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Works with and greatly enhances:
Windows 11, 10
Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP
Servers 2003 and later
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What's New / What's Up
Version 4: the future
Major new tools, significant upgrades to current components and faster folder listings.
- Find and rename problem files: bad paths, illegal characters, Linux & iOS (Mac) characters.
- Check files and folders for compliance with different file systems e.g., NTFS, Fat-16, Fat-32, eFat, CDs, iOS, Linux and custom.
Know if the files are right before you copy. - Delete files no matter their length or how they are named.
- Powerful renaming with RegEx e.g. change 'Romeo Smith' into 'Smith, Romeo' and much more.
- Lightening fast directory listing no matter how large the folder.
- Detailed reports for copy errors.
- Variable text size for views and dialogs.
- and many more improvements and fixes..
See the V4 preview here.
Update May 2017
A May 2017 Microsft security update for Windows 10 conflicted with a major routine in FileBoss resulting in FileBoss not starting on some Windows 10 systems.
Versions V3.101 and later, fix the problem. You can read more about this at the page
Windows Creators Conflict.
Meta-Folders & Bookmarks
Meta Folders are short names for special folders used by Windows, e.g. the My Documents meta folder represents the actual path to the folder Windows uses to store your documents, typically something like:
"C:\Documents and Settings\FileBoss\My Documents".
Meta folders are enclosed in angle brackets and can be used like a normal path, e.g. <My Documents>\Letters.
Bookmarks as meta-folders
Bookmarks are also treated as Meta Folders by FileBoss so you can insert a bookmark name in the angle brackets to specify the full path of the bookmark.
Enter any bookmark to go directly to that folder. Bookmarks must be enclosed in angle brackets, e.g. <Pictures of Mom>.
Meta Folder Names
The following is a sample list of Meta Folders that FileBoss recognizes along with their short abbreviations.
To use a meta folder simply enclose its name or abbreviation between angle brackets, e.g. <Windows> or <W>.
You can also add on to Meta Folders such as <Windows>\system32 will display the system32 folder under your Windows folder.
For those familiar with Windows conventions you can also enclose meta-folders within percent signs, e.g. %desktop%.
Common meta-folders
|
Meta Folder |
Abbreviation |
|
Windows |
W |
|
Desktop |
D |
|
History |
H |
|
My Documents |
MD |
|
Favorites |
F |
|
My Music |
MM |
|
My Pictures |
MP |
|
My Video |
MV |
|
Program Files |
PF |
|
System |
S |
Complete list meta-folders available in FileBoss
|
Meta Folder |
Abbrev |
|
Windows |
W |
|
CD Burn Area |
CDBA |
|
Cookies |
C |
|
Desktop |
D |
|
Fonts |
Fonts |
|
History |
H |
|
My Documents |
MD |
|
Favorites |
F |
|
My Music |
MM |
|
My Pictures |
MP |
|
My Video |
MV |
|
Program Files |
PF |
|
SendTo |
ST |
|
StartMenu |
SM |
|
StartUp |
SU |
|
System |
S |
|
SystemX86 |
S86 |
|
Templates |
T |
|
User Profile |
UP |
|
Admin Tools |
AT |
|
Admin Tools - Common |
<NA> |
|
App Data |
AD |
|
App Data - Common |
<NA> |
|
App Data - Local |
<NA> |
|
Desktop Dir |
DD |
|
Desktop Dir - Common |
<NA> |
|
My Documents - Common |
<NA> |
|
Favorites - Common |
<NA> |
|
Internet Temp Files |
ITF |
In addition these three special folder names can also be used.
%SystemRoot%, %WinDir%, and %SystemDirectory%
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