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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.50.0003, 22-dec-2006).
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v5.50.0003 - 22.12.06 09:30
    + Menu View: added command "Auto-Refresh" for easier access. It is 
      identical to "Auto-refresh on file system &changes" in 
      Configuration|Advanced but I found this label too clumsy for the 
      menu.
    + Toolbar: added a special context menu to the "Refresh" toolbar 
      button, featuring these commands:
        Auto-refresh (= Auto-refresh on file system changes)
        Include network locations
        Suspend refresh during file operations
    ! Opening a drive from the drives listing by mouse or keyboard did 
      not work on all drive display name syntaxes. Fixed.
    ! Menu View|Views|Configure Thumbnails... opened the wrong tab. 
      Fixed.

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v5.50.0004 - 23.12.06 08:55
    + Catalog: now you can use right arrow and left arrow keys to 
      expand/collapse a category.
    ! Catalog: right click in the white space could crash the app under 
      certain rare circumstances. Fixed.
    + Help file: pimped up the Contents pane.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.50.0005, 01-jan-2007).
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v5.50.0005 - 01.01.07 12:47
    + List View's Rename edit box:
      - Now Up/Down keys unselect any selection inside the edit box by a 
        single keystroke without moving the caret one position to the 
        left or right. 
        This is useful for example when the selection is set to the base 
        excluding the extension (to do this, check Configuration | 
        Advanced | Exclude extension on rename).
        Note that using the Up key will move the caret to the left end 
        of the selection, using the Down key will move it to the right 
        end. Another nice control plus.
      - Now Ctrl+A does select all contents.
    * Menu View: renamed submenu "Tab" to "Current Tab", just to be a 
      tad more explicit.
    * Reorganized parts of the "View" menu: submenus "Views" and "Sort By" 
      are now located below/inside submenu "Current Tab". Consequently 
      they are now available as well in the tab headers' context menu.
    ! Under Win9x, and when an outdated INI-file (older than Sept 2006) 
      was used, the Configuration window would not close on OK. Fixed.
    ! Under Win9x, network shares could not be browsed since network 
      servers are remembered between sessions (v5.00.0036). Fixed.
    ! Under Win9x, sometimes wrong network were displayed. Fixed.    

