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History of all released versions of CDFinder and their technical details

As you can see, for more than 14 years, we have been constantly updating and improving CDFinder!

   CDFinder 5.7.1 (July 26, 2010)

• CDFinder can catalog the GPS tags in .MOV video files created by the Apple iPhone! That gives you the same geotag related features as with photos, such as starting a geosearch, or showing the point in Google Earth or on the built-in map
• CDFinder has a new Importer for native Disk Library databases! CDFinder will gather thumbnails, and the metadata out of these catalogs. We also offer a very affordable cross-grade for all users who want to switch from Disk Library to CDFinder
• CDFinder can now search for photos with no GPS tags
• After updating a cataloged folder, CDFinder now stores the new folder size properly in the catalog
• New Cover Print template "Envelope", thanks to William Haney!
• Improved Spotlight search for "any text" to include file contents
• CDFinder now detects "hard links" as Aliases, and thus allows you to ignore them during cataloging. That massively improves cataloging of Time Machine backup volumes
• DiskTracker (both v1 and v2 file formats!) Importer now honors the "Ignore Invisible Items" setting in the Cataloging Preferences to keep invisible items from being imported
• ADC (Advanced Disk Catalog for Windows) XML Importer now reads the Category field and places it in the item comment
• Improved Stack Cataloging if there are more than 200 catalog folders in your CDFinder database (You did know that you can sort new catalogs into existing folders already, didn't you?)
• Improved cataloging speed of disks with many media files with no name suffix
• Fixed some small problems when exporting catalogs
• Fixed a problem when cataloging Quark XPress documents in Mac OS X 10.4.x
• CDFinder now generates thumbnails for the old PICT files, too
• Fixed a problem when cataloging huge Microsoft Word documents

This is a free update for all CDFinder 5.x customers.
For users of CDFinder 4.x and earlier, we offer the update for a small update fee.


Previous Versions:

5.7 (February 1, 2010)
New Features in CDFinder 5.7 (Video Tutorial 7:35)

• Cataloging Thumbnails and metadata of Adobe InDesign files (.indd)
• Cataloging Thumbnails of Microsoft PowerPoint files (.ppt, .pp, .pptx, .pst, in 10.5 and 10.6)
• Cataloging Thumbnails of Quark XPress files (.qxp, 10.5 and 10.6, with the free http://labs.quark.com/projectdetail.aspx?did=24)
• Cataloging Thumbnails of Apple Keynote and Pages files (10.5 and 10.6)
• Cataloging FLAC song files (Free Lossless Audio Codec), including all metadata, lyrics, and even cover art
• Cataloging ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec) song files, including all metadata, lyrics, and even cover art
• Cataloging of movie files is much more robust, adds ".3gp", and creates better thumbnails in many cases
• Thumbnails of Adobe Illustrator files are created even if the file is not "PDF compatible"
• Cataloging previews of text files! The first 256 characters of Microsoft Word documents(.doc and .docx), RTF (Rich Text Format), TXT, “.textClipping”, and NFO files are read, saved, displayed, and of course searched
• Cataloging the contents of .webloc, .url, and .mailloc files
• Updating of very large catalogs (with more than 1 million files) is more than twice as fast, and more so on slow machines
• Geotagging directly with CDFinder! Use either the current position of Google Earth, or the location in CDFinders own GeoFinder, and write that GPS coordinate into your photos
• A new Automator action allows you to catalog or update and disk or folder automatically, or even time scheduled with the iCal calendar!
• New Japanese translation by Dr. Wilhelm. Domo Arigato!
• Export photos directly within CDFinder! Select a couple of photos in CDFinder, use the "Export Photos to..." context menu, choose the format and size, done
• QuickLook for any online files will now work in Snow Leopard (10.6) as well as in Leopard (10.5). Just hit the space bar for any selected item in a CDFinder catalog. If the original item is online, CDFinder will open the QuickLook window for you
• The new Video Tutorials button in the main toolbar of CDFinder will hopefully bring many more viewers to these very helpful free tutorials
• You can now use any arbitrary image for the catalog icon! Use the Get Info window of a catalog, and paste any image format from the clipboard into the catalog
• The Copy context menu now includes lyrics of songs, thumbnails, and even the text preview
• Cataloging IPTC and EXIF metadata of photos files of any kind is much more robust now and cannot crash CDFinder anymore
• "New Folder" will now place the new folder inside a selected folder, or at the same level as a selected catalog in the left list of the main window of CDFinder
• When cataloging just a folder instead of an entire volume, CDFinder now calculates the actual data size and displays it. Also, if the folder has a custom icon, CDFinder will grab that for the catalog
• Cataloging MP3 files now handles certain Unicode glyphs much better, especially Japanese character sets
• GeoFinder finally has a "Recent Places" menu in the search field for a place name
• Finding IPTC values with certain Unicode characters works better now
• Movie thumbnails are compressed much better, producing smaller catalogs
• The contextual menu for a photo with a Geotag now has a new entry "Show on Map" which will open the GeoFinder map for that place
• The audio search for artist and title now finally includes audio CD tracks
• Massive improvements when using Windows SMB servers for either the shared CDFinder database folder, or even when cataloging such disks. This will fix the dreaded error codes -43 and -1407
• Improved cataloging of certain EXIF- and IPTC-Record of certain JPEG files
• Improved cataloging of GPS coordinates with altitude values below zero (for divers)
• New CoverPrint template for CD sticker: “Micro Applications 5015”
• Improved Google Earth connection: CDFinder won't hang anymore if Google Earth isn't installed, but CDFinder tries to get the current coordinate. Also, fixed one more problem if CDFinder needed to launch certain versions of Google Earth
• New License Agreement: You can now use one CDFinder Private License on up to three personal Macs for private use. Note: This doesn't include a shared database folder, that still needs a proper Business License
• And numerous other small fixes and enhancements, as always

