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FileMenu Tools Changelog

What's new in FileMenu Tools 8.4.2

May 2, 2024
  • (Improvement) Advanced Renamer: improved preview refresh speed.
  • (Improvement) Pack To Folder: improved the performance when copying and moving a lot of files.
  • (Fixed) Advanced Renamer: sometimes the Advanced Renamer process did not finish correctly and continued to consume system resources until Windows was restarted.
  • (Fixed) Fixed some minor bugs.

New in FileMenu Tools 8.4.1 (Mar 9, 2024)

  • Fixed:
  • Convert Image Format: the progress bar was not working when converting image files into a folder.
  • When resizing some windows, the buttons on the right side were displayed incorrectly.
  • Fixed some minor bugs.

New in FileMenu Tools 8.4.0 (Feb 26, 2024)

  • (New) Convert Image Format: new tool to convert the format and/or size of the selected image files. The supported image files are BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, and TIFF.
  • (Improvement) Copy Content to Clipboard: now it also works with image files. The supported formats are BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF.
  • (Improvement) Calculate and verify checksum: added a button to copy the checksum to the Clipboard.
  • (Fixed) Synchronize folders: the folders were not deleted in some circumstances.
  • (Fixed) Fixed some minor bugs.

New in FileMenu Tools 8.3.0 (Dec 29, 2023)

  • (Improvement) Now the variables that can be used in custom commands or in some utilities (such as Advanced Renamer) can be inserted through a window that shows the value that each variable will have and a preview of what the string will look like with all the variables replaced.
  • (Improvement) Change Time: added a checkbox in the message box that appears when an error occurs when modifying the time of a file to ignore successive errors of the same type for the other files and to not show this message box again.
  • (New) The tool Paste Clipboard has been separated into two tools:
  • Append Clipboard: appends the copied text to the Clipboard at the end of the selected file (it only works with text files)
  • Save Clipboard: creates a new file in the selected folder with the Clipboard content. Now this also works with images. The supported image formats are BMP, JPEG, PNG, GIF and TIFF.
  • (Fixed) The icons for the standard commands in the classic context menu (Copy, Cut, Delete, Properties, etc) were displayed very tiny with very high resolution monitors.
  • (Fixed) Fixed some minor bugs.

New in FileMenu Tools 8.2.2 (Sep 12, 2023)

  • (Fixed) The File Explorer crashed when running some type of custom commands, or the custom commands was not started correctly.

New in FileMenu Tools 8.2.1 (Sep 10, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • The new custom command Copy To Clipboard was not working correctly.

New in FileMenu Tools 8.2.0 (Sep 2, 2023)

  • (New) Added new custom command type: Copy To Clipboard. This custom command type lets you copy to the clipboard specific attributes of the selected elements (path, name, file size, checksum, etc) based in a template with variables. You also can configure the custom command to copy to clipboard the elements into the subfolders recursively.
  • (Fixed) Copy To / Move To: the submenu with favorites and recent folders was not shown in the classic context menu.
  • (New) Copy To / Move To: the submenu with favorites and recent folders is shown in alphabetic order.
  • (New) Batch Commands: added a new property to run the batch command as Administrator. So the UAC message box is displayed only once if several commands that are run for the batch command need administrator privileges.
  • (Improvement) Organize Into Folders: if a profile is saved with an empty target folder, then when loading the profile by default the target folder text box will be filled with the folder path of the selected elements on Windows Explorer.
  • (New) Organize Into Folders: added new setting to add a suffix to the new folder if when creating it already exists.
  • (New) Added new variables to be used in Advanced Renamer and Organize Into Folders which lets you insert current date and current time or parts of them (day, month, hour, minutes, etc).
  • (New) Pack To Folder: now you can specify variables (current time, current date, etc)
  • (New) Pack To Folder: added option to copy the files to the new folder instead of moving the files.
  • (Improvement) Synchronize Folders: improved the performance when copying files.
  • (Improvement) Synchronize Folders: the date-time of the folders are also synchronized.

