
Filter Selected Items. Have the file list show only a particular
subset. Surprisingly useful little feature.
Bug fixes.
What's new in 9.90.0600?
Released 26-Mar-2011
Catalog. Added Import/Export functionality.
Scripting. New functions round, floor, and ceil. (Pro Edition Only)
Scripting. Added integer division (\), modulo (%), and
exponentiation (^) operators. (Pro Edition Only)
Verify. On backing up files this new option provides a very fast
byte-by-byte verification of each copy for ultimate reliability.
Bug fixes.
What's new in 9.90.0500?
Released 21-Feb-2011
Reporting. Enhanced reporting functionality through powerful new
scripting commands folderreport and catalogreport. (Pro Edition Only)
Scripting. Scripting now supports Foreach Loops. (Pro Edition Only)
Safety. New Auto-backup Configuration feature, a smart little
safety precaution to protect you from mishap.
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 9.90.0401
Released 15-Feb-2011
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 9.90.0300
Released 06-Feb-2011
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 9.90.0200
Released 31-Jan-2011
Junctions and Symbolic Links. Support for creating junctions and symbolic links.
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 9.90.0100
Released 16-Jan-2011
UTF-8 Support. Preview and Find Files by Contents now support UTF-8 encoded text
files (with or without BOM).
Bug fixes.
What's new in 9.90?
Released 05-Jan-2011
Tag-Based File Management. With version 9.90 XYplorer
offers tagging as a radically new approach to file management and
alternative to the hierarchical tree-based file management. You
can assign any number of tags to any file or folder. Yes, any file, not just media files.
Transparency Grid. Now, in Image Preview and Thumbnails, you can
optionally have a checkered grid shining through the transparent
parts of an image (PNG, GIF, ICO, etc).
Admin Settings. Now you can pass the path to a file where the
license data are stored. This is quite useful when installing
XYplorer in companies for large numbers of users that are covered
by a single Corporate License, or when you have many parallel XY
installations on your machine.
Scripting. The new command renameitem() allows for easy-to-set-up
point-and-click renaming. Very useful when archiving large numbers
of sound or image files, especially in combination with the sound
and image preview. (Pro Edition Only)
Inline Rename. Now when an item with the same name already exists
you can choose between Suffix, Overwrite, and Cancel.
Incremental Suffix. Now, additionally to numbers, also lower case
letters are supported as incremental suffix on name collisions.
Address Bar. Now right-clicking the dropdown arrow pops an all-in-one menu giving you quick access to the main areas of your file
system.
Folders in List. Now the middle-click optionally opens a folder in
a new tab. And a folder's right-click menu optionally features
commands to open the folder in a new tab or in the other pane.
Thumbnails Speed. Creating thumbnails got much faster.
List Speed. Due to a total rewrite of icon retrieval, the file
list now loads and scrolls much faster and smoother also in
folders with lots of specific icons (e.g. many EXE or ICO files).
Maintenance Release 9.80.0100
Released 09-Dec-2010
Speed gains.
Bug fixes.
What's new in 9.80?
Released 30-Nov-2010
Color Filters by Date. Now you can, for example, color all files
that were modified on a certain day, or that were created before
the year 2008. Now you can as well, for example, color files that
were created from 8:00-10:00 in the morning (on any day), or last
modified on a weekend, or last accessed on any Valentine's day.
Color Filters by Age. Now you can, for example, color all files
that were modified today, or yesterday, or last week, or that were
created more than 10 years ago.
Color Filters. Now you can combine color filters of any type and
number with a Boolean AND. For example, give a nice blue back
color to all TXT files larger than 1 MB and modified yesterday.
Serial Rename. Here's killer feature for everybody who frequently
needs to do lots of manual renaming: Serial rename by Up and Down
keys! Renaming files in a list now is almost like moving and
typing around in a multi-line text box. You will never want to
miss it.
Toolbar. New buttons "Move to Other Pane" and "Copy to Other Pane"
make basic dual pane file management a snap.
Backup. Now, on name collisions, you can optionally have the
copies renamed, or the existing files.
Scripting. Powerful new functions formatbytes(), formatlist(),
hash(), and listpane(). (Pro Edition Only)
Size Formats. Now the units TB (Terabyte) and PB (Petabyte) are
supported everywhere in the application.
What's new in 9.70?
Released 03-Nov-2010
Admin Settings. You use XYplorer in your company and don't want
your employees to check for updates? You don't want them to change
the configuration? All this and more is now possible through Admin
Settings!
Switch Catalogs. Finally you can switch catalogs on the fly and
manage any number of Catalog (aka Favorites Panel) resources right
from the user interface.
Color Filters by Size. Using size-based color filters you now can,
for example, color all empty files in a certain way, or all files
bigger than a certain size.
Whole Word Content Search. Finding files by contents now supports
whole word matching. As an extra bonus the content search now
supports files with overlong filenames (> 260 chars).
