What's new in Shrestha Files 2.17.295.0
Dec 5, 2022
- Drag and drop is reenabled and should be working as expected now.
- Readded internal audio player
- Readded internal video player
- Added audio list in the internal audio player.
- Added file list to the text editor.
- Dependency updates including WinAppSDK 1.1 to WinAppSDK 1.2.
New in Shrestha Files 2.0.207.0 (May 16, 2022)
- Shrestha Files Pro X (version 2.0) is officially launching with Microsoft Build 2022! This version offers a significant performance improvements, new features, and customization options.
New in Shrestha Files 1.12.142.0 (Apr 10, 2022)
- Fixed: Markdown preview with links were not working in the Internal Text Viewer and other locations.
New in Shrestha Files 1.4.111.0 (Sep 20, 2021)
- This is a general release that includes cumulative updates from previous beta releases.
- Translation issues fixed.
New in Shrestha Files 1.0.99.0 (Aug 24, 2021)
- Thank you everyone for using Shrestha Files Pro throughout the journey! Today, we are releasing Shrestha Files Pro version 1.0. This is a huge milestone and by no means the end of the journey! If you have any feedback or bug reports, please reach out to the developer.
New in Shrestha Files 0.58.79.0 (Jul 21, 2021)
- Extended search is finalized and is available to all uses by default.
- Added Settings:
- Added a setting to extend or not extend contents to the traditional title bar so that users can use full title bar for dragging the window if desired.
- Added settings to show/hide ‘Edit Navigation Items’ and ‘Save Settings’ items in the Navigation bar.
- Added a setting to show Properties Viewer by default. The Properties Viewer will continue to show/hide based on the current state of the tab for an existing tab. For tabs created based on another existing tab, the state of the Properties Viewer visibility will be copied from the existing tab.
- Improved internal text viewer/editor:
- Added ability to preview markdown document.
- Added ability to edit and save plain text documents.
- Added ability to turn on/off word wrap.
- Added ability to change font size.
- Note: the text editing options are intentionally hidden for now. Right click on the top left side of the address bar to see the options.
- Improved internal image viewer:
- Added option to set image as desktop background.
- Added option to zoom in/out.
- Added option to rotate image.
- Added option to drag image.
- Known issue: These features are still experimental and need some improvements. While double tapping works for zooming in, double tapping while holding shift key does not work as reliably. Control + Mouse wheel may not be possible because of CoreWindow limitation.
- Property viewer now resides inside the Tab Page and Home Page.
- App tour has been updated to address the changes in the UI.
- Disabled parallel file processing for file paste operation to improve stability of the UI. DispatcherQueue appears to freeze when it is overwhelmed with the parallel UI update requests from the parallel file processing requests. File operations will be slower than previous versions but will be significantly more stable for file operations involving a large number of items.
- Search bar next to the address bar is now renamed to filter bar to better communicate the actual functionality of the control.
- Removed dual pane prompt for new installs. Users can continue to enable/disable the dual pane mode from the settings as before.
- Fixed: Selection box had some offset compared to the pointer location in the detailed view mode.
- Items will not be added to the search page when tracker tries to update something.
- Updated German Translation. Thanks to Parasec!
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
New in Shrestha Files 0.57.75.0 (Jul 15, 2021)
- Added ability to launch various file types such as .exe and .bat using an add-in that can be downloaded from the Store:.
- More efficient mechanism to update UI to show item changes (such as added new items or deleted existing items) from all tabs.
- Fixed: Internal viewer was not opening files when at least one of the files did not have a file extension.
- Migrated from core window dispatcher to dispatcher queue - should also reduce UI freeze when large number of files are being copied/pasted in any tab.
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes. Thanks to Alur, CyberDroid1, Parasec, and Fairycn for continuous design feedback, bug reporting, feature request, and translation updates.
New in Shrestha Files 0.56.69.0 (Jul 3, 2021)
- Added tabs on top mode. Users can switch to that mode from the general settings.
- Known issue: Window must be dragged from a narrow strip on the top right corner of the window left of the caption (close, restore, minimize buttons) in the tabs on top mode. The tab strip footer is set as a draggable region but is not working as expected as of now.
- Can now drop items to tab headers.
- Known issue: It might take some time before it allows to drop items. (Users can hover over to a tab header only after sometimes before the drop acceptance indicator is shown).
- When any alphanumeric key (such as “a” or “3”) is pressed in a tab page, it will scroll automatically to an item whose name starts with the pressed alphanumeric character. Non alphanumeric characters are not supported at this time. Thanks to Yair for the feature request!
