FilelistCreator | Change Log

Change Log

On this page, you can find the history of changes made to the program FilelistCreator.

New Option for Printing File Lists (2024-08-29): Adjust the size (font size) of the file list to the page width.
New Language (2024-08-28): Türkçe (Turkish).
Collapsible Areas (2024-08-03): The "columns" area can now also be collapsed - like many of the other sections.
New Parameters for the Script Control (2024-07-29): With the new parameter "group" for the script control of the FilelistCreator you can specify whether and how your exported file lists should be grouped.
Text Export (2024-07-26): Improved representation of file names and file properties containing combined characters (for example from the Unicode blocks Combining Diacritical Marks, Combining Diacritical Marks Extended or Combining Diacritical Marks Supplement) in text tables.
New Sorting Algorithm for the File List (2024-05-21): Random order.
Sorting Settings (2024-05-14): With the new sorting settings for the file list, you can now determine the sorting algorithm used (alphabetical sorting, natural sorting or system algorithm) as well as specify whether the upper and lower case writing should be ignored when sorting and whether the existing order of the other columns should be maintained. This function can be used to influence the sorting of files within your file lists. You can find these new options by right-clicking on the file list under "Columns > Sorting".
New Program Version (2024-03-28): 64 bit variant for the Windows CL Version.
New Language (2024-03-27): Magyar (Hungarian).
Inverse Filename Search (2024-03-07): Also the file name search can now be reversed. If you put a minus sign in front of your search term, all files that do not contain the search term will be found. If your search term starts with a minus sign, you can search for "/-word" to make the minus sign lose its meaning. If you only want to search for a minus sign itself, it is sufficient to search for "-" without "/". To exclude multiple search terms, you can write "-abc/def/ghi" (only finds filenames that do not contain "abc", "def" or "ghi").
Text / Binary File Filter (2024-03-06): Performance improvements of the filters "Text Files Only" and "Binary Files Only".
Filter for the File and Folder Search (2024-03-03): Multiple search terms for the name can now be defined by separating the individual search terms with the character / (for example "name1/name2"). Also multiple file extensions can now be separated with the same character (for example "ext1/ext2/ext3"). The character / has the advantage that it cannot appear in a file name itself and has no special meaning within the wildcard search or the search with regular expressions, so that this character can be used as a unique separator. With the new option "Total Text must match", the entire file name must match the specified text or regular expression to be found. If this option is disabled, the text or regular expression only needs to appear somewhere in the file name. The new option "Binary files only" can be used to limit the search to binary files. For script controlling the application, the two new parameters "filter-name-matchall" and "filter-onlybinaryfiles" are introduced for these two new options.
File List Import (2024-02-02): In addition to text files with line wise file paths, the file list import function now also accepts files in the formats CSV, TSV, XLSX, ODS, HTML and DIF. This makes it possible to reload the files from a file list that has already been saved (in one of these formats).
New Language (2024-01-09): Български (Bulgarian).
New Parameters for the Script Control (2024-01-05): With the new parameter "fs" you can determine the field separator for a CSV export. You can specify one of the values system, comma, semicolon, pipe, hyphen, space, tab, nochar or directly your desired character. If you do not state anything, the system character (comma or semicolon) is used.
Window Positioning (2023-12-12): With the new option "Settings > System Integration > Always on Top" you can keep the window of the FilelistCreator permanently in the foreground above all other program windows.
New Storage Format (2023-11-23): Code Page 437 (CP437, IBM437, OEM-US) for text and CSV files. When controlling the Filelist Creator via script, the parameter enc=cp436 can be used for this new encoding.
New Image Formats (2023-10-13): Canon Raw Images (CR2 and CR3).
New Image Formats (2023-10-12): Sony Raw Images (SRF, SR2 and ARW).
New Image Format (2023-10-11): Nikon Electronic Format (NEF).
New Image Format (2023-10-10): Digital Negative (DNG).
Placeholders for the Script Control (2023-09-23): In the file name for the file list, in the case of script controlling the program, now, placeholders for the current date, the current time as well as for list properties can be used. With this, dynamic file names are now possible in scripts.
