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FileSeek Pro Changelog

What's new in FileSeek Pro 6.9.1 Beta 2

Nov 12, 2023
  • Resolved some UI issues

New in FileSeek Pro 6.9.1 Beta 1 (Nov 12, 2023)

  • Change: Win 7, Win 8/8.1, and Win 10 versions lower than 1607 code paths have been fully removed, FileSeek will no longer install or run on these OS versions
  • Change: Status bar below results pane will now show "Matches Found: 0" when no files matched the path and include files
  • Fix: When renaming a file in the results, the file name will now update to the new name in the results
  • Fix: Tweaked file handler loading to attempt to fix a rare crashing issue when searching with file handlers enabled

New in FileSeek Pro 6.9 (Sep 5, 2023)

  • Note: This is the last version of FileSeek that will install and run on Windows 7/8
  • Change: New results context menu item: Copy selected paths
  • Change: Moved result export settings to a new "Export Settings" tab
  • Change: New setting to exclude status line in result exports

New in FileSeek Pro 6.8.1 (Jul 19, 2023)

  • Fix: Translation length fix
  • Fix: Settings export fix
  • Fix: Minor behind-the-scenes fixes

New in FileSeek Pro 6.8 (Apr 12, 2023)

  • Change: Upgraded to .NET 7 framework (OS support is now Win 10 1607 and higher)
  • Change: Win 7, Win 8/8.1, and Win 10 versions lower than 1607 are no longer supported
  • Change: Added an "Open With..." context menu option for search results
  • Change: Double-click now performs the "Open Other Application" action
  • Change: Added an option to prevent FileSeek from downloading online-only cloud files when searching (Dropbox, OneDrive, etc...)
  • Fix: Textbox controls are now scaled correctly after minimizing to tray
  • Fix: Group policy UI fixes
  • Fix: Resolved the "Not a valid Win32 FileTime" error when searching
  • Fix: Resolved a multi-sort regression
  • Fix: If "Always start FileSeek with blank search criteria" is enabled sessions aren't remembered
  • Fix: Display scaling fixes
  • Fix: No longer crashes when a 0 byte file is passed to a file handler
  • Fix: Improved listview speed on the Settings File Handlers tab
  • Fix: Resolved an issue that prevented multiple instances of FileSeek from starting
  • Fix: Resolved a startup performance issue, FileSeek should start faster now

New in FileSeek Pro 6.8 Beta 3 (Jan 25, 2023)

  • Change: Upgraded to .NET 7 framework (OS support is now Win 10 1607 and higher)
  • Change: Win 7, Win 8/8.1, and Win 10 versions lower than 1607 are no longer supported
  • Fix: Display scaling fixes
  • Fix: No longer crashes when a 0 byte file is passed to a file handler
  • Fix: Improved listview speed on the Settings File Handlers tab

New in FileSeek Pro 6.8 Beta 2 (Jan 25, 2023)

  • Fix: Resolved an issue that prevented multiple instances of FileSeek from starting
  • Fix: Resolved a startup performance issue, FileSeek should start faster now

New in FileSeek Pro 6.8 Beta 1 (Jul 12, 2022)

  • Change: Upgraded to .NET 6 framework (OS support is now Win7-SP1 and higher except these versions of Windows which are not able to run .NET 6: 8.0, Win10-1507(RTM), Win10-1511)
  • Fix: Reduced startup time

New in FileSeek Pro 6.7 (Dec 15, 2021)

  • Change: Minor tweaks to the Settings window UI
  • Change: All open search tabs are now saved between FileSeek restarts
  • Change: New option to disable the preview pane
  • Change: Currently loaded search profile now gets highlighted in the menu
  • Change: FileSeek can now search the Windows fonts folder
  • Fix: Resolved a small issue when searching LNK files
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where the help button was sometimes missing the icon image
  • Fix: Resolved a small UI issue that made the window status text truncate sometimes

New in FileSeek Pro 6.7.0 Beta 4 (Dec 4, 2021)

  • Change: Minor tweaks to the Settings window UI
  • Change: All open search tabs are now saved between FileSeek restarts

