What's new in FileLocator Pro 9.0 Build 3304
Feb 25, 2022
- New columns Folder Depth, Product Version, File Version.
- Improved filtering and sorting of 'complex' columns like Owner and Product Version.
- Fixed issue exporting parent PST emails to a folder.
- Fixed issue with indexing MSG files with ZIP attachments.
- Fixed issue with searching open Word documents in Lite version.
- Accessibility improvements with Hits tab.
- New policy option to switch off crash reporting.
- Other minor fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2951 (Nov 20, 2020)
- Reduced background CPU usage when idle
- Improved parsing of MBOX/EML date time format.
- Improved SearchTask recovery if 3rd party IFilter causes problems.
- Bug fix: "A required resource was unavailable" error when lots of search terms (> 10,000) specified.
- Bug fix: Relative date/time searching issues with FR/ES/NL languages.
- Minor fixes/improvements
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2947 (Aug 19, 2020)
- Additional installer flags /regdetails /langfile /ui
- Bug fix: Exporting index based searches much faster if content not required.
- Minor fixes/improvements
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2944 (Jan 30, 2020)
- Bug fix: OneDrive folders not searching properly.
- Bug fix: Numeric column filters not working with '<' directive.
- Bug fix: UI sometimes becomes unresponsive when using Index Searching and column filters.
- Minor fixes/improvements
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2941 (Jan 21, 2020)
- Bug fix: Index searching reporting errors with some queries
- Bug fix: Portable device searching not filtering sub folders correctly
- Minor fixes/improvements
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2938 (Dec 5, 2019)
- Indexing speed improvements
- Bug fix: occasional index crash
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2936 (Nov 20, 2019)
- Minor error logging change
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2935 (Nov 19, 2019)
- Minor error logging change
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2934 (Nov 17, 2019)
- Bug fix: Missing installation files for Win 10
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2929 (Sep 18, 2019)
- Improved performance of hits tab for large results.
- Minor improvements/fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2912 (Jun 3, 2019)
- Added folder searching for attached mobile devices.
- Improved: Double-clicking to launch default application.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2904 (Apr 4, 2019)
- Bug fix: Occasional crash with index search and Reports Tab.
- Bug fix: Occasional crash with large searches left running in background.
- Bug fix: Issue exporting result list with .NET run-time engine.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2901 (Mar 14, 2019)
- Bug fix: Indexer incorrectly including additional files.
- Bug fix: Lite version not reading Office documents properly.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2900 (Mar 8, 2019)
- Bug fix: Searching standalone MSG files with lots of attachments issue.
- Bug fix: Lite registration code verification issue.
- Bug fix: Unable to re-import some MSG files exported from Outlook.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2897 (Mar 5, 2019)
- New ‘Imply boundary marker’ DOS expression option to control searching when extension specified.
- Bug fix: Short-cut handling issues.
- Bug fix: Email attachment naming issue.
- Bug fix: Unable to re-import some MSG files exported from Outlook.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2889 (Feb 4, 2019)
- Bug fix: Include file/folder name in content search settings not working properly.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2888 (Jan 21, 2019)
- Bug fix: Searching of both message body and attachments not working with stand-alone .eml and .msg files.
- Updated French translation.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2887 (Jan 11, 2019)
- Updated Dutch translation.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2886 (Dec 29, 2018)
- File short-cut searching now defaults to OFF (slows search times).
- Bug fix: Preview not working with .eml and .msg files.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2883 (Dec 24, 2018)
- Reducing load times on workspace files.
- Bug fix: Temp files not deleting until app closed.
- Bug fix: Short-cut link searching issues.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2881 (Dec 14, 2018)
- Bug fix: Files disappearing from list after context menu operation.
- Bug fix: Invalid ‘Update required’ message for updated indexes.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2880 (Dec 10, 2018)
- Bug fixes:
- Improved error messages for invalid formats
- Issue searching archives within .lnk short-cuts.
- Issue with adding new index when default folder read-only.