This is a free update for all CDFinder 5.x customers.

5.6.1 (July 22, 2009)
New Features in CDFinder 5.6.1 (Video Tutorial 3:11)

• CDFinder now supports Elgato EyeTV recordings (.eyetv). CDFinder will show the thumbnail for the recording, and also important metadata as well, such as the EPG description, director, actors, and much more. All that is cataloged, displayed, and can of course be searched as well
• The GeoFinder inside CDFinder now uses the street-level OpenStreetMap for the GPS search (requires 10.5 or newer)! That is much nicer than the built-in map, but since it requires Internet access, the old map is still available. Many thanks to Dirk Stichling!
• New CoverPrint templates: one for US-Letter format Avery 5692 labels, and one more for the HP Photosmart Direct Print. Thanks a lot to Deneen Winchester-Ristow and David Robinson for their incredible help on this!
• Double clicking a found item coming from iPhoto will now show this item in iPhoto. There is also a contextual menu command for this, too. You can get iPhoto results by using the GeoFinder, and asking it to search the iPhoto 8 database, too
• Expanded the URL handler. They now also offer:

• • cdfinder://find/audio/&genre=celtic
• • cdfinder://find/audio/&composer=Lennon
• • cdfinder://find/audio/&year=1966

• Improved the DiskTracker catalog importer, it will now read and store the ItemNote fields, too
• Size display of large values in the Inspector is now easier to read, and localized better
• You can now force the Inspector window to stay open in the background with

• • defaults write CDFinder InspectorPlainWindow 1

• Fixed a problem reading cover art of AIFF files
• Fixed several problems with find queries and special values
• Fixed a problem mounting certain Disk Images for cataloging
• Fixed a problem redrawing a large icon in list mode, if the icon was only partially visible

This is a free update for all CDFinder 5 users!