New Parameters for the Script Control (2023-09-19): With the new parameters "add-files" and "add-folders" for the script control of the FilelistCreator CL, you can specify whether files and/or folders are added to your file list.
New Parameter for the Script Control (2023-09-12): If you control the FilelistCreator CL via a script, you can now use the new parameter "filter-type", which can be used to filter the files for your list according to their type (audios, videos, images, documents and so on).
New Column (2023-09-07): Folder > Folder Size Direct (size of all files in a folder without subfolders). In contrast, the column "General > Size" lists the folder size including all files from subfolders.
New Audio Format (2023-09-03): Matroska Audio (MKA).
New Script Control Features (2023-08-31): The output of the file list in the batch mode of the FilelistCreator CL can now be carried out both as a saved file and directly in the console. In addition, it is now possible to set the format of the saved file list using the new "format" parameter, regardless of the file extension of the export file.
List Properties (2023-08-18): The dialog "List Properties" now shows the overview either grouped by file types or by file extensions. A new column "Percentage" has been added and the lists can now be copied to the clipboard as text, CSV or TSV using buttons.
New Parameters for the Script Control (2023-07-27): Parameter for automatically opening the created file lists (openfile) as well as for adjusting the encoding, the byte order mark and the line break type of file lists stored as text files (enc, bom, lb).
New Program Version (2023-07-25): With the new program version FilelistCreator CL, you can now create your file lists using the command line or scripts. The CL version launches with parameters for adding files and folders, for defining columns as well as their order and sorting, with parameters for file filters, options for passing settings files and parameters for saving the file list in the various supported formats.
New File Properties (2023-06-23): Metadata of WAV audio files and resolution of PNG images.
Position Storage (2023-06-09): Improved storage of the last window position in environments with more than one monitor.
Size Storage (2023-06-06): Improved storage of the program window size, the column widths and the program layout under high DPI conditions.
Image Properties (2023-05-23): To determine the horizontal and vertical resolution, in addition to the file header, now also possible Exif metadata within the file are used.
New Column (2023-04-23): Color Space of Image Files.
New Image Formats (2023-04-22): AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) and High Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF/HEIC).
New Image Format (2023-04-21): JPEG 2000 (J2K/JP2/JPG2, JPX/JPF and JPM).
New Image Formats (2023-04-19): JPEG Network Graphics (JNG) and Multiple Image Network Graphics (MNG).
New Image Format (2023-04-12): X BitMap (XBM).
New Image Format (2023-04-11): X PixMap (XPM).
New Image Format (2023-04-08): Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter (TARGA, TGA).
New Filter (2023-02-27): If you prefix the filter for the file extensions with a minus sign, only files with a different file extension than the specified one will be found. For example, the filter "-gif,bmp" in combination with the file type filter "Images" finds all images that have a format other than GIF or BMP.
New Function of the File List (2023-02-26): Via the context menu of the file list (right mouse button) and the new menu item "List Properties", a summary overview of all files in the file list broken down by their format can be displayed.
New Function of the File List (2023-01-24): Copy file paths to the clipboard (so far it was only possible to copy files into the clipboard).
New Language (2023-01-12): Српски (Serbian).
Precision of File Dates (2023-01-06): In the format field of the columns for the file dates, now also milliseconds can be displayed with the placeholders vvv (with leading zeros) and v (without leading zeros). Note: Only certain file systems support this precision.
New Filter (2022-11-02): With the new filter "File Type" you can now selectively add files of a specific file type to your file list. Available are the file types audio files, videos, images, text files, documents, spreadsheets, websites, archives, executable files, source code files, fonts, playlists and other files that do not fit into one of the categories. A multiple selection is possible. To activate or deactivate all file types at once, you can open a corresponding context menu with the right mouse button. This can make a selection faster, since not every file type has to be clicked individually.
Display of the Number of active Filters (2022-10-30): If at least one filter is activated for adding the files and folders, the number of active filters is now displayed on the button "Filter". With this, it can now be seen at a glance whether filters are active without having to open the filter dialog.
Adjustments of the User Interface (2022-10-22): Adjustments of the program windows and dialogs for an improved display under high-dpi resolution conditions.