Confirm Drag and Drop. Optionally pop a confirmation prompt for
every left-mouse drag and drop operation. A reliable protection
from accidental drops!
Maintenance Release 9.60.0100
Released 20-Oct-2010
Renamed "Select Special" to "Sync Select".
Bug fixes.
What's new in 9.60?
Released 06-Oct-2010
Sync Select. Various commands to modify the selection in one
pane based on items in the other pane.
Sync Scroll. Now synchronous scrolling of both panes is supported.
Sync Sort. If Sync Scroll (see above) is enabled then both panes are also
synchronously sorted.
Restore Selection. Ever inadvertently erased a selection? The new
"Restore Selection" command will bring it back within a click.
Move Up. A quick way to move the selected items to the folder
above the current folder. The command is optionally added to each
item's context menu.
Edit Item Names. Edit the names of the selected List items in a
multiline text box.
Make Coffee. How many file managers do you know that can make you
a cup of coffee? Here is one! (Pro Edition Only)
Maintenance Release 9.50.0100
Released 21-Sep-2010
Office Preview: Now Word documents (doc, docx) are previewed in a
technically completely new way which should take care of the known
issues when attempting to preview Office 2007 through Internet
Explorer.
Bug fixes.
What's new in 9.50?
Released 06-Sep-2010
Select Items. The new interface "Select Items..." lets you select items by a
list of item names.
Selection Filter. The Selection Filter now can be limited to select only files or
only folders.
Selection Filter. Now you can add to or remove from the current selections.
DOS commands. DOS commands now support XY native variables and
Environment variables.
Titlebar. Now you can define the layout of the main window's titlebar.
Scripting. Now you can run a script directly from the command line. (Pro Edition Only)
Maintenance Release 9.40.0100
Released 12-Aug-2010
Bug fixes.
What's new in 9.40?
Released 02-Aug-2010
Portable Tabs. Now tabs can be made fully portable by pointing
them to a portable path that is resolved depending on the context,
for example %userprofile%. Portable Tabs smartly adapt their
contents to the current host system.
Go to Last Target. Now the copied or moved items found in the
target location are auto-selected when you go there using the "Go
to Last Target" command. A surprisingly useful little service.
History Retains Selections. Now (optionally) if you return to a
previous location, any previous selections in this location are
restored.
Portable File Associations. Now you can define associations for
files without extension. (Pro Edition Only)
Tree. Now tooltips of junctions display the Junction Target.
Scripting. This new version comes with a couple of powerful new or
improved scripting commands like inputselect(), tab(), listfolder(),
and report(). (Pro Edition Only)
Address Bar. Now right-clicking the dropdown arrow pops the
breadcrumb menu for the current path.
What's new in 9.30?
Released 15-Jul-2010
Folder Tree. Now the tree state can optionally be fully retained
across sessions. So when reopening XYplorer you find your tree
exactly (all expanded nodes, selected node, scroll position) as
you left it last time. Which other file manager can do this?
Thumbnails Caching. Improved cache management now auto-adjusts the
cache to any renamed or moved folders. No thumbnail has to be
created again anymore just because you renamed or moved a folder.
Color Filters. Now you can optionally apply the color filter
patterns to files only and thus avoid that folders are colored
when they match a pattern.
Image Preview. Now the frame count is displayed for animated GIFs.
Media Preview. Now you can optionally play only the beginning of a
sound or video file, and then stop, loop, or auto-jump to the next
file (depending on the Loop settings). The number of seconds to be
played can be freely defined.
Folder Tree. Now can optionally expand or collapse the current
tree node by a single click on the name. Saves you many clicks.
Creating New Files. Now you can create a bunch of new files in one
go by simply entering a list of names into a multi-line edit field.
Statusbar. Now you can hide the Statusbar.
Find Files. The interface is now 100 pixels wider so that you have
more space for your search patterns.
PDF Thumbnails. PDF thumbnail blow ups can now be enlarged to an
actually readable size. The same holds for any other format whose
thumbnails are driven by a shell extension.
Drag'n'Drop Context Menu. The new command "Go to Dragged Item"
allows you to go to the dragged item's containing folder and
select the item, or simply open the folder if the item is a
folder. A typical use-case would be when dragging items or paths
from other apps into XYplorer. It's a kind of "Go to by
Drag'n'drop" -- revolutionary and very useful if you ask me.
Maintenance Release 9.20.0200
Released 05-Jul-2010
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 9.20.0100
Released 29-Jun-2010
Bug fixes.
What's new in 9.20?
Released 11-Jun-2010
Aliases. Aliases are user-definable variables where you can freely
choose the name of the variable and their value. When you enter
such an alias into the Address Bar it will be resolved to its
value before further processing. A real time saver.
User Folder. Added a new special folder [User] to the Tree pointing to the
current user's profile folder.
Special Folders. Now you can easily show/hide all top special folders in the Tree:
Desktop
Documents
User
Network
Recycle Bin
Toggling those folders works on-the-fly without rebuild of the
whole tree.
