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2007-12-31 Version 3.0.0 (BETA)

  • Optimization: Faster indexing of large numbers of files and files with large amounts of Text Index data. (due to: Optimized for speed over speed; Decreased default max text index filesize to 8MB or 4MB, etc)
  • Note: Sorry, Windows 98 is no longer supported (Windows 2000 is now the oldest supported version of Windows. If have Windows 98, please use Mo-Search 2.7.1)
  • Feature: Fileviewer, web URLs now display as hyperlinks, which when clicked open in your registered web browser.
  • Feature: Fileviewer, filename references now display as hyperlinks, which when clicked open in new tabs in Mo-Search. (Handy for browsing source code)
  • Feature: Fileviewer, Ctrl-clicked filename references are opened in that file types default editor.
  • Feature: Revised results relevance (ranking) system to produce even more superior results
  • Feature: Search for quoted text (for example: "Big red truck" now finds all files containing that exact phrase)
  • Feature: iFilter Support! Now Mo-Search can index and search all the same file types as the big boys (Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, Copernic, etc..).
  • Feature: Microsoft Office files are now indexable and searchable when Microsoft Office is not installed (thanks iFilter)
  • Feature: Fileviewer, added Properties button.
  • Feature: Fileviewer, added Loader combo box (enable via: Options > More > General > Display Viewer Selection combo)
  • Feature: Improved foreign language support: We now index words containing extended ASCII characters codes: ŠŒŽšœžŸ¡ªÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüý
  • Feature: Text indexed files are now tagged with their indexer: :Media, :MS_Word, :MS_PowerPoint, :MS_Excel, :Adobe_Acrobat, :iFilter, :Exe, :Text_ANSI, :Text_UNICODE_UNI16_BE, :Text_UNICODE_UNI16_LE, :Text_UNICODE_UTF_8, :Text_UNICODE_OTHER
  • Bug: FileViewer navigation buttons: First, Previous, Next and Last in various cases did not navigate properly (very long standing bug/design flaw)
  • Bug: When the ^ operator is used, matching words are now hilighted in the Fileviewer (long standing bug)
  • Bug: Text files of type: Unicode, Unicode big endian, and UTF-8 now properly display (very long standing bug)
  • Bug: Non-Image media files sometimes did not text index.
  • Bug: FileViewer, when using [Word Count...] on an empty file, the Avg Line Length previously read: [-1.$] (long standing bug)
  • Bug: Uninstalling Mo-Search now also removes application settings. (regression in 2.7)
  • Bug: About > System Info failed on Vista (Long standing bug)
  • Optimization: FileViewer, Faster loading and navigation of large files having many matches. Word Token tracking is now done via template based AVL tree (thanks: G.M. Adelson-Velsky and E.M. Landis!)
  • Optimization: Faster indexing of text based files (replaced CFile with CTextFileRead, thanks PEK)
  • Optimization: Faster indexing and searching (increased various buffer sizes, enhanced file info caching, optimized date logic, and parameterized SQL)
  • Cleanup: More responsive indexing cancel-ability.
  • Cleanup: By default Windows Vista recycler is now added as a Omit Folder; windows.old and config.msi are now detected as omit paths.
  • Cleanup: Consolidated indexers [Text: Normal] and [Text: Source Code] into [Text]. This simplifies and improves application usability and reliability.
  • Cleanup: Extensions: .htm .html and .wri now default to the Text Indexer: iFilter
  • Cleanup: .rtf is no longer Text Indexed by default. This is because .rtf often generates reams of noise when indexed by iFilter (If you want, manually add this extension in Options)
  • Cleanup: Code now compiles as UNICODE for future versions
  • Cleanup: Multi-database foundation improvements (SQL Server, SQL Server CE) for future versions
  • Cleanup: Registry settings in (Meauxsoft > CommonGui) have been merged under Mo-Search - so these settings are now also cleaned up when the application is uninstalled.
  • Misc: Various small optimizations, bug fixes, GUI tweaks, and a prettier rendered search header image
     

2007-09-22 Version 2.7.1

  • Optimization: Faster indexing of large numbers of files and files with large amounts of Text Index data. (due to: Optimized for speed over speed; Decreased default max text index filesize to 8MB or 4MB, etc)
  • Feature: Greatly Improved searching: Results are now ranked by relevance (before, results were ranked by a raw score which produced noticeably inferior results)
  • Feature: Added a new Simple search mode which is a lot friendlier for novice users.
  • Feature: During installation, Folder-Indexing shell integration is now enabled (i.e. in windows Explorer, Right-click a folder and select [Mo-Search 2.7 Reindex] to reindex that folder and all children folders)
  • Feature: Within edit boxes (i.e in the FileViewer) the [Home] key now moves the caret to the first character; the [End] key now moves the caret to the last character.
  • Feature: Mo-Search main dialog, in the [Path], [Text], and [Filename] combo boxes: items are now delete-able by dropping the list, selecting an item and pressing the delete key (i.e. similar behavior to url address combobox in FireFox)
  • Feature: Help->Submit Feedback. Please use this to submit your feedback back to us!
  • Feature: Help->Application Release History. Use this to see what has changed since the last release, or between different releases.
  • Feature: When Text Searching, you can now search by extension and/or omit my extension (i.e. [.doc Procedure] finds all .doc files with text Procedure, [-.doc Procedure] finds all non .doc files with text Procedure)
  • Feature: FileViewer, select some text and right-click it to Google it. (Handy every now and then)
  • Bug: Indexing a large file could have caused Indexing to stall (hang) during stage 3. (increased size of file hash buffer by 50%)
  • Bug: Previously on Vista, folder-indexing shell integration could not be enabled when Windows UAC was enabled. This is fixed by having the installer (which runs with elevated permissions) write the registry key.
  • Bug: Some developer content within development (source code) files was *not* indexed when it should have been (i.e. functions to the right of the . operator). Now, this content is indexed.
  • Bug: When a token is too long (> 48 characters), further processing is now attempted to break the word into processable chunks (Before the whole word was discarded from your index)
  • Bug: Previously, attempts to index two different folders at the same time (using two different application instances) lead to database locking issues and cryptic error messages. Now, Mo-Search limits indexing to one application instance at a time.
  • Bug: Source code variables are now searchable when prefixed with a leading @ symbol. (previously, this symbol was stripped off of words)
  • Bug: Application settings stored in the registry are isolated by the minor version, ie. 2.7.1 (Previously, all installed versions of Mo-Search shared these same settings which lead to odd application errors).
  • Bug: When multiple versions of Mo-Search are installed (Side-by-side), Mo-Search periodically could not find the database when launched. (Due to above bug)
  • Bug: When multiple versions of Mo-Search are installed (Side-by-side), executing Mo-Search from the shell (Windows Explorer) may result in an error about incompatible databases (very long standing bug)
  • Bug: Search Stemming may appear enabled when it is actually disabled (very long standing bug)
  • Cleanup: FileViewer: when no viewer exists for the selected file type, the footer no longer reads: (Loaded on 0.00) This really did not make sense, because nothing loaded.
  • Cleanup: FileViewer navigation buttons (Next Word, Prev Word, Next File, Prev File) have been grouped together to increase user productivity.
  • Cleanup: Fewer noisy files should be written into your index. This is accomplished by reducing the default max Text Index Filesize to 4096 for indexers [Text: Source Code] and [Text: Normal] (These two indexers typically generate the most noise)
  • Cleanup: Image Exif information is no displayed by default. After surveying User feedback, most users considered this exif information purely noise. If you still want it, simply enable it in Options->More...->General->When loading image files, show EXIF information when available.
  • Misc: Other small GUI cleanups, bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations

2007-06-07 Version 2.7

  • Optimization: Better performance on multi-core processors (doubled the number of Jet threads)
  • Optimization: Faster indexing performance (in part due to LockAccessDb)
  • Bug: FileViewer, Find dialog: Searching with [Match whole word only] often skipped valid matches (long standing bug - sorry about that)
  • Bug: FileViewer (and Indexing) loading large files with Microsoft Office applications, or Adobe Acrobat, no longer generates dialog box [Server is not Responding], or [Server is Busy].
  • Bug: Installer - Application is now patchable when it is installed to a non-default path.
  • Bug: Installer - multi-instance support, a patch may now be applied to more than one installation of the same version.
  • Bug: Indexing may have generated error: [File sharing lock count exceeded. Increase MaxLocksPerFile registry entry] (long standing bug - sorry about that)
  • Bug: When indexing a file with very many distinct words (> 80,000), Mo-Search appeared hang. This occurred when MaxLocksPerFile was exceeded. (MSDN ref: Q209940)
  • Bug: Several screens had multiple default buttons - this resulted in strange behavior when your mouse is configured to Snap To default buttons.
  • Bug: Some screens had mal-adjusted tab orders which caused issues when tabbing between controls.
  • Bug: Within the Help About dialog, pressing the [x] launched [System Info] instead of closing the Help About dialog.
  • Bug: When the Max Text Index size is decreased (Options.Text Index.Advanced), files now too-large files are un-Text Indexed during next Reindex (very long standing bug)
  • Bug: Options.Text Index.Advanced.Add: After adding an extension it is now selected in the list (Before: the extension was only selected under certain conditions - long standing bug)
  • Bug: When various dialogs were visible, Mo-Search would disappear from the taskbar (pesky resource setting: WS_EX_APPWINDOW)
  • Bug: Options.Statstics.Full-Text Files size was incorrect.
  • Bug: Options.Index.Paths.Count was incorrect when one or more paths were deleted.
  • Bug: Installer, Fixed very rare condition where the application won't install (or patch) due to Mutex name conflict.
  • Bug: Installer, If an older version (2.5) was installed more recently than a newer version (2.7), the newer version was not patch-able (bug exists in all previous versions).
  • Feature: Binary: Executable indexer provides Full Text searching within executable file types such as .exe, .dll, ocx, etc (experimental feature: These file types can quickly grow your index)
  • Feature: Binary: Document indexer provides Full Text searching within file types such as .doc without Microsoft Word (experimental feature)
  • Feature: Dynamic configuration of File Types (Extensions) to Text-Indexer.
  • Feature: Dynamic configuration of File Types (Extensions) maximum Text-Index Size.
  • Feature: By default, more File Types are Text Indexed (over 170)
  • Feature: By default, over 65 File Types are indexed with Indexer [Media] which makes filenames and paths Text-indexed (This improves search-ability)
  • Feature: Added Analysis which display a visual representation of index statistics.
  • Feature: Added more file types by default display in the fileviewer: .dat, .mht
  • Feature: Added file type .ora, .img to search domain [Oracle]
  • Feature: Added new major Text Index extension: .frm (Visual Basic)
  • Feature: New default search Domain [Microsoft SQL Server], which contains files .mdf, .ldf, .bak
  • Feature: FileViewer: F3 now finds the next occurrence, and Ctrl-F3 finds the previous occurrence.
  • Feature: FileViewer: F3 and Ctrl-F3 auto-detect context of Next/Prev buttons or the [Find Text] dialog
  • Feature: FileViewer [Next File] and [Previous File] buttons
  • Feature: FileViewer button [Word Count..], which counts the file's: Words, Characters, Lines, Data Size, and Average Line Length.
  • Feature: FileViewer button [Indexed Words List..], which shows the occurrence count for all words in the selected file's index.
  • Feature: New table: FileIndex, which tracks each file's: IndexStatus, IndexModified date, IndexCreated date, IndexDurationPerKbTextData (in Milliseconds), IndexDurationPerKbFileSize
  • Feature: Options.Statistics.[Computer CPUs] now detects the number of installed cores. This permits more cores to be used for processor intensive activities such as Indexing and Searching.
  • Feature: Options.Text Index.[Advanced] added capability to specify a file's [Indexer] and the [Max TextIndex Size]. (*Much* needed advanced features! Sorry this took so long)
  • Feature: FindFileTypes, added an internet search button which opens a web-based (Google) search on the selected File Type.
  • Feature: FindFileTypes, added a computer search button which opens a new Mo-Search on the selected File Type.
  • Feature: FindFileTypes, Extensions list: added right-click functionality for Internet and computer searches.
  • Cleanup: Smaller database size due to inclusion of more noise words (i.e. if 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0)
  • Cleanup: Smaller database size due to reduction of default Max Fti size from 30MB to 10MB (10,240 KB)
  • Cleanup: Removed Default Full-Text extension type: [.csv] This should help keep the index smaller, speed up indexing and speed up searches. If you need to Text-Search [.csv] simply add it under: Options->Text Index->Advanced.
  • Cleanup: When Installing or Patching, the user no longer needs to Check [I accept the terms of the license agreement] - This streamlines Installation and Patching (and is much less irritating)
  • Cleanup: Removed noise extensions: .tnsnames, .tsnnames
  • Cleanup: Added default Omit Folder [i386] - this may grealy reduces the size of your index by preventing lots of irrelevant noise from being indexed.
  • Cleanup: Increased the maximum number of items in Drop Lists from 200 to 300
  • Cleanup: Improved diagnostics (tables: ErrorLog, ErrorType, FileIndex, LockAccessDb)
  • Misc: Renamed diagnostics file from [Errors_Index.txt] to [Diagnostics_Index.txt] (Thanks Terry!)
  • Misc: Updated installer (NSIS) from 2.17 to 2.27 (thanks NSIS team!)
  • Misc: Shameless [DonationWare] buttons are now scattered about (To remove go to: Options->More..->System->Hide Donate Buttons)
  • Misc: Updated C++ compiler from overly-buggy Visual Studio 2005 to the slightly-less-buggy SP1 (These binaries have also changed: mfc80.dll, Microsoft.VC80.MFC.manifest, msvcr80.dll)
  • Misc: Many other small GUI cleanups, bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations.
     