- Other minor improvements and fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2878 (Nov 29, 2018)
- Added Portable Device searching (eg. phone/tablet)
- Bug fix: Lite mode crash with ‘<no language>’ error
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2875 (Nov 24, 2018)
- Added Dutch translation
- Added Turkish translation
- Bug fix: Issue reloading saved searches
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2874 (Nov 16, 2018)
- IFilter crash protection functionality
- Bug fix: Removed external resources from local help
- Bug fix: DE and IT language file improvements
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2868 (Nov 6, 2018)
- Bug fix: French translation issue
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2862 (Nov 1, 2018)
- Bug fix: Font spacing in Summary tab issue
- Bug fix: Command line indexer ‘quit’ shutdown issue
- Bug fix: ‘Invalid index’ error shown in Index Manager when lots of indexes added
New in FileLocator Pro 8.5 Build 2858 (Oct 25, 2018)
- Added Thunderbird MBOX searching
- Added File name matching to Persistent Search Filters
- Document Preview option added to Preview (Thumbnails) tab
- Bug fix: Erroneous ‘Empty file’ warnings.
- Bug fix: Temp folder settings were being ignored
- Other minor improvements and fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 8.4 Build 2840 (Jun 28, 2018)
- Added Folder and file short-cut (.lnk files) searching
- Circular reference protection for short-cuts and symbolic links
- Bug fix: Portable installation was not accepting user registration correctly
- Bug fix: Expand All was missing from Hits tab menu
- Bug fix: Tab title was not always updating when criteria changed
- Other minor improvements and fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 8.4 Build 2831 (Jun 5, 2018)
- Bug fix: Allow exported MSGs with embedded MSGs to be re-imported back into Outlook
New in FileLocator Pro 8.4 Build 2830 (May 22, 2018)
- Privacy policy link added to About Box
- Bug fix: ‘Empty file’ warning was not showing
- Bug fix: Favorites listing was impacted by persistent filters
New in FileLocator Pro 8.4 Build 2823 (May 15, 2018)
- Ability to switch to ‘Lite’ mode without installing separate product
- Now searches PDF protected content
- Regex expression naming, eg REGEX:ssn “d{3}-?d{2}-?d{4}”
- Additional indexing performance settings
- Improved temp folder clear up on closing
- Other minor improvements and fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 8.4 Build 2822 (May 14, 2018)
- Ability to switch to ‘Lite’ mode without installing separate product
- Now searches PDF protected content
- Regex expression naming, eg REGEX:ssn “d{3}-?d{2}-?d{4}”
- Additional indexing performance settings
- Improved temp folder clear up on closing
- Other minor improvements and fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 8.2 Build 2766 (Feb 22, 2018)
- Indexing improvements for frequently updated indexes
- Bug fix: Caching was sometimes not working properly for custom extensions
- Other minor updates/fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 8.2 Build 2761 (Feb 3, 2018)
- Additional columns added including Author and Owner
- New: remove switch for flpidx to remove a reference to an existing index
- Bug fix: Index list sort order now defaults to name
- Bug fix: Tab title not refreshing when Search Again on index searches
- Bug fix: Possibly crash when refreshing favorites
- Other minor updates/fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 8.2 Build 2755 (Jan 25, 2018)
- Index search UI now defaults using command line parameters
- New -addref switch for flpidx to add reference to an existing index
- Better text conversion for RTF Outlook messages
- Bug fix: Added config files for DOTM and XLTM
- Bug fix: Show error message if rename fails due to locked file
- Bug fix: Split lines warning unncessary in many cases
- Bug Fix: MSG file searching missing attachments if one or more attachments had been deleted
- Bug fix: Outlook message searching now replaces forward and back slashes in subject with dashes
- Bug fix: Outlook RTF messages were not always exporting to MSG correctly
- Bug fix: Look In expression handling was not working properly
- Other minor updates/fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 8.2 Build 2751 (Nov 25, 2017)
- Bug fix: ZIP files date/time fix (again).
- Bug fix: Warning when very long lines have been split.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.2 Build 2747 (Nov 20, 2017)
- Bug fix: Overwriting favourites error message fixed.
- Bug fix: FR, DE language issues.
- Bug fix: ZIP files date/time DST fix.
- Bug fix: Fortran highlighting issue.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.2 Build 2744 (Oct 4, 2017)
- Bug fix: Open favorite in new tab now working.
- Bug fix: Some 3rd party editors,eg. Sublime, could not handle long path format, now defaults to standard format.
- Bug fix: Secondary searches in Text tab highlighting issue.
- Bug fix: Improved memory management on large criteria searches.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.2 Build 2741 (Sep 21, 2017)
- Bug fix: Installation issue with 2740.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.2 Build 2740 (Sep 19, 2017)
- Bug fix: Look In expressions not working with UNC paths.
