XYplorer Main Features Summary
Posted: 03 Jun 2014 17:53
Hi.
This is an attempt to summarize all main XYplorer features highlited under History.txt (a document containing *all* changes made in XYplorer development down to version 3.x and available for Pro users only via the License Lounge).
*Please observe that this is not a compilation of all XYplorer features as there's plenty more for you to discover!*, so take it as a teaser and discover what else you can bring out from the program - for the very same price you already paid!
Yeah - the kind of stuff you didn't know you'd need until you fall in love with them blaming yourself for not knowing it sooner...!

There are 3 posts containing more detailed descriptions:
Detailed, Part 1: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 47#p105746
Detailed, Part 2: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 47#p105747
Detailed, Part 3: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 10#p147010
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XYplorer 17.60 - Find Files by Path; New Overwrite Prompt; Audio Properties: basic audio properties (Bit Rate, Sample Rate, Channels, Length) are shown right in the Large Tiles view.
XYplorer 17.50 - Quick Audio Preview; Support of Filenames Ending With Dot or Space; Extra Large Toolbar.
XYplorer 17.40 - Multi-field search supports content; Self Update.
XYplorer 17.30 - Find Dangerous Characters: now you can color-code such files.
XYplorer 17.20 - Single File Search; Type Stats and Filter; Custom Copy: Retry button; Custom Vorbis Tags; Audio Tags: Composer tag in Vorbis Comments (FLAC and OGG)
XYplorer 17.10 - Audio Tags: Vorbis Comments in FLAC and OGG files are supported; Safety Belts: optional native delete confirmation prompt; 64 Custom Columns; Thumbnail Files: save thumbnails of images as files; Portable Tags.
XYplorer 17.00 - Live Filter Box; Content Search: run a content search via inline switch; Stronger Tree Lines; Precise Obfuscation.
XYplorer 16.90 - Tree Structured Report; Collision Prompt: quick action buttons Overwrite and Skip.
XYplorer 16.80 - Folder Size Caching; 256 Undo/Redo operations; Copy Path at the white space context menu; Reporting: scripting command folderreport() now can generate a rich tree-shaped recursive report on any folder.
XYplorer 16.70 - Toggle the display of folder sizes via a button; View and Edit the Clipboard; Paste and Go; Color Filters: define whether a filter is applied to the Tree, or to the List, or to both, for each filter individually; Rename Special in the folder tree.
XYplorer 16.60 - Permanent Custom Sort Order.
XYplorer 16.50 - Virtual folders "Downloads" and "Links" shown in the folder tree.
XYplorer 16.40 - Vertical preview pane; Zoom To Fill: the SaveThumb command can create thumbnail files that are zoomed to fill.
XYplorer 16.30 - Color Histogram; Thumbs Gallery.
XYplorer 16.20 - Global Visual Filters: all previous limits have been stripped.
XYplorer 16.10 - Completely revised the preview engine using the available preview handlers; Floating Preview and Full Screen Preview now supports previewing Office, PDF, Audio and Video, Font, and Icon files; Batch Move; Multilingual Support: support for Finnish.
XYplorer 16.00 - A new Tag Bar allows for tagging and commenting images right from the Floating Preview; Image File Processing: run a custom script directly from the Floating Preview; Added support for the maker notes in Fujifilm JPEGs; Autosave Settings after a certain time; Drop stuff onto the Breadcrumb Bars; Advanced Hex Search.
XYplorer 15.90 - Thumbnails Speed: "High Speed" mode.
XYplorer 15.80 - Global Visual Filters; Visual Filters by Tags; Color Filters by Tags; Search In List: run a search over a list of items, instead of just searching one or more locations; Dupes By Basename; Find By Count: find folders by the number of the contained items; Multilingual Support: support for Klingon.
XYplorer 15.70 - Flatten Folder; Drag and Drop: change the default drag and drop behavior.
XYplorer 15.60 - Ghost Filter; Access Control: Ghost Filter for the boss, you can completely hide particular items from the users, on a per-user basis; QuickSearch; Floating Preview: navigate photos by left mouse click; Lock Zoom Position.
XYplorer 15.50 - Smart Right Click: smart context menus on Name, Size, and Date columns; Date Picker for the find-by-date interface; Photo Data: Exposure Program and Exposure Bias are displayed; Histogram, Invert and Grayscale for the image preview; Obfuscate sensitive information in the interface.
XYplorer 15.40 - User-Defined Functions; Scripting with Include statement; Copy File Size quickly in various formats; Age Display Limit: show the age for today's files, absolute date for all other files.
XYplorer 15.30 - Show Cached Thumbnails Only; Paste and Find; Age Display Limit: define when to show the age or the absolute date of files; Zoom By Wheel: zooming fonts by mouse wheel now is optional; Custom Toolbar Buttons: PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, and TIF images can be used for the button graphics; Multilingual Support: support for Hungarian (Magyar).
XYplorer 15.20 - Drop Stacks: 24x24 pixel landing places where you can drop files to virtual folders; Thumbnail Files: save the thumbnails of images as files; Auto-Select First Item; Link View: check what a shortcut points to before you open it.
XYplorer 15.10 - Find Files Without Extension: search for *. (asterisk-dot); Toggle Quick Search; address bar's dropdown button on the left; Photo Preview: show basic photo data in the Floating Preview's status bar.
XYplorer 15.00 - XYplorer now supports devices like tablets, smart phones, or digital cameras, devices that are connected to the PC without being assigned a drive letter. (Windows Vista and later); Flat Select: select items by entering match patterns right through the Address Bar; Timestamping: clone and shift timestamps; Sticky Checkbox Selection.
