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Update #2 of today! Download the latest TrackerV3 BETA version (v3.60.0117, 14-feb-2005).

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v3.60.0117 - 14.02.05 16:50
    * Find Files Templates: you can now use all chars for template names 
      including those that are invalid for filenames (<,>,?,",: etc.).
    + To quickly load a template simply double-click it in the template 
      list.
    + Find Files, Date: as a tribute to Albert Einstein I added a new 
      checkbox "Keep it relative". When checked and you select e.g. 
      "Previous 5 Minutes" from the popup menu it will always be the 
      previous 5 minutes *relative to now*.
      The obvious benefit of this new feature is that you now can define 
      Find Files Templates that e.g. "Find all files in Windows that 
      have been modified in the last 15 minutes" without the need to 
      manually update the time range.
      Note that the actual time range used for a search will be 
      displayed only after you press the Find Now button. (I'm already 
      thinking about a cooler organization of the Date tab...)
    * Exclude Folders are now saved to templates as well. Note, that 
      your old templates will now effectively clear the exclude folders 
      listing, so take care and re-save them first before loading.

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Download the latest TrackerV3 BETA version (v3.60.0116, 14-feb-2005).

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v3.60.0116 - 14.02.05 09:18
  +++ Find Files Templates: now you can save Find Files settings to 
      template files, which are stored as simple INI files in a hard-coded 
      subdirectory of the app directory called "FindTemplates". It's the 
      user's responsability to give the templates a valid filename that as 
      well serves her to retrieve and load the right template when she needs 
      it.
      A template contains all settings found on the Find Files tab, with 
      the exception of the Name and Location combos, where only the 
      current top entry is remembered; also the Exclude Folders are not 
      stored in the templates.
      When loading a (previously stored) template you have the option 
      whether to use the current location or the location stored in the 
      template for the search.
    ! "Follow folder links" entered a deadly recursion when search met 
      specific LNK-files to system folders or services. Fixed.

[admin]

Ah, I see, good tip. Maybe Tips & Tricks actually would be a better place, since hardly anybody will look for it or find it in the Upcoming Releases forum. Whatever you like...

[RalphM]

Hi Donald

Uh, is that an amusing story or a bug or a wish? Looks like all works as expected... I warned you about the loops

Sorry, wasn't sure where to post it. Meant it as a TIP for others, who may be experiencing the loop effect, and since I wanted to quote your warning, I posted it here and not in Tips & Tricks.

[admin]

Uh, is that an amusing story or a bug or a wish? Looks like all works as expected... I warned you about the loops

[RalphM]

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v3.60.0112 - 04.02.05 22:26
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      Notes:
      - "Follow folder links" is independent of "Include subfolders" and 
        both can be freely combined at your choice.
      - be aware of the possibility to end up in a loop by having 
        links target to each other or to themselves. If this appears to 
        happen, press ESC and check your link logic.

Murphy's law, it happened as expected - I ended up in a loop, since I had three folders, linked as follows:

...\XXX\Folder_A
Link to Folder_B
...
...\YYY\Folder_B
Link to Folder_C
...
...\ZZZ\Folder_C
Link to Folder_B

So, when running a find in Folder_A following folder links, it did the loop A -> B -> C -> B -> C....

Tip: I made it work and quit the loop, by adding "ZZZ" to the exclude folder list. Now it still finds all matching files in A and B, but skips C.

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Download the latest TrackerV3 BETA version (v3.60.0112, 04-feb-2005).