- Updated Glyph icon for the address bars. The icon is now visible only in the path edit mode. Thanks to CyberDroid1 for feedback!
- Improved context menu item visibility toggling.
- Fixed: Free space in drives were not showing correctly in the navigation bar and/or This PC page. Thanks to CyberDroid1 for the bug report!
- Fixed: Some minor changes to resolve app crash when navigation pane width slider is changed from the General Settings. Let the developer know if it still crashes.
- Fixed: Address bar and status bar was not updated as expected in some scenarios. This was intentionally unlinked in earlier versions to investigate the layout cycle error that was crashing the app in some cases.
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
New in Shrestha Files 0.55.66.0 (Jun 29, 2021)
- Updated various UI components to fit an updated WinUI version. Some UI elements will continue to be updated in the future versions.
- Added item templates setting to change default sizes of icons for various tab view types. Thanks to FireCube for feedback on the preview!
- Added option to view previous and next item (such as images) in the internal viewers.
- Internal audio player now shows music cover art as the background image.
- More robust method to show File Access Permission dialogue when relevant.
- Enabled saving settings even if file access permission is not granted.
- Added three levels of performance modes in config file.
- Fixed Drives were not loading when “Reload Drives when refreshing This PC” is disabled.
- Fixed Theme setting crashes in high contrast mode.
- Fixed Layout cycle error is hopefully be fixed.
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
New in Shrestha Files 0.53.58.0 (Jun 18, 2021)
- Added option for solid background (boxy looks) for items (files, folders, drives, libraries, and recent items)
- Added functionality to move previous and next images in the internal image viewer
- Uses glyph icons for folders and files instead of image icon for reduced memory consumption when actual thumbnail is not used
- Improved drag and drop items to navbar:
- Can now drop folder(s) inside an existing navigation bar item to create children items (sub-items)
- Added opacity settings for content area (Tab Page and This PC Page) background
- Restructured settings
- Improved tab view layout
- Improved tab view cycle order (Ctrl + Mouse Scroll)
- Item selection method updated with more efficient method Thanks to Yair for feedback!
- Unified and more robust method to obtain storagefile for copy/cut/delete/compress
- Improved reliability and performance of updating UI with changes in the file system
- Added low memory option in config that can significantly reduce memory usage However, the low memory usage may not perform as well (eg thumbnails may not get updated quickly or at all sometimes for some items Also, operations such as drag and drop will take longer to start)
- Fixed: File Access permission was not showing in new installation
New in Shrestha Files 0.52.55.0 (Jun 12, 2021)
- Added minimalist internal viewer (F6) for various file types [Pro Users Only]:
- Audio and video - supports formats such as mp3, mp4, and wmv.
- Image - supports formats such as png, jpg, and gif.
- Plain text - supports formats such as txt, json, and xml.
- Pdf - supports pdf.
- Some notes on the internal viewer:
- Users can add other file formats in the config file to see if that is supported. For example, text files that has other file extension can be viewed using the internal viewer.
- Audio or video must be paused before closing the window. Otherwise, it will continue to play even after closing the window.
- Added drag selection. Thanks to Kweku for the feature request.
- Now need to triple click instead of double click to navigate to the parent folder.
- Added option to show thumbnails for libraries, drives, and devices in “This PC” page. Some external devices may not show icons in the thumbnail mode.
- Added option on the navigation bar to pin the app to the taskbar.
- Added experimental setting to use a custom background instead of desktop (host) background in for the acrylic effect.
- Added machine translated Polish translation.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
New in Shrestha Files 0.51.47.0 (Jun 6, 2021)
- If Navigation bar shows multiple copies of “This PC”, “Libraries”, or “Devices and Drives”, please right click and remove both copies of those items and restart the app.
- Added compact mode under the experimental settings. Currently, it affects a few UI elements such as navigation bar item, addressbar, etc.
- Improved devices and drives loading. If some external devices did not show up in “This PC” page before, it may show up now.
- Improved drive loading.
- Improved tooltips for drives.
- Improved localization. Thanks to Fairycn for feedback!
- Toggle switch “On” and “Off” can also be translated now.
- While switching language, different messages will show up depending on whether the translation is completely online or someone helped with the translation.
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
New in Shrestha Files 0.49.42.0 (May 21, 2021)
- Another attempt to solve app crash resulting from Layout Cycle bug. If the app is crashing, please email the the developer with some information on when and how the app crashes.
- Better analytics to improve bugs identification and fixing.