New in FileSeek Pro 6.7.0 Beta 3 (Nov 28, 2021)

  • Change: New option to disable the preview pane
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where the help button was sometimes missing the icon image

New in FileSeek Pro 6.7.0 Beta 2 (Nov 28, 2021)

  • Fix: Resolved a small UI issue that made the window status text truncate sometimes

New in FileSeek Pro 6.7.0 Beta 1 (Nov 28, 2021)

  • Change: Added an option to disable the preview pane
  • Change: Currently loaded search profile now gets highlighted in the menu
  • Change: FileSeek can now search the Windows fonts folder
  • Fix: Resolved a small issue when searching LNK files

New in FileSeek Pro 6.6 (Nov 28, 2021)

  • Change: Added a tooltip to the "Treat query text as on large query term" option for clarification
  • Change: New option to export all columns instead of only the ones enabled in the settings
  • Fix: Exported search results no longer have ampersands in the search header names
  • Fix: Fixed a minor graphical glitch with the exported HTML results
  • Fix: Matched text now gets highlighted correctly when using RegEx mode

New in FileSeek Pro 6.5 (Nov 28, 2021)

  • Change: Added a loading spinner on FileSeek startup
  • Change: New icon set
  • Change: Search history is now global instead of per-profile
  • Fix: Font in preview pane now scales correctly on multi-DPI setups
  • Fix: Now renders Hindi characters correctly in the preview pane
  • Fix: Improvements when using the "Line Range of Search" advanced setting
  • Fix: "Encoding Used" column now added to CSV and HTML exports
  • Fix: Editing a profile now triggers a sync
  • Fix: HTML search criteria is now in order
  • Fix: Image preview is now cleared when starting a new search
  • Fix: File Handler FAQ link in Settings window is no longer tiny
  • Fix: Other UI improvements

New in FileSeek Pro 6.4 (Nov 28, 2021)

  • Change: Added an option to skip querying files over a certain size (default is 300 MB)
  • Change: New Advanced Settings that allow the Include Files and Query fields to match to the full path to a file instead of just the file name
  • Fix: No longer prompts to sign-in when overwriting a local profile
  • Fix: Windows Context Menu option in results context menu now works correctly
  • Fix: {My Computer} and {Recycle Bin} path variables no longer case-sensitive
  • Fix: Recycle Bin search now returns the correct file names

New in FileSeek Pro 6.3 (Dec 19, 2019)

  • Change: Tab order on Search tab now cycles through all text input fields before moving to the buttons
  • Fix: Search tab controls no longer get scrambled with single instance mode enabled
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where the tab would be blank when using single instance mode and minimize to tray
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where RegEx queries didn't work if "Treat query text as one large query term" is enabled
  • Fix: No longer shows duplicate results if the same Path is entered twice on the Search tab
  • Fix: Status bar fix for 200% scaling

New in FileSeek Pro 6.2.1 (Oct 9, 2019)

  • Fix: Resolved an issue that caused FileSeek to take a very long time to open on some systems
  • Fix: Accelerator keys (e.g. Alt + Q to jump to the Query box) now work on the Search tab
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where Date Filters were not correctly applying to Folders in the results

New in FileSeek Pro 6.2 (Aug 26, 2019)

  • Fix: New tabs no longer broken after using "Close All But This"
  • Fix: Search tab buttons no longer continually increase in size when using font scaling
  • Fix: Various other font scaling fixes
  • Fix: Help button next to the Query box now correctly takes you to the Text Query help
  • Fix: Custom encoding option now works correctly for .txt files when file handlers are enabled
  • Change: You can now specify multiple encoding types in the Custom File Encoding advanced setting
  • Change: Exact match operator (=) now matches on word boundary instead of entire line
  • Change: Added an Encoding column to the results pane (disabled by default, you can enable it in the Settings window)
  • Change: General Fixes and improvements

New in FileSeek Pro 6.1.1 (Jul 9, 2018)

  • Change: Profile push syncing improvements
  • Change: FileSeek now has an option to also search the file that the found LNK file is pointing to
  • Change: General Fixes and improvements