New in FileMenu Tools 8.1.0 (Mar 4, 2023)

  • (New) Added pause button in the progress bar that is displayed when running a custom command that is configured to run on multiple instances sequentially.
  • (New) (Windows 11 only) There was a problem with third party file managers where the new Windows 11 context menu is not supported and the commands of FileMenu Tools were not displayed in the classic context menu. You had manually uncheck "Show the commands of FileMenu Tools in the new Win11 context menu" in order to see the commands in the classic context menu. For this reason now the commands are displayed in both menus by default, and a new option has been added in the Settings window to choose in which context menu the commands of FileMenu Tools will be displayed: configure individually for each command, in both menus, only in the new Windows 11 context menu, or only in the classic menu.
  • (New) (Windows 11 only) The "Show in context menu" property of each command has been modified in order to configure whether the menu should be displayed in both menus, only in the new Windows 11 context menu or only in the classic menu. This can only be changed if the option "Configure individually for each command" has been chosen in the global configuration.
  • (New) Custom commands: added a button in the "Element Types" property to show a profiles window. This lets you save and load the values of this property (file extensions, specific folders, etc) for most used element types, for example: Audio files, Video files, Binary files. If you set a default profile, then this profile will be loaded when you add new custom commands.
  • (New) Organize Into Folders: now you can use regular expressions to make a replacement in the pattern.
  • (Fixed) (Windows 11 only) In some circumstances the commands in the new Windows 11 context menu were not being invoked.

New in FileMenu Tools 8.0.3 (Jan 28, 2023)

  • Fixed bug: the commands of FileMenu Tools did not work when more than 16 files was selected on some versions of Windows 11.
  • Fixed bug on Advanced Renamer: if any string in the text boxes contained initial or final spaces, then these spaces were removed after renaming.
  • Fixed minor bugs.

New in FileMenu Tools 8.0.2 (Jan 22, 2023)

  • Fixed bug: the FileMenu Tools commands only worked with up to 16 files.
  • Fixed bug: the FileMenu Tools submenu was shown twice in the context menu when you selected shortcut files.
  • Fixed bug on Windows 11: sometimes an empty "FileMenu Tools" entry was displayed in the classic context menu with no commands.
  • Fixed bug in renaming custom commands: if the renaming profile name included quotes, the profile was not loaded correctly.
  • Fixed bug on Windows 11: the Open and Save dialogs of the applications only show the classic context menu and in this case the commands of FileMenu Tools was not shown.
  • Fixed bug on Windows 11: some third-party alternatives to Windows File Explorer did not work with FileMenu Tools (Directory Opus, Explorer++).
  • Fixed bug on Windows 11 when using StartAllBack: if you enabled classic context menu in StartAllBack, then the commands of FileMenu Tools was not displayed in this menu.
  • Fixed minor bugs.

New in FileMenu Tools 8.0.1 (Jan 15, 2023)

  • Fixed bug (Windows 11 only): the commands of FileMenu Tools were not displayed in the menu if the new Windows 11 context menu was disabled and the classic context menu was shown directly.
  • Fixed bug: the tools "Encrypt File" and "Decrypt File" did not work.
  • Fixed bug: the tool "Attributes" did not work.
  • Fixed bug: the window of "Create New Folder" was shown cut off.
  • Fixed bug: some kinds of custom commands was not loaded correctly.
  • Fixed bug: batch commands were not run correctly if the arguments included UNICODE characters.
  • Some antivirus software (Bitdefender, AVG antivirus) blocked FileMenu Tools. This was a false positive, but now 8.0.1 has fixed this issue.
  • Fixed minor bugs.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.8.4 (Mar 16, 2021)

  • Custom commands: you can add wildcard characters (* and ?) in "Element Types/Files/Extensions" property.
  • Fixed bug in custom commands: the "Element Types/Folders/Specific Folders/Include child folders" property was not saved.
  • Fixed bug in rename custom commands: if a default profile was set, then the configured profile in the custom command was not loaded.
  • Fixed bug in "Copy to..." and "Move to...": part of the "OK" button in the window was hidden by another control.
  • Fixed bug: the Export & Import Settings function was not working correctly. If you have created a backup of the settings, then you need to export again the configuration in order to import it correctly in the future.
  • Fixed minor bugs.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.8.3 (Dec 10, 2020)

  • Improved the profiles window. You can set the default profile, and this profile will be loaded automatically. Added hotkeys (Enter to load selected profile, Ctrl + S to save a new profile, Del key to delete the selected profile, F2 to rename the selected profile and F12 to set the default profile).
  • Fixed bug in Advanced Renamer: the preview was not updated when changing the text field in basic options.
  • Fixed bug in Shred Files: the empty folders were not deleted.
  • Fixed bug: the combo boxes in properties panel were not displayed correctly in secondary monitor.
  • Fixed bug: the window to select the icon in custom commands didn't work.
  • Fixed minor bugs.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.8.2 (Nov 16, 2020)

