Version 5.10 ============ Extracting of descriptions from ZIP archives was added to DiskBase. This function is disabled as default. To enable it, check the "Extract descriptions from ZIP archives" option in the Settings -> Database Settings -> Options. If you already have a ZIP archive previously scanned, you must check also the "Always rescan archives" in order to refresh the archive contents in the database. See Help for details. Pop-up bubbles with detailed file information were added to panel with files and to the window with found files. The internal file system was improved in order to increase stability. A bug causing that sometimes the content of ZIP files was not fully read into the database was removed. A bug causing failure of scanning a disk on a file with ZIP extension and size of several bytes was removed. The 16000 items limit was removed in the 32-bit version; as the result now the list of found files can have more than 16000 items and archive files with more than 16000 files inside can be stored inside the database. ------------------------------------------------- Version 5.09a ============= A bug causing that the values for archives (number of files, folders and total data size) in the "Disk information" dialog box were not displayed correctly after rescanning the disk. To get right values, compress the database - the values are recalculated during compression. There was an incorrect explanation of the values displayed in the status line (subtotals for current folder) in DiskBase Help - corrected. ------------------------------------------------- Version 5.09 ============ The information about the current folder displayed in the status line was available only for newly rescanned disks in the previous version of the program. Now it is enough to compress the database and the needed information is recalculated, so it is displayed for all the disks then - there is no more need to rescan the disks just because of this matter. ------------------------------------------------- Version 5.08 ============ DiskBase can now scan self-extracting archives (exe files) of ZIP, ARJ and RAR types (extraction of descriptions from archives is not supported yet, but it is planned for the ZIP archives). A folder can be now scanned and saved to the database as a standalone disk. A "rescan disk" command was added - this command is useful namely when the disk that is to be rescanned has a different name than is its volume label. The internal database structure was changed. You may not notice this fact until you try to use earlier DiskBase versions to open a database that was created or opened by this version. The window with database now displays in lower left part (status line) information about the number of folders, files and data size contained in current folder. However, this information is correct for the newly scanned disks only. A bug causing that the read-only database could not be freely opened by the unregistered version of DiskBase was removed. ------------------------------------------------- Version 5.07 ============ Printing: DiskBase did not sort files in folders when the whole disks were printed. In this version the sorting for this case was added to the program; files are sorted according to the criteria set in the Program Settings dialog box. If the disk size was greater than 2 GB (gigabytes), DiskBase did not show the size properly. As the disk free space is also checked when saving data to database, the database could not be placed on disk which had more than 2 GB of free space. These problems are removed in this version. You can now switch off the scanning of volume names for the "Scan disk" dialog box (scanning of volume names can take pretty long time when using CD-ROM changer, for example). See Help for detailed explanation. The Scan Disk dialog box was redesigned; now it is sizable, so if the names of the disks are too long, you can easily enlarge it. In some rare cases the Windows language driver may not function properly. You can now switch off using the Windows language driver by DiskBase. See Help for detailed explanation. ------------------------------------------------- Version 5.06 ============ A bug causing a loose of a disk description after two rescans was removed. ------------------------------------------------- Version 5.05 ============ Descriptions of disks are now available. Maximum size of description is now set in bytes (instead of kB) and the minimum value is now 100 bytes (originally it was 1 kB which was too much). In the Program Settings you can now select arithmetic used for calculation of kB and MB from bytes; 1 kB can be either 1024 bytes or 1000 bytes. In the 32-bit version the language script for fonts could not be set - only the default one was used. This problem was corrected, so the proper language script can be used. The [Home] and [End] key functions in the file display were corrected. Problem with saving an empty description was corrected. In the previous version a disk could not be renamed if the change was in the character case only (for example from "my disk c:" to "My disk C:"). This problem was corrected. In some language versions of Windows (Hungarian for example) the date was not properly displayed. This problem was corrected and a possibility to use the Windows system Short Date format was added to Program Settings. In the 32-bit version the folders with the Hidden attribute set were not put to the database (for example the folder with cache files of Internet Explorer). Corrected. Default folder for opening the database files is now taken from the "Open database at startup" specification (if set). ------------------------------------------------- Version 5.04 ============ The widths of panels in the database window can be saved to the configuration file, so they are preserved when you run DiskBase next time. Small changes in the Search dialog box were also done. ------------------------------------------------- Version 5.03 ============ The registration process was greatly simplified. See DiskBase help for details. ------------------------------------------------- Version 5.02 ============ This is the first English version of DiskBase. You could not hear about earlier versions as till version 4 the program was available in Czech language only. The history of the program began in 1991, when it was formed as a collection of command-line utilities rather than standalone program. The first commercially successful version was version 4, released in 1994. The version 5 is the first version for Windows and was released in 1996 in Czech language and translated to English version in 1997. The program in the Czech version is called QuickDir from the very beginning. However, before doing the translation to English language we found that a shareware of the same name already exists (a DOS file manager), so we decided to use the DiskBase name for the international versions in order to avoid misunderstandings. --------------------------------------- The home server for the DiskBase program is at http://www.diskbase.com You will find the latest information about the program there as well as a possibility to download its latest version.