New Audio Format (2022-10-17): Dolby Digital ATSC A/52 Audio Codec 3 (AC3).
New Media Formats (2022-10-14): RealMedia Audio (RA) and RealMedia Video (RM, RV, RMVB).
New Audio Format (2022-10-13): Advanced Audio Coding, Audio Data Transport Stream (AAC, ADTS).
New Audio Formats (2022-10-12): MPEG-4 Audio (M4A) and MPEG-4 Audio Book (M4B).
Playing Time of Audio and Video Files (2022-09-27): The format of the column "Duration" of audio files and video files can now be flexibly adapted to your needs. An overview of the possibilities and some application examples can be found in the tutorial about adapting the format of the playing time of audio and video files.
File Types (2022-09-25): Support of new file extensions, new category "Source Code" and improved sorting.
New Image Format (2022-09-24): Apple Icon Image (ICNS).
New Video Format (2022-09-14): OpenDML File Format Extension for AVI files.
New Video Format (2022-08-23): Windows Media Video (WMV).
New Storage Function (2022-08-18): Save List in deepest common Folder (SHIFT + CTRL + S). With this function you can save your file list directly in the deepest common folder of all files in your list. For example, if you have files from the folders "D:\Music\Hits\CD1" and "D:\Music\Hits\CD2" in your list, the list is saved in the folder "D:\Music\Hits" under the name "Hits".
System Integration (2022-07-31): Possibility to integrate the FilelistCreator into the "Send to" context menu of the Windows Explorer in order to open files and folders in the FilelistCreator from the Explorer by right-click and to directly create a list of the selected files and folders. You can find the option in the menu "Settings > System Integration > Context Menu".
New Column (2022-05-23): With the new column "First Characters" you can display the first characters of text files in the file list.
Automatic Sorting (2022-04-30): With the new option "Automatic sorting after adding" (Table Structure > Order of Files) you can automatically put the files and folders in your list into your desired order immediately after adding without sorting the list manually.
Reading of File Information (2022-03-03): Improved readout function for the file-specific information from audio, video, image and text files as well as documents. Improvement of checksum calculation for large files. Improved handling of reading out files and checksum calculation while the file list is edited.
Multiple Selection of Columns (2021-12-06): With a right-click on the heading of a section, all columns of this section can now be activated or deactivated at once.
Audio Information (2021-12-03): Improved reading out of the duration of MP3 files.
Settings (2021-12-02): To reduce the size of the settings files, only those settings are stored, which deviate from the default settings.
Video Information (2021-10-05): Improved support of some MP4 sub-formats including MP4 files with a size greater than 4.2 GB.
Date Formats (2021-09-28): New date formats in the preselection for all date columns.
Video Information (2021-09-27): Consideration of the rotation flag of MP4 videos for the width and height. Improved reading out of FLV videos.
New Document Format (2021-09-23): ePUB.
New Video Formats (2021-09-10): MKV, WEBM, 3GP, 3G2 and DIVX.
New Column (2021-09-09): Video Bitrate.
File Linking (2021-07-31): Option to link the listed files and folders in the export formats XLSX and ODS. This has been possible only in HTML format before.
New Keyboard Shortcuts (2021-07-27): CTRL+O (Add files), CTRL+D (Add files/folders from folder), CTRL+E (Export file list), CTRL+I (Import file list), Shift+CTRL+W (Remove all files and folders from the file list), CTRL+S (Save file list according to the currently selected export format), CTRL+P (Print file list via the printer dialog), Shift+CTRL+C (Copy file list in the currently selected export format to the clipboard) and ESC (Quit program).
Grouping (2021-07-26): Grouping according to the file name without extension.
State Storage (2021-07-21): Storage of the state of the collapsible interface elements if the option "Save Window Size and Window Position" is enabled in the settings.
Collapsible File List and Preview (2021-07-19): The file list as well as the preview can now be folded by using the arrow at the right of the respective header. The old option "Show Preview" was removed because it corresponds to a folded file list.
New Menu View (2021-07-13): New menu "View" for showing and hiding the file list (CTRL+ALT+F), the preview (CTRL+ALT+P), the include options (CTRL+ALT+I), the column settings (CTRL+ALT+C) as well as the storage options (CTRL+ALT+S).