XYplorer 14.80 - Find Empty Items; Find Containing Folders: list all folders containing a certain file or file type, files of a certain size or age, or with certain other properties, also list all folders NOT containing such files; Enhanced Photo Data: Photo Data is now much faster than before; Photo Data Columns: basic photo properties Camera Model, Focal Length, F-Stop, Exposure Time, ISO Speed, and Date Taken can now be shown in file list columns.
XYplorer 14.70 - Duplicate File Finder; Contents to Clipboard: copy the textual contents of files to the clipboard with a single command; Enhanced Tiles Views: the photo data shown for JPEG and RAW formats include the Exif Date.
XYplorer 14.60 - Enhanced Tiles Views: tiles can be much larger now and their size is freely configurable.
XYplorer 14.50 - Mouse Down Blow Up on Icons; Mouse Down Blow Up Text; Mouse Down Blow Up Hex View; Colored Tabs.
XYplorer 14.40 - Click and Tag; 64 Custom Toolbar Buttons; Flat Look.
XYplorer 14.30 - Paper Folders; Permanent Custom Sort Order.
XYplorer 14.20 - Click and Search: search by date and age is supported; Many new layout options, and you can save and load layouts.
XYplorer 14.10 - Click and Search: collapsible and fully customizable list of your favorite search jobs, which can be logically combined simply by ticking checkboxes; Tag Clouds; Column Layouts: export your details view column layouts to files; Ignore Articles When Sorting; Multilingual Support: support for Dutch.
XYplorer 14.00 - On Demand Columns; Advanced Content Search on complex file types like DOC, DOCX, ODT, and PDF; Ignore Articles When Sorting; Image Preview in Overwrite Prompt.
XYplorer 13.90 - Audio, Special and Extended Properties in Columns; Context-Smart Columns; Fully Scriptable Columns; Depth-Limited Search; Copy Data: copy the contents of any single cell in the file list to the clipboard.
XYplorer 13.80 - Extra Tags; Paste and Find: find, focus, and highlight files simply by pasting their name into the file list.
XYplorer 13.70 - Sync Browse: browse both panes in parallel motion; 64-bit shell context menu.
XYplorer 13.60 - Named Drives: specify paths using their name (Volume Label) instead of the drive letter; Navigation Buttons for the Breadcrumb Bars; Find By Hash.
XYplorer 13.50 - External Copy Handlers; Tree Node Crumbs; Fuzzy Favorites: Favorite Folders and Favorite Files support the wildcard *; Copy Distributed Items.
XYplorer 13.40 - Folder View Settings with Visual Filters.
XYplorer 13.30 - Quick Name Search Info & Visual Filters Info; Visual Filters: Boolean AND is supported; Color Filters: Boolean NOT is supported.
XYplorer 13.20 - Breadcrumb Bars; Exif Stamping: the command "Set Modified Date to Exif" is available from the main menu.
XYplorer 13.10 - Checkbox Selection; Thumbnails Zoom to Fill.
XYplorer 13.00 - Color Filters for Folders, by age; Color Codes for Image Aspect Ratio; Scroll To Top; Mouse Down Blow Up (MDBU): the right button MDBU optionally fits the image to the screen whereas the left button MDBU zooms it to original size.
XYplorer 12.90 - Image Preview: previewing Animated GIFs is supported, as well as for Floating Preview and Thumbnails.
XYplorer 12.80 - Tiles Views: two new views, Small Tiles and Large Tiles (attention photographers! - Large Tiles view displays image dimensions and aspect ratio!).
XYplorer 12.70 - Color Filters by Length; Type Ahead Find 2.0; Line Number Selection; Extended Reporting: support for the complete set of file metadata.
XYplorer 12.60 - Zip Support; Zip View (non-modal Zip preview); non-modal Quick File View; Adjustable Font Size; Accessible Tooltips (file Info Tips and other tooltips are displayed in the same font and font size as their parent controls); Display Hash Values.
XYplorer 12.50 - Show, Stamp and Report Milliseconds; better handling of Illegal Filenames.
XYplorer 12.40 - Custom File Icons.
XYplorer 12.30 - Type Stats and Filter; Recent File Operations.
XYplorer 12.20 - Portable Tags; Custom Toolbar Buttons: drop files or texts on all buttons and process them with the scripts assigned to that buttons; Full support for high contrast color schemes; Safety: Now XYplorer protects you from the so-called "Unitrix Exploit".
XYplorer 12.10 - Download a language file from the server; move zoomed images as in touch screen; use environment variables when stating AllowedDirs and DisallowedDirs for Access Control.
XYplorer 12.00 - Multilingual Support; Interface Translation Tool; replace strange, weird, funny, unknown characters using the command "Convert to ASCII".
XYplorer 11.90 - Power Filters; Visual Filters - Attributes, Size, Date, and Age filters are supported additionally to the Name filter; Inline Rename in Tree and List; Paste multiline clipboard contents into the edit box; Exclude Items from Search.
XYplorer 11.80 - Total Report - export the complete set of metadata in CSV format; Floating Preview - status bar now shows the aspect ratio; Remote Control - run an XY script from an external program using the WM_COPYDATA command with XYplorer's hWnd.
XYplorer 11.70 - Floating Preview Zoom; Floating Preview Rename; Rename with Dialog; Copy Tags.
XYplorer 11.60 - Duplicate File Finder; Tree Path Tracing; PSD Previews; Rotate in Floating and Full Screen Preview.
XYplorer 11.50 - Highlighted Groups display style; Ignore Diacritics on several ports; Replace with File in Clipboard.
XYplorer 11.40 - Color Filters by Properties; High Quality Image Preview; Captionless Thumbnails; Metadata Popup; Sort Headers in All Views; Reverse Sort Order using a keyboard shortcut.
