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XYplorer is a multi-tabbed file manager featuring a very powerful file search, versatile preview facilities, a highly customizable interface, and a large array of unique ways to efficiently automate frequently recurring tasks. XYplorer is a tool rather than a toy, and targets power users and computer professionals who are looking for an Explorer replacement that deserves its name.

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    Configuration | Information | File Info Tips & Hover Box | Show Hover Box | Select Context...: Added "Portable Devices". Tick it to show a Hover Box also for items on portable devices. Often a preview doesn't work on portable devices and the unsuccessful attempt takes a long time. Now you can avoid this waste of time. By factory default this setting is OFF.
    Portable Devices: Now you can stop a slow pre-processing operation by pressing ESC when copying files from a PD to some other location. This pre-processing can be so slow (depending on the mood of Windows) that sometimes it's better to just give up.
    Image and Video Preview: The internal order of preview attempts (there are many different ways to preview in Windows) has been changed to work around some rare and weird issues with Windows 11 and also get rid of the infamous "Switch to/Retry" dialog.
    MLS: Internally updated to version 8.154.

23.70.0205 Beta

    SCs sortby, selfilter: Now partial match is used only as a fall back if there is no full match for the "column" parameter. Previously, the first partial match from the left was used even if a full match was available further to the right
    Toolbar | Save Tags: Old icons

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    Floating Preview: Some inconsistencies with "Zoom to Fit" enabled. Fixed.

    Image and Video Preview: Undid that change from v23.70.0206. It brought new problems. Since these problems differ with each Windows version and configuration (installed preview handlers) each user has to find the setting that suits him best. These are the 3 options, available as one-line scripts that can be run through the XYplorer address bar:

    tweak("PreviewEarlyFactory", 0); //early factory for pdf, ttf, webp, for videos, and for shell folder thumbnails (= XY Factory Default)
    tweak("PreviewEarlyFactory", 1); //early factory for all file types
    tweak("PreviewEarlyFactory", 2); //early factory for no file types

    To find out the current setting do this and look at the status bar:

    tweak("PreviewEarlyFactory");
    FYI, "factory" refers to the IShellItemImageFactory interface (from Vista onwards). "Early factory" means: try the factory first, then fall back to other methods.

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    SC quicksearch: Certain selectors were not correctly identified when the search triggered by quicksearch was the first search of the session. Fixed.
    Panes | Sync Select...: Did not work as it should when one of the lists was filled by Quick Search over a list of items (Search In List). Fixed.
    Catalog | Right-Click Menu | Insert As New Category Here | Tabs: If the active tab had a Visual Filter applied when you added the Tabs Category, all the Catalog items that are created in the category had the Visual Filter appended to them. Fixed.
    Edit | Paste Special | Paste As Hard Link(s): Since 20221001 it failed with a bogus error "Different drive. Target has to be on the same drive.". Fixed.

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    App Icon. Back to the old icon. It's just too iconic to be replaced.
    Minor bug fixes and enhancements.
    Compilation Soundtrack. Compiled to the music of Jerry Lee Lewis.

23.70.0209 Beta

    Updated the help file.
    Catalog: After editing the 'Click and Tag' header once, even without changes, the Category wouldn't allow to create new Tag items, and any existing Tag item you tried to edit would turn into a default catalog item. Fixed.
    Paper Folders: When opening a paper folder in a background tab, the tab showed a generic question mark icon. Fixed.

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    TAB Sequence: Was broken since about 5 weeks ago. Fixed.
    SCs sortby, selfilter: The columns were not matched with the "column" argument from left to right by their current position (as is stated in the help file) but by some internal order. Fixed.

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    Toolbar | Save Tags: The button now has a small context menu that offers an
    additional command that's useful in Multi-User-Tagging contexts. I gave it a verbose name to make pretty clear what it means: "Save Tags and Remove All Untagged Items from the Database". So, if there is an item in the tags database and you removed all tags from it, then using this command will remove that item from the shared database for all users.
    This command is only shown when "Configuration | Information | Tags | Auto-refresh tags" is enabled (which is taken as a sign that we are in a Multi-User-Tagging context), and it is the only way to remove an item from a shared DB in a MUT network.The background here is safety. You don't want to let users remove items from the shared DB too easily.
    FYI, if you usde the normal "Save Tags" in that situation then the tags present in the DB would be merged with your local state of affairs and the result would be that your tagless item would be retagged to its state in the shared DB.
    Tags: Now if no tags or tags settings have been changed during the session the Tags DB is no written at all when doing Saving Settings and Save Tags. The status bar will say "no saving required" in that case.
    Saves some time, energy and life cycles.
    Multi-User-Tagging: The possibility of a race condition has been reduced to zero where an unfortunate coincidence of activities could result in the loss of tags that should not be lost.

