Xplorer2 Ultimate 6.0.0.3 + x64 + Portable

* [P] POPUP MINI-SEARCH. The quickfilter box (next to addressbar) is extended for "search as you type" function. First set it to SEARCH mode using the drop-down button menu, then start typing what you want to find by NAME. A popup search results window will open, scanning the current folder AND its subfolders, showing the matching files, which can then be opened immediately. As you edit the search keyword(s), the search operation is revised automatically. Click anywhere else and the popup scrap window disappears.

[U] if you have xplorerВІ ultimate edition, tick WINDOWS SEARCH menu option and if the folder is in the search index you will see results even faster!

Up to 24 matching files and folders are shown. Linger the mouse pointer over an item to see its full path and other details in an infotip. Use mouse peek (e.g. <Alt+Q> keys) for a quick preview of results. If the expected result isn't there, either modify the keyword or click on ROBUST SEARCH footer to launch a regular full search command for the same filename.

A limited number of commands are available for the mini-search results. You can open documents, right click on them for context menu commands, and use mouse peek preview. If you need other xplorerВІ file management commands just press <CTRL+ENTER> to open the file location in the active pane or <CTRL+INS> for a new tab.

Use TAB key to jump from the quick search box into the search results window and back. ESC key will close the mini-search results window. If you close the window by accident you have 5 seconds to click the search box button (or ENTER key) to get back the results — otherwise start a new search!

If you tick any quicksearch menu options that make the search "complex" and slow (e.g. search in TEXT CONTENTS), then search as you type won't work; press ENTER key to start a regular search command in a separate window.

Mini-search as you type begins once you type 4 letters, assuming you have all default settings. Use advanced option nCharsAutoFilter to modify this behavior (it is the same setting that controls how many letters you type before focus jumps to the quickfilter box automatically). If you want to turn off the minisearch feature altogether use the advanced option GAO2_NOPOPUPFIND (=16777216) — which is available in the advanced settings editor.


* DUAL POPUP PREVIEW. Mouse peek preview is extended so if you have TWO files selected (usualy pictures) you get to preview them side by side in a large popup window for easy comparison — think windiff but for thumbnail previews. The default keyboard shortcut is <Alt+Shift+Q>; to dismiss the preview press any key or click the mouse. If you don't have 2 items selected and you have dual panes enabled, the comparison is between the 2 items focused left and right (you might want to use mirror browsing to compare identically named files).

This command will work for any kind of file that has a thumbnail preview. However it doesn't work for e.g. plain text files — for those continue using WINDIFF for comparisons :)

This feature is especially useful if you search for duplicate and similar photos (TOOLS > FIND SIMILAR PHOTOS menu in a scrap window). You can examine pairs of photos in a large side by side preview window, to decide which one to keep.

NOTE: if you have modified keyboard shortcuts, probably ALT+SHIFT+Q won't work. Instead find this command in command finder (=33511) then use CUSTOMIZE > KEYBOARD menu and assign a shortcut to it from Miscellaneous category.


* Program settings (TOOLS > OPTIONS menu) are searchable. Use the search box at the bottom left corner of the property sheet and type 1-2 suitable keywords for the option you are after. Click on FIND NEXT button (or F3 key) a few times till you locate your option. Each matching checkbox option is highlighted with a border around it.

* Advanced frame option DPF_THISPCTITLE (=0x4000000) adds THIS PC icon on the left of each titlebar pane, which pops a list of drives when clicked. It is kind of a poor man's separate drivebar for each pane <g>. If you need a "real" second drivebar you can use this toolbar hack:
https://forum.zabkat.com/viewtopic.php?p=74857

* Subfolder sizes are calculated even in zipfolders, phones etc, albeit not automatically. Use TOOLS > SUBFOLDER SIZE menu command to update the size column for such folders. If you have enabled automatic folder size calculation from program options, then you'd need to press <CTRL+D> twice to show sizes in this situation.

