What's new in SearchMyFiles 3.25
Apr 6, 2024
- Fixed to save the configuration file (SearchMyFiles.cfg) as Unicode, so it'll save and load any non-English character correctly.
New in SearchMyFiles 3.24 (Feb 12, 2024)
- Fixed bug: Under some conditions, SearchMyFiles displayed incorrect result when searching text inside files.
- Fixed issue: When copying data to the clipboard or exporting to tab-delimited file, every line contained an empty field in the end of the line.
New in SearchMyFiles 3.23 (Jan 11, 2023)
- Fixed the problem with the 'Choose Columns' window in high DPI mode.
- Fixed to display folders with empty values in the Size column (Instead of '0').
New in SearchMyFiles 3.22 (Sep 10, 2022)
- Fixed bug: SearchMyFiles displayed incorrect result when searching binary data that contained only zeros (e.g: 00 00 00 00).
- Fixed the 'Copy Full Filenames Path' option to work in the correct order.
New in SearchMyFiles 3.21 (Aug 2, 2022)
- Fixed a few high DPI mode issues (Status Bar, Default Columns Size)
- When the main window of SearchMyFiles is large, the status bar section that shows the path while searching is also enlarged.
New in SearchMyFiles 3.20 (Jun 27, 2022)
- Added filename length filter: You can find all files that their filename length or path length is longer than the specified number of characters.
New in SearchMyFiles 3.17 (Mar 23, 2022)
- Added 'Explorer Context Menu - Folder Background' option. If you turn on this option, SearchMyFiles menu item will be added to the directory background context menu of Windows Explorer.
New in SearchMyFiles 3.16 (Jan 10, 2022)
- Added option to choose another font (name and size) to display in the main window (In the View menu).
New in SearchMyFiles 3.15 (Nov 30, 2021)
- Added new options to 'Summary Mode': 'Only folders with zero files and subfolders' and 'Only folders with zero files'
- You can use the new options to search empty folders on your system: First, click the 'Reset To Default' button to ensure that all files are scanned. Type the base folder to search, choose 'Summary Mode' in the Search Mode combo-box and then choose one of the new options: 'Only folders with zero files and subfolders' or 'Only folders with zero files'. If you choose the first option, only completely empty folders without files or folders will be displayed. If you choose the second option, SearchMyFiles will also display folders with subfolders, as long as the folder and all its subfolders are empty from files.
- Added 'Delete Selected Empty Folders' option to delete the empty folders found in the empty folders search. This delete option works only if the folder is completely empty, without files or subfolders.
New in SearchMyFiles 3.11 (Apr 29, 2021)
- Added option to change the sorting column from the menu (View -> Sort By). Like the column header click sorting, if you click again the same sorting menu item, it'll switch between ascending and descending order. Also, if you hold down the shift key while choosing the sort menu item, you'll get a secondary sorting.
- Updated to work properly in high DPI mode.
New in SearchMyFiles 3.10 (Jan 14, 2020)
- Added 'Enter Key Action' option (Under the Options menu), which allows you to choose what to do when you press the Enter key: No Action, Open Properties Window, Open Selected File, Open With..., Open Folder, Select File In Explorer.
- Added 'Double-Click Action' option, which which allows you to choose what to do when you double-click a file - No Action, Open Properties Window, Open Selected File, Open With..., Open Folder, Select File In Explorer. This option replaces the previous 'Open File On Double-Click' option.
New in SearchMyFiles 3.07 (Nov 30, 2019)
- Fixed issue: When the 'Search Options' window was opened, multiple fields were selected (with blue color
New in SearchMyFiles 3.06 (Oct 18, 2019)
- Fixed bug from 3.05: The 'Time Range (Local Time)' option failed to work properly.
New in SearchMyFiles 3.05 (Oct 3, 2019)
- Added option to specify time range in GMT.
New in SearchMyFiles 3.01 (Jul 31, 2019)
- Added "Don't Save Search Options Window". If you turn on this option, SearchMyFiles will not save the settings of 'Search Options' in the .cfg file and the next time you run SearchMyFiles - this window will be loaded with the default settings.