New in FileSeek Pro 6.1 (Feb 6, 2018)

  • Change: Added a new result menu option that will copy the selected results and separate them by line breaks
  • Change: Push syncing improvements
  • Fix: FileSeek will now have focus when it is first opened
  • Fix: Hyperlinks in the Settings window will now work properly
  • Fix: Exported results will now respect the "Only show matched text in a search result" option
  • Fix: General fixes and improvements

New in FileSeek Pro 6.0.1 (Jan 7, 2018)

  • Fix: Resolved an issue that used the old icon in some places

New in FileSeek Pro 5.2.1 (Dec 7, 2016)

  • Notice: FileSeek no longer supports Windows XP or Vista. To use FileSeek with these operating systems, you will need to use an older version of FileSeek
  • Notice: Now requires the .NET Framework 4.6 (installed automatically if needed)
  • Change: General UI and font improvements

New in FileSeek Pro 5.2 (Dec 7, 2016)

  • Notice: FileSeek no longer supports Windows XP or Vista. To use FileSeek with these operating systems, you will need to use an older version of FileSeek
  • Notice: Now requires the .NET Framework 4.6 (installed automatically if needed)
  • Change: General UI improvements
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where FileSeek would sometimes show an error when viewing a search result
  • Fix: Fixed an issue with mouse wheel scrolling

New in FileSeek Pro 5.1 (Aug 10, 2016)

  • Change: Now targeting the .NET Framework 4.0, which will automatically install during setup if needed
  • Change: General UI improvements
  • Change: Added an option to rename files and folders (one result at a time)
  • Change: You can now drag and drop results into the search fields
  • Change: New command line parameter to start FileSeek in the system tray (-tray)
  • Change: Search criteria will change back to the way it was before after clicking the 'Search in New Tab' button
  • Change: FileSeek will now only sync search profiles when starting from the command line if it needs to load a profile
  • Change: FileSeek can now extend a query through multiple lines of a file
  • Fix: FileSeek will now search though large files correctly when using File Handlers
  • Fix: Custom column setups will now work correctly
  • Fix: Exported column names will no longer have ampersand characters in them
  • Fix: Fixed an issue where FileSeek couldn't find files with no extension
  • Fix: Fixed an issue where FileSeek was unresponsive when querying large files
  • Fix: FileSeek will now export extra lines correctly when saving search results
  • Fix: Asterisks (wildcards) will now work correctly in the Exclude Paths field
  • Fix: Advanced settings will now save properly

New in FileSeek Pro 5.0.1 (Nov 12, 2015)

  • Fix: Improvements for high contrast themes and classic mode theme

New in FileSeek Pro 5.0 (Nov 2, 2015)

  • Change: New and improved user interface
  • Change: Performance improvements
  • Change: Added support for Windows 10 per-monitor DPI scaling
  • Change: Columns in the search result list can now be modified
  • Change: It is now possible to sort by more than one column (add extra sort columns to sort by holding down the shift key and clicking on the column header)
  • Change: Default sort is now by file name, then line number
  • Change: The column sort settings will be kept when starting another search on the same tab
  • Change: The Result List will now be focused after the first result is added
  • Change: Added the ability to import and export Search Profiles
  • Change: Added the option to force FileSeek to use a single instance
  • Change: New Text Query equality modifier (see FAQ for more information)
  • Change: The lines shows before and after a search result has been increased from 10 to 100
  • Change: You can now specify a name for the "Other Application" menu item
  • Change: FileSeek now has group policy support
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where FileSeek sometimes opened shell32.dll instead of the selected file
  • Fix: Dragging files from the result list will work now
  • Fix: Drive letters can now be entered without a trailing backslash
  • Fix: Column widths are now saved and restored correctly
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where single clicking on two different items quickly would treat the input as a double click

New in FileSeek Pro 5.0 Beta 3 (Oct 22, 2015)

  • Change: UI Improvements
  • Change: New Text Query equality modifier (see FAQ for more information)
  • Change: Improved group policy support
  • Fix: Fonts now scale properly in the Result List
  • Fix: The Custom Date Format will now save properly
  • Fix: The New Tab button will now use the proper sized icon in the free version