XYplorer 11.30 - RAW image types to the previewed and thumbnailed image formats; 'Metadata, 'Thumbnails' and 'Report' enhancements.
XYplorer 11.20 - Selection Style - Windows Themes; 'Floating Preview', 'Full Screen Preview' and 'Show Grid' enhancements; Tree Full Row Select.
XYplorer 11.10 - Floating Preview; Mouse Down Blow Up zoom; Delete Long.
XYplorer 11.00 - Quick Name Search; Tags Tab; Copy Here with Path; Smart Dropdown Buttons.
XYplorer 10.90 - Multi Field Search; different encoding for Text Preview; droppable File Tagging.
XYplorer 10.80 - Multi Branch View; Automatic Rich File Operations; Paste To Selected List Folder; Minimize Tree; Safety and Accessibility enhancements; Color-Coding Folders.
XYplorer 10.70 - Tabsets; environment variables on Visual Filters; Previous Order for sorting.
XYplorer 10.60 - Branch View, further enhanced as Multi Branch View in v10.80; Sticky Section; toolbar-based open-with dropdowns; Selection Stats; Move On Rename.
XYplorer 10.50 - Regular Expressions: Finding files by content now support them; Rename Special - mass rename files using meta properties like Camera Model, Width and Height, or Bit Rate; User Buttons - user-defined colored labels are supported.
XYplorer 10.40 - Wipe - a method to securely delete files beyond recovery.
XYplorer 10.30 - Custom Move; Single Click Open; Attribute Stamping; multi-line captions for Thumbnails.
XYplorer 10.20 - Droppable User Buttons.
XYplorer 10.10 - Drive Bar; Natural numeric sort order; Empty Folder (without opening it); Custom Catalog Icons.
XYplorer 10.00 - Custom Copy.
XYplorer 9.90 - Tag-Based File Management; Transparency Grids support; 'Inline Rename', 'Admin Settings', 'Incremental Suffix', 'Reporting', 'Aliases', 'Thumbnails Speed' enhancements; UTF-8 Support; Junctions and Symbolic Links; Auto-backup; Catalog - Import/Export functionality; Backup verification; Filter Selected Items; custom command line interpreter; Access Control - white and/or black list; Safe Overwrite; Live Filter Box; Overlong Filenames deletion improved.
XYplorer 9.80 - 'Color Filters', 'Serial Rename' and 'Backup' enhancements.
XYplorer 9.70 - Admin Settings; Switch Catalogs; Color Filters by Size; Confirm Drag and Drop.
XYplorer 9.60 - Sync Select and Sync Scroll/Sync Sort; Restore Selection; Move Up; Edit Item Names.
XYplorer 9.50 - Select Items interface; 'Selection Filter', 'DOS commands' enhancements; Scripting from the command line.
XYplorer 9.40 - Portable Tabs; Go to Last Target; History Retains Selections; Portable File Associations for files without extension; tooltips of junctions displaying the Junction Target; several improvements on Scripting; Address Bar breadcrumb.
XYplorer 9.30 - Folder Tree state fully retained across sessions; 'PDF Thumbnails', 'Thumbnails Caching', 'Color Filters', 'Image and Media Previews', 'New Files creation' enhancements; hide Statusbar; 'Go to Dragged Item'.
XYplorer 9.20 - Aliases; Folder Sizes; Environment Variables; 'Previewed Formats' enhancements.
XYplorer 9.10 - Background Bar; Find By Type; powerful Text Preview; Recently Opened Items; Address Bar supporting DOS commands.
XYplorer 9.00 - Background Processing; Queued File Operations; Named Visual Filters.
XYplorer 8.90 - Fast Tag Search; 'Toolbar', 'Rename Files' and 'Preview' enhancements; Paste Folder Structure; Unicode support for Find Files by Contents.
XYplorer 8.80 - Recycle Bin - XY style; Editable Mini Tree.
XYplorer 8.70 - Metadata Search; 'Tags & Comments', 'Backup' and 'Find Files' enhancements - 'Tags' further enhanced AGAIN in 9.90!.
XYplorer 8.60 - Multi-Level Undo/Redo; Action Log.
XYplorer 8.50 - Manual Sorting.
XYplorer 8.40 - Custom Toolbar Buttons; History and Recent Locations.
XYplorer 8.30 - Search Results Caching; Spot'n'Jump.
XYplorer 8.20 - Large Toolbar Icons; Sticky Selection.
XYplorer 8.10 - Jump To Item (later Spot'n'Jump).
XYplorer 8.00 - Dual Pane; Overlong filenames supported.
XYplorer 7.90 - Mini Tree; Quick Searches: support for multiple locations; Spot (later Spot'n'Jump); Tags and Comments; Visual Filters.
XYplorer 7.80 - File Search combines Boolean Logic with Regular Expressions; History per Tab; Reporting.
XYplorer 7.70 - Address Bar Deluxe; Color Filters 2.0; 'Unicode' and 'Scripting' enhancements.
XYplorer 7.60 - Scripting enhancements.
XYplorer 7.50 - Folder View Settings; 'Thumbnails View' enhancements.
XYplorer 7.40 - Quick File View; "Find As You Type" optionally works on the sorted column.
XYplorer 7.30 - Catalog-Based Browsing; Quick File Compare; Support for Hard Link creation.
XYplorer 7.20 - Unicode filenames editing; submenu "Shortcut Target".
XYplorer 7.10 - Portable Openwith Menu (aka Portable File Associations); Favorites with Captions; Copy Item UNC Path/Name(s).
XYplorer 7.00 - Scripting Edition; Mass renaming deluxe; Iconized tabs; secondary sorting.
XYplorer 6.80 - drag-drop items onto shortcuts in List and Catalog; other enhancements involving shortcuts.