2006-12-24 Version 2.5.6

  • Optimization: Faster indexing due to much improved string concatenation logic and larger sized read buffer.
  • Optimization: Faster loading of text files within the FileViewer due to size increase of read buffer from 4KB to 64KB (Fewer IOs are now required).
  • Optimization: Faster searching due to removal of debugging code in loading of results list.
  • Bug: In Windows Vista, right-clicking on [Computer] and selecting [Mo-Search 2.5 Reindex] resulted in error message: [The requested path (and all children paths) are currently omitted from the index]. (Long standing Vista bug)
  • Bug: Find Duplicate File tool - Even when your Windows Recycle bin was set to *not* confirm Deletes you were still prompted to confirm each delete file. (Thanks Sara!)
  • Bug: Drop list settings were not saved (very long standing bug)
  • Bug: Small memory leak upon destruction of each EditBox (Long standing bug)
  • Bug: FileViewer has focus and F1 is pressed - Application Help failed to launch and this error was generated: [Failed to launch help]
  • Bug: FileViewer may not have shown an error message upon failure to load a Microsoft Excel file
  • Bug: FileViewer, buttons did not enable/disable when they should have.
  • Bug: FileViewer, crash upon attempt to load non-accessible text file.
  • Bug: FileViewer, crash upon attempt to load a .jpg having corrupt exif data.
  • Cleanup: FileViewer, buttons no longer disappear and re-appear (Sorry - that really was annoying!)
  • Feature: FileViewer, now displays these file types: .lic, .sam, .sample, .sf, .sh, .spb, .sp, .sps, .vmx, .vmsd, .in, .out
  • Feature: FileViewer, replaced text on buttons with icons
  • Feature: FileViewer, Added buttons: Advanced Email, Search Within this file for text, Copy, Advanced Copy, Export To
  • Notepad, Scroll Last, and Scroll First
  • Feature: FileViewer, Added status text when loading non-image files [x Lines (Loaded in s.mmm seconds)]
  • Feature: FileViewer, These graphical file types now display: .ico, .emf, .wmf
  • Feature: Added Windows drag & drop support to the results list. The results list is now a drop source (ie. drag a file out of the results list into an outlook email)
  • Feature: Added more Text Index file types: .sp (stored procedure), .spp (stored procedure), .sf (oracle PLSQL)
  • Feature: Search Filters, Added the Launch button [>>] which is used to Launch: Explorer, Mo-Search, Find File Types, and Find Duplicate Files at the selected filter path
  • Feature: Search Filters, added <Configure> to the Domains Drop List
  • Feature: Search Filters, added new search Domain [Oracle] which consists of: .fun, .pkb, .pkg, .pks, .plb, .pls, .prc, .sql, .tsnnames, .txt
  • Feature: Improved Full Text indexing algorithm to more heavily weight words appearing in the filename and path. (Full install required to apply this new algorithm to your complete index)
  • Feature: Added more Text Index file types: .tsnnames
  • Feature: Improved Help.About, added: Link to application web page, Link to contact email, and Button to launch Windows System Information.
  • Misc: Various small GUI cleanups, tooltips, fixes and optimizations.

2006-11-18 Version 2.5.5  (BETA)

  • Optimization: Slightly faster searching, indexing, and configuration
  • Optimization: Slightly smaller index due to more comprehensive cleaning of Text Index tokens (i.e. [,] and [-])
  • Bug: MainDlg.Search.Results List - Indexed Filenames and Paths were always displayed as lowercase, even when the Filename and/or Path were mixed (or all upper) case. This was a *VERY* long standing issue. Please note: This fix requires a complete reinstall. (Thanks John!)
  • Bug: MainDlg.Search.Results List - Application Hang upon pressing the [Insert] or [Delete] key (regression in v2.2)
  • Bug: MainDlg.Explore.Results List - Application Hang upon pressing the [Insert] or [Delete] key (regression in v2.2)
  • Bug: Within the index, File Creation and File Modified time were only accurate to the minute (Now, these are accurate to the second as they should have always been)
  • Bug: Options.Index.Paths.Defaults - Upon deleting path(s), pressing [Defaults] and then Ok, this error displayed: [The changes you have requested to the table were not successful... Copy Diagnostics to the clipboard?]
  • Bug: Options.Index.Paths.Add - Attempt to re-add a just deleted path resulted in Error message: "Path [x] was not added because it already exists". (Previously, the user was required to close and reopen the Options dialog; Thanks Jean)
  • Bug: Options.Index.Paths.Add - Upon adding/removing Omit Folder(s) and then Adding a path, all Omit Folder changes were discarded (Long standing bug)
  • Bug: Options.Index.Paths.Del - Upon adding/removing Omit Folder(s) and then Deleting a path, all Omit Folder changes were discarded (Long standing bug)
  • Bug: Upon Reindex, moved and/or deleted files are not completely updated in the index: This would result in "ghosted" files showing in Search results (Regression in 2.5.3; Thanks Jean)
  • Bug: Crash upon Viewing or Text-Indexing a corrupt .pdf file.
  • Bug: Annoying error message upon attempt to View (or Text-Index) a .pdf when Adobe Acrobat Full is not installed (Thanks Erwin!)
  • Bug: Error when indexing a file with an extension containing single quotes ['] (Thanks Brett!)
  • Bug: After applying the patch, Help fails to launch. (very long standing bug: since help was first added)
  • Bug: MainDlg.Options - Upon removing an Index path and then pressing OK, this error may have displayed: [The record cannot be deleted or changed because the table 'File' includes related records.] (Thanks Erwin!)
  • Feature: File types now display in FileViewer: .def (dll Module-Definition), .nws (news file), .cls (C++ Class Definition & VB Class Module), .dic (text & sometimes binary)
  • Feature: Added more Text Index file types: .asc (ascii text file), .bas (basic source code), .csa (text), .faq (Frequently Asked Questions), .jsl (J# source code), .url (Internet Shortcut), .conf (oracle config), .config (config file) .xmlp (oracle config), .properties (misc config), .oraconfig (oracle config), .orc (oracle config), .bcp (Borland C++ Makefile), .cmd (Windows Command file & DBase II file)
  • Cleanup: Upon Reindex (or attempt to view) a PowerPoint file, Popup message displayed [Cannot start PowerPoint], now this message displays in the FileViewer. (Long standing issue)
  • Cleanup: Upon Reindex (or attempt to view) a Word file, Popup message displayed [Cannot invoke Word - contact your system administrator (GetLastError=%d)], now a cleaner message displays in the FileViewer. (Long standing issue)
  • Cleanup: Upon Reindex (or attempt to view) an Excel file, Popup message displayed [Cannot invoke Excel - contact your system administrator (GetLastError=%d)], now a cleaner message displays in the FileViewer. (Long standing issue)
  • Cleanup: Updated application Help to 2.5.5 feature set. (Help was last updated in 2.2.6)
    Cleanup: Options.Statistics - Sizes are now auto-scaled to GB and TB.
  • Cleanup: Added Omit Folder [Application Data] - this prevents lots of irrelevant noise being indexed.
  • Cleanup: More progress bars during long running operations. (Before: the app sometimes appeared to hang)
  • Cleanup: Upon searching within files (File Text), the score is now the count of text occurrence (before it was count + 1; very long standing issue)
  • Misc: More typos and GUI fixes

