May 27th, 2011· Added Greek language.
· When you drag N folders on a tabble, when the dialog appears asking you what you want to do, you need to be able to say "do the same thing for all other folders I dragged", not "do the same thing forever".
· Added tasks in the windows 7 tasklist . you can now show the quick-tag dialog or exit tabbles by clicking in the taskbar icon, not in the tray icon.
· Learnability: now you only get a confirmation dialog when you try to delete normal tabbles. (reason: the confirmation message did not make sense for other kinds of tabbles, and there was no need for a confirmation for those tabbles).
· Now showing the folder menu when right-clicking in the background.
· "Create shortcut" now creates a shortcut whose name is just the folder name, not the full path.
· Minor usability: if you drag a folder on the "favorites" special tabble, automatically create a shortcut, instead of showing the disambiguation dialog.
May 27th, 2011· The history menu is faster, now also contains folders and coworkers tabbles
· Added progress dialog when doing backup of the database and when restoring a database.
· Autostart by default
· Korean language added (there is the manual too!)
· Several bugs/crashes fixed
May 27th, 2011· Released tabble-sharing: now it's not in beta anymore!
· Release free-for-personal use version: unlimited file tagging and up to 1000 files with tabble-sharing
· The old Business license (T04) have been upgraded to Corporate :-)
· fixed bug: "remove shadow files in this tabble" actually removes all files from the tabble.
· various minor bugs fixed
May 27th, 2011· New feature: Drive "Whitelist" for auto-tagging rules. Menu: options > auto-tagging rules > locations that trigger auto-tagging rules. The possibility to exclude paths like "\\machine\folder" was removed.
· Fixed link to user manual
· Fixed "AccessViolationException" crash in Windows XP
May 27th, 2011· Added the possibility to share tabbles children along with their father (from the tree)
· Fixed an HIDEOUS bug causing crashes on Windows XP
· The little triangle in the left tree now behaves as it should also with the sharing enabled
· Fixed crash related to license and nag screen
May 27th, 2011· fixed crash when powerFolder removes shared directory
· fixed crash when shared drive goes down
· fixed crash trying to load a corrupted zipped xml
· when a shared folder is disconnected, the sharing dialog takes too long to appear
May 27th, 2011· A little big improvement (for tabble sharing): to decrease cpu time, avoid loading a file in a shared folder if it has not changed date since the last time it was loaded.
· When you update you'll not be required to reboot anymore! Yeah!
May 27th, 2011· New handling of calls to kernel32.dll (this should fix some random crashes)
· Introduced "debug mode" for kernel32 crashes (check "Debug mode" in the manual)
May 27th, 2011· Fixed a bucket of bugs
· Fixed an issue with config.xml
May 27th, 2011· When clicking delete on a shadow file it gets untagged completely.
· Tabbles sharing: smarter auto-refresh of file panel.
· Improved file paging system.
· Many bugs/crashes fixed.
September 18th, 2010· Major bug fixed: sometimes when you open a big tabble, the sorting of
· the files takes a lot of time and cannot be interrupted.
· Dramatically improved Shadow file maintanance system: added menu option "display all shadow-files in this folder/disk". you can use it as follows: right-click on folder -> more -> display all shadow files in this folder/disk.
· Manual db update wizard is now quicker.
· Many db operation with progress bars are now much quicker.
· File sorting speed up using the "mapbreak trick".
July 12th, 2010· Major bug fixed: when attaching a removable drive, Tabbles would not be able to detect file operations until rebooted. So auto-tagging rules would not work.
· Bug fixed: in the workspace, drag some files on a tabble in the main body (not inthe side panel). The tabble disappears.
· Implemented "copy path to clipboard" action in one-click-tagging popups. To enable: options > popups > configure one-click-tagging popups > copy file path to clipboard. Then, each time a rule is matched, in the popup you will see a link "copy path to clipboard".
· In the search field, if you type some text and then press CTRL+enter, Tabbles searches that text among all indexed files (instead of among the files in the currently open tabbles). This is equivalent to clicking "search in all files".
