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v21.60.0002 - 2021-03-18 14:10
    + Edit | New | New Folders... / Edit | New | New Files...: Now you can paste 
      data using Unix newline (LF) or Mac newline (CR). It will be 
      auto-converted to Windows new line (CRLF).
      Actually this will work now in all small dialogs showing a multiline edit 
      box where you can paste.
    + Configuration | Preview | Thumbnails | Size #1/#2/#3: Now it can go down 
      to 16 x 16 by factory settings. Allows you e.g. to have a very tight 
      "Details with Thumbnails" view with the following additional settings:
      - Configuration | Preview | Thumbnails | Style   = Plain
      - Configuration | Preview | Thumbnails | Padding = 0
      Upgraders: The new value is offered in the UI after upgrade to this 
      version if you did not tweak the key "ThumbSizes".
    * Configuration | Colors and Styles | Styles | Line spacing: Now you can 
      tighten your line spacing down to -9. Was -5 before. Useful at higher 
      screen resolutions / larger font sizes.

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v21.60.0001 - 2021-03-17 15:05
    * Configuration | Colors and Styles | Styles | Line spacing: Now you can 
      tighten your line spacing down to -5. Was -1 before.
    * Find Files and Quick Search: The search by Size became more tolerant about 
      missing and superfluous spaces before and after the operator.
      Before you could do just this:
        size: >= 1MB
        size:>= 1MB
      Now all of these are okay:
        size:   >=   1MB
        size: >= 1MB
        size: >=1MB
        size:>= 1MB
        size:>=1MB
    * Configuration Dialog: Made some layout adjustments to provide more space 
      for languages that need more space.

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Summary of the latest XYplorer Official Release.

Direct Download: https://www.xyplorer.com/download/xyplorer_full.zip
Download Page: https://www.xyplorer.com/download.php
Release Notes: https://www.xyplorer.com/release.php

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v21.60.0000 - 2021-03-15 20:00
    = NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main developments since last release:
  +++ Hover Box Wheel Scaling. Now the mouse wheel can scale images and PDF 
      previews while the Hover Box (a zero-click preview that pops up by merely 
      hovering the filename) is shown. So natural and so useful.
  +++ Mouse Down Blow Up Zoomed. Ready for another game changer? Mouse Down Blow 
      Up (a large preview that pops up on mouse down on a thumbnail or icon) now 
      can zoom into the original by a freely configurable zoom factor. Got small 
      images, large screens, and weak eyes? MDBUZ is your ticket.
  +++ Find Files by Contained Characters. Now you can find files that contain 
      certain characters or character ranges within their textual contents. 
      Allows you to search for files containing any characters in the upper 
      Unicode range, or any Mongolian characters, or whatever specific 
      characters you are interested in.
  +++ Apply Button in Configuration. Street pressure became unbearable so an 
      Apply button was added that allows you to apply any changed settings 
      to the main window without closing the Configuration dialog.
  +++ Compilation Soundtrack. Compiled to the music of Starcrawler.

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v21.50.0145 - 2021-03-15 11:12
    + Portable Devices: Added some more error messages to failed file operations 
      on Portable Devices. Just in case.

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v21.50.0143 - 2021-03-14 17:39
    * Status Bar: Renamed right-click option "Smart Size Middle Section" to 
      "Smart Section Sizing".
    * Updated the help file.

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v21.50.0141 - 2021-03-12 18:27
    + Find Files and Quick Search: From now on "Path" matching (ticked Path 
      checkbox in Find Files, or /P switch) is implicitly turned on whenever the 
      search term contains backslashes that are not just escapes for certain 
      characters that would otherwise seen as special characters (e.g.: " \!", 
       "\[", " \(", "cat \and dog", ...), i.e. when the search term looks like a 
       (part of a) path:
        PN\P              //match all items under folder "PN" beginning with "P"
        PN\\P /P          //that's the old way (still works but DEPRECATED)
      Boolean works as well:
        PN\P | PN\Q       //match all items under folder "PN" beginning with "P" or "Q"
        *\backup\?*       //match all items under a folder "backup"
      The old doubled-slash syntax keeps on working (but is DEPRECATED), now 
      even if "Path" is not explicitly ticked:
        PN\\P             //match all items under folder "PN" beginning with "P"
        PN\\P | PN\\Q     //match all items under folder "PN" beginning with "P" or "Q"
        *\\backup\\?*     //match all items under a folder "backup"
    ! Find Files and Quick Search: The example given (v21.50.0124 - 2021-02-17 
      15:10) for the new switch /P (full path of each item is matched against 
      the search pattern was wrong. Backslashes had to be doubled at that point 
      (in that version):
        *\\backup\\?* /P   //match all items under a folder "backup"
      Well, since today it also works with single backslashes, so the historic 
      errors auto-fixed and this is okay now:
        *\backup\?* /P    //match all items under a folder "backup"
        *\backup\?*       //even without the /P switch
    ! Folder View Settings: Could get confused when opening a background tab 
      from a drives listing ("This PC"). On selecting that tab a FVS could be 
      falsely applied to a location that should not have one. Fixed.

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v21.50.0140 - 2021-03-11 11:09
    * Paper Folders | Explicit Save Only: Internally rewrote the whole thing in 
      a more civilized way. Apparently it still works. You should not note any 
      difference.
    ! Panes | Sync Folders...: In Preview mode the Used Space information was 
      not updated (as a simulation). Fixed.
    ! Panes | Sync Folders...: In Preview mode a non-existing drive was assumed 
      to exist. That was stretching the idea of simulation a little too far. 
      Fixed. Now you are told when a drive does not exist (= is unavailable).
    * XYcopy: Updated to 2.10.0164.
    > Wow, this is the 5000th beta version! :)

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v21.50.0139 - 2021-03-10 21:05
    ! Paper Folders | Explicit Save Only: Fixed another glitch.