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v3.60.0112 - 04.02.05 22:26
  +++ Added revolutionary new mode to Find Files: "Follow folder links". 
      Similar to "Include subfolders", the search will treat folder 
      links (aka "Shell Links to Folders") as if they were subfolders 
      and search the links' target directory as well (again recursing it 
      if necessary).
      How to create a folder link: have the folder in the file list, 
      then choose the Create Shortcut command from the folder's context 
      menu, then move the newly created *.lnk file where you want to 
      have it.
      This is a very nice feature. For example, you now can cultivate 
      folder link farms, ie collections of links to various folders in 
      the wildest locations, which you then can search all at once by 
      just running a search on their parent folder.
      Notes:
      - "Follow folder links" is independent of "Include subfolders" and 
        both can be freely combined at your choice.
      - be aware of the possibility to end up in a loop by having 
        links target to each other or to themselves. If this appears to 
        happen, press ESC and check your link logic.
v3.60.0110 - 03.02.05 20:50
    ! Searching folder links did produce results with defective path 
      specs when "Show Relative Path In Find Results" was enabled. Fixed: now 
      find results invariably display absolute paths in the path column 
      when a *.lnk search was involved.

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Download the latest TrackerV3 BETA version (v3.60.0109, 01-feb-2005).

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v3.60.0109 - 01.02.05 10:42
    + Added search over target directories of folder links (aka 
      shortcut, *.lnk file). Now you can search not only multiple folders 
      at once but also the target directories of multiple folder links. 
      Which means: now you can set up specific collections of folder links 
      in some location and easily search them (i.e. their target 
      directories) at once!
    * Double-clicking a folder link now browses to that folder inside 
      TrackerV3. Before, Explorer was opened.
v3.60.0108 - 27.01.05 16:33
    + When right-click-dropping files into TrackerV3 from outside (eg 
      images dragged from a browser) you now have the options "Copy Here 
      with Suffix Number" and "Copy Here As..." available in the drop 
      context menu. The default (when left-click-dropping) is "Copy 
      Here".
      Note that only one file at a time can be dropped using these 
      options.
v3.60.0105 - 10.01.05 09:47
    + Drag'n'Drop Context Menu, "Move Here to New Subfolder..." and 
      "Copy Here to New Subfolder...": now there's a default name
      for the new folder given, and it's made from the "Folder0" 
      template you defined in the INI file because you are hardcore:
        [NewTemplates]
        Folder0=yyyymmdd
    ! File View, ASCII files: better handling of mixed type files.
      - UNIX/DOS  = files that have as well 0a as 0d0a line ends
      - MAC/DOS   = files that have as well 0d as 0d0a line ends
      Before you had phantom line feeds in the display of some files.
      That's fixed now.
    * Changed algorithm calculating the row height in tree and list: now 
      you can have larger fonts at smaller row heights.

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Download the latest TrackerV3 BETA version (v3.60.0104, 09-jan-2005).

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v3.60.0104 - 09.01.05 17:52
    + Now can display icons smaller than 16x16 pixel and thus show 
      more lines in tree and list.
      How to set a smaller icon size:
      - Regedit
      - goto HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics
      - look for key named "Shell Small Icon Size"
      - if not there: add new string (REG_SZ) key 
        and name it "Shell Small Icon Size"
      - set this key's value to e.g. 14 (default is 16)
      - reboot
      Now you should decrease TrackerV3's font size by a point or so 
      (menu View/Font...) to have really slim lines.      
    + Better support for Command Line Parameters.
      (a) You can pass a startup path (ending slash, quotes, ".exe" are 
          optional), eg this works all the same:
            TrackerV3 C:\Programme\ACDSee32\
            TrackerV3 "C:\Programme\ACDSee32\"
            TrackerV3.exe "C:\Programme\ACDSee32"
      (b) You can pass a startup path/file. The file will be
          selected and previewed (if preview tab is on), eg:
            TrackerV3 C:\Programme\ACDSee32\splash.jpg
      Nice usage: if you place a link to TrackerV3 into your SendTo
      folder (note: a hidden folder!) then you can send any file
      to TrackerV3, which will then jumpstart, browse to the file's
      location and select it.      
v3.60.0102 - 20.12.04 12:26
    * Configuration/General/Show nethood: now works without restart.

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Download the latest TrackerV3 BETA version (v3.60.0101, 18-dec-2004).