  • Fixed bug: the custom commands with empty aguments was not run correctly with all selected file paths.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.8.1 (Nov 15, 2020)

  • The profiles window can be resized.
  • Fixed the following bugs:
  • When disabling FMT and enabling it again, the FMT commands was not displayed in the context menu.
  • Crash in Shred Files when deleting into empty folders.
  • Advanced Renamer: only 15 characters could be used in the text box of the basic options.
  • Organize Into Folders: sometimes the OK button was not enabled.
  • Organize Into Folders: recursive mode was not working correctly.
  • Change File Time: the last modified time of the selected file was not filled properly.
  • The %TEMPFILEPATHS% and %TEMPFILENAMES% variables did not working.
  • Portable version: when updating to a new version, the standard installer was used instead of portable installer.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.8 (Nov 2, 2020)

  • Added new tool: Organize Into Folders. This tool allows you to organize the selected files by coping (or moving) them to new folders following certain rules.
  • Custom commands: added the ability to specify exclusion folders, so the command will be not displayed in context menu if some of these folders is selected.
  • Custom commands: added option to not show the command if a system folder is selected (Desktop folder, C:Windows, C:Program Files, etc.)
  • Copy/Move Custom command: added new settings: "Overwrite" and "Open target file"
  • Advanced Renamer: added a drop down list to the edit box of Basic options with the recently used strings.
  • Improved the profile management in Advanced Renamer and Find and Replace.
  • Delete Empty Folders: added two buttons: "Select All" and "Select None"
  • Change Time: sometimes did not set the right time when the system time was in daylight time and the file time was not in daylight time and viceversa.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.7 (Oct 5, 2019)

  • Added new property in the configuration of the commands to sort the files before passing them to the command. They can be sorted by name, by extension, by creation time, by modification time and by file size. This property can be set to all commands, both custom commands and built-in commands.
  • New command: Join folders. This command moves the contents of all selected folders into a new folder.
  • New command: Encrypt Files. This command allows you to encrypt the selected files using a password. The encryption algorithm is AES of 256 bits. The .enc extension is added to the encrypted file and for this type of file a new command will be displayed in the menu named Decrypt File, which allows you to decrypt the file by entering the same password previously used to encrypt it.
  • Change Time: added the ability to fill in the date and time from different sources: from a file in disk, from the earliest time of the selected files, from the oldest time of the selected files.
  • Size of Folders: shows total number of folders.
  • Custom commands: you can configure both the minimum and maximum number of files that must be selected in order for the command to be displayed in the menu.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.6.2 (Mar 31, 2019)

  • Attributes: submenu "Change in subfolders" was not working.
  • Attributes: both Compressed and Encrypted attributes worked as read-only. Now these attributes also can be changed in order to either compress or encrypt files or folders.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.6.1 (Mar 20, 2019)

  • Fixed: Attributes submenu was not working.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.6 (Mar 10, 2019)

  • New type of custom command: Batch Command. This command allows you to run two or more custom commands, either sequentially or simultaneously.
  • Size of Folders: added buttom to refresh the window.
  • Advanced Renamer: added new option to remove a fragment by specifying both the position and the length.
  • Renamer custom command: added new option to close the window automatically after renaming.
  • Custom commands: new option to show the command in the menu with all file types except the specified file types.
  • Program custom command: new option to set the priority of the new process.
  • Calculate and verify checksums: you can set the default algorithm and if to start automatically the checksum calculation.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.5 (Feb 5, 2018)

  • Fixed memory leak that might cause crashes or instability on Windows Explorer.
  • New command: Copy Title, which allows copy to the clipboard the name without the extension of the selected files.
  • Improvement in Unpack Folder: can be run recursively if a key modifier is pressed (ALT, CONTROL, SHIFT)
  • Improvement in Copy To/Move To: added new properties to these commands to enable a submenu in the context menu with the favorites and recently used folders.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.4 (Nov 17, 2017)

  • The commands can be sorted alphabetically.
  • Fixed issues with very high resolution displays with high DPI.
  • Custom commands: changed property "Only one element" by "Number of elements". Now you can specify the number of elements that must be selected in Windows Explorer to show the command in context menu.
  • Custom commands: when testing a custom command of type "Program", a window will be showed to see the arguments to be passed to the program.
  • Advanced Renamer: increased the number the batch items from 5 to 10.
  • Fixed: the icon of "Send To..." commands could not be set correctly.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.3.3 (Jun 29, 2017)