New in FileSeek Pro 5.0 Beta 2 (Oct 22, 2015)

  • Change: Added an option in the Result View Settings window to turn on and off line wrapping in the results
  • Fix: Resolved a small issue with the status bars
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where single clicking on two different items quickly would treat the input as a double click
  • Fix: The value for lines shown before and after search results will now save properly

New in FileSeek Pro 5.0 Beta 1 (Oct 22, 2015)

  • Change: New and improved user interface
  • Change: Performance improvements
  • Change: Added support for Windows 10 per monitor DPI scaling
  • Change: Columns in the search result list can now be modified
  • Change: It is now possible to sort by more than one column. Add extra columns to sort by holding down the shift key
  • Change: Default sort is now by file name, then line number
  • Change: The column sort settings will be kept when starting another search on the same tab
  • Change: The Result List will now be focused after the first result is added
  • Change: Added the ability to import and export Search Profiles
  • Change: Added the option to force FileSeek to use a single instance
  • Change: The lines shows before and after a search result has been increased from 10 to 100
  • Change: You can now specify a name for the "Other Application" menu item
  • Change: FileSeek now has group policy support
  • Fix: Fixed and issue where FileSeek sometimes opened shell32.dll instead of the selected file
  • Fix: Dragging files from the result list will work now
  • Fix: Drive letters can now be entered without a trailing backslash
  • Fix: Column widths are now saved and restored correctly

New in FileSeek Pro 4.5 (Jun 19, 2015)

  • Change: Removed the OR keyword for the query field, just use a space now. For example "cats OR dogs" is now just "cats dogs". If you want to find cats AND dogs, just use "+cats +dogs".
  • Change: Added the option to use Text Queries for included and excluded file filters
  • Fix: Fixed an issue where results removed from the results list would cause problems
  • Fix: Paths and file names with numbers in the results now sort correctly
  • Fix: Fixed various 32-bit related issues
  • Fix: Fixed an issue where the file list columns would stay pressed after a mouse drag

New in FileSeek Pro 4.4 (Apr 17, 2015)

  • Change: Great improvements to speed and responsiveness while running searches
  • Change: Added a 'Cut' option to the results context menu
  • Change: New command line parameter to start FileSeek with the "Query is RegEx" option enabled
  • Fix: Exporting to CSV will now use the correct culture specific list separator

New in FileSeek Pro 4.3 (Mar 28, 2015)

  • Change: Added a new tab to the Settings window that will allow users to view, enable, and disable preview handlers
  • Change: Moved the advanced setting to disable preview handlers to the new Preview Handler tab in the Settings window
  • Change: There is a new option in the Search settings that will allow users to export extra lines when saving search results to CSV and HTML
  • Change: Added a new advanced setting: "Don't use icons in result list"
  • Fix: Huge memory usage improvements
  • Fix: FileSeek will no longer crash when trying to load corrupt preview handlers

New in FileSeek Pro 4.2 (Mar 5, 2015)

  • Change: FileSeek will now show a preview for some apps in a new preview window beside the results text box
  • Change: Added an option to show a message if FileSeek finds an empty folder
  • Change: Added an option to treat the Exclude Path field as a wildcard
  • Change: FileSeek has a new advanced setting to allow you to turn previews off
  • Change: FileSeek has a new advanced setting to allow you to set a custom file decoder
  • Change: FileSeek has a new advanced setting to allow you to turn off the warning when you clear your search history
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where the folder browse dialog was not opening at the last selected path
  • Fix: Treat exclude path as wildcard option will now work correctly

New in FileSeek Pro 4.1.1 (Feb 7, 2015)

  • Fix: Resolved an issue with the "treat query as one phrase" option

New in FileSeek Pro 4.1 (Feb 7, 2015)

  • Change: The context menu in Windows Explorer can now handle opening multiple files in one instance of FileSeek
  • Change: You can now drag and drop files into the Include and Exclude files and paths text boxes to automatically append them
  • Change: A new image preview area has been added to the results pane
  • Fix: FileSeek now searches root network paths correctly
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where the include files box gets cleared when opening FileSeek from the Explorer context menu
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where date filters were not saved correctly in search profiles