Preview resizing with mouse wheel (2021-06-10): In the preview, the font size and the image size can now be increased or decreased using the mouse wheel while holding down the CTRL key.
Export as XLSX / ODS Spreadsheet (2021-05-31): New option to optionally freeze the column headings.
New Image Format (2021-05-11): WebP.
New Program Version (2021-05-05): 64 bit version for Linux as Debian package, RPM package and portable binary.
Language Detection (2021-05-03): Improvement of the automatic language detection of the system language when starting the program.
RTL-GUI Optimization (2021-04-14): Optimization of the column settings, the storage options, the dialogs and the general program layout for languages written from right to left.
New Language (2021-04-12): اَلْعَرَبِيَّة (Arabic).
Wildcard Search (2021-03-30): In addition to the search with regular expressions, the filter for the file name and the file extension now also supports simpler wildcard searches with * (any series of one or more characters or no character) and ? (single character).
Remove nonexistent Files and Folders (2021-03-21): New option in the pop-up menu of the file list, which can check whether the files and folders in the file list still exist or, for example, have been deleted or moved after being added.
Improved Help (2021-02-01): A readme file with instructions for running the program has been added to the ZIP archive for the macOS version.
Date Format (2021-01-21): Multiple selection for the format fields of all date columns with some typical date formats as well as the formats Unix Timestamp, Mac Timestamp and Julian Date. Custom date formats can still be freely entered.
CSV Export (2021-01-21): The default delimiter was changed according to the local system settings.
Search Folders (2021-01-19): Improved dialog control when adding files from multiple folders.
Multiple selection of Folders (2021-01-14): In the dialog for adding folders and files from folders, with the CTRL key pressed, several folders can now be selected, searched and added at the same time.
New Audio Column (2021-01-13): Disc Number.
New Keyboard Shortcuts (2020-12-23): You can use DEL to delete all selected files, Shift + DEL to delete all files not selected and CTRL + DEL to remove all files from the file list.
Video Information (2020-12-02): Improved handling of erroneous AVI files.
User Interface (2020-11-03): Bug fix regarding the appearance of checkboxes under Windows 7 in Classic Mode (black bars).
Collapsible Areas (2020-10-22): The storage options as well as the area for the inclusion of files and folders can now be collapsed. This allows the program to be used better on smaller screens (more space for the column settings).
Number of selected Columns (2020-10-21): The number of columns set is now displayed behind the heading of the corresponding section (general, date, audio, video etc). This means that you can immediately see from which sections columns are chosen, even if the corresponding area is collapsed.
Search Function (2020-10-19): Improvement of the search function for sub-folders.
Overall Heading (2020-07-17): It is now possible to define an overall heading for the file list (table structure > additional information).
Grouping (2020-07-06): New option for setting the order of the groups (alphabetically ascending, descending or according to the file list).
Grouping (2020-07-03): The grouping can now also be done over several columns. Instead of just one column, up to 3 columns are now possible.
New Column (2020-06-28): Volume Name.
Path Column (2020-06-27): The path can now optionally be listed from a certain folder level on, so that folders below this level are cut off.
New Audio Format (2020-06-27): Broadcast Wave Format (BWF).
Video Information (2020-06-21): Improved handling of erroneous MP4 files.
Path Column (2020-06-20): The path can now optionally be written with or without trailing path delimiter.
Audio Information (2020-06-19): Improved handling of erroneous tags in MP3 files.
New Language (2020-02-24): Polski (Polish).
New Column (2019-09-13): Date of the last attribute change of a file (only in the versions for macOS and Linux).
New Column (2019-09-07): File attribute "Hidden File Extension" (only in the version for macOS).
New Program Version (2019-08-13): 64 bit version for macOS.
Export and Import of the File List (2019-07-31): The file list can now be exported as file. The exported file can be imported in this or other programs again.
Duration (2019-07-11): The duration of audio and video files can now be output optionally with or without milliseconds.
New Audio Format (2019-07-11): Support of WAV files (WAV and WAVE).
New Language (2019-06-27): 日本語 (Japanese).
