Magellan Explorer description
Magellan Explorer - the fastest, easiest way to manage your files

Magellan Explorer is the fastest, easiest way to manage your files, whether on your local hard drive or across the Internet.

You can publish web pages, download and open Zip files, and view pictures, all within a single, easy-to-use package.

The interface is completely customizable, with over 100 options to adapt it to your own personal taste, and can quickly be set to emulate Norton Commander or Windows Explorer.

Navigation between local folders, FTP sites and compressed archives is simple using Bookmarks, History and Back/Forward buttons.

Here are some key features of "Magellan Explorer":

· Complete drag & drop support as well as context menu (right click in Windows Explorer)
· Supports Windows Explorer views such as thumbnails and tiles in addition to details view
· Time consuming tasks such as file copying performed in the background
· Support for dual “explorer mode”, possibly the ultimate Windows Explorer replacement
· Extensive keyboard support
· Web browser like folder favorites and history
· Supports ZIP, ACE, RAR, LHA, ARJ, CAB, TAR, GZip and BZip2 archive file formats
· Can register as default handler or all supported archive formats
· Fully featured image viewer with support for GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, etc. and ability to rotate and zoom images as well as a slide show feature
· Spring loaded folders (drag and hold over a folder and it automatically expands/loads)
· Full FTP support supporting multiple simultaneous connections
· FTP site manager for organizing FTP sites
· Clipboard URL monitor to automatically connect to FTP sites whose URL is on the clipboard
· Automatic repacking/uploading when editing files inside an archive/on an FTP server
· Supports 4dos/4nt style file description files


What's

New in This Release:

· Show a configuration wizard at first run, allowing choice of selection style and window layout
· Do not resize image viewer window when browsing slide show images, except in best fit mode
· Display full path in image viewer title bar (if main window title bar configured to do so)
· Re order text on image viewer title bar, place filename and details first (like Magellan main window title bar)
· Do not load icons from within executables from network drives by default. Option in folder preferences to enable
· Icons and List views are now native explorer style list views rather than shell list views and can now be filtered etc.
· Do not open ZIP archives with extension other than .zip automatically when double clicked, unless configured to do so from the ZIP archiver preferences. Makes it easier to deal with file formats that are really ZIP archives, but are associated with other programs
· Double buffered windows list control for less flicker
· Quicker update of ZIP archive contents when creating folders inside it
· Changed layout of Options menu to make navigation easier
· Allow multiple copies of Magellan running in the trial version and enable all image viewing features also
· Allow drag&drop onto ".." entry in folders to drag to parent folder
· Fixed a rare case where (in Windows Explorer list view mode only) the selection displayed would not be correct after a folder was automatically refreshed on activating the Magellan window
· Make autosize using CTRL+A in image viewer work
· Fixed a bug that would display a harmless, yet annoying, "The specified path was not found" dialog after moving a folder within the same drive on Windows 9x. NT/2000/XP was not affected.
· Display correct icon next to archives with upper case extensions that do not have an associated Windows file type, but are still handled by Magellan
· Fixed saving of column width in Windows Explorer list view mode for folder layouts
· Correctly say "Move" and not "Copy" in dialog prompting for new name in "Move as" operation
· Fixed a crash occurring when editing a file within an archive. Would also occur immediately for e.g. Office files
· Fixed issues with re ordering columns and popup menu working in mysterious ways
· Do not apply automatically saved layout to My Computer folder, it's not compatible and may fix the reported crashes
· Fixed a crash that could occur trying to open an invalid archive from the tree view
· Correctly fill Send To menu on French Windows
· Fixed redraw issue on Windows XP with Classic theme when maximizing the Magellan window
· Improved error handling in file copy code used on Windows NT/2000/XP. Fixes a case where the target file could be silently truncated at the position a read error (e.g. CRC error) on the source file occurred at.
· Correctly reset scroll bar positions in image viewer window when slideshow browsing to the next file
· Show 0 byte files as 0kB, not 1kB if configured to display file sizes as kB
· Undo (ctrl+z) in location drop down in the Search tool now works as you would expect
· Fixed a bug that would cause the Browse button on the User tools setup to fail if the directory did not exist
· CTRL+C/CTRL+V copy/paste from virtual folders now work correctly
· Correctly maintain parent folder history when opening favorites directly from My Computer list
· Fixed the "deselect files after file operation" option for Copy operations. Would previously always deselect.
· Fixed "Include hidden files and folders" filter box preferences option. Would previously always show.