* advanced option GAO2_DIRSIZEALL (=8388608) forces TOOLS > SUBFOLDER SIZE command to calculate ALL folders, not just the selected ones

* [P] TOOLS > FOLDER STATISTICS menu command also shows the 10 biggest files in the folder hierarchy examined in a separate tree node, so you can see which files take the most space. Hit ENTER key on a file to browse it in a normal xplorerВІ window

* [P] Drag one item with the RIGHT mouse button and drop in the miniscrap pane, and use LINK TARGET menu command to store a LNK shortcut to the actual file or folder, instead of the real thing. This indirection isn't as daft as it seems, if you consider you can RENAME the link so you can recognize it without changing the actual folder (or file). Links are stored in %TEMP% folder locally; they can also refer to intermittently available network targets (for the problem see https://www.zabkat.com/blog/network-miniscrap.htm)

* advanced option GAO2_DELSELNEXT (=4194304) automatically selects the next item after deletion (so you are ready to delete again)

* [P] macro recorder (CUSTOMIZE > MACROS > RECORD menu) adds a command descripiton (as a comment) after automatically generated COMMAND statements, so you can recognize the cryptic command number

* advanced option GAO2_NOFLIPTBICONS (=2097152) won't change toolbar icon size automatically when switching monitors with different DPI settings

* [U] programmable column is right justified if it contains a number, else left-justified if it is text or date. If the programmable formula returns mixed numbers and strings the behavior is undefined

* browser view option CLVOPT_DELARGEICONS (=0x4000000) uses large icons in detailed view mode, as a workaround for providing more line spacing between filename rows

* some bugfixes

* New tips: 4c, 76a, 97a, 134b

* some bugfixes for multimonitor DPI behavior (e.g. shrinking previewer fonts)

* xplorerВІ now supports an SFTP extension called WINFSP (https://winfsp.dev/rel/). More on that later

https://www.upload.ee/files/13694701/Xplorer2_5.1.0.3_Ult_Portable.zip.html
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/rDWp/X413aEDk5

https://www.upload.ee/files/13672929/Xplorer2_5.1.0.2_Ult_Portable.zip.html
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/ZpvG/zPTicd3j3

* Sadly the new mass rename mode that maintains selection turned out to be very slow, so an advanced registry setting called nMaxSlowRename was added to control the behavior. If you are not interested in successive renaming steps, set it to 0, so all renames finish quickly as previously. Otherwise, "slow" rename mode will be used only when few files are to be renamed, the limit being nMaxSlowRename. Only use it if you plan to rename the same set of files in steps.

NOTE: xplorerВІ purchase handler is now PayPro Global (bye fastspring!)


* [P] CLOUD ROBUST COPY. F5 copy is careful with "offline" (on demand) cloud files and it asks you to download them. Use YesToAll button if you want to go ahead and bring them all to your local PC. To disable this warning, use the old GAO2_DOWNLOADCLOUD registry tweak.

* [P] ROBUST COPY WATCHDOG. If F5 file copy command detects a slow progress, then it offers you the option to skip the current problematic file and continue with the rest, or abort the lot. Useful for the odd case where network unavailability or other screw-up makes copying files get stuck.


* [P] CONVERT GROUPS TO FOLDERS. Regular or custom groups (even fuzzy grouping) in scrap container collections can be converted into actual folders using TOOLS > EXTRACT GROUPS menu command.

Say you used VIEW > ARRANGE BY > SHOW IN GROUPS menu to show items alphabetically grouped using their first letter, you can then use extract groups command to create folders that contain the items of each group. You choose a top destination folder and xplorerВІ creates subfolders under it, one per group (the folder names match the group titles you see). You can either COPY or MOVE the original files into these subfolders.

This command can also organize items by DATE, whether you have groups or not. This is useful e.g. if you have a truckload of photos in a scrap and you want to automatically move them in subfolders according to their modification date. Depending on the dialog option you choose, you can have one folder PER YEAR, or you can have items organized by year AND MONTH (i.e. each year subfolder has 12 subfolders corresponding to months).