User Buttons. Increased their number from 16 to 32.
Folder Sizes. Now you can show the number of items in each folder
in the list's Size column.
Environment Variables. Now you can quickly display a list of all
environment variables. Might come in handy.
Previewed Formats. Massively improved configuration interface.
Maintenance Release 9.11
Released 19-May-2010
Bug fixes.
What's new in 9.10?
Released 05-May-2010
Queued File Operations 2.0. Improved interface and
functionality.
Now you can remove selected jobs from the queue (temporarily or
permanently).
Now you can pause and restart the queue at any time.
Now you can start selected jobs out of queue order.
Animated feedback on the statusbar while background jobs are in
progress.
Option to show details of each job in the queue dialog.
Option to hide completed and skipped jobs from the queue dialog.
Now you can configure which types of file operations are
backgrounded for parallel or sequential (queued) processing, and which
are always run immediately in the foreground.
Background Bar. New optional UI element, a mini toolbar at the
right end of the Statusbar containing a single button which tells
you about the status of background jobs and lets you open the
Background Jobs dialog.
Find By Type. Now you can narrow down the scope of your search to
only a specific type of files, e.g. image files or audio files.
Highly intuitive and extremely useful little feature.
Text Preview. One-click instant preview for more than 50 different
text file formats. And you can freely add extensions to the list
of supported formats.
Preview. Now you can easily add any number of new extensions to
all preview types (Text, Images, Fonts, Office, Web) right in the
configuration dialog.
Mouse Down Blow Up on Thumbnails. Now you can configure whether
left, right, or both mouse buttons trigger MDBU.
Recently Opened Items. The new command "Open..." in menu File lets you enter,
paste, or select an item (file, folder, drive) to open, without
the need to go there first. Recently opened items are stored in a
MRU list that is saved between sessions.
In the Pro edition, the Open dialog features an OpenWith dropdown
menu.
Find Files. Now you can search by the length of the file title
(that's the document name without the path).
Address Bar. Now you can launch DOS commands directly through the
XYplorer UI by prefixing "!" to the command e.g. "!dir".
Icons. Support for DPI aware icon sizes on custom DPI settings.
Privacy and Discretion. New option "Don't save most-recently-used
lists" increases XYplorer's stealth level, together with "Don't
save history" and "Don't save tabs".
Bugs fixed. Particularly an "Access Denied" issue with certain
folders on Vista/Win7 is now history.
Maintenance Release 9.00.0200
Released 20-Apr-2010
Minor improvements to Background Processing.
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 9.00.0010
Released 28-Mar-2010
Bug Fixed. The Standard License Pro Key issued for v9.00 did not
unlock the application.
What's new in 9.00?
Released 26-Mar-2010
Background Processing. Now you can continue working in XYplorer
while heavy copy jobs are processed in the background.
Queued File Operations. Background file operations can optionally
be processed sequentially (in a queue), which is often far more
efficient than processing them in parallel.
Remove Diacritics. A special rename command to strip any diacritical marks
from the letters in all selected item names, e.g. "Kφln" > "Koln".
Raw View. Now UTF-16BE (Big Endian) files are supported when they
have the UTF-16BE BOM.
Visual Filters. Now you can define a caption to each filter item and thus
give complex filters a friendly name.
What's new in 8.90?
Released 09-Mar-2010
Fast Tag Search. New algorithm gets tag and comment search up to
warp speed, even if you search large areas like e.g. your whole
computer.
Toolbar. New button "Find by Tag" gives you one-click access to
global tag-wise searches. For example, to search all local drives
for items tagged "Blue" simply click "Blue" from the button's
arrow menu. Should take a split second...
Toolbar. New buttons "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" let you control the
font size of Tree, List, Catalog, and Address Bar.
Toolbar. Now it can be scrolled. Drag it with left or right mouse
button. Or wheel it. Drag fast and you get a bit of animation when
you release the mouse button.
Toolbar. Now it has an overflow dropdown. You can freely combine
it with the toolbar scrolling feature.
The Nuke button is now fully configurable giving you a one-click
delete just the way you like it.
New command "Paste Folder Structure"
allows you to paste the folder structure (without any contained
files) from folder(s) in the clipboard into the current path.
Now you can hide the main menu by pressing Alt+Up (configurable).
Preview. Added MTS (High-definition MPEG) and M2TS (Blu-ray) video
files to preview.
Create new folders right through the Address Bar: When you attempt
to go to a non-existing location you are prompted to create it on
the fly.
Rename Files. Now you can specify
replacement lists like this one
Δ|Φ|ά|δ|φ|ό>>Ae|Oe|Ue|ae|oe|ue
and do any number of string-to-string replacements in all selected
filenames in one go.
Find Files by Contents. Now supports Unicode text.
Shell Integration. Make XYplorer the Default File Manager by simply ticking a
checkbox.
