What's new in Hddb 4.4.0
Mar 2, 2015
- New features:
- /online and /offline filter
- /sort in query
- Improvements:
- Polish and Swedish language support
- Toolbar overflow chevron
- Support showing the db location menu by keyboard shortcut(Ctrl+D)
- HdView support lister plugins placed in sub folders of the lister folder
- Fixed issues:
- File records on disconnected remote drives lost in db after build
- Hddb lose focus if showing preview while HdView was minimized
- HdView lister plugin window not focused on window activate
- Empty search determination should not be affected by global filter
- Avoid showing the build-in-progress prompt on auto build
New in Hddb 4.3.4 (Feb 16, 2015)
- New features:
- Supports previewing visio documents(requires microsoft visio viewer installed)
- HdView supports Total Commander lister plugins (32bit only, put them in a subfolder named lister)
- Fixed issues:
- Non-fixed drives should not be built by default
- Wrong file size for some files(requires rebuild the db)
- Build process not aborted on gui exit(portable version)
- Network drive not built by build service on win7
- Some bugs in listing remote and cdrom drives on the build menu
New in Hddb 4.3.3 (Feb 12, 2015)
- Fixed issues:
- GUI crashes when checking drive state on network drives
- A french localization bug that could cause gui crash
- GUI crash when showing more actions(with condition base items) on xp
- Avoid the run-as dialog when starting FileHasher on xp
New in Hddb 4.3.2 (Feb 11, 2015)
- New features:
- Condition based custom actions
- Improvements:
- Better preview window integration
- Improve web UI browser compatibility
- Fixed issues:
- No delete confirmation dialog on xp
- Cleaning a specific drive could mess up the db
- A double click bug that blocks further mouse interaction
- Font size in search box not adjustable
- Last character lost after saving named searches
- Some keyboard shortcuts displayed incorrectly
- Search box edit shortcuts conflict with app shortcuts
- FileHasher compatibility on xp
New in Hddb 4.3.1 (Feb 7, 2015)
- New features:
- Search button
- Fixed issues:
- App crash on right click when using old style result list
- HdView not working on xp
- Keyboard shortcuts not updated on toolbar and RibbonUI
- Thumbnails mismatch after deleting files
New in Hddb 4.3.0 (Feb 5, 2015)
- New features:
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
- Improvements:
- Show more actions menu on right click with SHIFT key down
- Added keyboard shortcut to show more actions menu, named searches menu, and recent searches menu
- Fixed issues:
- Removable storage devices cannot be safely removed
- Size column to fit content no working properly on name column
- Many bugs in HdView
New in Hddb 4.2.0 (Feb 2, 2015)
- New features:
- Preview window
- Improvements:
- Prevent main window from being activated while dragging files
- Added option to avoid waking up sleeping hard disks
- Fixed issues:
- Column widths not correctly restored in some cases
- Run Hddb after setup not working
- Localize the go-to-row dialog
- Esc fails to close the options dialog in exclusion textbox
New in Hddb 4.1.0 (Dec 1, 2014)
- New features:
- Global filter
- DB load menu
- Improvements:
- DB folder icon
- Show db location in title bar for non default ones
- Korean language support
- Updated French translation
- Fixed issues:
- Column widths not restored correctly if scrollbar visibility changed
- File related buttons not enabled after selecting a file by right click
- Selection in search box lost on right click
- Negative size display
New in Hddb 4.0.1 (Nov 25, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Added "Goto row" toolbar button
- Added option to disable notification when minimized
- Russian language support
- Updated french translation
- Fixed issues:
- Toolbar icons not drawn correctly in remote desktop environment
- Column widths messed up if maximize then restore the main window
- Layout flicker when toggling folder tree
New in Hddb 4.0.0 (Nov 24, 2014)
- New features:
