What's new in Broken X Disk Manager 4.13 Build 2374
Jul 8, 2016
- Disk description was lost on update
- Disk categories were reset on update
- Access to Amazon Web Services failed
New in Broken X Disk Manager 4.11 Build 2362 (Nov 22, 2013)
- Disk Manager no longer tries to follow symbolic links when reading a disk
- The x64 Edition now supports databases of a size up to 32GB
- Access to Amazon Web Services working again
- Free Space of a disk is displayed as the largest unit (KB, MB, GB, ...) like its size is
- The web view shows the location of the database file
- Fixed flickering of the current disk in the status bar
New in Broken X Disk Manager 4.10 Build 2355 (Aug 29, 2010)
- Automatically created image thumbnails may now have a size of up to 192x192 pixels
- Manually added image "thumbnails" can now even be stored full-size in the database
- The Graphics plugin now supports TIFF, PCX and Photoshop files
- The program can now read the contents of ISO and NRG (ISO 9660) files
- You can now specify the maximum read depth
- The Graphics plugin can now create thumbnails for EXE files too
- When updating a disk, CRC32 and MD5 checksums are now only recalculated if either file size or date changed
- Improved read performance in case both CRC32 and MD5 checksum are calculated
- Disk Manager can now be switched into a portable mode by creating a file named "portable" in the program folder
- The XML export can now also export audio previews
- XML documents are now exported UTF-8 encoded
- Added Extra Information "Keywords"
- Plugins may now also register for file extension "folder" to be able to generate information for file folders
- Added a Picture Preview function for (larger) thumbnails
- You can now also assign image thumbnails to categories
- You can now also eject removable disk with the "Eject CD/DVD" toolbar button
- You can now edit Extra Information directly in the main list view and in the Search dialog
- Added option "Select full row"
- Added read option "Exclude system folders and files"
- Search mode "All words" will now also find items that have the search words spread over name, description and Extra Information
- Search combination "All words" and "Match whole string only" is now allowed
- The "User-defined Extra Information" dialog now also lists the ID of every Extra Information
- Added command "Read Disk Image" (requires DAEMON Tools or Virtual CloneDrive)
- Disk Manager now also imports the "Free Space" information from Advanced Disk Catalogs
- Column "Audio Preview" was not offered in the "Choose Details" dialog, if it was not already active
- All columns are now shown in the column header menu and in the "Choose Details" dialog. Columns not available for the active object get dimmed
- The bitrate and play time of MP3 files was not saved if no ID3 tags where found in the file. Fixed
- Improved CrashDump function
- New Videos plugin that can extract information and thumbnails from video files
- The Freedb library did not process long title information correctly
- Added support for DACAL CD libraries. Works by setting Extra Information "Location" to "DACAL x/y" (device x, CD y) [x86 only]
- Improved reading of Explorer context-menu items
- You can now run multiple instances of Disk Manager, and you can copy disks and disk folders by drag and drop
- Added program option "Allow running multiple instances of Broken X Disk Manager"
- Newly created disk folders are now selected/focused
- Error message "An unsupported operation was attempted" was under some circumstances displayed when a CD/DVD was ejected after cataloging
- Increased the size of the "Description" field in the "Read Disk" dialog's "General" sheet
- The hint dialog that informs about an already cataloged disk now displays the disk's path and offers to jump to the disk's location
- Added program option "Play sound when cataloging a disk finished"
- Improved "Send to" dialog
- Error message "Error changing to ..." is no longer shown when doing an automatic update via command-line
- New command-line switch "/Wait"
- Insertion of a removable disk (e.g. USB stick) was not detected under some circumstances
- Automatic search for a needed disk, e.g. when opening a file, did not work correctly
- Added Extra Information "Codecs"
- Improved CDs/DVDs ejection function
- Added prompt for new database file in case replacement of existing file fails
- Improved search function: exclude words by prepending a ! and search terms with spaces by using quotes like "for instance"
- Switched to Visual Studio 2010
New in Broken X Disk Manager 4.07 Build 2267 (Feb 16, 2010)
- Fixed Professional Version registration key verification for names with special characters
New in Broken X Disk Manager 4.06 Build 2266 (Oct 5, 2009)
- The Open dialog led to an "Internal application error" under Windows 7
- Files or folders stored in an archive having an invalid date could crash the program
- Fixed a compatibility problem with some TAR archives
New in Broken X Disk Manager 4.02 Build 2304 (Aug 10, 2007)
- Automatically created image thumbnails may now have a size of up to 192x192 pixels
