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Portable Directory List & Print Changelog

What's new in Portable Directory List & Print 4.31

Feb 20, 2024
  • New: Display of thumbnails of Revit files (rvt, rfa, rft, rte).
  • New: Display of path inter-titles without base directory (relative).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.29 (Nov 9, 2023)

  • New: Display of the file information “VIDEO: Long Description”.
  • New: Display of the file information “VIDEO Movie Episode”, “VIDEO Movie Episode Title”.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.27 (Aug 8, 2023)

  • New: Display of the color type of PDF and common image files (color, grayscale, b/w).
  • New: Display of EXIF file information “Exposure compensation”, “Exposure mode”, “Metering mode”, “Flash mode”.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.26 (Jul 25, 2023)

  • New: Display of the color type of images from PDF and common image files (color, grayscale, b/w).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.25 (Jun 7, 2023)

  • Solved: A problem with latest Apple DNG files was fixed (program abruptly quit).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.23 (Jun 7, 2023)

  • Fixed: A problem with Apple MOV files fixed (program was blocked).
  • Improved: Display of country-specific decimal points for decimal GPS coordinates.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.22 (Sep 24, 2022)

  • New: Display of the file information “DOCUMENT Total Editing Time” for WORD documents.
  • New: Display of the file property “PROPERTY Total Editing Time” for WORD documents.
  • New: Selection of the display format for directory size in the directory overview as “Bytes, KiB, MiB, GiB” and “Automatic”.
  • New: Display of a column “Name of directory (without full path)”.
  • Improved: When printing an Excel table, the column titles can/will also stay on each individual page.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.21 (Sep 24, 2022)

  • New: Display of the file information “DOCUMENT Total Editing Time” for WORD documents.
  • New: Display of the file property “PROPERTY Total Editing Time” for WORD documents.
  • New: Selection of the display format for directory size in the directory overview as “Bytes, KiB, MiB, GiB” and “Automatic”.
  • New: Display of a column “Name of directory (without full path)”.
  • Improved: When printing an Excel table, the column titles can/will also stay on each individual page.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.20 (Mar 2, 2022)

  • New: Display of the file information “File availability (always, local, online-only)”.
  • New: Display of the XMP tags “Subject” and “Headline”.
  • Improved: Display of Email tags in EML and MSG files.
  • Corrected: Output of file links with $ characters in the file name to Word and Excel.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.18 (Nov 10, 2021)

  • Adjustments for Windows 11.
  • Optimized: Faster startup behavior with the current Windows Defender.
  • Improved: Consecutive and indexed numbering now without leading zeros.
  • Improved: Never ask for confirmation when running in batch mode because of large number of files.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.16 (Jul 16, 2021)

  • New: Display of Windows tag “People” or “Persons”.
  • New: Display of image tag “Model of interchangeable lens”.
  • New: Display of video tags “Format general”, “Format of video #1” and “Format of audio #1”.
  • New: Support for Canon Raw CR3.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.15 (Jun 7, 2021)

  • Various minor improvements.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.11 (Nov 30, 2020)

  • New: Second separate text filter (to include and exclude file filters at the same time).
  • New: Display of DOCUMENT tags “Manager” and “Company”.
  • New: Additional file checksums SHA256 and SHA512.
  • New: Display of free space of the current drive.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.10 (Sep 24, 2020)

  • New: For transparent PNG files the background can be set yourself (instructions page 17).
  • New: Size and position of the program window will be restored on restart.
  • Improved: Various hints for problematic output situations.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.09 (Aug 12, 2020)

  • New: Adjust the column specifications yourself: column title, maximum column width, fixed column width with word-wraping for output in Microsoft Office Excel™ and OpenOffice Calc.
  • New: Store information per file of the file list in text files with the same name. Each text file contains the contents of the columns line by line (column title TAB content). Also available for batch execution.
  • New: Display of the volume name of the current drive.
  • Improved: Display of international decimal separators for some values for audio, video and documents.
  • Improved: Consistent naming of size specifications with KiB / MiB / GiB (factor 1024), instead of KB / MB / GB.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.08 (Jul 16, 2020)

