Information

• Bug fix: Hits not displaying with case-sensitive index NEAR search.
• Bug fix: Contents view not sized correctly.
• Bug fix: Expression editor was incorrectly concatenating values.

• New: Edit history option in History settings.
• Bug fix: Index settings changes were not being saved if monitoring active.
• Bug fix: Long running index updates could fail with 'This IndexWriter is closed'.
• Bug fix: Column widths and views were not restoring properly.
• Bug fix: PDF/OCR issues when document paths included non-ASCII characters.
• Other minor changes/fixes.

• Bug fix: Index searching with column filters was causing focus issue.
• Bug fix: EXIF reading issues on some images.
• Bug fix: Possible truncation of text with OCR on PDFs with text.
• Other minor changes/fixes.

• New: Bulk Copy now supports copying folders.
• New: Single-instance mode (Shell Configuration).
• Improved EXIF details for PNG and JPG files.
• OCR page orientation detection.
• Summary keyword report speed improvements.
• Indexing can support larger documents.
• Visual Studio 2022 supported as external editor.
• Bug fix: Occassional index search delays between searches.
• Bug fix: Docking/undocking window restore issues.
• Bug fix: Context menu rename was not working.
• Other minor changes/fixes.

• Index OCR settings now stored separately per index.
• Indexing summary added to Messages tab.
• Bug fix: Intermittent crash with screen reading software.
• Bug fix: Location filters incorrectly processing back slashes.
• Bug fix: Index search 'unexpected error' fix.
• Bug fix: Index monitor not detecting 'offline' location source at startup.
• Other minor changes/fixes.

• Updated OCR to Tesseract 5.2.
• Bug fix: Large text settings too big for UI.
• Bug fix: Indexer no longer overwrites index if data source unavailable.
• Bug fix: Indexer wasn't using process priority settings.
• Other minor changes/fixes.

• New columns 'File name length' and 'Path length'.
• Improved view state restore when switching between searches.
• Bug fix: Index search highlighting for CN, JP, KR text.
• Bug fix: EML file encodings for non-ASCII emails.
• Bug fix: Column filters not working properly during search.
• Other minor changes/fixes.

• Note: Index logs moved to local device instead of index store folder.
• New policies DisabledSearchPaths and AllowedSearchPaths to limit permitted search paths.
• Added MOBI file support.
• Improved index monitor network error recovery.
• Bug fix: Context menu keyboard functionality fixed.
• Bug fix: Occasional crash when using 'name:' prefix on Index Search.
• Bug fix: Favorites list sort functionality fixed.
• Other minor changes/fixes.

• New column 'Last Saved By'.
• Bug fix: Issue installing 32-bit portable version.
• Bug fix: FR/ES issue with FILELIST.
• Bug fix: Middle mouse button on tab was closing more than one tab.
• Bug fix: Compressed archives locked until app closed.
• Bug fix: Index monitor issue with archives and emails.
• Bug fix: Phone searching, item selection issue.
• Other minor fixes.

• New columns Folder Depth, Product Version, File Version.
• Improved filtering and sorting of 'complex' columns like Owner and Product Version.
• Fixed issue exporting parent PST emails to a folder.
• Fixed issue with indexing MSG files with ZIP attachments.
• Fixed issue with searching open Word documents in Lite version.
• Accessibility improvements with Hits tab.
• New policy option to switch off crash reporting.
• Other minor fixes.

• Accessibility issue with File List fixed.
• LIKE now working with index searches.
• Improved index memory management for very large files.
• DE language updates.
• Restored sorting defaults for size and dates.
• Other minor fixes.

• Drop down list history issue fix.
• Spinning wait cursor on 'more' context menu fix.
• FR language updates.
• Index real-time monitor fixes.
• Other minor fixes.

• Summary tab Zoom level not restoring properly.
• Files incorrectly flagged as 'Partial Indexed'.
• Added index monitor delay to avoid locking working files.
• Right-click drag file fix.
• Other minor fixes.

• Possible crash when scrolling through thousands of results.
• Search performance fix.
• Search stats not always updated properly.
• Other minor fixes.

• Installer issue updating previous installation fixed.
• Help file localization improvements.
• Increased size of some dialog fields.

• Full Release Announcement
• Optical Character Recognition (OCR) functionality
• New visual themes (including a Dark theme)
• Improved indexing functionality
• Automatic index update scheduler
• Index groups
• Many other improvements and bug fixes

• Beta version available: Announcement

• Reduced background CPU usage when idle
• Improved parsing of MBOX/EML date time format.
• Improved SearchTask recovery if 3rd party IFilter causes problems.
• Bug fix: "A required resource was unavailable" error when lots of search terms (> 10,000) specified.
• Bug fix: Relative date/time searching issues with FR/ES/NL languages.
• Minor fixes/improvements

• Additional installer flags /regdetails /langfile /ui
• Bug fix: Exporting index based searches much faster if content not required.
• Minor fixes/improvements

• Japanese translation (beta).
• Bug fix: Keyword summary report not displaying empty keywords properly.
• Minor fixes/improvements

• Bug fix: OneDrive folders not searching properly.
• Bug fix: Numeric column filters not working with '<' directive.
• Bug fix: UI sometimes becomes unresponsive when using Index Searching and column filters.
• Minor fixes/improvements

• Bug fix: Index searching reporting errors with some queries
• Bug fix: Portable device searching not filtering sub folders correctly
• Minor fixes/improvements

• Indexing speed improvements
• Bug fix: occasional index crash

• Bug fix: Printing issue

• Bug fix: Missing installation files for Win 10

• Folders are now sorted ahead of files.
• Bug fix: LIKE not highlighting correctly for Index searches
• Bug fix: Environment variables not working with Lite version
• Bug fix: Shell Integration configuration issues, ie settings were not showing correctly in the user interface
• Bug fix: .NET library exception.
• Various language updates.

