Following is a detailed history of FileList+ versions, starting with the oldest, up to version 1.0b15. Note that some items are changed more than once, so that only the most recent data applies.
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New to version 1.0b2 of FileList+
• Version 1.0b2 added the option (see "Scan Options…" menu item) to get version number information for applications, INITs, cdevs, and system files. Note that not all applications and the like contain the “vers” resource used to obtain this information, so that some will not return a value. Also, files that are compressed in StuffIt or Compactor archives are beyond the reach of FileList+ and will not show any version info either. Note also that this slows down the scanning of disks, particularly if the volume contains lots of system or application files. Default for this option is OFF.
Addition of the version number information required changing the file structure. Therefore, FileList+ version 1.0b2 will read all older version FileList list files, but will write a format incompatible with earlier versions of FileList and FileList+. The save as old format does not currently convert back to the older format. There is one known bug/feature in the version stuff. Under MultiFinder , the current Finder and MultiFinder files version information are not available. An error code will be indicated instead, as in “n/a-193” for error -193. No bombs or other distasteful stuff accompanies this problem so it shouldn’t be a big deal. I am working this problem. If anyone knows a way to access resources in active Finder andMultiFinder files, please let me know!!
• FileList+ will now prefer the “Preferences” folder in the current system folder for the “FileList Options” file. It will alway look there first for the options file and will write any new or changed options file to the “Preferences” folder, if it exists, deleting the original options file in the process. This is the standard for System 7 and just a good idea for System 6.
• Version 1.0b2 fixed a bug in version 1.0b1 where 800 Kbytes was used as the maximum size of a Floppy for the purposes of which icon to show in the Add volume dialog. 1.4M is now the cuttoff point for Floppy versus Hard Disk icons.
• Numerous other minor bugs were cleaned up.
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New to version 1.0b3 of FileList+
• Version 1.0b2 had several rather bad bugs with converting from old to new file format.
These have been fixed. Also, Save As Old format menu item will now save a file in the old format.
• Fixed bug that made Find Volume inoperative.
• Fixed numerous other bugs, some of which predated FileList+.
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New to version 1.0b4 of FileList+
• Changed conversion progress indicator to not try an estimate of the time remaining.
• Fixed bug that caused last selected item in Filter pop-up menu to be selected if no item selected.
• Fixed numerous other bugs.
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New to version 1.0b5 of FileList+
• In the Files window, user may now sort by clicking the header item. Also, header will indicate the sort-by field, if that field is displayed. (1.0b6 added this to Volumes window also.)
• In the Files window, the user may enter any printable character to select next item with the its sorted-by field starting with that character. Does wrap-around at end of list. List must be sorted by Name, creator or type. Case sensitive for creator and type only.
• swapped order of create and modify date items in display options dialog
• Fixed numerous other bugs.
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New to version 1.0b6 of FileList+
• Added powerful new menu item “Compare File Versions”. This function is similar to the old “Check File Matches” menu item (which has been renamed “Custom File Matching”) but goes a lot further. See description below. This required a file version change.
• User may now sort by clicking the header item in either window, any field.
• Added reverse-sorts. To sort in descending order, hold options key down while clicking on the header or selecting the menu item. Default is ascending.
• User may turn off the display of any field in the Files window by command-clicking on the header for that field.
• Renamed menu item “Check File Matches”. It is now “Custom File Matching”).
• Sort by match now maintains previous sort sequence for all types of matches & non-matches.
• Added menu item to View-Files menu for sorting by Version and Name.
• Version numbers will be skipped to first numeric character if they are too long for field on scanning.
• Fixed a bug in the File Filter Options dialog that would not allow the letter “A” to be entered in the text fields. Also started checking for valid characters in numeric field.
• beefed up character handling in dialogs to allow use of command-keys or un-modified keys it most dialogs.
• made text font for printing 7 point. (plan to add user options here in the future)
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New to version 1.0b7 of FileList+
• Fixed bug that prevented Replace Duplicate Volumes option from working for automatic scans (initiated by the a disk being inserted).
• User may now rearrange their fields in either window by clicking the header of the field to move and dragging to where it should go.
• Added a new menu item that resets all (new) options to their defaults. Does not effect options selected in the Options menu item.
• Beefed up robustness of Compare Version.
