Search my Files Changelog

What's new in Search my Files 15.0

Jun 3, 2023
  • Updated – SQLite Dll to 3.42.0
  • Updated – MediaInfo Dll to 23.04
  • Updated – TrID Definitions to version 2023-May-14
  • Updated – Added dHash visual similarity check
  • Updated – Improved thumbnail creation speed
  • Fixed – Caching of hashes to speed up duplicate search

New in Search my Files 14.0 (Oct 10, 2021)

  • Updated – SQLite Dll to 3.37.0-Beta
  • Updated – MediaInfo Dll to 21.09
  • Updated – TrID Definitions to version 2021 Oct 09
  • Fixed – Portable Installation
  • Fixed – Errors in Regex Search
  • Updated – Lots of other small bug fixes and style changes

New in Search my Files 13.0 (Dec 8, 2019)

  • Updated – SQLite Dll to 3.31.0-Beta
  • Updated – MediaInfo Dll to 19.09
  • Updated – TrID Definitions to version 2019 Dec 02
  • Updated – Further speed improvements
  • Updated – Lots of other small bug fixes and style changes

New in Search my Files 12.0 (Sep 17, 2018)

  • Updated – Codebase to AutoIt v3.3.14.5
  • Updated – SQLite Dll to 3.25.0
  • Updated – MediaInfo Dll to 18.08.01
  • Updated – TrID Definitions to version 2018 Sep 14
  • Updated – Further speed improvements
  • Updated – Lots of other small bug fixes and style changes
  • Fixed – Rare lockup on start
  • Fixed – Errors in Win10 Treeview for network drives
  • Fixed – Errors in autoupdate of Treeview
  • Fixed – Thumbnail cache in report

New in Search my Files 11.0 (Jun 19, 2017)

  • Fixed:
  • Error in Report thumbnails cached in DB
  • Single quote ' in filenames led to errors in report
  • Win XP compatibility
  • Updated:
  • Improved file and duplicates search speed
  • Lots of other small bug fixes and style changes
  • SQLite Dll to 3.19.3
  • MediaInfo Dll to 0.7.96
  • TrID Definitions to version 2017 Jun 15

New in Search my Files 10.0 (Jan 5, 2016)

  • Updated - Improved file and duplicates search speed
  • Fixed - Duplicates Search "Hash-Cache" functionality worked sub-optimal, now
  • brings real improvement on repeated searches
  • Report - Improved speed of TNP Thumbnail Provider
  • Report - Added thumbnail and icon cache functionality
  • Report - Added custom cell highlighting feature
  • Report - Added optional checkboxes in Filename Column
  • Report - Improved Copy/MoveTo dialog
  • Report - Column order/size, OFFSET and LIMIT are now saved
  • Report - Save Styles fixed
  • Updated - Treeview functions
  • Added - Optional Explorer Contextmenu entry to "Search with SMF for duplicate
  • files"
  • Updated - Lots of other bug fixes and style changes
  • Updated - SQLite Dll to 3.9.2
  • Updated - MediaInfo Dll to 0.7.81
  • Updated - TrID Definitions to version 2015 Dec 29

New in Search my Files 9.0 (Sep 6, 2014)

  • Added – Duplicates Search “Hash-Cache” functionality (optional), calculated hashes are cached and re-used in next search run to improve duplicate search speed
  • Fixed – Option to Auto-update Folder Treeview sometimes crashed (e.g. new drives added)
  • Report – Added memory check function, if more than 90% of memory is in use, do not create any more icons / thumbnail previews
  • Report – Added option to change report icon size with CTRL+MouseWheel
  • Updated – Lots of other bug fixes and style changes
  • Updated – SQLite Dll to 3.8.6
  • Updated – MediaInfo Dll to 0.7.70
  • Updated – TrID Definitions to version 2014 Aug 23

New in Search my Files 8.0 (Apr 7, 2014)

  • Fixed – “Image Infos” return could produce SQL errors (when trying to extract infos from damaged pictures) > added _SQLite_FastEscapeEx() call
  • Fixed – “Extended File Attributes” column return could produce SQL errors > replaced “#” character in property (column) name / added _SQLite_FastEscapeEx() for values
  • Fixed – “MediaInfo” column return could produce SQL errors > replaced “*” character in property (column) name > see result prep of _FileListToSqlite_PrepareTable()

New in Search my Files 7.0 (Dec 23, 2013)

  • Fixed – Labels on “Report Settings” GUI were partially cropped
  • Fixed – Crash on “Computer Info Report”
  • Updated – Removed “midi” sound from “About” dialog
  • Updated – Made some MsgBoxs (e.g. “Exit”) child to the Topmost default window
  • Updated – Added option to auto-update Folder Treeview
  • Fixed – Report – “Thumbnail interface to use” was not correctly loaded on style change
  • Updated – MediaInfo > set default from “General”/”General” to “Video”/”Video”
  • Updated – MediaInfo > set no values to 0 for numeric columns and NULL for text values / previously all none values defaulted to NULL
  • Updated – Folder Treeview > added option to cancel refresh when (slow) network folders are included
  • Report – Added several hotkeys (e.g. style change) to standard and fullscreen report
  • Report – Make all relevant functions work with fullscreen GUI too
  • Fixed – Restore of saved “Extended Attributes” search columns not correct on restart
  • Plus – Lots of small bug fixes and style changes
  • Updated – SQLite Dll to 3.8.2
  • Updated – MediaInfo Dll to 0.7.65
  • Updated – TrID Definitions to version 2013 Dec 19

New in Search my Files 6.0 (Oct 1, 2013)