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    Multi-User-Tagging: Implemented a new way to safely handle the removal of tags in Multi-User-Tagging. When an item is completely stripped of any tags then internally a ghost tag (label index -999) is attached to it and spread across the network like any other normal tags. The presence of the ghost tag means "this item is not tagged". When the DB is loaded the next time such an item will just be skipped (along with the ghost tag). So here we have an ephemeral intermediate state in the transition from tagged to untagged, which serves to spread the news and update the interfaces of all team members.
    All of this works under the hood, so you really don't have to worry about it. This is about security in Multi-User-Tagging, and security here means making sure no work is accidentally lost.
    Toolbar | Save Tags: What was added in v23.70.0302 has been removed.

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    The old but undocumented tweaks ShellPreviewMaxWidth and ShellPreviewMaxHeight can now be used to define a bounding box for shell previews which can dramatically increase the preview speed for large RAW images (that was always the idea with these tweaks but they had been poorly implemented).

    This, for example, would limit the preview to 2000 x 2000 pixels:

    ShellPreviewMaxWidth=2000
    ShellPreviewMaxHeight=2000
    Previewing a 6240 x 4160 RAF image now takes about 200ms instead of 8 seconds, that's 40 times faster!
    Surprisingly even larger values perform extremely good up to a magic value of 4416: - 4416 x 4416 -> 500ms - 4417 x 4417 -> 8000ms !
    That could be a peculiarity of this particular thumbnail handler, but the effect of
    limiting the bounding box is so impressive that I decided to set those tweaks by factory default to 2000 x 2000 pixels (and also when upgrading to this version).
    Of course, this setting can later be raised to UI.
    % Thumbnails: Due to the above change thumbnail creation for RAW camera images is much faster now. Only tested with RAF files (Fuji). Of course, a suitable preview handler must be installed.

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Multi-User-Tagging: Small bug fix regarding recent changes.

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    Toolbar | Edit Clipboard: Fresh new icon.
    Multi-User-Tagging: Changed ghost tag index to -888 (internal reasons).
    Multi-User-Tagging: Removing all tags from an item has not yet been fully propagated across the network. Fixed.
    Multi-User-Tagging: Changes in the column definitions could no longer be saved since yesterday. Fixed.
    SC savethumb: This example from the Help did not work as it should (it created an empty 1 x 1 pixel file):savethumb(, "*_t", 256, , "png", 7:=-1); //Preserve transparency
    Fixed. Now it creates a 256 x 256 pixel file.

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Configuration | Information | Tags | Auto-refresh tags: Added an error message for the case that the watch fails for whatever reason (the reason might be shown in the error message).
Multi-User-Tagging: The ghost tag was not removed when it should be removed on importing tags data from disk to the current tags state in memory. Fixed.
Multi-User-Tagging: Tags could not be removed under certain conditions. Fixed.

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    Show Folder Sizes: Added a tweak to delay the folder size calculation when navigating to a new location. This would delay it by 2 seconds: ShowFolderSizeDelayMsecs=2000
   
! Scripting | Arrays: You could not pass an array to a user function. Fixed. Now this works as expected:

    $a = array("cat", "dog");
    Test($a);
    echo $a[0]; //tiger
    function Test(&$array){
    echo count($array); //2
    echo $array[0]; //cat
    $array[0] = "tiger";

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Configuration | Other | Shell Integration | 64-bit Windows | Open files from 64-bit process: If ticked then ISO files could not be opened by ENTER or double-click. Fixed.

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    Moving Files: Since 20210919, files that were skipped during a move operation did not remain selected in the source location. Fixed.
    Action Log: Some newly created folders were not correctly listed in the log. Fixed.

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    Sleeping Drives: Now it's shown in various places if a drive is currently sleeping.
    Tree: Drive name tooltip.
    List | Drives Listing (aka This PC): Drive name tooltip.
    Breadcrumb: Drives dropdown items.
    Go | Drives...: Menu items.

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