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v5.10.0037 - 18.09.06 12:58 (yes, 0037 again, I forgot...)
    ! Fixed issues with Visual Filters and opening new tabs, Part 1. 
      More fixes will follow...
    ! Crash on clicking menu View | Rebuild Tree when "clipped tips" 
      active. Fixed.
    ! Visual Filters on tab headers: another little display glitch fixed.
    ! Move To, Copy To, Backup To to relative paths did not work on 
      special folders like Desktop or MyDocuments. Fixed.

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v5.10.0039 - 19.09.06 10:58
  +++ Menu File: added command "Delete (Skip Locked)". Normally, when 
      deleting multiple files and a locked file (a file currently used 
      by any application) is met, the OS sits about 2 seconds doing 
      nothing, and then you get a message that a file can't be deleted 
      because it is in use, and finally the deleting stops at this 
      point. All other files that are not in use aren't deleted. 
      Very annoying, and you have surely experienced this when you 
      wanted to clean up in your temp folder last time.
      Well, "Delete (Skip Locked)" is the solution! It simply deletes 
      everything that's not locked and does not contain anything locked. 
      It takes the following two-step approach:
      (1) Look for any locked files within the current selection 
          (recursing any selected folders). Then delete all other 
          (unlocked) files (if any).
      (2) Look for any empty folders (where empty means: no *files* 
          contained in the whole branch) within the current selection.
          Then delete those folders (if any).
      In step (1), if any locked files are detected, you'll get a 
      confirmation dialog where you can decide how to procede.
      In step (2), if any empty folders are detected, you'll get a 
      confirmation dialog where you can decide how to procede.
      I added these explicit dialogs for one reason: On top of them 
      you'll get two more delete confirmation dialogs (unless you turned 
      off delete confirmation in Configuration|Advanced), one for each 
      step. These stem from the standard OS Delete API I am using. What 
      you have to know is that these latter dialogs probably do not 
      match your current selection, because:
        (a) I pass only unlocked files to the API.
        (b) I pass files from recursing any folders in your selection.
      So, the bottomline is: you pay a small price for the fantastic 
      "Delete (Skip Locked)", namely a slight delay due to the checking 
      of the lockedness, and, the two-step operation with its dialogs.
    ! Fixed issues with Visual Filters and opening new tabs, Part 2 of 2.

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v5.10.0040 - 20.09.06 12:57
  +++ Now you can enter common Windows environment variables into the 
      Address Bar (Catalog, Favorites, Go To), to have a soft-coded 
      approach to certain useful system paths. They have to be marked by a 
      leading "%" and a trailing "%".
      Obviously, to serve as a location those variables should point to 
      individual paths. So, XYplorer allows only a subset of the Windows 
      environment variables, but adds some proprietary variables to the 
      set.
      These are the valid environment variables in XYplorer:
        Common Windows:
          %allusersprofile%
          %appdata%
          %commonprogramfiles%
          %programfiles%
          %systemdrive%
          %systemroot%
          %temp%
          %tmp%
          %userprofile%
          %windir%
        XYplorer only:
          %computer%      -> "MyComputer" = drives listing
          %desktop%       -> "Desktop" Special Folder
          %net%           -> "My Network Places"
          %personal%      -> "My Documents" Special Folder
          %desktopreal%   -> Desktop Real Path
          %personalreal%  -> MyDocuments Real Path
          %winsysdir%     -> Windows System Directory
      Note that case is ignored: %desktop% = %DESKTOP%.
      Note that all paths are returned back-slashed, apart from the 
      quoted items above (%desktop% becomes "Desktop", not "Desktop\").
      Note that these variables work in combination with switches, even 
      with themselves. It's a simple string replacement. For example:
        %tmp%?*.tmp
        %desktop%;%personal%?*.txt
        %desktop%\archive         (! note the slash)
        %desktopreal%archive      (no slash necessary)
    + Catalog context menu: added command "Add Current Address Bar 
      Contents Here". So now you can quickly add an items pointing e.g. to 
      a Quick Name Search or an environment variable.
    + Catalog: the delete item confirmation dialog now mentions the 
      caption of the item to be deleted.
    + Menu File|Delete (Skip Locked): added keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Del.
    + Menu File|Delete (Skip Locked): hold SHIFT when clicking the 
      command to terminally delete the selected items (no recycle bin).
      Or more easy: simply press Ctrl+Shift+Del! :)
    + Menu File|Delete (Skip Locked): looking for locked files can take 
      a while if you delete a LOT of files. Now you get a statusbar 
      message, an hourglass, and a chance to stop it by ESC.
    + The dangerous Nuke button from hell now always skips locked files.
    + Menu View|Caches: Renamed "Refresh Icons Cache" to "Refresh List 
      Icons Cache". Added "Refresh Catalog Icons Cache".
    + Drag & Drop: now you can create shortcuts of dragged items by 
      holding Alt or Ctrl+Shift while dragging. It's a Windows standard 
      functionality. It also works when dragging to tab headers. Not to 
      the Catalog, though, because the Catalog is kind of a shortcut 
      list anyway, right?