· Fixed malfunctionings if you have multiple databases in the Databases folder.
July 12th, 2010· Major bug fixed: it is impossible to delete a tabble.
· bug fixed: if you rename a file while in a folder, the new file appears but the old file does not disappear.
· One-click-tagging popups are now fewer and less intrusive.
· Some minor crashes fixed.
July 12th, 2010· IMPORTANT - you may need to re-enter your serial number: our deepest apologies on this one... this is due to a library change and will not happen again! Also make sure you already have a v2 serial number, if you don't please write us at the sales address.Less memory and faster startup time: this is partly due to switching to the .net framework 4. Another effect of the framework 4 is the improvement in the font rendering.
· New list like view mode: there is now a new view-mode that shows the file-names completely.
· Tree-like children-tabbles menu: it helps to look into a tabble and combine its children .
· High-res icons: only on Vista and Win 7
April 14th, 2010· Improved auto-tagging rules: you can now match a pattern in the file path (as opposed to the file name), only match the whole word, you can now use regular expressions to define complex patterns to match.
· Added a menu option "run rules now" to apply rules to existing files - from Tools > Run rules now.
· Bug fixed in auto-tagging rules: the "not" pattern was not working
· Minor optimization: the rule list is faster to build and more responsive.
· Minor bug fixed: Sometimes, when you press CTRL while the search box has focus, the file window would redraw without reason.
· Other minor bugs fixed.
April 9th, 2010· Major optimization: Tabbles is now smoother and faster due to a rewritten threading system. Various random "hiccups", slowdowns and hangs are now gone.
· Auto-tagging rules improved: you can now create "negative rules" on file names, i.e. "if the file name contains 'mike' but it does not contain 'jerry' then apply tabble 'mike' ".
· In the text search field, you can now exclude files matching a given pattern by using the "minus" sign as a prefix. Example: "jack, -black" finds all files whose name contains "jack" but does not contain "black".
· bug fixed: when moving an HTML file created with Internet Explorer with an associated _files folder, Tabbles now correctly moves the folder along with the HTML file, even if the system language is not english, and the folder suffix is different from _files (e.g. -Dateien for german systems).
· bug fixed: when dragging tabbles to and away from the side panel, some tabbles would loose their highlight effect on mouseover.
· You can now remove special folders (such as desktop and documents) from the favorites.
· The history menu now appears instantly. Previously there was a small delay.
· Added a shortcut (ALT+T) to display recently tagged files
April 9th, 2010· When you move files, their tags are now always preserved. Previously, the tag transfer would often fail, making the whole feature useless. Now it is 100% reliable. (Important: this only holds when you move files with Tabbles.)
· Browser integration: you can now tag internet addresses with Tabbles with just one click in your browser (Firefox, Internet Explorer, and more).
· Tabbles is now much less resource-intensive, due to a much lighter file-system-watching engine.
· Major bug fixed: when overwriting a file with third party programs (such as Adobe Photoshop), the files' tags are lost. This is now fixed.
· Major bug fixed: when a third party program (such as Adobe Photoshop) silently creates a backup copy of a file, the files' tags are lost. This is now fixed.
· Added a menu option to temporarily disable all one-click tagging popups. This is useful if you are performing an activity where one-click tagging popups are disturbing, and you don't want to turn off popups individually for each auto-tagging rule.
· Minor feature: when you use the auto-tagging feature, the history window now only shows files which increased their tabbles.
· New feature: you can now tag files or URL via command line. This is useful for third-party applications that wish to connect to Tabbles.
· New feature: when searching for a file, you can now perform an AND between text patterns. For example, if, in the search box, you type "jack, sparrow", all files whose name contains both "jack" and "sparrow", in any order, will be found.
· New feature: you can now configure the duration of popups.
· New feature: you can now remove a program from the list of programs which can manage a given file type.
· New feature: added a "close all but this" verb in the tabble context-menu that appears when you right-click on an open tabble.