New Program Version (2019-06-16): 64 bit version for Windows.
Export Directory (2018-12-10): Storage of the last export directory.
New Export Format (2018-12-06): DIF (Data Interchange Format).
Shortcuts and Links (2018-10-11): Listing of shortcuts of LNL-Files and target links of URL-Files (column Attributes > Links).
New Option (2018-10-09): Track-Number with or without total number.
New Column (2018-10-02): Linked file or folder of a shortcut.
New Column (2018-10-02): Rating of Windows Media files.
Status-Feedback (2018-08-24): A progress indication has been added for reading file information, file properties and tags from videos, audio files, documents, text files and checksum calculation.
Document Properties (2018-08-23): New columns for author, title and page count of documents in PDF, DOCX, ODT, RTF and HTML formats.
New Column (2018-08-16): Deepness of a folder.
Folder Information (2018-08-13): New section with columns containing folder information. Including new columns for the number of folders and files in folders with and without consideration of subdirectories.
New Column (2018-08-11): Number of words from text files. In addition, the possibility to display all words of all files in the list below the list.
Folder Size (2018-07-29): As size of a folder the size of all containing files is displayed.
New Column (2018-06-14): Page Count of PDF Documents.
New Audio Columns (2018-06-13): Comment, Bit Rate, Sample Rate and Channels.
New Audio Formats (2018-06-12): Support of the audio formats APE (Monkey's Audio) and WV(WavePack) added.
New Language (2018-06-11): Italiano (Italian).
Column Width (2018-04-12): The column width of the file list can now be saved in the settings.
Filter Change (2018-03-18): If the file filter is changed, it is now automatically checked whether the files already listed are still matching the filter. If not, the existing list can be kept or updated.
Number of Lines and Characters of all Files (2018-03-17): In addition to the total file size and the total playing time of all files, you can now also list the number of characters and the number of lines of all text files at the end of the list.
New Columns (2018-03-16): With the new columns Text > Encoding, Byte Order Mark, Line Break Type, Line Count and Character Count you can now also list information from text files in addition to information from images, audio files and video files.
New column (2018-02-17): In addition to the "Path" column, there is now also the "Folder" column, with which the folder name of an arbitrary level can be written to the file list.
Saving of window position and window size (2018-02-10): Position and size of the program window can now be saved in the startup settings and setting profiles.
New Column (2018-01-30): Numbering - For the consecutive numbering of all files in the list.
New Columns (2018-01-17): The columns "path length" (length of the file path in characters) and folder level (number of subfolders) were added.
Combined Columns (2017-12-29): The columns width (images and videos), height (pictures and videos), aspect ratio (pictures and videos) as well as playing time (audios and videos) can now be combined or added to the table as individual columns or as combined column.
Video Information (2017-12-27): In addition to the information from audio files and images, it is now also possible to list the width, height, aspect ratio and frame rate (FPS) of videos. The formats AVI, MP4, FLV, M4V and MOV are supported.
Total Playing Time (2017-12-27): In addition to the total file size and the total number of files in the list, the playing time of all audio and video files in the list can now be determined and displayed.
New Export-Format (2017-12-07): XLSX (Excel Spreadsheet) and ODS (Open Document Spreadsheet) for Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice.
New Text-Storage-Formats (2017-12-07): Latin-1 (ISO 8859-1), Latin-2 (ISO 8859-2), general Windows Codepage, Windows-1250 (Central European), Windows-1251 (Cyrillic), Windows-1252 (Western European) and Windows-1253 (Greek) for text file lists and CSV lists.
High-DPI-Improvements (2017-12-06): Improvements of the graphical user interface and the icons for high dpi settings.
New Image Formats (2017-11-20): In addition to the existing image formats, now also information form the file formats CUR, PBM, PGM, PPM, PAM, PFM, PNM, JPE and JFIF can be read out.
New Image Information (2017-11-20): In addition to the existing image information, the horizontal and vertical resolution as well as the number of images (for example for GIFs, icons or TIFFs) can now also be read out.
Image Information (2017-10-22): It is now possible to list the width, height, aspect ration as well as bit deepth/color depth of images. Supported formats: PNG, JPG/JPEG, BMP, DIP, GIF, TIFF, ICO, PSD und PDD.