Maintenance Release 8.80.0300
Released 10-Feb-2010
Fixed an UAC related issue with upgrading to v8.80.0100.
Bug fixes.
Maintenance Release 8.80.0100
Released 02-Feb-2010
Bug fixes.
Toolbar icons now with alpha transparency.
Input dialogs now resizable.
Improved UAC integration.
What's new in 8.80?
Released 22-Dec-2009
Recycle Bin Deluxe. Finally you
get the Recycle Bin special folder in XYplorer as well. But not the
spartan kind of bin you know from other file managers like e.g.
Explorer. XYplorer's Recycle Bin gives you more...
Edit Mini Tree. Now you can directly edit XYplorer's famous Mini Tree. Add the branches you need to see and delete what's just in your way.
Maintenance Release 8.70.0100
Released 08-Dec-2009
Bug fixes.
Preview of FLAC files.
Improved customization of tab captions.
What's new in 8.70?
Released 30-Nov-2009
Metadata Search. Now you can search for files by all available
metadata, e.g. version, owner, date taken, image dimensions,
artist, duration and so on. Wildcards, Boolean Logic, and Regular
Expressions are supported.
Tags & Comments 2.0. Now you can search for files by their tags
or comments. Wildcards, Boolean Logic, and Regular Expressions
are supported.
Find Files. Now you can search for files by the length of their
names. You can for example find all files with names larger than
260 characters.
Find Files. The Name field now supports comparison operators.
Backup. Backup operations enhanced by making the behavior on name
collision configurable.
Help. Now the help comes in Windows 7 compatible CHM (Compiled
HTML Help) format.
Maintenance Release 8.60.0100
Released 11-Nov-2009
Bug fixes related to Undo/Redo.
Enhanced File Info Tips.
Improved drag'n'drop to other applications.
What's new in 8.60?
Released 03-Nov-2009
Multi-Level Undo/Redo. Now you can undo/redo the file operations Move, Copy, Rename, Delete, and New.
Action Log. Now you get a detailed log about what you have done and when, optionally remembered across sessions so you can finally find out what you did yesterday.
Wheel. Support for high-resolution mouse wheel.
Memory. Further reduced memory usage.
New Prices in 2010!
19-Oct-2009
The recent addition of power features like Dual Pane, Mini Tree, Tags & Comments, Search Results Caching, Custom Toolbar Buttons, Undo/Redo, and Action Log, will be reflected in new prices effective 01-Jan-2010:
Lifetime License Pro
2009: single 29.95 -- US$ 44.95 -- £ 28.95 each
2010: single 49.95 -- US$ 74.95 -- £ 44.95 each
Standard License Pro
2009: single 17.50 -- US$ 24.95 -- £ 16.95 each
2010: single 29.95 -- US$ 44.95 -- £ 26.95 each
Lifetime License Home
2009: single 9.95 -- US$ 14.95 -- £ 8.95 each
2010: single 19.95 -- US$ 29.95 -- £ 17.95 each
Prices based on Euro. Exchange rates to USD and GBP as of today.
What's new in 8.50?
Released 05-Oct-2009
Manual Sorting. Now you can directly manipulate the displayed order
of items by dragging them to a new position. Very useful together
with batch rename operations.
Custom Toolbar Buttons. Now you can define a separate script for a
user button's right-click event respectively context menu.
New Folders. Now you can enter a list of new folders or whole new
paths that will be created in one go.
Tabs. Now you can opt to display just the child folder names in
the tab headers. Saves loads of space.
Scripting. Now you can show icons in script-generated popup menus.
Full Screen Preview/Thumbnails. Added file formats DWG and DWF
(Vista/Win7 only).
Maintenance Release 8.40.0100
Released 15-Sep-2009
Bug fixes related to Hotlist and Search Templates.
What's new in 8.40?
Released 14-Sep-2009
Custom Toolbar Buttons. Now you have 10 easily customizable user
buttons. You define how the button looks and what it does when
pressed. (Pro Edition Only)
Search Results Caching, Part 2. Now you can store search results
in a file and load them back into the list at any point in future
via the Search Templates dialog.
History and Recent Locations. The implementation of these
important navigation tools has been redesigned from scratch.
Toolbar. New button "Recent Locations" pops a menu with the 10
recently used locations.
Line Numbers Column. Width now auto-adjusts based on the number
of items in the list, and the color is now fully configurable.
Cleaner Menus. The main menu has been reorganized to improve
usability.
What's new in 8.30?
Released 31-Aug-2009
Search Results Caching. The results of time-consuming searches can
now be stored and retrieved tabwise and across sessions.
Dual Pane. Now you can easily move or copy tabs between the panes.
Spot & Jump. Quickly jump to any item in a large list, just as you
know it from your web browser's Find Bar.
EXIF Stamping. The new command "Set Modified Date to EXIF Date"
sets the Modified date of each selected image file to the file's
EXIF date (Exchangeable Image File Format).