Usually MODIFIED date is used for automatic folder creation, but you can pick any other date you want (eg DATE TAKEN) by placing it FIRST in the details. To reorganize column order either use ALT+K command or drag-drop using the column header


* [P] DUPLICATES CHECKER IMPROVEMENTS. You may have heard that I recently released a purpose-built duplicate files checker called i-DeClone (http://ideclone.com). Some of its comparison features are now available for xplorerВІ duplicate checker too, to wit:

- TOOLS > CHECK DUPLICATES dialog has controls that allow you to ignore certain time differences (if comparing by Modification date) that may be artificial. So if you are comparing items located in FAT32 folders, up to 2 seconds difference could be an artefact and you now get the option to ignore it.

- registry setting nMinDupeSize lets you ignore very small files (those that are smaller than this limit, default=1024 bytes). Many times your hard disk contains tons of small files that make the comparison harder, but with little benefit, as these files take next to no space. If you set it to 0 (use the advanced options editor) then you disable the small file check and examine all files, as in past versions.

- Checking for duplicates by CONTENT (byte by byte) takes long time if the files are huge. Registry setting nMaxDupeContentMB sets the maximum limit for exact comparison. Files bigger than this limit are examined statistically (all the bytes below nMaxDupeContentMB, then 10% at random above it). If the files are identical, then you get the same verdict at a fraction of the time. Arguably there is a small uncertainty involved, as 2 files may be different in places where xplorerВІ didn't examine, and they are deemed "identical" by mistake. However I believe the advantages far outweigh the small risk. If you want to be more certain, increase the cutoff limit to its maximum value of 250MB

- xplorerВІ is more careful when you scan your entire PC for duplicates, and excludes the same file accessed through 2 separate routes (through junctions in your Documents folder for example). So you have less of a risk of deleting pseudo-duplicates (same file with different pathname)

- If you change the sort mode in duplicate results window, then restore sort by GROUP ID, the bands of background color that represent the duplicate files will reappear

- When deleting lots of duplicate files, you will find that the pane refreshes better, leaving only original items behind.


* BIGGER DIALOGS. In the interest of all mature/elderly users out there, all xplorerВІ dialogs get a slightly larger font that makes the difference, especially in higher resolution displays. The same goes for the internal viewer editorВІ and the advanced settings editor.


* FASTER SYNC BY CONTENT. When you compare files by content (MARK > SYNC WIZARD menu command), big files are only scanned exactly up to nMaxDupeContentMB limit mentioned earlier. Any extra bytes are sampled statistically. The same advantages and disadvantages mentioned above apply here too.


* MILLISECOND DATE ACCURACY. xplorerВІ uses exact file dates internally, but date information is presented only with 1-second accuracy (unless you opted for friendly dates). If you want to see milliseconds then add the new ".zzz" format specification in szCustomTimeFormat registry setting (available through advanced options editor):

HH:mm:ss.zzz

This will affect all dates shown, even for the programmable column functions DATETIME and DPART(date,z)

If you want to see milliseconds in FAT32 formatted drives you need to enable GAO2_PRECISEDATES registry tweak


* MASS RENAME IMPROVEMENTS. The mass rename F2 dialog will automatically generate a preview how the renamed files will look like every few seconds, so you don't have to click on PREVIEW button manually. You are still advised to click on it before you do the actual rename though, as it does some extra tests that catch some subtle errors that may throw off the rename if left unchecked.
(autopreview also applies to ACTIONS > FILE PROPERTIES menu command that uses the same dialog)

Perhaps more importantly, now mass rename preserves the original SELECTION, despite files changing their names, so you can apply successive rename operations on the same set of files -- this is best implemented using macros I suppose. For example you can first add a numeric counter, then replace part of the original filename, then change the capitalization and so on.


