Febooti fileTweak utility - history

New:

• Febooti fileTweak now supports long file path up to 32,767 characters.
• Full Unicode support in file and folder names.

Changed:

• FileTweak now requires Microsoft Windows 2000 or higher.
• Removed tutorial.exe file from installation package.
• Multiple minor changes.

Improved:

• During file date, jpg date and attribute change Apply button becomes active.
• Interface font replaced with more modern one for better appearance.
• FileTweak View module now displays 256 kilobytes of file contents instead of former 30 kilobytes.
• Multiple minor improvements.

Fixed:

• If path (including file name) was longer than 260 characters, use of include directory feature led to program freeze.

Changed:

• Installer includes both x86 and x64 versions in a single (.exe or .zip) setup file. Separate 32-bit and 64-bit versions still available as .msi installers.

Improved:

• Graphical user interface improved.
• Added High DPI support for Windows Vista and Windows 7 making the software DPI-aware.
• Product-wide icon update to take advantage of Windows 7 graphical user interface capacities.
• Internal libraries updated to newest versions.
• Minor improvements.

Fixed:

• Compressed attribute now works correctly with folders.
• No false error messages are displayed when changing attributes of folders.
• Error reporting on files that do not have appropriate permissions.
• Minor resource leaking bug.
• Minor fixes.

Improved:

• Better e-update compatibility with Windows Vista.
• Minor improvements.

Fixed:

• Issue causing registration procedure failure on Windows Vista and Windows Vista 64-bit editions. Registration must be performed for each user account.
• Minor fixes.

Improved:

• JPG Exif metadata handler - more JPG / JPEG pictures supported.
• Visual improvements in the View tab in folder content list mode.
• If no date present in the JPG Exif metadata, date does not exist is shown instead of current system date / time which was confusing.
• Minor improvements.

Fixed:

• Bug when automatic update e-update does not pop up in most cases, even when new version was available.
• Bug when two asterisks were shown instead of one in the JPG tab, if there was no corresponding Exif metadata field in selected file.
• Some minor fixes.

New:

• JPG Date module added to fileTweak. Allows changing image taken, modified and digitized date values in Exif metadata information of JPG or other format image files.
• Encrypted and Compressed file attribute change now supported by fileTweak. Keep in mind that these 2 attributes are mutually exclusive and can not be enabled simultaneously.

Changed:

• Apply button disabled for changes in fileTweak tabs. However, if Apply button is activated in Windows standard tab, changes made in fileTweak tabs are also saved when clicking Apply.
• Minor cosmetic changes.

Improved:

• View tab now displays file content using fixed width font.
• Minor improvements.

Fixed:

• Bug that caused system hang when fileTweak was used on hidden system folder "System volume information".
• fileTweak caused illegal instruction on MS Windows 98 machines when more than one folder was processed.
• fileTweak installation program now supports MS Windows Vista.
• Minor bugs fixed.

New:

• Added module Febooti Live Update. It checks for newer versions automatically. Allows choice of download, update online, download and save update to disk, etc.

Changed:

• Changed error handling algorithms - displays list of failed files / folders instead of retry, ignore.
• fTweak logo changed to fileTweak.
• Changed Internet shortcuts - better look and more choices.

Improved:

• The installer is now improved with new start menu items and new better installing algorithm.

Fixed:

• Install to path now can be with multiple folders.
• Some help topics changed and improved.
• When "include folders" selected, date is changing on selected root folder.

New:

• Alpha version of Febooti filetweak 1.3 with a lot of new features. Release will be available in next few month, after beta testing period.

New:

• Work with multiple files and folders.
• New feature - Include subfolders, now suitable for batch processing.
• New feature - Don't apply to system file, make sure you can't accidentally change your system files.
• New tab (module) - Attributes:
  • Change file / folder attributes.
  • Modify Read-only, Archive, Hidden, System, Temporary, Offline and Not indexed attributes.
  • Ability to count all file / folder attributes - Read-only, Archive, Hidden, System, Temporary, Offline, Not indexed, Encrypted, Compressed, Reparse point and Sparse attributes.
  • Include subfolders - can process many files and folders with one click.
• New tab (module) - View:
  • Shows file or folder content as text, you can easy swap between files you have selected.
  • For folders (directories) you can view / print file list and / or copy it to clipboard.
• New tab (module) - Description:
  • Shows file or folder description found in description or text files (descript.ion, read.me, readme.txt etc.).
  • You can easy swap between files you have selected.
• New tab (module) - fileTweak. Ability to select which modules will be available.
• New tab (module) - About. Copyright notice, version information, registration form.
• Added Install and Uninstall.
• Added full context sensitive help.

Changed:

• Program name to fileTweak (unoffical names for versions 1.0 and 1.1 - File Date Changer).

Improved:

• Compatibility with all versions of Microsoft Windows (95 / 98 /Me / NT / 2000 / 2003 / XP).
• Smaller program file sizes.
• Improved program algorithms.

Improved:

• Ability to change Last Modified date on file or folder.
• Ability to change Last Accessed date on file or folder.

Features:

• Ability to change Creation date on file or folder.
• Expands "property" tabs to display and allow to change file creation date.