XYplorer 6.70 - Network: logon dialog and enhancement for hidden shares; UDC has icons and other enhancements.
XYplorer 6.60 - command line parameters supported on UDC and Catalog.
XYplorer 6.50 - User-Defined Commands; Backup from Catalog; Serial Rename; String Search: negative searches; Color Code the Tree.
XYplorer 6.40 - Ux theme visual styles support; drag-drop items onto *.BAT and *.CMD files; NTFS junctions support; 'New Items', 'Backup', 'dropping from archives', 'File Info Tips', 'high contrast color schemes compatibility' enhancements.
XYplorer 6.30 - Rename Special has preview; 'Minimize to tray on X close'; 'File Info Tips' and 'RegExp Rename' enhancements.
XYplorer 6.20 - Catalog as an 'Open-With-Panel'; 'Len' column; 'Hide Folders in List' button.
XYplorer 6.10 - Dbl-click on empty space goes up one level; Quickly find all empty folders within a given path.
XYplorer 6.00 - Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts.
XYplorer 5.80 - Catalog, Address Bar, Favorites, and Goto accept relative path syntax; drop-on-zip support in List and Catalog.
XYplorer 5.60 - 'Full Screen Preview', 'Find Files', 'Network browsing', 'Batch Rename' and 'Outlook Drop' enhancements.
XYplorer 5.50 - Drop messages from Outlook (+Exp +2003) and save them to files with template-configured names.
XYplorer 5.40 - Support for non-latin characters; automatic path name completion; support for hidden shares; 'Default Tab'; 'Select by Selected Type(s)' and 'Filter by Selected Extension(s)'; One-click-copy distributed items onto the clipboard*.
XYplorer 5.30 -
XYplorer 5.20 - No more GDI+ dependency; keyboard-driven popup - Hotlist and Breadcrumb; Drop-Text-To-File; 'Delete (Skip Locked)'; Support of common Windows environment variables; 'Show Space Used'*.
XYplorer 5.10 - Keyboard-driven Move To, Copy To, and Backup To dialogs; Find Files and Selection Filter: multiple patterns; 'Copy Here with Suffix Date'; drop-down lists: all have auto-complete.
XYplorer 5.00 - Catalog; Network Places On Demand; color-coding by file attributes; 'Paste Here To New Subfolder...'; 'Home Zone' for tabs.
XYplorer 4.60 - Address Bar Search; List Management.
XYplorer 4.50 - Views; 'Batch Rename...'.
XYplorer 4.40 - Icon overlays support; Network Browsing enhancements; Added address bar; Support for XButtons.
XYplorer 4.20 - New Items submenu; Visual Filter and Color Filter to the list.
Program XYplorer
File manager for Windows 10, 10 Server, 8.1, 8, Server 2012, 7,
Server 2008, Vista, XP, Server 2003; 32-bit and 64-bit versions
Version 17.60.0100
Release 2017-Feb-27
License Proprietary
Author Donald Lessau
Contact support@xyplorer.com
Website https://www.xyplorer.com
Download https://www.xyplorer.com/download/xyplorer_full.zip
Purchase https://www.xyplorer.com/purchase.php
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 Cologne Code Company. All Rights Reserved.
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Symbols
+++ major new feature
+ new feature
* changed feature
% improved performance or quality
> usage tip
! fixed minor bug
!!! fixed major bug
Acronyms
4KN 4 Key Navigation
6KN 6 Key Navigation
AB Address Bar
AC Access Control
ADP Application Data Path
AL Action Log
BC Breadcrumbs, Breadcrumb Bars
BV Branch View
CAS Click and Search
CAT Click and Tag
CC Custom Columns
CF Color Filters
CEA Custom Event Actions
CFA Custom File Associations
CFI Custom File Icons
CKS Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
CLI Command Line Interpreter
CTB Custom Toolbar Buttons
DFF Duplicate File Finder
DP Dual Pane
DUB Droppable User Buttons
FP Floating Preview
FS Flat Select
FSC Folder Size Caching
FSP Full Screen Preview
FV Flat View
FVS Folder View Settings
FVSVF Folder View Settings with Visual Filters
GF Ghost Filter
GVF Global Visual Filters
HPT History per Tab
ICF Instant Color Filters
IP Info Panel
ITT Interface Translation Tool
KS Keyboard Shortcut
LFB Live Filter Box
LBM Loose Boolean Match
MBV Multi Branch View
MCN Mouse Click Navigation
MFS Multi Field Search
MDBU Mouse Down Blow Up
MOBU Mouse Over Blow Up
MLS Multilingual Support
MLOS Multi Location Search
MRU Most Recently Used
MSR Multi Script Resource
MT Mini Tree
NP Navigation Panel
PCSO Permanent Custom Sort Order
PAF Paste and Find
PD Portable Device
PF Paper Folder
PFA Portable File Associations
PFI Portable File Icons
PML Portable Metadata Layouts
POM Portable Openwith Menu
PP Preview Pane
PV Permanent Variable
QAP Quick Audio Preview
QNS Quick Name Search
QS Quick Search
QSB Quick Search Bar
RB Recycle Bin
RFO Rich File Operation
RS Rename Special
SB Status Bar
SC Scripting Command
SCS Sticky Checkbox Selection
SDB Smart Dropdown Button
SFS Single File Search
SIL Search In List
SRC Search Results Caching
TAF Type Ahead Find, Find As You Type
TB Toolbar
TNC Tree Node Crumbs
TPT Tree Path Tracing
TSF Type Stats and Filter
UB User Button
UDC User-Defined Commands
UDF User-Defined Functions
VF Visual Filters
VFO Virtual Folder
VLP Volume Label Paths
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This is intended to complement another major project, aiming to ease the process of mastering the app yet preserving user-friendliness concerning all available documentation to resourse to, when the need comes.