  • Fixed crash on Sync Folders.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.3.2.1 (Jun 26, 2017)

  • Fixed crash on Sync Folders.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.3.2 (Jun 21, 2017)

  • Fixed some crashes.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.3 (May 28, 2017)

  • Added a command line tool to run the commands of FileMenu Tools from command line. So you can create automated tasks to run any command of FileMenu Tools from scripts, bat files, shortcuts, scheduled tasks, etc. For 32bit systems the tool is named "cmdfmt.exe" and for 64bit systems the tool is named "cmdfmt64.exe". You can generate easily the arguments for this tool from "Tools->Run From Command Line" or by running cmdfmt.exe/cmdfmt64.exe with no arguments.
  • Improved Split Files. Now the files may be also splitted without adding additional data to the files and they don't need to be joined later. This is useful for example to open in memory portions of very large files with a text editor.
  • The commands can be tested directly with double-clicking.
  • When application crash occurs, allow to send the crashdump with data to be analyzed by the developer and fix the issue sooner possible.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.2.1 (Apr 11, 2017)

  • Now the icon field for custom commands is editable in Properties panel. You can specify relative paths and environment variables for the icon file.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.2 (Feb 11, 2017)

  • New actions to expand or collapse all submenus.
  • New action to test the selected command and to check if it runs correctly with the configured options.
  • Improvements in custom commands:
  • You can add custom commands automatically by dragging and dropping either executable files or shortcuts to FileMenu Tools window.
  • When the custom command is displayed with specific folders, all child folders can be also included.
  • Included new option in variables menu to add system environment variables (for example APPDATA, ProgramFiles, SystemRoot, etc).
  • Now you can specify line breaks with n in the variable @message@.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.1.4 (Jan 6, 2017)

  • Fixed (custom commands): relative paths was not handled correctly.
  • Fixed (custom commands): sometimes browse for executable file or browse for icon file didn't work correctly.
  • Fixed (Change Icon): sometimes browse for icon file didn't work correctly.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.1.3 (Dec 19, 2016)

  • The license can be activated manually if the system doesn't have Internet access or firewall/antivirus is blocking Internet access.
  • Fixed: sometimes the license was not verified correctly in some systems. If you have problems with the license verification, then please active again the license with version 7.1.3.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.1.2 (Dec 13, 2016)

  • Fixed: sometimes the license was not verified correctly in some systems. If you have problems with the license verification, then please active again the license with version 7.1.2.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.1.1 (Dec 12, 2016)

  • Fixed: sometimes the license was not verified correctly if volume drives was changed. If you have problems with the license verification, then please active again the license with version 7.1.1.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.1 (Dec 4, 2016)

  • Removed third-party software (OpenCandy) from the installer of FileMenu Tools. This had many drawbacks, with several antivirus software detecting the installer as adware or malware. Therefore I finally made the decision of remove OpenCandy and convert FMT in shareware. Now you can use FMT free of charge with two limitations: you can't use custom commands and the commands only run with up 20 files/folders. If you want unlock these limitations, then you must purchase a license. This change will help me to continue improving the software and pay for the manteanance of the servers. If you donated in the past, then you can request a license free of charge (send mail to [email protected]).
  • Added: now you can add variables to the menu name of custom commands (for example to include the extension of selected files).
  • Fixed: some properties of submenus was repeated twice.
  • Fixed: the icons were too small at high resolutions screens.
  • Fixed: arguments buffer was too small (2048 bytes). Now it is 8192 bytes, the maximum buffer supported by Windows.
  • Fixed minor bugs.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.0.5 (Feb 27, 2016)

  • Fixed bug: sometimes the separators was not enabled.
  • Fixed bug in Calculate and verify checksums: the calculated checksum field was not updated when calculating a new checksum.
  • Fixed bug in Advanced renamer: the preview was not updated when changing the selected item of combo boxes with mouse or keyboard.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.0.4 (Feb 2, 2016)

  • Fixed bug in Calculate and Verify Checksums: CRC32 checksum was not generated correctly.
  • Fixed bug: sometimes the separators was not displayed in the context menu.
  • Fixed bug: in Windows 7 with the classic theme the submenu Attributes was not displayed correctly.
  • Fixed bug: custom commands could not be enabled/disabled.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.0.3 (Jan 5, 2016)

  • Fixed memory leak that may cause instability in Windows Explorer.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.0.2 (Dec 29, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Issue with Total Commander: the copy window was showed always when running any command of FMT.
  • Crash when right-clicking on Library icon of Windows Explorer.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.0.1 (Dec 29, 2015)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Change Icon was displayed with text Advanced Renamer.
  • When adding a new command, it was not possible to change the properties.