· New feature: when you move an html or htm file created by Internet Explorer, which is associated to a XXX_files folder, the folder will be moved together with the html file.
· Major bug fixed: Sometimes tabbles would become very slow (i.e. start doing 1 frame every 4 seconds or so) and would not recover until killed.
· Fixed crash when there is a blank DVD in the DVD drive.
· Fixed crash when you try to select adjacent files with SHIFT and you are not in the first page of the file window.
· When creating a tabble, you can now create an auto-tagging rule on filenames for that tabble.
April 9th, 2010· The uninstall shortcut in the start menu: (a big step for us, a small step for humanity :-D )
· the "+" next to combinable tabbles: both in the body and in the tree (in the tree it replaces the circles). The "+" in the body was needed to separate the children-tabbles from the truly combinable once
· improved FileSystemWatcher functions: Tabbles performs better in tracking file movements (i.e. you can move a big file such as a movie and Tabbles will understand it).
· Manual on the wiki, in English and German: yes!
· Small GUI improvements: white background, nicer tool/menu bar
· Tons of bug fixes: including the bugs related to the upgrade issues.
February 11th, 2010· Totally redesigned GUI: Tabbles looks now like a familiar file-manager, or like an email client. There is a brand-new tabble tree on the left side which is full of surprises. The who application should now be secretary-proof.
· Hierarchical tabbles:.you can now put tabbles into each other, as you do with folders.
· Re-vamped search box:.it searches now among all the files, tabbles and fodlers that have been categorized in Tabbles.
· File management functions: copy&paste, also between windows explorer and Tabbles.
· Untagging: now improved by pre-filling the sensible tabbles in the un-tag window.
· A looooot of speed-ups and improvements here and there.
· Even more bugs fixed
February 11th, 2010· List mode int main window:. the tabbles in the main window are now by default visualized in a list-like fashion. The ZUI (Zooming/Panning interface) is still available can be enabled from the Options menu.
· More visualization options in the file window:. scrollbar in the file window, thumbnail vs file icon, mini-tabble, grouping the tabbles per letter in the combinable tabbles list.
· Re-written auto-tagging rule engine: it should be now more reliable and use fewer resources when files are auto-tagged or moved around.
· The file windows doesn't get redrawn each time a tagging operation is performed.
· Many minor fixes
December 3rd, 2009· Major new feature: auto-tagging rules. (also explained here). You can now tell Tabbles to automatically tag a file when certain conditions are met. For example,
· you can give Tabbles the instruction: "when a file is created in folder F, automatically tag the file with tabble T" ; "when a file is created whose name contains 'jack' and 'black', automatically tag the file with tabble 'Jack Black' " ; "when a file is created whose extension is .docx, automatically tag the file with tabble Documents"
· Major new feature: one-click tagging. You can now tell Tabbles to show a popup which allows you to tag a file with one click, when a file is created which matches some conditions. For example, you can give Tabbles the instruction: "when a file is created in folder F, show a popup which allows me to tag the file with one click" ; "when a file is created whose file type is ".docx", show a popup which allows me to
· tag the file with one click". This is useful because, when you create a file with some application's "save as" function, or you download a file with your browser, often the file immediately disappears from your view, so, in order to tag it, you have to navigate the filesystem with Explorer or Tabbles until you locate that file again. With one-click tagging, you don't need to navigate the filesystem anymore: you just click on the popup and the quick-tag window appears.
· When you tag or untag a folder, a dialog now asks you what you want to do: tag the folder; tag the folder and all its content (recursively);
· create an auto-tagging rule.
· The quick-tag and quick-open dialogs now show the tabbles which are already attached to the selected files.
· Recursive untagging of folders is now possible.
· You can now untag a file or folder by dragging one of its tabbles away.
· The Explorer shell extension has two new options: locate the file in Tabbles, open the folder in Tabbles.
· Added an option to start Tabbles automatically when you log in.
