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Windows File Fabric Apps Release Notes

These are the release notes for windowstools.

Cloud Edit

Now supports mstream for download and upload. A license is required. Not available for SaaS.

Cloud Drive

Server now determines whether a realtime folder refresh is performed.
Improvements to Windows Explorer when changing preview pane and thumbnail options.
Overlays icons were not showing.
Workaround for Windows 10 1909 Explorer reading files while browsing on right-click.
Resolved issue of, all subfolders being retrieved, caused by Windows Explorer searching for garbage files like desktop.ini and autorun.inf, when opening a folder.
Resolved the freeze when pasting a file that doesn't exist in cache.
Resolved the issues caused by the lowered folder refresh timeout in the latest versions.
Resolved the issue of sometimes files not getting unlocked, by ignoring the lock files (starting with '~$' or '.~lock.') that some apps can mistakenly upload into the cloud.

Microsoft Office Addin

Resolved issue with comments pane showing for newly created, not yet uploaded Office files.

Cloud Drive

Improved file lock/unlock handling
Resolved issue of filename missing in uploaded log
Support for PDF X-Change Editor on save
Added app version to app start logs
Updated SQLite library to the latest version
Added support for Adobe Acrobat Pro XI upload after save
Minimised memory use for items list in RAM cache
M-Stream upload implemented
Implemented overlay icon handler - showing icons in Windows Explorer for online and locally available items
Resolved the issue of item duplication on refresh after external rename

Cloud Sync

Set scheduled tasks to start from the time of setup, previously it would start at a specific minute, hour, day of the week.
Resolved the issue of non-termination after schedule
Set scheduled tasks random delay (for 15 minutes - 30 seconds, for hourly - 5 minutes, for daily - 30 minutes, for weekly - 1 hour).
Minimised calls, to progress in order to resolve slow uploads on VMs.
When creating a sync pair, the delete up and down are checked by default.
Display the tray icons and the currently processed items (on mouse over).

General

Changed progress reporting to non-event type
Added support of installing OpenOffice/LibreOffice extensions on 64bit version
Removed call progress events in the upload and download threads, in order to improve performance.

Cloud Drive

Added additional logging.
Extended folder listing timeout, for viewing large folders
Warning notification, when performing expensive operations like move, rename etc.,

Cloud Drive

Improved Office lock handling to avoid issues caused by OS aggressive caching temporary files.

Packager

Correctly refresh Predefined Settings when navigating through packages
Resolved the issue of restoring the drive letter in Predefined Settings, if it was removed by user

Cloud Sync

Cloud Explorer