New in SearchMyFiles 3.00 (Jul 16, 2019)
- Added new option: 'USe Windows search handlers to find text inside Microsoft Office documents and other file types'.
- When this option is turned on, you can also search text in pdf files as long as the PDF search handler of Microsoft (Windows.Data.pdf.dll) or PDF iFilter of Adobe is installed properly on your system.
- When choosing the 'Find Folders' option, SearchMyFiles now displays only the folders that match the specified wildcard in the 'Files Wildcard' field.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.92 (May 25, 2019)
- Fixed the file size filter to work properly in bytes unit with size larger than 2 GB.
- Added SearchMyFiles icon to the Explorer context menu.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.91 (Dec 27, 2018)
- Added 'Duplicate Mark Color Set' (under the Options menu). You can choose 'Color Set 2' to mark the duplicate files with darker colors.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.90 (Nov 27, 2018)
- Added 'Include Only Folders' field. You can use it if you want to only include specific folders in the search.
- Wildcards are allowed here. You can specify multiple folders (comma-delimited list).
- For example, if the base folder is c:Shared and you want to search only subfolders with the name 'Images', you can specify the following wildcard in the 'Include Only Folders' field: c:Shared*Images
New in SearchMyFiles 2.85 (Aug 8, 2018)
- Added 'Compare Mode' for the 'Duplicate Names Search' option. You can choose to compare full name (the default) or to compare the name without the extension.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.83 (Apr 3, 2018)
- Fixed issue: If you specify a search string in quotes that contain space characters (e.g: "Hello ") SearchMyFiles won't trim the space characters like it did in the previous versions.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.82 (May 4, 2017)
- You can now specify in the 'Excluded Folders' field a folder name without path.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.81 (Feb 17, 2017)
- Fixed to find files without extension when specifying '*.' wildcard.
- Fixed bug: when specifying subfolder wildcard other than '*', SearchMyFiles scanned all subfolders ignoring the subfolders depth settings.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.80 (Jan 26, 2017)
- Added 'Time Range And Date Range Separately' option. For example... You can search all files that their modified date is between 01/01/2015 - 01/01/2017 and their modified time is between 08:00 - 10:00.
- Fixed bug: SearchMyFiles created a csv file without header when using /SaveDirect command-line option with 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option turned on.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.78 (Jan 10, 2017)
- Added 'Entry Modified Time' column (Available only on Windows Vista or later with NTFS file system). SearchMyFiles retrieves this value only when 'Retrieve Entry Modified Time' option is turned on.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.77 (Nov 17, 2016)
- When SearchMyFiles fails to delete a file it now displays the Windows error code and error description.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.76 (Nov 3, 2016)
- Fixed SearchMyFiles to find UTF-8 string in a file.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.75 (Oct 24, 2016)
- Fixed bug: SearchMyFiles failed to find text in a file if the text was located in certain positions inside the file.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.74 (Oct 13, 2016)
- Fixed bug: When specifying the same folder to scan twice in Duplicate Search mode, SearchMyFiles displayed all files inside this folder as duplicate of themselves...
New in SearchMyFiles 2.73 (Aug 29, 2016)
- Fixed issue: When specifying multiple wildcards, SearchMyFiles displayed a file multiple times if it was found by more than one wildcard.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.72 (Jul 5, 2016)
- Added secondary sorting support: You can now get a secondary sorting, by holding down the shift key while clicking the column header. Be aware that you only have to hold down the shift key when clicking the second/third/fourth column. To sort the first column you should not hold down the Shift key.