- Bug fix: Unresponsive UI when network path resolution is slow.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.2 Build 2738 (Aug 17, 2017)
- Bug fix: Thumbnails and file icons not loading properly.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.2 Build 2737 (Aug 16, 2017)
- Long path name support.
- Bug fix: Multi-line regex failing on very long lines.
- Bug fix: FR, DE language file improvements.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.2 Build 2736 (Jun 7, 2017)
- Bug fix: Error message if remember sort switched off.
- Bug fix: Column settings not saving properly.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.2 Build 2735 (May 26, 2017)
- Columns can be switched on/off and more column options added.
- Multi-threaded indexing for faster indexing.
- Index search optimizations.
- Index search improved handling of underscores and hypens.
- HTML Reports export keywords in color.
- Bug fix: Criteria window resizing issue.
- Bug fix: Match case not working properly with indexes.
- Bug fix: Location field drawing issues.
- Bug fix: Indexing now supports NOT NEAR.
- Other minor improvements.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.1 Build 2722 (Mar 24, 2017)
- Generate Error Report option added to Index Manager.
- Bug fix: Context menu icon not appearing on 32-bit apps on 64-bit OS.
- Bug fix: Truncated data when loading entries from drop downs.
- Bug fix: Crash with print preview.
- Bug fix: Language file fixes.
- Bug fix: Ctrl+F setting preserved during upgrade procedure.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.1 Build 2721 (Mar 23, 2017)
- Generate Error Report option added to Index Manager.
- Bug fix: Language file fixes.
- Bug fix: Ctrl+F setting preserved during upgrade procedure.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.1 Build 2719 (Mar 18, 2017)
- Bug fix: Index searched email attachments not showing MSG parent in path.
- Bug fix: -idxpath command line option ignored if SRF file was also specified.
- Bug fix: Multi-folder persistent search filter editing issue.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.1 Build 2714 (Mar 13, 2017)
- Support for Visual Studio 2017.
- Bug fix: File presets not working properly.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.1 Build 2713 (Mar 13, 2017)
- Bug fix release
- Bug fix: Alt + Down arrow not working properly on main drop down list boxes.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.1 Build 2712 (Mar 2, 2017)
- New expression editor to help work with large keyword lists.
- Command line supports index searching with new -idxname or -idxpath switches.
- Command line supports index criteria SRF files.
- Bug fix: Indexer was not correctly reporting out of space errors.
- Bug fix: Indexer was not properly including non-content files.
- Digital signatures now using SHA-256.
- Other minor improvements.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.1 Build 2702 (Jan 31, 2017)
- File lists now supported with index searches.
- File types can now be excluded in indexing setup.
- Bug fix: Incorrectly showing hits for terms not directly involved in matching line.
- Bug fix: USB installer now includes API files for all versions of Windows.
- Bug fix: List view not redrawing properly after deleting files.
- Other minor improvements.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.1 Build 2697 (Jan 16, 2017)
- Option to switch off search-as-you-type in the Text tab.
- New warning if file does not contain searchable text.
- Bug fix: Possible crash when filtering large list of items.
- Bug fix: Index search unable to cancel certain searches.
- Bug fix: Icons not displaying in drop-down list.
- Other minor improvements.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.1 Build 2695 (Dec 22, 2016)
- Faster list loading for large searches (ie more than 50,000 files).
- Location filters now applied to root locations not just sub folders.
- Forward slashes and multiple back slashes in paths normalized.
- Bug fix: Searching for "*" in Boolean expression now works properly.
- Bug fix: Very large lines on multi-line regex could cause crash.
- Bug fix: Search stats on reports not displaying correctly if run from command line.
- Other minor improvements.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.1 Build 2682 (Dec 6, 2016)
- Index sizes significantly reduced (sometimes over 50% smaller).
- More details added to indexing error messages.
- Bug fix: Icons not displaying in error list window.
- Bug fix: Drop downs in Reports Tab failing to open after a resize.
- Other minor improvements.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.1 Build 2680 (Oct 19, 2016)
- Bug fix: French language fixes.
- Bug fix: Crash when changing criteria type during search.
- Bug fix: Rare crash when search had finished.
- Bug fix: Casesensitive search caused issues when switching to indexed search.