This is an attempt to summarize all main XYplorer features highlited under History.txt (a document containing *all* changes made in XYplorer development down to version 3.x and available for Pro users only via the License Lounge).
*Please observe that this is not a compilation of all XYplorer features as there's plenty more for you to discover!*, so take it as a teaser and discover what else you can bring out from the program - for the very same price you already paid!
Yeah - the kind of stuff you didn't know you'd need until you fall in love with them blaming yourself for not knowing it sooner...!
There are 3 posts containing more detailed descriptions:
Detailed, Part 1: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 47#p105746
Detailed, Part 2: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 47#p105747
Detailed, Part 3: http://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic. ... 10#p147010
______________________
XYplorer 17.60 - Find Files by Path; New Overwrite Prompt; Audio Properties: basic audio properties (Bit Rate, Sample Rate, Channels, Length) are shown right in the Large Tiles view.
XYplorer 17.50 - Quick Audio Preview; Support of Filenames Ending With Dot or Space; Extra Large Toolbar.
XYplorer 17.40 - Multi-field search supports content; Self Update.
XYplorer 17.30 - Find Dangerous Characters: now you can color-code such files.
XYplorer 17.20 - Single File Search; Type Stats and Filter; Custom Copy: Retry button; Custom Vorbis Tags; Audio Tags: Composer tag in Vorbis Comments (FLAC and OGG)
XYplorer 17.10 - Audio Tags: Vorbis Comments in FLAC and OGG files are supported; Safety Belts: optional native delete confirmation prompt; 64 Custom Columns; Thumbnail Files: save thumbnails of images as files; Portable Tags.
XYplorer 17.00 - Live Filter Box; Content Search: run a content search via inline switch; Stronger Tree Lines; Precise Obfuscation.
XYplorer 16.90 - Tree Structured Report; Collision Prompt: quick action buttons Overwrite and Skip.
XYplorer 16.80 - Folder Size Caching; 256 Undo/Redo operations; Copy Path at the white space context menu; Reporting: scripting command folderreport() now can generate a rich tree-shaped recursive report on any folder.
XYplorer 16.70 - Toggle the display of folder sizes via a button; View and Edit the Clipboard; Paste and Go; Color Filters: define whether a filter is applied to the Tree, or to the List, or to both, for each filter individually; Rename Special in the folder tree.
XYplorer 16.60 - Permanent Custom Sort Order.
XYplorer 16.50 - Virtual folders "Downloads" and "Links" shown in the folder tree.
XYplorer 16.40 - Vertical preview pane; Zoom To Fill: the SaveThumb command can create thumbnail files that are zoomed to fill.
XYplorer 16.30 - Color Histogram; Thumbs Gallery.
XYplorer 16.20 - Global Visual Filters: all previous limits have been stripped.
XYplorer 16.10 - Completely revised the preview engine using the available preview handlers; Floating Preview and Full Screen Preview now supports previewing Office, PDF, Audio and Video, Font, and Icon files; Batch Move; Multilingual Support: support for Finnish.
XYplorer 16.00 - A new Tag Bar allows for tagging and commenting images right from the Floating Preview; Image File Processing: run a custom script directly from the Floating Preview; Added support for the maker notes in Fujifilm JPEGs; Autosave Settings after a certain time; Drop stuff onto the Breadcrumb Bars; Advanced Hex Search.
XYplorer 15.90 - Thumbnails Speed: "High Speed" mode.
XYplorer 15.80 - Global Visual Filters; Visual Filters by Tags; Color Filters by Tags; Search In List: run a search over a list of items, instead of just searching one or more locations; Dupes By Basename; Find By Count: find folders by the number of the contained items; Multilingual Support: support for Klingon.
XYplorer 15.70 - Flatten Folder; Drag and Drop: change the default drag and drop behavior.
XYplorer 15.60 - Ghost Filter; Access Control: Ghost Filter for the boss, you can completely hide particular items from the users, on a per-user basis; QuickSearch; Floating Preview: navigate photos by left mouse click; Lock Zoom Position.
XYplorer 15.50 - Smart Right Click: smart context menus on Name, Size, and Date columns; Date Picker for the find-by-date interface; Photo Data: Exposure Program and Exposure Bias are displayed; Histogram, Invert and Grayscale for the image preview; Obfuscate sensitive information in the interface.
XYplorer 15.40 - User-Defined Functions; Scripting with Include statement; Copy File Size quickly in various formats; Age Display Limit: show the age for today's files, absolute date for all other files.
XYplorer 15.30 - Show Cached Thumbnails Only; Paste and Find; Age Display Limit: define when to show the age or the absolute date of files; Zoom By Wheel: zooming fonts by mouse wheel now is optional; Custom Toolbar Buttons: PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, and TIF images can be used for the button graphics; Multilingual Support: support for Hungarian (Magyar).
XYplorer 15.20 - Drop Stacks: 24x24 pixel landing places where you can drop files to virtual folders; Thumbnail Files: save the thumbnails of images as files; Auto-Select First Item; Link View: check what a shortcut points to before you open it.
XYplorer 15.10 - Find Files Without Extension: search for *. (asterisk-dot); Toggle Quick Search; address bar's dropdown button on the left; Photo Preview: show basic photo data in the Floating Preview's status bar.
XYplorer 15.00 - XYplorer now supports devices like tablets, smart phones, or digital cameras, devices that are connected to the PC without being assigned a drive letter. (Windows Vista and later); Flat Select: select items by entering match patterns right through the Address Bar; Timestamping: clone and shift timestamps; Sticky Checkbox Selection.