New in FileMenu Tools 7.0 (Dec 22, 2015)

  • Improved the appareance of the icons of FileMenu Tools, similar to the icons of Windows 10.
  • Added hotkey to submenu FileMenu Tools.
  • Improved Find and replace: it could take a long time to respond the window at the beginning of the search if the folder had a lot of subfolders.
  • Fixed bug in Create new folder: the folder name was limited in length.
  • The option "Convert paths to URL format" of the custom commands now works also with variables %FILENAME1%, %FILETITLE1%, etc.
  • Delete empty folders: you can choose the folders to delete.
  • Fixed bug in Advanced renamer: it may fail when renaming folders recursively.

New in FileMenu Tools 6.8 (Aug 4, 2015)

  • Added hotkeys to the commands of FileMenu Tools in order to run the commands from the keyboard. If you press Shift+F10, then the context menu will display the commands with a underlined character. If you press this character, then the command will be run.
  • Copy/Move to: if you active the option "Open target folder after copying", then the copied elements are selected in the new window.
  • Calculate and verify checksums: added new algorithms: CRC32, SHA256, SHA384 and SHA512
  • Advanced renamer: new variables to add checksums (MD5, SHA1, etc) to the file name.
  • Bug fixes.

New in FileMenu Tools 6.7.2 (Jul 2, 2015)

  • Fixed crashes on Windows 10 Technical Preview

New in FileMenu Tools 6.7.1 (Feb 5, 2015)

  • Fixed painting issue of the context menu on Windows XP.
  • Advanced Renamer: improved conflict detection.
  • Custom commands: the character @ was added at the end of the file types with the variable @SAVEFILE@.
  • Custom commands: the new variable %INSTALLFOLDERPATH% did not work for the file path of the program.

New in FileMenu Tools 6.7 (Jan 27, 2015)

  • Added option to custom commands to convert the paths in arguments to URL format.
  • Improved Create New Folder: multiple folders may be created at the same time and variables may be specified for the folder name.
  • Pack to Folder: several folder levels may be specified with the backslash character.
  • Advanced Renamer: the profiles are sort alphabetically.
  • Copy to: the modification time of the copied folders is kept.
  • Added variable %INSTALLFOLDERPATH% for the custom commands. This variable is the full path where FileMenu Tools is installed.
  • Improved Delete empty folders: the system protected folders are ignored.
  • Improved Delete empty folders: you may set if ignore the hidden files.
  • Fixed bug in Copy Internet Path: when the scheme was "file", then a slash was added at the end incorrectly.
  • Fixed bug in Split files: did not work properly for files with little size.
  • Fixed bug in Change Time: the time of selected folders was not changed, only the subfolders.
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in FileMenu Tools 6.6 (Aug 27, 2013)

  • Improved the custom commands of type "Run program". A new option added to enter recursively in the subfolders when the custom command is configured to secuential execution.
  • Folder Size: in FileMenu Tools 6.5 was added the analysis of hard links. So the real size in disk is calculated correctly if a file has referenced several hard links. The disadvantage is the process is slower. Therefore now is possible to choose if analyze the hard links or not.
  • Fixed bug in Change Time: in specific time zones may exist a offset of one hour.
  • Fixed bug in Advanced Renamer: when renaming folders recursively a message box was displayed continuously because the renamed folder was not found.
  • Fixed bug in Advanced Renamer: did not convert correctly to lower case or upper case with special characters like áåöä, ÁÅÖÄ.
  • Fixed bug in Sync Folders: the time of target files was not changed correctly and therefore always the origin files was detected as modified files.
  • Minor bug fixes

New in FileMenu Tools 6.5 (May 11, 2013)