• Improved performance of hits tab for large results.
• Minor improvements/fixes.

• Added folder searching for attached mobile devices.
• Improved: Double-clicking to launch default application.

• Improved error reporting when searching password protected archives.
• Double-clicking on folder should launch registered ‘Explorer’.
• Bug fix: Issue with displaying results for index searches in the form: NOT (term NEAR term2).
• Bug fix: IFilter searching not working when files locked.

• Bug fix: Occasional crash with index search and Reports Tab.
• Bug fix: Occasional crash with large searches left running in background.
• Bug fix: Issue exporting result list with .NET run-time engine.

• Bug fix: Indexer incorrectly including additional files.
• Bug fix: Lite version not reading Office documents properly.

• Bug fix: Searching standalone MSG files with lots of attachments issue.
• Bug fix: Lite registration code verification issue.
• Bug fix: Unable to re-import some MSG files exported from Outlook.

• New ‘Imply boundary marker’ DOS expression option to control searching when extension specified.
• Bug fix: Short-cut handling issues.
• Bug fix: Email attachment naming issue.
• Bug fix: Unable to re-import some MSG files exported from Outlook.

• Bug fix: Include file/folder name in content search settings not working properly.

• Bug fix: Searching of both message body and attachments not working with stand-alone .eml and .msg files.
• Updated French translation.

• Updated Dutch translation.

• File short-cut searching now defaults to OFF (speeds up search times).
• Bug fix: Preview not working with .eml and .msg files.

• Reducing load times on workspace files.
• Bug fix: Temp files not deleting until app closed.
• Bug fix: Short-cut link searching issues.

• Bug fix: Files disappearing from list after context menu operation.
• Bug fix: Invalid ‘Update required’ message for updated indexes.

• Bug fix: Improved error messages for invalid formats
• Bug fix: Issue searching archives within .lnk short-cuts.
• Bug fix: Issue with adding new index when default folder read-only.
• Other minor improvements and fixes

• Added Portable Device searching (eg. phone/tablet)
• Bug fix: Lite mode crash with ‘<no language>’ error
• Warning: Support for Windows Vista dropped

• Added Dutch translation
• Added Turkish translation
• Bug fix: Issue reloading saved searches

• IFilter crash protection functionality
• Bug fix: Removed external resources from local help
• Bug fix: DE and IT language file improvements

• Bug fix: French translation issue

• Bug fix: Font spacing in Summary tab issue
• Bug fix: Command line indexer ‘quit’ shutdown issue
• Bug fix: ‘Invalid index’ error shown in Index Manager when lots of indexes added

• Added Thunderbird MBOX searching
• Added File name matching to Persistent Search Filters
• Document Preview option added to Preview (Thumbnails) tab
• Bug fix: Erroneous ‘Empty file’ warnings.
• Bug fix: Temp folder settings were being ignored
• Other minor improvements and fixes

• Added Folder and file short-cut (.lnk files) searching
• Circular reference protection for short-cuts and symbolic links
• Bug fix: Portable installation was not accepting user registration correctly
• Bug fix: Expand All was missing from Hits tab menu
• Bug fix: Tab title was not always updating when criteria changed
• Other minor improvements and fixes

• Bug fix: Missing XML, HTML export options from drop down list
• Bug fix: Localization for FR and DE incorrectly sets up Program Files and Windows default search filters.
• Bug fix: Other minor fixes

• Bug fix: Allow exported MSGs with embedded MSGs to be re-imported back into Outlook

• Privacy policy link added to About Box
• Bug fix: ‘Empty file’ warning was not showing
• Bug fix: Favorites listing was impacted by persistent filters

• Ability to switch to ‘Lite’ mode without installing separate product
• Now searches PDF protected content
• Regex expression naming, eg REGEX:ssn “\d{3}-?\d{2}-?\d{4}”
• Additional indexing performance settings
• Improved temp folder clear up on closing
• Other minor improvements and fixes

• Indexing improvements for frequently updated indexes
• Bug fix: Caching was sometimes not working properly for custom extensions
• Other minor updates/fixes

• Faster loading of index list
• New custom interpreter macro $(InputLongPathFile) to reference long path format
• Command line apps now return error codes if critical errors reported
• Bug fix: Bulk copy to folder failing on some paths
• Bug fix: Index drop down list resizing issue
• Other minor updates/fixes