- Bug fix: Missing icons for portable installation.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.1 Build 2677 (Oct 17, 2016)
- Support for high DPI settings.
- Bug fix: Include file name and folder name in content search was not working with PST searches.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2672 (Sep 22, 2016)
- Bug fix: Would not start on some versions of Windows.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2671 (Sep 21, 2016)
- Significant memory usage improvements when searching large PST/OST files.
- Bug fix: Memory leak in PST/OST searching.
- Bug fix: Translation improvements.
- Other minor improvements.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2669 (Sep 5, 2016)
- Bug fix: Copying report to clipboard issue fixed.
- Bug fix: Launching Explorer failed on some systems.
- Bug fix: Registration information was not always saving properly.
- Bug fix: Translation improvements.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2668 (Jul 18, 2016)
- New flpidx command line options for creating indexes.
- New COM components for searching indexes.
- Bug fix: flpsearch -ofxlst XSLT processing now works properly.
- Bug fix: MSG attachments embedded within MSG files can now be indexed.
- Bug fix: Other small fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2664 (Jul 7, 2016)
- Bug fix: Issues with single threaded searching through compressed files.
- Bug fix: Unnecessary memory allocations on large searches.
- Bug fix: PDF Page numbering issues.
- Bug fix: PHP Styling issues.
- Bug fix: Report generating issues with large fields.
- Bug fix: Other small fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2661 (Jun 28, 2016)
- Bug fix: 'Invalid Index' issue with Chinese version of Windows.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2659 (Jun 23, 2016)
- Bug fix: Possible crash when searching large list of terms.
- Bug fix: Improved handling of invalid configuration files.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2658 (Jun 22, 2016)
- Bug fix: Possible crash when searching large list of terms.
- Bug fix: Other small fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2657 (Jun 10, 2016)
- Bug fix: PDF text formatting/speed issues.
- Bug fix: Word/Excel searching issues when FipsAlgorithmPolicy set
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2656 (May 27, 2016)
- Transparent context menu icon.
- Updated alert dialog display.
- Bug fix: Better handling of non-conformant ZIP files.
- Bug fix: 7-zip updated to version 16.02.
- Bug fix: Quoted index searching problem.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2654 (May 18, 2016)
- Bug fix: 7-zip updated to version 16.00 due to vulnerabilities in UDF and HFS handlers.
- Bug fix: 7z solid archive searching issue.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2653 (May 18, 2016)
- .NET class library and SDK documentation updated for index searching.
- Option to switch off search-as-you-type index searching.
- Bug fix: IFilter types now included for Index 'Documentation' category.
- Bug fix: Index can now handle Unicode paths for index store.
- Bug fix: Issues relating to using .NET library in ASP.NET fixed.
- Bug fix: Keyword reports for multi-line regex searches now concatenates multi-line matches.
- Bug fix: Multi-line Regex and Fuzzy search now work with File Lists and missing help dialog resource fixed.
- Bug fix: Search-as-you-type suppressed if invalid expression entered.
- Other small fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2651 (Apr 23, 2016)
- Install folder now defaults to previous location.
- Bug fix: File icons sometimes incorrect when sorted.
- Bug fix: Bulk Export report not always loading properly.
- Bug fix: Shell integration issues when using standard user with no elevation privileges.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2648 (Apr 16, 2016)
- Additional menu options and help information for indexing.
- Bug fix: Deleting items causing selection issues with other items in list.
- Bug fix: Sort order now saved/restored with SRF criteria files.
- Bug fix: Reduced flicker when changing between criteria types.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2646 (Apr 12, 2016)
- Installer logging option.
- Force empty folder for new index store.
- Bug fix: Binary file warning notification.
- Bug fix: Paging issue in hits tab.
- Other small fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2643 (Apr 7, 2016)
- Bug fix: Allow mixed/upper case registration codes.
- Bug fix: Use .NET 4 if .NET 2 not installed.
New in FileLocator Pro 8.0 Build 2642 (Apr 7, 2016)
- New indexing feature
- Customizable keyword coloring
- Multi-line Regex functionality
- Custom EXE interpreters
- Sticky column sort order
- Console flpsearch.exe app
- Search threads monitoring window
- Improved content searching algorithm
- Stability improvements for Word and Excel searching
- Many other improvements and bug fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2114 (Feb 22, 2016)
- Bug fix: DLL issue with Portable version.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2113 (Feb 9, 2016)
- Bug fix: .NET Core library fixes.