* [P] CREATE SYMBOLIC LINKS. Microsoft in their wisdom show fit to permit symlink creation only to ELEVATED processes (unless you enable the special developer mode from start menu, see https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2016/12/02/symlinks-windows-10).

In the past you would have to run xplorerВІ elevated, but the new xplorerВІ bypasses this limitation using a hidden elevated copy of itself, that gets the job of creating symbolic links in the background. When you use EDIT > PASTE SPECIAL > SYMBOLIC LINK command, you get to run it elevated. Remember that running xplorerВІ elevated all the time isn't recommended, so this mode lets you have your cake and eat it too!

To disable this auto-elevation feature use GAO2_NOADMINSYMLINK registry tweak (=hex 0x100000)

If you want to link to files in the same partition, then use hard links instead of symbolic links, they are more robust and don't require elevation either.


* [P] FIND ALL HARD LINKS. If you put a file that has one or more hard links in a scrap container (or in the miniscrap pane), then select it and press CTRL+L keys (or GOTO > FIND TARGET menu), you will see all its clones listed next to it. By definition hard links are stored in the same hard disk partition, but they can have different names yet still represent the same file content.


* [U] COMPARE ITEMS PROGRAMMATICALLY. A new programmable function called PNEXT fetches the next or previous filename (full path) of an item, in the order they appear in a window. This allows you to do excel-formula-like comparisons between items, combining PNEXT with FILEPROP and FILE2 functions that operate on different items. For example:

${size} - FILEPROP(${size}, PNEXT(1))
will calculate the size difference between an item and the one that immediately follows it in the list (the last item will be empty as there's no item following it)

${Path}=FILEPROP(${Path},PNEXT(1)) & ${Group ID}=FILEPROP(${Group ID},PNEXT(1))
in the context of duplicate results, it will show 1 (=TRUE) if items in the same group also have the same path, and 0 otherwise. Notice the use of = to compare two values and the & (AND) boolean operator to compare 2 file properties simultaneously.

If you change the sort order, programmable formulas including PNEXT will be refreshed automatically after a while. Note such expressions cannot be used for searching, as they require an ordering. But you can use it in rules to mark or filter items.

The numeric argument of PNEXT can be any number, although I cannot think of any useful application of values other than 1 and -1 (for previous item)

Remember you can turn on the programmable column right clicking on a pane's sort column header. See the documentation for more details.


* [P] VIEW > ARRANGE BY > CUSTOM GROUPS dialog allows you to duplicate a category filter (use the little toolbar or the context menu), so e.g. you can create similar groupings by date, each with a different year.

* Switched to unicode NSIS installer, that shows correctly in most PCs except ancient ones running windows 98. Sadly you can no longer install xplorerВІ on windows 98 -- to the dismay of windows historians :)
Actually I think xplorerВІ no longer runs on win98 as it GPFs immediately. Most of you won't care either way.

* The filterbar box in the addressbar can be bigger than the path box, up to 80% of the total available width. This is useful for scrap windows where the path box is rather useless. Use nFilterBox100 registry tweak or advanced options editor to change the relative percentage.

* Normally filtering using all file details (columns) is expected to be slow, so xplorerВІ wouldn't update the list live "as you typed" -- you had to press ENTER key in the quick filter box to see the results. Now if the pane contains not too many items, live filtering occurs, even when ALL PROPERTIES option is ticked in the filter box menu.

* Fixed some addressbar paint glitches when using super large icons

* Many progress dialogs (e.g. folder statistics, flattening paths) have a little clock button that can be used to temporarily pause then resume a long operation. Click CANCEL to abort altogether

* Double click to the left end of the status bar to repeat the last message, whatever it was, in case you didn't get the chance to read it before it disappeared

* better handling of phone paths, more readable subfolder names

* registry tweak DPF_JUNKLOKEDTABS (=hex 0x1000000) ignores any locked tabs when restoring saved folder groups.

