FileBoss V2
What's New, What's Hot
3 April 2008

New User Interface

Complete new GUI that not only makes FileBoss easier to use but allows greater flexibility, customization and a more convenient workspace.

Not just tabs but tab groups too.

Flatten Folders

Copies all files (or those that match optional file patterns) to one folder, either the root of the folder or another, user specified folder.
On the Actions menu.

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Relative Times for Find and Select Routines

All times in search and select routines can now be specified as relative times, e.g. 'since yesterday', 'more than two months ago' etc.

Concatenate Files

Combines files together (normally only useful for text files) to a new file or appended to an existing file.
On the Actions menu.

Skip Errors when Copying

A new check box has been added to every Copy based dialog that when checked will tell FileBoss not to stop and ask you any questions when it can not copy a file (for instance if it is locked by another program) but rather to just log the error and continue.

Clean Folders

Deletes specified (or all) files from a folder and all its sub-folders with the option to delete any empty folders afterward.

Used to clean out temporary files. Also used to delete files in problem folders as the routine will not stop when it encounters an error but rather continue deleting all the files it can.
On the Actions menu.

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The default engine for copying Drag & Drop operations (on FileBoss) is now FileBoss for copies and links and Windows for moving files.

Drag & drop Move operations are now always handled by the windows copy engine no matter what the specified copy engine is (e.g. The setting in the Advanced Options section of the Program Options dialog.

Find Old Files

The opposite of Find Modified Files, i.e. finds files that have not been modified, accessed and/or modified within a specified time.
On the Find menu.

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Actions Apply to Navigation Window Selection

Most commands on the Actions menu can now be applied to the selected folder in the folder navigation window as well as to selected entries in the contents window. FileBoss determines which selection to use by which was the last to be selected.

Time Controlled Copying

Designed for large copy operations this special copy routine can insert timed delays between files, between copy blocks within a file and / or every number of bytes copied.
On the Actions | More Actions > menu

Previously the browse dialogs always opened to the Desktop folder.

Recursive Actions, e.g. Renaming

Many actions, such as renaming, can now be recursive. This is especially useful when performing actions on the current folder in the navigations window.

Find Menu items default to current folder(s)

The Find routines, e.g. Find Old Files, Find Long Filenames, etc, will now automatically use the currently selected entries as their starting point (the Paths field) from the navigation or contents window as appropriate.

Dynamic Virtual Folders

Dynamic Virtual Folders are very much like traditional Virtual Folders except that you can add (just drag and drop), delete and manually sort entries. They can be created from selected entries, via a folder picker, empty or from a list of files contained in an external text file.

All of these are created using the commands on the File | New Dynamic Virtual Folder > menu.

New Standard Meta-Variables

Added standard windows names to the list of FileBoss meta-variables including
%SystemRoot%, %WinDir%, and %SystemDirectory%

Advanced and Simple Menus

The main menus come in two levels, simple and advanced. Of course commands can be added, removed and changed around for complete customization. The default is simple mode. Dual-Pane Mode
Tabs can be split up into separate groups, vertically or horizontally so that more than one tab can be viewed at a time.

New Time and System Meta-Variables

New meta-variables have been added which can be used almost everywhere you want to rename files:
<TODAY>, <NOW>, <CURYEAR>, <CURMONTH>, <CURDAY>, <CURHOUR>, <CURRENTMINUTE>
<CURRENTSECOND> and <USER>
So when renaming a file you could enter worklog <today>.log to get something like worklog 2008-05-23.log

FileBoss's powerful renaming control center has been simplified with fewer options per page on more pages.

Options When Exiting FileBoss

To exit FileBoss without saving any options or settings only pressing the Ctrl key while selecting File | Exit FileBoss command from the main menu (or clicking the close button 'x' on the title bar) is needed instead of the previous Ctrl + Shift combination

Options When Starting FileBoss

To start FileBoss and control what it loads and doesn't load from the last session hold down the Ctrl key until the start dialog appears in which you can choose the various load options.

Merged Find tool bar into the Command Bar

Added up and down buttons.
Use Find
F8 to activate, F8 to select all or move cursor to end of entry
: or 'find ' or just a simple file pattern will activate the up and down arrow keys.

Bookmarks are now Favorites

Bookmarks have been renamed Favorites. This has been done so the under thirty-five group will know what they are.

File Sets are now Virtual Folders

File Sets have been renamed to Virtual Folders so users under thirty will know what they are.

Names for menu items on the File menu have changed, e.g. Open View List... to Open Tab Group... and New File Set (Search)... to Search for Files...., Quick Merge... to Backup if Newer..., Explore Folder in New View is now Open in New Tab\t(Ctrl+Click)

Wildcards in Search Paths

More precise control over path delimited patterns in the Search dialogs

When searching you can now enter variable paths such as

   \s-*\*

which will only return files in folders that begin with 's-'. You can get even trickier and use something like

   \2007\s-*\*

or even

   \Jan ????\s-*\*

One advantage of this is that in the returned Virtual Folder you can just do a select all and go straight to the structured file copy routine as no extraneous file will be in the File Set.