• Additional columns added including Author and Owner
• New -remove switch for flpidx to remove a reference to an existing index
• Bug fix: Index list sort order now defaults to name
• Bug fix: Tab title not refreshing when Search Again on index searches
• Bug fix: Possibly crash when refreshing favorites
• Other minor updates/fixes

• Index search UI now defaults using command line parameters
• New -addref switch for flpidx to add reference to an existing index
• Better text conversion for RTF Outlook messages
• Bug fix: Added config files for DOTM and XLTM
• Bug fix: Show error message if rename fails due to locked file
• Bug fix: Split lines warning unnecessary in many cases
• Bug Fix: MSG file searching missing attachments if one or more attachments had been deleted
• Bug fix: Outlook message searching now replaces forward and back slashes in subject with dashes
• Bug fix: Outlook RTF messages were not always exporting to MSG correctly
• Bug fix: Look In expression handling was not working properly
• Other minor updates/fixes

• Bug fix: ZIP files date/time fix (again).
• Bug fix: Warning when very long lines have been split.

• Bug fix: Overwriting favourites error message fixed.
• Bug fix: FR, DE language issues.
• Bug fix: ZIP files date/time DST fix.
• Bug fix: Fortran highlighting issue.

• Bug fix: Open favorite in new tab now working.
• Bug fix: Some 3rd party editors, eg. Sublime, could not handle long path format, now defaults to standard format.
• Bug fix: Secondary searches in Text tab highlighting issue.
• Bug fix: Improved memory management on large criteria searches.

• Bug fix: Installation issue with 2740.

• Bug fix: Look In expressions not working with UNC paths.
• Bug fix: Unresponsive UI when network path resolution is slow.

• Bug fix: German translation issue affecting Boolean expressions.

• Bug fix: Thumbnails and file icons not loading properly.

• Long path name support.
• Bug fix: Multi-line regex failing on very long lines.
• Bug fix: FR, DE language file improvements.

• Bug fix: Error message if remember sort switched off.
• Bug fix: Column settings not saving properly.

• Columns can be switched on/off and more column options added.
• Multi-threaded indexing for faster indexing.
• Index search optimizations.
• Index search improved handling of underscores and hyphens.
• HTML Reports export keywords in colour.
• Bug fix: Criteria window resizing issue.
• Bug fix: Match case not working properly with indexes.
• Bug fix: Location field drawing issues.
• Bug fix: Indexing now supports NOT NEAR.
• Other minor improvements.

• Generate Error Report option added to Index Manager.
• Bug fix: Context menu icon not appearing on 32-bit apps on 64-bit OS.
• Bug fix: Truncated data when loading entries from drop downs.
• Bug fix: Crash with print preview.
• Bug fix: Language file fixes.
• Bug fix: Ctrl+F setting preserved during upgrade procedure.

• Bug fix: Index searched email attachments not showing MSG parent in path.
• Bug fix: -idxpath command line option ignored if SRF file was also specified.
• Bug fix: Multi-folder persistent search filter editing issue.

• Support for Visual Studio 2017.
• Bug fix: File presets not working properly.

• Bug fix: Alt + Down arrow not working properly on main drop down list boxes.

• New expression editor to help work with large keyword lists.
• Command line supports index searching with new -idxname or -idxpath switches.
• Command line supports index criteria SRF files.
• Bug fix: Indexer was not correctly reporting out of space errors.
• Bug fix: Indexer was not properly including non-content files.
• Digital signatures now using SHA-256.
• Other minor improvements.

• File lists now supported with index searches.
• File types can now be excluded in indexing setup.
• Bug fix: Incorrectly showing hits for terms not directly involved in matching line.
• Bug fix: USB installer now includes API files for all versions of Windows.
• Bug fix: List view not redrawing properly after deleting files.
• Other minor improvements.

• Option to switch off search-as-you-type in the Text tab.
• New warning if file does not contain searchable text.
• Bug fix: Possible crash when filtering large list of items.
• Bug fix: Index search unable to cancel certain searches.
• Bug fix: Icons not displaying in drop-down list.
• Other minor improvements.

• Faster list loading for large searches (ie more than 50,000 files).
• Location filters now applied to root locations not just sub folders.
• Forward slashes and multiple back slashes in paths normalized.
• Bug fix: Searching for “*” in Boolean expression now works properly.
• Bug fix: Very large lines on multi-line regex could cause crash.
• Bug fix: Search stats on reports not displaying correctly if run from command line.
• Other minor improvements.

• Index sizes significantly reduced (sometimes over 50% smaller).
• More details added to indexing error messages.
• Bug fix: Icons not displaying in error list window.
• Bug fix: Drop downs in Reports Tab failing to open after a resize.
• Other minor improvements.

• Bug fix: French language fixes.
• Bug fix: Crash when changing criteria type during search.
• Bug fix: Rare crash when search had finished.
• Bug fix: Case-sensitive search caused issues when switching to indexed search.
• Bug fix: Missing icons for portable installation.

• Support for high DPI settings.
• Bug fix: Include file name and folder name in content search was not working with PST searches.

• Bug fix: Would not start on some versions of Windows.

• Significant memory usage improvements when searching large PST/OST files.
• Bug fix: Memory leak in PST/OST searching.
• Bug fix: Translation improvements.
• Other minor improvements.