• Fixed several bugs, including several with new Compare Version function fixed bug with match - when stripping numerics, now also stripping trailing blanks fixed bug with log file name not returning to "untitled" after "New" entered problem where apps are not same version but create date says they are, check sizes
If sizes differ by more than 1K, then use modify date to indicate relationship when an executable indicates a match but the size difference is greater than 1K bytes use modify date/time instead of create date/time or version to relate files (needed because some code writers i.e. SuperClock, Boomerang, use same create date for all versions of files)
• Made icons in Add… dialog staggered to improve readability of longer volume names
• Added match field to display items, made it independant of name
• Added divider lines to log file
• Moved Size item in View-Files menu & Display Options dialog to follow default window sequence
• Added variables to Options file for field sequence, changed version number of options file
• When options file is older version, preserve the window displays
• Added Apply button to Display Options dialog so user can see effect of selection
• Now inverting both sort fields (match and last) for match sort
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New to version 1.0b8 of FileList+
• Fixed bug that caused a blank window to appear if no FileList Options file was found at load.
• Changed default list format to use original FileList format unless scan with file version info
enabled or other operation performed that requires new list format. The list will be converted to the latest format in this event. This change will prevent the display of the
version field unless the list is of the new type.
• displays command key info for Scan Options dialog
• added options for Exact or up-to-numeric name matches to Match Prefs dialog
• added option for Path to Match Prefs dialog
• clear sorted if sorted by Match and Match data changed
• added Secondary sort for Creator, and Type
• indicate primary sort field with tag in bottom left corner of field header item
• changed Custom Match to only mark the second and subsequent matches
• Fixed other minor bugs
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New to version 1.0b9 of FileList+
• Fixed bug that prevented second sort parameter from being performed descended.
• Added secondary sorts for volume and path.
• when Files window is sorted by Name, Type, Creator, Volume, or Path, entering
starting string will search that field for next occurence (used to only do first three fields and only first character)
• cleaned up the Save Text function
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New to version 1.0b10 of FileList+
• when click in header bar, shows selected field with gray box
• in compare versions, only show files that pass the file filter in "no copies" list
• cleaned up Log file, made path lines shorter, file references more uniform
• no longer show Desktop files in Log file
• added in-progress dialogs for Sort, Scan and Print operations (print has cancel too!)
• fixed bug with auto-search by type or creator
• changed dialog centering to use active window, not whole screen, good for those with large monitors
• improved background processing for match functions
• added check for spooling before calling PrPicFile, might help some reported printing problems
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New to version 1.0b11 of FileList+
• fixed bug in Save Text (w/Tabs)
• fixed major bug in print (from 1.0b10) that would lock the machine the second time the Print menu item was selected
• fixed bug with initialization that caused blank windows at initialization if no Options file found (thought I had fixed this problem back in version 1.0b8 but had an uninitialized variable)
• pick up other normal Options from older format Options file, sets other options to defaults
• added status for printing that indicates “Skipping page…” when starting page has not been reached
• stop printing cycle when stop page is reached (was printing OK, just went through the whole document anyway)
• speeded up sorts (View-by), especially by Volume and by Path
• fixed sort by Path so that second sort field is actually used, not Name field
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New to version 1.0b12 of FileList+
• made sort by path about 25% faster by doing check first for same parent
• added tabs in front of key places in Log file so proportional fonts may be used
• fixed bug with sort by Version, was doing reverse sort for forward & visa-versa
• made active header region (for clicks) not include status
• auto-search will wait for keythresh timeout before starting search
• integrated Find function controls into header bar
added Find First, Find Prev, Find Next buttons
Tab will rotate among find fields
cut, paste, copy work in find-text fields
auto-seach text is entered in current field, based on view-by statu in Files window, search may be by name or parent or volume
if by parent or volume and all items blank, will skip to next parent/volume
• added Find First and Find Previous menu items (same to header controls)
• removed Find dialogs (redundant to header controls)
• made menu item Find always visible
causes display of Find control items if they are not currently available causes selection of find text item if currently visible
• fixed bug with Save Text of Volume list
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New to version 1.0b13 of FileList+
• fixed bug with incorrect files being labeled as older/newer whenever they where compared based on dates and more than a few hours different in age.
• fixed bug with filter pop-up menu not working when find controls visible - MDEF not set in rsrc
• fixed bug in dialog edit items that would'nt recognize delete, cursor keys
• fixed bug w/print bombs in Finder, bumped minimum appl heap to 96000 bytes (was ~30K)
• fixed bug in Options menu item, return was selecting second button (Save and Cancel), now selects highlited item
• fixed bug in drag field routine that would allow click between header items
• fixed resource SIZE to allow background events, will now operate in background
• fixed bug w/find controls and status and horizontal scroll
• fixed bug with primary "sort by" marker and horizontal scroll
• fixed bug w/options files created where none existed have no type & creator, no icon
• fixed another bug w/no windows when no options file found!
