August 29th, 2010· Automatically created image thumbnails may now have a size of up to 192x192 pixels
· Manually added image "thumbnails" can now even be stored full-size in the database
· The Graphics plugin now supports TIFF, PCX and Photoshop files
· The program can now read the contents of ISO and NRG (ISO 9660) files
· You can now specify the maximum read depth
· The Graphics plugin can now create thumbnails for EXE files too
· When updating a disk, CRC32 and MD5 checksums are now only recalculated if either file size or date changed
· Improved read performance in case both CRC32 and MD5 checksum are calculated
· Disk Manager can now be switched into a portable mode by creating a file named "portable" in the program folder
· The XML export can now also export audio previews
· XML documents are now exported UTF-8 encoded
· Added Extra Information "Keywords"
· Plugins may now also register for file extension "folder" to be able to generate information for file folders
· Added a Picture Preview function for (larger) thumbnails
· You can now also assign image thumbnails to categories
· You can now also eject removable disk with the "Eject CD/DVD" toolbar button
· You can now edit Extra Information directly in the main list view and in the Search dialog
· Added option "Select full row"
· Added read option "Exclude system folders and files"
· Search mode "All words" will now also find items that have the search words spread over name, description and Extra Information
· Search combination "All words" and "Match whole string only" is now allowed
· The "User-defined Extra Information" dialog now also lists the ID of every Extra Information
· Added command "Read Disk Image" (requires DAEMON Tools or Virtual CloneDrive)
· Disk Manager now also imports the "Free Space" information from Advanced Disk Catalogs
· Column "Audio Preview" was not offered in the "Choose Details" dialog, if it was not already active
· All columns are now shown in the column header menu and in the "Choose Details" dialog. Columns not available for the active object get dimmed
· The bitrate and play time of MP3 files was not saved if no ID3 tags where found in the file. Fixed
· Improved CrashDump function
· New Videos plugin that can extract information and thumbnails from video files
· The Freedb library did not process long title information correctly
· Added support for DACAL CD libraries. Works by setting Extra Information "Location" to "DACAL x/y" (device x, CD y) [x86 only]
· Improved reading of Explorer context-menu items
· You can now run multiple instances of Disk Manager, and you can copy disks and disk folders by drag and drop
· Added program option "Allow running multiple instances of Broken X Disk Manager"
· Newly created disk folders are now selected/focused
· Error message "An unsupported operation was attempted" was under some circumstances displayed when a CD/DVD was ejected after cataloging
· Increased the size of the "Description" field in the "Read Disk" dialog's "General" sheet
· The hint dialog that informs about an already cataloged disk now displays the disk's path and offers to jump to the disk's location
· Added program option "Play sound when cataloging a disk finished"
· Improved "Send to" dialog
· Error message "Error changing to ..." is no longer shown when doing an automatic update via command-line
· New command-line switch "/Wait"
· Insertion of a removable disk (e.g. USB stick) was not detected under some circumstances
· Automatic search for a needed disk, e.g. when opening a file, did not work correctly
· Added Extra Information "Codecs"
· Improved CDs/DVDs ejection function
· Added prompt for new database file in case replacement of existing file fails
· Improved search function: exclude words by prepending a ! and search terms with spaces by using quotes like "for instance"
· Switched to Visual Studio 2010
February 16th, 2010· Fixed Professional Version registration key verification for names with special characters
October 5th, 2009· The Open dialog led to an "Internal application error" under Windows 7
· Files or folders stored in an archive having an invalid date could crash the program
· Fixed a compatibility problem with some TAR archives
August 10th, 2007· Automatically created image thumbnails may now have a size of up to 192x192 pixels
· Manually added image "thumbnails" can now even be stored full-size in the database
· The Graphics plugin now supports TIFF, PCX and Photoshop files
· The program can now read the contents of ISO and NRG (ISO 9660) files
· You can now specify the maximum read depth
· The Graphics plugin can now create thumbnails for EXE files too