- Updated Chinese Simplified Translation. Thanks to Fairycn!
New in Shrestha Files 0.47.36.0 (May 16, 2021)
- Tabs can now be dropped to a different pane. However, the destination pane must have at least one tab. Otherwise, a tab cannot be dropped there.
- Added option to show/hide progress viewer automatically. The progress viewer show/hide button will animate/rotate once (per application launch, not per operation) to indicate the location of the log viewer if user is interested in seeing the file operation progress.
- Share context menu is visible only when at least one item is selected.
- Fixed: Bug that loaded replica of tabs in the second pane when opening settings.
- Other miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
New in Shrestha Files 0.46.34.0 (May 13, 2021)
- Can click and hold control key while dropping items to copy instead of move when default drag and drop option is move. External application such as Windows File Explorer may ask for copy or move option while dropping. Thanks to Parasec Glenkwyst for the feature request!
- Settings pages also uses compact mode now. This mostly affects the navigation bar items in the settings.
- Cleaned up the extra About Page (F1). Making it more minimalist.
- Fixed: Crash resulting from Layout Cycle error.
- Fixed: Error while trying to puchase the app in some cases.
New in Shrestha Files 0.44.14.0 (Apr 26, 2021)
- Custom theme can be added by users now. Visit our discord server for additional themes.
- Bug fixed for back/forward button resulting in click effect when no back or forward stack is left.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements.
New in Shrestha Files 0.43.1.0 (Apr 20, 2021)
- Back and forward mouse button “should” finally be working.
- Added shortcuts to navigate back
- Windows + Backspace
- Gamepad B button
- Added GUI to select all, invert selection, and clear selection.
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
New in Shrestha Files 0.42.15.0 (Apr 16, 2021)
- Several icons added in context menu. Now all context menu items and sub items have icons.
- Copy Path Context Menu
- Properties
- Compress
- Decompress
- Sort By: Name/Type/Date/Size
- View Types: Simple List/Detailed List/Small Grid/Medium Grid/Large Grid/Tiles
- Ascending/Descending.
- Added settings to select default sorting field and sorting order for new tabs. This will be ignored when previous tab is used to create a new tab.
- Updated titles of settings categories (e.g. “This PC” instead of “ThisPC”).
- Removed “None” option from tab view types. Consequently, any saved tab view types for bookmarked items will be reset to simple list.
- Rate menu will disappear from navigation bar after any future rating provided by the users. If you have already provided ratings, you can manully set RatingsProvided to true in the config file to hide the item.
- The library items in “This PC” page and the navigation bar items (in the sidebar) will always use the view type saved in the corresponding item (in the navigation edit view).
- As search can take quite long depending on the number of files and folders inside, the loading bar is now always visible in search page while loading items irrespective of the settings to show/hide loading bar.
- Search page should return pages quicker now (one at a time instead of waiting for more results).
- Added support for Windows 10 Version 1809 and newer. If you use older versions of Windows (prior than 2004) and encounter any bugs, please let us know.
- Fixed: Crash while opening settings in some cases.
- Fixed: Item being pasted while trying to paste path in default path settings.
- Miscellaneous improvements and bug fixes.
New in Shrestha Files 0.35.13.0 (Feb 13, 2021)
- Single click mode added as a result of popular demand.
- Flyout showing icons in Navigation bar edit view will now dismiss after selecting an icon.
- About Page now shows more information in selected language.
- Added analytics to understand and improve user experience.
- Added analytics to get handled exceptions (errors).
- Updated German Translation. Thanks to Parasec Glenkwyst!
- Date column is listed before Type column in detailed view mode to match Windows File Explorer’s default behavior. Thanks to mgkai for feedback!
- Fixe bug that crashed the app when dragging multiple folders to the navigation bar.
- Link to the Home Page for Shrestha Files Added
New in Shrestha Files 0.25.8.0 (Jan 14, 2021)
- Added proper tool tip descriptions for all buttons and context menus.
- When any picture is opened from the app, users will be able to browse to other photos in the Folder (in Windows Photos app).
- Added notification when saved settings cannot be read.
- Improved breadcrumb generation by relying on path solely instead of StorageFolder.
- Keyboard Accelerators (shortcuts) should finally work reliably.
- Added the app icon on the empty draggable area (top right corner of the app) for trial users.
- Changelog window can be dismissed by tapping outside (so that users don't have to scroll to the end to click Ok).
- Reduced memory usage by caching instead of using memory.
- Fixed: Bug extra libraries and disks are added while refreshing home page.