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.50.0006, 03-jan-2007).
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v5.50.0006 - 03.01.07 12:56
    + Tree: now you can rename volume labels (drive display names) as 
      expected by pressing F2.
    + Tree: refreshing the tree (F4) or the current folder (Shift+F4) 
      will now also refresh the volume labels.
    + Batch Rename: added a quick and easy way. If you simply give a 
      string with no increment or datestamp arguments, then the Number 
      Suffix for filenames (as stated in Configuration|Report) is 
      automatically taken as increment template.
      For example, if your Number Suffix is "-00" and you use "Test" as 
      template in Batch Rename then all selected files will be renamed 
      to:
        Test-01.jpg
        Test-02.jpg
        Test-03.png (yep, extension preserved)
        ... etc.
    + Enhancements to Full Screen Preview:
      - High-quality zoom/shrink.
      - Safer handling of huge files.
      - Support for UNICODE-named files.
      - Smoother toggle of info label (Numpad multiply).
      - Trial Version nag label.
    + Added the new unselect-by-keys functionality (cf v5.50.0005) to 
      the edit box of the Move/Copy-Here-As dialog (actually to all 
      dialogs with a simple edit box, since they are all instances of 
      the same class), and to the Tree's Rename edit box.
      This enhancement includes Ctrl+A to "select all".
    ! If "Show system files and folders" was OFF, you could not go to 
      root drives via Go To, Catalog, etc. This is, because -- weirdly! 
      -- drives have the SYSTEM and the HIDDEN attribute set, at least 
      under XP. Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.50.0007, 05-jan-2007).
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v5.50.0007 - 05.01.07 11:18
    + Find Files: added "Loose Boolean Match" (LBM) as default behavior 
      for search patterns consisting of two or more strings separated by 
      blanks and not containing any wildcards.
      For example, "work 2006" (without the quotes) will find all items 
      that have "work" and "2006" somewhere in their name (regardless of 
      the order). In other words, "work 2006" is internally-smartly-
      automatically-conveniently transmutated into the Boolean 
      expression "*work* AND *2006*" (in XY syntax = ":work & 2006").
      Tips:
      - To avoid LBM and find all items containing "work 2006" somewhere 
        in their name enclose it in asterisks: "*work 2006*".
      - To avoid LBM and find all items matching "work 2006" exactly put 
        it in quotes (a leading quote is enough).
      - Note that LBM can be inverted by "!", and it does work from the 
        Address Bar as well, for example:
        Desktop?a b c     Find all items that contain the characters
                          a, b, and c in their name.
        Desktop?!a b c    Find all items that do not contain all the 
                          characters a, b, and c in their name (but
                          only some or none of them).
    + Further enhancements to Full Screen Preview:
      - Now it will stay up on task switch (Alt+Tab) and the like...
      - Made it modal and gave it a caption ("XYplorer Full Screen 
        Preview") that allows you to identify it in the task list.
      - Smoother toggle of background color (Numpad Subtract).
    + Toolbar: added a special context menu (identical to the Views 
      submenu) to the "Views" and "Toggle Details/Thumbnails 1 View" 
      toolbar buttons.
    ! Crash on New Tab (Ctrl+T) in a freshly installed instance (since 
      v5.50.0005). Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.50.0008, 06-jan-2007).
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v5.50.0008 - 06.01.07 12:26
    + Tab headers: now, when you right-click the icon in any tab-header, 
      the breadcrumb menu of that tab's location is popped up at your 
      mouse cursor. Cool. But even cooler: when you select a path 
      portion in that breadcrumb menu then the location of the *current 
      tab* is changed accordingly. So you can "inject" locations from 
      other tabs into your current tab!
    + List: in the drives listing (select MyComputer in Tree) now you 
      can rename volume labels (drive display names) as expected by 
      pressing F2.
    + Addendum to "Loose Boolean Match":
      - You may in fact invert/negate the individual arguments of the 
        search term:
        Desktop?a b !c    Find all items that contain the characters
                          a and b, but not c in their name.
        Desktop?(!a !b !c)  Find all items that do not contain the
                            characters a, b, or c in their name.
          You need those parentheses because "!a !b !c" is interpreted 
          as "!(a !b !c)" because the first "!" applies to the whole 
          pattern. Is that confusing...? Should I take the first "!" 
          just for the first argument??
    % Faster start up by skipping CDROM drives' availability check at 
      start up.
    % Faster network browsing when going via folders displayed in list 
      view.
    % Faster start up when starting on a now unavailbale network location.
    % Faster network browsing when "Show hidden file and folders" or 
      "Show system file and folders" are OFF. These attribute checks can 
      take plenty of time with network locations, so I simply quit doing 
      those checks for network locations.    

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.50.0010, 10-jan-2007).
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v5.50.0010 - 10.01.07 12:40
    ! When deleting a tree folder with auto-refresh ON, it could happen 
      that the app lost focus and another app moved to the foreground. 
      Fixed.
    ! Fixed a number of glitches conc the new tab headers breadcrumb.
    * "Loose Boolean Match", slight change of operator scope:
        before: !a !b   = !(a !b)     = NOT (a AND (NOT b))
           now: !a !b   = (!a) (!b)   = (NOT a) AND (NOT b)
      Much simpler/less confusing than before.
    + In the "About" window you are now told how many licences you 
      actually have bought. I heard that some few companies tend to 
      overestimate that number.
      Note that this feature will only work correctly with the new 
      license key that soon will be available for all registered 
      customers. The number is set to "1" with the current license key 
      even if more licenses have been bought.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.50.0011, 11-jan-2007).
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v5.50.0011 - 11.01.07 13:00
    ! Tab headers breadcrumb popping is not compatible with multi-search 
      locations on a finding tab. Radical fix: do not pop the breadcrumb 
      on a finding tab.
    ! Backspace (to GoUp) key did not work with focus on List or Catalog 
      since v5.50.0010. Fixed.
    % Network browsing delay: made a brute force attack on a potential 
      culprit. You won't see any icons on the info panel properties tab in 
      this version. Is it any faster now???

