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November 14, 2025

Beta v0.6.3|2.06 MB|

Release
Bugs
  • Fixed a file not appearing after being renamed from a temporary system file.
  • Fix handling of abrupt volume removals (e.g. USB drives).
November 12, 2025

Beta v0.6.2|2.06 MB|

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User reported bugs
  • [0.6.1] Crash when navigating to drive name.
  • [0.6.0] Folder does not automatically refresh in Appdata/local.
  • Icons are not shown for random new File Pilot windows.
  • [0.6.1] Crash while idle.
Bugs
  • Fixed Open File Explorer for paths with spaces.
  • Fixed sorting by size for folders in expanded mode.
  • Fixed folder indexing on DrivePool volumes.
Changes
  • Presenting the installer screen when a different version of File Pilot is launched.
  • Omit the spinner animation in the tab area for the This PC directory when only sizes have changed.
November 10, 2025

Beta v0.6.1|2.05 MB|

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Bugs
  • Fixed a crash that occurred when accessing directory layouts before UserData.json was loaded.
Changes
  • More detailed logging when loading volumes and network shares.
November 8, 2025

Beta v0.6.0|2.05 MB|

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User requested features
  • Support for UNC `\\network\paths`.
  • Environment variables.
  • Shell shorcuts support.
  • Remember window location on restart.
  • Accept F13-F24 hotkeys.
  • Wording: Rename `Open Tab in Window` to `Duplicate Tab in New Window`
  • Prefetch folder images for preview.
  • Highlight Recents without sorting to the top.
  • [0.5.2] Option to: "Toggle Place Recents On Top"
  • 0.5.3 - Feature - Ability to copy "raw" path instead of one in quotation marks.
  • Bookmark for network drive.
Features
  • Stabilized directory change tracking by using ReadDirectoryChanges on the entire drive instead of per folder.
  • Improved detection of volume ejections (such as USB drives).
  • Added support for loading network shares.
  • Added support for persistently keeping missing or offline bookmarks and recents.
  • Optimized file indexing speed by calling NtQueryDirectoryFile directly on supported drives.
  • Ctrl + left-click in QuickAccess and Ctrl + double-click in the Panel both open in a new tab, with tooltips shown for each case.
  • Preserve previous directory scrollbar state to prevent flicker.
  • Respecting Windows active border settings.
  • Allow middle mouse click on the New Tab button.
  • The GoTo window now auto corrects path casing.
  • Added an option to toggle path breadcrumbs. Show Compact Paths and Path Breadcrumbs options are now available in the address bar right click popup.
  • Added a command for toggling Sort Recents On Top.
  • Respecting Windows active border settings.
User reported bugs
  • [0.5.2] Crash when dragging a folder to a tab.
  • [0.5.2] Visual glitch when clicking on system buttons.
  • [0.5.2] Search Tab menu on This PC.
  • [0.5.0] Animation when refreshing "This PC" from bookmark.
  • [0.2.8 - 0.5.2] Stable crash - constant folder updates.
  • [0.5.1] "Open File Explorer" still opens File Pilot when using "Set as default".
  • Using FOFX_REQUIREELEVATION flag only for installation purposes.
    • [0.2.8] Renaming of the hard drive silently fails.
    • [0.2.8] Overwriting file that is open in another program silently fails.
  • [0.5.1] Scrolling while dragging should not apply when hovering over other panes.
  • [0.5.2] Shift+Space does not input a space.
  • [0.5.0] near full drives shown as blue inside This PC under Details View.
  • [0.5.0-0.5.2 Beta] Crash on startup.
  • [0.5.1] mass converting files results in strange file types in filter types.
  • [0.5.2] Newly created files sometimes show wrong types.
  • [0.2.8] Custom font causes crash.
  • [0.5.2] Search Tabs does not display long folder name.
  • [0.2.8] Double borders on the sides and bottom of the window.
  • [0.5.2] Storage drives time readout is wrong in inspector for all drives internal as external.
  • [0.5.2] Text is cropped when renaming.
  • [0.5.2] Text wobbles in text file preview when lines don't fit.
  • [0.5.2] Wrong reported free space on partition that has symbolic linked folders.
  • [0.2.8] Network locations removed from bookmarks if unavailable at launch.
  • [0.5.2] Links from Bookmarks get irreversibly deleted the moment a drive is powered off.
  • [5.2.0] Address Bar Navigation : File Share not working.
  • [0.5.2] Windows 11 Dev Drive added NTFS paths cause the program to crash.
  • [0.5.2] shortcuts show exe size instead of size of the shortcut.
  • [0.5.2] Dragging a selection will copy instead of move.
  • [0.5.2] Sudden crash while app was minimized and doing nothing.
  • 0.5.2 Crash while refreshing contents of a file or folder (alt R) while git was cloning the repo.
Bugs
  • Fixed selecting the first file when navigating upwards in the GoTo window.
  • Fixed reopening the same path in GoTo triggers a refresh instead of reloading the directory.
  • Fixed reopening instead of reloading the same directory when triggered from the header path right click options.
  • If the target path leads to the same directory, select the file instead of reopening the directory.
  • Fixed Open Console command for root drive paths.
  • Fixed a bug with default icons on high-DPI monitors.
  • Fixed tab drag&drop hint on high-DPI displays.
  • Fixed window animation when starting maximized.
  • Fixed spinning wheel loading animation not showing in the tab area.
  • Fixed detection of text file newlines to handle old Mac style \r line endings.
Changes
  • Less intrusive Quick Access scrollbar behavior.
  • Changed the default fonts to use regular instead of semibold weight.
    • Increased text contrast for light themes.
    • Using AA in both directions on higher DPI monitors.
  • Defaulting to font size 9.
  • Rename Cursor to File Cursor.
  • Special case select file under File Cursor if arrow navigation has no target.
  • Disabled the slight background dim fade when the GoTo, Options or Commands window is raised.
  • Links and shortcuts are no longer resolved at listing time.
  • Links are now viewed as files, even when they point to directories (they will still show directory stats).
  • Make color scheme fork tooltip more user friendly and descriptive.
July 8, 2025