  • New: Adjust the column specifications yourself: column title, maximum column width, fixed column width with word-wraping for output in Microsoft Office Excel™ and OpenOffice Calc.
  • New: Store information per file of the file list in text files with the same name. Each text file contains the contents of the columns line by line (column title TAB content). Also available for batch execution.
  • New: Display of the volume name of the current drive.
  • Improved: Display of international decimal separators for some values for audio, video and documents.
  • Improved: Consistent naming of size specifications with KiB / MiB / GiB (factor 1024), instead of KB / MB / GB.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.07 (Jul 8, 2020)

  • New: Adjust the column specifications yourself: column title, maximum column width, fixed column width with word-wraping for output in Microsoft Office Excel™ and OpenOffice Calc.
  • New: Store information per file of the file list in text files with the same name. Each text file contains the contents of the columns line by line (column title TAB content). Also available for batch execution.
  • Improved: Display of international decimal separators for some values for audio, video and documents.
  • Improved: Consistent naming of size specifications with KiB / MiB / GiB (factor 1024), instead of KB / MB / GB.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.06 (Apr 22, 2020)

  • Improvements in the Current Version:
  • New: Display detail information for binary documents DOCB and XLSB.
  • New: Display of XMP tags “Credit” and “URL Webstatement”.
  • New: Display of IPTC tag “Credit”.
  • New: Display of AUDIO and PROPERTY tag “Initial Key”.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.05 (Feb 25, 2020)

  • New: For printing and PDF output, the page margins can be adjusted and a title line and footnote can be defined (with time variables and page numbers).
  • New: Display of file size of files with automatic range selection (Bytes, KB, MB, GB).
  • Improved: Always displaying numerical values with locally set decimal signs and thousands separators, with the additional option of explicitly displaying the numerical values in other international formats. (In Excel, the numbers are always displayed according to the Excel settings, so that they retain their numerical function.)

New in Portable Directory List & Print 4.02 (Jan 6, 2020)

  • UNICODE compatibility.
  • File and directory names can now also contain Unicode characters from mixed foreign language regions (Western, Cyrillic, Greek, Asian).
  • All output formats now also support Unicode characters for mixed foreign language regions. (Exception: Direct PDF output does not yet support Asian characters; in this case please output the lists via a PDF printer driver.)

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.73 (Dec 3, 2019)

  • Various improvements in tag detection.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.70 (Oct 15, 2019)

  • New: Output of thumbnails also for videos and audio files (embedded covers).
  • Improved: Significantly faster thumbnail creation for images.
  • Improved: The size of the thumbnails can be adjusted by yourself.
  • Improved: Detection of the orientation of JPG files (horizontal / vertical).
  • New: Selection of all tags of a group (columns to be displayed) by double-clicking on the group title.
  • Adjustments for the latest Windows Update (Windows 10 Update 1909).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.68 (Oct 15, 2019)

  • Minor improvements.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.67 (Sep 5, 2019)

  • New: Display detail information for HEVC video files.
  • New: Display detail information for HEIC / HEIF image files.
  • New: Display image count of multipage TIFF image files.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.66 (Aug 26, 2019)

  • Improved: Date recognition in XMP TIFF files.
  • Corrected: Rotation of thumbnails was not always set correctly.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.65 (May 20, 2019)

  • New: Display of tag “Content Status” (Office documents and file properties).
  • Adjustments for the latest Windows update (Windows 10 Update 1903).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.64 (May 1, 2019)

  • Improved: Date detection in iPhone video files (MOV).
  • Improved: Dealing with very large lists. Much larger file lists can be created much faster. (Nevertheless, some output file formats have size limitations and the reading of metadata from files can not be significantly accelerated.)

