January 3rd, 2012· The search function behavior has been modified. Now you shouldn’t add leading asterisk into the search queries to find all occurrences of the search term.
· The ability to automatically backup your collection files on a regular basis has been added. WinCatalog will gently remind you to backup your data (or it will do that automatically).
· The collection converter has been improved. Now it can convert collections created with any previous version of WinCatalog (including WinCatalog Light).
· Now it is possible to minimize WinCatalog during the scanning process.
· The option to unlock list view columns has been added. Now it is possible to scroll list view right and left.
· A drag&drop issue has been fixed.
· The ability to access the program documentation (help file) from the main window has been added.
· WinCatalog now automatically rotates thumbnails according to EXIF orientation tag (on processing pictures).
· WinCatalog can now generate CSV reports (HTML reports are coming) based on a search results or on a custom set of folders.
May 3rd, 2010· The default double click action for folders and disks under keywords and users is changed
· Now WinCatalog 2009 can extract more that 255 characters from text files (the configurable option is added).
January 14th, 2010The default double click action for folders and disks under keywords and users is changed. Now in the main window if you double click on an item linked with a keyword the following will happen:
· If the item is a folder, a disk or an archive, it will be located in the catalog.
· If the item is a file or a custom record, the item’s properties will be shown (as before).
January 12th, 2010· We are glad to announce that a new maintenance update of WinCatalog 2009 has been released. The version number is 2.9.
· Now WinCatalog can extract more than 255 characters from text files (the configurable option is added). To configure this option please click Tools, then Program’s Options. Follow to the Scanning tab and click Configure Additional File Processing Options button. Then select Keep text from plain text files and click Properties. Here you can limit the text extraction or simply switch it off. We recommend to leave this option in it’s default state (limit text extraction to 255 characters).
· Locate in catalog menu item is added to the popup menu when you browse keywords or lent volumes in the main window.
December 26th, 2009· The ability to add several files simultaneously by using WinCatalog 2009 has got Ready for Windows 7 award.
September 26th, 2009· Now WinCatalog 2009 can add several files to the catalog simultaneously by using Add File command…
September 17th, 2009· Now WinCatalog can compare MD5 checksums while updating a volume. WinCatalog can now display Free Space for volumes in the bottom properties window.
July 17th, 2009· We are glad to announce that a new version of WinCatalog 2009 has been just released. The new version can now calculate CRC32 checksum for files (in additional to MD5 checksum from an earlier version).
· The option to calculate the CRC32 is switched off by default. To enable it, please run WinCatalog 2009, click Tools menu item, then click Program’s Options and follow to the Scanning tab to mark the correspondent checkbox. It is also possible to exclude small files from CRC32 calculation.
· The CRC32 calculation works faster than the MD5 calculation; however it still slows down the scanning process.
· The other improvement of the new release is MP3 file scanning enhancement. Now WinCatalog 2009 correctly works with MP3 files with broken or invalid ID3 tags.
June 22nd, 2009· A new version of WinCatalog 2009 is released. The compatibility issue with some versions of Windows XP is fixed.
· While adding new items to the catalog the previous version of WinCatalog 2009 (2.84) could not load a new mp3 scanning plugin (mp3Info2.dll) on some Windows XP installations. The new version 2.85 fixes this issue.
June 18th, 2009· There are two significant improvements in the new version: in mp3 files scanning and in Audio track names retrieving.
· ID3 tags
· ID3 is a very popular audio file data tagging format in active use by software and hardware developers around the world. ID3 tags are supported in software such as iTunes, Windows Media Player, Winamp. ID3 tags contain information about Song Title, Artist, Genre etc.
· While adding an mp3 file to the catalog, WinCatalog 2009 extracts ID3 tags and changes the display name for the file by using “Artist – Song Title” template. WinCatalog 2009 also creates a keyword with Artist name and links the keyword with the added mp3 file. This will help you to navigate your files in the future.