Beta v0.5.2|1.96 MB|

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User reported bugs
  • 0.5.0 Crash when creating new file with Ctrl Shift N
  • [0.5.0] High CPU Usage when Idle.
Bugs
  • Fixed issue with clearing old recent and bookmark data that no longer existed.
July 7, 2025

Beta v0.5.1|1.96 MB|

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User reported bugs
  • [0.5.0] C:/ folder does not refresh automatically.
  • [0.5.0] moving files does not reliably update prior location.
  • Log crash fix.
  • Divide by zero bug fix.
July 7, 2025

Beta v0.5.0|1.96 MB|

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User requested features
  • (Feature suggestion) Replacing explorer.exe
  • (Feature suggestion) Add `pilot` CLI program to `PATH`.
  • Allow disabling overscroll/virtual space at the bottom of directory listing.
  • Option to not underline names when using single-click to open.
  • Single-click to open an item.
  • "Remove bookmark." button consistency.
  • Don't show hidden system files unless both 'Show Hidden' and 'Show System' are checked.
  • The storage icon looks like a trash can.
  • Be able to hide dotfiles.
  • Smarter ctrl + arrow keys/delete/backspace for input fields.
  • Added a hover indicator for the empty header area that opens the GoTo window.
  • Ability to go to folder that contains the highlighted file from the root GoTo menu.
  • Sum selected files' sizes.
  • Display Size with visual aid like a bar (Like TreeSizeFree).
  • Command for copying file path.
  • 'Date modified' should sort by newest first.
  • Add shortcut to select the last tab.
  • Reopen closed tab.
  • Option for clicking on folders to open in new tabs.
  • Add tab duplication.
  • Single-Click to Open should be able to only work on Folder.
  • Option for rectangular close/maximize/minimize buttons.
  • Added option to use double-click on empty background to go to the parent folder.
  • Shortcut Alt+Double Left Click to Open Properties (Like system default).
  • Ctrl+doubleclick to open folder in new fpilot window.
  • Option to group by files first, then folders.
  • Allow scrolling while dragging and dropping files.
  • Autoscroll selection rectangle.
  • Add spacing before the first and after last column.
  • Make files and folder icons react to Tortoise SVN and other programs changes.
  • Show overlay icons.
  • Syc icons.
  • More Information Density for Various Elements in the UI.
  • Even less padding, for information density.
  • Change default font to 9.
  • Small icons are rendered in the top left corner, even at lower zoom levels.
  • Thumbnail options scale to fit/scale to fill the available space.
  • Option to prevent auto scroll when changing sorting filter if nothing was deliberately selected.
  • Keep scroll position in a folder.
  • Don't update recent marking in folder view until you leave said folder.
  • Follow Windows Date/Time Settings and/or Allow Manual Setting.
  • Make text paste (ctrl+v) work for all files selected in Bulk Rename.
  • Save "Type Visibility Filters" when saving folder view settings.
  • Find subfolders from current directory.
Features
  • Added commands for opening the containing paths of links and shortcuts, also accessible by clicking the path in the panel listing.
  • Option to control when thumbnails are loaded.
  • Hotkey to Copy/Move files to the previously selected panel.
  • Showing the zoom level icon and name in the panel footer.
  • Added the Close Left Tabs command.
  • Added Search Tabs dropdown.
  • Added a right-click Tabs Options popup on empty space in the tabs area.
  • OpenInNewTab, OpenInRightSplit, OpenInBottomSplit, and OpenInWindow now work with files as well, opening their containing folders.
  • Highlight Recents without sorting to the top.
  • Option to disable recents tracking.
  • Selecting the parent folder in the Files Popup when going upwards.
  • Refresh forces the reloading of thumbnails and previews.
  • Option to use double-click on empty background to go to the parent folder.
