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v23.70.0201 - 2022-11-03 10:34
    * Configuration | General | Startup & Exit | Save Settings | Save changes to disk 
      immediately: Improved the handling of an unavailable shared tags database. You now 
      get an immediate error message when the saving failed, and Tags are then shown as 
      "dirty" (= prefixed with an asterisk) in the "File | Settings Special" submenu.
    * App Icon: I changed my mind about the icon change. It was a stupid idea. The old 
      icon is too deeply rooted in the internet, it can no longer be replaced. So I went 
      back to the old icon. The iconic one. ;)
    > Note that the Windows Desktop reacts slowly to icon changes. It might take days till 
      all caches are updated and you actually see the new (old) icon in the task bar.
    * SC appicon: Adjusted to the new state of the internal icon resource.
      Syntax: appicon [selector]
        selector:
          "AAA": Use the classic standard icon, aka BlackOrange.
          "ABA": Use the red version of the new icon, aka BlueBox.
          "ABB": Use the blue version of the new icon, aka BlueBox.
          other: Same as "AAA".
          missing: Pop a dialog showing the choices.
    * XYcopy: Updated to 2.10.0209.
:info: To easily upgrade to this BETA version from XYplorer, hold down the CTRL key while you click Help | Online Support | Check for Updates. If you prefer to download the BETA version, choose one of these packages:
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:!!: Note that BETA versions are work in progress and might contain fresh bugs. You have been warned. It's a good idea to backup your complete XYplorer settings (menu File | Settings Special | Backup Application Data Folder...) before running a new BETA version. This will also help in fixing any fresh bugs.

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v23.70.0202 - 2022-11-03 18:04
    + Toolbar: Added button "Save Tags". The function is identical to "File | Settings 
      Special | Save Tags" but it gives you a handy visual feedback about the dirtyness of 
      the situation. If there are any unsaved tags the button icon is red, else it is 
      blue. Additionally the icon is rotated to make it work for red-green-blind users.
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:!!: Note that BETA versions are work in progress and might contain fresh bugs. You have been warned. It's a good idea to backup your complete XYplorer settings (menu File | Settings Special | Backup Application Data Folder...) before running a new BETA version. This will also help in fixing any fresh bugs.

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v23.70.0203 - 2022-11-03 19:47
    ! Toolbar | Save Tags: Button had a small logical glitch that made it stay red under 
      certain conditions. Fixed.
:info: To easily upgrade to this BETA version from XYplorer, hold down the CTRL key while you click Help | Online Support | Check for Updates. If you prefer to download the BETA version, choose one of these packages:
(1) Installer Package, (2) No-Install Package (for manual unpacking).

:!!: Note that BETA versions are work in progress and might contain fresh bugs. You have been warned. It's a good idea to backup your complete XYplorer settings (menu File | Settings Special | Backup Application Data Folder...) before running a new BETA version. This will also help in fixing any fresh bugs.

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v23.70.0204 - 2022-11-04 10:54
    * Toolbar | Save Tags: New icons.
    ! Info Panel | Find Files | Name & Location: This did not work anymore for : 
      (Boolean), quoting Help:
        Note that you can alternatively select the Boolean and RegExp modes by prefixing 
        the name pattern with : or > and thereby *overwrite* the setting of the Mode 
        dropdown! If you do, the dropdown will be replaced by a static label reflecting 
        the current mode.
      Fixed.
    ! Find Files: Fixed some glitches with Search In List (SIL).
:info: To easily upgrade to this BETA version from XYplorer, hold down the CTRL key while you click Help | Online Support | Check for Updates. If you prefer to download the BETA version, choose one of these packages:
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v23.70.0205 - 2022-11-04 14:48
    * SCs sortby, selfilter: Now partial match is used only as a fall back if there is no 
      full match for the "column" parameter. Previously, the first partial match from 
      the left was used even if a full match was available further to the right.
    * Toolbar | Save Tags: Old icons.
:info: To easily upgrade to this BETA version from XYplorer, hold down the CTRL key while you click Help | Online Support | Check for Updates. If you prefer to download the BETA version, choose one of these packages:
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v23.70.0206 - 2022-11-04 18:29
    + Configuration | Information | File Info Tips & Hover Box | Show Hover Box | Select 
      Context...: Added "Portable Devices". Tick it to show a Hover Box also for items on 
      portable devices. Often a preview doesn't work on portable devices and the 
      unsuccessful attempt takes a long time. Now you can avoid this waste of time.
      By factory default this setting is OFF.
    * Portable Devices: Now you can stop a slow pre-processing operation by pressing ESC 
      when copying files from a PD to some other location. This pre-processing can be so 
      slow (depending on the mood of Windows) that sometimes it's better to just give up.
    ! Image and Video Preview: The internal order of preview attempts (there are many 
      different ways to preview in Windows) has been changed to work around some rare and 
      weird issues with Windows 11 and also get rid of the infamous "Switch to/Retry" 
      dialog.
    * MLS: Internally updated to version 8.154.
      > TRANSLATORS: Please wait until Reference_8.154.lng is uploaded.
        You will be notified if you have subscribed to this thread:
        https://www.xyplorer.com/xyfc/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=9648
:info: To easily upgrade to this BETA version from XYplorer, hold down the CTRL key while you click Help | Online Support | Check for Updates. If you prefer to download the BETA version, choose one of these packages:
(1) Installer Package, (2) No-Install Package (for manual unpacking).