Configuration. In the new section "Features" you can control some
of the advanced functionality of XYplorer and disable features
which you do not use or wish to see.
Home Edition. The new "Lifetime License Home" buys you everything
the current Pro Edition has -- apart from a handful of advanced
features -- at an incredibly low introductory price.
New Prices!
30-Aug-2009
Prices have been adjusted for current international exchange rates. The result is a 15% PRICE CUT for customers paying in Euros:
Standard License
BEFORE: single 19.95 -- US$ 24.95 -- £ 16.95 each
NOW: single 17.50 -- US$ 24.95 -- £ 16.95 each
Lifetime License
BEFORE: single 34.95 -- US$ 44.95 -- £ 28.95 each
NOW: single 29.95 -- US$ 44.95 -- £ 28.95 each
What's new in 8.20?
Released 12-Aug-2009
Large Toolbar Icons. Now you can toggle large or small toolbar icons.
Sticky Selection. A safe and comfortable multiple selection style for huge file lists.
Thumbnails display smoother and even faster than in 8.10.
M4R Preview. Now *.m4r files (iPhone ringtones) can be previewed.
What's new in 8.10?
Released 30-Jun-2009
Thumbnails. Now you get thumbnails for non-picture files like PDF,
HTML, MHT, EML, MSG, Office, and Video files.
Thumbnails were slow in previous versions. Now they are extremely
fast.
The Full Screen Preview (F11) now works for HTML, MHT, URL, NWS,
EML, and MSG files in perfect original size quality.
Scripting command Report now supports meta properties like Title,
Author, Comments etc.
Jump To Item. Quickly
jump to any item in a large list, just as you know it from your web
browser's Find Bar.
Improved support for Overlong Filenames.
Dual Pane related bug fixes.
What's new in 8.00?
Released 15-Jun-2009
Dual Pane. Look at the contents of two folders side by side. Both panes are multi-tabbed and can be arranged vertically or horizontally.
Overlong filenames supported. All fundamental file operations now work with extremely long filenames (longer than 260 characters).
Maintenance Release 7.90.0260
Released 12-May-2009
Bug fixes related to Scripting (if, while, break, continue).
What's new in 7.90.0250?
Released 05-May-2009
Folder Thumbnails. Now, in Thumbnails view, folder icons optionally display a thumbnail of any file in the folder named "folder.jpg/png/gif", or
of the first found *.jpg image.
X close buttons on tabs. Now the tabs optionally show X close buttons.
Scripting. Now the important control structures while loop and if/elseif/else block are supported.
Scripting. The new "rotate" command brings lossless rotation of JPEG images to your home.
Scripting. The new "tag" and "comment" commands join the powers of scripting and Tags & Comments.
Performance. Lots of network related performance improvements.
Maintenance Release 7.90.0120
Released 12-Feb-2009
Bug fixes related to Tags and Comments.
What's new in 7.90.0100?
Released 02-Feb-2009
Tags and Comments. The latest XYplorer lets you assign tags and comments to specific files and folders.
Visual Filters.
Now you can define any filter to apply only to files yet show or hide all folders.
Scripting. Now the so-called Heredoc syntax is supported.
What's new in 7.90.0050?
Released 12-Jan-2009
Dramatically increased startup speed!
Spot: Highlight any strings in Tree and List.
Media preview got Play/Pause/Stop buttons.
Media preview now supports A-B Repeat.
Scripting enhanced: run and wait, and html().
Maintenance Release 7.90.0010
Released 18-Dec-2008
Bugs fixed.
Maintenance Release 7.90.0002
Released 13-Dec-2008
Bug fixes related to Mini Tree.
What's new in 7.90?
Released 08-Dec-2008
Here's a killer feature for you: Mini Tree!
Quick Searches now support multiple locations.
New Prices!
28-Nov-2008
Prices have been adjusted for current international exchange rates, and also due to the current global economic crisis. The result is a BIG PRICE CUT, especially for customers paying in US$: The Lifetime License went down from US$ 59.95 to US$ 44.95!!!
Standard License
BEFORE: single 19.95 -- US$ 29.95 -- £ 14.95 each
NOW: single 19.95 -- US$ 24.95 -- £ 16.95 each
Lifetime License
BEFORE: single 39.95 -- US$ 59.95 -- £ 29.95 each
NOW: single 34.95 -- US$ 44.95 -- £ 28.95 each
What's new in 7.80?
Released 06-Nov-2008
File Search now combines Boolean Logic with Regular Expressions.
History per Tab. Optionally each tab maintains its own history.
Scripting. Now there are global variables.
File Search by Contents now supports pattern matching.
Reporting. Now you have fully customizable one-click reports.
What's new in 7.70?
Released 15-Oct-2008
New Address Bar Deluxe with icons and optimized usability.
Color Filters 2.0. Now you can define the backcolor of items.
Unicode support is now complete for all parts of the application.
Speed. Browsing folders and finding files got faster again.