- Console app for command line searches.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2109 (Oct 17, 2015)
- Bug fix: Background color made more consistent across different tabs.
- Bug fix: Boolean ? wildcard not working when used mid-word on last word on line.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2107 (Aug 6, 2015)
- Bug fix: Exported .MSG files can now be re-imported into Outlook.
- Bug fix: GDI handle usage.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2104 (Jul 13, 2015)
- OST (2013) format support
- PST/OST speed improvements
- Bug fix: Email size now includes size of any attachments.
- Bug fix: 'Text Search' search was behaving like 'Deep Search' if raw data search was checked.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2101 (Jun 18, 2015)
- Improved exporting of corrupt PST items
- Bug fix: Crash when loading saved workspaces/sessions
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2099 (Jun 8, 2015)
- Bug fix: Corrupt PST file could cause program to crash
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2097 (Jun 2, 2015)
- Bug fix: Directly specifying multiple archive within archive paths ignoring some files
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2096 (May 30, 2015)
- Batch copy can continue if corrupt files found
- Better handling of corrupt configuration files
- Bug fix: Dock below/right wasn't working
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2094 (May 19, 2015)
- Bug fix: Various Look In field issues when working with large folder lists
- Additional logging on core operations
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2092 (May 4, 2015)
- Bug fix: PDF searching on non-ASCII file names
- Bug fix: Opening folder when batch file of same name exists
- Bug fix: Changes to default folders were being reset when upgrading
- Other minor enhancements/bug fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2085 (Mar 26, 2015)
- Bug fix: Solid archive extraction fixes
- Bug fix: Invalid pending count fix
- Minor DE language changes
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2082 (Feb 10, 2015)
- Bulk Copy - gracefully handle moved files/containers
- Bug fix: Handle JAR files with unusual ZIP format
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2077 (Dec 3, 2014)
- Bug fix release:
- Email MSG exporting should now produce identical hashes for the same email
- Bug fix: Printing on some reports not working
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2076 (Nov 24, 2014)
- Improved MSG searching speed.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2074 (Nov 12, 2014)
- Bug fix: Date/times now handle DST properly.
- Bug fix: Missing icons in portable build.
- Bug fix: Summary report error message.
- Bug fix: Multi-folder button not working on Persistent Filters.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2071 (Oct 30, 2014)
- Bug fix: Crash when clearing all search locations in multi-folder dialog and then clicking OK.
- Bug fix: Crash when file type column is shown before file name column.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2070 (Oct 23, 2014)
- New EPUB searching.
- Bug fix: Saving favorites on network folders using UNC paths not working.
- Bug fix: Copying error list to clipboard issue.
- Bug fix: Occassional crash when viewing file while search still running.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2067 (Oct 9, 2014)
- Bug fix: Cache module could crash under edge case scenarios.
- Bug fix: Options not remembered if Load Last Search was switched off.
- CN language mistakes.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.5 Build 2064 (Sep 27, 2014)
- Native .msg file exporting for PST and MSG email searches.
- New Bulk Copy feature.
- Errors/Warnings information on Summary tab.
- New license options Technician and Floating.
- New UTF-8 auto-detect feature for files without BOM.
- Bug fix: Search within search lists no longer limited on size.
- Other minor enhancements/bug fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.2 Build 2042 (Apr 23, 2014)
- Bug fix: NEAR combined with AND and OR sub expressions sometimes failing to return valid results.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.2 Build 2041 (Apr 14, 2014)
New in FileLocator Pro 7.2 Build 2038 (Mar 29, 2014)
- Significant performance improvements for all content searches but especially Boolean and Whole word expression types.
- Windows 8.x compatibility improvements.
- File name truncation options for Contents View and new truncation options for File List View.
- User selection when multiple versions of Visual Studio installed
- Containing text script can now work without Containing text value.
- Double-click divider to size to max column width.
- Middle mouse button to close tab.
- Bug fix: Failed search not clearing results properly.
- Bug fix: Browse for folder not starting from current path.
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 7.2 Build 2037 (Mar 28, 2014)
- Significant performance improvements for all content searches but especially Boolean and Whole word expression types.
- Windows 8.x compatibility improvements.
- File name truncation options for Contents View and new truncation options for File List View.
