New Version of the Best File Explorer Tool, Resco File Explorer, Released

http://www.resco.net/pocketpc/explorer/

Resco File Explorer (RE for short) is without doubt the best file explorer tool for the Pocket PC, particularly if you take into account the many other applications (the Registry Explorer, which is IMHO the best registry editor for the PPC, the FTP client and the also pretty good Today plug-in) you also get bundled with the application. Version 5.30 was released in late November and introduced some really cool and innovative stuff, most importantly the Recycle Bin. Please see this blog entry for a review of that version and a genuine hack that makes the Recycle Bin much more useful if you delete a lot of files from the main RAM regularly. A new, minor version upgrade to 5.31 has recently been released. I've tested it and compared to the older version(s). It seems it's just a maintenance/bugfix version without anything groundbreaking. Unfortunately, this (this is what "percents of each storage" means in this screenshot) version still maintains local recycle bins for the separate memory types (SD/CF card, File Store and RAM). This isn't a problem if you delete files off memory cards – then, the local recycle bin will be useful in that no slow file copying to the target memory card will take place. However, if you delete files off the RAM or, in most cases, small File Store, it'd be advantageous if you could store these files on a high-capacity storage card instead. Unfortunately, Resco Explorer still doesn't allow for this, not even as of the new version. Please note that the hack I've developed to fix the above problem (with RE version 5.30) can't be implemented without changes in the new version because the addresses of \~Recycled inside RFileShell.dll, the string to change to the new location on a storage card, have been changed from 2c288, 2c2aa and 2c348 to 2c488, 2c4aa and 2c548, respectively (that is, they have been shifted by 512 bytes). If you, however, take the address shift into account, the hack will still work.