2006-9-16 Version 2.5.4  (BETA)

  • Optimization: Slightly faster reindexing of files that have changed since last index.
  • Bug: Install failed on Windows ME (bug has always existed, sorry about that)
  • Bug: MainDlg.Search - Files larger than 2GB displayed with a size of -1. (long standing bug. Maximum filesize is now 2TB)
  • Bug: Reindex - When reindexing a specific Drive or Folder, the Progress Dialog now correctly shows the number of Phases as 3.
  • Bug: Reindex - When reindexing a specific Drive or Folder, moved files are now correctly updated in your index.
  • Bug: Reindex - Upon Renaming a file and then reindexing that dir: the old file_name may still persist in the index.
  • Bug: MainDlg.Search - When search Text word(s) contain a ['] then the fileviewer may not highlight all matching words. (long standing word)
  • Bug: MainDlg.Search - When a search produces no matches then ghosted exif data from a previous search result may display in the FileViewer.
  • Bug: MainDlg.Search - When a moved image is attempted to be viewed in the FileViewer then ghosted exif data may display in the FileViewer.
  • Bug: MainDlg - On Windows Vista: Within Mo-Search when attempting to display the Windows Explorer Shell Context (right-click) menu, all menu items were blank.
  • Bug: MainDlg - On Windows 98 & ME: Within Mo-Search when attempting to display the Windows Explorer Shell Context (right-click) menu, Mo-Search.exe would crash.
  • Bug: Reindex & Search - Files sizes larger than 1 KB were not computed correctly.
  • Bug: Reindex - Launch Reindex via right-clicking a folder in Windows Explore and Options.Statistics don't update.
  • Bug: MainDlg.Search.Path - If path is [*x] or [?x], then leftmost character is a wildcard and we have no way of determining if path is indexed, so DON'T show browse button as blue.
  • Feature: Fileviewer - Ctrl-down scrolls down one line, Ctrl-up scrolls up one line.
  • Feature: Fileviewer - Added button [Email] - Composes a Mail Message in Microsoft Outlook and attaches the file
  • Feature: Fileviewer - Added button [Print] - Prints this file using your associated editor
  • Feature: Fileviewer - Added button [Open] - Opens this file using your associated editor
  • Feature: Fileviewer - Added button [Explore] - Explore this file's folder in Windows Explorer
  • Feature: Fileviewer - Added font size [13], change this in Options.General
  • Misc: Higher resolution Vista desktop icon, and some small GUI cleanups + tooltips
  • Cleanup: Remove much despised and horribly buggy feature List.Mouse Wheel Acceleration.
  • Note: Due to fixes in filesize calculation, after installing the 2.5.4 patch your first [Update Index] may cause numerous files to be reindexed. This is completely intentional and by design. Thereafter, subsequent [Update Index] will only reindex files that have actually changed.

2006-7-08 Version 2.5.3  (BETA)

  • Optimization: Options - faster loading of various pages.
  • Optimization: Indexing - faster indexing due to simplification of dual-pass DB optimization to single-pass (Dual-pass option added to Options.System)
  • Feature: MainDlg.Seach filter: Path - This provides the capability to selectively search one drive and/or folder (much needed by advanced users)
  • Feature: Find File Types - This tool scans the selected directory and displays the distribution of file types.
  • Feature: Shell Integration - [Mo-Search] This opens the app with the selected folder as your search path.
  • Feature: Shell Integration - [Mo-Search Reindex] This reindexes the selected directory.
  • Feature: Shell Integration - [Mo-Search Find File Types] This runs the Find File Type tool on the selected directory.
  • Feature: Added default Text-Index extensions: .pks .pkb (oracle), .xsd (XML Schema File) .fun (oracle PLSQL function), .prc (oracle procedure), .ini (application config), .tnsnames (oracle), .reg (Windows registry file)
  • Feature: Drop List (comboBox) items may now be selectively removed.
  • Feature: FileViewer now displays the contents of .exe, .ocx and .dll file types. (Note: These contents are not yet Text-Indexable, stay tuned...)
  • Cleanup: Added omit Folder [winsxd] - in Vista this folder may take several GB of space. (This was only an issue if you choose to Index your Windows folder)
  • Cleanup: Slightly smaller db size due to removal of redundant indexes (File.FileID, DomainGroup.DgID, SysSetting.SettingID, Extension.ExtID, FtsNoiseWord.WordID)
  • Bug: If Word is not installed and .htm or .html is Text-Indexed, the user receives a cryptic error and the file was not indexed.
  • Bug: Options.OK - After changing indexed paths and pressing OK, an error may display "A path could not be deleted"
  • Bug: Mo-Search is now launchable from the shell.
  • Bug: Esc key no longer closes the main dialog.
  • Bug: Main Dialog - Message "The Parameter is incorrect" (This very annoying bug affected 2.5.0, 2.5.1 and 2.5.2)
  • Bug: Options.Statistics.Database size may be incorrect (especially on Windows 98)
  • Bug: Patch failed to install on Windows Vista and Windows 98.
    License - Somewhat simplified License.txt and added clause that states Meauxsoft software (i.e. Mo-Search) is free of any and all spyware/adware.
  • Misc: More typos, misspellings, missing hotkeys, GUI fixes and speedups.

2006-5-06 Version 2.5.2  (BETA)