New Language (2017-09-25): Nederlands (Dutch).
New Language (2017-08-11): Português do Brasil (Brazilian Portuguese).
Audio Tags (2017-08-11): Next to MP3, WMA and OGG, now also FLAC, SPX/SPEEX and OPUS audio tags are supported.
New Language (2017-03-23): Dansk (Danish).
New Language (2017-03-07): Español (Spanish).
Sorting (2016-10-26): When sorting a column, the sorting order of the other columns will be kept now.
Export (2016-08-17): Saving the created list is now even possible if the list has not yet been fully completed (for example at a time when not all checksums are created or when not all audio tags have been read out).
Hash-Calculation (2016-08-17): The calculation of checksums was adjusted so that files will be calculated dynamically sorted by their size (time consuming calculations of large files will be carried out at the end).
New Column (2016-08-17): New Column "Type".
Path Format (2016-07-31): The path can now also be displayed as 8.3 short filename or trimmed to an arbitrary character length.
New Checksums (2016-07-25): Next to the previous check sums MD5, CRC32, SHA-1, SHA-256 and SHA-512, now also the check sums CRC32B, SHA-224 and SHA-384 can be calculated for files. Additionally, the calculation is now carried out dynamically in the background.
New Operating System (2016-07-13): Release of the Linux version as Debian package, RPM package and binary.
Print Function (2016-06-19): You can now print out a file list directly out of the application using an arbitrary printer.
New Language (2016-05-30): Français (French).
New Language (2016-05-29): 简体中文 (Simplified Chinese).
New Language (2016-05-27): Русский (Russian).
New Operating System (2016-05-24): Release of the Mac OS X version.
Audio Tags (2016-05-11): Now you can also write information from audio files (interpret, artist, title, album, track, duration, year and genre from MP3, WMA and OGG files) into your list.
Column Alignment (2016-04-10): Columns can now also be centered (up to now only left or right aligned).
Individual Date (2016-04-07): The format for date and time columns can now specified individually (up to now you could only select from pre-defined formats).
Improvement (2016-03-19): Speed optimizations for faster file adding.
Improvement (2015-02-01): Improvements for multi screens.
Improvement (2015-02-01): Bug removed: Adding files not associated with a file icon.
Improvement (2014-08-27): Improvement of the speed when adding files: The time intensive check sum calculation is only carried out when this option is activated.
Improvement (2014-07-13): Improvements for high resolution/high DPI screens.
Date Format (2013-07-13): The date format can now be selected from the formats dd.mm.yyyy, dd/mm/yyyy, mm/dd/yyyy, yyyymmdd, yyyy-mm-dd and yy-mm-dd. The system date format is used as default.
Improvement (2012-10-13): Because calculating check sums of large files spend a lot of time, there is now a free adjustable border for the file size.
New Column (2012-07-09): You can now show and include checksums (MD5, CRC32, SHA1, SHA256 and SHA512) for the files.
Improvements (2012-07-03): Improvement of the menu and menu functions.
New Function (2012-07-03): Now it is possible to save explicitely as CSV File (Comma Separated Values).
Improvement of existing functions (2012-01-10): Improvement of the graphical user interface (GUI). Bug fix for Windows Vista and Windows 7.
New Function (2011-03-27): The list of loaded files can now be saved and loaded (Menu > File > Save or Open File List).
Expansion of existing Functions (2010-11-12): In the columns "File Name" and "File Path" it is now possible to link the files in the HTML output format.
Expansion of existing Functions (2010-08-17): Delimiter at the end of a line can now be selected independent from the delimiter between items. Improvement of Language Options. Directory Dialog now opens in the current folder (not always desktop) whenever a directory is opened.
Expansion of existing Functions (2010-08-13): Column "File Size" can now be used with or without notation of the unit and the thousand separator is made optional. In the general options, the delimiter can now also be used at the end of each line optionally.

Note: Minor changes, such as updating an existing program translation or fixing a bug, are typically not included in this list. Therefore, if you find a newer version of the program in the download area than the most recent date in this list, we have typically made such a change to the program.