Hddb Changelog

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.