New in FileSeek Pro 4.0 (Dec 18, 2014)

  • Change: Added the ability to customize the date format used by FileSeek
  • Change: FileSeek now searches through root folders before nested folders
  • Change: Added a new search option to skip searching of hidden files and folders
  • Change: Added a new search option to skip searching of system files and folders
  • Change: Added a new search option to show an error when skipping hidden files and folders
  • Change: Added a new search option to show an error when skipping system files and folders
  • Fix: FileSeek now shows the total size of all files it searched in the status bar
  • Fix: Default search profiles now start with the "Show folders that match include files" option set to off
  • Fix: FileSeek will now properly search through folders that contain more than 10,000 files and folders
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where FileSeek did not restore its position properly
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where FileSeek did not save search profiles properly
  • Fix: File Handler improvements

New in FileSeek Pro 3.3 (Aug 14, 2014)

  • Change: Added 2 new options to search for file/folders names only against the "include files" filter
  • Fix: No shows a warning if a searched PDF has no text
  • Fix: Added a "Permanently Delete Selected Files" option to the context menu
  • Fix: Improved UI control sizes for non-English languages
  • Fix: Big-5 file encoding improvements
  • Fix: Cyrillic file encoding improvements
  • Fix: Improvements with date filtering and AND/OR
  • Fix: Text query bug fixes (quoted phrases... etc)
  • Fix: Line breaks now works correctly in DOCX files (and others)
  • Fix: No more "index out of bounds" errors when searching inside some files

New in FileSeek Pro 3.2.1 (Jun 19, 2014)

  • Change: HTML export files now contain links to the files and folders
  • Change: You can now change the behaviour of the Date Filters to AND or OR
  • Fix: Icons for "Other Application" in the Settings Window no longer disappear
  • Fix: Font scaling compatibility improvements

New in FileSeek Pro 3.2.0 (Jun 17, 2014)

  • Includes the changes from the previous Beta release

New in FileSeek Pro 3.2.0 Beta 3 (Jun 11, 2014)

  • Change: Improved the "Other Applications" tab in the Settings window
  • Change: Added the option to minimize or close FileSeek to the system tray
  • Change: Added an option to pass multiple files to the same instance, instead of opening multiple instances
  • Change: Added an option to treat query text as one large search term
  • Change: Added an option to skip a file being read after a certain number of seconds
  • Change: Date filter "From" dates now are set to midnight instead of the current time
  • Change: Added a command line option "-start", which executes a search as soon as FileSeek starts
  • Change: Query tooltip will now change as you type in the query text field
  • Change: Added an "Extension" column to the search results
  • Change: The "File" column in the search results is now called "File Name"
  • Fix: Fixed an issue where the "Exclude Folder" filters were being ignored
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where the date filters were not set to the correct value
  • Fix: Various performance issues

New in FileSeek Pro 3.2.0 Beta 2 (May 8, 2014)

  • Fix: More performance improvements while searching

New in FileSeek Pro 3.2.0 Beta 1 (Apr 25, 2014)

  • Change: New UI icons to make it more consistent with other Binary Fortress Software applications
  • Fix: Massive performance improvements while searching

New in FileSeek Pro 3.1.4 (Nov 13, 2013)

  • Fix: "Double-Click Action" drop-down was missing from the Settings window
  • Fix: "Growl for Windows" compatibility improvements

New in FileSeek Pro 3.1.3 (Oct 8, 2013)

  • hange: Added "Growl for Windows" integration (enabled by default if you have Growl for Windows installed)
  • Fix: Small performance and stability improvements

New in FileSeek Pro 3.1.2 (Sep 12, 2013)

  • Change: Exported HTML and CSV search results now show the start and end time
  • Fix: Minor UI error message improvements

New in FileSeek Pro 3.1.1 (Jul 20, 2013)

