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v19.60.0006 - 2019-02-03 13:20
    + Toolbar: The various Drives buttons now feature "Shell Context Menu..." in 
      the right-click menu.
    + SC exist: Now it shows extra information for junctions.
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v19.60.0005 - 2019-02-02 13:24
    * Configuration | General | Sort and Rename | Sort | Natural numeric sort 
      order: Now also the Ext column can do it.
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v19.60.0004 - 2019-02-01 17:47
    + List | Path Column | Cell Context Menu: The Cell Context Menu (hold CTRL 
      and right-click a non-empty cell; or "Rocker-Click") of the Path column 
      now features the command "Open in New Tab". Does what it says: Open the 
      right-clicked path in a new tab.
    ! Configuration | Information | Tags | Storage: On "Relative to tags 
      database" when a tags DB was shared (via Admin.ini) by two or more systems 
      with different network drive mappings (same physical drive, different 
      drive letter), tags were not always shown on those system that opened the 
      DB when it was last saved by another system. Reason: The DB was not 
      correctly sorted after resolving the relative paths with the differing 
      drive letters. Fixed.
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v19.60.0003 - 2019-01-31 20:20
    + Dark Mode: The Drag Status Box was not dark yet. Now it is.
    ! Dark Mode: Temporary drawing glitch when selecting box colored tree nodes. 
      Fixed.
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v19.60.0002 - 2019-01-31 16:22
    * View | Calculate Folder Sizes: Now the Size column is always autosized 
      after the calculation is done and shown.
    % Custom Copy: In v12.00.0004 - 2013-01-30 20:53 this was done:
        Generally no per-file progress is given for files smaller 10 MB. Now on 
        slow target media (Removable drives, Network drives) per-file progress 
        is given for every file.
      But now I observed that it slows down the copy process notably, especially 
      when many small files are involved. So I removed it. So now you should get 
      a notable speed up when copying to removable or network drives.
    * XYcopy: Updated to 2.10.0138.
    ! SC sync: The filter was not applied anymore (since 20180818) for filters 
      that were defined as subfolder names (eg: 7:="-appdata\"). Fixed.
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v19.60.0000 - 2019-01-30 20:00
    = NEW OFFICIAL RELEASE. Main developments since last release:
  +++ Maintenance. This is primarily a maintenance release with lots of bug 
      fixes and small improvements, especially concerning the new Dark Mode.
  +++ Disallow Delete By Key. Now you can prevent accidental deletions-by-key in 
      the folder tree.
  +++ Confirm Delete. The Confirm Delete prompt has been much improved.
  +++ Selection Stats. The Selection Stats dialog prompt has been much improved.
  +++ Random Rename. For what it's worth, now you can rename any number of files 
      to random strings. Might come in handy if you make your money as a spy.
  +++ Compilation Soundtrack. Compiled to the music of Larkin Poe.

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v19.50.0252 - 2019-01-30 11:48
    ! Configuration | Information | File Info Tips | For junctions as well: 
      Still not all spontaneous downloads from the cloud (aka rain) were 
      prevented. Fixed.
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v19.50.0251 - 2019-01-29 20:57
    + Scripting: Also the following commands/functions now can handle relative 
      paths and virtual paths:
      - savethumb()
      - columnlayout()  -- relative to <xydata>\Columns\
      - loadlayout()    -- relative to <xydata>\Layouts\
      - paperfolder()   -- relative to <xypaper>
    * Updated the help file.
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v19.50.0250 - 2019-01-29 17:54
    + Scripting: Also the following commands/functions now can handle relative 
      paths and virtual paths:
      - exist
      - exists()
    * Configuration | Information | File Info Tips | On junctions as well: 
      Renamed it to "For junctions as well" and moved it upwards to under 
      "Configuration | Information | File Info Tips | Show file info tips".
      Here it controls both File Info Tips and Hover Box.
      If unticked then hovering a Junction or a Symlinks will not show any 
      HoverBox or extended File Info Tip but just the small default File Info 
      Tip (like Windows Explorer) as this doesn't need access to the junction 
      target, so no download is triggered from the cloud. The settings under 
      "Show custom file info tips" and "Extra fields" are ignored in that case.
      This fixes the first attempt in v19.50.0248. Only now any undesired 
      downloads from the cloud are prevented. The factory default is OFF since 
      we are in cloudy times.
    * Configuration | Information | File Info Tips: Converted the label "Add the 
      following extra fields if applicable:" to a checkbox and renamed it to 
      "Extra fields:". So now you can turn this on/off with one click.
    + List: Added some extra protection-from-delete for critical system items. 
      It's the same safety belt that has been added to the Tree in v19.50.0235 - 
      2019-01-21 16:49. With one necessary limitation (performance reasons): Not 
      all selected items are tested, but only the first. So the protection is 
      only fully there when just one item is selected. Better than nothing. It's 
      much harder for a cat walking over the keyboard to do a multi-selection 
      than to just hit an arrow key and then the DEL key...
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v19.50.0249 - 2019-01-28 21:02
    * SC resolvepath: Now it ensures that the base has a trailing backslash. You 
      don't need to provide one yourself (but it does no harm). So this works 
      now as expected:
        echo resolvepath("test.txt", <curpath>);
    ! Hover Box: Did not catch switching monitors while running. Fix #2.
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v19.50.0248 - 2019-01-28 14:33
    + Hover Box: Now it supports hovering Symlinks to files, i.e. it shows the 
      targets of those beasts. You need to tick something though, read on ...
    + Configuration | Information | File Info Tips: Added option "On junctions 
      as well" under "Show Hover Box". Untick it to disable the Hover Box when 
      hovering Junctions and Symlinks. This is useful for online-only files 
      stored in the cloud. Showing the Hover Box for those files can trigger an 
      undesired download of the hovered file to local storage.