• Bug fix: Copying report to clipboard issue fixed.
• Bug fix: Launching Explorer failed on some systems.
• Bug fix: Registration information was not always saving properly.
• Bug fix: Translation improvements.

• New flpidx command line options for creating indexes.
• New COM components for searching indexes.
• Bug fix: flpsearch -ofxlst XSLT processing now works properly.
• Bug fix: MSG attachments embedded within MSG files can now be indexed.
• Bug fix: Other small fixes.

• Bug fix: Issues with single threaded searching through compressed files.
• Bug fix: Unnecessary memory allocations on large searches.
• Bug fix: PDF Page numbering issues.
• Bug fix: PHP Styling issues.
• Bug fix: Report generating issues with large fields.
• Bug fix: Other small fixes.

• Bug fix: ‘Invalid Index’ issue with Chinese version of Windows.

• Bug fix: Possible crash when searching large list of terms.
• Bug fix: Improved handling of invalid configuration files.

• Bug fix: Possible crash when searching large list of terms.
• Bug fix: Other small fixes.

• Bug fix: PDF text formatting/speed issues.
• Bug fix: Word/Excel searching issues when FipsAlgorithmPolicy set

• Transparent context menu icon.
• Updated alert dialog display.
• Bug fix: Better handling of non-conformant ZIP files.
• Bug fix: 7-zip updated to version 16.02.
• Bug fix: Quoted index searching problem.

• Bug fix: 7-zip updated to version 16.00 due to vulnerabilities in UDF and HFS handlers.
• Bug fix: 7z solid archive searching issue.

• .NET class library and SDK documentation updated for index searching.
• Option to switch off search-as-you-type index searching.
• Bug fix: IFilter types now included for Index ‘Documentation’ category.
• Bug fix: Index can now handle Unicode paths for index store.
• Bug fix: Issues relating to using .NET library in ASP.NET fixed.
• Bug fix: Keyword reports for multi-line regex searches now concatenates multi-line matches.
• Bug fix: Multi-line Regex and Fuzzy search now work with File Lists and missing help dialog resource fixed.
• Bug fix: Search-as-you-type suppressed if invalid expression entered.
• Other small fixes.

• Install folder now defaults to previous location.
• Bug fix: File icons sometimes incorrect when sorted.
• Bug fix: Bulk Export report not always loading properly.
• Bug fix: Shell integration issues when using standard user with no elevation privileges.
• Bug fix: UI sizing issues with MDI mode and maximized frames.

• Additional menu options and help information for indexing.
• Bug fix: Deleting items causing selection issues with other items in list.
• Bug fix: Sort order now saved/restored with SRF criteria files.
• Bug fix: Reduced flicker when changing between criteria types.

• Installer logging option.
• Force empty folder for new index store.
• Bug fix: Binary file warning notification.
• Bug fix: Paging issue in hits tab.
• Other small fixes.

• Bug fix: Allow mixed/upper case registration codes.
• Bug fix: Use .NET 4 if .NET 2 not installed.

• New indexing feature
• Customizable keyword coloring
• Multi-line Regex functionality
• Custom EXE interpreters
• Sticky column sort order
• Console flpsearch.exe app
• Search threads monitoring window
• Improved content searching algorithm
• Stability improvements for Word and Excel searching
• Many other improvements and bug fixes

• Bug fix: DLL issue with Portable version.

• Bug fix: .NET Core library fixes.
• (Beta) Console app for command line searches.

• Bug fix: Background color made more consistent across different tabs.
• Bug fix: Boolean ? wildcard not working when used mid-word on last word on line.

• Bug fix: Exported .MSG files can now be re-imported into Outlook.
• Bug fix: GDI handle usage.

• OST (2013) format support
• PST/OST speed improvements
• Bug fix: Email size now includes size of any attachments.
• Bug fix: ‘Text Search’ search was behaving like ‘Deep Search’ if raw data search was checked.

• Improved exporting of corrupt PST items
• Bug fix: Crash when loading saved workspaces/sessions

• Bug fix: Corrupt PST file could cause program to crash

• – Bug fix: Directly specifying multiple archive within archive paths ignoring some files

• Batch copy can continue if corrupt files found
• Better handling of corrupt configuration files
• Bug fix: Dock below/right wasn’t working

• Bug fix: Various Look In field issues when working with large folder lists
• Additional logging on core operations

• Bug fix: PDF searching on non-ASCII file names
• Bug fix: Opening folder when batch file of same name exists
• Bug fix: Changes to default folders were being reset when upgrading
• Other minor enhancements/bug fixes.

• Bug fix: Solid archive extraction fixes
• Bug fix: Invalid pending count fix
• Minor DE language changes

• Bulk Copy – gracefully handle moved files/containers
• Bug fix: Handle JAR files with unusual ZIP format

• Email MSG exporting should now produce identical hashes for the same email
• Bug fix: Printing on some reports not working

• Improved MSG searching speed.

• Bug fix: Date/times now handle DST properly.
• Bug fix: Missing icons in portable build.
• Bug fix: Summary report error message.
• Bug fix: Multi-folder button not working on Persistent Filters.

