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v23.80.0006 - 2022-11-27 09:40
    ! SC inputselect: Since yesterday generic icons were shown for file system items where 
      specific icons should be shown. Fixed.
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v23.80.0007 - 2022-11-27 19:54
    * Multi-User Tagging: A safety mechanism (called "SafeSave" internally) was 
      implemented on 20221109 where when saving tags, the database was first read, matched 
      to the tags in memory, and only then saved. This mechanism was activated when either 
      a shared database was defined via admin settings ("FileTagDat" key) or when 
      "Configuration | Information | Tags | Auto-refresh tags" was enabled. This latter 
      condition has now been dropped. "SafeSave" is only executed if "FileTagDat" is 
      defined.
    + Admin Settings: Added a new section Tags with a new key TagDatSafeSave which 
      defaults to 1 (if Admin.ini exists but the key is missing).
        [Tags]
        TagDatSafeSave=1
      This key allows the admin to control whether "SafeSave" is used when saving your 
      tags. Meaning of the values:
        0=never
        1=when necessary [Default]
        2=always
      The default 1 ("when necessary") means that the DB will only be read if it has been 
      modified (by someone else) since this instance last read or wrote it.
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v23.80.0012 - 2022-11-28 14:23
    + Catalog: Added another value to the tweak CatalogFlags (bit field):
        32: No drag without CTRL/SHIFT.
      Protects your Catalog from accidental dragging.
    * Admin Settings: The key "TagsFlags" has been renamed to "TagFlags" and been moved to 
      the new [Tags] section just to keep everything together.
        NEW:
          [Tags]
          TagFlags=1          'bit 1 = tags DB headers are read-only
        OLD:
          [AccessControl]
          TagsFlags=1         'bit 1 = tags DB headers are read-only
      Note that TagsFlags will still work in [AccessControl] for backward compatibility.
    % Multi-User Tagging: Now if TagDatSafeSave=1 a superfluous DB reload after 
      self-notification will be skipped.
        [Tags]
        TagDatSafeSave=1
    ! Multi-User Tagging: When another client renamed a tagged item, your instance would 
      hear from the rename via Auto-Refresh, but it did not automatically update the 
      tags-in-memory to be attached to the new name. 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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v23.80.0013 - 2022-11-28 19:58
    + Tools | List Management | Tagged Items...: Experimentally, dirty items (items with 
      unsaved tags) are now shown with a yellow background color (brown in dark mode).
    ! Configuration | Information | Tags | Copy tags on copy operations: Newly tagged 
      items created this way were not yet added to the dirty count. Fixed.
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v23.80.0014 - 2022-11-29 14:39
    + Small Lists: With no item selected, you can now use Ctrl+Up/Down to move the focus. 
      Windows standard.
    % Toolbar: Smarter positioning of extra long drop-down menus so the menu doesn't 
      appear directly under the mouse pointer. It's not always possible to avoid it, but 
      often it is.
    ! Sync Folders: Sync Folders never supported portable devices, but a corresponding 
      message was missing and you just encountered an error. Fixed.
      This info was also missing from the Help. Fixed as well (comes with next Help update).
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v23.80.0015 - 2022-11-29 21:21
    % Toolbar: Even smarter positioning of extra long drop-down menus.
    ! Toolbar | Back / Forward: Since v21.10.0016 - 2020-09-25 13:18 the dropdown menu was 
      not placed exactly under the buttons anymore. Fixed.
    ! LNK: LNK files pointing to executables in System32 were opened in System32 instead 
      of in the defined working directory. Fixed.
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v23.80.0016 - 2022-11-30 14:50
    + Scripting got a new function.
      Name:   TagCheck
      Action: Checks and repairs the state of the current tags.
      Syntax: tagcheck(flags, [include_removables])
        flags: (bit field)
          1 = Count orphans.
          2 = Remove orphans.
          4 = Remove dupes.
          8 = Correct capitalization.
        include_removables:
          1 = Also scan items located on removable drives.
              Background: You normally don't want to throw items out of your DB just 
              because a particular USB drive isn't plugged in.
        return: Count of removed, if none count of corrected, if none count of orphans.
      Remark:
        This function does not change any data on disk, just the tags in memory.
      Examples:
        echo tagcheck(1); //returns count of orphans
        echo tagcheck(2); //remove orphans, returns count of removed orphans
        echo tagcheck(4); //remove dupes, returns count of removed dupes
        echo tagcheck(8); //correct capitalization, returns count corrected items
        echo tagcheck(14, 1); //remove orphans and dupes, correct capitalization, include removables
                              //meaning of return value depends on what happened
    + Scripting got a new function.
      Name:   TagSave
      Action: Saves current tags to a file.
      Syntax: tagsave([file], [flags])
        file: Full path to database file.
              If the path or file doesn't exist it will be created without asking 
              questions.
              Defaults to the currently loaded database (<xytagdat>).
        flags: (bit field)
          1,2,4 = [reserved].
          8 = SafeSave: This value is only useful in Multi-User Tagging.
              Before writing, the current saved state of the database is read and matched 
              with the tags in memory. Can be useful in a multi-user tagging context if for 
              some reason your current tags in memory do not match the status of the 
              database on disk.
              Note that whether database is actually read is also controlled by the value 
              of the Admin.ini key TagDatSafeSave. If no Admin.ini exists TagDatSafeSave is 
              0 and the database is not read.