• fixed bug w/System 7 and grayed default button in open/save dialogs changed find operations: don't start search over from start just because new text entered
• fixed bug in Add… dialog with mouse click on volumes 15 and 16 not selecting items
• fixed bug where text file default name not changed after new file is opened
• fixed bug with bomb after cancel Rename of volume during scan
• added new option to volume menu and scan options - filter on add
default = no
applies to all add operations
• added Executable File option to File Filter
• added ScanOptions button to Add… dialog
• added cmd-click >> delete for Find Controls
• added options display in scan progress dialog
• moved Automatic, Stuffit, Compactor options to Scan Options from Options
• added new option to Scan Options for Archive Only, only scans files in archives
• added auto-scroll (vertical & horiz)
• added routines for extended selections
changed data structure to use one byte of "kind" parameter for this > changed file version
• added "selected" field to both lists ("•")
field cannot be turned off - but can be moved
selections are saved when file is saved
use shift key to extend selections
shift drag will select all records between drag begin and drag end
added skip to next selected when Enter key hit, go to cursor when return
• added second line to statistics bar, selection info - group, # groups, selections, byte count of selections
show total free size of selected volumes
• added view "by selected (& last)" menu functions for files and volumes
• added interaction between volume window selections and file window selections
cmd-click in volume window will select all files in that volume
• generalized contrain function w/shift for print, save text will print only selected records
• changed VERSIONF (list file version) to 4 from 3, made this the default version, not older FileList format, will read old versions, need to Save As Old format to get version compatible w/all versions of FileList+, FileList
• changed Delete (volume) menu item to Delete All Selected
• added Select All, Find All menu functions
• added Delete Selected Files menu item, changed old Delete Files to Delete Files Special
made delete key sensitive to active window for which records it deletes
added safety option - warn before deletes
• changed Rename to Rename Volume(s), does all selected volumes
• copy to clipboard now does all selected records
• added multiple select groups (5) including present selections
• added Select Menu w/all selection group commands
added push/clear, pop/rotate, add, and, invert, and push/rotate commands
push (shift) and clear present selection group before Find All performed, unless no selections
push and clear does not function when no selections made
added menu items
save (push) selection group and clear present bits
get last selection group (rotate left)
pop last selection group (rotate right)
push present selection group and clear (shift right)
OR present and last selection group (& shift left)
AND present and last selection group (& shift left)
toggle selection group
Select All
Select Special… files are in selected groups (special)
Reset all selections
• added "Print Selected" when shift key down w/"Print All"
• added Selection Groups A and B
changed only when swapped with present group by user or reset by Save As Old
added menu items Swap Present with Group A, ... B
• made cursor selection a rectangle around selected record instead of solid invert
• stopped resetting vertical scroll positions after
delete field, drag field, reset fields, menu routines, reset match flags
• save is always permitted, even if file has not been changed
• added Find All button to Find Controls
• added Non-System files only option to filter
requires records scanned and saved with version 1.0b13 or later to be operational
• added User Selected Records option to Select Groups dialog
applies in addition to match and filter settings, in other words, a file must pass all three sets of criteria to qualify
• changed default list file format to latest version, no longer defaults to FileList 1.4
when scan is performed, previous list is converted to latest version if it is not already
• show selection stats in printout header
• now warns before converting for Save as Old (all data may be lost)
• only use modify date for executable files wo/version info and same create date and size diff > 1K
• added Finder flags to database (2 bytes after version info)
• changed options file name to FileList+ Options to allow coexistance w/original FileList, user should throw away the old FileList Options from FileList+
• added font menu items to Special menu, sub-menu items for status, window, print operations
saved in Options File whenever save options is performed
• added option to Options for Save Text/Copy format - same as displayed or fixed no longer related to Tabs options
• changed fixed format to same as default display sequence & menu sequence
• reset fields to default (command-option click in header) now only resets the window clicked
"FNDR" and "ERIK" or "BTFL" and "DMGR" or "DTFL" and "DMGR"
• checks for options file in same folder as application after System, Preferences folders
• when save is performed with only one volume in list and name has not been specified, uses the volume's name followed by " List" as the default name in Save dialog
• added new Match Preferences option for One Match per File
applies to both matching functions
will only compare files that have not been matched already
useful for audits where only one copy of software is allowed
default is OFF
• added new Match Preferences option for Create Log file for Version Match
default is OFF
• added Selected files only constrain to Custom File Matching
will compare all files, setting match flags only when one of the files is selected
does not File Filter files
invoke by holding shift key down when selecting menu item
• now converts all lists when they are read in to the latest version
• changed match functions to set multiple match flag whenever a new match is found and a previous match was indicated. This fixes a bug where the sort sequence would effect whether a multiple match was indicated
• changed version match function to NOT set multiple match flag for first file
• cleaned up match functions to indicate the two non-multiple matches of a multiple match set on the correct volumes (same or different). In other words, if you have two copies of a file on one disk and other copies on another disk and selected "Different" volumes, one of the files on the first disk and one of the files on the second disk would NOT be marked as multiple matches, the rest of the copies would be.