5.6 (May 5, 2009)

• CDFinder now creates thumbnails for movie files! This includes a large number of file formats, such as avi, mov, mp4, m4v, mpg, flv, mkv, and more. It requires QuickTime, and possible plugins. CDFinder not simply uses the first frame of a movie, but goes into the duration of the movie and grabs a thumbnail at about 20% of the duration of the movie
• The extended GeoFinder now has a clearer user interface, and can search your iPhoto 8 database! So without importing any data from iPhoto to CDFinder, you can find all your photos taken at a certain place!
• The Locr-Upload has been greatly extended: It now also works for photos without geotags, and you can upload multiple photos in parallel with a dramatic speed increase. Also, you can get a list of your albums on the Locr server, and place the uploaded photos in one of them or create a new one
• CDFinder can now also catalog the GPS coordinates stored in sidecar XMP files or XMP records in photos (used by the GeoTate Jobo software for RAW files, and other tools)
• New RAR code to catalog the contents of archives larger than 4 GB in size
• KMZ Export has been improved with better KML content, and an option to include or exclude the metadata
• You can now exclude files from cataloging based on their name suffixes, or folders based on their name. This is done by a file named DatabaseSettings.xml in your CDFinder database folder. More details in the CDFinder Users Guide
• CDFinder now detects certain file types even if the files have neither a name suffix or the old filetype info. This includes PDF, EPS, JPG, TIFF, and PSD files. Of course, CDFinder will now also get you a thumbnail for these files as well
• CoverArt of AAC-Songs will now be cataloged again, supporting the yet again changed format introduced with iTunes 8
• CDFinder now catalogs custom icons for files
• The Podcast info text of MP3 and AAC files is now cataloged, and will be displayed, and can of course be searched as well
• Creation of all thumbnails is now much more robust, and even the numerous bugs in the Mac OS X cannot crash CDFinder any more
• The comment inside JPG photos is now cataloged (that is the unique JPG comment, not the IPTC comment, which CDFinder can already catalog since version 4.5)
• Contents of ".sparseimage", and ".iso" disk images are now cataloged, too (along with the DMG and other formats that CDFinder 5.5 already supported)
• Spotlight search results and iPhoto files located with GeoFinder in the Found Items window are now badged with the Spotlight or iPhoto logo
• Switching from icon to list mode, and changing the size of the icons displayed, now always keeps the selection visible
• CDFinder now uses QuickTime to create the preview of PSD files, because CoreGraphics has many bugs with multiple and transparent masks in Photoshop files, which QuickTime surprisingly deals just fine with
• Bugfix: RAW photos taken with the new Nikon Coolpix P6000 are now cataloged
• Bugfix: You can now again drag files from offline CDFinder catalogs onto the desktop, or any open Finder window. CDFinder will then ask you to insert the volume, and then copy over the files to their destination
• Bugfix: A problem detecting volume duplicates if their names contained certain special characters, has been fixed
• Bugfix: Reading JPEG-GPS data written by the Dawntech di.Gps Mini II will now work fine. They use a slight variation of the data, and that had confused earlier CDFinder versions
• Bugfix: Fixed several AppleScript problems, including the selection of catalogs that was always only based on the selection of the left catalog list, but never on the really active view in the main window
• Bugfix: For some audio files, the genre is now correctly cataloged again

This is a free update for all CDFinder 5 users!

5.5 (January 5, 2009)
Better cataloging:

• CDFinder now catalogs important metadata of movie files (avi, mov, mp4, m4v, mpg, flv), such as the size and duration, as well as the frame rate and codec
• Cataloging is much faster now, especially the creation of thumbnails of very large photos no longer blocks the user interface. You can now continue to work with CDFinder while cataloging several large disks at the same time
• Stack Cataloging now works with multiple disk drives simultaneously. Just feed any disk into any drive, and CDFinder will rapidly catalog them all in parallel. Also, you can now set the catalog label and comment for any cataloged disk directly from the Stack Cataloging window
• CDFinder now catalogs XMP metadata out of RAW, TIFF, PDF, EPS, JPG, and even sidecar files, increasing the compatibility to Adobe Bridge and all other Adobe applications
• CDFinder can now also catalog the entire contents of disk image files (.dmg, .img, and .cdr)! Yet again, CDFinder is the only application available to offer this cool feature
• The extended eject menu in the Stack Cataloging window can now open the tray of ejectable disk drives for you

Better GPS support:

• The new GeoFinder dramatically improves the Geo-Search feature: A fully interactive map allows you to specify the starting point for your search, and you can use the current Google Earth position, along with preset locations and a new place search
• CDFinder can now export geotags into the KMZ format, including previews of the actual photos and important metadata, such as the location and camera parameters. That does of course work for any photo formats
• All photos with GPS data now have the GeoIcon badged to their thumbnail in the CDFinder windows
• CDFinder can upload your geotagged photos to www.locr.com! Simply context click on any photo with a GeoTag, and use the context menu to start the upload dialog
• When cataloging GPS data, CDFinder now also reads the azimuth, tilt, and distance values written by Graphic Converter and some GPS modules attached to Nikon cameras. This value is then used for "Reveal in Google Earth", as well as the KMZ export file
• The GPS location data of a photo can now copied to the clipboard, using the context menu
• Added SmugMug, WikiMapia, Yahoo Maps, Geody, OpenStreetMap, and Woophy to the GPS menu

Better finding:

• Find can now also search by path, e.g. finding all files contained in a folder named "Star Trek" or such
• CDFinder can now handle a wide range of URLs, such as cdfinder://find/gps/&city=Berlin&distance=5000m or cdfinder://find/audio/&album=Crime%20Of%20The%20Century. You can use that to interactively integrate CDFinder into your web sites and more. Please read more about this amazing new feature in the new, extended Users Guide

Other improvements:

• CDFinder now supports contextual menu modules just like the Finder does. This vastly expands the workflow options from within CDFinder, you can integrate Graphic Converter or Automator directly into CDFinder
• Added a new view style to the CDFinder views: Blue. This looks like the sidebar of Finder and iTunes
• CDFinder now fully supports Blu-ray disks. Their type will be detected when cataloging, and the whole cataloging process is fully verified and certified for Blu-ray now
• Extended the Export to include MP3, EXIF, and IPTC metadata of all found items properly
• The IPTC metadata in any export now has no Return characters, but these are replaced by either a comma or a blank
• Fixed a small problem with the Disk Stakka interface that could cause disks with certain names to be overlooked
• CDFinder now accepts its own catalog files with drag & drop into the catalog list. Any such files are now copied to the CDFinder database folder and used
• When sorting, CDFinder now sub-sorts all items with the same label by name for better lists
• Drawing in all CDFinder list windows is much faster now, you should notice that when resizing windows
• Improved the detection of bit depth of TIFF photos: CDFinder now properly recognizes 24 and 48 bit images, and displays their color depth correctly in the Inspector and elsewhere
• Fixed a small bug in the Find engine that could cause some parameters to omit proper results (Find Kind is Photo AND name ends with ".jpg" for example)
• Fixed a small problem that caused random photo files to be excluded from cataloging, depending on their file size
• Fixed a small bug that could cause context clicks to be ignored, if the view wasn't activated already
• Fixed a small problem that caused the labels from the Finder to be matched to the wrong CDFinder labels
• Fixed a small bug in AppleScript, where the found items would report the wrong version string type (short and long always returned the long version string)
• Fixed a small problem in the "Advanced Disk Catalog (ADC for Windows)" importer, where some special characters in file or folder names were imported incorrectly

This is a free update for CDFinder 5.x users and very recommended!

5.1.1 (April 16, 2008)

• QuickLook Integration in Leopard: Select any file in CDFinder and hit the Space key to get a full preview of the document, song, movie, or photo (if the original file is online)! That even works for multiple selected files!
• CDFinder can now catalog all metadata of AIFF songs, including Cover Art, Lyrics and all other typical fields
• CDFinder can now catalog the IPTC and GPS metadata of RAW and PSD photos
• MP3 Cover Art is now being read from ID3v2.2 format tags as well as the ID3v2.3 tags
• CDFinder is now able to export the GPS coordinates of all selected photos (along with their names and IPTC caption) into a KML file (to be used with Google Earth and other applications)
• The GPS distance search window now displays the selected coordinate in a nice world map
• The Info bar at the top of the Found Items and Catalog Content windows can now be hidden through the View menu
• All GPS related context menu entries now use the GPS icon from http://www.geotagicons.com/
• Added some hidden settings to enhance the behaviour of CDFinder - please check the Tips & Tricks section of the CDFinder Users Guide!
• Changed the keyboard shortcuts to set the label for selected items, and now uses Command-1 and Command-2 to switch the selected view from Icon to List mode
• The context menu for Found Items now has the "Reveal in Catalog" entry back
• The Inspector now also shows the altitude of GPS coordinates
• Fixes a crashing bug when printing CD labels in Leopard (that is an Apple bug, but we could fix it anyway in CDFinder)
• Fixes a bug of Leopard, where Apple has changed the behaviour of "rounded buttons". You could see that in the Find dialog. CDFinder now uses much nicer buttons to add or remove new search criteria
• Fixes a bug in the GPS distance search, where a rounding error could sometimes produce incorrect results
• Fixes a bug in GPS cataloging, where another rounding error could sometimes produce wrong longitude seconds
• Fixes a bug of cataloging some JPG photos with XMP metadata where CDFinder would not read the IPTC comments of the file properly