• Bug fix: Crash when clearing all search locations in multi-folder dialog and then clicking OK.
• Bug fix: Crash when file type column is shown before file name column.

• New EPUB searching.
• Bug fix: Saving favorites on network folders using UNC paths not working.
• Bug fix: Copying error list to clipboard issue.
• Bug fix: Occasional crash when viewing file while search still running.

• Bug fix: Cache module could crash under edge case scenarios.
• Bug fix: Options not remembered if Load Last Search was switched off.
• CN language mistakes.

• Native .msg file exporting for PST and MSG email searches.
• New Bulk Copy feature.
• Errors/Warnings information on Summary tab.
• New license options Technician and Floating.
• New UTF-8 auto-detect feature for files without BOM.
• Bug fix: Search within search lists no longer limited on size.
• Other minor enhancements/bug fixes.

• Bug fix: NEAR combined with AND and OR sub expressions sometimes failing to return valid results.

• Bug fix: Searching for ‘<?’ caused infinite search.
• Bug fix: Font issues after changing display settings.

• Significant performance improvements for all content searches but especially Boolean and Whole word expression types.
• Windows 8.x compatibility improvements.
• File name truncation options for Contents View and new truncation options for File List View.
• User selection when multiple versions of Visual Studio installed
• Containing text script can now work without Containing text value.
• Double-click divider to size to max column width.
• Middle mouse button to close tab.
• Bug fix: Failed search not clearing results properly.
• Bug fix: Browse for folder not starting from current path.
• Other minor improvements and bug fixes

• ‘Text Search’ default instead of ‘Deep Search’ for Document Searching.
• Boolean search performance improvements.
• Bug fix: NEAR operator not working properly when combined with OR
• Bug fix: Closing app when minimized causes problems when re-starting.
• Bug fix: Regular expression error messages not showing properly.
• Other minor improvements and bug fixes

• MSI installer now accepts LANG_FILE variable to default UI localization language.
• Bug fix: Highlighting issues with DBCS code page files.
• Bug fix: COM and .NET component issues.

• Bug fix: PDF searching not working on some systems.

• Improved number column formatting in Reports
• HTML Report highlighting of hits.
• Progress 4GL syntax highlighting.
• COM and .NET component library enhancements for extracting items.
• Bug fix: Double-click on PST hits now opens file properly.
• Other minor improvements and bug fixes

• Option to hide tabs in Contents View
• Bug fix: Help for file name presets was showing ‘Resource unavailable’.
• Bug fix: COM component library fixes.
• Bug fix: Deep search not always searching raw binary data.

• NEAR operator can take optional distance value, e.g. word1 NEAR:10 word2
• NEAR distance configuration can now be lowered to 1.
• Bug fix: Saving sessions with binary data could cause invalid characters to be exported rendering session file unloadable.

• Bug fix: Large line truncation bug causing problems loading sessions/workspaces.

• Audio file searching (MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG and more).
• Image searching (JPG, PNG, TIF, and BMP).
• Search time added back to frame.
• Bug fix: Archive within archive item extraction failure.
• Bug fix: Loading favourites not clearing previous results.
• Bug fix: Cache hang issue on large files.

• Explore Here now highlights selected items in folder.
• Bug fix: Context menu not working when multiple items in different folders selected.
• Bug fix: File presets missing from portable install.
• Bug fix: Switching between ZIP IFilter and composite folder now working.

• Bug fix: Open criteria bug on Win XP.
• Bug fix: Session/Workspace loading issue for some regex type searches.
• Bug fix: Hits tab not automatically selected when files selected.

• Bug fix: Rename not working properly.
• Bug fix: Save criteria problem when in Reports tab.

• New document caching feature
• Results can now be saved and re-imported using workspaces and sessions
• New Reports functionality
• New dedicated Excel/Word text conversion
• Filter results using Column Filters
• Quickly launch new search using Search Again
• File name presets
• New LINES operator to restrict expressions to specific lines
• Exclude binary files option
• Improved PDF foreign language conversion
• Other improvements and bug fixes

• Chinese language support (including help file translation).
• Bug fix: Strict DOS boundary limiting.

• Improved context menu support.
• Bug fix: Open criteria dialog not including *.srf filter.

• Bug fix: Slow searching and excessive memory consumption with DOC IFilter based searches on very large files.

• Improved PDF conversion.
• Bug fix: Minor French language changes.

• Bug fix: Shift drag/drop was copying and not moving files.
• Bug fix: Right-click drag/drop was not behaving properly.

• Bug fix: Shift + Del was not working for file deletion.
• Bug fix: Text based .msg files will now be searched properly.
• Bug fix: Two user messages not displaying properly.

• DOS Expression added to list of Look In expression types.
• Bug fix: Large PST email folders not listing all contents.
• Bug fix: Corrupted PST email attachments could crash application.

• Bug fix: Problem copying large number of files from PST/compressed archives fixed.

• Bug fix: MSI now picks up reg details if run with /quiet switch.

• Bug fix: Favorites now open sorted by description.
• Bug fix: External editor ‘question’ missing buttons.
• Bug fix: FileLocator Pro modal in Shell operations.
• Bug fix: Update check now reports errors if problems occur.