  • Optimization: Slightly faster all around performance (refactored sluggish code, minor architecture reworks, consolidated duplicate code)
  • Optimization: Faster indexing and scanning for duplicate files (refactored hot functions to reduce quantity of function calls)
  • Optimization: Options.Statistics - Much Faster Loading (instead of recalculating upon every OptionsDlg load, pre-calculated stats are persisted at completion of indexing)
  • Optimization: Options.Text Index- Slightly Faster Loading (buffer data is cached one time in one SELECT, before multiple selects were used upon each dialog load)
  • Feature: Ctrl-A selects all text in a drop list (i.e. ComboBox)
  • Feature: Options.Index.SpecificPath.Add -> After a Path is added, the user is immediately prompted: [Would you like to Include or Omit this path?] (long standing/much needed)
  • Feature: Options.Index.Domain.Add -> After a Domain is added, the user is immediately prompted to add/group extensions
  • Feature: Added .lst filetype as default fti (often an text list file (Oracle), may be a BPM Studio Play List, more rarely a binary file)
  • Feature: Added .clw filetype as default fti (may be a Clarion source code module or a Visual Studio MFC Class Wizard file)
  • Feature: Added these other default fti file types: .adb .ads .ans .asm .asx .awk .bat .cgi .clw .cs .hh .inl .jav .js .jsp .l .ll .mak .manifest .pl .udl .xml .xls .xlst .vb .vba .vbd .vbe .vbg .vbp .vbs .vbw .y
  • Feature: Explore.Drive Tree -> Right clicking [My Computer] now produces the same dialog produced by Windows Explorer.
  • Bug: Options.Domains.Edit -> Brought up a dialog that appeared to maintain Full Text extensions (This completes the previously half-completed Domains feature)
  • Bug: Options.Text Index.Defaults - Used v2.4x extensions defaults and not the new (greatly expanded) v2.5x extension list
  • Bug: Options.Text Index.Defaults - When pressed, the Option's dialog's Ok and Cancel buttons did not disable making the GUI look broken.
  • Bug: Include paths are not indexed when that drive's root is not include (very long standing bug - sorry)
  • Bug: When a search produces no matches, the FileViewer's contents displays a ghost of previous viewed file
  • Bug: These Full-Text file types now display in the FileViewer (.par .for, .clw)
  • Bug: These developer Full-Text file types are now parsed as developer file types (.idl .inc)
  • Bug: The ProgressBar dialog does not appear on the task bar. (long standing bug)
  • Bug: During Indexing, Stage 5 Optimizing - ProgressBar disappears and optimization appears to hang (long standing bug)
  • Bug: FindDupFiles - Upon completing scanning, a sound is always played - And the sound setting is reverted to on. (Very irritating - sorry)
  • Cleanup: Remove these file types from fti: .ini
  • Cleanup: Options.Statistics - when database size is less than 1MB, it now display as 0.xxMB
  • Cleanup: Smaller installer and executables (Slightly reduced compiler's bias for inlining)
  • Cleanup: Options.Index.Paths.Del - The user is no longer prompted to confirm b/c 1) the Options dialog has a Cancel button, 2) The UI is more streamlined, 3) The UI is more consistent with the rest of the app, 4) This prompt is really an unnecessary annoyance.
  • Cleanup: Options.Index.Domaing.Del - The user is no longer prompted to confirm b/c 1) the Options dialog has a Cancel button, 2) The UI is more streamlined, 3) The UI is more consistent with the rest of the app, 4) This prompt is really an unnecessary annoyance.
  • Cleanup: Slightly smaller database - removed unnecessary index: File.SizeKB
  • Misc: Various typos, GUI cleanups, optimizations and bugs.

2006-3-26 Version 2.5.1  (BETA)

  • Optimization: Faster Indexing and faster Find Dup File scanning!  In release builds, VS 2005 compiler uses extremely inefficient Intrinsic for strcmp (see: FDBK47075)
  • Feature: Added fti extensions related to Oracle precompiled files: .pco, .cob (Cobol), .pad (Ada), .pfo, .for (FORTRAN), .pc (C/C++), .ppl, .pl1 (PL/I), .ppa (Pascal)
  • Feature: Added more default Text-Index file types (such as: .sql, .ini, oracle precompiled files)
  • Bug: Could not delete a Domain (delete simply did not take)
  • Bug: During Indexing Phase 3, the progress bar's title was [Calculating Time Remaining...] instead of [Stage (3/5) Indexing X Files... ]
  • Bug: Options.Index - Upon trying to adding a path that does not exist (due to copy and paste into Browse dialog), the user is now notified the path was invalid. (Previously, the user saw an incorrect and confusing message)
  • Bug: During indexing and viewing in FileViewer, development file types were not parsed as dev files (.asm, .asmx, .cob, .cs, .for, .h, .sql, .java, .mak, .manifest, .mpcpl, .ora, .pad, .pas, .pc, .pco, .pfo, .ppa, .rc, .rc2, .res, .sln, .vcproj)
  • Bug: FileViewer did not always hilight matches in development file types
  • Cleanup: Options.Statistics, added: [Full Text Keywords], [Indexed Data], [Full Text Data], [Database Size], Removed: [Modified] as this field was never actually used.
  • Cleanup: Added [Recent] to default Omit Folders
  • Cleanup: Clarified wording or various dialogs
  • Cleanup: Smaller installer after removal of yet more dead code.
  • Cleanup: Reduced default Max Fti size from 25MB to 20MB (reduces Text Indexing of large garbage files)
  • Cleanup: Noise paths are no longer added as Omits, as this is done more cleanly through Omit Folders (Local Settings, Cookies, Temp, and Temporary Internet Files)
  • Cleanup: Increased the maximum number of items in a Drop List from 100 to 200
  • Cleanup: Options.OK, In [Configuring Paths] a smaller batch size is used (the progress bar appears to hang too often)

2006-3-19 Version 2.5  (BETA)

  • Feature: Added experimental support for Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows 2003 and Windows Vista
  • Feature: Dynamic Domains - Add/remove domains and add/remove extensions to each domain.
  • Feature: More file types are Full-Test searchable and Viewable in the FileViewer: .ada, .adb, .ads (ada) .ans (ansi text), .asp, .aspx, .asmx, .c, .cpp, .cxx, .hh, .h, .inc, .inf, .map, .mpcpl, .m3u, .ora, .pas (Delphi) .pkg (Oracle package), .pls, .resx, .rtf (Rich text File), .m3u, .wri (Microsoft Write), .wmx, .xpl, .wpl, .vcproj, .xsl, .xslt, .vcproj
  • Feature: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) full-text
  • Feature: Options.Full-Text Index: Added Adobe Acrobat to Full Text Indexing and searching: (.pdf) - Note: Adobe Acrobat, not to be confused with Adobe Reader)
  • Feature: Options.Index: Added Adobe Acrobat to Full Text Indexing and searching: (.pdf) - Note: Adobe Acrobat, not to be confused with Adobe Reader)
  • Feature: Double-clk combo 1) selects clicked word, and 2) drops list
  • Feature: Options.Index: EditPathDialog - Added much needed [Explore] button and made [Path] field wider.
  • Feature: Options.Index: Paths List - Added much needed [Explore] button
  • Bug: Find Duplicate Files Tool - when no path is selected you now receive a message (before the scan completed with no duplicates)
  • Bug: Indexing - During indexing this error may have appeared is you don't have Microsoft Word installed: [Cannot invoke Word - contact your system administrator (GetLastError=2)]
  • Bug: Indexing - During indexing this error may have appeared is you don't have Microsoft Excel installed: [Cannot invoke Excel - contact your system administrator (GetLastError=2)]
  • Bug: FileViewer - Extra non-matching words are hilighted in the FileViewer (very Long standing bug)
  • Bug: Installer - When run on an incompatible OS, the installer may have quit with a confusing error message.
  • Bug: Installer - After the [Patch] is applied, a nonsensical error message is given [You have specified invalid command line options.] (This was a regression in v2.3.0)
  • Bug: Tools->Options->Index: Manually adding paths could cause duplication.
  • Bug: Tools->Options->Index: The sorted column in ListCtrls now uses the correct sort color (long standing bug)
  • Bug: Incorrect/misleading error message is given when index database has been manually deleted. (Before: Connection failed .. reinstall MDAC, Now: Your .mde file is missing... reinstall the application)
  • Bug: Small memory leak upon destruction of each ComboBox (Long standing bug)
  • Bug: When attempting to apply the patch to an incompatible version, a warning is now given (Before: the patch could have corrupted a good installation without the user knowing)
  • Optimization: Find Duplicate Files Tool - Scanning is typically twice as fast
  • Optimization: Slightly faster performance - compiler was upgraded to MS VC++ 2005
  • Cleanup: When Microsoft Word or Excel cannot be instantiated, the user is given a more informative error message.
  • Cleanup: Moved more system settings from the registry into the database (This works towards providing the ability to install more than once instance of the same version)
  • Cleanup: By default files larger than 25MB will not be full text indexed (you can change this in Options.Text Index)
  • Cleanup: Smaller Installer size due to improved installer compression (thanks NSIS)
  • Cleanup: Smaller Installer size due to removal of stl along with [msvcp80.dll]
  • Cleanup: Main Dialog - Now, only [Domain] ComboBox or [Filename] EditCtrl is visible. Because these two controls are currently mutually exclusive, they should not be visible at the same time.
  • Cleanup: Find Duplicate Files tool - Status text may be partially obscured
  • Misc: Various other small typos, bugs, features and optimizations.