XYplorer 14.80 - Find Empty Items; Find Containing Folders: list all folders containing a certain file or file type, files of a certain size or age, or with certain other properties, also list all folders NOT containing such files; Enhanced Photo Data: Photo Data is now much faster than before; Photo Data Columns: basic photo properties Camera Model, Focal Length, F-Stop, Exposure Time, ISO Speed, and Date Taken can now be shown in file list columns.
XYplorer 14.70 - Duplicate File Finder; Contents to Clipboard: copy the textual contents of files to the clipboard with a single command; Enhanced Tiles Views: the photo data shown for JPEG and RAW formats include the Exif Date.
XYplorer 14.60 - Enhanced Tiles Views: tiles can be much larger now and their size is freely configurable.
XYplorer 14.50 - Mouse Down Blow Up on Icons; Mouse Down Blow Up Text; Mouse Down Blow Up Hex View; Colored Tabs.
XYplorer 14.40 - Click and Tag; 64 Custom Toolbar Buttons; Flat Look.
XYplorer 14.30 - Paper Folders; Permanent Custom Sort Order.
XYplorer 14.20 - Click and Search: search by date and age is supported; Many new layout options, and you can save and load layouts.
XYplorer 14.10 - Click and Search: collapsible and fully customizable list of your favorite search jobs, which can be logically combined simply by ticking checkboxes; Tag Clouds; Column Layouts: export your details view column layouts to files; Ignore Articles When Sorting; Multilingual Support: support for Dutch.
XYplorer 14.00 - On Demand Columns; Advanced Content Search on complex file types like DOC, DOCX, ODT, and PDF; Ignore Articles When Sorting; Image Preview in Overwrite Prompt.
XYplorer 13.90 - Audio, Special and Extended Properties in Columns; Context-Smart Columns; Fully Scriptable Columns; Depth-Limited Search; Copy Data: copy the contents of any single cell in the file list to the clipboard.
XYplorer 13.80 - Extra Tags; Paste and Find: find, focus, and highlight files simply by pasting their name into the file list.
XYplorer 13.70 - Sync Browse: browse both panes in parallel motion; 64-bit shell context menu.
XYplorer 13.60 - Named Drives: specify paths using their name (Volume Label) instead of the drive letter; Navigation Buttons for the Breadcrumb Bars; Find By Hash.
XYplorer 13.50 - External Copy Handlers; Tree Node Crumbs; Fuzzy Favorites: Favorite Folders and Favorite Files support the wildcard *; Copy Distributed Items.
XYplorer 13.40 - Folder View Settings with Visual Filters.
XYplorer 13.30 - Quick Name Search Info & Visual Filters Info; Visual Filters: Boolean AND is supported; Color Filters: Boolean NOT is supported.
XYplorer 13.20 - Breadcrumb Bars; Exif Stamping: the command "Set Modified Date to Exif" is available from the main menu.
XYplorer 13.10 - Checkbox Selection; Thumbnails Zoom to Fill.
XYplorer 13.00 - Color Filters for Folders, by age; Color Codes for Image Aspect Ratio; Scroll To Top; Mouse Down Blow Up (MDBU): the right button MDBU optionally fits the image to the screen whereas the left button MDBU zooms it to original size.
XYplorer 12.90 - Image Preview: previewing Animated GIFs is supported, as well as for Floating Preview and Thumbnails.
XYplorer 12.80 - Tiles Views: two new views, Small Tiles and Large Tiles (attention photographers! - Large Tiles view displays image dimensions and aspect ratio!).
XYplorer 12.70 - Color Filters by Length; Type Ahead Find 2.0; Line Number Selection; Extended Reporting: support for the complete set of file metadata.
XYplorer 12.60 - Zip Support; Zip View (non-modal Zip preview); non-modal Quick File View; Adjustable Font Size; Accessible Tooltips (file Info Tips and other tooltips are displayed in the same font and font size as their parent controls); Display Hash Values.
XYplorer 12.50 - Show, Stamp and Report Milliseconds; better handling of Illegal Filenames.
XYplorer 12.40 - Custom File Icons.
XYplorer 12.30 - Type Stats and Filter; Recent File Operations.
XYplorer 12.20 - Portable Tags; Custom Toolbar Buttons: drop files or texts on all buttons and process them with the scripts assigned to that buttons; Full support for high contrast color schemes; Safety: Now XYplorer protects you from the so-called "Unitrix Exploit".
XYplorer 12.10 - Download a language file from the server; move zoomed images as in touch screen; use environment variables when stating AllowedDirs and DisallowedDirs for Access Control.
XYplorer 12.00 - Multilingual Support; Interface Translation Tool; replace strange, weird, funny, unknown characters using the command "Convert to ASCII".
XYplorer 11.90 - Power Filters; Visual Filters - Attributes, Size, Date, and Age filters are supported additionally to the Name filter; Inline Rename in Tree and List; Paste multiline clipboard contents into the edit box; Exclude Items from Search.
XYplorer 11.80 - Total Report - export the complete set of metadata in CSV format; Floating Preview - status bar now shows the aspect ratio; Remote Control - run an XY script from an external program using the WM_COPYDATA command with XYplorer's hWnd.
XYplorer 11.70 - Floating Preview Zoom; Floating Preview Rename; Rename with Dialog; Copy Tags.
XYplorer 11.60 - Duplicate File Finder; Tree Path Tracing; PSD Previews; Rotate in Floating and Full Screen Preview.
XYplorer 11.50 - Highlighted Groups display style; Ignore Diacritics on several ports; Replace with File in Clipboard.
XYplorer 11.40 - Color Filters by Properties; High Quality Image Preview; Captionless Thumbnails; Metadata Popup; Sort Headers in All Views; Reverse Sort Order using a keyboard shortcut.