Before, the two non-multiples could be on the same disk, depending on the sort sequence.
• if sort-by item is the same, but the reverse direction, maintain previous last sort
• increased size of maximum volume back to 4 Gigabytes, files still limited to 256 megabytes stopped using same format for each, not using match bits for volumes
• using same dialog centering algorithm for Standard File Open/Save as for other dialogs
• moved match statistics to second line of file window only
use p2 size for matchBytes, only count it once (if already matched, skip)
• moved Scan Options menu item to Volume menu from Special menu
• rearranged items in Volume menu
• added Display and Scan options buttons to Options menu item in File menu
• added date, tabs options to those reset with Reset Options to Defaults
• changed defaults for: date format to MM/DD/YY; Use Tabs between field enabled
• fixed bug with files starting with number matching on anything for Match to numerics, now skip leading numerics. Effects Match functions.
• now doing push and clear before Select All Records functions
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New to version 1.0b14 of FileList+ 7/25/91
• fixed numerous bombs on Macs with 68000 when list convert, Set Custom, and other operations performed
• added cancel button to Scan progress dialog
• indicate in Scan progress when a volume is being replaced, beep
• holding down command key while clicking file in files window will select all records in the same folder as the file clicked, or deselect all if that file was already selected
- holding down shift-key also will extend previous selection
• added "Item Selected" radio "button" in Filter menu that indicates when any item in the pop-up menu is selected.
• getting version information from signature resource if 'vers' resource not found
• fixed bug with unmounted volume being remounted by drive INIT
• for Compare Versions, if names, types, creators and dates match but size doesn't, set both older and newer flags on both files to flag possible anamoly
• fixed compare to numeric so that "Name 1" ≠ "NameMore 2" but "Name 1" = "Name 2v1"
• fixed bug with Find All button not selecting the first record found
• fixed bug where scan and display options set from Options menu item not used
• added option to Options dialog for saving the Select (•) field
• added Save Text progress dialog with options shown
• default name for Save Text file is now list file name + " fil.txt" or "vol.txt" for Files or Volumes window
• when Save is performed, don't deselect current record & don't scroll to end
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New to version 1.0b15 of FileList+ 8/6/91
• fixed bug with Options… dialog bomb on Mac Plus, Classic and SE
• fixed bug in delete file records. It was deleting any selected volume records also!
• fixed bug where Font selections were saved in Options but not retrieved at program load
• fixed bugs with window titles not being in sync for "changed" status
• fixed bugs with editing search values
clicking a menu bar without selecting anything was deselecting edit item was performing automatic find when name was clicked and timeout occurred while entering text
• added statistics update during extended selection of records
• deleted file records (deleted from files window) will not actually remove data from database until a Save, Save As, Save As Old Format, scan, or Merge is performed. Instead, they are just marked as deleted until one of these operation is performed, or until they are unmarked by entering the Undo command.
• improved speed of menus
• changed sort to indicate when it uses the Name field as the default secondary sort
(for sorts by size or dates)
• keeping track if version info is present, display field if it is present and enabled, don't display field if no values present for it in current list, even if it is enabled
• Text Export option Text as Displayed worked backwords, was using fixed format when selected, format as displayed when not selected. Fixed it to work like name says.
• no longer loses list sort when following operations are performed
Rename Volume
Delete Volume
Delete files
Save As Old Format
• added Options… button to Save Text dialog so that text options may be set
• copies text from Name, Type or Creator field in Files list or Name in Volumes list to the
Find text item of the same name whenever one of those fields is clicked in a record with the Option key down. For example, to find all files of the same name, click on the name of a file in the list with the name you want with the Option key down. The name will be put into the Name field in the Find controls. Click Find All to set selected flag for each of these records. Use enter key to skip to the next selected record.
• fixed bug with menu items not being updated from find controls for cmd-key entries
• Changed search path for FileList+ Options file at application launch.
When opening FileList+ Options file, looks first in application's folder, then in Preferences folder in System Folder, then in System Folder itself. Application folder was last.
When saving FileList+ Options file, sequence is Preferences, then System folder.