* [P] If you have your license key saved in a text file, you can drag-drop the license file to xplorerВІ license manager dialog instead of copy/pasting the text key. Ssadly this does not work from email attachmens, you must first drop the attachment on the desktop.

* if you create a new file or folder and you don't rename it, it is sorted properly -- if you have the option "automatically re-sort contents..." ticked (TOOLS > OPTIONS menu, Window property page).

* new tips: 39c, 52a, 85a, 139a

* the odd bugfix (for new Windows 11 too)

* if peek preview on some PDF document takes too long, hold down ESCAPE key to abort reading it

* the inevitable small bugfixes

* mini website facelift with new screenshots and introductory demo videos http://zabkat.com .

* Added REMOVE command in quick access list's context menu to be used for removing items from the QAL. DELETE menu does the same but it could be misinterpreted in other regular tree nodes, where delete means REAL delete of the actual folder!

* Registry tree option FTCOPT_QALNODROPTARGET (=2048) prevents stuff dropped INSIDE folders in quick access list. You lose some of the shell functionality, but prevent accidental moves inside folders, when all you meant to do was insert an item in the QAL!

* A pane's Miller property is persistent when you quit xplorerВІ. The folders themselves are not saved, but upon restart "Column mode" is enabled and you can start side-by-side browsing immediately.

* smarter swap panes command (GOTO menu) leaves the folders exactly as they were, view modes, locked tabs and all

* new tips: 5c, 7a, 9g, 9h, 10a, 12a, 39b, 47b, 51b, 75b, 118a, 144c, 149a, 164b, 167a

* OneDrive folders can be searched without GAOPT_FOLLOWJUNCTIONS advanced setting. The setting is reserved for real folder junctions. Double check it works for DropBox and other cloud drives too?

* 4 new demo videos in HELP > HOW DO I? menu explain the biggest of the new features (look out for NEW marker)

* F1 help from dialog boxes opens the manual at the correct location if you use non-IE browsers (Chrome, Firefox etc)

* lots of bugfixes and optimizations

* [P] FILE > BROWSE FLAT menu command improved (quicker, half time to flatten 230K files)

* [P] Check duplicates dialog has a CLEAR button to get rid of all the checkboxes, so you can start a new clean search

* Divider bars (splitters) for dual pane should be easier to grab in high DPI. Also added advanced mainframe tweak DPF_THICKSPLITTER (=0x800000) to make the main dual pane splitter double the size, so you can tell it apart from miller column splitters, if need be.

* [U] new duplicate files detection algorithm, 100 times faster than original, makes big difference in large file sets -- makes checking duplicates for your entire hard disk feasible

* [P] new macro commands KEYDOWN/UP, similar to SENDKEY but more flexible. For example SENDKEY A is equivalent to KEYDOWN A followed by KEYUP A. This is useful e.g. if you want to simulate pressing SHIFT key while clicking on a dialog button:

KEYDOWN shift
OK
KEYUP shift

Note these keys don't need a window context like SENDKEY, whichever window has the focus will receive the keystroke. You must match each down key with its equivalent UP, otherwise the keyboard will go funny.


* Advanced registry option rgbTabHilite sets the color for highlighting the active tab and active miller pane. Available through the advanced settings editor

* Advanced mainframe option DPF_TABINSERTNEXT (=0x400000) makes new tabs to open immediately after the active tab, instead of at the far end

* [P] MILLER COLUMNS. This is the big one, a feature ported from Mac PCs and their Finder file manager. It is like tabbed browsing, allowing you to see many neighboring folders simultaneously. Perhaps it's similar to locked tabs mode. For more details please refer to the documentation and watch the related demo video in HELP > HOW DO I? pane

Use FILE > COLUMN MODE menu command (or the toolbar/ribbon buttons) to enter miller mode. Then when you browse a folder (pressing ENTER or double-click) it opens in a new pane. If too many panes exist, a scrollbar is used to manage them. Each tab can have its own miller columns. The active folder in each set is what's used for dual pane comparisons etc. You can use left-right arrows to jump pane. You can tweak many options, including the maximum number of side-by-side folders (nMaxMillers and MIVF_xxx) using the Advanced settings editor.