This is a free update for CDFinder 5.x users and very recommended!

5.1 (February 25, 2008)

• Updating existing catalogs in CDFinder is about 20 times faster than before, because CDFinder now keeps unmodified metadata around (QuickUpdate)
• Integration of the Imation Disk Stakka USB device: CDFinder can eject a disk from a Stakka, if needed, and display where a disk is located in a Stakka
• New extended Find context menus: Find files with same MP3 artist, album, title, or composer, or based on IPTC meta-data or date values
• Vastly extended GPS geotag support: CDFinder can now also show the location of a photo in Flickr, Panoramio, Google Maps and MapQuest. More can be added at any time...
• Find photos depending on their GPS geotagging location and distance relative to another photo
• Cataloging ZIP archive contents is about 20 times faster than before, due to an improved algorithm
• Cataloging of MP3 and AAC meta data is now fully Unicode compatible, and supports Japanese, Chinese, Cyrillic, and other characters
• Cover Art in MP3 and AAC audio files is now cataloged as a nice thumbnail
• Ringtone iTunes audio files for the Apple iPhone are also being cataloged
• Creation of photo thumbnails is about twice as fast as before
• CDFinder now optionally generates a FileCheck value for every file, and allows you to verify that at any time. Important for photographers and everyone else who want to ensure that their data is still alive and unchanged
• Export of data into text files is now also fully Unicode compatible, and exports more meta-data as well
• CDFinder can now import Advanced Disk Catalog (ADC for Windows) XML files as catalogs
• AutoMount: CDFinder automatically mounts server volumes for you if you access the content of the catalog
• New menu entry to catalog a folder instead of a whole volume (CDFinder could always do that, though)
• Fixes several bugs of Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.5.1 Leopard that could cause cataloging to crash when reading photo thumbnails
• CDFinder now displays better generic icons for many more file types
• Fixes a sorting and selection problem in the genre menu of the Get Info window for MP3 and AAC files
• Fixes some more Leopard related problems
• Fixes a problem when printing in list view mode, where sometimes icons would not appear properly
• Fixes a potential crash while finding IPTC data on Intel-Macs
• Lots and lots of smaller fixes and improvements

This is a free update for CDFinder 5.x users and very recommended!

5.0.2 (October 1, 2007)
* CDFinder can now import Broken Cross Disk Manager (Windows) XML files as catalogs
* Another new photo file format for thumbnails: .IFF (used by the Maya 3D software)
* The Google Earth integration is now faster and launches Google Earth if it is not yet running
* Enhanced compatibility with mouse drivers, such as USB Overdrive and the Logitech drivers
* Improved handling of editing other columns than the name
* You can now copy the path of an item to the clipboard by using the context menu
* Fixes a problem where the new label for a catalog wasn't always saved into the file
* Fixes a problem of revealing an item in the Finder if two volumes had identical names
* Fixes a problem with cataloging Audio-CDs on Intel Macs
* Automatic updating of database folders on file servers is now faster
* Lots of minor improvements both visually and functionally
* This version of CDFinder is certified to run in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)

This is a free update for CDFinder 5.x users and due to the numerous fixes very recommended!


