Romain Petges

I’m pleased to announce Attribute Changer 11.50, a release that marks an important milestone in the application’s history.

Over 27 years, Attribute Changer has grown feature by feature, with occasional refactoring of the legacy code along the way. But adding new capabilities kept getting harder, and it became clear the foundation deserved an overhaul.

Some months ago, I decided to use AI to review the source code. The results confirmed that the application was built on a solid foundation, but also highlighted some age-related architectural issues worth addressing. That review became the starting point for this release.

The result is a modernized application architecture. Historical leftovers have been removed, mature code has been refreshed and hardened, and the overall structure is now considerably easier to maintain and extend.

As part of this work, Attribute Changer is now a fully 64-bit application, running on Windows 10 (x64) and Windows 11 (x64/ARM). Focusing on a single modern platform keeps the code simpler to maintain.

Attribute Changer 11.50 is built on the updated architecture shown below.

This release also brings a number of fixes and smaller improvements.

Fixes
· Fixed an application crash when recursing deep trees with logging enabled
· Fixed changing of LNK shortcuts, which did not work
· The high-precision part of the NTFS timestamp is no longer reset to 0

New and changed
· Hold CTRL when clicking the Export button to choose a temporary export location
· Full-name rename options are now available in ‘All’ processing mode
· The folder location in the export dialog is now clickable and opens the report location
· New option to enable or disable the export confirmation message
· Date/time columns in the detailed report can be sorted chronologically
· The summary report now shows the elapsed processing time
· The shell extension has been rewritten in C++ for full ARM64 support
· Updated Inno Setup to version 7
· Revamped application architecture and code

You can get the latest release from the Download page.

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Two issues were reported by users and they are fixed in the maintenance release 11.40b of Attribute Changer.

The application crashed by clicking on columns to sort the contents in the reporting window when no items were logged. Another issue is related to displaying AM/PM information for time stamps in reports. AM and PM were displayed as AM AM and PM PM.

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Attribute Changer 11.40 is ignoring the unchecked ‘Always display Processing Report’ setting under some circumstances and users needed to click twice on the OK button to close the application.

Using the Apply button always triggered the processing report to be displayed, even if the setting has been unchecked.

The regression has been fixed in the maintenance release 11.40a of Attribute Changer.

I’m pleased to announce a new release of Attribute Changer, focusing mainly on report generation feature and adding some user experience enhancements.

· Fixed issue with Apply button not disabled for first drag and drop operation in portable mode
· Option to add summary information into exported log files
· Option to automatically export log files
· Option to define log file export location
· Use modern Windows directory selector dialog
· Information dialog boxes are now displayed in middle of AC window

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A maintenance release of Attribute Changer 11.30 is available and can be downloaded free of charge.

It fixes an issue that prevented reading EXIF information when an invalid tag was present in the EXIF header of a JPEG image.

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Attribute Changer celebrates its 25 year birthday 🎉👏🏻

Many thanks to you all! Without your support, Attribute Changer would not have reached this milestone. Nowadays, an average of 22.000 downloads per month is counted from this site only.

Ever wanted to have an idea what changed in Attribute Changer since version 1.0? Please have a look at the version history.