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v3.60.0101 - 18.12.04 17:14
    + Configuration/General: added checkbox "Show nethood" which allows 
      you to hide the network neighborhood node from the tree. Note that 
      you have to restart the app for this setting to take effect.
      Note, that if you update an older installation of TrackerV3, your 
      nethood will be set to "hidden" at first, so you'll have to check 
      the new checkbox once and restart if you want to see it.
    * Find Files Results, Path column: changed the ellipsis-algorithm 
      (where to insert the three "...") for both path display modes 
      (absolute and relative) from End-Ellipsis to Windows's built-in 
      "Path-Ellipsis".
v3.60.0098 - 13.12.04 11:20
    ! Report: problems with filenames starting with one or more blanks. Fixed.
    ! Report: progress status was not updated. Fixed.

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Download the latest TrackerV3 BETA version (v3.60.0096, 03-dec-2004).

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v3.60.0096 - 03.12.04 11:27
    + Find Files: added automatic disabling of currently non-valid 
      options in the find dialogue for example checking "Fuzzy" will 
      automatically disable "Exact Match".
    + Fuzzy Search: Fuzziness is now configurable (Configuration/General).
      The higher the fuzziness (default 25%), the more items will be 
      found:
         0% fuzziness = 100% minimum similarity (= non-fuzzy)
        25% fuzziness =  75% minimum similarity
       100% fuzziness =   0% minimum similarity (all items match)
      Note that actually useful values might lie between 10% and 35% of 
      fuzziness. Also bear in mind that with the Ratcliff/Obershelp 
      algorithm the correct order of any submatches is relevant, and the 
      similarity decreases with the mean length of the compared strings, 
      eg:
        "mahatma ghandi","mahatma gandhi" -> 93% similarity
        "gandhi mahatma","mahatma gandhi" -> 50% similarity !
        "gandhi"        ,"mahatma gandhi" -> 60% similarity !
    % Fuzzy search got a bit faster.

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Welcome to fuzzy search! Download the latest TrackerV3 BETA version (v3.60.0093, 28-nov-2004).

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v3.60.0093 - 28.11.04 10:36
  +++ Added Fuzzy Matching to the search engine. The similarity 
      measurement is based on the Ratcliff-Obershelp method. A 
      similarity degree of 1 means perfect identity whereas 0 means 
      total dissimilarity. TrackerV3's fuzzy search is hard-coded to 
      treat a similarity of at least 0.75 (or 75%) as a match (I might 
      make this configurable in later versions).
      Note that fuzzy matching of course takes longer than sharp 
      matching, but I could make it pretty fast. Further note the 
      following interdependencies:
      Fuzzy search can not be combined with RegExp search.
      If the search pattern contains wildcards * or ?:
        - Fuzzy is internally set to False      
      If Fuzzy is checked:
        - Exact Match is internally set to False
        - Check Full Path is internally set to False
    ! MP3 preview: the MPEG-header info frame was damaged, probably due 
      to lack of sleep about 3 weeks ago. Fixed.

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Not much happened in two weeks. We are approaching the state of perfection... Download the latest TrackerV3 BETA version (v3.60.0092, 26-nov-2004).

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v3.60.0092 - 26.11.04 18:15
    ! Various minor bug fixes.
    ! If the current folder was deleted by another app, TrackerV3 would 
      have problems and might even close down. Now it goes up one level.

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Download the latest TrackerV3 BETA version (v3.60.0084, 12-nov-2004).

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v3.60.0084 - 12.11.04 11:01
    ! Would not automatically refresh file list after file operations on 
      connected network drives. Fixed.
    ! Fixed an error 10 bug that was caused by executing programmed double 
      clicks in the treeview.

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Download the latest TrackerV3 BETA version (v3.60.0082, 31-oct-2004).

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v3.60.0082 - 31.10.04 16:17
    + Menu Favorites: added submenu Favorite Files. Now you can directly 
      jump to any file by one single click.
      New Keyboard Shortcut:
        Ctrl+R: Toggle Favorite File. Applies to the currently focused 
                file. Disabled if no file focused.