FileSeek Change Log
v4.2 • March 4, 2015
- FileSeek will now show a preview for some apps in a new preview window beside the results text box
- Added an option to show a message if FileSeek finds an empty folder
- Added an option to treat the Exclude Path field as a wildcard
- FileSeek has a new advanced setting to allow you to turn previews off
- FileSeek has a new advanced setting to allow you to set a custom file decoder
- FileSeek has a new advanced setting to allow you to turn off the warning when you clear your search history
- Resolved an issue where the folder browse dialog was not opening at the last selected path
- Treat exclude path as wildcard option will now work correctly
v4.1.1 • February 5, 2015
- Resolved an issue with the "treat query as one phrase" option
v4.1 • February 3, 2015
- The context menu in Windows Explorer can now handle opening multiple files in one instance of FileSeek
- You can now drag and drop files into the Include and Exclude files and paths text boxes to automatically append them
- A new image preview area has been added to the results pane
- FileSeek now searches root network paths correctly
- Resolved an issue where the include files box gets cleared when opening FileSeek from the Explorer context menu
- Resolved an issue where date filters were not saved correctly in search profiles
v4.0 • December 17, 2014
- Added the ability to customize the date format used by FileSeek
- FileSeek now searches through root folders before nested folders
- Added a new search option to skip searching of hidden files and folders
- Added a new search option to skip searching of system files and folders
- Added a new search option to show an error when skipping hidden files and folders
- Added a new search option to show an error when skipping system files and folders
- FileSeek now shows the total size of all files it searched in the status bar
- Default search profiles now start with the "Show folders that match include files" option set to off
- FileSeek will now properly search through folders that contain more than 10,000 files and folders
- Resolved an issue where FileSeek did not restore its position properly
- Resolved an issue where FileSeek did not save search profiles properly
- File Handler improvements
v3.3 • August 8, 2014
- Added 2 new options to search for file/folders names only against the "include files" filter
- No shows a warning if a searched PDF has no text
- Added a "Permanently Delete Selected Files" option to the context menu
- Improved UI control sizes for non-English languages
- Big-5 file encoding improvements
- Cyrillic file encoding improvements
- Improvements with date filtering and AND/OR
- Text query bug fixes (quoted phrases... etc)
- Line breaks now works correctly in DOCX files (and others)
- No more "index out of bounds" errors when searching inside some files
v3.2.1 • June 18, 2014
- HTML export files now contain links to the files and folders
- You can now change the behaviour of the Date Filters to AND or OR
- Icons for "Other Application" in the Settings Window no longer disappear
- Font scaling compatibility improvements
v3.2 • June 16, 2014
- Improved the "Other Applications" tab in the Settings window
- Added the option to minimize or close FileSeek to the system tray
- Added an option to pass multiple files to the same instance, instead of opening multiple instances
- Added an option to treat query text as one large search term
- Added an option to skip a file being read after a certain number of seconds
- Date filter "From" dates now are set to midnight instead of the current time
- Added a command line option "-start", which executes a search as soon as FileSeek starts
- Query tooltip will now change as you type in the query text field
- Added an "Extension" column to the search results
- The "File" column in the search results is now called "File Name"
- New UI icons to make it more consistent with other Binary Fortress Software applications
- Fixed an issue where the "Exclude Folder" filters were being ignored
- Resolved an issue where the date filters were not set to the correct value
- Massive performance improvements while searching
v3.1.4 • November 12, 2013
- "Double-Click Action" drop-down was missing from the Settings window
- "Growl for Windows" compatibility improvements
v3.1.3 • October 7, 2013
- Added "Growl for Windows" integration (enabled by default if you have Growl for Windows installed)
- Small performance and stability improvements
v3.1.2 • September 11, 2013
- Exported HTML and CSV search results now show the start and end time
- Minor UI error message improvements
v3.1.1 • July 19, 2013
- Added an option to enable or disable tooltips
- Added an option to always start FileSeek with a blank search profile
- Added information from the status bar to exported HTML results
- FileSeek now supports better font rendering for East Asian languages
- Resolved an issue where the file handler names didn't properly load in the Settings window
- File Handler processing for text files no longer ignores blank lines
- Font scaling improvements
- Text query improvements
v3.1 • June 6, 2013
- Added the ability to filter within search results
- The option to show more lines before and after a result in the preview pane is now avaliable per-search
- Added new command line options
- All file filters now have the option to search by a RegEx value
- ToolTip display time has been increased from 5 seconds to 10 seconds
- Split the "show lines before/after" into 2 separate settings
- All Language names are now capitalized
- Folder results no longer get shown when minimum file size filter is set
- Resolved an issue where copying text from the preview pane caused an error
- Preview pane now correctly remembers it's size
- Deleting long file paths now works correctly in all situations
- Fixed an error that caused text copying to fail from the preview pane
- Exclude Paths is now a wildcard by default
v3.0 • April 26, 2013
- The FileSeek UI is now translated into other languages
- Searches can now be opened in new tabs
- Added Search Profiles for configuring and saving your searches for use later
- Search Profiles can by sync'd between computers
- Searches are now multi-threaded for better performance
- Added support for long file paths (searching, querying, deleting)
- Date Created is now shown in the search results
- Date Accessed is now shown in the search results
- Added more command line parameters
- Search results can be dragged from the FileSeek window into other applications
- Window title is now set to the current search parameters
- You can now filter results by: Date Created, Date Modified, Date Accessed, File Size (minimum and maximum)
- Added a more advanced query syntax for searching inside files
- Added the ability to exclude folders from searches
- The Windows context menu items now have the FileSeek icon
- Added an option to show more preview lines for search results
- Added the ability to export search results to CSV
- Added the ability to export search results to HTML
- Added an option to copy the folder names for search results
- Added an option to configure the default double-click behaviour for search results
- Added a "Pause" button for pausing searches
- Added support for environment variables in the include/exclude paths field
- Auto-updater now supports a single click update for FileSeek Pro users
- Various UI and performance issues have been resolved
- Sorting and searching in non-English languages is much improved
- Resolved an issue that prevented accented characters from being properly matched
- Resolved an issue that caused the enter key to open the selected search result twice
- The "open" actions now support more than 1 file (you can open multiple result files now)
- The folder browsing window has been updated to look more modern
- Search results no longer appear in the wrong search tab when opening new searches quickly
- Resolved a text highlighting issue related to whole-file searches
v2.1.3 • April 4, 2011
- "Open with Other Application" now passes the correct line number when using a non-English locale
- Menu colours where sometimes displayed incorrectly when a custom colour scheme was used in Windows
v2.1.2 • February 18, 2011
- CTRL + A now selects all of the results
- Fixed some stability and performance issues
v2.1.1 • January 15, 2011
- File size filter is now separated into minimum and maximum, and now has a units selector (bytes, KB, MB, GB)
- New 'Internet Connection Settings' window for configuring proxy settings more easily
v2.1 • January 1, 2011
- Added a "Clear Search History" button in the Settings window
- Improved file browser for selecting the custom file editing "other application"
- Added more filtering options: date created, date modified, file size by clicking the "More Options" button
v2.0.4 • November 30, 2010
- The "Query" field is now focused after a search is complete
- The date filter can now be set to filter based on date modified or date created
v2.0.3 • November 8, 2010
- Now shows a warning message when trying to search for a text string inside a known binary file type
- Some tab order issues are now corrected