- User selection when multiple versions of Visual Studio installed
- Containing text script can now work without Containing text value.
- Double-click divider to size to max column width.
- Middle mouse button to close tab.
- Bug fix: Failed search not clearing results properly.
- Bug fix: Browse for folder not starting from current path.
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 7.1 Build 2031 (Jan 31, 2014)
- Bug fix release
- 'Text Search' default instead of 'Deep Search' for Document Searching.
- Boolean search performance improvements.
- Bug fix: NEAR operator not working properly when combined with OR
- Bug fix: Closing app when minimized causes problems when re-starting.
- Bug fix: Regular expression error messages not showing properly.
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 7.0 Build 2028 (Nov 28, 2013)
- MSI installer now accepts LANG_FILE variable to default UI localization language.
- Bug fix: Highlighting issues with DBCS code page files.
- Bug fix: COM and .NET component issues.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.0 Build 2025 (Nov 20, 2013)
- Bug fix: PDF searching not working on some systems.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.0 Build 2024 (Nov 19, 2013)
- Improved number column formatting in Reports
- HTML Report highlighting of hits.
- Progress 4GL syntax highlighting.
- COM and .NET component library enhancements for extracting items.
- Bug fix: Double-click on PST hits now opens file properly.
- Other minor improvements and bug fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 7.0 Build 2023 (Oct 26, 2013)
- Option to hide tabs in Contents View
- Bug fix: Help for file name presets was showing 'Resource unavailable'.
- Bug fix: COM component library fixes.
- Bug fix: Deep search not always searching raw binary data.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.0 Build 2020 (Oct 26, 2013)
- NEAR operator can take optional distance value, e.g. word1 NEAR:10 word2
- NEAR distance configuration can now be lowered to 1.
- Bug fix: Saving sessions with binary data could cause invalid characters to be exported rendering session file unloadable.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.0 Build 2018 (Oct 26, 2013)
- Bug fix: Large line truncation bug causing problems loading sessions/workspaces.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.0 Build 2017 (Oct 26, 2013)
- Audio file searching (MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG and more).
- Image searching (JPG, PNG, TIF, and BMP).
- Search time added back to frame.
- Bug fix: Archive within archive item extraction failure.
- Bug fix: Loading favourites not clearing previous results.
- Bug fix: Cache hang issue on large files.
New in FileLocator Pro 7.0 Build 2015 (Oct 26, 2013)
- Explore Here now highlights selected items in folder.
- Bug fix: Context menu not working when multiple items in different folders selected.
- Bug fix: File presets missing from portable install.
- Bug fix: Switching between ZIP IFilter and composite folder now working.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1364 (Aug 14, 2013)
- Chinese language support (including help file translation).
- Bug fix: Strict DOS boundary limiting.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1358 (May 31, 2013)
- Improved context menu support.
- Bug fix: Open criteria dialog not including *.srf filter.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1357 (May 21, 2013)
- Bug fix: Slow searching and excessive memory consumption with DOC IFilter based searches on very large files.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1355 (May 1, 2013)
- Improved PDF conversion.
- Bug fix: Minor French language changes.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1349 (Apr 16, 2013)
- Bug fix: Shift drag/drop was copying and not moving files.
- Bug fix: Right-click drag/drop was not behaving properly.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1348 (Mar 18, 2013)
- Bug fix: Two text messages not displaying properly.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1347 (Mar 16, 2013)
- Bug fix: Shift + Del was not working for file deletion.
- Bug fix: Text based .msg files will now be searched properly.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1346 (Feb 12, 2013)
- DOS Expression added to list of Look In expression types.
- Bug fix: Large PST email folders not listing all contents.
- Bug fix: Corrupted PST email attachments could crash application.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1345 (Jan 10, 2013)
- Bug fix: Problem copying large number of files from PST/compressed archives fixed.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1344 (Jan 9, 2013)
- Bug fix: MSI now picks up reg details if run with /quiet switch.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1341 (Dec 21, 2012)
- Bug fix: Favorites now open sorted by description.
- Bug fix: External editor 'question' missing buttons.
- Bug fix: FileLocator Pro modal in Shell operations.
- Bug fix: Update check now reports errors if problems occur.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1338 (Dec 4, 2012)
- Minor: -ol command line switch optimizations
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1337 (Dec 4, 2012)
- New command line option '-oa' to append results to output file
- New command line option '-oe?' to specify output encoding
- New command line option '-ol [max]' to restrict maximum output lines per file
- New command line option '-ofxslt [file]' to format output using custom (XSLT) format
- Bug fix: -resetui was not working.