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.50.0012, 12-jan-2007).
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v5.50.0012 - 12.01.07 14:55
    * File Info Tips: they are not shown anymore for items on mapped 
      drives just as they haven't been shown for items on UNC paths 
      before. Maybe this is the cause for mysterious network browsing 
      delays...
    ! Statusbar showed idiotic "Mark this folder" help text when 
      hovering over shell ctx menu separators. Fixed.
    ! Batch Rename: (since v5.50.0006) when using the self-referential 
      wildcard "*" but no number increment argument (e.g. "<#01>"), a 
      number increment was appended anyway. Fixed.
    * Tab headers breadcrumb (BC) menu: now, the disabled state of a BC 
      menu item relates to the current tab's location, but the checked 
      state relates to the tab's location the BC belongs to.
    ! Since v5.50.0011, crash when trying to delete a network folder 
      with auto-refresh on but exlcuding network paths. Fixed.
    ! Visual Filter and Selection Filter crashed when entering the 
      pattern "[". Fixed. Not only won't it crash no more, but you can 
      actually use that pattern to filter/select items containing "[".
    % Find Files: patterns are now validated before running a search 
      instead of catching any pattern related errors while searching. In 
      consequence searching became 1-2% faster, heyho!

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.50.0013, 13-jan-2007).
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v5.50.0013 - 13.01.07 14:39
  +++ Media Preview: now you got 3 types of looping:
      - Play Once: play file and stop (was "Loop OFF" before).
      - Play Again: play file repeatedly (was "Loop ON" before).
      - Play Next: play next media file in current list; start from top 
        of list if bottom is reached.
    + The special rename edit box tricks now also work in the Catalog 
      and in the handcrafted list controls used in List Management, 
      Excluded Folders and Color Filters, i.e. everywhere where 
      something can be renamed.
    + Rename edit box (Tree, List, Catalog etc.):
      Now, pressing F2 while the edit box is visible will toggle the 
      selection state like this:
        If all is selected: unselect all, move caret to end of text.
        If not all is selected: select all.
    % Experimentally changed icon retrieval strategies in various places 
      of the app. The simple idea behind it is: why ask the operating system 
      again and again when the tree knows and remembers it already? And, 
      as far as I see, it works alright! Makes me say it one more time: 
      Here's downstream file management!
    ! The mouse-over-tab-headers-calculation was 2 to 4 pixels off 
      reality. Fixed.
    * Hipper unavailable icon overlay. Select empty CD drive to see it.
  %%% Just for the record: that last change concerning File Info Tips 
      (v5.50.0012) made listwise network browsing on mapped drives 
      considerably faster by removing an unnecessary delay.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.50.0015, 15-jan-2007).
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v5.50.0015 - 15.01.07 09:19
    + Media Preview: now, if more than one file is selected, the "Play 
      Next" mode cycles only through the currently selected files.
      Which means you can play drumbox with XYplorer!
      - Download the XY drum kit:
        http://www.xyplorer.com/download/xydrum.zip
      - Unpack in some folder and select some of the sample files.
      - Open preview ("Play Next" mode active).
      - To make it groovy, change your selections on the fly by mouse-
        drag-(un)selecting new files, and press Ctrl+R to shuffle.
    + Further enhancements to Full Screen Preview:
      - If an image is being previewed AND the preview (tab) is visible 
        then [Ctrl+F11] will open the Full Screen Preview.
      - Now you can also use the Up and Down arrow key to move through 
        your pictures. Before it worked only with PageUp and PageDown.
    * New keyboard shortcuts:
      F11:        (free!) (we will find something good for this... ;))
      Ctrl+F11:   open Full Screen Preview if image being previewed
      Shift+F11:  open in new browser window if HTML-file is focused