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v21.50.0138 - 2021-03-10 19:54
    * Configuration | Colors and Styles | Highlights & Dark Mode | Dark mode | 
      Adaptive colors: From now on when you use dark background colors 
      (Luminance < 50) for Tree/ Catalog or List in Light Mode, these colors are 
      preserved in Dark Mode if "Adaptive colors" is unticked.
    % Audio Properties: Improved the OGG-parsing algorithm. Now the length of 
      more OGG-files can be retrieved natively (so you don't need the 
      AudioPropsSecondTries tweak and a Codec for this).
    * Paper Folders | Explicit Save Only: Now any implicitly created Paper 
      Folder source files are created as *empty* dummy files. (There existance 
      is still necessary due to the fundamental architecture of Paper Folders.)
    ! Configuration | General | Safety Belts, Network | Safety Belts | Confirm 
      drag and drop: When ticked a drag-n-drop operation from a Portable Device 
      could crash the app since 20201103. Fixed.

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v21.50.0137 - 2021-03-10 12:02
    + Tree: Now when you right-click a folder and hold CTRL you get the 
      super-fast internal context menu instead of the slower shell context menu. 
      Gives you quick access to XY's native menu commands.
    ! Paper Folders | Explicit Save Only: Fixed some glitches.

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v21.50.0136 - 2021-03-09 19:26
    * Paper Folders: Improved the "Explicit Save Only" mode. Less disk access.
    ! Configuration | Find and Filter | Find Files & Branch View | Branch View | 
      Persist across folders: When enabled then changing location from a Branch 
      View directly into a Portable Device could result in a crash. Fixed.

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v21.50.0135 - 2021-03-09 12:15
    + SC paperfolder enhanced: Now you can set and retrieve the five options 
      that are currently only available in the right-click menu of the Paper 
      Folders toolbar button.
      Syntax: paperfolder(name, [itemlist], [separator=CRLF], [mode=nl])
        mode:
          o[z|p|d|e|i]= Set option (and return old setting).
          The 2nd letter stands for the option:
            z = Allow Zombies
            p = Always Show Path Column
            d = On Delete Remove Items from Paper Folder
            e = Explicit Save Only
            i = Show Information Bar in the List
          Cannot be combined with any other modes (other modes are ignored).
      Examples:
        text paperfolder(, , , "oz"); //return current setting (0 or 1) of "Allow Zombies"
        text paperfolder(, , , "oz0"); //set "Allow Zombies" to 0 (= unticked), return old setting
        text paperfolder(, , , "oz1"); //set "Allow Zombies" to 1 (= ticked), return old setting
        paperfolder(, , , "oe1"); //set "Explicit Save Only" to 1 (= ticked)
        paperfolder(3:="oi0"); //hide information bar in the list
    ! SC paperfolder: Returning the current contents did not work with "Explicit 
      Save Only" because it read from the source file, not from the current list.
        text paperfolder(, , , "r");
      Fixed.
    - Paper Folders: Removed the "[*]" experiment from yesterday for now. 
      "Explicit Save Only" is back in business.

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v21.50.0134 - 2021-03-08 20:18
    * Paper Folders: Now Paper Folders named "[*]" (e.g. "[Harry]") will not be 
      auto-saved on tab switch or app exit anymore.
      The "Explicit Save Only" toggle from v21.50.0133 is now dysfunctional and 
      will be totally removed if the above change proves to be successful.

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v21.50.0133 - 2021-03-08 16:23
    + Configuration | Tabs and Panes | Tabs: Added dropdown "Buttons position". 
      Here you can choose where in the tab bar to show those "New Tab" and "Tab 
      List" buttons. Factory default is "Flexible" which keeps them visible most 
      of the time even if space becomes extremely scarce.
      This raises the tweak TabShowListButtonPos to GUI (v21.40.0006 - 
      2020-12-29 11:56). Note that the related INI key has been changed to 
      "TabBarButtonsPos".
    * Configuration | Tabs and Panes | Tabs: Slightly rearranged the position of 
      some checkboxes.
    * Tab Bar Buttons: The flexible position swap from right to left now happens 
      much later than before (when it came far too early).
    * Configuration | Tabs and Panes | Tabs | Flexible width: Renamed it to 
      "Flexible tab width".
    % Configuration | Tabs and Panes | Tabs | Flexible tab width: Smoothened the 
      width calculating algorithm. Before, it was a bit shaky due to some funny 
      rounding effects (aka Banker's Rounding).
    + Toolbar | Paper Folders: Added a new toggle to the right-click menu: 
      Explicit Save Only. Tick it to suppress auto-save of the current Paper 
      Folder on tab switch and on app exit.
      Notes:
      - If ticked you can still explicitly save a Paper Folder using menu "View | 
        Paper Folders | Save" or the Save command in the Toolbar button's 
        dropdown menu.
      - Even with this setting it's not possible at the moment to create a new 
        Paper Folder without creating a Paper Folder source file first. So if 
        you want to work with throw-away Paper Folders you need at least one 
        file (it can be and stay totally empty).

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v21.50.0132 - 2021-03-07 11:13
    + Configuration dialog: Now you can trigger the Apply button by Ctrl+S 
      (think "Save").
    * Configuration dialog: Back to previous button order. The standard was not 
      good enough.
    % Paper Folders: From now on, Paper Folders are only saved to disk if 
      necessary (= if modified). Before they were saved on each tab switch (when 
      the PF tag was backgrounded) even if nothing had changed.

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