Dipl.-Ing. Martin Haller Software-Engineering & EDV-Beratung

Version 1.1.7 (= 1.1 ServicePack 7) - 11 May 2014

• Minor Tweaks:

  • New homepage and email forwarding addresses.
  • The help on "Entering Replace Patterns" slightly improved.

• More Input Comfort:

  • If a running Find action shows an error (e.g. "Access denied") for a folder, now the user can choose in the error message box displayed to continue the Find action and ignoring this error message for all further folders.

• Bug fixes:

  • Win9x up to Win2000 inclusive: The context help popup windows (tips) didn't work since HM Find+Rename v1.1.6.
  • If a new search pattern was entered in input field 'Search' and this input was finish by just pressing the ENTER key then sometimes the previously used search pattern was displayed in the input field even though the new search pattern was used for searching.
  • On Windows 7 x64 the SendTo context menu didn't work. Though it was popped up properly, the execution of the applications did not work.

  • Added several work arounds to bypass errors and inconsistancies of the Windows API. It concerns:

    • The search for filenames with an extension more than three characters long (e.g. *.html).
    • As of Windows 2000 Microsoft modified the semantic of wildcard '?' in search patterns and implemented it inconsistant. HM Find+Rename implements the original semantic of wildcard '?' which is "matches exactly one arbitrary character".
      Note: This doesn't concern the symbol '?' in regular expressions.
    • If a search pattern starts with a wildcard '*' and searches for any file extensions (e.g. *t.*) the underlying Windows API ignores the trailing part of the search pattern (.*) totally. For example, "*t.*" finds "at.htm" (correct) but also "ab.txt" (wrong).
    • If a file type has installed a special icon handler in Windows then the "last access" date is updated by the Windows API when accessing the meta data of a file even though there is no access to the content of the file. For example, this is true for HTML files if Microsoft Office is installed on the system. For such files it was impossible to set the "last access" date to a certain value because after that this value was overwritten immediately by the Windows API.

Version 1.1.6 (= 1.1 ServicePack 6) - 30 Aug 2011

• Minor Tweaks:

  • Hence, the installer package and the application are digitally signed.
  • New homepage and email forwarding addresses.
  • Several source code optimizations.

Version 1.1.5 (= 1.1 ServicePack 5) - 07 Sep 2009

• Minor Tweaks:

  • Modified Shareware restrictions for the unregistered version of the program.
  • New Web links to the product page and online order page of the Share*It! Online-Shop.

Version 1.1.4 (= 1.1 ServicePack 4) - 07 Aug 2009

• Additional Functions:

  • Improved compatibility with Windows Vista and newer Windows versions.
  • Program option ' File List - Maximum Size' on the 'General' options tab accepts now the value 0 causing the file list to have no maximum size.
  • On the 'General' options tab there is the new program option 'Auto-display of context help popup windows (tips)'.

• More Input Comfort:

  • The graphical user interface of HM Find+Rename is improved (some field labels weren't fully readable) and its "Look & Feel" is adapted to Windows XP and Vista style.
  • The keyboard shortcut for saving a new pattern within the input fields 'Search' and 'Replace' has been changed from 'Ctrl+Ins' to 'Ctrl+Shift+Ins' because 'Ctrl+Ins' in input fields is the standard shortcut for 'Edit » Copy' in some Windows applications.
  • The keyboard shortcut 'Alt+H' now opens the Help menu from the Menu Bar. For triggering the previous meaning of 'Alt+H' (cancel a running Find, Rename or Change action) now, please use the 'Esc' key or just press 'Enter' or 'Return'.
  • The ten most recent values entered into the input fields 'Folder', 'Search' and 'Replace' are no longer saved just temporarily but also persistently now and, therefore, are available again after a restart of the program.
  • In the 'Dates/Attributes' program view the input fields for specifying the new date and time within the group box 'New File Times' have been simplified.

• Bug fixes:

  • Under Windows XP and Vista double-clicking a file in the file list didn't work (Open command of the file).
  • Under Windows Vista the program crashed when displaying the sub menu "Open With" of the context menu of a file in the file list, because Vista returns an invalid parameter value.
  • Under Windows Vista HM Find+Rename's Help and Context Help didn't work anymore because Vista doesn't longer support Win32hlp, the help system of previous Windows versions. Now HM Find+Rename's Help is implemented with HTML Help, the new Windows help system.
  • Under Windows Vista the uninstaller of the previous versions of HM Find+Rename failed unless it was launched by a user logged in with administrative privileges and by the context menu command "Run as administrator". Now installation and uninstallation is always automatically launched with administrative privileges.
  • Search/replace patterns didn't work properly with non-ASCII characters (German umlauts, etc.), for example in upper/lowercase conversion.