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0041, 22-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0041 - 22.09.06 22:26
    * Auto-Refresh: before, only the current folder was watched for all 
      sorts of file system changes, whereas the current *branch* was 
      watched only for changes concerning folders. Now the current branch 
      is watched for all types of changes. Effect: when you have "Show 
      Folder Sizes in File List" turned on, now the shown sizes will be 
      updated on the fly when any byte down in some subfolder is added or 
      removed.
    + Drag & Drop: now you can create shortcuts of dragged items by 
      holding Alt or Ctrl+Shift while dragging *also to the Catalog*.
    * Now, if you attempt to do any file operation with items containing 
      upper UNICODE characters (e.g. Japanese), it will not be allowed.
      Reason: The results are not 100% predictable.
    ! If Info Panel is hidden when tab header color is changed, then it 
      didn't get set when Info Panel is shown again. Fixed.
    ! Fixed 3 rare scrolling anomalies.
    ! Menu File|Delete (Skip Locked): now also checks whether empty 
      *folders* are locked.

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v5.10.0042 - 23.09.06 11:05
    + Menu File|Info to Clipboard: Now you get a statusbar message "Info 
      copied to clipboard." when the job is done.
    + Now, environment variables are also allowed in the Location field 
      on the Find Files tab.
    ! When hovering items in the Raw Recycle Bin (?:\RECYCLER\... resp. 
      ?:\RECYCLED\... depending on the OS) and File Info Tips were active 
      then the app hung for some seconds before finally showing no tip. 
      Fixed: Now you get a tip with the message "No File Info Tips for 
      items in Recycle Bin."