Scripting. Now with math, logic, and functions.
What's new in 7.60?
Released 09-Sep-2008
Scripting meets File Search. The new LoadSearch command is the nexus of two of XYplorer's strongest features: Scripting and File Search.
Scripting meets the Web. The new Download command enables you to download any internet content straight into your file manager with a single click or keyboard shortcut!
Scripting Syntax. String and variable handling has been massively improved.
The release package now includes a sample Catalog.
Copy Image. A new command allows you to copy the image of an image file directly to the clipboard without first having to open the file in an image viewer application.
What's new in 7.50?
Released 25-Aug-2008
Folder View Settings. Lets you save the view settings (view type, sort order, column layout...) of any particular folder and have them automatically restored whenever you come back to this folder. Great feature, saves a lot of time. And contrary to Explorer, in XYplorer it actually works!
Thumbnails View. The thumbnails view mode has been redesigned. Now they are framed by a white margin.
Scripting. A new "timestamp" command gives you programmatic control over all three file dates of any file or folder on your system.
Start Up. Now you can select the Application Data Path using a command line switch. This means you can have any number of totally independent configurations for one single executable. Choose your preferred work environment via a simple Windows shortcut!
Tabs. List Style (line numbers, auto-size, grid...) and Column visibility are now tab-wise.
Now the Catalog can be moved above the Tree.
Rename Preview. The size of the preview window now automatically adjusts to best fit the info.
Batch Rename. New "Increment On Collision" switch (/i). Automatically avoids collisions with existing files.
What's new in 7.40?
Released 28-Jul-2008
New optional date format shows last week's days, "Yesterday", and
"Today" in the file list. One small step for a programmer, one
giant leap for usability.
Quick File View: Quickly view the textual or binary contents of
the currently focused file.
Type-ahead find now optionally works on the sorted column.
Compare files much faster.
NOTICE! Users of 7.30 are urged to upgrade to 7.40 since the Compare algorithm in 7.30 had a bug that made it unreliable when comparing files larger than 80 MB.
What's new in 7.30?
Released 30-Jun-2008
After two years of continuous development Catalog-based browsing
finally takes over: Now you can hide and switch off the Tree and
browse via Catalog only.
Quick Compare: Quickly determine whether two files are
same or different.
Support for Hard Link creation.
List Management: Now you can move items to new list positions via
drag-n-drop. Big plus in usability.
In version 7.20 the mouse wheel did not always work depending on
the manufacturer. Fixed.
New command "Open Folders in Tabs" allows you to easily switch
sets of tabs.
What's new in 7.20?
Released 09-Jun-2008
Support for editing Unicode filenames.
Warp speed through new "treeless browsing".
New popular button "Copy Path/Name".
New submenu "Shortcut Target".
Faster startup.
What's new in 7.10?
Released 04-May-2008
Portable Openwith Menu (POM). The v7.10 highlight! A single click
or keyboard shortcut pops a context specific menu presenting an
array of applications to open the currently selected file(s) with.
This menu draws its contents from your Portable File Assocations
setup, so it is portable as well, and utterly easy to manage.
Flexible Width Tabs. Flexible width for named tabs saves precious
screen space.
Associate Files with Scripts. XYplorer's Portable File Assocations
(PFA) learned to deal with scripts.
Favorites with Captions. "Transparent PNGs" is a little easier to
read than "E:\Development\TestFiles\Media\Image-Formats\trans\png\ARGB 32bit\", ain't it?
New command "Copy Item UNC Path/Name(s)". Copies the full path of
all selected items, using the UNC path for items located on a mapped
drive. If your are working in a network you'll love this one.
What's new in 7.00?
Released 31-Mar-2008
Scripting. Ultimate file management efficiency. Roll your own custom commands, wrap them in an XYplorer Script file (XYS), or a User-Defined Command, and trigger them by just a click or a keystroke. Can't get any better? It can! Share scripts with colleagues: Just drop a script file into your app folder and fresh plug-in commands are at your finger tips.
Now tabs can be iconized. Shrunk to the size of an icon. A mind-blowing space saver.
Now you can freely determine XYplorer's application data path and thus banish any UAC (User Account Control) issues.
Now you can search for folders by size.
Now you can turn a text or image from clipboard directly into a new file.
Now there's secondary sorting. Simply hold Shift while you click on a column header to sub-sort the file list by this column.
New command "Swap Names" (Ctrl+Shift+F2) swaps the names of two selected List items.
What's new in 6.80?
Released 04-Jan-2008
Now you can drag-drop items onto shortcuts in List and Catalog.
Targets of shortcuts are shown in File Info Tips on mouse hover.
Now you can one-click jump to the target of a shortcut.
What's new in 6.70?
Released 14-Dec-2007
User-Defined Commands (UDC): The new command category "New" gives
you unprecedented one-click control over creating new files and
folders (blank or cloned from existing ones). This includes the
invaluable "Copy Here" functionality by which you can recreate
duplicates of any existing file or folder in your current location.