• Minor: -ol command line switch optimizations

• New command line option ‘-oa’ to append results to output file
• New command line option ‘-oe?’ to specify output encoding
• New command line option ‘-ol [max]’ to restrict maximum output lines per file
• New command line option ‘-ofxslt [file]’ to format output using custom (XSLT) format
• Bug fix: -resetui was not working.
• Bug fix: Containing text was cutting off text over 1,000 characters.
• Bug fix: French language update.
• Other minor updates/fixes.

• Bug fix: Some language files missing on portable install version.

• Bug fix: DOS Expression NOT: now works with File Lists.
• Bug fix: xpdfrc customization settings now accepted with PDF converting.

• User interface available in French and German.
• Real-time memory compacting for large searches.
• New export format ‘Tab (spreadsheet)’.
• Enhanced DOS Expression functionality.
• Improved viewing of HTML based PST/MSG messages.
• Improved crash reporting.
• Other minor updates/fixes.

• Bug fix: Memory management improvements.
• Bug fix: Improved Unicode searching (especially Chinese characters).

• Bug fix: Auto-threading and multi-phase search settings not saving properly.
• Bug fix: Improved threading clean-up code.

• Attachment information now included in MSG/PST message text.
• File name word wrapping in Hits tab for non-content searches.
• Warning if attempt to overwrite Favorite when saving search criteria.
• Improved memory management if failures occur during search.
• Bug fix: CSV export was not working if only file name selected.

• Bug fix: PST (and other composite type) files with very long names could cause crash in thumbnail view or during drag-drop operation.

• Crash reporting feature.
• Improved CSV export.
• Bug fix: Text tab now opens at correct position in file.
• Bug fix: Text tab intermittent redrawing issues on x64.
• Bug fix: Intermittent hanging issue when cancelling archive search.
• Other minor updates/fixes.

• Bug fix: DOS Expression was not conforming to standard.
• Bug fix: PST attachments now always display long names when available.

• PST email attachment searching.
• MSG searching, including attachments.
• Improved user feedback when extracting from archives.
• Locations filters can specify unique expression type.
• Internal viewer user-defined TAB size.
• Bug fix: Favourites window now remembers column widths.
• Bug fix: File list keyboard sync issue.
• Bug fix: PgUp and PgDwn in Hits View issue.
• Bug fix: Thumbnail view drag/drop sync issue.
• Bug fix: Clear History was not clearing all history.
• Bug fix: Date/time 00:00:00 formatting issue.
• Other minor updates/fixes.

• Bug fix: Text tab was not working with Outlook PST emails or compressed files.

• Portable installer available to install on USB drives or other locations without requiring Administrator privileges.
• Bug fix: Containing text field no longer limited to 1024 characters.
• Bug fix: Column widths can be set much larger and still remembered on re-start.

• List view synchronized with selection changes in Text tab.
• Bug fix: Ctrl+A not working properly in Text tab.
• Bug fix: Changes to Expert user selection were not being saved.
• Bug fix: Corrupt zip files could cause crash.
• Other minor updates/fixes.

• Bug fix: Internal Viewer secondary search formatting issues.

• Bug fix: Syntax highlighing issues with some languages (inc. VB, Fortran, RC files).
• Bug fix: Internal viewer could hang with very large lines.
• Other minor updates/fixes.

• Option to switch off tab taskbar previews (Win 7).
• Changed internal viewer default to open in new tab (set in Configuration->Default Editor).
• Improved error checking for invalid XSLT files.
• Bug fix: Occasional problem with office documents displaying inconsistent results.
• Bug fix: Locked or invalid office documents causing problem with Text tab.
• Other minor updates/fixes.

• Drag folders to Look In field for searching.
• Semi-colons accepted for folder names when quoted.
• Bug fix: Memory leak viewing very large files in Text Tab.
• Bug fix: File List focus bug when switching between tabs.
• Other minor updates/fixes.

• Shell compatibility with 32-bit apps running on 64-bit Windows.
• Slight change to default UI scheme.
• Bug fix: Icons not alway loading properly with WinXP.
• Bug fix: Labels cut off with higher DPI settings.
• Bug fix: Check for updates falsely reporting update available.
• Bug fix: Folder browsing issue with Vista.

• New Favorites feature
• New Text/Image preview in Contents View
• New Tabbed Searching user interface
• New Persistent Search Filters feature
• Source code syntax highlighting in Internal Viewer
• Hit Count column in File List view
• User Interface customization
• Vista/Win7 specific features
• Other improvements/bug fixes

• New ‘Strictly conforming’ option for DOS expressions.
• Faster icon loading.

• Bug fix: Boolean Regex now works with file lists.
• Bug fix: Delay loading of icons more resilient to badly behaved icon handlers.

• Delay loading of file icons for improved UI performance.
• Bug fix: Searching ANSI characters above the 0x7f range now using system locale.
• Bug fix: Issue with XML export of very large lines fixed.

• Improved DOS Expression handling.
• Bug fix: Problem with anti-virus products sometimes locking ZIP extracted files fixed.
• Bug fix: Problem with searching open Office docs fixed.
• Other minor fixes.