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0044, 24-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0044 - 24.09.06 11:34
  +++ I invented a cute little gimmick for the "Up" toolbar button: the 
      "Up-Down-History"! Never seen it before (the Google Toolbar has 
      the Up-part but not the Down-part). You could also call it a 
      "popup breadcrumb" or a "relative history".
        You'll immediately grap the idea: when you right-click the "Up" 
      button a menu is popped up presenting you a selection of 
      destinations directly related to your current location. The Up-
      part is simply generated by parsing the current path. The Down-
      part is drawn from the recent history. So easy and so cool! :)
        Notes: In the popup menu the current location is disabled
      because you are there already, right? Also, I did not mark the 
      first upper location as the default entry (by making it bold) 
      because this would spoil the neat alignment of the menu items. 
      Still, when you simply left-click the up button, you'll be 
      transported exactly there: one up.
    ! Fixed scrolling issue concerning the list view.
    ! Menu Edit|Move To/Copy To/Backup To: now the preselected default 
      location is automatically scrolled into view.
    ! Menu File|Move/Copy/Backup To did not support relative paths. 
      Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0045, 25-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0045 - 25.09.06 13:15
    + Improved the recently added "Up-Down-History" aka "The breadcrumb 
      that pops" by adding two new items and two new keyboard shortcuts 
      to menu Go:
      - "Down" <Shift+Backspace>: takes you down to the most recently 
        used subfolder of the current folder (if any).
      - "Breadcrumb..." <Ctrl+Backspace>: pops up the breadcrumb menu.
        If triggered by Ctrl+Backspace the menu is located in the upper 
        left corner of the tree (if tree is visible), else at the 
        current mouse pointer position.
      Also added MyComputer as top node, and made it all work with 
      special folders Desktop, Personal, and Nethood.
      So, we now have a nice, brand-new, and revolutionary feature:
      - It's a breadcrumb that takes *no screenspace at all* if you 
        don't want it to. It works without toolbar, addressbar, whatever 
        bar. Simply press <Ctrl+Backspace> to have it pop up.
      - It's a breadcrumb that's manageable by *keyboard-only*. Even 
        one-handedly when using the right Ctrl-key!
      - It's a breadcrumb that goes not only back up but also back down.
      All this is unique in the world of breadcrumbs. Welcome to 
      revolution!
    + Toolbar: the "Up" button now has an Arrow sidekick to popup the 
      breadcrumb.
    * Put handcuffs on the recycle bin: Now you cannot delete, rename or 
      move recycle bin items from XYplorer's Raw Recycle Bin View (= 
      browsing ?:\RECYCLER\) anymore. Reason: you are likely to spoil the 
      Recycle Bin's data integrity by changing its contents this way.
    ! Crash on Ctrl+X or Ctrl+C when no items selected (since a couple 
      of days). Fixed.
  %%% Selecting/Focusing items in the list view when
        - the current path is the Recycle Bin (Raw Recycle Bin View)
        - the current path is a network path
      is now instantaneous! Before you could experience notable delays 
      depending on your specific conditions.
    + List view: The "Copy" command in the context menu of selected 
      items now can handle multiselections with items from different 
      folders (as found in Search Results from recursing subfolders).

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0048, 26-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0048 - 26.09.06 11:00
    + Added new keyboard shortcut [Ctrl+Numpad Div] to fully collapse the 
      current drive (resp. \\Server, Desktop, MyDocuments). The drive root 
      will automatically be selected, and the tree will get the focus if 
      necessary and possible (the command also works when the tree is 
      not visible because you turned it off).
      There is currently no menu item for this command because I'm not 
      sure yet where to add it...
    + The key combination [Ctrl+Backspace] for popping the breadcrumb 
      unfortunately produces a "Ding"-sound in your speaker. There's no 
      way to stop that, but as a workaround I added the alternative 
      not-dinging keyboard shortcut [Ctrl+Alt+Backspace] for the same 
      thing.
      Note that [Ctrl+Alt+Backspace] == [AltGr+Backspace], so it can 
      easily done with the right hand only, even more comfy than 
      [Ctrl+Backspace].
    + The breadcrumb keys now also work when the catalog has the focus.
    ! [Shift+Backspace] for Go|Down did happily open new tabs because of 
      the Shift key being down. Fixed.
    ! The handcuffs on the recycle bin didn't lock on W2K. Fixed.
    - Removed the "auto-select the most recently used subfolder" 
      feature introduced in v5.10.0035. Reason: The new breadcrumb is 
      far more handy and powerful, and the automatic selection of items 
      is rather non-expected behavior to my taste.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.10.0050, 28-sept-2006).
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v5.10.0050 - 28.09.06 12:45
  +++ Menu Go: added the Hotlist [Ctrl+H].
      The Hotlist is a brand-new interface to your history, with the 
      intention to present the history in a way that makes it as easy 
      as possible to quickly go back to one of the places you have 
      recently been -- as opposed to the traditional presentation of the 
      history which makes it easy to go back and forth on your recent 
      track.
      The Hotlist is made like this:
      - All its items are taken from the history.
      - MyComputer and MyNetworkPlaces are removed (to keep it tight).
      - It's ordered alphabetically.
      - It's fresh: only existing paths are shown (the history can be 
        outdated in this aspect).
      - It's compressed: only the *leaves* of the branches are 
        displayed. If your history contains
          C:\
          C:\Programs
          C:\Programs\XYplorer
        then only the latter is shown in the Hotlist. It is assumed that 
        the skipped parent items have just been transit stations on the 
        way to the final "leaf" item, C:\Programs\XYplorer, and hence 
        aren't interesting (or "hot") targets.
      - It's grouped by separators, one section per drive.
    * New keyboard shortcut:
        Ctrl+Shift+B = Toggle Highlighted Folder.
      Before it was Ctrl+H, which is now used for the new Hotlist (above).
    - Removed keyboard shortcut [Ctrl+O] for Menu Go|Toggle Boxed 
      Branch. It's needed for more important stuff to come.
    + Menu View|Size Column Format: added option "Show Space Used". When 
      checked, all file sizes in the list are showing the disk space 
      wasted by each file. The column heading will be changed from 
      "Size" to "Space".
      If "Show Space Used" is turned ON then the displayed folder sizes 
      are also concerned, independent of the setting of "Report the disk 
      space used" in Configuration, General.
      Of course, this item is also available in the context menu of the 
      size column header.
    + Rename Special: now you get an hourglass and a statusbar message.
    * Info to Clipboard statusbar message more elaborated.
    + Now you can pop the breadcrumb also when the Address Bar is 
      focused, by pressing [Ctrl+Backspace] or [Ctrl+Alt+Backspace].
    + Added new keyboard shortcut [Ctrl+Home] (tree focus only) to jump 
      to the top folder (Drive, \\Server, Desktop, MyDocuments) of the 
      current folder.
    ! Since the Select-On-Paste functionality has been added (v5.00.0109 
      - 02.08.06 20:16) the tree did not refresh on pasting a folder into 
      the list. Fixed.