Now all UDC submenu items have icons.
Added preview and thumbnails for DNG (Digital Negative) and NEF (Nikon Electronic
Format) files.
Network: Finally, there's the logon dialog!
Network: Enhanced support for hidden shares.
What's new in 6.60?
Released 19-Nov-2007
User-Defined Commands now fully support command line parameters!
Pimp up your single keystroke to sciencefictionesque kill power.
Pack all selected files into a zipped archive with an automatic
name depending on the current date? One keystroke! Print a DOS
style directory listing of the current folder to a file or
printer? One keystroke! Welcome to one-keystroke-paradise.
The Catalog Application Launch Panel now fully supports command
line parameters. Here's one-click heaven for the mousy man!
User-Defined Commands now include all the important mass rename
functions. For example, you can convert an item to another file type
(extension), or clean all selected file names of certain characters,
by a single keystroke/mouse click.
Added an alternative interface to assign custom keyboard shortcuts
to native and user-defined commands in a fast and intuitive way.
Dropping messages from Outlook / Outlook Express is now up to a
hundred (!) times faster than before!
What's new in 6.50?
Released 05-Nov-2007
User-Defined Commands (UDCs): Write your personal file management
routines in the most user-friendly way. Go To, Open, Open With,
Copy To, Move To, Rename ... wrap those tasks into UDCs, and have
them magically appear in the new "User" menu. Give them catchy
captions, and assign keyboard shortcuts to them. UDC means: Reduce
your daily routines to simple keystrokes!
Backup from Catalog: The new capability to backup whole Catalog
Categories provides nothing less than a one-click backup of
distributed sources.
Serial Rename: when renaming, press Tab to apply the changes and
immediately start renaming the next item.
String Search: Now you can find all files NOT containing the given
text string.
Color Code the Tree. System, Compressed, Encrypted, Read-Only,
Junction, etc ... you choose the colors.
What's new in 6.40?
Reviewed 13-Oct-2007
Released 10-Oct-2007
New GUI. Ux theme visual styles are now (optionally) applied to all interface elements.
Major re-design of the configuration dialog.
Added a new license type, the "Standard License", which costs only
half of the big "Lifetime License".
Now you can drag-drop items onto *.BAT and *.CMD files. Of course,
this works also with Catalog items as drop targets.
Finally complete support for dropping from archives of all types.
Now you have "Tips of the day" at your finger tips (Shift+F1). And
more: you can easily add and manage your own tips (in your own
language if you want)!
Support for NTFS junctions, including configurable color coding to
make them visually stand out.
The Backup file operation now preserves all three dates (modified,
created, accessed) in copied files and folders.
The New Items interface now supports date variables, just another
revolutionary time-saver.
Enhanced compatibility with high contrast color schemes for
visually impaired.
File Info Tips now display "Version Information" for all files
that have one.
Media Preview: added support for the file extension DIVX (DivX
Movie).
What's new in 6.30?
Released 02-Sep-2007
Rename Special: All bulk rename operations now come with a
detailed preview, including detection of possible conflicts.
Rename using Regular Expressions: Now you may use inline comments of format
(?#comment) within your Regular Expressions.
Added option "Minimize to tray on X close".
Smoother tab cycling through delayed browsing.
File Info Tips completely rewritten. No more freezing effect when
hovering AVIs or PDFs.
Network browsing did not work as expected under Vista in version
6.20. Now it works again, and much faster than before.
What's new in 6.20?
Released 14-Aug-2007
The Catalog now is a full-blown "Open-With-Panel" where you can
one-click-open any files with any application without changing or
referring to the registry.
Image Preview: now you choose between Speed and High Quality Image
Resampling.
Easily select between three different search modes: Standard,
Boolean, Regular Expression.
New "Len" column shows the length in characters of each filename:
easily spot over-long filenames that might make trouble when burning
CD-ROMs.
New toolbar button to "Hide Folders in List". For those moments,
when you need to see only the files, not the folders.
Customizable keyboard shortcuts for touching filestamps: Set
Modified, Created, and Accessed Date to Now.
Instant preview of Office 2007 file types.
Notable general performance speedup.
What's new in 6.10?
Released 10-Jun-2007
Image preview: Highest-quality resampling now even with huge
pictures.
Dbl-click on empty space goes up one level (optional).
Quickly find all empty folders within a given path.
Better Vista integration.
Better application icons.
What's new in 6.00?
Released 17-May-2007
Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts for more than 300 functions.
Radically reduced memory usage.
What's new in 5.80?
Released 05-Mar-2007
Ctrl+Shift+Wheel to increase/decrease the row height in List,
Tree, and Catalog on the fly.
Added preview of *.tga (Targa) files.
Now Catalog, Address Bar, Favorites, and Goto accept relative path
syntax and are hence fully portable. Home is where XY is.