* If you hate xplorerВІ ultimate orange icon, design your favorite one, call it X2ICON.ICO and drop it in the installation folder, then yours will be used instead! For the desktop shortcut icon (if any), edit the properties (right click) and change the icon there too (copy X2ICON.ICO file path from the installation folder). This will be also used if you PIN xplorerВІ on the taskbar.

* (internal optimization) more efficient windows message routing (saves your CPU)

* The quick previewer will show cloud previews for some images if they are in the thumbnail cache, regardless if they are marked "cloud only" (offline)

* xplorerВІ will preview and show thumbnails of common image types PNG/JPG/GIF even if the windows thumbnail cache is busted

* PEEK PREVIEW. Enable mouse peek from TOOLS > OPTIONS (Window page) then press both left+right mouse buttons together to see a large preview of the item under the cursor. Then let go of the mouse keys and the preview will go away! It is also available from VIEW > PEEK menu command, so you can preview the selected item with the keyboard (Alt+Q is the default key binding), then any key (except Pageup/Down) will dismiss the preview. Very handy.

The preview is similar to the DRAFT quick preview tab, so it will show images and plain text (including text extracted from DOC/PDF/XLS documents) only. Advanced options editor allows you to choose the preview size as a percent of your monitor. For text previews, the registry setting nPeekTextWidth is the maximum width of the popup preview window, for pics the size is determined by the bitmap dimensions.


* Press alt+enter keys in the quickfilter box (next to addressbar) to apply the text filter on the inactive pane

* [P] CMENU macro instruction works for dock sites, so for example the following snippets will float then dock the quick preview panel:

# from dock to float
FINDWND preview
CMENU float

# reverse action (float to dock)
FINDFRAME preview
CMENU dock


* new fixed icon for UPDIR (..) item has a little green arrow for better visibility, to tell it apart from other folders — it's always shown first too, regardless of the sort mode.

* [P] PHONE BACKUP. Copy options like "overwrite if newer else skip" work for "fake" folders like phones and tablets. So you can copy from/to such devices and your local HD in backup mode. The user interface looks the same as explorer copy, but it supports advanced options -- you set then as usual in the F5 robust copy dialog (or TOOLS > BACKUP menu command). Sorry no wildcard/filters allowed at present. For zipfolders and other compressed archives, it can only be used to get stuff OUT of them (into a regular filesystem folder)

This feature requires Windows Vista or later. Some of the less important copy options are ignored to allow backup copy to/from virtual folders, e.g. "clear readonly attribute". In silent mode only errors are logged. For windows 7 and older, phones can only be the SOURCE, not the target of the backup.


* [P] Robust copy through filters is much improved when only simple properties are used (name/size/date/path). If you use other more complex properties for copy filtering then you won't see any improvement.

Robust copy log when in backup mode (overwrite if newer else skip) will only include actual copy information, and exclude any files skipped or filtered


* MANUAL POSITIONS. In small folders set as large icon or thumbnail mode, use ARRANGE BY > MANUALLY menu command to move items with the mouse and leave them where you like. Then use ACTIONS > FOLDER SETTINGS > SAVE menu to put them inside DESKTOP.INI (with other custom folder settings), so when
you come back to that folder you'll find the items where you left them.

Related advanced registry settings are nMaxPositions (max number of item positions to save) and CLVOPT_GRIDSNAP, which snaps icons to a grid (otherwise you can put them even one on top of the other!)

Note you can sort a manually positioned folder if you need, temporarily destroying your custom positions, but once you switch to ARRANGE BY > MANUALLY, the positions will be restored.


