Änderungsprotokoll für memo

Bug Fixes

license collections

Search & Collect activation failed with a cryptic error message in progress dialog

files collections

When renaming/moving files with metadata/collections, the new files could show incomplete collections

New Features

search collections

The free edition now allows exploring all application areas with a limited feature set to facilitate app evaluation before activation

apps

The apps view is now available in the free edition, providing a consistent interface across all editions

apps

Added an app details view showing activation status and allowing activation management directly from within memo

search files

Clicking a file path in the search preview now opens the corresponding folder

collections

Added a helpful message when no collections have been created yet

collections labels

Assignment menus now provide direct options to create new collections and labels

Changes

index files

Reworked file change detection and startup indexing, significantly reducing the time required to detect modified files

startup intro

Improved the first-start experience with a clearer introduction and setup guidance

register

Simplified registration and trial activation dialogs to reduce friction for new users

windows security

Windows Defender exclusion guidance is now shown more prominently during startup

windows files

Improved Windows file icon loading and directory file counting performance

Bug Fixes

startup

The splash screen could disappear too early during first startup, leaving users waiting for the main window without feedback

files

Dragging files from the image viewer to the file browser or quick links did not work

files collections

Collections and file references were not updated correctly when files or folders were moved or renamed outside memo

files preview metadata

Editing a file title could show an empty initial value when no custom title was assigned

files shortcuts

Removing the last file shortcut left an empty, open shortcut tree node behind

focus search

Focus Search did not display suggestions when searches started with a '#' character

search

The preview area was not restored correctly after reopening the main window

files collections

Files in the browser were not updated immediately after assigning or removing collections

ui collections labels

Collection and label context menus were displayed at incorrect positions

license

Deactivating an extension unnecessarily removed its locally stored license information

license windows

License activation could fail on some Windows systems because hardware information was not extracted correctly

index files

Hidden and read-only file attributes were not extracted and displayed correctly

files

File links could incorrectly inherit properties from their target resources, leading to inconsistent indexing and file handling

files metadata

Text extraction could incorrectly be applied on folders

New Features

search

The search selectors on the left side of the search window are summarized in the "Explorer" view, comparable to VS Code. Selectors can be with enabled and disabled as needed.

search

Added new search selectors to explorer view, namely: Quicklinks, Computer, and Cloud

collections

Collections are held consistent when files are moved or renamed within memo - references are adjusted

files metadata

File metadata is copied to new data entities along with file copies

collections

Introduced a confirmation dialog when pressing "Delete" in collection management dialog

Changes

index recognition

Adjusted german invoice recognition: added "summe" as or-group keyword

Bug Fixes

focus search

"Show result in search window..." did not work

metadata audio

Audio file thumbnails were not resized and could touch memory limits when too big

linux gtk

Main app menu sayed "SWT" instead of "memo"

metadata

File title was not shown in preview title, if extracted from file metadata

collections

Collection assignment did not work correctly on file copies

labels

Label assignment did not work correctly on file copies

search

Search line empty message could be deleted with the DEL key

search metadata

There were inconsistencies between edited and indexed metadata

index files

"Find in memo" was triggered twice, leading to undeterministric reference handling

installer

Installer was in german language on english systems

files

File move on existing targets deleted source files when user chose to skip existing files

i18n

Fixed missing translations in the interface

license

Product activation dialog did not trim entered email address or activation code

ui apps

Custom drawn icons did not scale properly, leading to wrong icon line width

linux files

File system watchers delayed the start process and file browser interaction in large directory structures

New Features

license

A new license is requested before pulling an update to ensure that the app starts after the update

license

The app starts in free version when license setup is insufficient for the pro version, instead of just stopping

Changes

index

"node_modules" has been added to default excluded directory names

Bug Fixes

index

Indexer caused exception on startup, when a referenced folder was not readable (e.g., through access denied)

New Features

ui

Exceptions in UI thread are now catched and displayed in an error dialog to prevent immediate crashes