  • The languages can be downloaded or updated from the application. You now do not need to go to website to download your language and install it manually.
  • Command Line From Here: this command will be run as administrator if either the key CTRL or the key SHIFT are pressed.
  • Attributes: added a new option to show/hide the file extensions.
  • Size of Folders: now takes into account the hard links and therefore calculates correctly the real size in disk when a file has several hard links referenced into the folder or subfolders.
  • Fixed bug in Change Time: does not read correctly the time of folders.
  • Improvements in custom commands:
  • You can create a copy of the custom commands or a complete submenu.
  • Now you can specify relative paths for the executable files. If the full path is not specified, then the file is searched into the folders in PATH environment variable.
  • The variable @OPENFILE@ lets you now select several files.
  • The variables @OPENFILE@ and @SAVEFILE@ can be configured to specify the file types displayed in the dialog box.
  • Improvements in Advanced Renamer:
  • Now the preview is updated automatically and is more efficient than in previous versions.
  • Added new variables to insert into the file name: %COMPUTERNAME% / %USERNAME% / %FOLDERNAME%
  • Added two new conversion types: Encode to URL format. The special characters will be converted to %XX / Decode from URL format. The special characters will be decoded from the form %XX

New in FileMenu Tools 6.4 (Jan 10, 2013)

  • Improved Advanced Renamer: now you can add up to 5 settings for the same renaming action.
  • Added a new type of custom command to rename the selected elements. In the properties of the custom command you can specify the renaming profile to be used when renaming the selected elements. Also you can specify if to enter into the subfolders recursively, or the file types to be included in the renaming.
  • Fixed bug in Change Time: sometimes the time was not calculated correctly with the summer time.
  • Fixed bug in Copy Internet Path: changed file:// by file:///
  • Fixed bug in Select: did not work correctly on Windows XP.

New in FileMenu Tools 6.3 (Jul 11, 2012)

  • FileMenu Tools can automatically check for new versions (never, every day, every week and every month). This can be configured from "Options" menu.
  • Advanced Renamer: two new variables to add in the file name: RANDOM and SEQ.
  • RANDOM adds a random string.
  • SEQ adds a numeric sequence, starting in 1.
  • Two new variables for the arguments of the custom commands: RELPATH y FOLDERNAME.
  • RELPATH adds the path of the parent folder without the drive letter.
  • FOLDERNAME adds the name of the parent folder.
  • Calculate and Verify Checksums: now the checksums can be appended to a existing file.
  • Fixed bug in Change Time: an error was displayed when the time was near to 24:00.

New in FileMenu Tools 6.2 (May 14, 2012)

  • New tool: Delete Empty Folders. This tool deletes recursively all the empty subfolders that the selected folder contains
  • Improved Size of Folders: your can see the top file list in order of size
  • Improved Calculate and Verify Checksums: now you can save all the checksums in an only file and verify the checksums from an only checksum file. The checksum file now have a format compatible with third-party checksum apps
  • Improved Copy Internet Path: now you can specify the schema (http, ftp, etc.) and the hostname, and replace the base folder with other base folder in the server
  • Fixed bug in custom commands: the variables TARGET... did not work correctly with shortcuts
  • Fixed bug in Change Time: in summertime the file time was changed with a delay of one hour
  • Fixed bug in Attributes: show/hide hidden files did not work correctly
  • Fixed bug in Send to Mail Recipient: did not work with 64bit systems

New in FileMenu Tools 6.1.3 (Apr 17, 2012)

  • Now the windows displayed by the FMT commands are not modals, so your can continue using the Windows Explorer.
  • Size of Folders: improved the appearance of the pie chart.
  • Size of Folders: now ignores the symbolic links, because they does not take space in the hard disk.
  • Fixed bug in Size of Folders: by default the width of column "Files" was 0, and therefore this column could not be visible. If you now cannot see the column "Files", then you must increment manually the width by dragging the last separator with the mouse pointer. From this moment the new width will be saved.
  • Fixed bug in Attributes: show/hide the hidden files did not work on Windows XP.
  • Fixed bug in Advanced Renamer: when specifing the time in regular expressions, only the time of the first file was used for all files.
  • Fixed bug: The windows of both Calculate Checksum and Size of Folders cannot be closed with ESC key.

New in FileMenu Tools 6.1.2 (Mar 19, 2012)

  • Copy Content: now it works with multiple files at once.
  • Fixed bug: on both Windows 7 and Windows Vista the commands did not work with more than 16 files selected in Windows Explorer when the visual styles are disabled.
  • Minor bug fixes

New in FileMenu Tools 6.1 (Feb 14, 2012)