2005-11-07 Version 2.3.1  (Backwards compatible with 2.3.x)

  • Bug: An instance of Excel.exe (possibly two) is left running after Mo-Search exits. (Bug has existed since Excel FTI was added - Sorry Jean!)
  • Bug: Uninstaller - Upon uninstall, Windows Explorer shell integration [Find Duplicate Files] is now removed from the registry. (Long standing bug)
  • Bug: Uninstaller - Upon uninstall, Mo-Search registry keys/entries are now removed. (Long standing bug)

  • Feature: In edit controls, Ctrl-A now selects all. (Very small feature, but also very irritating if not available)

  • Feature: Uninstaller - In [Windows->Control Panel->Add or Remove Programs], the uninstaller name now displays as [Mo-Search 2.3].  This is useful if you have multiple parallel versions installed and you wish to uninstall one.

  • Cleanup: Uninstaller - Under [Control Panel->Add or Remove Programs], the Mo-Search uninstaller now has a [click here for support information] link. (Thanks Comm@nder21)

  • Cleanup: Once again, smaller Installer and executable size due to removal of unnecessary/deprecated source code.

  • Cleanup: Tools->Options->Index: Paths count has been added below the paths list.

  • Misc: Various other small bugs and optimizations.

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2005-10-14 Version 2.3  (Backwards compatible with 2.3.x)

  • Rework: Main Dialog - Reworked GUI for increased searching power, searching flexibility, and improved space usability.
  • Feature: Main Dialog - Now a search may be filtered by [Domain] or [Filename].
    Feature: Options.Full-Text Index: Added Excel to Full Text Indexing and searching: (.xls, .xlt, .xlw, .xla)
  • Feature: Main Dialog - New search domain: [Microsoft Excel].
  • Feature: Full Text searches now uses filename and path to calculate "score" of matching files.
  • Bug: Main Dialog - When C/C++/C# files are indexed, Domain groups related to [Development] were not visible (long-standing bug)
  • Bug: Options.Full-Text Index: All enabled full-text file types are unchecked after Options is loaded and closed. (regression in 2.2.6)
  • Bug: Main Dialog - When search Text contains the exclusion [-] operator no results are returned even though results do exist. (long-standing bug) (Example: a search of [big -red] may return 0 results even when results exists matching that criteria).
  • Bug: Main Dialog - App appears to hang with when app loads and [Options.General.Display selected file's contents in File Viewer] is unchecked.
  • Bug: [Reindex] After removing and then re-adding one or more extensions from [Options->Full-Text Index], files with that extension never reindex. (Long standing bug)
  • Bug: Main Dialog - When [FileViewer] is enabled, mode is [Mo-Explore], and user opens [Options], and then closes [Options], the [FileViewer] becomes partially visible and application may appear to hang. (long standing bug)
  • Bug: During indexing, the total number of files to index may have be greatly inflated. (long standing bug)
  • Optimization: Faster indexing
  • Optimization: Smaller index
  • Optimization: Faster searching - especially when using filter [Filename].
  • Misc: Various other small bugs, typos and optimizations.

2005-09-16 Version 2.2.8  (Backwards compatible with 2.2.x)

  • Feature: Upon encountering a database error, the user is now able to report to support@meauxsoft.com.
  • Feature: Options.Full-Text Index: New Full-Text Extension Types may now be added (before the user had to select an available extension)
  • Cleanup: Options.Full-Text Index: Simplified adding of Full-Text Extension Types. Before, the user was required to hunt through a potentially huge, and often incomplete, list of extensions.
  • Cleanup: Options.Index: Improved keyboard navigation - upon deleting a path, the paths list again receives focus.
  • Bug: Options.Full-Text Index: Screen now displays as busy upon [Defaults] or [Advanced].
  • Bug: Options.Index: Screen now displays as busy when adding, editing or deleting a path (This was a regression).
  • Bug: Options.Index: The [Ok] button had the cancel icon, and the [Cancel] button had no icon. (long existing + newly noticed bug).

2005-09-14 Version 2.2.7  (Backwards compatible with 2.2.x)

  • Bug: During indexing (or finding duplicate files) GDI Objects memory leak.
  • Bug: During indexing, crash (related to GDI leak).
  • Bug: During indexing, windows painting is all jumbled (related to GDI leak).
  • Bug: While viewing files in the integrated file viewer, GDI leak.
  • Optimization: Slightly faster indexing due to removal of synchronization code from thread safe areas.
  • Cleanup: Slightly smaller installer due to removal of yet more unnecessary code.
  • Cleanup: Label (text) references to [Update Index] have been updated to [Reindex].

2005-08-30 Version 2.2.6  (Backwards compatible with 2.2.x)

  • Feature: Main Dialog - Improved general usability: added buttons [Options] and [Find Dups] to main dialog.
  • Feature: Main Dialog - Improved general usability: added buttons [Options] and [Find Dups] to main dialog.
  • Feature: Find Dup Files - Improved general usability: Added overview text, Removed checkbox [Ignore Empty Files], improved keyboard navigation, and top duplicate group always auto-expands.
  • Bug: FileViewer - Application crash when viewing a JPEG contain Exif data field [orientation]. (Newer cameras may use this field) - Thanks Trevor
  • Bug: FileViewer - Non-matching words may be underlined when NOT searching with wildcards. For example: Search text [word] may incorrectly highlight non-matching word [word123].
  • Bug: FileViewer - Matching words may NOT be underlined when searching wildcards. For example: Search text [word] may incorrectly not-highlight matching word [word].
  • Bug: Options - Options dialog is now disabled during loading.
  • Bug: File types marked "SearchProhibited" are no longer indexed/searched.
  • Bug: Find Dup Files - When the screen was maximized, the scan summary text was not visible.
  • Bug: Find Dup Files - When right clicking a special folder such as [My Computer] or [Recycle Bin], an empty path displays next to [Select Path].
  • Bug: Explore - When mode is [Explore] after displaying [Options], some [Search] controls become visible.
  • Optimization: Options dialog load faster. (Slow loading was annoying when you just want to toggle [Stemming]).
  • Optimization: FileViewer - Faster loading of large files (only: text, PowerPoint and Word files, not multi-media)
  • Optimization: Slightly faster indexing and slightly smaller database size. (temp extensions are no longer indexed)
  • Cleanup: Help documentation has been somewhat updated. (more is required)
  • Cleanup: Find Dup Files - Less perceivable bog on your computer (During each scan, we more often yield to other Windows processes)
  • Cleanup: Find Dup Files - Now plays standard search sounds upon completion of scanning.
  • Cleanup: Remove noise file extensions [.exp, .idb, .inf, .map, .ncb, .pch, .tlh, .tli]
  • Cleanup: FileViewer - Every Exif fields now display regardless if it has a value. (Fields are no longer constantly hiding and showing depending on which picture is selected - that was irritating).
  • Cleanup: Smaller installer due to removal of (yet more) unused code.
  • Cleanup: Directory selection dialog hotkeys for [Accept] and [Cancel].
  • Cleanup: Options.Add Path - Added dialog hotkeys for [Accept] and [Cancel].
  • Cleanup: Rebased exe and dlls to ease release debugging.
  • Cleanup: Removed garbage C++ extensions that are inserted as part of Options->FTI-C++.
  • Cleanup: In lists, the [Delete] key does the same action as the [Delete] button.
  • Misc: Various other small bugs and optimizations.