December 3rd, 2009· Major new feature: explorer integration. In Windows Explorer, you can right-click a file (or several files) and choose "categorize with Tabbles" in Explorer's context menu. Then, a Tabbles window will pop up asking you what tabbles to attach the given file(s) to.
· Major new feature: windowed layout. Opening a tabble now shows its files in a new window. This means you can keep many tabbles (or combinations of tabbles) open at the same time.
· Massive graphics redesign. A traditional menu bar was added.
· You can now drag & drop files out of Tabbles and onto other applications (e.g. to add a music file to a playlist).
· Many other drag & drops improvements. Now you can drag: tabbles onto files, files onto tabbles, tabbles onto the suggested tabbles list, tabbles from the suggested tabbles onto the open tabbles list; filelist s from the file window onto a tabble which lies on the desktop. Files from explorer into the file window.
· You can now toggle between two mouse modes which give a different meaning to pressing the left mouse button in the void: 1) left mouse button scrolls, 2) left mouse button draws a selection rectangle.
· Smaller improvements
· In the file window, you can now select adjacent files by shift-clicking, as you do in Explorer.
· Right-clicking in the void in Tabbles' main window now activates a context-menu.
· In the quick-open and quick-categorize dialogs, you can now open a menu which applies to all selected tabbles.
· Added hints that appear while you dragging files and tabbles, and before you release the mouse button. These hints explain what would happen if you were to release a file or a tabble on any given object.
· Info messages now always appear on top of other Windows. Previously, if you had the Explorer WIndow on top of the Tabbles window (or if you had Tabbles replace the desktop), and you dragged a file from Explorer onto Tabbles, the popup message would sometimes not be visible, being hidden by the Explorer Window.
· You can now easily make many tabbles visible in the main window. Open the quick-open dialog (shortcut ALT+c), select the tabbles you wish to make visible in the main window, click the menu button, in the dropdown click "properties", then check "visible in the main window".
· You can now double click tabbles in "compact file view". Previosly you could only do that in the normal file view (the one where tabbles are presented around the file.)
· Tabbles can now replace the Windows desktop. To enable the feature, choose "View -> replace Windows desktop" . (Note that the feature is not yet very useful because you cannot put files on Tabbles' desktop yet.)
· A new "Manual DB doctor" tool is available. With it you can give Tabbles a command whose meaning is: "In Tabbles' database, find each path which matches with X-Z, and replace it with Y-Z". This is useful if you have moved many files while Tabbles wasn't running. It enables you to update many internal links at the same time.
· The mouse wheel now works in the quick-open and quick-categorize dialogs.
· You can now right-click tabbles in the quick_open and quick_categorize dialog boxes.
· The quick_open and quick_categorize dialog boxes can now be resized and remember their size.
· Tabbles now remembers the window size and position at startup.
· Simplified the tabbles menu, hiding elements which make no sense in the current context.
· Usability: when you go to parent folder, the folder you are coming from is now highlighted.
· More languages were added. Tabbles is now translated in Italian, German, Russian, and Dutch.
· Improved the startup sequence: the main window does not jump around while loading, and you don't see its content while it is being initialized.
· The default databases were simplified.
· After rearranging tabbles, the camera now automatically adjusts in a sensible way .
· You can now use the mouse wheel to scroll in the file window.
· Updated the user manual.
· Merged the dialogs "colors and wallpaper" and "text special effects".
· Bugs fixed
· Fixed bug which prevented safe removable of removable disks at first attempt. (you had to try safe-device-removal twice)
· Fixed bug: when creating a tabble on-the-fly in a quick-open or quick-categorize dialog boxes, Tabbles would give an error.
· The "select all files" menu command now works once again.
· Fixed bug: if you have disconnected network drives, tabbles hangs for many seconds, both at startup an when inserting a new device. However, having disconnected network drives is still very discouraged, because this can hang the user interface while browsing the file window.
