Hello, we are pleased to announce the release of WinCatalog 2024.15, bringing improvements to scanning reliability, long path support, and overall system stability.
Enhanced Scanning Stability
The stability of interaction with system components like File Explorer has been significantly improved. WinCatalog now handles system-level operations more reliably, reducing potential conflicts and ensuring smoother cataloging operations even during intensive scanning sessions.
More Robust MediaInfo Processing
The MediaInfo module has been strengthened to handle incorrect shell thumbnails correctly (if the option to grab system thumbnails is selected). This improvement ensures that WinCatalog can accurately extract and display media information even when encountering problematic or malformed thumbnail data, preventing potential scanning interruptions.
Long Path Support
WinCatalog can now fully work with files where the path contains more than 260 characters, overcoming the traditional Windows path length limitation. This includes adding such files to your catalog, calculating checksums and hashes, and running all processing modules correctly. If you have deep folder structures or long file names, they will now be cataloged without any issues.
User Interface Enhancements
Comments Field Improvements: The Comments fields in the Properties Panel now adapt their font size according to the current Zoom value, ensuring better readability at any zoom level. Additionally, these fields can now display emoji, allowing you to use visual markers and expressions in your file comments.
Search Index Partial Updates
The search index can now be partially updated when external tools are used, such as the Text2Wcat Utility or the WhereIsIt to WinCatalog Converter Utility. This ensures that your search index remains accurate and synchronized even when catalog modifications are made outside the main application.
Hotkey Processing Fix
We’ve resolved an issue with hotkey handling. WinCatalog now correctly processes user-configured hotkeys first, and then falls back to predefined hotkeys, ensuring that your custom keyboard shortcuts work as expected without conflicts.
Other Minor Improvements
This update also includes various under-the-hood optimizations and stability enhancements to make WinCatalog even more reliable.
As always, we recommend installing the update to benefit from the latest improvements.
There is no need to uninstall your current version — just download and install the update over your existing installation.
If you’re not yet a WinCatalog user, feel free to try our free trial and explore all the features.
Thank you for using WinCatalog!
— The WinCatalog Team
Posted on: November 14, 2025
