User reported bugs
- [0.6.3] Crash when pressing up/down on no-result Address Bar | Access Violation (code 0xc0000005).
- [0.6.3] Opening FP from the browser resets saved sorting in Downloads.
December 22, 2025
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Features
- The Create Config command can now also be used to reset the current configuration settings.
User reported bugs
- User data deleted.
- [0.2.8] FPilot-UserData conflict with Two FPilot sessions.
- [0.6.2] Folder locations forgotten when closing two sessions.
- ISSUE: Layouts & Bookmarks disappear on Restart.
- [0.6.3] Constant refreshing when searching in expanded C: drive.
- No refresh after delete.
- [0.2.8] Crash on middle-mouse click file Inspector preview pane.
- [0.2.8] Middle-Click on inspector crashes app on some folders.
- [0.6.3] Performing certain operations in the settings screen causes the application to crash.
- [0.6.3] Crash when deleting a command in View section.
- [0.6.3] Path bar not showing subfolders for specific folder.
- [0.6.3] Visual Studio Code "Reveal in File Explorer" doesn't work properly.
- [0.6.3] Sort by size unsorts folders but not files as I start navigating.
Bugs
- Fixed a crash that could occur when sorting by size, count, volume usage or folder usage criteria.
- Fixed a rare issue where the app could get stuck waiting for messages.
- Fixed an issue where some file operations could cause stale entries in the file path cache.
- Fixed an initialization in the OpenGL pixel format code.
- Context menu - correct path conversion, full verb lookup (Unicode & ANSI), safer command calls, more logging.
- Fixed a crash in directory watcher caused by scrambled Windows rename events.
- Related user bugs
- [0.6.3] Random crashes, access violation 0xD8.
- [0.6.3] Crash while idle during disk activity (probably).
- [0.6.3] Crash in folder with a lot of photos.
- Fixed uninstall routine to fully remove custom `open` verb and restore Windows defaults.
- Related user bugs
- The 'Browse local files' from Steam button stops working after uninstalling File Pilot.
- Fixed auto resorting by size when new folder stats are calculated.
- Fixed the blank panel when filtering returned no immediate results.
- Fixed path evaluation when paths are dragged into the bookmarks section.
Changes
- Extended folder size calculation settings to support network locations.
- Using Alt + numpad Enter for the Inspect command too.
- User data on disk is now hot reloaded by other instances when it changes.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
First public release of File Pilot