Version 1.1.3 (= 1.1 ServicePack 3) - 18 Apr 2002

• Bug fixes:

  • Under certain hardware configurations (low screen resolution, standard graphic driver, ...) the date input fields of the 'file attribute view' were displayed too small. That is why, for example, the year was not completely displayed and moreover couldn't be entered.
  • Under certain hardware configurations (low screen resolution, standard graphic driver, ...) some static texts were not completely displayed in several windows and dialogs.
  • Under certain hardware configurations (low screen resolution, standard graphic driver, ...) the main window was displayed too small after program start (not adapted to the size of the displayed view).

Version 1.1.2 (= 1.1 ServicePack 2) - 29 Jun 2001

• More Input Comfort:

  • Now the browser window for selecting the start folder remembers the last entered/selected start folder on opening.

• Bug fixes:

  • Bug: If Windows Explorer is configured not to display the extensions of filenames, HM Find+Rename don't display the extensions too, having the aftereffect that rename actions do not find the files to rename (the message '0 file(s) renamed' is displayed after each rename action). Fix: Now, HM Find+Rename displays filenames always including the extension.

Version 1.1.1 (= 1.1 ServicePack 1) - 07 Mai 2001

• Bug fixes:

  • Bug: If program option 'Rename All: resume the Rename All / Change All action at the next file' is activated, in some cases, if a file could not be renamed, the rename action is not continued at the next file but at the same file, so that the same error message is displayed again and again. This bug occurs only with the version 1.1.

Version 1.1 - 01 Apr 2001

• Additional Functions:

  • Now it is possible to change the following file properties of one or more files with one single action:
    - Creation date, modification date, last access date,
    - File attributes (Archive, Hidden, System, Read-only).
  • Now Undo function is applicable to direct editing of a file name in the file list too.

• New Menu Items:

  • Edit - Select All (applies to the file list and all edit fields).
  • Edit - Invert Selection (in the file list only).
  • View - Find/Rename (shows the program view for renaming of files).
  • View - Dates/Attributes (shows the program view for changing the file properties).
  • View - Options (contains an additional register for the management of the persistent search/replace patterns).

• New Function Keys:

  • F2 (in the file list only): Edit the file name of the selected file.
  • F4 (in the input fields Start folder, Search and Replace only): Shows the dropdown list.
  • F5: Restart the Find action.
  • ESC: Cancel a running search, rename or change action (same as click the Stop button).

• More Input Comfort:

  • Now the most important input fields (Start folder, Search, Replace) automatically store the user input in a dropdown list until the end of the program session.
  • Often used search and replace patterns can now be stored persistently and can be recalled easily and fast by a popup menu.
  • New edited search and replace patterns can easily be added to the persistent search/replace patterns by entering CTRL+INS in the input fields "Search" or "Replace".
  • Simple wildcards and regular expressions are preconfigured as persistent search/replace patterns.

• File List:

  • Multi-Selection possible (that means, multiple or all files in the file list can be selected, just like in the Windows Explorer).
  • F2: Edit the file name of the selected file.
  • CTRL+C / CTRL+X: Copy/Cut the selected files to the Windows clipboard.
  • Drag & Drop for the selected files (Copy/Move the files into an other folder or application).
  • If the input focus is in the displayed file list and one or more files are selected, pressing the ENTER/RETURN key now opens the selected files (just like in the Windows Explorer) in contrast to the previous behavior of restarting the Find action (note, to restart the Find action at any time now use function key F5).

• Bug fixes:

  • Bug: A File directly edited in the file list after that is sorted with the old file name.
  • Bug: If check box "Whole List" is unchecked and "Rename All" action does not find a matching file starting at the current selected file to the end of the file list, "Rename All" continues the search at the beginning of the file list.
  • Bug: In some cases the action buttons are not properly activated/deactivated.

• Better License Terms:

  • On damage or lost of your bound volume (= licensed disk) or if you substitute your hardware you can request for a free follow-up license.
  • For companies which would like to use the program on multiple workstations we offer low-cost and easy to handle multi-user licenses.

Version 1.0 - 01 Sep 2000

• This version ist the first published version.
  Therefore, there is no previous version history.