WHAT'S NEW IN SNAP2HTML?
v2.5 (2025-12-30)
Complete rewrite of disk scanning code
- Support long paths (260+ characters)
- Speed improvements (~5x-8x faster)
- Better error recovery (no more missing files!)
- Errors are reported after scanning
HTML Template
- Faster initial display and data loading, especially for large files
- Optimized data format, saving about 1/3 in size
- Technically support multiple root folders
- Added search modifiers "f:" and "d:" to limit to files/directories
- Highlight search results
- Natural sorting (1 sorts before 10)
- Works better on mobile views
- Folders with read errors are displayed
- Larger base font size, sharper images and other visual enhancements
- Added some display options that users can tweak inside the template
- Expose some functionality for developers
- A lot of code cleanup and refactoring
Windows Application
- Upgrade application to .Net Framework 4.8
- High DPI support
- Allow manually editing the root path
v2.14 (2020-08-09)
UNC paths work again (including linking)
Searches returning lots of items should be a bit faster now
And a few smaller fixes as usual
v2.13 (2020-05-05)
Fixed an encoding issue causing EncoderFallbackException while saving
v2.12 (2020-04-29)
Reduced memory consumsion when generating HTML
Parent folder link [..] is now sticky
Reworked command line code to fix issues in 2.11
A few small tweaks too
v2.11 (2020-04-18)
Fixed a threading issue that caused the program to hang on some systems
v2.1 (2020-03-16)
Export functionality now has a button to save directly to disk
Added -silent option to run completely hidden from command line
Dates now show formatted in user's locale independent of who created
the file listing. Sort by date also works better.
8 or so other bug fixes and minor enhancements
Internal code refactoring in preparation for future features
v2.0 (2017-04-22)
Added export functionality to get data "out" of the HTML
Export data as plain text, CSV or JSON
Added support for searching with wildcards
Search can be limited to current folder and/or subfolders
Breadcrumb path is now clickable
Current path is tracked in URL. Copy URL to link directly to that folder
Opens previous folder when going back after opening a linked file
Data format was tweaked to give slightly smaller output
Fixed some bugs concerning filenames with odd characters
Many other tweaks and fixes to improve the HTML template
v1.9 (2013-07-24)
Major overhaul of HTML template
MUCH faster HTML loading
Reduced HTML size by about 1/3
Folders are now also displayed in the HTML file list
Added option to set page title
Application now saves it settings (in application folder)
GUI enhancements: Drag & Drop a source folder, tooltips
Many smaller fixes to both application and HTML
v1.92 (2014-06-12)
Fixed various bugs reported by users lately
Slight changes to the internals of the template file
v1.91 (2013-12-29)
Smaller change to hide root folder when linking files
v1.51 (2012-07-11)
Improved error handling
v1.5 (2012-06-18)
Added command line support
Files can now be linked to a target of your choice
Option to automatically open snapshots when generated
Several bugfixes and tweaks
v1.2 (2011-08-18)
Fixed some folder sorting problems
Better error handling when permissions do not allow reading
v1.1 (2011-08-11)
Added tooltips when hovering folders
Bugfixes
v1.0 (2011-07-25)
Initial release