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.62 (Mar 22, 2019)

  • New: Display of the readability of PDF documents: “Text” or “Image” (content only available as image).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.61 (Mar 19, 2019)

  • New:
  • Display of the readability of PDF documents: “Text” or “Image” (content only available as image).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.60 (Mar 7, 2019)

  • New: Display of page size of documents (PDF, WORD, WRITER): columns “DOCUMENT Page Format” (paper size and orientation), “DOCUMENT Page Width” (cm, inch), “DOCUMENT Page Height” (cm, inch).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.59 (Mar 5, 2019)

  • Corrected: Display of audio tag “AUDIO Bit Rate Kbps”.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.58 (Mar 5, 2019)

  • Improved: Hyperlinks if outputting to a file “Excel XLSX Workbooks 2007-2019”.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.57 (Jan 17, 2019)

  • New: The actions “Delete, Copy, Move” can be disabled individually via the registry.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.56 (Jan 7, 2019)

  • New: Display of Audio tag “Album Artist”.
  • Changed: Direct Excel hyperlink integration with implicit links instead of the formula HYPERLINK().
  • Improved: Display of the duration of media files in Excel, if a special format is set.
  • Improved: Display of “Owner” of subdirectories.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.55 (Nov 21, 2018)

  • New: Creation of “Excel XLSX Workbooks 2007-2019” without Microsoft Excel™ installed (including file and directory linking and thumbnails of images).
  • New: Display the effective size of files on the disk (Byte, KiloByte).
  • New: When outputting to clipboard and editor, any field separator can be selected.
  • New: Option to remove closing characters “” from directory names.
  • Improved: Display meta information of raw photo files.
  • Improved: Display of the original recording date of audio files (MP3, ID3v2).
  • Adjustments for the latest Windows update (Windows 10 Update 1809).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.54 (Sep 23, 2018)

  • New:
  • Display document tags of MS-Office templates. xlsm, xltx, xltm, docm, dotx, dotm, pptm, potx, potm.
  • Improved:
  • Display document tags of emails. From, To, Subject, Date.
  • Program icon now contains bigger sizes until 256 x 256 pixels.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.53 (Aug 23, 2018)

  • New: Display of EXIF-Tags XP-Comment, XP-Title, XP-Subject, XP-Keywords, XP-Author.
  • Improved: Display of large text contents in columns when outputting to EXCEL, CALC, HTML.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.52 (Aug 21, 2018)

  • Minor improvements.
  • Adjustments for the latest Windows update (Windows 10 Update 1803).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.51 (Aug 8, 2018)

  • Corrected: The thumbnail images were used in new versions of Excel only as a link to the original file, instead of being saved as complete images in the Excel file.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.49 (Jun 22, 2018)

  • New: The number of files displayed per directory can be limited.
  • New: Display of the video tag “Album”.
  • Improved: Video tags “Keywords”, “Description”, “Artists”.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.48 (May 28, 2018)

  • Various small improvements.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.44 (May 4, 2018)

  • New: Display detail information for email files EML and MSG: Subject, From, To, Date, Software.
  • New: Display of IPTC tag “Special Instructions”.
  • Improved: Reading of IPTC tag “SubLocation”.
  • Improved: In HTML output, not only the STYLE section can be adjusted, but also all other sections such as HEAD, SCRIPT and BODY.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.43 (Mar 1, 2018)

  • New: Display of file access rights for users (for administrators if the program was started with administrator rights).
  • New: Display of date/time and file size even for files for which there is no read permission.
  • New: Display detail information for additional raw image files: ERF (Epson), ARW (Sony Alpha), RW2 (Panasonic), PEF (Pentax), SRW (Samsung), MRW (Minolta).
  • New: When copying/moving files, optionally, as well as the original date of the files, the dates of the directories are also transferred.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.42 (Nov 27, 2017)

  • New: Display of link targets for Internet and file shortcuts (URL and LNK files).
  • New: Linking of file shortcuts (URL and LNK files) in Excel, Calc, HTML.
  • New: Display detailed information for ORF files (Olympus RAW images).
  • New: Display metadata of ‘composers’ (file properties).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.40 (Nov 13, 2017)

  • New: Option to completely hide directories without content to be displayed.
  • New: Display detailed information for RAF files (Fujifilm RAW).
  • Improved: Reading of metadata for Panasonic MTS video files.
  • Some improvements when reading EXIF meta data.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.39 (Oct 11, 2017)

  • Some improvements when reading EXIF meta data.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.37 (Oct 11, 2017)