  • Added support to run FileMenu Tools from portable devices. You can download FileMenu Tools Portable from the download page. From the FileMenu Tools configurator you can export the settings to a INI file into the folder where FileMenu Tools Portable is installed, so you can use FileMenu Tools Portable with your current settings. You must copy the INI file to a file named "settings.ini" into the folder "[drive]\PortableApps\FileMenuTools\Data". FileMenu Tools Portable is compatible with both launchers PortableApps.com and CodySafe, and therefore FileMenu Tools will be displayed automatically in the app listing in these launchers.
  • Added new utility: Unpack Folder. This utility moves all the elements into the selected folders to the parent folder, and deletes these empty folders.
  • Added a new property for all the commands: Modifier Key. This property is available for all the commands (both built-in commands and custom commands). With this property you can set a modifier key for the command, and the command only will be showed in the context menu if this key is pressed while the menu is displaying. So you can assign a key for less commonly used commands, and by default the context menu displays only frequently used commands. The key can be any of the following: SHIFT, CONTROL, or WINDOWS. If you set this property to "None" (default), then the command always will be displayed in the context menu.
  • Added a new variable for custom commands: %PARENTPATH%. This variable is the parent folder path which is common to all the selected elements. The variable %FOLDERPATH% now is the selected folder path, if only a element is selected and is a folder, else is equal to %PARENTPATH% (common parent path).
  • Minor bug fixes.

New in FileMenu Tools 6.0.1 (Nov 1, 2011)

  • Fixed bug in Advanced Renamer: did not work on Windows XP.

New in FileMenu Tools 6.0 (Oct 25, 2011)

  • Fixed bug in Copy To and Move To: the Windows Explorer crashed when a folder was created.
  • Fixed bug in custom commands: when asking for arguments, the application was run if the "Cancel" button was pushed.
  • Fixed bug in configuration window: when the name of a custom command was been edited and other command was selected, then this command got the same name which was been edited.
  • Fixed bug in Split Files: the parts were not correctly joined.
  • Fixed bug in Shredder: didn't work correctly with small files.
  • Fixed bug in Create New Folder: create new folder into UNC paths did not work.
  • Split Files: now the number of parts is calculated automatically, and it is not necessary to push the Update button
  • New utility: Create Symbolic Link. This utility lets you create symbolic links referenced to the selected elements. Only it works on Windows Vista and later.
  • New utility: Calculate and Verify Checksum. This utility lets you verify the integrity of files by calculating their checksums. It supports the following algorithms: MD5, SHA1.
  • Custom commands: by default the initial folder is the parent folder when only a folder is selected in the Windows Explorer.
  • Custom commands: added new property Run as administrator. If this property is checked, then the program is run with administrator privileges. This is useful on Windows Vista and Windows 7 when UAC (User Account Control) is activated and the program needs perform changes in the machine which require administrator privileges.
  • Added the following improvements in Advanced Renamer:
  • It is possible to rename recusively into subfolders.
  • Now the preview is not updated automatically, because it was very slow with a lot files. A new button has been added in order to update the preview manually.
  • Include specific tags of photos: width, height, captured date and captured time.
  • Include specific tags of MP3 files (ID3 tags): title, artist, album, year, genre, track, comment, length, bitrate and sample rate.
  • Only for Windows 7: the Windows Explorer icon on the taskbar displays now a progress bar when an action of FileMenu Tools displays a progress bar. So you can see the progress when the Windows Explorer is not the foreground window.
  • Copy Internet Path: standarized the Internet path. The character / is used instead of \, and also the special characters are replaced with the hexadecimal value.

New in FileMenu Tools 5.8.1 (May 17, 2010)

  • Now on Windows 64-bit, FileMenu Tools works with both 32-bit and 64-bit applicactions simultaneously.
  • Fixed bug: On both Windows Vista and Windows 7 when the selected visual theme was not the default theme, the icons in the context menu were not displayed correctly.
  • Run With Parameters: added option to run the application with administrator privileges.

New in FileMenu Tools 5.8 (Apr 26, 2010)

  • Fixed bug: sometimes there were some separators together in the context menu.
  • Fixed bug: on Windows XP the icons were not drawn correctly with drives.
  • Fixed some problems when using the program with an user account without administrator privileges.
  • Fixed some mistakes in the English language. Thanks to Tom Doan.
  • Create new folder: now it is possible to create various subfolders at the same time with the backslash character. For example: folder1\folder2\folder3
  • Fixed bug in Advanced Renamer: the title format did not work correctly with characters like ( ) [ ]
  • Advanced Renamer: when a conflict exists by renaming files, the scroll of the preview is scrolled automatically to the first conflict position.
  • Two new commands in Attributes submenu: Show Hidden Files and Show System Files.
  • Customized Commands: it is possible to configure the customized commands in order to display them with specific folders only.
  • Added more icons to the context menu for built-in commands.
  • Fixed bug in Split/Join file: it did not support files with size more than 4GB.
  • Size of Folders: now it displays the file count of each folder.
  • Added new commands: Copy UNC Path (\\Machine\SharedResource\FilePath) and Copy Internet Path (file:\\FilePath)