:!!: Note that BETA versions are work in progress and might contain fresh bugs. You have been warned. It's a good idea to backup your complete XYplorer settings (menu File | Settings Special | Backup Application Data Folder...) before running a new BETA version. This will also help in fixing any fresh bugs.

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v23.70.0207 - 2022-11-05 10:47
    ! Floating Preview: Some inconsistencies with "Zoom to Fit" enabled. Fixed.
    ! Image and Video Preview: Undid that change from v23.70.0206. It brought new 
      problems.
      Since these problems differ with each Windows version and configuration (installed 
      preview handlers) each user has to find the setting that suits him best. These are 
      the 3 options, available as one-line scripts that can be run through the XYplorer 
      address bar:
        tweak("PreviewEarlyFactory", 0); //early factory for pdf, ttf, webp, for videos,
                                         //and for shell folder thumbnails (= XY Factory Default)
        tweak("PreviewEarlyFactory", 1); //early factory for all file types
        tweak("PreviewEarlyFactory", 2); //early factory for no file types
      To find out the current setting do this and look at the status bar:
        tweak("PreviewEarlyFactory");
      FYI, "factory" refers to the IShellItemImageFactory interface (from Vista onwards). 
      "Early factory" means: try the factory first, then fall back to other methods.
:info: To easily upgrade to this BETA version from XYplorer, hold down the CTRL key while you click Help | Online Support | Check for Updates. If you prefer to download the BETA version, choose one of these packages:
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:!!: Note that BETA versions are work in progress and might contain fresh bugs. You have been warned. It's a good idea to backup your complete XYplorer settings (menu File | Settings Special | Backup Application Data Folder...) before running a new BETA version. This will also help in fixing any fresh bugs.

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v23.70.0208 - 2022-11-06 15:03
    ! SC quicksearch: Certain selectors were not correctly identified when the search 
      triggered by quicksearch was the first search of the session. Fixed.
    ! Panes | Sync Select...: Did not work as it should when one of the lists was filled 
      by Quick Search over a list of items (Search In List). Fixed.
    ! Catalog | Right-Click Menu | Insert As New Category Here | Tabs: If the active tab 
      had a Visual Filter applied when you added the Tabs Category, all the Catalog items 
      that are created in the category had the Visual Filter appended to them. Fixed.
    ! Edit | Paste Special | Paste As Hard Link(s): Since 20221001 it failed with a bogus 
      error "Different drive. Target has to be on the same drive.". Fixed.
:info: To easily upgrade to this BETA version from XYplorer, hold down the CTRL key while you click Help | Online Support | Check for Updates. If you prefer to download the BETA version, choose one of these packages:
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v23.70.0209 - 2022-11-07 12:35
    * Updated the help file.
    ! Catalog: After editing the 'Click and Tag' header once, even without changes, the 
      Category wouldn't allow to create new Tag items, and any existing Tag item you tried 
      to edit would turn into a default catalog item. Fixed.
    ! Paper Folders: When opening a paper folder in a background tab, the tab showed a 
      generic question mark icon. Fixed.
:info: To easily upgrade to this BETA version from XYplorer, hold down the CTRL key while you click Help | Online Support | Check for Updates. If you prefer to download the BETA version, choose one of these packages:
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v23.70.0300 - 2022-11-07 17:00
    = MAINTENANCE RELEASE.
  +++ App Icon. Back to the old icon. It's just too iconic to be replaced.
  +++ Minor bug fixes and enhancements.
  +++ Compilation Soundtrack. Compiled to the music of Jerry Lee Lewis.
To easily upgrade to this OFFICIAL version from XYplorer, click Help | Online Support | Check for Updates. If you prefer to download this new version, choose one of these packages: (1) Installer Package, (2) No-Install Package (for manual unpacking).