· When updating a disk, CRC32 and MD5 checksums are now only recalculated if either file size or date changed
· Improved read performance in case both CRC32 and MD5 checksum are calculated
· Disk Manager can now be switched into a portable mode by creating a file named "portable" in the program folder
· The XML export can now also export audio previews
· XML documents are now exported UTF-8 encoded
· Changes to the main view columns were sometimes not stored correctly
· Added Extra Information "Keywords"
· Creating audio previews for Audio CD tracks (.cda) didn't work
· Added a categories view mode
· Long Unicode paths in RAR archives could lead to crashes
· Some texts under "Settings / Audio CD" were not translated
· Plugins may now also register for file extension "folder" to be able to generate information for file folders
· Added a Picture Preview function for larger thumbnails
· You can now also assign image thumbnails to categories
June 18th, 2007· Duplicates were not correctly sorted in groups
· The Professional Version now supports Unicode registration names
May 9th, 2007· Automatically created image thumbnails may now have a size of up to 192x192 pixels
· Manually added image "thumbnails" can now even be stored full-size in the database
· The Graphics plugin now supports TIFF, PCX and Photoshop files
· The program can now read the contents of ISO and NRG (ISO 9660) files
· You can now specify the maximum read depth
· The Graphics plugin can now create thumbnails for EXE files too
December 26th, 2006· Renamed the program to Broken X Disk Manager
· There's now only the Unicode version, Windows 95/98/Me are no longer supported
· Texts are now stored UTF-8 encoded in both database files and memory. Thus they support all characters, but are yet more compact than with Unicode (UTF-16)
· The Search dialog now remembers the search mode
· Disk Manager can now as well read title information from WMA files
· Added a special memory management scheme for the x64 edition, to reduce memory usage to the level of the 32-bit edition
· Improved the CD/DVD eject function
· A click on the "Eject CD/DVD" toolbar button with the Shift key held down will now cause the selected drive to close
· A button to save the current settings was added to the "Read Disk" dialog
· When scanning a disk with a file extensions filter, now only the cataloged files will be counted for the disk's size
· Adding new Extra Information is now as well possible with keyboard only
· Added entry "Description" to the Search dialog's Cleanup tab-sheet
· You can now search for descriptions via the "Extra Information" tab-sheet, too
· When an already cataloged disk is inserted into a drive, the program will display a hint dialog (can be switched off)
· If the program crashes, it will now try to create an error report and dump the currently opened database to disk
· Disk Manager can now create audio previews for sound, music and video files
· "Read Disk" tab-sheet "Thumbnails" was renamed to "Multimedia"
· The Search dialog now can manage settings profiles, too
· Function "Item List" is now named "Report"
· You can now also search for duplicate folders and disks
· Added support for cdplayer.ini entry "Year"
· Added column "Audio Preview" that also allows to play the previews
· Disk Manager can now as well read title information from Ogg Vorbis files
· The "Send To" dialog is now also sizable and saves its position and size
· Added column "Play Time"
· For (possible) (Super) Video CDs/DVDs you can now change the type under Properties
· More modern, flat window design
· The Open and Save as dialogs are now also translated
· Added column "Disk Name"
· New, more modern icons and graphics (work in progress, Screenshot)
· The Help button in the "Customize Toolbar" dialog had no functionality
· Disk Manager will now load thumbnails and audio previews on demand by default. You can change this behaviour per database in the Open dialog
· You can now send the program to background while reading a disk
· Read options "Read folders only" and "Do not store empty folders" can no longer be active at the same time
· Option "View / Display item descriptions" is now called "Display descriptions instead of names" again
· The web view did not refresh if an empty folder was selected in the tree view
· Proportional scaling of images with a very small/large aspect ratio could have caused the program to crash
· The toolbar can now also display small icons
· Modified layout of Settings dialog
· Settings dialog now offers a Reset button to display all hint dialogs again
May 2nd, 2006· Support for network shares, cleanup function, MP3 ID3v2 thumbnail support, can record create and last access date
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