- Added new information to 'Attributes' column: 'T' for 'Temporary File', 'I' for 'Not Content Indexed', 'X' for 'No Scrub File', and 'V' for 'Integrity Attribute'.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.71 (Jun 13, 2016)
- Fixed bug: When using 'Duplicate Names Search' SearchMyFiles displayed only duplicate names of files that have the same size
New in SearchMyFiles 2.70 (Jun 1, 2016)
- Fixed bug: SearchMyFiles displayed an error message when searching in a volume shadow copy (e.g: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy1 )
- The 'Duplicate Names Search' mode now has 4 sub-modes:
- Show all duplicate names (Files and Folders)
- Show all duplicate names - only files, no folders
- Show only duplicate names with identical content
- Show only duplicate names with non-identical content
New in SearchMyFiles 2.68 (Apr 7, 2016)
- You can now use wildcard in the 'Excluded Folders' field.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.67 (Jan 22, 2016)
- The base folder and current search mode are now displayed in the window title.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.66 (Dec 15, 2015)
- Added 'Wasted Space' column to the summary mode. This column shows the total wasted space on the specified folder, according to the cluster size of your disk. For example: if you have a file containing 1000 bytes and the cluster size is 4096 bytes, then the wasted space will be 4096 - 1000 = 3096 bytes. For files/folders that are not compressed, the 'Wasted Space' value will be the difference between the 'Size On Disk' and 'Total Files Size' values.
- When you double-click on item in summary mode, SearchMyFiles now opens the properties window.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.65 (Nov 2, 2015)
- Added 'Duplicate Names Search' mode, which allows you to find all files that have the same name, on different folders
New in SearchMyFiles 2.62 (Oct 1, 2015)
- When using the 'Open With...' option (F7), the 'Always use the selected program to open this kind of file' check-box is now turned off and disabled.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.61 (Aug 11, 2015)
- Fixed bug: The Explorer context menu inside SearchMyFiles was empty on Windows 8 and Windows 10
New in SearchMyFiles 2.60 (Aug 3, 2015)
- Added 'Auto Size Columns On Search End' option.
- Explorer context menu inside SearchMyFiles: When you right-click on a single item while holding down the shift key, SearchMyFiles now displays the context menu of Windows Explorer, instead of the SearchMyFiles context menu.
- SearchMyFiles now displays a warning if you try to delete all copies of file in Duplicate Search mode.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.56 (Jul 22, 2015)
- Fixed issue: When the search result contained a large amount of items, some actions, like selecting items and copying selected items to the clipboard were very slow
New in SearchMyFiles 2.55 (Feb 26, 2015)
- Added 'Duplicate Search Options' menu (Under the Options menu) with the following options: 'Show All Files' and 'Show Only Duplicate Files'.
- SearchMyFiles now checks the base folders list, and if one or more folders cannot be found, it displays a warning message.
- Added 'Run As Administrator' option (Ctrl+F11), which allows you to easily run SearchMyFiles as administrator on Windows Vista/7/8/2008, in order to scan folders that are not accessable to non-admin user.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.52 (Nov 27, 2014)
- Fixed bug: SearchMyFiles failed to remember the last size/position of the main window and the search options window if they were not located in the primary monitor.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.51 (Oct 2, 2014)
- Added 'Size on Disk' column to the standard search mode
New in SearchMyFiles 2.50 (Aug 14, 2014)
- Added 'Hide Empty Summary Folders' option. When it's turned on, all folders with 0 files are hidden in summary mode.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.48 (Mar 12, 2014)
- Fixed bug from v2.46: SearchMyFiles stopped working on Windows 2000
New in SearchMyFiles 2.47 (Mar 12, 2014)
- Added support for searching text inside a file using wildcard, for example: Softp*dia, Softpedia*com.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.46 (Dec 18, 2013)
- Fixed SearchMyFiles to handle daylight saving time properly, like Explorer on Windows 7.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.45 (Nov 18, 2013)
- Added 'Clear Recent Files List' option to the 'Recent Config Files' menu.
- You can now specify the search options from command-line using single-quote characters (instead of double-quotes). When single-quotes are used, you can specify double-quotes inside the search option value, for example: SearchMyFiles.exe /BaseFolder '"c:\temp\folder1", "c:\temp\folder2"'
- Increased the width of the drop-down list for some fields in the 'Search Options' window.
- Added 'File Size Unit' option to change the size unit (Bytes, KB, MB, GB, or Automatic) on non-summary mode.