  • Double click on the tab opens properties of the folder that is displayed in the tab.
  • Added support for mouse wheel scrolling during drag and drop.
  • Types popup - button to toggle/untoggle all types.
  • Assigning hotkeys to each view zoom level.
  • Saving filtered types for session and saved layouts.
  • Improvements to Quick Access sidebar items
    • Showing overlay icons for shortcuts and links.
    • Obeying the Show File Extension setting.
    • Items will update when files are removed or renamed.
    • Showing tooltips for group items.
User reported bugs
  • [0.2.8] Small gap between titlebar window icons.
  • .mp4 video dimensions show width twice instead of height.
  • Framerate tanks when left on long enough.
  • [0.2.8] There are underscores under files and folders names.
  • Back/Forward buttons sometimes have black background.
  • [0.2.8] Crash on file rename if dead key input interrupted.
  • Fatal Exception code OxcOOOOOId.
  • [0.2.8] Crash when changing Fontsize while App Menu is open.
  • [0.2.8] Crash when closing pane if too many panes open.
  • White application bar at the top on startup.
  • Top bar is cut when opening the app.
  • Open File location on shortcut triggers exception.
  • [0.2.4] Crash after opening a ghost file.
  • [0.2.8] Bookmarks order reset when closing/opening File pilot.
  • [0.2.8] Some buttons are not rounded.
  • [0.2.8] Cannot RightClick drag in the same folder.
  • [0.2.8] Numbers added when renaming multiple files.
  • [0.2.8] Disk Voyager stopped responding to keyboard input after being left open for a while.
  • [0.0.15] drag&drop from a browser disables all keybinds.
  • Numpad enter doesn't behave like regular enter.
  • Bookmarks error.
  • Disable thumbs.db creation.
  • [0.2.8] Scrolling steals the focus, but that's bad.
  • Bookmarking behavior (active tab rather than clicked tab is bookmarked).
  • [0.2.1] Cursor movement overlapping with other applications affects FPilot's selection highlights.
  • [0.2.8] FPS drops very low when previewing text file with long lines.
  • [0.2.8] Context menu appears at mouse position when called from "menu/app" key.
  • After creating a new folder the cursor is in the filter box, instead of on the "New Folder" name.
  • Mouse dragging files does not trigger auto-scroll near panel top/bottom.
  • [0.2.3] Dropbox Smart-sync triggers unexpectedly.
  • [v0.2.8] Some file icons are tiny.
  • Why are the icons not displayed properly?
  • Hidden taskbar does not show when File Pilot is full-screen.
  • [0.2.1] Win11: moving the cursor to the bottom of the screen does not cause the taskbar to appear.
  • Date format ignoring system settings.
  • [0.2.8] Act on Press does not affect mouse4/mouse5.
  • Divide by zero exception when selecting "Expanded Search".
  • Crashes with images of extreme dimensions (e.g., 100000x20).
  • Access violation after previewing a binary file.
  • Jittery storage names.
  • [0.2.8] font size change hotkeys immediately reset all settings.
  • [0.2.1] Thumbnails do not update.
  • [0.2.8] Wrong thumbnails when renaming a file with the name of a deleted file.
  • Renamed file doesn't update correctly.
  • No icon after mounting a drive.
  • Creating and editing text files doesn't update preview.
  • [0.2.0] Inspector does not update modified files.
  • [0.2.8] Thumbnails don't update when file gets overwritten.
  • Thumbnail Doesn't Update.
  • [0.2.18] Disk Drives in Recents are grey.
  • Icons not reacting to image edits.
  • Crash that occurs on idle with a specific set of folders open...
  • [0.2.8] Crash on refreshing a folder.
  • Filepilot crashed, ( code 0xc0000005 ).
  • [0.2.8] Crash when opening a new File Pilot window after hibernating.
  • crash while the app was open in background (I was doing some stuff in git and other apps).
  • when opened to a mapped network drive and using another machine, file pilot crashes.
  • File Pilot crashed after adding many files to directory using Git.