- Bug fix: Containing text was cutting off text over 1,000 characters.
- Bug fix: French language update.
- Other minor updates/fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1324 (Nov 23, 2012)
- Bug fix: Some language files missing on portable install version.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1323 (Nov 16, 2012)
- Bug fix: DOS Expression NOT: now works with File Lists.
- Bug fix: xpdfrc customization settings now accepted with PDF converting.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.5 Build 1321 (Nov 10, 2012)
- User interface available in French and German.
- Real-time memory compacting for large searches.
- New export format 'Tab (speadsheet)'.
- Enhanced DOS Expression functionality.
- Improved viewing of HTML based PST/MSG messages.
- Improved crash reporting.
- Other minor updates/fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.2 Build 1271 (Sep 30, 2012)
- Bug fix: Significant memory management improvements.
- Bug fix: Improved Unicode searching (especially Chinese characters).
New in FileLocator Pro 6.2 Build 1269 (Sep 19, 2012)
- Bug fix: Auto-threading and multi-phase search settings not saving properly.
- Bug fix: Improved threading clean-up code.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.2 Build 1266 (Aug 25, 2012)
- Attachment information now included in MSG/PST message text.
- File name word wrapping in Hits tab for non-content searches.
- Warning if attempt to overwrite Favorite when saving critiera.
- Improved memory management if failures occur during search.
- Bug fix: CSV export was not working if only file name selected.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.2 Build 1263 (Aug 19, 2012)
- Bug fix: PST (and other composite type) files with very long names could cause crash in thumbnail view or during drag-drop operation.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.2 Build 1260 (Aug 9, 2012)
- Crash reporting feature.
- Improved CSV export.
- Bug fix: Text tab now opens at correct position in file.
- Bug fix: Text tab intermittent redrawing issues on x64.
- Bug fix: Intermittent hanging issue when cancelling archive search.
- Other minor updates/fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 6.2 Build 1254 (Aug 4, 2012)
- Bug fix: DOS Expression was not conforming to standard.
- Bug fix: PST attachments now always display long names when available.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.6 Build 1106 (Jan 26, 2011)
- New 'Strictly conforming' option for DOS expressions.
- Faster icon loading.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.6 Build 1105 (Jan 21, 2011)
- Bug fix: Boolean Regex now works with file lists.
- Bug fix: Delay loading of icons more resilient to badly behaved icon handlers.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.6 Build 1104 (Jan 19, 2011)
- Delay loading of file icons for improved UI performance.
- Bug fix: Wrong locale used when searching ANSI characters above the 0x7f range.
- Bug fix: Issues with XML export of very large lines fixed.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.6 Build 1102 (Dec 7, 2010)
- Improved DOS Expression handling.
- Bug fix: Problem with anti-virus products sometimes locking ZIP extracted files fixed.
- Bug fix: Problem with searching open Office docs fixed.
- Other minor fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.6 Build 1089 (Dec 7, 2010)
- Drive listing adheres to NoDrives GroupPolicy setting.
- Outlook searching now supports OST files.
- 64-bit MSI database available.
- Bug fix: Toolbar/Status bar visibility settings now remembered.
- Bug fix: -ma -mb switches weren't accepting valid date/time values.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.6 Build 1082 (Sep 10, 2010)
- Improved searching for MS Office 2007/2010 files, e.g. DOCX, XLSX etc.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.6 Build 1077 (Jul 17, 2010)
- New NEAR Boolean operator for proximity searching.
- New LIKE Boolean operator for matching similar search terms.
- Improved error messages on expression compilation failures.
- Improved performance when displaying results for files on network drive.
- Bug fix: Boolean operator precedence issues.
- Bug fix: PST searching issue with PST files over 2GB in size.
- Bug fix: Right-click menu crash when SnagIt installed.
- Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.5 Build 1061 (Jun 14, 2010)
- Installer has a new USB Drive installation option.
- Configuration and log file folders now default to a location within AppData for non-USB Drive installations.
- Bug fix: 'Required resource was unavailable' error on expression help.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.5 Build 1055 (May 27, 2010)
- Bug fix: Context menu wasn't working properly on Vista and Windows 7 with some anti-virus products.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.5 Build 1054 (May 22, 2010)
- Improved shell extension stability.
