Attribute Changer 5.30 is now available in Spanish.

Many thanks to Dr. Angel Herraez for the great work !

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After more than 3 years of silence, a new release of Attribute Changer is finally available and it's still free !

This version features the following updates :

Completely redesigned graphical user interface
Completely rewritten translation engine (no DLL's anymore)
Uses updated NSIS installer
Updated help files

If you like to translate Attribute Changer in your language, feel free to contact me to get the instructions.

Feel free to download Attribute Changer 5.30

I decided to not abandon Attribute Changer and to put some limited resources resulting in a first Beta release of the upcoming 5.30 version. The graphical user interface has been completely reworked to make it easier to use, but no new features are implemented. Another change, planned for Beta 2, is a translation engine based on text files.

Roadmap

Beta 1 - Redesigned graphical user interface
Beta 2 - Translation system based on text files, updated help file

Installation instructions

The Beta 1 is ONLY available in ENGLISH ! The downloadable ZIP package contains two files, acmain.exe and aclang.dll you need to copy to the existing Attribute Changer's program directory. I run it on my production machine and didn't notice any showstoppers.

Known issues

If you want to change date and time stamps, ensure to check at least ONE date/time mask property, otherwise nothing gets changed and no warning or error shows up.

During some maintenance tasks, I made a really big mistake and lost all my source code changes of Attribute Changer since version 5.23. I still try to recover the data but it seems hopeless.

Needless to say that this means no new version and I'm not really motivated at the moment to put big resources into Attribute Changer development for some reasons I would like to share :

I really hate to say this, but many Windows users don't know how to respect the other's work. Since two years, the number of irreverent mails increased in that way that I'm thinking about Attribute Changer's future. Most of these 'users' even don't know what a filesystem is, but have the cheek to accuse you in case of damage (it's never their fault).

Attribute Changer is a tool I developed for personal use and shared for free with the Internet community. I never touched a cent for the application and supported it in my free time, replying to EVERY message. Development and support took a large amount of my free time and cost me money (Windows license, Delphi license etc.)

Due to lack of time, I decided to stop development of the ambitious version 6 of Attribute Changer. Some most requested features will be implemented in version 5, such as datetime overflow and a more easier to use graphical user interface.

This version is currently in development and seems to work not bad so far in internal testing. There are still some major bugs, but a beta release shouldn't be that far once all known problems are resolved.