XYplorer 11.30 - RAW image types to the previewed and thumbnailed image formats; 'Metadata, 'Thumbnails' and 'Report' enhancements.
XYplorer 11.20 - Selection Style - Windows Themes; 'Floating Preview', 'Full Screen Preview' and 'Show Grid' enhancements; Tree Full Row Select.
XYplorer 11.10 - Floating Preview; Mouse Down Blow Up zoom; Delete Long.
XYplorer 11.00 - Quick Name Search; Tags Tab; Copy Here with Path; Smart Dropdown Buttons.
XYplorer 10.90 - Multi Field Search; different encoding for Text Preview; droppable File Tagging.
XYplorer 10.80 - Multi Branch View; Automatic Rich File Operations; Paste To Selected List Folder; Minimize Tree; Safety and Accessibility enhancements; Color-Coding Folders.
XYplorer 10.70 - Tabsets; environment variables on Visual Filters; Previous Order for sorting.
XYplorer 10.60 - Branch View, further enhanced as Multi Branch View in v10.80; Sticky Section; toolbar-based open-with dropdowns; Selection Stats; Move On Rename.
XYplorer 10.50 - Regular Expressions: Finding files by content now support them; Rename Special - mass rename files using meta properties like Camera Model, Width and Height, or Bit Rate; User Buttons - user-defined colored labels are supported.
XYplorer 10.40 - Wipe - a method to securely delete files beyond recovery.
XYplorer 10.30 - Custom Move; Single Click Open; Attribute Stamping; multi-line captions for Thumbnails.
XYplorer 10.20 - Droppable User Buttons.
XYplorer 10.10 - Drive Bar; Natural numeric sort order; Empty Folder (without opening it); Custom Catalog Icons.
XYplorer 10.00 - Custom Copy.
XYplorer 9.90 - Tag-Based File Management; Transparency Grids support; 'Inline Rename', 'Admin Settings', 'Incremental Suffix', 'Reporting', 'Aliases', 'Thumbnails Speed' enhancements; UTF-8 Support; Junctions and Symbolic Links; Auto-backup; Catalog - Import/Export functionality; Backup verification; Filter Selected Items; custom command line interpreter; Access Control - white and/or black list; Safe Overwrite; Live Filter Box; Overlong Filenames deletion improved.
XYplorer 9.80 - 'Color Filters', 'Serial Rename' and 'Backup' enhancements.
XYplorer 9.70 - Admin Settings; Switch Catalogs; Color Filters by Size; Confirm Drag and Drop.
XYplorer 9.60 - Sync Select and Sync Scroll/Sync Sort; Restore Selection; Move Up; Edit Item Names.
XYplorer 9.50 - Select Items interface; 'Selection Filter', 'DOS commands' enhancements; Scripting from the command line.
XYplorer 9.40 - Portable Tabs; Go to Last Target; History Retains Selections; Portable File Associations for files without extension; tooltips of junctions displaying the Junction Target; several improvements on Scripting; Address Bar breadcrumb.
XYplorer 9.30 - Folder Tree state fully retained across sessions; 'PDF Thumbnails', 'Thumbnails Caching', 'Color Filters', 'Image and Media Previews', 'New Files creation' enhancements; hide Statusbar; 'Go to Dragged Item'.
XYplorer 9.20 - Aliases; Folder Sizes; Environment Variables; 'Previewed Formats' enhancements.
XYplorer 9.10 - Background Bar; Find By Type; powerful Text Preview; Recently Opened Items; Address Bar supporting DOS commands.
XYplorer 9.00 - Background Processing; Queued File Operations; Named Visual Filters.
XYplorer 8.90 - Fast Tag Search; 'Toolbar', 'Rename Files' and 'Preview' enhancements; Paste Folder Structure; Unicode support for Find Files by Contents.
XYplorer 8.80 - Recycle Bin - XY style; Editable Mini Tree.
XYplorer 8.70 - Metadata Search; 'Tags & Comments', 'Backup' and 'Find Files' enhancements - 'Tags' further enhanced AGAIN in 9.90!.
XYplorer 8.60 - Multi-Level Undo/Redo; Action Log.
XYplorer 8.50 - Manual Sorting.
XYplorer 8.40 - Custom Toolbar Buttons; History and Recent Locations.
XYplorer 8.30 - Search Results Caching; Spot'n'Jump.
XYplorer 8.20 - Large Toolbar Icons; Sticky Selection.
XYplorer 8.10 - Jump To Item (later Spot'n'Jump).
XYplorer 8.00 - Dual Pane; Overlong filenames supported.
XYplorer 7.90 - Mini Tree; Quick Searches: support for multiple locations; Spot (later Spot'n'Jump); Tags and Comments; Visual Filters.
XYplorer 7.80 - File Search combines Boolean Logic with Regular Expressions; History per Tab; Reporting.
XYplorer 7.70 - Address Bar Deluxe; Color Filters 2.0; 'Unicode' and 'Scripting' enhancements.
XYplorer 7.60 - Scripting enhancements.
XYplorer 7.50 - Folder View Settings; 'Thumbnails View' enhancements.
XYplorer 7.40 - Quick File View; "Find As You Type" optionally works on the sorted column.
XYplorer 7.30 - Catalog-Based Browsing; Quick File Compare; Support for Hard Link creation.
XYplorer 7.20 - Unicode filenames editing; submenu "Shortcut Target".
XYplorer 7.10 - Portable Openwith Menu (aka Portable File Associations); Favorites with Captions; Copy Item UNC Path/Name(s).
XYplorer 7.00 - Scripting Edition; Mass renaming deluxe; Iconized tabs; secondary sorting.
