ZestDrop v0.1.0

ZestDrop v0.1.0

This release adds an English interface, lets you pause, cancel or hide each conversion, runs two jobs at once, and fixes several reliability problems.

Earlier releases were renumbered: the former v0.1.0 is now v0.0.1 and the former v0.1.1 is now v0.0.2.

What's new

• English interface. Choose English or Simplified Chinese from the tray menu (Language / 语言). The first launch follows your Windows display language, and the choice is saved. Error messages from the conversion engine follow the same language.
• Pause, cancel and hide each job. Every background job gets its own progress card:
  • Pause / Resume freezes the whole job, including FFmpeg and other helper programs, and stops the elapsed-time clock. Resume continues exactly where it stopped.
  • Cancel stops the job and removes its unfinished files. Paused jobs can be cancelled directly.
  • Hide tucks the card away while the job keeps running. A tray notification reports when a hidden job finishes.
• Several jobs at once. Two jobs run in parallel; further jobs wait their turn and are shown as waiting. Pausing a job lets the next one start. Cards are listed top to bottom in the order they started. With two or more jobs, a header shows the counts and can Collapse the cards into a pile, Expand them again, or Hide all. The tray menu can show progress, pause or resume all jobs, and cancel all jobs.
• No more 30-minute limit. Long video encodes are no longer stopped after 30 minutes; cancel them when you want instead.

Fixes

• Conversions could occasionally fail with "处理引擎未正常完成" (the engine did not finish properly), or skip the rest of a batch, even though the files had converted. This happened when the progress display read the progress file at the moment it was being updated.
• Cancelling a job, or quitting during one, no longer leaves half-written .zestdrop-… files next to your originals. Cancelling one job never touches another job's files in the same folder.
• F8 and F9 are no longer taken from other applications. They open the menu only while you are dragging files, so Excel recalculation and debugger shortcuts work normally again.
• Plain .gz files and RAR archives now get the same size and file-count limits as ZIP and TAR when extracting.
• Very large PDF pages are rendered at a reduced resolution instead of running out of memory.
• Logs and temporary previews moved to %LOCALAPPDATA%\ZestDrop\logs. The log is rotated at 4 MB, no longer records the full paths of your files, and an unwritable application folder can no longer stop the app from starting.

Download and upgrade

Download ZestDrop-v0.1.0-windows-x64.zip, extract the entire archive, and run ZestDrop.exe from the ZestDrop folder. Keep its backend, runtime, and DLLs together. The bundle includes .NET, Python, FFmpeg, 7-Zip, and the required Python libraries.

Before upgrading, finish or cancel current jobs and quit the old application from its tray menu. Extract this version into a fresh directory and launch it. A SHA-256 checksum is attached.

Requirements and validation

• Windows x64. Interface in English or Simplified Chinese.
• Office layout exports require the corresponding desktop Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, or Excel application.
• The executable is unsigned. There is no installer, auto-update, or startup registration.
• Automated checks cover the backend conversions, tool parameters, the progress stack, pausing a real FFmpeg encode and resuming it to a valid file, cleanup after cancelling, and that every interface string has an English translation. Office conversions were not re-tested for this release, and multi-monitor and display-scaling setups still need broader testing.
• Existing PDF/OCR and multi-frame image limitations continue to apply; see the usage guide.

Report reproducible bugs in Issues. Please avoid uploading private input files.

ZestDrop v0.0.2

ZestDrop v0.0.2

This update adds the ZestDrop icon and easier shortcuts for desktop file drags.

What's new

• Shift opens the conversion menu while dragging a file from the desktop or File Explorer.
• Ctrl+Shift opens the tools menu. Pressing Ctrl after Shift switches to tools immediately.
• Once the menu appears, you can release the keyboard keys and keep holding the mouse button until dropping onto an operation.
• F8/F9 remain available as alternative shortcuts.
• Modifier shortcuts require mouse movement from a shell file window; ordinary Shift typing does not open the menu. Non-file drags are dismissed, and Escape cancels the menu for the current drag.
• Switching menus preserves the dragged files and keeps operations in copy mode so originals are preserved.
• New application, tray, and window icons, with nine sizes from 16px to 256px.
• Updated README and tray instructions.

Download and upgrade

Download ZestDrop-v0.0.2-windows-x64.zip, extract the entire archive, and run ZestDrop.exe from the ZestDrop folder. Keep its backend, runtime, and DLLs together. The bundle includes .NET, Python, FFmpeg, 7-Zip, and the required Python libraries.

Before upgrading, finish or cancel current jobs and quit the old application from its tray menu. Extract this version into a fresh directory and launch it. A SHA-256 checksum is attached.

Requirements and validation

• Windows x64; the interface is currently in Chinese.
• Office layout exports require the corresponding desktop Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, or Excel application.
• The executable is unsigned. There is no installer, auto-update, or startup registration.
• Shortcut state checks cover modifier ordering, held keys, Escape, and unrelated mouse/keyboard interactions. Actual file-drag events have also been observed with the new shortcuts; broader testing across Explorer configurations and display scaling is still needed.
• Existing PDF/OCR and multi-frame image limitations continue to apply; see the usage guide.

Report reproducible bugs in Issues. Please avoid uploading private input files.

ZestDrop v0.0.1

ZestDrop v0.0.1

Drag. Drop. Convert. The first public release of ZestDrop, an open-source desktop file utility for Windows.

Download and run

• Download ZestDrop-v0.0.1-windows-x64.zip below.
• Extract the entire archive and run ZestDrop.exe inside the ZestDrop folder.
• Keep the backend and runtime folders and all DLLs beside the executable.
• This portable bundle includes .NET, Python, FFmpeg, 7-Zip, and the required Python libraries. No separate installation of these runtimes is needed.
• A SHA-256 checksum file is provided alongside the ZIP.

Features

• Drag files on the desktop or in File Explorer and press F8 to choose a conversion format, or F9 to choose a tool.
• Tools for images, video, audio, documents, and archives.
• Image adjustments, backgrounds, custom-ratio cropping, and pixelation with adjustable block size.
• Video trimming, cropping, speed changes, joining, frame capture, splitting, and redaction.
• Audio loudness normalization, channel controls, trimming, and beep redaction.
• PDF export and page management, plus Office document conversion through installed desktop Office applications.
• ZIP, TAR, GZIP, and RAR packing and extraction. RAR output uses store mode.
• Progress indicators for loading, previews, saving, and background jobs, with elapsed time and actual processed counts for batches.
• Outputs are saved alongside the inputs with collision-safe names; original files are preserved.

Requirements and limitations

• Windows x64. The interface is currently in Chinese.
• Native Office layout exports require the corresponding desktop Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, or Excel application.
• The executable is currently unsigned.
• PDF-to-Word layout may differ from the original; scanned PDFs do not have OCR text extraction.
• Multi-frame image editing exports the selected frame while preserving the original input file.
• No installer, automatic updates, or startup registration are included.
• Some manual interactions, display scaling configurations, and multi-monitor arrangements still need broader testing.

The bundle includes project source, validation records, and third-party license files. Project source uses MIT; third-party components retain their own licenses. Please report reproducible bugs in Issues, including the tool, input format, Windows version, and expected behavior. Avoid uploading private files.