* [P] Browser view option CLVOPT_CUSTOMAUTOSAVE (see registry.txt) will automatically save any changes inside custom folders, including icon positional information. So if you have used FOLDER SETTINGS > SAVE in a folder, and later do some changes, they will be automatically saved for you.

* Press F3 key to find next keyword in advanced settings editor, useful when you're trying to locate a tweak to configure

* QUICKACCESS TREE. Similar to explorer's quick access list (QAL), but not identical (no pins exist). Use TOOLS > OPTIONS menu and tick it in Window property page (tree options section). It shows some frequently used folders to begin with but you can put there whatever you like using drag-drop. Thus you have your own (flat) mini-tree with folders you access the most. You can rename and delete items in the QA list without affecting the real folders. You can even put network items in there and xplorerВІ shouldn't be too slow starting up. Functionality almost identical to miniscrap really

The top node "Quick access" takes you to your recent folder, which holds documents you've used lately. The registry setting nFrequentQAL specifies how many folders of your top frequent folders list to add to the QAL -- but once you have more than 12 items in the list, no frequent items are inserted automatically.

WARNING: when you try to insert a new folder in the QAL be careful to drop it INBETWEEN existing folders (you will see a horizontal insertion mark), otherwise you'll end up MOVING the new folder inside the one existing in the QAL! For safety you can drag-drop new folders using the RIGHT mouse button, so if something goes wrong you can cancel the drop. Or use FTCOPT_QALNODROPTARGET advanced setting to disable drops altogether.


* EditorВІ v2.98 supports dark mode through its options, and works better with unmarked unicode text files.

* [P] xplorerВІ text search should work with Windows experimental beta UTF8 locale setting (control panel, language for non-unicode programs). But it is a rubbish setting really, because it completely breaks ANSI programs (like xplorerВІ lite) which are the ones that would benefit most out of it. So unless you have a serious reason to choose the option, let it be.

* [P] advanced registry option GAO2_ORIENTALCP uses a robust (albeit a bit slower) method to detect unmarked unicode text files (without BOM). If you live in the far East then probably you should set it on through the advanced settings editor.

* [P] Everybody will need NEW unlock keys for v5.0, but many will get free replacements. To check if you are entitled for a free or discounted v5.0 key use HELP > REGISTER PROGRAM menu, or the equivalent command under LICENSE MANAGEMENT in ribbon's leftmost tab. If xplorerВІ cannot find your old license key (but you know where it is yourself) you can use this upgrade page http://zabkat.com/upgrade.htm .
For more information see http://zabkat.com/u_info.htm

The change compared to previous major upgrades is that ALL customers that own a v4.x key will be allowed to upgrade at a discount -- the old 2-year limit does not apply! This should allow more people to get the new version!


* [P] Right click on an infobar to access a menu of saved column sets (as defined in CUSTOMIZE menu), and apply the column set on the infobar

* [P] CAMEL CASE. Mass renaming has 2 new options, a camel that changes spaces and word breaks into capitals (e.g. "hello world-son" becomes helloWorldSon) and one to remove accents, so the German "Гјber" will become "uber".

Once you convert a name into camel case you can't go back (undo) except using regular expressions (see below discussion in v4500)


* [P] ACTIONS > FILE PROPERTIES menu command can also change en-mass numeric properties, although I can't see many of them useful. Perhaps the track number # property is the only candidate. Use change templates that translate into numbers e.g. automatic counters

* Various corrections to dark mode, e.g. dark checkboxes look less lame. Now you can turn dark mode on/off using the normal program options (TOOLS > OPTIONS menu, General property page)

* [P] FOLDER SIZE PIES. The command TOOLS > FOLDER STATISTICS will show a little pie chart of the biggest folders in your list, one for each level you browse. It should help the visual folks to see the big folders eating up your hard disk space. Drag the splitter to make the pie bigger or smaller. The folder selected in the tree pops out a "pizza slice" so you can identify it. You can also use the tooltips over the pie pieces to discover the folder names.