VNote Files

A maintenance release that drops the built-in updater, adds folder sharing and a window pin on top of VNote 4.4.2:

• Share Folder (Notebook explorer context menu): export a folder as a self-contained, movable bundle you can hand to someone else or drop into another notebook
  • Notes you currently have open are saved first, so the bundle always carries their latest content
  • The copy is verified before it is published, and a failed export leaves nothing half-written behind
  • Refuses to follow symbolic links, junctions and reparse points, and warns up front when two names would collide on a case-insensitive destination filesystem
• Stay on Top: detached view windows now have a pin so a window can be kept above the others
• The built-in updater has been removed. VNote no longer downloads or installs anything, and never modifies its own installation directory. It simply checks for a newer release and, when one exists, tells you and offers to open the release page, where you download and install the new version yourself.
  • Fixes VNote failing to start from a read-only or non-writable installation directory (/usr/bin, Program Files for a standard user, a read-only DMG), where the old updater's startup lease could not be created (issue #2728). Per-machine MSI installs were affected on Windows too.
  • The Update source setting (Settings › General) still selects GitHub or Gitee. New installations now default to Gitee; an existing installation keeps whatever it already had, and no setting is migrated.
  • If you used the in-app updater before, you can safely delete the leftover .vnote-old and .vnote-update folders next to vnote.exe. VNote no longer creates or reads them.
• Translations: Simplified Chinese and Japanese catalogs updated for the new strings