Catalog now serves as one-click launch panel for applications as
well as for items opened with associated applications.
Now you can drag'n'drop files onto Catalog items that point to
applications to open those files with those applications.
Now drop-on-zip is supported in List and Catalog.
What's new in 5.60?
Released 31-Jan-2007
Batch Rename now with new smart simple mode.
Full Screen Preview (F11) of images massively enhanced.
Outlook Drop: enhanced and bug-fixed.
Find Files now with "Loose Boolean Match": e.g. "work 2006" will
find all items that have "work" and "2006" somewhere in their name
(regardless of the order).
Media Preview: new "Play Next" mode automatically plays next media
file in current list when current one has finished.
Network browsing much faster.
New License Key. Registered users that want to upgrade to 5.60
should visit http://www.xyplorer.com/key.php for a smooth automated key
transition, or contact support for personal assistance.
What's new in 5.50?
Released 17-Dec-2006
Drop messages from Outlook and Outlook Express and save them to
files with template-configured names... and now it also works for
Outlook 2003 ff.
Media Preview: added *.flv (Flash Video) format. Which means: now,
XYplorer can offline-replay YouTube videos.
What's new in 5.40?
Released 11-Nov-2006
Visual Filters now work in Find mode, too.
New usability jewels "Select by Selected Type(s)" and "Filter by Selected Extension(s)".
Drop messages from Outlook and Outlook Express and save them to
files with template-configured names.
One-click-copy distributed items onto the clipboard. You won't
find this killer feature nowhere else.
One-click-store search results for later review/reuse.
Mind-blowing speed improvement in network browsing.
Added support for non-latin characters in file names.
Added automatic path name completion.
Added support for hidden shares.
Now items can be copied from the Catalog.
Added "Default Tab" functionality.
Better custom color management.
Again great general speed improvement.
What's new in 5.20?
Released 16-Oct-2006
No more GDI+ dependency.
XYplorer now runs on systems without GDIplus.
XYplorer now runs even on Win95.
XYplorer uses even less memory than before.
Revolutionary keyboard-driven popup-Hotlist.
Revolutionary keyboard-driven popup-Breadcrumb.
Revolutionary Drop-Text-To-File.
"Quick Visual Filters" via the Address Bar.
"Delete (Skip Locked)" command.
Destination paths may contain Date Variables,
making dated Backups a one-click affair.
Support of common Windows environment variables.
Dropping items/attachments from Outlook and
Outlook Express is now supported.
"Show Space Used" option for all listed items.
In-place tooltips for clipped items.
Super-fast thumbnail creation.
Vastly improved performance in many other parts.
What's new in 5.10?
Released 26-Aug-2006
Private portable file associations.
Visual Filter now recognizes RegExp patterns.
Find Files: multiple patterns and locations
can now be separated by ";" (semicolon).
Extended "Browse For Folder" dialog (new UI).
Now all drop-down lists have auto-complete.
Added keyboard-driven Move To (Shift+F7), Copy To (Ctrl+F7),
and Backup To (Ctrl+Shift+F7) dialogs.
Added view "List" (wrapped column).
Now there is an official No-Install Package.
Selection Filter now allows multiple patterns in one go.
Increased space for image and video preview.
Video Preview: added resize-while-u-watch.
Sound preview now with volume control.
New handy "Copy Here with Suffix Date".
Greatly improved Batch Rename.
Calculate Folder Sizes much faster and cooler.
What's new in 5.00?
Released 02-Jun-2006
Massive load time speed up.
Reduced memory consumption.
Menu Edit/Paste Special: added "Paste Here To New Subfolder...".
Lets you paste any files currently found in the clipboard to a newly
created subfolder of the current folder (the one that's displayed in
the main title bar).
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+V.
Very nice feature. In fact, I'd say: Once again pioneering file
manager XYplorer delivers an innovative friction-lessening high-efficiency solution that skyrockets the art of file management into
yet another orbit of usability.
Menu View/Tab: now you can lock your tabs to a "Home Zone",
which includes the home path and all its subfolders (in other
words, the home branch). You can freely move inside the home zone
and stay inside the tab, but if you browse to a destination
outside the home zone, the tab stays where it is and a new tab
will be automatically opened. Kind of soft-locking.
Added color-coding by file attributes.
Network Places On Demand: now you can browse to servers outside
the local/primary workgroup/domain. Simply enter them (or items
located on them) into the Address Bar, or browse to them via Catalog
or Favorites. If reachable they will be automatically/on-the-fly added
the My Network Places node in the tree.
Now network servers are remembered between sessions. This means:
(a) Network servers load at the speed of light.
(b) Servers outside the primary workgroup that have been entered
via Address Bar are now remembered and don't have to be
entered again.
(c) You can easily add/remove servers to/from My Network Places
and thus list only the servers you actually need for your daily
work.
Added the Catalog: a hidable favorites panel below the tree by which you can
1-click-navigate and on which you can drop stuff.
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