- Added 'Automatic' to the 'Summary File Size Unit' option.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.40 (Jun 24, 2013)
- SearchMyFiles now uses an internal wildcard parser instead of basing the search result on the wildcard parser of Windows. This change solves an annoying bug caused by Windows wildcard parser: In previous versions, SearchMyFiles sometimes returned incorrect results, because Windows also matches the wildcard with the short filename (8.3 DOS format).
- Notice: The new wildcard parser may cause some compatibility issues, for example: When you scanned using *.* wildcard with Windows parser, it returned all files, including files without extension. With the new SearchMyFiles wildcard parser, *.* returns only files with extension. In order to return all files, you should use * instead of *.*
- When loading old config files, SearchMyFiles automatically converts all *.* wildcards to *
- The new wildcard parser has some advantages, for example: if you search for *.*.*.*, you'll get all files with 3 dot characters or more. With Windows wildcard parser in previous versions, you simply got the list of all files.
- You can now exclude files by using wildcards list. You have to select this option from the combo-box, because the default option is to exclude files by extension.
- You can now specify environment strings in the 'Base Folders' and 'Excluded Folders' fields (For example: %AppData% )
New in SearchMyFiles 2.35 (Oct 22, 2012)
- Added 'File Owner' column, which displays the owner of the found files, if the 'Retrieve File Owner' option is turned on.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.30 (Oct 5, 2012)
- When choosing the 'Delete Selected Files' option, SearchMyFiles now shows a warning with red icon and the default answer is No, in order to prevent files deletion by mistake.
- Added 'Auto Size Columns+Headers' option, which allows you to automatically resize the columns according to the row values and column headers.
- Fixed issue: The properties and the other windows opened in the wrong monitor, on multi-monitors system
New in SearchMyFiles 2.26 (Aug 10, 2012)
- Fixed bug: SearchMyFiles displayed incorrect size/dates information for filename beginning with dot character (In duplicates search mode)
- Fixed bug: SearchMyFiles missed the last non-duplicate file in non-duplicates search mode
New in SearchMyFiles 2.25 (Jul 19, 2012)
- Added 'Recent Config Files' menu, which allows you to easily open the last 10 configuration files that you used.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.20 (Jun 21, 2012)
- Added support for finding text inside .xlsx files.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.15 (May 14, 2012)
- Added support for finding text inside .docx and .docm files
New in SearchMyFiles 2.10 (Apr 30, 2012)
- Added /SaveDirect command line option, for using with the other save command-line options (/scomma, /stab, /sxml, and so on...)
- When you use the SaveDirect mode, the details of found files are saved directly to the disk, without loading them into the memory first. This means that you can save a list with large amount of files into your disk without any memory problem, as long as you have enough disk space to store the saved file. The drawback of this mode: You cannot sort the files list according to the name or any other column. The details of files are simply saved in the order that SearchMyFiles found them.
- SearchMyFiles now allows you to use the save command-line options (/scomma, /stab, /sxml, and so on...) in summary mode.
New in SearchMyFiles 2.06 (Mar 5, 2012)
- Fixed the Explorer context menu to work properly with folder names containing comma character. (You have to remove the context menu and then add it again in order to update the context menu with this fix)
New in SearchMyFiles 2.05 (Jan 31, 2012)
- Added 'Close Options Window On Search Start' option. If it's turned on, the Search Options window is closed when you press the 'Start Search' button
New in SearchMyFiles 2.00 (Jan 9, 2012)
- Added 'Summary Mode' which displays a general summary of all scanned folders, instead of files list. For every folder, the following summary information is displayed: Total size of all files, total size on disk, total files count, and number of hidden/read-only/system/compressed files. You can watch the summary information for the specified folder only or for the specified folder and all its subfolders.