- Added a menu item for jumping to a specific row
- Added a header command to size all columns to fit content
- Added a header command to stretch columns to fill window
- Added option to auto stretch columns on window resize
- Hide/Unhide items, /hidden condition
- Improvements:
- Support volumes mounted to a folder
- Build failure detection
- External language support
- Fixed issues:
- Columns messed up after rearrangement
- Gui crashes if build db while the file count column is visible
New in Hddb 3.7.1 (Nov 18, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Support dir conditions in condition group
- Add small left padding to the search box
- Fixed issues:
- Non-existent root dir condition still matches results
- Remove some debug code that delays showing build complete notification
New in Hddb 3.7.0 (Nov 17, 2014)
- New features:
- Option to show large thumbnails
- Condition group
- NOT logic(must be combined with condition group
- Fixed issues:
- Remove NULL character after header line in exported CSV
- GUI freezes when showing build notification while the main window is minimized
- Gui sometimes not started if launched too fast
- OR logic error when mixing name and attribute conditions
- Ctrl+Shift+Arrow selection not working in search box
- Ctrl+Del should delete texts word by word
- Disable path auto-completion when there's no drive letter in the query
- Avoid possible memory corruption on constructing file path
- Only 8 items get shown in the custom actions drop-down menu
New in Hddb 3.6.0 (Nov 10, 2014)
- New features:
- Alternating grouped row colors
- Export result list as CSV
- Improvements:
- Change max custom action count to 12
- Added ability to add custom actions as toolbar buttons
- Fixed issues:
- Last custom action not working
- Custom actions without file parameter should always be enabled
- Context menu in search box
- Ctrl+Left/Right should move caret word by word in the search box
New in Hddb 3.5.1 (Nov 3, 2014)
- Improvements:
- New search, root folder, and go up links in web ui
- Improve Hddb build service security
- Fixed issues:
- Folder links not working in web ui
- Double parentheses around file size for dynamic loaded items in web ui
- Slash lost in web ui query
- Web server button state not updated after toolbar customization
New in Hddb 3.5.0 (Oct 29, 2014)
- New features:
- Http web server
- Fixed issues:
- Crash on searching while db reload in background
- Search box change not detected when typing in korean
New in Hddb 3.4.2 (Oct 23, 2014)
- Fixed issues:
- Slow built time due to some debugging code left in the release
- Should always show context menu even if the file does not exist
New in Hddb 3.4.1 (Oct 21, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Add thumbnails button in toolbar
- Display large custom-action icon for large toolbar
New in Hddb 3.4.0 (Oct 20, 2014)
- New features:
- Syntax highlight in search box
- Fixed issues:
- Memory leak
- Should list remote drives in volumes listbox
- Should not beep for background build completion
- Command line argument lost on GUI restart
New in Hddb 3.3.1 (Oct 10, 2014)
- New feaures:
- Search containing folder command(via file context menu)
- Open DB location command
- Fixed issues:
- Copy file command not working
- Custom db location not working in portable version
- Drive labels in folder tree should use the labels on build time
New in Hddb 3.3.0 (Oct 6, 2014)
- New feaures:
- Thumbnails(requires Windows7+)
- Improvements:
- Keep selection state between navigation
- Keep sorting state between navigation
- Cache result items between navigation
- Fixed issues:
- Incorrect parsing USN journal that could cause orphan items
- Potential deadlock on search
- Icons should be attached to the name column
- File without duplicates has hash code that start with F
New in Hddb 3.2.0 (Sep 23, 2014)
- New feaures:
- Hash column
- Duplicate count column
- File Hasher(a standalone exe)
- Improvements:
- support xbutton for back/forward navigation
- Fixed issues:
- Blank creation date on xp
New in Hddb 3.1.4 (Sep 17, 2014)
