We have reduced the entry level and upgrade prices for WhizFolders editions from January 22, 2010. We were able to achieve that by reducing the free upgrade (or maintenance) period to 1 year. To see the new prices, please visit the Buy Now page of WhizFolders.
The customers who made the full or upgrade purchases before January 22, 2010 will get free upgrades for two years from the date of their purchase, as promised at the time of their purchase.
This price reduction was done on the request of many users who suggested a lower entry level price with reduced maintenance period. They didn’t see a value in the 2-year free upgrade period.
The self-support web site support.whizfolders.com was down for a few hours today. The problem has now been fixed. If you were unable to login today, please try a login again. We apologize for the inconvenience.
A new version of WhizFolders is about to be released. The pre-release version 6.3.4.2 is now available in the paid user support area.
A summary of all the new features in version 6.3 so far are described at:
http://whizfolders.com/whizfolders63.aspx
For those of you, already using the Beta 6.3 version, the exact changes in this version are documented at:
In case you don’t know, you can copy the paid version of WhizFolders to a portable drive by using the Tools menu on the main window of WhizFolders. This feature has been available since version 6.1 and has been further improved in the new version 6.3 under beta testing.
Better keep your documents in another folder on the portable drive: I recommend that you always keep your WhizFolder documents on a separate folder on the portable drive. For example, if you made a target folder X:\whizfolders to keep the portable copy of WhizFolders, put your documents in X:\mydocs. This way, your documents will not be affected even if you reinstall the portable copy in another folder to solve the occasional file permission problems as described below.
Occasional file permission problems: During this portable copy operation (or when running WhizFolders from the portable drive) an occasional problem comes due to file and folder permissions of the target folder, especially on Windows Vista or later. Here are some clues on fixing this problem.
Make sure that you are using a portable key: When you go to make a portable copy for the first time, it asks for a special license key. This should be the portable key obtained from the self-service web site support.whizfolders.com from the special portable key section. You shouldn’t use your regular purchase key for this as it will give a permission error in versions earlier than 6.3.4.
Try to fix the permissions: In Windows Explorer, right-click on the folder that keeps the portable copy and try to fix the permissions so that anyone can write to it. Do the same for the files within that portable copy folder.
Make a fresh portable copy: If the above is too difficult for you, make a fresh portable copy of WhizFolders. You can even make the portable copy on your hard disk in some temporary folder and then copy the whole folder to the portable drive.
CAUTION: Do not delete your old portable folder as it may have your WhizFolder documents in it. Better move your documents to a separate folder on your portable drive before you delete your old portable copy. You may need to open your moved documents on the portable drive again by using the File–Open menu.
Better update to the latest version 6.3 (in beta testing) before making the above fresh copy: This version improves the portable operation and the improvements are listed on the new features page of version 6.3.
Finally, what is the best way to update the WhizFolders program on your portable copy? If you know that it is a minor update, you can simply copy the whizfolders exe to the portable location and replace the old copy. But if it is a major version change, for example, from version 6.1 to 6.3 where the portable feature has changed, it is better to make a fresh folder and then copy over your own documents from the old location, unless you have put them in a separate folder as recommended above.
If there is any confusion, please send your questions so that this documentation can be improved.
Sale is now over and this article is closed.
The new WhizFolders beta release, available to paid users, has been updated to version 6.3.3. This version fixes many problems in the new “tabbed” documents feature. Still, there may be more problems, for example, some keyboard shortcuts do not work in tabbed mode. We are working on these. In general, if you see any unusual behavior when using tabbed mode, please switch it off.
Those of you, already using the beta version, can click on the menu “Updates–Check for Updates” to get the details and the download link. If you are a paid user and haven’t tried the 6.3 beta yet, you can get it from the automated paid user support area at support.whizfolders.com. The new features are described at: http://whizfolders.com/whizfolders63.aspx
Apart from the “tabbed” document problems, no other problems have been reported in the new beta version. Hence, we will soon be moving to a pre-release version.