• Drive listing adheres to NoDrives GroupPolicy setting.
• Outlook searching now supports OST files.
• 64-bit MSI database available.
• Bug fix: Toolbar/Status bar visibility settings now remembered.
• Bug fix: -ma -mb switches weren’t accepting valid date/time values.

• Improved searching for MS Office 2007/2010 files, e.g. DOCX, XLSX etc.

• New NEAR Boolean operator for proximity searching.
• New LIKE Boolean operator for matching similar search terms.
• Improved error messages on expression compilation failures.
• Improved performance when displaying results for files on network drive.
• Bug fix: Boolean operator precedence issues.
• Bug fix: PST searching issue with PST files over 2GB in size.
• Bug fix: Right-click menu crash when SnagIt installed.
• Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.

• New DOS Expression characters < and > to match beginning and end of name.
• Improved Compressed Doc Interpreter to read extra information, such as VBA macros.
• Bug fix: Date/time issues if user settings different from system wide settings.

• Installer has a new USB Drive installation option.
• Configuration and log file folders now default to a location within AppData for non-USB Drive installations.
• Bug fix: ‘Required resource was unavailable’ error on expression help.

• Bug fix: Context menu wasn’t working properly on Vista and Windows 7 with some anti-virus products.

• Improved shell extension stability.
• Improved cut feedback behaviour.
• Bug fix: Send To menu wasn’t always working with Vista and Windows 7.
• Bug fix: Window positioning now allows negative coordinates on start-up.
• Bug Fix: Focus issue with Ctrl + A on file list.
• Bug fix: Crash in Basic view if search with containing text checked but no text entered.
• Bug fix: Wizard labels needed resizing.
• Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.

• Outlook PST file searching support.
• Added Create and Last Access date criteria.
• Improved ZIP searching efficiency.
• Bug fix: Toolbar repainting issue.
• Bug fix: Occasional hanging with Explorer shell extension.
• Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.

• Contents view can now be navigated with keyboard.
• Auto thread configuration on multi-core machines.
• Sub-expression options moved back to main tab.
• Improved UTF-8 speed.
• Check for new version functionality (off by default).
• New command line option -viewfile to open file in internal viewer.
• Bug fix: Problem using location filters with zip files at root.
• Bug fix: Statistics sometimes incorrect.
• Bug fix: Tab while renaming file issues.
• Bug fix: Corrupt PDF files causing unwanted message boxes.
• Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.

• Speed improvement on single phase searches.
• Significant memory management improvements on very large searches.
• Allows UTF8 default format for UTF8 files without BOM.
• Bug fix: Rename on mouse select wasn’t working.
• Bug fix: Crash with Nino Copy Path shell extension.
• Bug fix: Multiple folder dialog added invalid items.
• Bug fix: Date/time issues.
• Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.

• New Boolean Sub Expressions functionality [more].
• New File Lists functionality for loading keywords from file [more].
• Regex speed improvements.
• Improved native handling of compressed doc formats, e.g. DOCX, XLSX, ODS etc.
• Drop down list behaviour fixes.
• Bug fix: Very long lines weren’t drawn.
• Bug fix: Unicode problems in Zip files.
• Bug fix: Problems exporting custom format to clipboard.
• Bug fix: Date/time rounding issues.
• Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.

• New Whole Word expression type (Exact Match behaviour reverted to original).
• Improved loading times.
• Variable line number widths.
• Shell ext bitmap transparent sections.
• Bug fix: Calendar control oversized on Vista.
• Bug fix: Crash on Tab key in contents view.
• Bug fix: Crash on Print Preview.

• Using XP/Vista visual styles.
• New Boolean RegEx hybrid expression type.
• Simplified regex wizard.
• Exact match limits to whole word only.
• Search statistics.
• Improved memory management on very large (TB) searches.
• Bug fix: IFilter loading issue.
• Bug fix: -mb command line switch.
• Other tweaks/minor bug fixes.

• Bug fix: Crash on very long path names.
• Bug fix: Rename not working on folders.
• Bug fix: Containing text check box not working in Basic Search.
• Bug fix: Date/Time parsing issues.
• Enhancement: Added resilience for bad/protected compressed files.

• Bug fix: Crash when opening file in Internal Viewer on a non-content search.

• Automatic document format management
• Radically improved Internal Viewer [more]
• Support for relative date/times [more]
• Unicode support [more]
• MSI Installer
• File hash search (MD5,SHA-1/256/512)
• Additional formats: DMG, HFS, MSI, RPM, UDF, XAR, Z
• Core searching routine improvements.
• Additional configuration options
• Other improvements/bug fixes

• Bug fix: Ctrl+F, F3 Explorer integration now working on Vista.
• Bug fix: Removed use of boost_interprocess temp folder.

• Bug fix: Occasional program hang with multi-threaded searches.

• Bug fix: Crash when right-clicking on thousands of files.
• Bug fix: Scroll wheel not working on contents view.
• Bug fix: Vista privilege escalation issue with Shell Integration options.
• Minor enhancements.

• Reverted to older ComCtl version, due to problems selecting multiple files with the mouse.