XYplorer 6.80 - drag-drop items onto shortcuts in List and Catalog; other enhancements involving shortcuts.
XYplorer 6.70 - Network: logon dialog and enhancement for hidden shares; UDC has icons and other enhancements.
XYplorer 6.60 - command line parameters supported on UDC and Catalog.
XYplorer 6.50 - User-Defined Commands; Backup from Catalog; Serial Rename; String Search: negative searches; Color Code the Tree.
XYplorer 6.40 - Ux theme visual styles support; drag-drop items onto *.BAT and *.CMD files; NTFS junctions support; 'New Items', 'Backup', 'dropping from archives', 'File Info Tips', 'high contrast color schemes compatibility' enhancements.
XYplorer 6.30 - Rename Special has preview; 'Minimize to tray on X close'; 'File Info Tips' and 'RegExp Rename' enhancements.
XYplorer 6.20 - Catalog as an 'Open-With-Panel'; 'Len' column; 'Hide Folders in List' button.
XYplorer 6.10 - Dbl-click on empty space goes up one level; Quickly find all empty folders within a given path.
XYplorer 6.00 - Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts.
XYplorer 5.80 - Catalog, Address Bar, Favorites, and Goto accept relative path syntax; drop-on-zip support in List and Catalog.
XYplorer 5.60 - 'Full Screen Preview', 'Find Files', 'Network browsing', 'Batch Rename' and 'Outlook Drop' enhancements.
XYplorer 5.50 - Drop messages from Outlook (+Exp +2003) and save them to files with template-configured names.
XYplorer 5.40 - Support for non-latin characters; automatic path name completion; support for hidden shares; 'Default Tab'; 'Select by Selected Type(s)' and 'Filter by Selected Extension(s)'; One-click-copy distributed items onto the clipboard*.
XYplorer 5.30 -
XYplorer 5.20 - No more GDI+ dependency; keyboard-driven popup - Hotlist and Breadcrumb; Drop-Text-To-File; 'Delete (Skip Locked)'; Support of common Windows environment variables; 'Show Space Used'*.
XYplorer 5.10 - Keyboard-driven Move To, Copy To, and Backup To dialogs; Find Files and Selection Filter: multiple patterns; 'Copy Here with Suffix Date'; drop-down lists: all have auto-complete.
XYplorer 5.00 - Catalog; Network Places On Demand; color-coding by file attributes; 'Paste Here To New Subfolder...'; 'Home Zone' for tabs.
XYplorer 4.60 - Address Bar Search; List Management.
XYplorer 4.50 - Views; 'Batch Rename...'.
XYplorer 4.40 - Icon overlays support; Network Browsing enhancements; Added address bar; Support for XButtons.
XYplorer 4.20 - New Items submenu; Visual Filter and Color Filter to the list.
Program XYplorer
File manager for Windows 10, 10 Server, 8.1, 8, Server 2012, 7,
Server 2008, Vista, XP, Server 2003; 32-bit and 64-bit versions
Version 17.60.0100
Release 2017-Feb-27
License Proprietary
Author Donald Lessau
Contact support@xyplorer.com
Website https://www.xyplorer.com
Download https://www.xyplorer.com/download/xyplorer_full.zip
Purchase https://www.xyplorer.com/purchase.php
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 Cologne Code Company. All Rights Reserved.
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Acronyms
4KN 4 Key Navigation
6KN 6 Key Navigation
AB Address Bar
AC Access Control
ADP Application Data Path
AL Action Log
BC Breadcrumbs, Breadcrumb Bars
BV Branch View
CAS Click and Search
CAT Click and Tag
CC Custom Columns
CF Color Filters
CEA Custom Event Actions
CFA Custom File Associations
CFI Custom File Icons
CKS Custom Keyboard Shortcuts
CLI Command Line Interpreter
CTB Custom Toolbar Buttons
DFF Duplicate File Finder
DP Dual Pane
DUB Droppable User Buttons
FP Floating Preview
FS Flat Select
FSC Folder Size Caching
FSP Full Screen Preview
FV Flat View
FVS Folder View Settings
FVSVF Folder View Settings with Visual Filters
GF Ghost Filter
GVF Global Visual Filters
HPT History per Tab
ICF Instant Color Filters
IP Info Panel
ITT Interface Translation Tool
KS Keyboard Shortcut
LFB Live Filter Box
LBM Loose Boolean Match
MBV Multi Branch View
MCN Mouse Click Navigation
MFS Multi Field Search
MDBU Mouse Down Blow Up
MOBU Mouse Over Blow Up
MLS Multilingual Support
MLOS Multi Location Search
MRU Most Recently Used
MSR Multi Script Resource
MT Mini Tree
NP Navigation Panel
PCSO Permanent Custom Sort Order
PAF Paste and Find
PD Portable Device
PF Paper Folder
PFA Portable File Associations
PFI Portable File Icons
PML Portable Metadata Layouts
POM Portable Openwith Menu
PP Preview Pane
PV Permanent Variable
QAP Quick Audio Preview
QNS Quick Name Search
QS Quick Search
QSB Quick Search Bar
RB Recycle Bin
RFO Rich File Operation
RS Rename Special
SB Status Bar
SC Scripting Command
SCS Sticky Checkbox Selection
SDB Smart Dropdown Button
SFS Single File Search
SIL Search In List
SRC Search Results Caching
TAF Type Ahead Find, Find As You Type
TB Toolbar
TNC Tree Node Crumbs
TPT Tree Path Tracing
TSF Type Stats and Filter
UB User Button
UDC User-Defined Commands
UDF User-Defined Functions
VF Visual Filters
VFO Virtual Folder
VLP Volume Label Paths
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