  • New: EXIF GPS position data such as time stamp, altitude relating to sea level, latitude (as decimal degrees or formatted as degrees / minutes / seconds), longitude (as decimal degrees or formatted as degrees / minutes / seconds).
  • New: Google Maps link (customizable) based on the EXIF GPS position data.
  • New: The header in the file list remains visible when scrolling.
  • Changed: Symbolic links in the directory structure are no longer automatically followed, but can be reactivated manually in the settings.
  • Improved: Massively improved speed when creating large directory overview lists.
  • Improved: PDF date recognition for 4-digit annual figures.
  • Improved: IPTC-Copyright for TIFF images.
  • Corrected: Output could drop data when the first column is empty.
  • Various small improvements.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.35 (Sep 12, 2017)

  • New: Outputting XMP meta information (Adobe) for images: Title, Description, Creator, Source, Writer, Date created, Time created, Date modified, Time modified, Format, Preserved File Name

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.33 (Jul 7, 2017)

  • Improvements In The Current Version:
  • New: Creation of thumbnails (preview images) for file types JPG, PNG, GIF, TIF, BMP if outputting to HTML, Excel™ and Calc. The thumbnails are rotated according to the embedded EXIF ​​information. Excel and Calc can handle up to 3000 thumbnails in a table, the browsers Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome up to 20’000 embedded thumbnails in a HTML file.
  • New: The eight most recently used configuration files are listed in the file menu (latest on the top).
  • Improved: The action Copy/Move files displays a second progress bar for each file.
  • Improved: In the action Copy/Move files the creation date of the source file can also be transfered to the modification date of the target file.
  • Improved: For hyperlinking of files in the output (HTML, Excel, Calc) now also the file name without path is sufficient.
  • Improved: When output to Excel, unused cells are no longer unnecessarily formatted as text.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.32 (May 4, 2017)

  • Improved: Sort by duration of media files.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.31 (Apr 25, 2017)

  • Show dates back to the year 1601 (Windows-Explorer lists dates from 1980 only).
  • Read the title from HTML pages (<Title> tag).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.30 (Apr 4, 2017)

  • Highly increased speed when listing files on network drives with basic information only.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.29 (Mar 23, 2017)

  • Date and time of last access (if tracked by the operating system).
  • Output the list as XLS file in “Excel XML Spreadsheet 2003” format (also without installed Excel available), which can be opened by Excel and Calc. Including hyperlinking of files and directories, if desired. Also available as scripting option.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.27 (Feb 23, 2017)

  • Corrected: A translation error prevented writing data into CALC if the system language was different from German.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.26 (Feb 21, 2017)

  • Open the list directly in OpenOffice / LibreOffice Writer and Calc (and other closely related applications).
  • Change Editor program for text output (instead of Notepad).
  • Improved reading of meta information of Recorded and Encoded date for MTS files, AVCHD, H264, M2TS (Sony).
  • Improved reading of meta information of Rating tag for AAC and M4A files.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.24 (Jan 12, 2017)

  • Output the list as comma- or semicolon-delimited CSV file.
  • Display detailed information for SWF video format.
  • Display detailed information for CDA Compact Disc Audio format.
  • Display detailed information for DSF Digital Stream Files with ID3 tags.
  • Improved display of duration for MP3 files with variable bit rate and no meta information.
  • Additional display of personal rating for audio files.
  • Improved display of IPTC tag for Source, Editor, Date created and By-Line.
  • Action: Possibility to keep the original creation date when copying and moving files.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.22 (Nov 7, 2016)

  • Display details of video files MXF (Sony).
  • New column "Video encoded" (often better used than "Video recorded").
  • New column to number files per subdirectory.
  • Improved column "Video application".
  • Several other minor improvements.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.20 (Aug 11, 2016)

  • Added AUDIO meta tag: Bit Depth (bits per sample).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.19 (Aug 2, 2016)

  • Verification of the file type based on the file signature of the content.
  • Display of the file type confirmed by the signature, alternatively suspected file types.
  • Display of confirmed and suspected file types in plain text.
  • In the file list double-click on files and folders to open them directly.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.18 (Aug 2, 2016)

  • Improved directories overview table: The size, number of folders and number of files are displayed per single directory and cumulated over all its subdirectories.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.17 (Jul 13, 2016)

  • Display details of video files 3GP.
  • Program interface starts faster and does not need external symbol fonts anymore.
  • Error messages are not automatically copied to the clipboard anymore.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.16 (Jul 13, 2016)