  • Change: Added an option to enable or disable tooltips
  • Change: Added an option to always start FileSeek with a blank search profile
  • Change: Added information from the status bar to exported HTML results
  • Fix: FileSeek now supports better font rendering for East Asian languages
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where the file handler names didn't properly load in the Settings window
  • Fix: File Handler processing for text files no longer ignores blank lines
  • Fix: Font scaling improvements
  • Fix: Text query improvements

New in FileSeek Pro 3.1.0 (Jun 7, 2013)

  • Change: Added the ability to filter within search results
  • Change: The option to show more lines before and after a result in the preview pane is now avaliable per-search
  • Change: Added new command line options
  • Change: All file filters now have the option to search by a RegEx value
  • Change: ToolTip display time has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds
  • Change: Split the "show lines before/after" into 2 separate settings
  • Change: All Language names are now capitalized
  • Fix: Folder results no longer get shown when minimum file size filter is set
  • Fix: Resolved an issue where copying text from the preview pane caused an error
  • Fix: Preview pane now correctly remembers it's size
  • Fix: Deleting long file paths now works correctly in all situations
  • Fix: Fixed an error that caused text copying to fail from the preview pane
  • Fix: Exclude Paths is now a wildcard by default

New in FileSeek Pro 3.0 (May 22, 2013)

  • Changed: The FileSeek UI is now translated into other languages
  • Changed: Searches can now be opened in new tabs
  • Changed: Added Search Profiles for configuring and saving your searches for use later
  • Changed: Search Profiles can by sync'd between computers
  • Changed: Searches are now multi-threaded for better performance
  • Changed: Added support for long file paths (searching, querying, deleting)
  • Changed: Date Created is now shown in the search results
  • Changed: Date Accessed is now shown in the search results
  • Changed: Added more command line parameters
  • Changed: Search results can be dragged from the FileSeek window into other applications
  • Changed: Window title is now set to the current search parameters
  • Changed: You can now filter results by: Date Created, Date Modified, Date Accessed, File Size (minimum and maximum)
  • Changed: Added a more advanced query syntax for searching inside files
  • Changed: Added the ability to exclude folders from searches
  • Changed: The Windows context menu items now have the FileSeek icon
  • Changed: Added an option to show more preview lines for search results
  • Changed: Added the ability to export search results to CSV
  • Changed: Added the ability to export search results to HTML
  • Changed: Added an option to copy the folder names for search results
  • Changed: Added an option to configure the default double-click behaviour for search results
  • Changed: Added a "Pause" button for pausing searches
  • Changed: Added support for environment variables in the include/exclude paths field
  • Changed: Auto-updater now supports a single click update for FileSeek Pro users
  • Fixed: Various UI and performance issues have been resolved
  • Fixed: Sorting and searching in non-English languages is much improved
  • Fixed: Resolved an issue that prevented accented characters from being properly matched
  • Fixed: Resolved an issue that caused the enter key to open the selected search result twice
  • Fixed: The "open" actions now support more than 1 file (you can open multiple result files now)
  • Fixed: The folder browsing window has been updated to look more modern
  • Fixed: Search results no longer appear in the wrong search tab when opening new searches quickly
  • Fixed: Resolved a text highlighting issue related to whole-file searches

New in FileSeek Pro 2.1.3 (Apr 5, 2011)

  • Fixed: "Open with Other Application" now passes the correct line number when using a non-English locale
  • Fixed: Menu colours where sometimes displayed incorrectly when a custom colour scheme was used in Windows

New in FileSeek Pro 2.1.2 (Feb 20, 2011)

  • Changed: CTRL + A now selects all of the results
  • Fixed: Stability and performance improvements

New in FileSeek Pro 2.1.1 (Jan 16, 2011)

  • Changed: File size filter is now separated into minimum and maximum, and now has a units selector (bytes, KB, MB, GB)
  • Changed: New 'Internet Connection Settings' window for configuring proxy settings more easily

New in FileSeek Pro 2.1.0 (Jan 3, 2011)

  • Changed: Added a "Clear Search History" button in the Settings window
  • Changed: Improved file browser for selecting the custom file editing "other application"
  • Changed: Added more filtering options: date created, date modified, file size by clicking the "More Options" button
  • Changed: New auto-updater

New in FileSeek Pro 2.0.4 (Dec 1, 2010)

  • This new version changes a few small things. The "Query" field is now focused after a search is complete so you can easily type in a new query string and search again. In an effort to help you find the files you are looking for, the date filter can now be toggled between "Date Created" and "Date Modified". Previously, this only filtered on "Date Modified".