              This flag is ignored if "file" is set to a DB different from the currently 
              loaded database.
        return: "1" on success, else "".
      Examples:
        tagsave(); //save tags now (typically to "<xydata>\tag.dat")
        tagsave(, 8); //save tags now, using the SafeSave strategy
        tagsave("E:\Test\TagsDB\Test.dat"); //save the current tags to this file
    + Tagging: The tag database now gets the author (Windows User ID) and the timestamp 
      (Now) in the first line every time it is written.
        OLD: XYplorer File Tags v5
        NEW: XYplorer File Tags v5 - last modified by Donald, 2022-11-30 09:19:29
      This line is intentionally not translated into non-English languages to make it 
      machine-processable.
    + Special Property | Length: The context menu of the column header now offers the 
      toggles "Show Hours" and "Show Milliseconds". Lets you format the length display the 
      way you like it.
    ! Special Property | Length: Sorting failed on media 1 hour or longer. 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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v23.80.0017 - 2022-11-30 19:24
    > More traps to slay a nasty crash bug.
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v23.80.0018 - 2022-12-01 08:58
    + Configuration | Preview | Thumbnails | Show folder thumbnails: Now also PDF files 
      are used as folder thumbnails if all other options fail.
        1. - 5. ...
        6.  The first PDF file among the alphabetically first 50 files. 
    ! Special Property | Length: The length of audio files > 2GB was not displayed. Fixed.
    ! Network Browsing: Fixed a crash bug related to \\tsclient servers.
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v23.80.0019 - 2022-12-01 18:56
    + Network: Improved the support for RDP shared drives (\\tsclient).
    * Configuration | Information | File Info Tips & Hover Box | Show file info tips | For 
      executables as well: Now if unticked, you'll still see all the information that can 
      be gathered without triggering an AV-induced delay, which was the original intention 
      of this setting.
    ! Toolbar | Toggle Active Pane, Dual Pane: Buttons didn't really update when they 
      should. Fixed.
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v23.80.0020 - 2022-12-02 15:24
    * Toolbar: Now all right-click menus are displayed exactly at the mouse pointer 
      instead of being aligned with the button that was clicked. AFAIK, that's the 
      expected behavior.
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v23.80.0100 - 2022-12-02 18:00
    = MAINTENANCE RELEASE.
  +++ Minor bug fixes and enhancements.
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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v23.80.0101 - 2022-12-03 16:48
    % List Views: Now the column views (List and Small Icons) remember their Name column 
      width separately from the tiles & thumbs views.
    * View | Columns | Autosize Columns Now: Now in non-detail views only the name column 
      is automatically adjusted. Previously, all other columns that are visible in detail 
      views but invisible in non-detail views were also automatically resized. A waste of 
      time and probably undesired.
    * Configuration | Preview | Find Files & Branch View | Columns | Autosize Name column 
      right margin (0 = none): This setting now also affects the List and Small Icons 
      views. IMO it's equally useful here, and the Help kind of implies it anyway. So now 
      it affects both Details views and both Column views. Not affected are Tiles views 
      and Thumbs views.
    > Network: Added some debug logs to improve the support for RDP shared drives 
      (\\tsclient).
    ! Small Lists: If no item is selected, adding a new item should happen at the focus 
      position, not at the end. Fixed.
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v23.80.0102 - 2022-12-03 21:00
    ! Tools | Customize Tree | Tree Path Tracing: The combination of Full Row Select and 
      Lock Tree could lead to a painting glitch that destroyed parts of the TPT snake. 
      Fixed.
    ! Network Browsing: Fixed an issue related to RDP shared drives (\\tsclient) and maybe 
      others.
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v23.80.0103 - 2022-12-04 12:46
    + Sync Folders: Added a tweak to define a global filter that is applied to all Sync 
      Folders operations, including SC sync. You can use it to exclude folders that you 
      probably won't want to sync, for example:
        SyncFilterGlobal=-?:\$Recycle.Bin\|-?:\System Volume Information\
      It's a list of patterns or full paths, separated by "|", used to include or exclude 
      files or folders in/from the operation by name. The syntax is identical to that of 
      the filter argument in SC sync.
      If defined then SyncFilterGlobal is displayed in the Sync Folders dialog within 
      square brackets.
      Will probably become part of the UI later.
    + Configuration | Preview | Preview | Image preview: Added option "Limit original 
      preview size", accompanied by an edit box for the size of the square bounding box, 
      factory default 2000 pixels.
      Notes:
      - This limit only affects the preview of RAW images and other formats that need a 
        special preview handler (eg WEBP). Normal image formats (jpg, png, gif, bmp) and 
        PDF are currently not affected (meditation in progress).
      - This limit affects the "Original Size" in all previews that can show the original 
        size, like Floating Preview and Mouse Down Blow Up.
      - This is actually an important addition, almost a bug fix, because since 
        v23.70.0321 - 2022-11-12 15:51, and real 100% preview of those image formats was 
        not possible anymore without manual tweaking.
      - FYI, this setting raises tweak ShellPreviewMaxSize to UI.
    % Thumbnails Creation: RAW thumbnails faster, especially for large originals.
    - Configuration | Preview | Preview | Floating and full screen preview: All settings 
      have been removed here as they were just a duplicate of the settings available in 
      Floating Preview and Full Screen Preview.
    ! Edit | New | New Folder "New Folder": For some, the app crashed when this command 
      was invoked repeatedly. Fix attempt.
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