- Fixed issues:
- Failed to build db for non-ntfs drives on xp
- Incorrect db-location on the options dialog for portable version
- Portable db location should exist in app dir instead of working dir
- Default named searches not usable on command line interface
- Some problems with keyboard selection
New in Hddb 3.1.3 (Sep 16, 2014)
- Fixed issues:
- Range selection by keyboard not getting correct base row
- Search-for radio buttons in query composer not mutually exclusive on load
- Improvements:
- Human translated french language resources
New in Hddb 3.1.2 (Sep 15, 2014)
- Named-search not working when used as the only condition
New in Hddb 3.1.1 (Sep 15, 2014)
- Fixed issues:
- Wrong character case display for unicode file names
- Safely close on session ending
New in Hddb 3.1.0 (Sep 15, 2014)
- New features:
- Support multiple dir condition(space separated, using OR logic)
- Support file size condition
- Support modified date condition
- Query composer
- Fixed issues:
- should focus the search box when activated by shell context menu
- Partial path matching fails if the path contains uppercase letters
- A wildcard matching bug
- Multiple status lines joined together
New in Hddb 3.0.4 (Aug 29, 2014)
- Fixed issues:
- Gui crashes if sorting on the size column when show-folder-size option is on
New in Hddb 3.0.3 (Aug 29, 2014)
- Fixed issues:
- Wrong item count in status bar for ja-lang
- Result list hit-testing bug after adding additional columns
- New features:
- File count column
- Row number column
New in Hddb 3.0.2 (Aug 27, 2014)
- Fixed issues:
- Database structure corrupted after renaming folders
- Note: please do a full rebuild if already corrupted)
- Custom db location not working
- Improvements:
- Localize the Ribbon UI before being visible to avoid flickering
- Keep folder tree state for background build mode
New in Hddb 3.0.1 (Aug 25, 2014)
- Fixed issues:
- Search by dir fails if multiple folders have the same name but with different case
- Custom db location not working
New in Hddb 3.0.0 (Aug 25, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Database size reduced by 40%
- Remove db related info from the ini file
- Build complete beep
- Support deleting files by the Delete key
- Generate crash dump on Gui crash
- New features:
- Build in background
- Build on startup
- Scheduled build
New in Hddb 2.5.3 (Aug 13, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Support large toolbar buttons(configurable through the context menu of the toolbar)
- Display drive icons on the build/clean menu in classic ui
New in Hddb 2.5.1 (Aug 12, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Multi-column sorting(By holding down the Ctrl key when clicking on the header)
- Hotkeys for column sorting(Ctrl+N, where N is the display index of the column)
- Show command icons in the more actions menu on the toolbar
New in Hddb 2.5.0 (Aug 11, 2014)
- New features:
- Support Type,Creation Date, and Attributes columns
- Column customization and reordering.
- Selection commands
- Bug fixes:
- A bug that could interrupt the search and cause fewer results
New in Hddb 2.4.1 (Aug 8, 2014)
- Bug fixes:
- Several bugs related to the option of not showing all items on empty search
- Improvements:
- support using up/down keys to move focus between the search box and the result list
New in Hddb 2.4.0 (Aug 8, 2014)
- New features:
- Check all/reset defaults commands in the volumes option page
- Show checkmark in the build menu for drives included on build all
- Show progress in taskbar button when doing build
- Show wait cursor on clean
- Option to disable the build completion notification
- Option to not list all items when the search box is empty
- Fixed issues:
- Themed option page background not correctly rendered on xp
- File info tooltip not working for old style result list
New in Hddb 2.3.2 (Aug 6, 2014)
- New features:
- Added option to only show the file information tooltip on CTRL down
- Added option to show detailed file information in the tooltip
- Fixed issues:
- File info tooltip should not popup while hovering over the right margin
- Some errors in localized strings
New in Hddb 2.3.1 (Aug 5, 2014)
- Fixed issues:
- Incorrect unicode character case handling
- Renders blank item if mouse moves while loading new result
New in Hddb 2.3.0 (Aug 4, 2014)
- New features:
- Toolbar for classic ui
- File info tooltip on file name
- Improvements:
- Support TB unit for file size
- Ctrl+Backspace in search box should stop on '*'
- Fixed issues:
- Fixed no restart prompt after changing language on xp
- Avoid creating a .hddb folder on system drive root
- Avoid db corruption if build from command line while showing gui
New in Hddb 2.2.2 (Jul 28, 2014)
- Fixed issues:
- Crash on startup if show-folder-size option is toggled on
New in Hddb 2.2.1 (Jul 28, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Add buttons to config named searches and custom actions in options dialog
- Fixed issues:
- Remove some debug code that affects build performance
- Fixed incorrect ignored folder paths
New in Hddb 2.2.0 (Jul 28, 2014)
- New features:
- Custom actions on result file
- Human readable file size
- Fixed issues:
- Crash on single drive clean
- No result if searching with upper characters
- Incorrect display of big file sizes
- Incomplete context menu on multi-selected items
New in Hddb 2.1.4 (Jul 14, 2014)
- Bug Fixes:
- File doesn't open if double clicked on its blank background
- Error list rendering if horizontally scrolled
New in Hddb 2.1.3 (Jul 14, 2014)
- Bug Fixes:
- Some unicode file name not correctly handled
- Error list rendering if horizontally scrolled
New in Hddb 2.1.2 (Jul 14, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Show tooltip for partially displayed text in file list
- Added de/fr/ja/zh-cht language resources (Mostly machine translated)
- Fixed Issues:
- Ampersand in file name not correctly displayed
New in Hddb 2.1.1 (Jul 11, 2014)
- New Features:
- Privacy options
- Fixed Issues:
- Fixed some minor rendering problems in the file list
- Localized strings in Ribbon UI
- Disable file name editing
New in Hddb 2.1.0 (Jul 9, 2014)
- New Features:
- Explorer style file list(with xp & notheme compatibility)
- Restart prompt for options that require restart to take effect
- Improvements:
- Avoid unnecessary disk access on search(by path)
- Auto replace or space separate named search on insert
- Bug Fixes:
- Result list not gaining focus on click if main window is not active
- Alt+D conflict in ribbon ui
New in Hddb 2.0.2 (Jun 25, 2014)
- Bug fixes and improvements:
- Slow database saving if removing many records
- Recent opened folder shows blank in the ribbon file menu
- Better disabled image for navigation buttons
New in Hddb 2.0.1 (Jun 23, 2014)
- Bug fix version:
- Fixed a crash bug
New in Hddb 2.0.0 (Jun 23, 2014)
- New features and improvements:
- Ribbon UI
- Configurable database location
- Smaller database size and less memory usage
- build log
New in Hddb 1.4.4 (May 27, 2014)
- New features:
- Recent search locations
- Go up command
- List folders that contain a _hddbIgnore file
New in Hddb 1.4.3 (May 27, 2014)
- Fixed Issues:
- Portable version failed to remember settings if not build first
- Only instances with the same image should be synchronized
- New instance should not be allowed when building
- New Features:
- Option to avoid close window on Esc
- Recent opened list
New in Hddb 1.4.2 (May 27, 2014)
- Bug Fixes:
- Non-NTFS drives not listed in build menu on system with drive A
- Crash for status info bug
- Portable version fails to build database
New in Hddb 1.4.1 (May 27, 2014)
- Bug Fixes:
- Crash if open build menu twice on a system with drive A
- A bug that keep showing "searching" with no result
- Improvements:
- Multi-level undo/redo in search box(Ctrl+Z/Ctrl+Y)
- Small improvement in sorting speed
- Select file after located in folder tree
New in Hddb 1.4.0 (May 23, 2014)
- New Features:
- Non-NTFS drive support
- Clean individual drive
- Option not to show main window on start
- Improvements:
- Show drive label in build menu