- Improved cut feedback behaviour.
- Bug fix: Send To menu wasn't always working with Vista and Windows 7.
- Bug fix: Window positioning now allows negative coordinates on startup.
- Bug Fix: Focus issue with Ctrl + A on file list.
- Bug fix: Crash in Basic view if search with containing text checked but no text entered.
- Bug fix: Wizard labels needed resizing.
- Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.5 Build 1044 (Feb 26, 2010)
- Outlook PST file searching support.
- Added Create and Last Access date criteria.
- Improved ZIP searching efficiency.
- Bug fix: Toolbar repainting issue.
- Bug fix: Occasional hanging with Explorer shell extension.
- Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.2 Build 1037 (Feb 1, 2010)
- Contents view can now be navigated with keyboard.
- Auto thread configuration on multi-core machines.
- Sub-expression options moved back to main tab.
- Improved UTF-8 speed.
- Check for new version functionality (off by default).
- New command line option -viewfile to open file in internal viewer.
- Bug fix: Problem using location filters with zip files at root.
- Bug fix: Statistics sometimes incorrect.
- Bug fix: Tab while renaming file issues.
- Bug fix: Corrupt PDF files causing unwanted message boxes.
- Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.2 Build 1025 (Oct 31, 2009)
- Speed improvement on single phase searches (up to 50% faster)
- Significant memory management improvements on very large searches
- Allows UTF8 default format for UTF8 files without BOM
- Bug fix: Rename on mouse select wasn't working
- Bug fix: Crash with Nino Copy Path shell extension
- Bug fix: Multiple folder dialog added invalid items
- Bug fix: Date/time issues
- Other tweaks/minor bug fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 5.2 Build 1010 (Oct 6, 2009)
- New Boolean Sub Expressions functionality
- New File Lists functionality for loading keywords from file
- Regex speed improvements.
- Improved native handling of compressed doc formats, e.g. DOCX, XLSX, ODS etc.
- Drop down list behaviour fixes.
- Bug fix: Very long lines weren't drawn.
- Bug fix: Unicode problems in Zip files.
- Bug fix: Problems exporting custom format to clipboard.
- Bug fix: Date/time rounding issues.
- Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.1 Build 975 (Jun 26, 2009)
- Using XP/Vista visual styles
- New Boolean RegEx hybrid expression type
- Simplified regex wizard
- Exact match limits to whole word only
- Search statistics
- Improved memory management on very large (TB) searches
- Bug fix: IFilter loading issue
- Bug fix: -mb command line switch
- Other tweaks/minor bug fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 5.0 Build 948 (Jun 26, 2009)
- Bug fix: Crash on very long path names
- Bug fix: Rename not working on folders
- Bug fix: Containing text check box not working in Basic Search
- Bug fix: Date/Time parsing issues
- Enhancement: Added resilience for bad/protected compressed files
New in FileLocator Pro 5.0 Build 941 (Jun 26, 2009)
- Bug fix: Crash when opening file in Internal Viewer on a non-content search.
New in FileLocator Pro 5.0 Build 939 (Mar 19, 2009)
- Automatic document format management
- Radically improved Internal Viewer
- Support for relative date/times
- Unicode support
- MSI Installer
- File hash search (MD5,SHA-1/256/512)
- Additional formats: DMG, HFS, MSI, RPM, UDF, XAR, Z
- Core searching routine improvements.
- Additional configuration options
- Other improvements/bug fixes
New in FileLocator Pro 4.5 Build 842 (Jan 16, 2009)
- Bug fix: Ctrl+F, F3 Explorer integration now working on Vista.
- Bug fix: Removed use of boost_interprocess temp folder.
New in FileLocator Pro 4.5 build 828 (Aug 6, 2008)
- Reverted to older ComCtl version, due to problems selecting multiple files with the mouse.
New in FileLocator Pro 4.0.0 Build 787 (Dec 20, 2007)
- BugFix: Drag to CD
- BugFix: Additional error checking
New in FileLocator Pro 4.0.0 build 774 (Apr 12, 2007)
- BugFix: Some IFilters not found due to alternative registration (inc. WordPerfect).
- BugFix: Search within search not clearing file list.
- BugFix: Copy Path not putting files in correct sort order.