New in FileSeek Pro 2.0.3 (Nov 10, 2010)

  • Changed: Now shows a warning message when trying to search for a text string inside a known binary file type
  • Fixed: Some tab order issues are now corrected

New in FileSeek Pro 2.0.2 (Sep 23, 2010)

  • Changed: Can now search the "Recycle Bin" from the Windows Explorer context menu
  • Changed: You can now press the DEL key to delete files from the results list
  • Changed: Files that are deleted from the results list are now removed from the results list

New in FileSeek Pro 2.0.1 (Sep 3, 2010)

  • Fixed: Some UI option wording has been tweaked
  • Fixed: Main window and Settings window was being cropped when font scaling is used at a low resolution

New in FileSeek Pro 2.0.0 (Aug 27, 2010)

  • Changed: Added a "File Size" column to the result list
  • Changed: Added "Copy" and "Delete" menu items for selected files

New in FileSeek Pro 1.9.9 (Aug 16, 2010)

  • Changed: Re-designed the Settings window
  • Changed: Added an option to exclude certain file types from IFilter search
  • Changed: Renamed “IFilters” to “File Handlers” to make it easier to understand what they do

New in FileSeek Pro 1.9.8 (Jul 1, 2010)

  • Changed: Added an option to skip link/junction files and folders (can result in less duplicate file-searching)
  • Changed: Added an option to treat the all “Include Files” filters as wildcards (ex: foo is treated as *foo*)
  • Changed: Changed the wording in the Settings window for the “Toggle file/folder name matching…” option
  • Fixed: Longer proxy passwords weren’t saved correctly (everyone will need to re-enter their proxy password)
  • Fixed: Using the Date Modified filter sometimes showed incorrect “matches found” and “files searched” totals

New in FileSeek Pro 1.9.7 (May 15, 2010)

  • Changed: Added an option to automatically toggle File & Folder name matching when the Query field is left blank
  • Changed: Pressing the “Enter” key while a search result item is selected will now open that result item (same as right-clicking on the item and selecting “Open”)
  • Changed: Remembers the column widths of the search result list
  • Fixed: Window position is corrected when last position is off screen (when a monitor is disabled, for example)
  • Fixed: Filenames are now correctly matched when the file has no extension

New in FileSeek Pro 1.9.6 (Apr 13, 2010)

  • Changed: Added a “Browse & Append” button for easily searching multiple paths
  • Changed: Results list now shows the file’s icon
  • Fixed: Folder name matches using the “include files filter” now work correctly

New in FileSeek Pro 1.9.5 (Apr 8, 2010)

  • Changed: Now shows the total search time after searching
  • Changed: Added an option to toggle sub-folder searching
  • Changed: Window now remembers it’s position and state

New in FileSeek Pro 1.9.4 (Mar 3, 2010)

  • Changed: The Windows Context Menu can now be shown for multiple selected result items, as long as they are in the same folder
  • Changed: Line numbers are no longer shown when using IFilter search (the numbers weren’t correct with IFilter searches)
  • Fixed: OpenOffice documents can now be search using IFilters (for searching document content) without receiving the “Failed to load components” error

New in FileSeek Pro 1.9.3 (Feb 4, 2010)

  • Changed: Moved the Filename/Folder Name match settings from the Settings window to the main search screen for quicker access

New in FileSeek Pro 1.9.2 (Jan 25, 2010)

  • Added “Search Modes” to allow searches to be treated as [AND] or [OR] with space separated words
  • Added a “Show Filename matches” and “Show folder name matches” to the Settings window
  • Added a “View Settings for Popular Applications” in the Settings window to help people use the “Other Application” setting