  • Fixed - Different small bugs in main program and report
  • Report - Added special fullscreen mode (F11)
  • Report - Added default styles
  • Updated - Added option to keep current folder selection on purge of DB
  • Updated - Added lots of hotkeys for main program and report (see “About” for details)
  • Updated - SQLite Dll to 3.8.0.2
  • Updated - MediaInfo Dll to 0.7.64
  • Updated - TrID Definitions to version 2013 Sep 20

New in Search my Files 5.0 (Jul 29, 2013)

  • Fixed – Unwanted auto-reopen of report issue
  • Fixed – Occasional program crash in search for “Executable Infos”
  • Fixed – Crash on “Export” if not column was selected
  • Fixed – “Progress” tab, fixed crash on click of “Pre-Filter Active” icon
  • Added “Throttle Search Speed” option
  • Report – Added “IN Reference Filelist”
  • Report – Added “LIKE Reference Filelist”
  • Report – Added “IN Reference Extensionlist” option
  • Report – Added “Between Reference Dates” option
  • Report – “Load & Save Styles” => made save names selectable
  • Report – Added “LIKE Expressions” and “NOT LIKE Expressions” multiple value selection
  • Report – Added Custom SQLite query builder
  • Added optional duplicate search for “Duplicate_Filename”
  • Updated SQLite Dll to 3.7.17
  • Updated MediaInfo Dll to 0.7.64
  • Updated TrID Definitions to version 2013 Jul 23

New in Search my Files 4.0 (Apr 26, 2013)

  • Fixed some SQLite deadlock situations
  • Improved “File Content” search
  • Report: Improved filtering / default settings & workflow
  • Report: Added “Move Secure” feature (copy & erase)
  • Report – ToolTip Preview – Show Details: Added “On-Hover show file HEX & content” feature
  • Improved Portable and Fixed install routines
  • ContextMenu search now works for multiple directory selection
  • Search by Command-line , use “;” to delimit multiple directories to search
  • Updated SQLite DLL to 3.7.16.2
  • Updated TrID Definitions to version 2013 Apr 23

New in Search my Files 3.2 (Mar 22, 2013)

  • Report: Bug fixed in the “Remove empty folders” feature (only delete to recycle bin effected)

New in Search my Files 3.1 (Mar 21, 2013)

  • All SMF functionalities should now work with long filenames too (max buffer = 4096)
  • Added optional password to recover from tray
  • Report: Added ToolTip Previewer for large previews of the currently selected file
  • Report: Fixed bug which occasionally froze whole report (WM_COMMAND loop back)
  • Report: Updated “Copy & Move” operations to handle long filenames, removed copy.dll and added own wrapper for _LargeFileCopy UDF
  • Fixed a lot of other bugs and improved overall performance
  • Updated to SQLite DLL to v3.7.16
  • Updated MediaInfo DLL to version 0.7.62
  • Updated TrID Definitions to version 2013 Mar 15

New in Search my Files 1.1.7.2 (Apr 11, 2010)

  • Updated SMF to AutoIt 3.3.6.0
  • Updated MediaInfo DLL to version 0.7.30
  • Updated to SQLite DLL to version 3.6.23
  • Updated TrID Definitions to version 2010/Mar/16
  • GUI design tweaked: Now forces default Font used
  • Updated Report Design, added new custom icons to contextmenu
  • Optimized SMF.exe filesize by compressing it and containing dlls with UPX
  • Added "Cut & Copy to clipboard" functionality to report
  • Exporting data from the main GUI can now be done by pre-selecting columns
  • Added "Scanspeed" stat to search progress
  • Added option to Set and Retrive Default Info selection
  • Added "File First" and "File Last" search result. Theses
  • are the max. or min. values of the Created, Modified or Accessed filetimes
  • Added a pre-Filter for "File First" and "File Last"
  • Added option to select max. directory recursion depth
  • Added option to limit max. number of returned results, search will cancel if
  • limit is hit. Due to recursion might produce some few additional records
  • Added hint if files to delete are read-only
  • Added "Encoding (Fast)" and "Encoding (Full)" search
  • result. Full will check the entire file for UTF8 sequences, fast will check only
  • first part of file for UTF8 sequences
  • Added "Shortcut Details" search result
  • Improved report responsivness
  • Rewrote Recycle, Delete and Erase functions in Report
  • Bug fix: FileSlider Type Text was not displayed correctly
  • Bug fix: File_Type, returned null on search
  • Bug fix: Associated_exe, returned null on search
  • Bug fix: BinaryType, returned all no executable files as Dll32. Function does
  • not seem to detect Dlls correctly, Dll analysis skiped for now. Dlls are detected as
  • none-executables too.
  • Corrected an error in the pre-"Filter by Extension"
  • Fixed an error in the MediaInfo search. MediaInfo search on directories always
  • returned an error (8 columns, 9 values)
  • Fixed another error in the reports Set FileTime and Attribute functions

New in Search my Files 1.1.3.8 (Mar 19, 2010)

  • Fixed an error in the reports Set FileTime and Attribute functions

New in Search my Files 1.1.2.3 (Mar 19, 2010)

  • Tweaking of report to:
  • further improve response time
  • ensure consistency of queries

New in Search my Files 1.0.9.4 (Mar 19, 2010)

  • Redesigned GUI to work with a single start button
  • Implemented additional file details to search for:
  • FullPath Long and Short
  • IsLocked
  • Timestamp and Timestamp Epoch
  • Binary Type
  • Drive Letter
  • Implemented Explorer ContextMenu integration
  • Enhanced Search Report