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v23.70.0301 - 2022-11-08 17:21
    ! TAB Sequence: Was broken since about 5 weeks ago. Fixed.
    ! SCs sortby, selfilter: The columns were not matched with the "column" argument from 
      left to right by their current position (as is stated in the help file) but by some 
      internal order. Fixed.
:info: To easily upgrade to this BETA version from XYplorer, hold down the CTRL key while you click Help | Online Support | Check for Updates. If you prefer to download the BETA version, choose one of these packages:
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v23.70.0302 - 2022-11-09 13:15
    + Toolbar | Save Tags: The button now has a small context menu that offers an 
      additional command that's useful in Multi-User-Tagging contexts. I gave it a verbose 
      name to make pretty clear what it means: "Save Tags and Remove All Untagged Items 
      from the Database". So, if there is an item in the tags database and you removed all 
      tags from it, then using this command will remove that item from the shared database 
      for all users.
      This command is only shown when "Configuration | Information | Tags | Auto-refresh 
      tags" is enabled (which is taken as a sign that we are in a Multi-User-Tagging 
      context), and it is the only way to remove an item from a shared DB in a MUT network.
      The background here is safety. You don't want to let users remove items from the 
      shared DB too easily.
      FYI, if you use the normal "Save Tags" in that situation then the tags present in 
      the DB would be merged with your local state of affairs and the result would be that 
      your tagless item would be retagged to its state in the shared DB.
    * Tags: Now if no tags or tags settings have been changed during the session the Tags 
      DB is not written at all when doing Saving Settings and Save Tags. The status bar 
      will say "no saving required" in that case.
      Saves some time, energy and life cycles.
    ! Multi-User-Tagging: The possibility of a race condition has been reduced to zero 
      where an unfortunate coincidence of activities could result in the loss of tags that 
      should not be lost.
      Note that "Configuration | Information | tags | Auto-refresh tags” must be enabled 
      to enable the required measurements (this setting is taken as a sign that we are in 
      a multi-user tagging context).
:info: To easily upgrade to this BETA version from XYplorer, hold down the CTRL key while you click Help | Online Support | Check for Updates. If you prefer to download the BETA version, choose one of these packages:
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:!!: Note that BETA versions are work in progress and might contain fresh bugs. You have been warned. It's a good idea to backup your complete XYplorer settings (menu File | Settings Special | Backup Application Data Folder...) before running a new BETA version. This will also help in fixing any fresh bugs.

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v23.70.0303 - 2022-11-09 18:21
    * Multi-User-Tagging: Implemented a new way to safely handle the removal of tags in 
      Multi-User-Tagging. When an item is completely stripped of any tags then internally 
      a ghost tag (label index -999) is attached to it and spread across the network like 
      any other normal tags. The presence of the ghost tag means "this item is not 
      tagged". When the DB is loaded the next time such an item will just be skipped 
      (along with the ghost tag). So here we have an ephemeral intermediate state in the 
      transition from tagged to untagged, which serves to spread the news and update the 
      interfaces of all team members.
      All of this works under the hood, so you really don't have to worry about it. This 
      is about security in Multi-User-Tagging, and security here means making sure no work 
      is accidentally lost.
    - Toolbar | Save Tags: What was added in v23.70.0302 has been removed.
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v23.70.0304 - 2022-11-10 10:45
    + The old but undocumented tweaks ShellPreviewMaxWidth and ShellPreviewMaxHeight can 
      now be used to define a bounding box for shell previews which can dramatically 
      increase the preview speed for large RAW images (that was always the idea with these 
      tweaks but they had been poorly implemented).
      This, for example, would limit the preview to 2000 x 2000 pixels:
        ShellPreviewMaxWidth=2000
        ShellPreviewMaxHeight=2000
      Previewing a 6240 x 4160 RAF image now takes about 200ms instead of 8 seconds, 
      that's 40 times faster!
      Surprisingly even larger values perform extremely good up to a magic value of 4416:
      - 4416 x 4416 ->  500ms
      - 4417 x 4417 -> 8000ms !
      That could be a peculiarity of this particular thumbnail handler, and/or probably 
      the size of the embedded JPEG preview, but the effect of limiting the bounding box 
      is so impressive that I decided to set those tweaks by factory default to 2000 x 
      2000 pixels (and also when upgrading to this version). Of course, this setting can 
      later be raised to UI.
    % Thumbnails: Due to the above change thumbnail creation for RAW camera images is much 
      faster now. Only tested with RAF files (Fuji). Of course, a suitable preview handler 
      must be installed.
:info: To easily upgrade to this BETA version from XYplorer, hold down the CTRL key while you click Help | Online Support | Check for Updates. If you prefer to download the BETA version, choose one of these packages:
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:!!: Note that BETA versions are work in progress and might contain fresh bugs. You have been warned. It's a good idea to backup your complete XYplorer settings (menu File | Settings Special | Backup Application Data Folder...) before running a new BETA version. This will also help in fixing any fresh bugs.

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v23.70.0305 - 2022-11-10 15:58
    ! Multi-User-Tagging: Small bug fix regarding recent changes.
:info: To easily upgrade to this BETA version from XYplorer, hold down the CTRL key while you click Help | Online Support | Check for Updates. If you prefer to download the BETA version, choose one of these packages:
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:!!: Note that BETA versions are work in progress and might contain fresh bugs. You have been warned. It's a good idea to backup your complete XYplorer settings (menu File | Settings Special | Backup Application Data Folder...) before running a new BETA version. This will also help in fixing any fresh bugs.

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