Version History
Version 4.2.1
New Features and Improvements
- Using the Find Files feature was broken in version 4.2
- Fatal error when deleting multiple files in the Explorer window
- Check for update on Open and Check for Update Menu item
- Other minor features and enhancements
Version 4.2
New Features
- Calculating folder size within the detailed list view
- Auto-complete of file paths in the Path Field
- A new snap back button similar to Safari's Snap Back button which takes you back to the last entered path in the Path Field
- File names, in the left folder list, are properly truncated instead of wrapped
- Pressing the left arrow button within the left folder list goes to the parent directory if the selected folder is collapsed, otherwise it collapses the selected folder
- Pressing the right arrow key goes to the next child folder in the folder list if the selected folder is expanded, otherwise it expands it
- Improvements to tabbed file browsing including spring loading tabs, draggable tabs which act as folders, faster switching between tabs and the ability for tabs to have their own custom views
- New paste contextual menu item
Version 4.1
New Features
- Tabbed file browsing
- Search field in each Explorer window to quickly find and locate specific files
- CMM (Contextual Menu) when no files are selected lists all parent directories so you can quickly jump to them
- Major Speed Improvements
- Folder list is much faster in expanding/collapsing folders
- Faster file navigation all around
- Selecting all files (Command-A), then clicking outside the folder bounds, to cause the files to become deselecting is much faster
- changing views is much faster (instant) and preserves sorting/selection
- changing icon size is much faster (instant) and preserves sorting/selection
- Sorting is much faster
- Choose the location that Macintosh Explorer defaults to on launch
- Macintosh Explorer can now remember the last directory visited between launches
- New flavors allow you to customize Macintosh Explorer's Interface
- Moving a file to the trash, where a file with that name already exists, will automatically change the name of the file in the trash without giving a message asking if you would like to replace the file
- Can now change the size of folder icons in the folder list
- Clicking within the name of a folder in the folder list now allows you to rename it
- Customize the number of rows of icons in icon view or make it always show enough to fit to the window (under the view menu)
- Click and hold a folder link to get a menu listing all its items so you can quickly navigate to them
- Toggle between show invisible files from the View menu
- Change shelf size from the view menu for individual Explorer windows
- Expanding widget is not visible for folders that do not contain and folders in them
- Redesigned Application Icon
Bugs Fixes
- Type selection in icon view would not properly draw icons
- Cut/copy and paste now works properly when renaming files or using the pathfield
- creating new folders/duplicating files/making aliases/moving or drag and drop now correctly adds the files in their correct display spot
- Crash on startup when using certain third party software
- Occasional crash when mounting volumes
- Occasional crash when getting file info
- Now displays folder size properly in Info Window
Version 4.0
New Features
- Rewritten file listing engine provides much faster file loading and file navigation
- THREE different file views including icon view, list view and detailed list view
- New filter file list adds a third column view providing both single click file navigation and the ability to filter the displayed files based on specific criteria
- Improved support for Mac OS X 10.3
- Extensive customization options have been added
- Eject button beside volumes allow quick unmounting of removable media
- View icons as big as 128 pixels or as small as 16 pixels
- Improved file shelf allows greater customization and the ability to hide it all together providing increase navigation space
- File shelf shows file and folder names allowing you to quickly tell similar items with the same icons apart
- Support for file labels
- Improved saving file list feature allows more customization of the information that is saved to the file
- New folder banks allow you to create banks of multiple files which are treated as a single file
- Improved contextual menu items allow easy access to more features
- New Go menu provides access to commonly used navigation features such as go back, forward and to the parent directory
- New Recent Folders list allows you to quickly navigate back to previously visited folders
- Integrated preview feature into main window provides an easier view previewed files
- All around speed improvements provide a better file browsing experience
- Better memory management reduces memory consumption, offering many benefits to OS 9 users
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Removing volumes could cause a fatal error message
- Deleting folder occasionally caused a fatal error message
- Unable to open about window in OS 9
- More efficient back and forward navigation button properly return to previously folders
- Many problems with the old file listing engine have been resolved due to the rewrite in version 4
Version 3.6
New Features
- Mac OS X Toolbar support on OS X 10.2 or later
- Preview window is now a drawer window on OS X 10.2 or later
- Improved Interface on Mac OS X 10.2
- Faster file browsing
- Faster overall experience
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Changing dates in the batch info changer would cause a crash
- Many minor bug fixes and improvements
Version 3.5
New Features
- Spring loading folders
- Save file lists for a selected directory including file information
- File lists will refresh more reliably when moving, copying or deleting files
- Redesigned Preferences Dialog looks better on Mac OS X
- Better handling of package files in both OS X and OS 9. Macintosh Explorer will treat application packages as applications in OS 9
- Showing Package Contents contextual menu item allows you to browse into a package and edit its contents
- Contextual menus can now work when selecting multiple files
- Permanently delete and backup documents window now show extended file information within the files lists as well as allow you to rename listed files and use the contextual menu
- Column and row separator preferences for the file lists
- Improved built in copy and move routines
- You can now move files with long file names
- Copying files retains extension information
- You can now properly copy packages
- When moving an item to a directory which contains another item with the same name, you will be asked if you want to replace or skip that file
- Setting creation/modification dates now use standard controls to properly modify the date and time
- You can now rename files which have long file names
- Rearrange toolbar items using drag and drop in the Preferences dialog
Bug Fixes & Improvements
- Constant Apple Event errors in Mac OS 9
- Aliases used as favorites would not display in Explorer window
- Did not correctly show the appropriate kind of file in Explorer window
- Explorer window would not correctly update after pasting, duplicating or moving items
- Toolbar would not draw correctly after saving the preferences
- Fixed some memory leaks
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