- Added 'Summary File Size Unit' and 'Include Subfolders in Summary Totals' options (under the Options menu), for using with the new Summary Mode.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.82 (Nov 28, 2011)
- The 'Open Selected File' option now allows you to open multiple files. (The number of files that you can open at once is limited to 20, because opening many files at once may hang your entire system)
New in SearchMyFiles 1.81 (Nov 11, 2011)
- Added 'Short Filename' column, which displays the classic 8.3 filename of every long filename.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.80 (Sep 15, 2011)
- Drag & Drop support: You can now drag one or more files from SearchMyFiles into a folder of Windows Explorer or any other software that supports Drag & Drop of files.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.76 (Aug 16, 2011)
- Added 'Duplicate Group' column for duplicate search mode. You can use this column to easily delete duplicate files found by the duplicate search mode: Simply click the 'Duplicate Group' header to sort the files list by duplicate groups, and then you can leave the first group (group number 1) and delete the other groups (2 and above).
New in SearchMyFiles 1.75 (Jun 8, 2011)
- On multiple values search - added option to choose 'Or' (Find one of the values) or 'And' (Find all values).
New in SearchMyFiles 1.72 (May 17, 2011)
- The size and position of the 'Search Options' window are now saved in the .cfg file and loaded in the next time that you run the SearchMyFiles utility.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.71 (Mar 31, 2011)
- Added /ExplorerCopy command-line option, which allows you to automatically copy the search result into the clipboard in Windows Explorer format, and then paste the found files into another folder in Windows Explorer.
- Added x64 version, for making proper search under system32 directory of Windows. (On the 32-bit version of SearchMyFiles, the search is redirected to WOW64 folder).
New in SearchMyFiles 1.70 (Mar 21, 2011)
- Added 'Scan NTFS symbolic links/junction points' option.
- The date/time values are now saved/loaded in the .cfg file.
- Added command-line options to set date/time range to scan: /FileTimeAccessed1, /FileTimeAccessed2 , /FileTimeModified1, /FileTimeModified2, /FileTimeCreated1, /FileTimeCreated2
New in SearchMyFiles 1.66 (Mar 13, 2011)
- Fixed bug: SearchMyFiles failed to find any file when 'File Contains' option is set to none and you previously set SearchMyFiles to search only in alternate streams.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.65 (Mar 7, 2011)
- Added option to search text inside alternate streams of NTFS file system. This feature can be useful if your want to locate a file by its summary information, like Title, Subject, Author, Keywords, and so on... because this information is stored inside alternate stream.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.62 (Jan 13, 2011)
- Fixed bug: SearchMyFiles failed to load properly the configuration with 'Load From Config File' option.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.61 (Dec 21, 2010)
- Added "File Doesn't Contain..." option, which allows you to find all files that doesn't contain the specified text/data
New in SearchMyFiles 1.60 (Dec 10, 2010)
- Added new search mode - 'Non-Duplicates Search' which allows you to find all files in the specified folders that are not duplicated.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.56 (Nov 30, 2010)
- Added option to search multiple text/binary values, delimited by comma (in 'File Contains...' option)
New in SearchMyFiles 1.55 (Sep 17, 2010)
- Added 'Minimize/Restore Both Windows At Once' option. When this option is turned on, minimizing/restoring the main window also automatically minimizes/restores the 'Search Options' window.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.53 (Sep 2, 2010)
- Added 'Add Header Line To CSV/Tab-Delimited File' option. When this option is turned on, the column names are added as the first line when you export to csv or tab-delimited file.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.52 (Aug 13, 2010)
- Fixed bug: When running SearchMyFiles with /BaseFolder command-line option or by using the Explorer context menu, SearchMyFiles sometimes started with the wrong folder.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.51 (Aug 9, 2010)
- Added 'Explorer Context Menu' option. When it's turned on, 'SearchMyFiles' menu item is added to the context menu of any folder in Windows Explorer. Choosing this menu item opens SearchMyFiles with selected folder as the base folder of the search.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.50 (Jul 20, 2010)
- Added 'Exclude Extensions' option, which allows you to exclude one or more extensions from the search result. For example, if you specify 'exe dll ocx' in this field, exe/dll/ocx files won't be displayed in the search result.