      The factory default is OFF since we are in cloudy times.
    + Scripting: The following commands/functions now can handle relative paths 
      and virtual paths. Relative paths are resolved relative to the current 
      path. Virtual paths are resolved to the corresponding real path.
      - attrstamp()
      - copy
      - copyto
      - moveto
      - backupto
      - pasteto
      - filesequal()
      - flattenfolder()
      - get("CountIcons")
      - hash()
      - hashlist
      - open
      - rename
      - run
      - runq
      - runret()
      - showhash
      - box
      - highlight
      - sync
      - copyas
      - moveas
      - editconf
      - quicksearch()
    ! SC resolvepath: The new flags value (v19.50.0247) had overwritten the 
      "base" parameter. But, of course, the flag should only affect the defaults 
      when the "base" parameter is not set! Fixed.
      Syntax: resolvepath([path], [base=<xypath>], [flags])
        flags:  2 = the default for "base" is <curpath> (else it's <xypath>)
    ! Hover Box: Did not catch switching monitors while running. Fixed.
    ! Menu Favorites: Too much saving going on when "Configuration | General | 
      Startup & Exit | Save Settings | Save changes to disk immediately" was 
      ticked. Fixed.
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v19.50.0247 - 2019-01-27 19:12
    * Catalog: The Catalog is a place with a relatively high likelihood of 
      housing stale network locations. The futile attempts to retrieve the 
      specific icons for such locations can take a lot of time, many many 
      seconds. We don't want that on startup. Therefore from now on, the 
      Catalog will show only generic icons for network locations on startup (and 
      until you manually update the icons).
      Many innocent and unsuspecting users will now experience a much faster 
      startup.
    + SC resolvepath enhanced: Now you can make it resolve relative paths to the 
      current path instead of to <xypath>.
      Syntax: resolvepath([path], [base=<xypath>], [flags])
        path:   relative or portable path
                if empty or missing the function returns base
        base:   base path; defaults to <xypath>
        flags:  0 = normal function
                1 = reversed function: path is absolute, 
                    return path is relative to base
                2 = base is <curpath> (else it's <xypath>)
        return: absolute or relative path (dep. on flags)
      Examples:
        echo resolvepath();         //C:\Program Files (x86)\XYplorer   = <xypath>
        echo resolvepath(2:=2);     //E:\Test                           = <curpath>
        echo resolvepath("foo");    //C:\Program Files (x86)\XYplorer\foo
        echo resolvepath("foo",,2); //E:\Test\foo
        echo resolvepath("<curpath>\subfolder",,3);   //subfolder
        echo resolvepath("<curpath>\subfolder\",,3);  //subfolder\
    * SC inputfile, SC inputfolder: Relative paths were resolved to <xypath>. 
      Now they are resolved to <curpath>.
    ! SC folderreport: Relative paths were resolved to <xypath> instead of to 
      <curpath>. Fixed.
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v19.50.0246 - 2019-01-27 15:29
    ! SC listfolder: Relative paths were resolved to <xypath> instead of to 
      <curpath>. Fixed.
      This, for example, will now resolve to "<curpath>\subfolder":
        text listfolder(".\subfolder");
    ! Spot: Only used the first color (yellow) since around 20150313. Fixed. Now 
      you can run this through the Address Bar and see 3 colors if those strings 
      are found:
        >>png|jpg|gif
    ! Dark Mode: Spot colors weren't updated on switching Dark/Light Mode. Fixed.
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v19.50.0244 - 2019-01-26 14:52
    * Configuration | General | Startup & Exit | Save Settings | Save changes to 
      disk immediately: Now the Status Bar message "saving settings..." does 
      not eat the previous and probably more interesting message anymore, but 
      only temporarily covers it. When the saving is done the resulting message 
      "settings saved: [type]" is appended to the previous message.
    * Scripting: A couple of functions now natively handle virtual paths like 
      e.g. "Desktop" or "Downloads\content.txt" in that they are silently 
      translated to the underlying real paths. Before, those paths would have 
      simply failed with an error.
      These are the enhanced functions:
        - id3tag()
        - filetype()
        - filesize()
        - extracttext()
        - readfile()
        - renameitem()
        - tagload()
        - tagexport()
        - writefile()
     * Copying paths to clipboard: Now paths are copied without a trailing 
       backslash. Before, it was not always like that.
       Exception: According to some crazy de facto standard (Windows Explorer 
       does it like this) drive roots are returned with backslash ("C:\", not 
       "C:").
    * SC status: Now if you define a text color hue it is preserved in dark mode 
      as good as possible.
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v19.50.0243 - 2019-01-25 19:09
    + SC resolvepath enhanced: 
      1) Now it converts virtual paths to real paths.
      2) XYnative variables and Environment variables that are not yet resolved 
         at this point will be resolved by this function.
      Notes:
      - The path does not have to exist.
      - A trailing backslash in the input is kept in the output.
      - A missing trailing backslash in the input is also missing in the output.
      - You can pass a fully resolved absolute path. It will be returned unchanged.
      Examples 1:
        echo resolvepath("Desktop"); //C:\Users\Donald\Desktop
        echo resolvepath("Downloads\NotThere\"); //C:\Users\Donald\Downloads\NotThere\
      Examples 2:
      - Note the single quotes. These variables will arrive at resolvepath() as 
        is, and then be resolved:
        echo resolvepath('%tmp%');  //C:\Users\Donald\AppData\Local\Temp
        echo resolvepath('<xydata>'); //C:\Users\Donald\AppData\Roaming\XYplorer
    ! Monitors: Did not catch adding or removing of monitors while running. 
      Fix #3.
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