· Sometimes, when left-clicking the desktop to deselect all tabbles, tabbles were not deselected. (drag tolerance bug)
· Fixed bug when sorting tabbles by recent opening time in ground floor. if a tabble appeared in a combination, its usage time was not updated, so it would not appear on top.
· Crash fixed: if I moved a big folder from one drive to another, and in the meantime I tried to browse files via the Tabbles file panel, Tabbles would crash.
· Fixed a few scrolling problems and graphic glitches when dragging selection rectangles or tabbles and the mouse leaves the main window.
· Many smaller fixes were made.
December 3rd, 2009· Arrange tabbles feature: you can now arrange tabbles automatically in many different layouts. This allows you to easily find the tabbles you need by eyeballing.
· Completely revamped quick-open dialog box and quick-link dialog box: you can arrange tabbles in many different ways. This allows you to find the tabbles you need without typing its first letter (previously, the quick-open dialog box was meant to be used primarily by typing).
· You can now edit tabble colors.
· You can now assign name to tabble colors. (Assigning a name to a color is useful to later group tabbles by color name.)
· improved the engine which shows popup info messages: many messages can now appear at the same time without overlapping each other.
· The quick-open dialog-box is now more responsive, allowing you to compose queries more quickly.
· updated german translation
· the "show text in toolbar buttons" menu option wasn't hiding all the text, so it wasn't really useful to save screen space.
December 3rd, 2009· Due to popular request, a tabble alignment feature was added. You can choose two alignment modes: auto-alignment, where tabbles are aligned automatically after each drag; and manual alignment, where tabbles are aligned when you press ALT+q. Auto-alignment is enabled by default. You can find the new alignment functions in the "misc" menu.
· You can now delete tabble colors even if they are being used by some tabbles. This way it is much easier to reduce the number of colors. (And, due to the recent changes, you are likely to have many more colors than you want.)
· The "quick-open tabble" dialog was slightly modified. Now, in the left panel, tabbles are sorted alphabetically and grouped by first letter. (Previously they were grouped by color.)
December 3rd, 2009· We made a major simplification which should make Tabbles easier to understand. Previously we had three logical levels: 1) files; 2) tabbles (which are sets of files); 3) categories (which are sets of tabbles). This seemed too complicated and confusing (new users had trouble distinguishing tabbles from categories). Now we have only two logical levels: files and tabbles. Categories are gone.
· Of course, if you want to create visual groups of tabbles, you can still do it, in at least two ways: a) you can drag the tabbles around with the mouse, arranging them in clusters of whatever shape you desire (possibly replicating the same arrangement you had with categories); or b) you can assign different colors to tabbles, so different kinds of tabbles will leap to the eye
December 3rd, 2009· bug fixed in disk watcher: previously, if you moved a big file across-disk, and the operation took more than 5 mins, Tabbles would loose the categorization for that file. This is now fixed.
· Speed improvement: if you had applications (such as antivirus) running which continually create files on the disk, Tabbles would slow down. This is now fixed.
· Tabbles is now localized in two more languages: German and Dutch. (The translation is still experimental.)
· Tabbles is now a single instance application (meaning you cannot start Tabbles twice by mistake, and risk currupting the database).
· Simplified the default databases. They now contain fewer files.
· (1.1.4 revision 2): the installer should now start on more computers. If Tabbles installation did not work for you, you may want to try again.
· (1.1.4 revision 2): fixed crash when you rename a tabble and the choose the old tabble in the recent popup menu.
December 3rd, 2009· Simplified the user interface. As a result, Tabbles is now faster and smoother.
· Fixed crash when user tries to register after evaluation time is expired.
· Fixed categorization bug: if you deleted a file with Explorer, Tabbles would not remove the file from the database, but instead would keep showing it as a shadow-file.
· Fixed categorization bug: if you saved a file with Word, the file would loose its tabbles, and a .tmp file (created by Word) would acquire those tabbles.
· Fixed crash when pressing the page-up button in the file panel after performing an operation which had emptied the file panel.