- Installer option to create auto-start shortcut
- Add uninstall information to Add/Remove programs list
New in Hddb 1.3.3 (May 21, 2014)
- Fixed Issues:
- Database version checking problem
- Double separator in context menu on multiple items
- Mouse wheel not working in auto-complete list
New in Hddb 1.3.2 (May 21, 2014)
- Fixed Issue:
- Problem in multithreading that can cause a crash
New in Hddb 1.3.1 (May 21, 2014)
- Fixed Issues:
- Deadlock if show context menu while loading extra info
- Avoid double separator in context menu
- New Features:
- locate in folder tree
- navigate backward/forward
New in Hddb 1.3.0 (May 19, 2014)
- Improvements:
- Unicode filename support
- Reduce GUI memory consumption
- Type-ahead in result list
- Show selected items size
- Hide deleted items
- Append current search conditions when showing folder from tree
- Installer option to create desktop shortcut
- Fixed Issues:
- Recent searches and jumplist bug if search string starts with @ or quote
- Named search complete list should be hidden if no match
- Should activate the main window on tray icon click if it's already open
- Folder tree text size doesn't change by text size menu
- Multiple instances should be coordinated to reload on build
New in Hddb 1.2.0 (May 12, 2014)
- New Features:
- Boolean logic searching
- Named search
- Improvements:
- High dpi aware
- Re-list currently selected folder on tree node click
- Show selected item count
New in Hddb 1.1.3 (May 9, 2014)
- Fixed Issues:
- Floppy drive not correctly displayed in volume listbox.
- Excluded drives should not be checked on start or build.
- Duplicated root nodes if show folder tree while building.
- Improvements:
- Show drive labels in folder tree.
- Folder panel header.
- Ctrl-W close
- Dual-Function Escape key, clear search if not empty, otherwise close window.
New in Hddb 1.1.2 (May 5, 2014)
- Fixed Issues:
- Critical: File move not reflected in database.
- "dir\" should match partial path.
- Folder pane width change after minimize then restore
- Undesirable trailing quote when "Search here by Hddb" on drive root.
- No icon and context menu for drive root on xp
- Improvements:
- Restore column widths on tree toggling.
- Add folder pane border.
- "Search here by Hddb" shell menu icon
New in Hddb 1.1.1 (May 2, 2014)
- Fixed Issues:
- Include exe version info.
- About dialog missing.
- Incomplete localized strings
- Ctrl+A not working in search box on XP.
New in Hddb 1.1.0 (May 2, 2014)
- Fixed Issues:
- Find by current dir(.) not working.
- Menu help strings.
- New Features:
- Windows 7 jump list
- Folder tree
New in Hddb 1.0.7 (Apr 26, 2014)
- Fixed Issues:
- wrong shortcut target when pinned to taskbar.
- when activated by "Search Here by Hddb", the input box should be focused and appended with a space.
- New Features:
- Search history
- Allow indexing removable drives
New in Hddb 1.0.6 (Apr 22, 2014)
- Fixed a critical bug that can cause database build failure.
- Improved installer to overwrite Hddb_Srv without error prompt.
- Fixed a small bug in keyword parsing
New in Hddb 1.0.5 (Apr 22, 2014)
- No "Open with" submenu in context menu
- Search by path not working after hot build
- Should support keyword based search
New in Hddb 1.0.4 (Apr 16, 2014)
- Fixed Issues:
- Remove unnecessary FUID-FRN mapping
- Fixed slow performance when searching by path on cold start
- When showing notification balloons, Escape key should be used to dismiss them instead of closing the main window.
- Remove hard-coded test path from hdfind.ps1
- New website address:
- Hddb File Search now has a more decent website at http://hddb.xp-zed.com
New in Hddb 1.0.3 (Apr 13, 2014)
- New Features:
- Support search path with space without quotes by recognizing a trailing slash
- Auto-complete for search path
- Tip of the Day
- Fixed Issues:
- Single '.' should search file names instead of listing current dir
- Should ignore sorting operation on building
New in Hddb 1.0.2 (Apr 10, 2014)
- Fixed Issues:
- File changes not reflected in database if last USN less than first USN.