New in FileSeek Pro 1.9.1 (Jan 8, 2010)

  • Changed: Added a tab in the Settings window to show all of the installed IFilters
  • Changed: Added an option to hide file/folder access errors
  • Changed: Added an option to append selected folders to the Path list (for the multiple folder searching)
  • Changed: you can now search multiple folders by separating multiple paths with the | character (ex: C:Test|D:Files|F:Stuff)
  • Fixed: Improved IFilter search performance for files that use the same IFilter handler

New in FileSeek Pro 1.9.0 (Oct 31, 2009)

  • Changed: Added an option to use IFilters to search binary files

New in FileSeek Pro 1.8.3 (Aug 17, 2009)

  • Fixed: Start/Stop buttons weren’t being properly enabled/disabled when a search is in progress

New in FileSeek Pro 1.8.2 (Aug 17, 2009)

  • Changed: Added an option to filter results by the last modified date
  • Changed: Renamed the “Regular expression query” option to “Process Query as a Regular Expression”
  • Changed: Filename matches now have a different icon than the file content matches
  • Changed: Double-clicking a result will now perform the default “Open”, not “Open with Other Application”
  • Fixed: Sorting by the “Date Modified” column now works correctly
  • Fixed: Sorting by the “Line Number” column is now much faster
  • Fixed: Folder name matches now use the “Include” search pattern, as well as the “Query” text

New in FileSeek Pro 1.8.1 (Jul 20, 2009)

  • Folder name matches are now displayed similar to filename matches (matched folder name in the “File” column, with the base path in the “Path” column
  • Folder name matches will only occur in the last part of the path, not the complete path (reduces false-positives)
  • Folder names aren’t incorrectly matched when the Query box is left blank
  • File and Folder name matches both now use the “Regular expression query” setting

New in FileSeek Pro 1.8.0 (Jul 11, 2009)

  • Changed: Added a “Date Modified” column to the results list
  • Changed: Added a “Copy” and “Select All” context menu to the results textbox
  • Changed: Added custom command line parameters for “open with other application” (to specify line numbers, etc)
  • Changed: “Open Containing Folder” now selects the file in the opened Explorer window
  • Changed: The results list now uses the native Explorer Windows visual style (Vista/Windows 7)
  • Changed: Double-clicking a result now opens the file in the user-configured editor, not the Windows default one
  • Changed: Now shows a “Search with FileSeek” when right-clicking a folder’s background (Vista/Windows 7 only)
  • Changed: Added an option to show folder name matches
  • Fixed: Now only shows the “Successfully added context menu items…” when it works

New in FileSeek Pro 1.7.1 (Mar 15, 2009)

  • Fixed: Resolved a default settings issue that was missed in the 1.7.0 release
  • Fixed: Resolved a regression that caused blank search queries to be saved incorrectly

New in FileSeek Pro 1.7.0 (Mar 11, 2009)

  • Full Windows 7 support
  • Added a “Windows Context Menu” option to the file result context menu
  • Double-clicking a search result item will open the file with the default file handler
  • Shows the current search path in the window caption bar
  • The 4 search criteria boxes now store a history of 10 items
  • The path box now auto-completes using a combination of the history and file system

New in FileSeek Pro 1.6.0 (Nov 11, 2008)

  • Changed: Added an “Open with Other Application” context menu option for selected files
  • Changed: Added an “Open Containing Folder” context menu option for selected files
  • Changed: Added a “Case sensitive query” option
  • Changed: Now shows the folder that is currently being searched
  • Changed: Reworked the Settings window
  • Changed: Reworked the main window’s top menu
  • Fixed: Context menu bug that always forced the included files value to be “*.*”
  • Fixed: Main window resizing issues

New in FileSeek Pro 1.5.1 (Oct 2, 2008)

  • Changed: Now shows an error if the path to search doesn’t exist
  • Changed: Status bar now says “x matches found” instead of “x lines found” (more accurate wording)
  • Fixed: Now properly finds files with no extension
  • Fixed: Issue with Windows Vista UAC (user account control) and adding the registry entries required for the context menus