• Bug fix: Text sometimes clipped when using ClearType.
• Enhancement: Extra space for date time fields.

• Bug fix: Floppy drive constantly spinning issue.

• Improved Vista support
• Run from USB Key
• Network drives listed
• Location filters [more]
• Location file lists [more]
• Location macros [more]
• My Documents shell extension
• Additional format: WIM
• Minor bug fixes

• BugFix: Drag to CD
• BugFix: Additional error checking

• BugFix: Installation issues

• BugFix: Some IFilters not found due to alternative registration (inc. WordPerfect).
• BugFix: Search within search not clearing file list.
• BugFix: Copy Path not putting files in correct sort order.

• BugFix: HotKey monitor crashes on Vista.

• BugFix: Invalid reg code crashes application.
• BugFix: Redraw issues when moving or resizing columns in FileList View.
• BugFix: Search Criteria dialogs not opening correctly if location invalid.
• Moved to an updated version of C++ compiler and framework.

• XML and HTML output now in UTF-8 format.
• Optimized -o searches for -ocn flag.
• Aggressive memory management with -o searches to improve searching of very large drives.
• User configurable maximum lines per file (defaults to 10,000).
• BugFix: Locked files appearing but not searched.
• BugFix: -pc flag not working on -o searches.
• BugFix: Multiple threads on -o searches corrupting output.

• BugFix: CPIO, DEB, GZ extensions.
• BugFix: Excluding file names in LookIn edit box.
• Changes for new 5 year reg codes.

• BugFix: Unable to handle IFilters that have registry information marked as Read-only.

• New supported file types: 7-Zip, ARJ, Bzip, CHM, CPIO, DEB, GZIP, ISO, LZH, NSIS, TAR
• IFilter support, extends supported types to: Open Office, Word Perfect, and hundreds more

Functionality:

• Boolean search spanning whole file (not just line by line).
• Exclude folders list.
• Search within search (limits search to files found in previous search).
• Attribute searching (e.g. Folder, Hidden, Read-only etc).
• Pause/Resume search.
• User configurable Alerts/Notifications when files found and/or search finishes.
• Much better user configuration dialogs.
• User configuration moved out of registry to XML files.
• XSL Transform support for saving results in user configurable format (requires Win XP or MS XML Core Services).

Performance:

• Dual/Quad core optimizations (user-configurable number of search threads).
• Core searching routine improvements.
• Perl style regular expressions (Boost library) 2x faster.

Other features/fixes:

• ‘Look in’ expression handling improvements.
• Shell context menu improvements including ‘Send To’ and ‘Open With’ bug fixes.
• Shell extension can launch search on specific files instead of whole folder.
• ‘Look in’ now accepts paths of individual files not just folders.
• Title bar displays search progress during search.
• Log file rotations (stops log files from exceeding 100k).
• -r command line option to start search immediately.
• -dw command line option to search current working directory.
• Process priority settings.
• Extensions can now be run in Safe Mode to prevent them crashing main application.
• Tab order optimization, with option to restore to standard Left-Right order.

• Redraw crash following file Cut fixed
• MS Office searching improvements (supports DOC/XLS/PPT)
• Other minor enhancements and bug fixes

• Enhanced shell functionality (Rename, Cut, Shift+Delete, Right-click drag etc.)
• Ability to hide contents view (useful when searching large files)
• Option to show end of file path if full path won’t fit
• Other minor enhancements and bug fixes

• Boolean searches (e.g. AND, OR, NOT)
• Perl regexp support (via Boost library)
• Search navigation (similar to Internet browser navigation)
• HotKey support (Win+Alt+F)
• Improved User Interface
• Multiple highlights on same line
• Visual Studio.NET as external editor option
• Many minor enhancements and bug fixes

• Installation now checks registration expiration before the install begins
• Minor fix on conflicting hot keys

• Context menu handling handles badly behaved entries better.
• Two additional scripts in Sample Scripts folder showing how to do a ‘NOT’ and use JScript regular expressions

• Fixed problem with context menu opening folders
• Added -oc command line switch to control ‘Save Contents’ option

• Double click problem with Win98
• Installation now no longer clears previous history

• RAR Interpreter added
• Word Doc interpreter added (switched off by default)
• Minor improvements

• Zip functionality within WinXP speed fix.
• Folder ‘disappearing’ bug fix.
• Results output double spacing lines fix.
• Installation now forces overwrite of prior install.

• Full row select on file list.
• Tool tip completion if file information not completely displayed.
• Registration code modification.

• Convert 8 bit chars to 7 bit chars option added.
• Contents resync problem following file delete.
• Registration/installation requirements simplified.
• Internal viewer not loading files correctly.
• CAB support added.
• File list sorting issue.
• Problem with badly formed ZIP files.
• Escaping special characters when regexp NOT used in containing text.
• Multi-threaded synchronization issues in progress notification code.
• PDF searching not working on certain long name locations.
• ‘Look in’ combo only retrieving 260 chars of previous searches.
• Command line loading of search parms with -o switch problem.
• Password protected ZIP entries causing problems.
• Last search DOS Expression not retained correctly after reload.
• Error if found expression exceeds 5,000 characters.