· The ID3 tags summary is placed into the comments field for the mp3 file just like it’s shown on the screenshot.
· Audio Track Names
· Since version 2.84 WinCatalog 2009 can retrieve Audio track names from several online sources simultaneously. This new improved feature finds almost 100% Audio tracks over the Internet.
· If WinCatalog did not find any tracks for your audio disks in the past, you definitely should give it another try to do this.
May 10th, 2009· Importing from collection files created with WinCatalog Light is improved.
April 15th, 2009· CSV reports are improved and now are fully compatible with MS Excel CSV file format.
· Automatic backup now can be switched off.
March 14th, 2009· Now WinCatalog can compare MD5 checksums while updating a volume.
· WinCatalog can now display Free Space for volumes in the bottom properties window.
December 10th, 2008· Now it is possible to calculate MD5 checksum for files, however enabling this option will extremely slow down the speed of large files scanning. This option
· is switched off by default.
· Location field now available not only for file items and volumes but also for every item in WinCatalog 2009. The Location field has been moved from Volume Info tab to General tab.
· Due to new fields addition, the file format for WinCatalog 2009 has been changed. WinCatalog 2009 will open all collection files created with any previous version of WinCatalog, but a previous version of WinCatalog may not open the collection file in the new format. Please make a backup copy of all your existing collection files before using the new version.
· Now it is possible to expand and collapse tree branches using popup menu.
· Scanning report dialog now contains "Updated" tab in additional to "Added" and "Deleted" tabs.
· Now it is possible to keep Report dialog open on generating a report.
· The ability to exclude "leaf" items from reports: it is possible to exclude files, archive and/or empty folders.
· Specific property page for user properties in the main window.
· The ability to backup a collection file before save by adding "BackupX" (where X is a number) word to the filename. The most recent backup file has no number at all. You can configure this feature in the Auto Backup tab of the Program Options dialog box.
September 6th, 2008· Now WinCatalog can scan inside disc images (ISO files).
· The ability to customize advanced scanning options (like archives content extraction) is added.
· Since previous release WinCatalog can extract EXIF tags from digital photographs and jpeg pictures.
· WinCatalog now scan inside Zip archives larger than 4GB!
· The ability to scan inside 7zip archives is added. Now WinCatalog can scan inside Zip, Rar and 7zip arhives.
· The program's main menu has been reorganized. It became easier to find key features of the program.
November 30th, 2006· WinCatalog is now ready for Windows Vista!
· From November 30 till the New Year you can purchase WinCatalog with 20% discount!
· New column added into the Search window. Now it is possible to display Volume Information for files drectly in the Search window.
November 21st, 2006· Now it is possible to suppress system error messages and password prompts while scanning a disk containing shortcuts to remote or unreachable locations
October 17th, 2006· Now WinCatalog can scan inside archives created with ZipBackup for Windows.
· New menu is added to the Search window.
· Now WinCatalog can correctly scan inside any ZIP archive with size up to 2GB.
September 26th, 2006· Now WinCatalog can scan inside archives created with ZipBackup for Windows.
· New menu is added to the Search window.
· Now WinCatalog can correctly scan inside any ZIP archive with size up to 2GB.
July 24th, 2006· New menu is added to the Search window.
· Now it is possible to display size for Virtual Folders. This feature is enabled by default. To disable this feature click Tools | Options menu item to open Program options dialog and unmark "Display size for virtual folders" checkbox.
· Now WinCatalog checks volume serial number on updates. If there is no disk in drive or wrong disk is inserted, WinCatalog asks for another volume.
· A bug with scanning inside ZIP archives created with WinZip 9 is fixed. Now WinCatalog can correctly scan inside any ZIP archive with size up to 2GB.
May 1st, 2006· Memory allocation algorythm has been rewriten.
· Tree system aliases are added. Now you can press Win R and type "wcs", "wincatalog" or "wincatalogs" to quickly run WinCatalog Standard.
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