New in FileMenu Tools 5.7 (Jul 2, 2009)

  • Fixed bug: sometimes the FileMenu Tools commands were displayed in the context menu twice when selecting shortcuts.
  • Fixed bug: a control was not moved correctly when resizing the Copy/Move window.
  • Fixed bug: files were not correctly renamed in Advanzed Renamer when the files were in different folders.
  • Duplicate Files: now a progress window is displayed.
  • New variables have been added with prefix TARGET. If a variable have the prefix TARGET and shortcuts are selected in the Windows Explorer, then the variable will use the target file of the shortcuts. For example, %TARGETFILEPATH1% will be replaced with the target file path of the first file if it is a shortcut (if it is not a shortcut the variable will be replaced with the file path itself).
  • Advanzed Renamer: optimized the preview.

New in FileMenu Tools 5.6 (Apr 13, 2009)

  • Fixed bug: it was drawn incorrectly the context menu from the Start Menu.
  • Fixed bug: crash when changing the properties of an item and going immediately to other tab.
  • Fixed bug: the Shredder did not work correctly with files larger than 4GB.
  • Fixed bug: the commands was not displayed in the context menu with some special folders (My documents for example).
  • Fixed bug: when selecting a shortcut, the commands of FileMenu Tools work with the target of the shortcut and not with the shortcut file.
  • Fixed bug (x64 only): the combo boxes in the properties panel were not displayed correctly.
  • Fixed bug: if the tasks panel was hidden, then the properties panel did not work correctly.
  • Now the "Several Instances" parameter lets configure if the program instances must be run either simultaneously or sequentially.
  • New customized command type: send to mail recipient. It is possible to configure the recipients, the subject and the body
  • Change Time. Enhanced this utility, now lets you configure also a time span to add or subtract to the original time.
  • Synchronize folders. New option to compare the file version rather than last write time.

New in FileMenu Tools 5.5 (Jan 7, 2009)

  • Now it supports Windows XP/Vista 64 bits.
  • New utility: Pack to Folder. Creates a new subfolder in the current folder and moves all the selected elements to this subfolder.
  • New utility: Duplicate Files. Creates a new copy of the selected elements in the current folder.
  • New utility: Select. Selects the elements in the Windows Explorer by its type.
  • When configuring customized commands of type "Copy/Move", you can specify the following variables in target folder: %FOLDERPATH%, %DRIVE%, %FILEPATHn%, %FILENAMEn%, %FILETITLEn% y %FILEEXTn%.
  • Copy Path/Copy Name. Now if you press the SHIFT key while running some of these commands, quotation marks will be added to the path or name of the files.
  • New element type for the customized commands: drive types. You can choose any drive type: fixed drive, removable drive, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM, network drive and RAM disk.
  • Now it is possible to specify relative paths for the customized commands.

New in FileMenu Tools 5.4.1 (Nov 28, 2008)

  • Fix some memory leaks.
  • Copy path to Clipboard/Copy name to Clipboard. Now if you type the CONTROL key while the command is run, the short name of the file will be copied to clipboard, otherwise the long name will be copied.
  • The commands are displayed again from the blank side of the right panel in the Windows Explorer, and in the desktop.

New in FileMenu Tools 5.4 (Jun 24, 2008)

  • New utility: Send to mail recipient. This utility sends an e-mail with the selected elements as attachments.
  • Shredder.
  • Now it is possible to choose the shredding method (depending of the speed or the security that you want).
  • Fixed bug when displaying the context menu over Start Menu.
  • New property for customized commands: Several Instances. If this property is actived, then a new instance of the program will be run for each selected element in the Windows Explorer.
  • New variables for the arguments of customized commands:
  • Includes the file name without the extension.
  • Saves in a temporary file the full paths of all selected elements and replaces the variable with the full path of this temporary file.
  • %TEMPFILENAMES%: Same as %TEMPFILEPATHS%, but saves the file names in the temporary file.
  • Optimized the updating of the preview.
  • The file list can be sorted for file name or for last write time.

New in FileMenu Tools 5.1.2 (Apr 16, 2007)

  • Fixed a bug in Advanced Renamer: some controls were not enabled correctly