2005-08-13 Version 2.2.5.1  (Backwards compatible with 2.2.x)

  • Bug: Find Dup Files - Scan Status may be empty when scan speed if over 4GB per second.
  • Bug: Find Dup Files - When using the right-arrow key to expand an already expanded duplicate file group the application crashes.
  • Bug: Find Dup Files - When using the left-arrow key to contract an already contracted duplicate file group that group disappears.

2005-08-13 Version 2.2.5  (Backwards compatible with 2.2.x)

  • Feature: Find Dup Files - Results tree has improved keyboard navigation: [Delete] deletes selected file, [Enter] opens selected file, right-arrow expands tree node, left-arrow contracts tree node, etc..
  • Feature: Find Dup Files - Dialog is now resizable, has a [Close] button, and improved keyboard navigation (Hotkeys, Tab Order)
  • Feature: Explore - Files list now display folder and file icons.. but currently all files have the same crummy icon ;-(
  • Feature: Explore - Added right-click shell integration.
  • Feature: Explore - A file is selected upon right-clicking (kind of like Windows Explorer)
  • Feature: Explore - Upon double-clicking a file or folder in files list, the parent folder selected in the tree.
  • Feature: Explore – Pressing Control-A in the files list selects all items.
  • Bug: Installer - License.txt is now installed (as installers [Comments] field states).
  • Bug: Uninstaller did not remove start menu item [Find Duplicate Files] (Thanks Download.com!)
  • Bug: Explore - An invalid folder was sometimes listed.
  • Bug: Explore - Folders no longer display with a size of [0 KB]
  • Bug: Search - FileViewer may not have highlighted matches.
  • Bug: Installer - Upon initial install: FileViewer may replace each tab with [0] spaces (the default is now [4])
  • Cleanup: Explore - Upon initial load: [My Computer] is now expanded.
  • Optimization: Explore - Faster browsing of folders and files.
  • Cleanup: Find Dup Files - Upon completion of scan, the first item in the tree now has focus and is selected.
  • Cleanup: Explore - Folders [.] and [..] are no longer displayed (If anyone would like this back, let me know and I’ll make it a setting)
  • Cleanup: Multiple clients may (again) connect to one central network installation. (Sorry Craig)

2005-08-11 Version 2.2.4  (Backwards compatible with 2.2.x)

  • Optimization: Find Dup Files - Completely reworked scanning engine: Scan is roughly 10 times faster and uses 50% less memory (compared to v2.2.3)
  • Feature: Find Dup Files - Added ability to ignore Empty files (application sometimes contain empty files which needlessly inflate the number of duplicate files)
  • Feature: Find Dup Files - Added shortcut [Find Duplicate Files] to StartMenu->Program Files->Mo-Search 2.2
  • Feature: By default, PowerPoint full text indexing is now enabled.
  • Feature: Added Windows Explorer shell integration - Right click a folder to [Find Duplicate Files].
  • Bug: By Default, Word Full Text Indexing is disabled when Microsoft Word is not installed.
  • Bug: By Default, PowerPoint Full Text Indexing is enabled when Microsoft PowerPoint is not installed.
  • Bug: If PowerPoint or Word is not installed, then Full Text Indexing cannot be enabled for the respective item.
  • Bug: When PowerPoint is running interactively, Mo-Search no longer closes PowerPoint from underneath the user.
  • Bug: Find Dup Files - Fixed screen text [Wasted Space Due] to [Wasted Space]
  • Bug: Find Dup Files - Upon deleting file(s) the dup group is hidden when consists of only one file. (because only one file now exists - i.e. no longer any duplicates)
  • Bug: Find Dup Files - Upon deleting file(s) the sibling or parent is now selected (before none were selected)
  • Bug: Find Dup Files - Wasted Space was erroneously inflated by one file's size (When 3 files are duplicated, only 2 of them are actually wasted space... before wasted space was calculated from all three)
  • Bug: Find Dup Files - List items with Wasted Space < 1KB did not sort correctly
  • Bug: While running the full installer, one or more database error messages are given.
  • Bug: Tools->Options->[General] - Layout issues: fixed truncated text, fixed spelling error, removed unnecessary text, controls disable when they should.
  • Bug: Uninstaller: Mo-Search can now be uninstalled via the control panel applet: [Add or Remove Programs] (This bug fix requires full install of 2.2.x or patch of 2.3+.x) - This bug fix requires full install of 2.2.x or patch of 2.3+.
  • Bug: Uninstaller: Uninstaller now fails if Mo-Search is still executing (before the uninstaller silently succeeded leaving most of the apps file installed but remove the uninstaller) - This bug fix requires full install of 2.2.x or patch of 2.3+.
  • Cleanup: Find Dup Files - File size of 1 or more GB now display as GB and not 1024x of MB.
  • Cleanup: Find Dup Files - Now runs in own process space thus improving usability (before this tool was launched from Mo-Search... Mo-Search then hid itself and reappeared when the Find Dups tool exited).
  • Cleanup: Find Dup Files - Now application version displays in the title bar (like Mo-Search)
  • Cleanup: Find Dup Files - Tool icon is now a "Duplicate File" (before, the Magnifying glass icon was shared with Mo-Search).
  • Cleanup: Tools->Options->[Search & Replace] has been renamed [General].
  • Cleanup: Tools->Options->[Information] has been renamed [Statistics] and Layout has been improved: Added (2) counts, screen load asynchronously, and counts are formatted with commas.
  • Cleanup: Renamed command line argument [AutoConfig] to [Install] as this more accurately reflects functionality.
  • Cleanup: Find Dup Files - When no duplicate files are found this message is given "Congratulations, No Duplicate Files!" (before no message was given, leaving user to wonder why nothing was displaying).