- Manually added image "thumbnails" can now even be stored full-size in the database
- The Graphics plugin now supports TIFF, PCX and Photoshop files
- The program can now read the contents of ISO and NRG (ISO 9660) files
- You can now specify the maximum read depth
- The Graphics plugin can now create thumbnails for EXE files too
- When updating a disk, CRC32 and MD5 checksums are now only recalculated if either file size or date changed
- Improved read performance in case both CRC32 and MD5 checksum are calculated
- Disk Manager can now be switched into a portable mode by creating a file named "portable" in the program folder
- The XML export can now also export audio previews
- XML documents are now exported UTF-8 encoded
- Changes to the main view columns were sometimes not stored correctly
- Added Extra Information "Keywords"
- Creating audio previews for Audio CD tracks (.cda) didn't work
- Added a categories view mode
- Long Unicode paths in RAR archives could lead to crashes
- Some texts under "Settings / Audio CD" were not translated
- Plugins may now also register for file extension "folder" to be able to generate information for file folders
- Added a Picture Preview function for larger thumbnails
- You can now also assign image thumbnails to categories
New in Broken X Disk Manager 4.02 Build 2262 (Jun 18, 2007)
- Duplicates were not correctly sorted in groups
- The Professional Version now supports Unicode registration names
New in Broken X Disk Manager 4.10 Build 2273 (May 9, 2007)
- Automatically created image thumbnails may now have a size of up to 192x192 pixels
- Manually added image "thumbnails" can now even be stored full-size in the database
- The Graphics plugin now supports TIFF, PCX and Photoshop files
- The program can now read the contents of ISO and NRG (ISO 9660) files
- You can now specify the maximum read depth
- The Graphics plugin can now create thumbnails for EXE files too
New in Broken X Disk Manager 4.00.2253 (Dec 26, 2006)
- Renamed the program to Broken X Disk Manager
- There's now only the Unicode version, Windows 95/98/Me are no longer supported
- Texts are now stored UTF-8 encoded in both database files and memory. Thus they support all characters, but are yet more compact than with Unicode (UTF-16)
- The Search dialog now remembers the search mode
- Disk Manager can now as well read title information from WMA files
- Added a special memory management scheme for the x64 edition, to reduce memory usage to the level of the 32-bit edition
- Improved the CD/DVD eject function
- A click on the "Eject CD/DVD" toolbar button with the Shift key held down will now cause the selected drive to close
- A button to save the current settings was added to the "Read Disk" dialog
- When scanning a disk with a file extensions filter, now only the cataloged files will be counted for the disk's size
- Adding new Extra Information is now as well possible with keyboard only
- Added entry "Description" to the Search dialog's Cleanup tab-sheet
- You can now search for descriptions via the "Extra Information" tab-sheet, too
- When an already cataloged disk is inserted into a drive, the program will display a hint dialog (can be switched off)
- If the program crashes, it will now try to create an error report and dump the currently opened database to disk
- Disk Manager can now create audio previews for sound, music and video files
- "Read Disk" tab-sheet "Thumbnails" was renamed to "Multimedia"
- The Search dialog now can manage settings profiles, too
- Function "Item List" is now named "Report"
- You can now also search for duplicate folders and disks
- Added support for cdplayer.ini entry "Year"
- Added column "Audio Preview" that also allows to play the previews
- Disk Manager can now as well read title information from Ogg Vorbis files
- The "Send To" dialog is now also sizable and saves its position and size
- Added column "Play Time"
- For (possible) (Super) Video CDs/DVDs you can now change the type under Properties
- More modern, flat window design
- The Open and Save as dialogs are now also translated
- Added column "Disk Name"
- New, more modern icons and graphics (work in progress, Screenshot)
- The Help button in the "Customize Toolbar" dialog had no functionality
- Disk Manager will now load thumbnails and audio previews on demand by default. You can change this behaviour per database in the Open dialog
- You can now send the program to background while reading a disk
- Read options "Read folders only" and "Do not store empty folders" can no longer be active at the same time
- Option "View / Display item descriptions" is now called "Display descriptions instead of names" again
- The web view did not refresh if an empty folder was selected in the tree view
- Proportional scaling of images with a very small/large aspect ratio could have caused the program to crash
- The toolbar can now also display small icons
- Modified layout of Settings dialog
- Settings dialog now offers a Reset button to display all hint dialogs again
New in Broken X Disk Manager 3.92 (May 2, 2006)
- Support for network shares, cleanup function, MP3 ID3v2 thumbnail support, can record create and last access date