Changes

license

Updated the product EULA

Bug Fixes

collections preview

Collection changes in opened preview caused UI crash after having collections rearranged in search selector view

focus text

Search phrase from focus search line was not passed to PDF preview in focus preview

New Features

search text

Global search phrase is now used as search phrase in PDF previews, showing text-hits within documents

collections search

Added a "refresh" button to the collections search selector view

license

Settings and about dialog now show maintenance expiration

preview search text

Open preview editors in search view are now reused for new selections, which increases performance

preferences preview video

Added a preferences switch for video autoplay in previews

ui video

Added a "play" icon overlay on video thumbnails to indicate playable content

index classification

Improved document classification with or-groups (will be configurable in the UI ASAP)

video metadata i18n

TMDB requests now respect the system locale, returning metadata in the correct language

search ui

The clear search "x"-cross in global search bar now appears also when filters are set

Changes

preferences

Renamed windows defender status label in preferences to "Windows Defender Active"

Bug Fixes

facets text

Facets showed leading whitespace because string metadata entries were not trimmed

search ui

The clear search "x"-cross in global search bar cleared only query but not facet selections

index files

File system watcher collected change events from index folder before filtering them

files collections

File browser did not show configured collection color in base folders of collections

text preview

PDF viewer could not scroll to the botton of the last page

index

On reindex, folder structures could be scanned PDF repeatedly, when collection folders were nested

search collections

Drag and drop of collections on collections withing the collection search selector did not work properly

metadata presentation

MS-Office metadata for PPT/PPTX files was not correctly extracted

search collections ui

Collections with too many child collections caused an exception, leading to UI crash

search collections

Collection hitcount was not updated properly after drag and drop and/or creation of new a collection

installer

Minimum Java version was set to 17 instead of 21, causing situations where app did not start

files ui

The "Move to" button in the directory chooser dialog was not wide enough

files metadata

Renaming a file in properties section/dialog caused disconnetcion of metadata entity

ui metadata

Metadata panel could not be scrolled to the bottom because scrollbar did not cover the entire area

facets metadata

Keywords of office documents and PDFs were searchable but not extracted to facets

preview video windows

Video player in preview did not show seek bar on windows

preview video windows

Autoplay of video player in preview did not work in all cases

ui linux

UI crashed because SWT internally references classes of OracleJDK

metadata image

Regession in 1.6: Exif/Iptc metadata panel in previews did not show

Bug Fixes

image

Regression in 1.6: Images that have no custom loading mechanism and need to be scaled in preview, did not render correctly

New Features

preview video

Added video preview with an integrated player widget for all supported systems

preview metadata

Added metadata panel for audio files. Supported standards/formats are, ID3 (v1, v11, v2.2, v2.3, v2.4), MP3, MP4, FLAC, WAV, DSF, AIF, and others.

collections

Collections can be customized with different colors

labels

Labels can be customized with different colors

labels

Added label management functions to remove a label from all items, delete (and remove) a label completly, and rename it

index

Massive performance improvement when (re-)indexing large amounts of data

i18n

Added an english version for english-language systems

files linux

The OS trash is used when deleting files

updates

Update preferences can be set up in the introduction wizard

Changes

preview files

File preview shows full path in the footer

ui

Scaling & resizing of the UI by the OS should be disabled

updates

Database version has been updated

updates

Java version has been updated to version 21

Bug Fixes

search

Date column displayed varying values

search

Windows batch files were classified as binary files (now as text files)

ui i18n

German umlauts were sometimes displayed incorrectly

ui linux

Fonts were not always loaded correctly on first startup

Changes

search index

“Created” date is used as content date if “Modified” date is missing"

Bug Fixes

index

Regression 1.5: Restarting the program resulted in complete re-indexing

Bug Fixes

search

Search view did not display labels of file copies correctly

metadata ui

Changing file titles in the header area of the preview was not synchronized correctly with the form field

metadata

Setting the metadata date was not possible

metadata

Setting the metadata description did not update the layout in the info view correctly

metadata

Exif/Iptc data was displayed with the wrong time zone

metadata

Format-specific metadata sometimes replaced self-assigned metadata

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