- When saving the search result to html, the files are now displayed as links that open the specified file.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.48 (Jul 10, 2010)
- Fixed issue: Removed the wrong encoding from the xml string, which caused problems to some xml viewers.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.47 (May 12, 2010)
- You can now send the search result to stdout by specifying an empty filename ("") in the command-line. (For example: SearchMyFiles.exe /stab "" >> c:\temp\search.txt)
- Fixed bug: SearchMyFiles continued to search infinitely if the subfolder wildcard was empty.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.46 (May 3, 2010)
- Fixed bug: pressing the Delete key in the 'Search Options' or in the find window activated the 'Move To Recycle Bin' option in the main window
New in SearchMyFiles 1.45 (May 3, 2010)
- The 'Search Options' window is now a Modeless dialog-box, which means that it won't be closed when you start the search and you can leave it open during the search and after the search is finished.
- Added 'Set Focus On Search Start' and 'Set Focus On Search End' options to determine whether the focus is moved to the main window when the search is started and finished.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.40 (Jan 26, 2010)
- Added /StartSearch command-line option, which allows you to start a search without displaying the Search Options window.
- The 'Browse' button of 'Base Folders' and 'Excluded Folders' in the 'Search Options' window now allows you to add more than one folder, when one or more folders are already listed in the text-box.
- Added 'File Position' and 'File Content' columns for file content search. When the 'File Contains' field is not 'None' (text or binary), the 'File Position' column displays the position (in bytes) that the data was found, and the 'File Content' column displays the characters around the found text/binary data.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.37 (Jan 2, 2010)
- Fixed bug: On duplicate search, SearchMyFiles displayed zero size files
New in SearchMyFiles 1.36 (Dec 28, 2009)
- Fixed the location of 'Read Only' and 'System' labels, which was mistakenly changed in v1.35 release.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.35 (Dec 24, 2009)
- New search mode: Duplicate Search - allows you to easily find duplicate files on your system. (See below)
- Changed the delete accelerator key to Shift+Delete, like Explorer.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.30 (Nov 25, 2009)
- Added 'Reset To Default' button that allows you to easily reset the 'Search Options' dialog-box.
- Added 'Open File On Double-Click' option. When this option is checked, double-clicking a file will open it with the default program, like double-click in Explorer.
- Added new actions that you can make on the selected files of the search result: Explorer Cut, Delete, Move To Recycle Bin, and Rename.
- In the search option of file times, added 'Today' and 'Since Last Reboot'.
- Added most-recently-used (MRU) list in combo-boxes of the search dialog-box. SearchMyFiles automatically remembers the last 10 strings that you used for every field, and allows you to easily select them from the Combo-Box. If you don't want that your last search strings will be saved in the .cfg file (from privacy reasons), you can select the "Don't Save MRU Lists" option in the Options menu.
- Fixed the 'Subfolders Wildcard' issue according to users request. Just for example: In previous version, if you tried to search in c: with abc*.* as subfolders wildcard, and you had a folder in c:hellobbbbabc123, SearchMyFiles utility didn't search in this folder even when abc123 folder matched the folder name, and that's because the folder below, bbbbb, wasn't match the subfolders wildcard. Starting from this version, SearchMyFiles scan all subfolders, even if they don't match the wildcard, but the actual file search is only made for subfolders that match the subfolders wildcard.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.20 (Sep 15, 2009)
- Added /sort command-line option for sorting the search result you save from command-line.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.16 (Aug 31, 2009)
- Added 'Copy Full Filenames Path' - Allows you to copy the list of selected filenames as a full path filenames list, delimited by enter (CRLF).
New in SearchMyFiles 1.15 (Apr 27, 2009)
- Added command-line support.
- Added 'Select File In Explorer' option.
New in SearchMyFiles 1.10 (Mar 18, 2009)
- Fixed bug: Base folder combo-box limited the number of characters that you could type.
- Added option to save/load all search option to .cfg file.
- Added 'Explorer Copy' option - Allows you to copy the selected files and then paste them inside a folder of Windows Explorer.
- Added 'Open With' option.
- Added option to choose the subfolders depth to scan.