  • Wildcards placeholders ? and * in the filter of file types and file names/paths available.
  • Improved font size adjustment when printing a list if the screen enlargement is set to 125% or more.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.15 (May 13, 2016)

  • Display of additional file properties according to Windows Explorer like Authors, Date taken, Date acquired, Copyright, Program name, Contributing artists, Album, Genre, Year, Track, Length, Pages, Slides, Word count, Content created, Date last saved.
  • Reading file information of Open Document file formats (Open Office, Libre Office, Google Docs, IBM Docs etc.).
  • Optimized time zone calculations for documents displaying consistently local time instead of UTC/GMT.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.14 (Apr 20, 2016)

  • Display of file properties according to Windows Explorer like title, subtitle, subject, rating, tags, categories, comments.
  • Optimized time zone calculations considering daylight saving time.
  • Improved conversions of umlauts found in title and description tags.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.11 (Mar 29, 2016)

  • New VIDEO meta tags: Genre, Artists, Rating, Law Rating.
  • Improved VIDEO meta tags: Director, Producer, Publisher.
  • Improved filter for the length of file names and directory names (new).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.10 (Mar 11, 2016)

  • Fixed error in the filtering of file types (did not list any files if applicable).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.09 (Mar 8, 2016)

  • Improved HTML output.
  • Improved table of directory totals with indents and names without paths.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.08 (Mar 8, 2016)

  • Improved filter to include or exclude files and directories by certain terms, AND and OR connectable
  • Improved filter to include or exclude files by attributes (Archive, Read Only, Hidden, System, Compressed, Encrypted, Temporary, Sparse File, Reparse Point / Symbolic Link, Offline, Not Indexed)
  • Improved display of file attributes (Archive, Read Only, Hidden, System, Compressed, Encrypted, Temporary, Sparse File, Reparse Point / Symbolic Link, Offline, Not Indexed)

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.07 (Mar 8, 2016)

  • Improved filter for file names.
  • Minor improvements.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.05 (Mar 8, 2016)

  • Automatic updating of the program to the latest version (when selecting the appropriate menu item).

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.04 (Mar 8, 2016)

  • Improved "DpI awareness", does now properly display with Windows screen scaling over 100%
  • Setting to allow column width without predefined maximal limitation
  • Added display of "VIDEO Bit Rate Kbps" in addition to "Mbps"
  • Display the thousands separator with commas instead of apostrophe, if a comma is set as thousands separator in the system
  • Excel column formatting with a decimal comma instead of a decimal point, if a comma is set as decimal separator in the system

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.03 (Oct 26, 2015)

  • New action to replicate the listed directory structure without copying any files.
  • New search function to find a string in the file list.
  • New functions to save and reload complete program settings to/from a configuration file.
  • Set home directory and configuration file by drag & drop to the program window.
  • New program automation by starting the program with startup parameters: home directory, configuration file, output creation (clipboard, notepad, print, PDF file, HTML file, WORD file, EXCEL file, TEXT file, CSV file XML file).
  • Improved context menu for the file list: "Copy selected line to clipboard", "Copy selected field to clipboard", "Show properties of selected object", "Open directory containing selected object", "Open or start selected object".
  • Display details of video files M4A, M4B
  • Several other minor improvements.

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.02 (Oct 1, 2015)

  • Fixed for Excel output: column width partly to large
  • New EXIF meta tags: focal length, shutter speed, aperture f-stop, sensitivity ISO, color space
  • Context menu for file list: "Everything to clipboard"

New in Portable Directory List & Print 3.01 (Sep 25, 2015)

  • Added many new Meta Tags for EXIF, IPTC, AUDIO, VIDEO, DOCUMENTS
  • Added tab "Columns" to select and reorder the columns of the list.
  • Added PDF output (page size is adjusted automatically up to A0).
  • Added column aligning with blanks for outputting to Notepad-editor.
  • Improved rendering and appearance of the generated file list.
  • Improved progress indication during output generation.
  • Improved speed outputting to Word and Excel.
  • Improved speed for various functions.
  • Output generation is now interruptible (also for Word and Excel).
  • Several other minor improvements.