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.50.0016, 16-jan-2007).
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v5.50.0016 - 16.01.07 12:55
    + Further changes/enhancements to Full Screen Preview:
      - Simple F11 starts and ends it. No more Ctrl+F11.
      - Now, if more than 1 file is selected only the selected files are 
        previewed.
    + Batch Rename: When using no explicit number increment or other 
      argument (e.g. "<#01>"), the automatically appended number increment 
      got smarter in that it is only used when necessary!
      For example, you batch rename the following files, and use "ciao" 
      as template, you'll get this:
        hey.mp3   -> ciao.mp3
        hi.wav    -> ciao.wav
        ho.wav    -> ciao-01.wav
        hola.mp3  -> ciao-01.mp3
        hum.wav   -> ciao-02.wav
      I developed some cute little algorithm that checks for existing 
      files and files *going* to exist after the rename!
      BTW, you can use this new functionality also to rename single 
      files (press Shift+F2 to enter batch rename mode) with 
      automatically appended number *if necessary* and guaranteed no 
      collision! For example, if these files exist...
        ciao.wav
        ciao-01.wav
        ciao-02.wav
      ... and you batch rename any other *.wav file to "ciao" then it 
      will be auto-named "ciao-03.wav"!      
    ! Now when you rename a single file while previewing audio/video 
      files in "Play Next" mode, the preview stops. This fixes some 
      problems when it did not stop.
      Batch Rename while "Play Next" is in action seems to work so la la 
      but I would not really recommend it.
    + Media Preview: added a 4th mode of previewing audio/video files:
      - Play Once:  Play file and stop (was "Loop OFF" before).
      - Play Again: Play file repeatedly (was "Loop ON" before).
      - Play Next:  Play next media file in current list until the bottom 
        is reached. If more than one file is selected only the selected 
        media files are previewed.
      - Play Next and Loop: Same as "Play Next" but start from top of 
        list if bottom is reached.
    + Media Preview: now, when previewing audio/video files in "Play 
      Next" mode using the Space key will not change any selections but 
      just pause/restart the preview. Shift+Space will go to the beginning 
      of the currently playing/pausing file.
    * List navigation: now, in Small Icons view and Thumbnails view, you 
      can navigate through the whole list using Left and Right keys. 
      Before, those keys would stay in the current row.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.50.0017, 17-jan-2007).
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v5.50.0017 - 17.01.07 12:45
  +++ Full Screen Preview of image files now works with info panel down 
      or preview tab invisible. Simply select/focus an image file in the 
      file list and press F11, voila! If you have not excluded it from 
      previewed formats you'll see it full screen.
    * List: now, when Space is pressed any previous selections are kept 
      and the focused item is selected if it was not selected anyway.
    ! Navigating per Up/Down keys in view List did not work as expected 
      when coming from view Thumbnails. Fixed.

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.50.0018, 18-jan-2007).
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v5.50.0018 - 18.01.07 20:23
    ! Not all shares are shown? Tried to do something about it. Hm?

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Download the latest XYplorer BETA version (v5.50.0019, 19-jan-2007).
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v5.50.0019 - 19.01.07 11:19
    + Outlook drop: now the dropped files' modified dates are set to the 
      date/time when the messages were sent!
    + Outlook drop: added status bar info "processing message n/all" 
      including option to stop the business by pressing ESC.
    ! Outlook drop: Commas in the email subject were converted to spaces 
      when dropped. Fixed.
    * Outlook drop: Before, when you drag-dropped exactly one file and a 
      same-named file was already existing in the target, the dropped file 
      was auto-number-suffixed to avoid collision. However, when you drag-
      dropped more than one file, they were only auto-number-suffixed 
      within the dropped packet (to avoid overwriting each other in the 
      target) but not against the target location.
      I removed this inconsistency: now you always get an overwrite prompt 
      when a dropped file collides with a file already existing in the 
      target. This is the expected behavior, I think.    
    + Tree's plus/minus icons hipper. And they work better now on darker 
      backgrounds.