• when a scan is canceled, no longer ejecting the disk
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New to version1.0b16 8/6/91 - 8/30/91
• changed menu command key for Find Again to command-R and added to command-A for Select All Records
• fixed bug where window header could be corrupted.
• fixed Compare File Versions to show version number with letter appended as newer than one without, for example 4.0a is newer than 4.0
• fixed bug with list records being displayed in geneva font when auto-scroll is performed with
the shift key down.
• when all files are deleted from a folder, the folder is now being deleted from the database also.
• fixed bug where group stack info not reset when list is cleared with New menu item
• fixed bug with save text with selected field not shown causing name field to be copied twice
• added Created date and Modified date options to File Filter
• added Display Option for displaying file size in K bytes
all values shown in Kbytes are rounded up, i.e. 1-1024 bytes = 1K, 1025 - 2048 = 2K etc.
Calculations use original numbers and may not reflect use of rounded numbers.
Note: File sizes do not necessarily reflect disk space
• fixed several bugs with selections
extended de-selecting of volumes was not working
statistics for files window was not updated when extended selections made
• changed cmd-click on file record to select all files in the current files folder AND sub-folders,
was just same folder
• added cmd-option-click (2cd Parent modifier keys) on file record to select all files in the current files parent's folder AND sub-folders,
for example, a file in the folder "A" which is in the Folder "B" when clicked with cmd-option donw will
select all files in folder "B", including sub-folders.
The 2cd Parent key(s) must be in ADDITION to the key(s) used to select the parent folder.
• changed current version number for options file to 6, will read window data from older versions
and reset other options to defaults
• made all click - modifiers user selectable via the Options menu item
• changed "Special" selection dialog to always allow match flag selection, even when match info is not current
• fixed bug when out of memory occurs during merge operation, was indicating wrong value for Get Info application size
• fixed bug where list file that was shortened will still take up same space on disk unless written to new file,
problem was no new EOF was written after the (shortened) data, leaving old EOF
• fixed bug with font menus not showing check mark if last item in any menu selected
• changed select field - field is now fixed on the left column of the window with a diamond symbol indicating record is selected
save as text with save select field option selected will place a bullet in the first field output for each record that is selected
• added lines to Find Controls area and seperating fixed Select field and other, scrolling fields
• fixed bug where if secondary sort was by Select field, header was not cleared when selections changed
• added command keys for Options dialog
• added Text file Creator option to the Options… dialog - effects both the Save Text and Log files
• fixed line across statistics and find controls header when activate/deactivate window
• fixed bug with resized windows being messed up whenever Display Options were changed
• fixed bug where font info not being updated when Reset Options performed
• added menu bar item "Sort" to replace both view-by menus, added "Files" and "Options" menus, moved many menu items
• changed command keys - Changed Find Again to command-G, added command-R for Find Last, command-U for General Options
• marking last sort by field in menu with a diamond symbol
• fixed bug where when sorting Files list by Path, the volumes list sort was cleared
• speeded up Find All, stopped showing cursor on each match, return to last selected if no matches, otherwise, jumps to first match
• fixed edit (cut, copy, paste, clear) commands for editting text items in Find area
• added Tile Windows menu item to the Options menu
• modified Stack windows to set window width for large monitors to a maximum width of 560 pixels
• when options file is corrupted or a different version than this version of application, the program will put up a warning message and reset all options to defaults
• allow f2-f4 to work as Cut, Copy, and Paste while editing text items in dialogs and search parameters
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New to version 1.0b17 9/3/91 - 9/4/91
• fixed bug that distorted Compactor Archives record data - bug was introduced with in version 1.0b16 by bug/feature of new compiler
• fixed Scan Options to not allow setting of Archives only when neither archive type is selected
• changed Find menu item to toggle display of find controls
• made option to display Find Controls independant for each window, added separate option for Volumes list
• fixed bug with top line of header being erased whenever statistics updated
• changed Files window in display and print to use Geneva font for Volume and Path text, overrides selected printer font for that text only
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New to version 1.0b18 9/4/91 - 9/7/91
• fixed printing of file path, was positioned too far to the right
• fixed problem with garbage characters after the path in display
• fixed problem with Estimated Time display in progress dialogs
• fixed problem with convert progress showing status of File Filter that is not applicable
• cleaned up conversion to not leave corrupted database if Cancel perform, either clears or recovers data if possible
• speeded up conversion process by factor of over two
• fixed Files and Volume menu items to enable menu items even though that window is not active
• changed export text (copy or Save Text) to always use byte format for sizes, not Kbyte