  • [0.2.8] Crash when trying to open a large .TIFF file.
  • [0.2.8] Crashes when screens are sleep?
  • Shortcut are indistinguishable from folders.
  • [0.2.8] Shortcuts to folders are not sorted with folders when first created.
  • File is listed multiple times.
  • No refresh after delete.
  • CTRL + SHIFT + N Creates duplicate items.
  • File listing out of date (won't refresh).
  • Duplicate file lurking in my downloads.
  • ghost File.
  • [0.2.0] Renaming Files sometimes causes them to Disappear.
  • [0.2.3] Copy and Paste file seems to create a duplicate - refresh (CTRL+R) removes it.
Bugs
  • Resizing the left-side panel causes labels to wobble.
  • Exclude nested children items from hidden/system folders in flattened folder view.
  • Check for SSE4.1 support before running it.
  • Fixed a bug that referenced old config data.
  • Fixed a bug where the long path support setting was not showing in Options.
  • Fixed text wobbling in certain areas due to incorrect text alignment.
  • Properly listing the recycle bin from the parent path in expanded mode.
  • Fixed incorrect size in KB in file tooltips.
  • Fixed drag-and-drop state clearing when coming from an unknown source.
  • Fixed the incorrect viewport calculation for popups with the filter box.
  • Fixed the rotation animation offset.
  • Fixed text highlighting for the active sort column.
  • New Tab now opens the folder from the current tab instead of the last tab.
  • Using UTF-8 for the Sort by Name criteria.
  • Fixed popups closing when the window resizes.
  • Fixed assigning the correct value to the 'Start In' field when creating shortcuts.
  • Fixed unfinished chain hotkey termination.
Changes
  • Raise a system dialog popup when the program fails to initialize the OpenGL context.
  • Include dot files under the Hidden Files category.
  • Kept the border highlighted for focused text fields in Options.
  • Removed Pin to Quick Access and Give Access To from the right click menu.
  • Restored the default Windows window close animation.
  • Using a different icon for the main menu button.
  • Enabled triggering file rename while the filter text box is focused.
  • Clearer tooltip descriptions for buttons that toggle files and folders in the directory listing.
  • Allowing paths to be opened directly in the GoTo window when there is no selection.
  • Always display the Quick Access button next to the Menu button.
  • Changed the default sort direction for certain criteria, such as dates and sizes, to descending order.
  • Open Tab in Window – Changed default hotkey to Ctrl+N and no longer closes the tab in the original window.
  • Different new tab animation.
  • Special-cased pasting one line into multiple file names during batch renaming.
  • Change icon for DEBUG version of FPilot.
  • Changed the default hotkey for Toggle Cursor Selection from Shift+Enter to Ctrl+Space to match File Explorer's defaults.
  • Slightly increased the distance threshold required to initiate drags of tabs and columns.
  • Assigning the Enter key on the keypad as the default hotkey for the Activate command.
  • Session and user data loading is now more lenient, skipping unknown fields instead of throwing errors.
  • Reduced occurrence of the hand cursor in the UI.
  • Highlighting toggles in popups.
  • Toggles displaying an extra check or X icon.
  • Different icon for filter types popup.
  • No selection when first entering a new folder.
  • Loosen the hotkey system slightly, allowing most commands to be triggered while the folder filter is focused, and gracefully applying the filter when focus is lost.
  • Clarify tooltips for listed files and folders, including hidden/system exclusions.
  • Reduced resorting and refiltering in large directories through smarter file change tracking.
  • Include right click to open in tooltips for header columns.
  • Types popup respecting hidden/system files.
February 12, 2025

Beta v0.2.8|1.8 MB|

Release
First public release of File Pilot
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