S-IT FileFinder – Changelog

All notable changes to S-IT FileFinder, newest version at the top.
Versions 1.2.5–1.2.11 were internal interim steps and are summarised in v1.2.12.

v2.0 – New interface, subfolder option & 18 languagesCURRENT

New interface: A sidebar on the left with Search, Large files, Results Manager, Settings and Help. Search criteria, drives and folder sit in separate boxes with their own background colours; “Clear fields” at the top right resets the view.
Colour scheme: The settings offer five colour schemes: Standard, Soft light, Muted (default), Strongly muted and Dark.
Include subfolders: For a folder search you can choose whether the subfolders are searched as well or only the files directly in the folder. The setting is saved with the result.
Large files as a view of its own: Opened from the sidebar, with its own result list – the hits of the normal search are kept when you switch.
18 languages: New are Italian, Dutch, Polish, Danish, Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, Montenegrin, Slovenian, Albanian, Romanian, Turkish, Bulgarian and Macedonian. The language is chosen in the settings via a selection window.
Scaling: The selected level (90–200 %) applies regardless of the scaling set in Windows. The window stays above the taskbar; if there is not enough room, a scroll bar appears.
Settings, Results Manager and file actions in the new look.
Help revised in all four languages.

Language selection: The program is now available in four languages. You switch languages in the settings dialog, in the new "Language" section (with flags); after a short confirmation, FileFinder restarts in the language you chose. The setting is stored in FileFinder-config.ini – with no entry there, everything stays in German as before.
Fully translated: Interface, context menu, status messages, all message windows, the results manager and the window for file actions (copy, move, recycle bin).
Result report in the selected language: The HTML report follows the program language – headings, columns and the details at the top.
Help in four languages: The help button opens the help file directly in the language that is set. Every help page carries a language bar at the top for switching between the four versions.

Start button: New 🏠 button in the header bar – returns the program to the empty start view at any time, including from a loaded result or from the large-files view.
Search scope in the report: After a folder search, the result report and the results manager now show the folder path that was searched (the entry is called "search scope" instead of "drives"). When a saved folder search is loaded, the folder is put back into the folder field.
Website link: New 🌐 link in the footer – opens the FileFinder project page in the browser.
Suggestions from users in daily practice, put into effect – thank you!

Folder search: The new folder field limits the search to one particular folder and its subfolders instead of whole drives – this applies to the large-files view as well. The drive selection is disabled while a folder is set; clearing the field brings the previous selection back automatically.
Faster drive search: The exclusion of the Windows system folders (Windows, $Recycle.Bin, System Volume Information and others) in the root of each drive now works reliably – searches across the system drive are noticeably faster and no longer return hits from those folders.
Scaling from 90 %: New 90 % step in the settings dialog for a more compact display on smaller screens.
Help revised: New section on the search scope (folder or drives), plus a practical tip on the targeted folder search.
The licence and the disclaimer are now included in the package.

Sorting: Sort the hits by clicking a column heading (name, size, date, path). Size and date are sorted by their real value, not by the text shown.
Large files: Show the 100 largest files on the selected drives at the push of a button – to track down space hogs quickly.
File actions: Select several hits and copy them, move them or send them to the recycle bin in a separate window – with a byte-accurate progress bar and without overwriting (automatic renaming if a name already exists).
Save results: Save search results, load them again later or view them as an HTML report – all managed in the new results manager.
Configuration: Central dialog for display size, extended filters at startup and default sorting (stored in FileFinder-config.ini).
Updated help file and numerous improvements in detail.

Restart fix: Switching the display size now starts the new instance reliably, without "Failed to import encodings"; the compiled EXE is started directly.
--onedir: Switched to a folder-based EXE – nothing is unpacked into Temp at startup.
A restart delay of 200 ms prevents a race condition while closing.

The size filter works in megabytes instead of kilobytes.
The maximum size is recognised automatically as MB or GB in the HTML result log.

F11 toggle for the date and size filters; the window height adjusts automatically.
Display size selectable (100–200 %) with an optional program restart.
Full DPI/4K scaling for high-resolution screens.
Automatic window width when there are many drive letters.
Improved date labels, revised header, automatic size and position at startup.

Fixed the freeze at startup on systems with a DVD drive or card reader without a medium inserted (drives are now determined through the Windows API).