UltraSearch 2.32

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Version 4.1​

New features​

• Intelligent property recognition: UltraSearch now automatically recognizes sizes and dates as well as file groups when entering a search and evaluates them accordingly. The term images 11/01/2023 no longer only lists files whose file names contain this information, but rather all images with a change date of 11/01/2023 are found.
  
• Search for whole words: Quotation marks are no longer used to search for an exact search term, but can be used to search for whole words.
  
• Search syntax: The size: property now supports entering size ranges. For example, entering size: 1MB - 10MB will find all files with a size between 1 megabyte and 10 megabytes.
  
• The search syntax now offers a datetaken: property, which can be used to search for photos based on the date they were taken.
  
• The search syntax now offers a keyword: property, which can be used to limit the search to files with certain “marks” in their metadata.
  
• UltraSearch now supports the Windows 11 context menu and is available at the top level of the Windows 11 Explorer context menu.
  
• For inexperienced users, UltraSearch now offers an input help to the right of the search, which helps to define exact search criteria. The new input help replaces the "Query Composer" in the ribbon menu.
  
• Additional options for searching by file size and file date are now available in the input help (formerly known as “Query Composer”).
  
• On the right side of the input field, there is now a button (“Favorites Star”) for saving the current search settings.
  
• Columns for path length, file path and path depth have been added. To display these columns, select “View > Visible Columns > More Columns”.
  

Improvements​

• The file preview now shows additional file information depending on the selected file type. For example, for audio files, bit rate, length, artist are displayed; for images, width, height and recording date are displayed.
  
• Date and size filters are now located on the “Home” ribbon for even quicker access.
  
• The input mask for file name searches in the input help have been revised: The input fields “Begins with:” and “Ends with” have been removed and replaced by an input field for entering a regular expression.
  
• The ribbon for selecting file operations is now located next to the start ribbon for better availability and is permanently displayed.
  
• Offline files are no longer automatically downloaded in the background when searching for file content.
  
• When using the input help to create the search term, previously set filters such as file groups or file content are now retained if they are not changed by the settings in the input help.
  
• Active file groups can be deactivated again by clicking on them in the drop-down area of the file group filter.
  
• The settings “Include subfolders” and “Ignore umlauts and accents” can now be found under “Options > General > Search”.
  
• An ongoing search can now be stopped by pressing the “Remove” button.
  
• To be able to use reserved characters of the search syntax such as brackets, commas or spaces when entering a regular expression, the search term no longer needs to be enclosed in quotation marks. All syntax-specific characters are considered part of the regular expression.
  
• The performance when sorting columns that require the entire file path for sorting (file path, path length, etc.) has been improved.
  
• The “Item Checkboxes” option has been renamed to “Checkboxes”.
  

Bugfixes​

• When searching on network drives, the search could restart after an indefinite period. This issue has been resolved.
  
• In some cases, incorrect results were returned when searching for dates because the current time zone was not considered. This issue has been resolved.
  
• Fixed a bug when searching with regular expressions, where invalid expressions still returned results.
  
• An error occurred when entering regular expressions with quotation marks. This issue has been resolved.
  
• When searching for file names with brackets or if the search term was bracketed incorrectly, too many results were displayed in certain cases. This issue has been resolved.
  
• Selected files were not considered when using the mass rename dialog if they were selected via checkboxes. This bug has been fixed.
  
• An error occurred when moving or deleting files with the Delete Empty Folders option enabled.
  
• The input help sometimes still contained old input data when used again. This bug has been fixed.
  
• An issue with using quotation marks in the search term has been fixed.
  
• When using the input helper, the search was unnecessarily restarted in some cases. The behavior has been corrected.
  
• Further dark mode issues have been fixed.
  
• Other small bug fixes and improvements have been made.
  

6 December 2023

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