Also Known As the The Flicker Free Release

The most obvious improvements implemented in Version 3.004 is a reduction in excessive flicker when switching back and fourth between tabs and a better, and more standard, experience when selecting and dragging files and folders.

Visual and other Improvements

3.004 is a small release that will make a big difference for some, especially those running systems on which FileBoss

• produced a great deal of flicker when switching between tabs
• was slow to react to drag operations when first started
• displayed a bouncing cursor when dragging a large number of objects
• would not drop files properly on Microsoft Outlook and some other programs
• would sometimes fail to perform recursive versions of Clean Folders, Change Attributes, and some Rename operations. They now work correctly from either window.
• would not allow dropping files on some programs such as Microsoft Outlook.
• did not always recursively process files in subfolders when Cleaning Folders, Change Attributes and some Rename routines depending on how the top level folder was selected.
• would not export file lists with names in such languages as Chinese, Russian, Arabic or any language other than English and most European languages.

More

Drag & Drop

A Drag & Drop action can now be started by clicking on a selected file anywhere on the row. Previously only clicking on the Name column would allow initiating a drag action.

When dragging a large number of files around FileBoss the cursor is now steady where before it would sometimes quickly flash between a drag cursor and a busy cursor.

In addition, dragging to select files can not be started by clicking anywhere on a row of an unselected entry.

Under some circumstances FileBoss would not allow files to be dropped on other programs such as when dropping image files on Microsoft Outlook. This has been corrected.

 

Recursive Actions

FileBoss did not always recursively process files in subfolders in actions such as Cleaning Folders, Change Attributes and some Rename routines. Whether or not this happened could appear to be random but depended on how the top level folder was selected.

 

Cancelling Recursive Actions

All recursive processing can now be cancelled by clicking the ESC key. In addition while the actions is being performed a gyrating progress bar is displayed in the lower-left corner of the main status bar.

 

Main Toolbar

Although it looks the same, the main toolbar has changed fundamentally. It is now possible to remove it completely which means that all toolbars and the main menu can now be removed for special situations. When all the interactive command elements are gone (toolbars and menus) you can get them back by right-clicking over the contents window of any tab and selecting Customize Layout from the popup menu as show to the left.

 

The Actions Toolbar is Back

The Actions toolbar is back and turned on by default. On new installations or when FileBoss is started in reset mode the Actions toolbar will appear at the bottom of FileBoss's window. Of course you can always right-click over any other toolbar and select Action to toggle whether or not it is displayed.

 

Available Notes (Scratch) File

A simple way to call up a special notes file from most anywhere in FileBoss (from the main window and from most dialogs) is available. Press F12 to bring up a simple text file in the default text editor for you system. You can also select which file to use with the Tools > Select Notes File... command from the main menu.

The default file is FileBossNotes.txt located in your Documents folder. But it doesn't have to be a txt file. If you want a Word document just select or create a file with a .doc or .docx extension. The same applies for other types of files.

This is a very simple feature that may be expanded in the future depending on what people would like it to do so let us know if it is useful and how you would like it expanded.

New to Version 3.x?

 For all the details on Version 3 please Click here.
And do check out the FileBoss V3 User Interface Video to get you up and running quickly.

Version 3 does not interfere with any previous version - you can run both side by side and what you do in one will not affect the other. If you run both and later want to uninstall V2 it can be done without affecting V3.

What's Next?

• While things can certainly change, currently the following features are planned for future 3.x releases:
• Exhaustive health checkup for files
• Much improved support for working with files over 256 characters long.
• User defined colors
• User defined font sizes
• FTP access
• ZIP processing
• and much, much more

(I hope this limb I just climbed out on is strong enough to hold me!)

Installation

Just install over your current version and run. With the exception of some recursive actions mentioned above almost all of the changes are cosmetic and structural, they do not affect the core operations such as finding, renaming or copying files.

Download the latest release by clicking here Download V3.

And Finally

I hope you find this a worthwhile update and please let me know what you think and any suggestions you may have. 

Thanks,
Your friend at The Utility Factory,
Dexter