2005-08-08 Version 2.2.3  (Backwards compatible with 2.2.x)

  • Feature: PowerPoint Full Text Indexing and searching. (.ppt, .pos, .pps)
  • Feature: Added new Tool [Find Duplicate Files] which... finds all duplicated files within a certain path.
  • Feature: Added [Explore] page which provides browsing of your computers drives. (This feature is a future hook for more functionality and currently does very little).
  • Feature: More file types are viewable in the FileViewer: (.sql .out)
  • Optimization: Slightly faster application start-up and execution due to newly incorporated optimizing compiler.
  • Bug: Crash upon attempt to preview (i.e. FileViewer) a corrupt file (this bug has existed in all versions).
  • Bug: Crash upon attempt to preview (i.e. FileViewer) a valid file (this bug has existed in all versions).
  • Bug: Crash upon attempt to index a corrupt Word or WordPerfect document (this bug has existed in all versions).
  • Bug: Indexing can now be canceled while reading a large file.
  • Bug: The FileViewer is now read-only (before changes were permitted but never saved)
  • Cleanup: Options.Dialog.Progress bar is no longer topmost (that was really annoying!)
  • Cleanup: During indexing, the main dialog is no longer visible when the Updating index dialog is active. (Before the main dialog window was visible in a disabled state)
  • Cleanup: Button highlight color is closer to white (before it was an overly bright yellow)
  • Cleanup: Results List Right-click -> Mo-Search View -> [Copy] menu item has been renamed [Copy Cell Text] as this more accurately describes functionality.
  • Cleanup: Results List Right-click -> Mo-Search View -> [Copy Extended] menu item has been renamed [Copy Text ...] as this more accurately describes functionality.
  • Cleanup: Results List Right-click -> Mo-Search View -> [Export] menu item has been renamed [Export All Text ...] as this more accurately describes functionality.

2005-06-29 Version 2.2.2  (Backwards compatible with 2.2.x)

  • Bug: Several small memory leaks due to improper closing of Recordsets
  • Feature: Tools->Options->Index: Unavailable paths are now highlighted in yellow
  • Optimization: Faster indexing due to reworked indexing code
  • Optimization: Configuration data is saved (applied) faster
  • Optimization: Faster searching due to smaller db size and (Improved word parsing during indexing & Removed unused database metadata)
  • Cleanup: Smaller Installer and executable size due to removal of unnecessary/deprecated source code
  • Cleanup: Options.Dialog.Progress bar is no longer system modal
  • Cleanup: Large batched operations (i.e. Configuring Files, Paths) are more linear (Batch size is now smaller)

2005-05-19 Version 2.2.0  (Backwards compatible with 2.2.x)

  • Optimization: Faster searching due to smaller db size.

  • Optimization: Faster application startup due to streamlined startup code.
  • Bug: Crash occurred upon attempt to display Word Document in Integrated File Viewer.
  • Bug: Relevant matches were not found when search test contained ['] and corresponding file text contained one of [`']
  • Bug: Uncommon file extensions were excluded from Indexing (this was a premature optimization that was never rolled back.
  • Feature: More file types are viewable in the FileViewer: .awk .asp .apsx .log .l .ll (lex) .pl (perl) .tlh .tli (c/c ) .y (yak).
  • Cleanup: Smaller Installer and executable size due to removal of unnecessary/deprecated source code.
  • Misc: Application version now displays in dialog title bar (Signifies which version you are running - required for Parallel Install usability)

2005-05-04 Version 2.1.3  (Backwards compatible with 2.1.x)

  • Bug: When option is not checked: [Replace Tabs with Spaces] text was displayed without any tab formatting.
  • Bug: When option is not checked: [Stemming] a search by Filenames/Paths may return no matches.
  • Bug: During Index Update, user is given message [Attempt to insert record has failed..]
  • Bug: Help fails to launch with error [Failed to Launch Help]
  • Optimization: Faster Searches - Files list loads roughly 10% faster and uses 10% less memory.
  • Optimization: Slightly faster application startup (db connection is now DSN-less)
  • Feature: Parallel Version Installs - Multiple versions of Mo-Search may now be installed and operate independently on the same computer. This is useful for testing or just running two versions in parallel.
  • Feature: These file types are now viewable in the FileViewer: [.bat .cgi .css .udl .vb .vba .vbd .vbe .vbg .vbp .vbs .vbw .jav .java .js .jsp]
  • Feature: Index.Include Paths list is now sortable by the user (before dialog was statically sorted by Action)
  • Cleanup: Updated Help Content.
  • Cleanup: By default Executive Software Undelete's [RecoveryBin] directories are now omitted from indexing.
  • Cleanup: By default Windows [Recycler] and [Recycled] directories are now omitted from indexing.
  • Cleanup: Better keyboard integration: Added Mnemonics and updated Tab order.
  • Cleanup: Temp directly was erroneously created [..\TempMeauxTemp], now the user's Temp directory is used.

2005-04-14 Version 2.0.2  (Backwards compatible with 2.0.x)

  • Feature: Search files by filename/path (sort of a 'baby' UNIX locate service).
  • Feature: EXIF data is now displayed adjacent to Images containing EXIF data.
  • Bug: Indexing Stage: (4/5 Cleaning Words) is now faster. (Before: application may have appeared to hang during this stage).
  • Bug: Minimal application help implementation is now provided. (Before: launching help produced error [Cannot file the C:\...\Mo-Search.help file. Do you want to find this file yourself?])
  • Bug: If the application and Database versions are not compatible the user is prompted to update via the full installer. (This is an issue when a user attempts to apply an old version Update on top of a significantly more recent version)
  • Bug: Multiple instances of Word were started during indexing and searching. Now, only one instance of Word is started and used.
  • Bug: After opening a Word document in the FileViewer, the document cannot be saved from within Word.  Mo-Search was incorrectly locking previewed Word documents as read-only.
  • Optimization: Smaller database size.
  • Optimization: Faster Indexing and Searching.
  • Cleanup: Removed unnecessary meta-data from database.
  • Cleanup: Executable has been renamed to [mo-search.exe] to avoid confusion with Microsoft's Office Fast Search Utility (mosearch.exe).
  • Cleanup: Added more tool tips.
  • Cleanup: Removed more unused code and resources.
  • Licensing: Updated license to grant free use within the corporate domain

2005-02-21 Version 1.9.9

  • Bug FileViewer [Previous] and [Next] buttons now find wildcards as specified in the search text: [v?r?fy] now matches [verify], and search text [v*ify] matches [verify].
  • Optimization Indexing aligned file read buffering with windows page size.
  • Optimization Indexing: Reduced memory usage by consolidating/centralizing shared objects.
  • Optimization Indexing: Slightly smaller exe: removed unnecessary code.
  • Cleanup Installer: now display the complete version number (i.e. 1.9.9.0, before only 1.9 was visible)

2005-02-10  Version 1.9.8

  • Bug Application: Upon closing Mo-Search, open Word document(s) may unexpectedly close.  Before: Upon Mo-Search Exit, Word was unconditionally closed.  Now Word is only closed if OpenDocs count = 0.

  • Cleanup Options.Search Results: Removed unused button [Defaults].  Details: Because this screen currently lacks defaults, the button did not do anything.

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