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v5.10.0051 - 29.09.06 13:03
  +++ Now you get BIG icons in thumbnails view. They are currently fixed 
      to 32x32. I still have to investigate how to generate other sizes like 
      48x48 or whatever you want. This won't happen tomorrow though...
    + Thumbnails View: added 12 pixels vertical distance to next row to 
      make the image-caption-grouping more distinct.
    * Menu View|Size Column Format: move "Show Space Used" to the top of 
      the menu.
    * Menu View|Date Column Format: renamed "Age" to "Show Age" and 
      moved it to the top of the menu.
    + Toolbar: added button for Hotlist.                       
    * Some changes to Hotlist:
      - Now UNC paths are sorted last.
      - If a tab with the selected destination does exist already, it is 
        opened instead of changing the locatino of the current tab.
    + New keyboard shortcut:
        Ctrl+Alt+B = Toggle Boxed Branch.
  *** Folder sizes are now calculated après browse! Much smoother, 
      cooler, and a relaxing experience even on startup.
    ! Menu View|Size Column Format|Show Space Used: was incorrect for 
      folder sizes if "Report the disk space used" was turned off, because 
      it added the contained files' bytes *before* calculating the used 
      clusters. Of course, the used clusters must be calculated per file 
      and only *then* be added. Fixed.
    ! For the same reason as above, folder size calculation went wrong 
      when the size unit was set to clusters. Fixed.
    ! Dirty sort column after adding individual folder sizes was too 
      unspecific. Fixed. You did not understand this? Doesn't matter... 
      it's fixed ;)