· The engine to watch disks for changes to files and update tabbles accordingly was completely rewritten.
· Thumbnail generation is faster.
December 3rd, 2009· fixed crash at startup which happened for several users with network drives.
· fixed bug where a "no disk" dialog box would appear repeatedly at startup, requiring the user to click "continue" multiple times. This was happening for systems with special drives such as USB card readers.
· Fixed bug which made Tabbles crash at startup if you are not administrator.
· Fixed bug which prevented users to perform "safe device removal" of USB drives.
· Fixed crash when DB autosaving starts while a file move is taking place. (fixed race condition in database)
· fixed crash when clicking on a folder-tabble whose associated folder does not exist anymore and then choosing some commands from the tabble context menu.
· Speedup: db autosaving now does not freeze the UI for half a second.
· Autosaving now happens every 3 minutes.
· Fixed crash when trying to delete files which were open in some other application.
· Fixed bug which prevented Tabbles to start on Turkish Windows systems.
· Fixed long delay at startup if you have disconnected network drives;
· fixed crash that happened when opening the context-menu of some file types.
· Some minor crashes.
December 3rd, 2009· Bug fixed: create a file, quickly categorize it with Tabbles, then quickly move it to another folder with Windows Explorer. Tabbles will not update the files' tabbles to point at the new location.
December 3rd, 2009· New collaborate feature: you can export tagged files in a zip archive. If you then send the archive to your colleagues, they will import the files, together with the tabbles you gave them.
· Tabbles now has three editions: Home, Student, Business.
· Tabbles now shows the correct icons (i.e. icons as they appear in Windows) for all files, folders, and links.
· New installer technology: the installer, before installing, now closes Tabbles if it is running.
· New installer technology: the installer now uninstalls the previously installed version before installing. (only if the previous version is >= 1.1.0)
· Crash fixed: if you change the file view mode while the file panel is still being redrawn.
· bug fixed: the 'download new version' window would close when you click on the "view change log" button.
· crash fixed: Tabbles would crash on some system when opening the tabble menu.
· bug fixed in tabble selection in spatial mode.
December 3rd, 2009· Tabbles is now digitally signed with Authenticode.
· New major feature: allow to subtract a Tabble from the results. For example "show all files in tabble 'pictures' but not in tabble 'flowers'". How to use it: first open a tabble, then right-click another tabble and choose "Subtract this tabble from the results".
· Requested by user: when you create a tabble from the file level, do not go down to the ground level to highlight the tabble.
· bug fixed: when you move a big file from one disk to another, and the file takes more than one minute to move, Tabbles does not update the categorization to point at the new file.
· minor fix: after you remove a shadow-file from the database, the file panel is redrawn but still shows the shadow-file.
December 3rd, 2009· Fixed major bug: Tabbles crashes when opening the first tabble, when Tabbles has just been installed (not upgraded).
· tooltips for files and tabbles appear in more sensible locations. In particular, file tooltips do not overlap the tabbles of the file anymore.
· added tooltip ballon when Tabbles is reduced to tray, explaining how to close Tabbles.
· Tabbles now shows a confirmation dialog on shutdown, explaining that, once closed, Tabbles will not be able to monitor disks for changes.
December 3rd, 2009· major new feature: Explorer context menu. Right-click a file, and select "Explorer menu".
· improved algo to position new tabbles in spatial mode
· new feature requested by user: "unlink this tabble from this file"
· bug fixes
December 3rd, 2009· filesystem monitoring now works for network drives too.
· when I add a new drive, it is not necessary to restart Tabbles in order for Tabbles to watch for changes on that drive.
· bug fixed: when I change the sort mode of the file panel, I don't see any change.
· bug fixed: when I unlink some files from tabbles, when the file panel is refreshed the unlinked files remain in the view.
· other bugs fixed and performance improvements.
December 3rd, 2009· major new feature: file system monitoring. You can now move files and folders with Explorer, and Tabbles will update its links, so the categorization for those files will not be lost.
· Bugfixes.
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