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0000, 30-sept-2006).
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v5.20.0000 - 30.09.06 10:22
    + Now the BIG icons in thumbnails view do have the size for large 
      symbols as defined in your shell display settings (e.g. 48x48 or 
      whatever you want). So it did happen tomorrow... :)
    * Before, when "Auto-refresh" and "Show folder sizes in file list" 
      were both ON, not only the current folder but the whole current 
      branch was watched. This deep-watch, however, proved to be too 
      troublesome on busy locations like, for example, on system drive 
      C:\, where the OS usually keeps on updating internal files every 
      few seconds. So I stopped the deep-watch.
    + In case of INI file corruption at start up (e.g. because you 
      manually edited it and made a mistake), you'll now get a warning 
      message with a recommendation about how to proceed best to avoid any 
      loss of configuration settings.
    ! Remaining issues with "Show Space Used" fixed.
    * List column headers: on mousedown the caption now moves just 1 
      pixel down, not down/right anymore. I find it cooler like this.
      Also added a little animation to the sort pyramid ;)
    * Before I dissipate into the weekend I feel like making it version 
      5.20! A LOT of cool stuff has been added recently... it's time for
      the next official upgrade release.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0001, 03-oct-2006).
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v5.20.0001 - 03.10.06 12:58
  *** Completely reorganized the custom drag & drop context menu. The 
      sections make more sense now, and there are two new items:
        - Move Here with Suffix Date Now
        - Copy Here with Suffix Date Now
      I leave them without keyboard shortcuts. You can choose your own 
      once keyboard shortcut customizing is implemented.
      Take a little care when testing... always remember: it's BETA.
    + The following keyboard shortcuts now also work when the tree is 
      focused (and are applied to the selected folder including its 
      contents, naturally):
        - Ctrl+S: Save Here As...
        - Ctrl+D: Copy Here with Suffix Number
        - Ctrl+Shift+D: Copy Here with Suffix Date Modified
    ! Color Filter: certain colors were not retained correctly between 
      sessions since 20060930. Fixed.
    ! Toolbar Home icon was not always correctly updated. Fixed.
    + Now the Properties tab displays large icons up to 48x48 pixels 
      without clipping.
    * Thumbnails of ICO files: Before, the *last* icon of a multi-icon 
      resource was taken as thumbnail. Now the *best* icon is taken, 
      where best means (a) the largest, and then (b) the deepest (in 
      bits per pixel).

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v5.20.0002 - 04.10.06 12:18
  +++ Menu Edit|Move To/Copy To/Backup To: Now the destination path is 
      allowed to contain *date variables* that will be resolved into the 
      date now! The syntax is identical to the one used in Batch Rename, 
      namely "<d[date spec]>". Examples:
        <dyyyy>                 =  2006
        <dyyyymmdd>             =  20061004
        <dyyyy-mm-dd_hh-nn-ss>  =  2006-10-04_09-08-04
      Together with the new feature described in the next paragraph 
      (non-existing paths are created for you), this is an extremely 
      valuable addition! For example, you now can easily make regular 
      dated backups by using a destination like this:
        "D:\My Regular Backups\<dyyyy-mm-dd_hh-nn-ss>"
      When you now Copy (or Backup; it's the same in this case, since 
      the destination is new) anything to that destination
        1. The folder "D:\My Regular Backups\2006-10-04_09-08-04" is 
           created.
        2. The selcted stuff is copied there.
      Note, that you even can have more than one date variable in the 
      string. So you also can do something like:
        "D:\My Regular Backups\<dyyyy-mm-dd>\<dhh-nn-ss>"
      A folder for the day, a subfolder for the time. Wow.
    + Menu Edit|Move To/Copy To/Backup To: Now you can enter non-
      existing paths, and you will be prompted whether you wish to create 
      them before continuing with the file operation.
      Note that all parts can be new, not just the last subfolder. So 
      "D:\new\new too\also new" will work just fine.
        Tip: Since the "[Operation] To"-dialogs also support relative 
      paths, you have an alternative "To New Subfolder" interface here: 
      simply enter a valid name into the edit field of the dialog, and 
      the folder will be created if it does not exist.
    ! Using "Copy Here As..." on an item in Search Results lead to an 
      incorrect refresh of the results listing. Fixed.
    ! Toolbar buttons sometimes lacked 3D-effect on mouseover. Fixed.
    ! Rare Hotlist sort order irritations. Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0003, 04-oct-2006).

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v5.20.0003 - 04.10.06 19:34
    + First attempt at dropping items from Outlook/Outlook Express.
      *** NOTES ***
      - I could only test dropping emails from Outlook Express, and that 
        works fine: an EML file is created in the dropped path, named 
        after the Subject of the email.
      - I have no idea what will happen if you drag emails or attachments 
        from Outlook 2003... you tell me.
      - As for now, it's only implemented for the list view.
      - The filename is automatically generated from the contents. 
        There's no prompt.
      - Any existing file of that name is overwritten without mercy or 
        questions.
    ! Tree and List: since some versions, ESCing (while keeping the 
      mouse button pressed) a drag & drop to tree or list would continue 
      dragging the now hovered item if that item has been selected before 
      the original drag started. Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.20.0004, 05-oct-2006).
This time EXE only, in search of the latest bug... XYplorer 5.20.004