5.0.1 (July 6, 2007)
* Direct Google Earth integration for photos with GPS tags: With a new contextual menu command, you can now have CDFinder show you the location that photo was taken in Google Earth
* Extended contextual menus
* Yet another new photo format for thumbnails: Targa (.tga)
* Double clicking a Found folder will now open it in a new window
* Improved behaviour when cataloging certain malformed TIFF photo files
* Improved behaviour when cataloging certain malformed ZIP archive files
* Lots of small improvements both visually and functionally

This is a free update for CDFinder 5.x users and due to the numerous fixed issues very recommended!


5.0 (May 22, 2007)
* Brand new user interface: CDFinder now uses all the cool and modern visual technologies of Mac OS X. All list windows can be switched between the list and a new icon view mode, and the display size of items can be scaled to any value. Navigation menus ease your path through your data, and you can now even view catalog contents in the list mode directly without the need of a separate window
* The main CDFinder window now has two lists, additionally to the catalog list, it can now display the contents of any selected catalog in a second list
* CDFinder can now catalog thumbnail previews for photo and image files of several types (JPG, TIFF, EPS, PDF, PSD, PNG, GIF, BMP, and several RAW formats). These beautifully rendered thumbnails are of course being displayed everywhere
* Full Unicode support: All new catalogs created by CDFinder 5.0 now contain the full Unicode file names, comments, and such
* Direct integration with Roxio Toast Titanium 8.0: After Toast burns a CD or DVD, it will launch CDFinder and pass it the information about the newly created disc
* Direct integration into applications such as Apple Pages, Apple Keynote, Adobe InDesign, and Quark XPress: If the source volume is online, you can now drag any file from CDFinder directly into an open document of the other application
* Improved integration with FileMaker Pro: A sample database document shows you how to run a CDFinder Find command from inside FileMaker, and how to display the results
* Several new templates for the Cover Print feature, including several really beautifully designed ones
* Improvements for Find speed and general application speed
* CDFinder can now import the catalog database of "Neometric" Catalog



4.7 (November 23, 2006)
* The Cover Print feature has been much improved, it now offers three different templates, with many more to come
* New Quick Find feature allows you to start a basic search directly from the main toolbar
* New improved Get Info windows for catalogs and items inside catalogs. The new Catalog Get Info now allows you to also edit the five custom fields, plus the Location and Serial Number field directly, and it allows you to edit the catalog icon
* Extended the Inspector to look nicer and also display even more data, such as Catalog information for Found Items, and more
* Cataloging speed has been improved yet again. Reading Finder Comments it up to 10 times faster than before
* Toolbar in main window can now be customized
* Display of "Type" for files in catalogs is now more accurate
* Improved Help window
* Fixes numerous memory leaks that could degrade performance after a while
* Fixes a crashing bug in the AppleScript "get app version" command
* Fixes a problem in "create catalog of" AppleScript, where the "with mayUpdate" parameter was resolved incorrectly
* Fixes a problem with moving of manually entered comments into updated catalogs (you can enter comments for every item inside any catalog, and CDFinder moves that to the new catalog if you do an Update Catalog)
* Fixes a problem reading certain malformed EXIF headers, that could cause an endless loop during cataloging



4.6.3 (November 23, 2006)

Special fix version for Mac OS X 10.2.x only

* Fixes numerous memory leaks that could degrade performance after a while
* Fixes a crashing bug in the AppleScript "get app version" command
* Fixes a problem in "create catalog of" AppleScript, where the "with mayUpdate" parameter was resolved incorrectly
* Fixes a problem with moving of manually entered comments into updated catalogs (you can enter comments for every item inside any catalog, and CDFinder moves that to the new catalog if you do an Update Catalog)
* Fixes a problem reading certain malformed EXIF headers, that could cause an endless loop during cataloging

Due to the fixed problems very recommended if you are using Mac OS X 10.2.x!



4.6.2 (September 13, 2006)

* Cataloging is faster than before on volumes with lots of package or bundle folders
* New function to print labels (or covers) for catalogs. This was hidden in previous versions, but is now an official feature, and can be found in the File menu. The window even displays a preview, and lets you print several covers at once.
* You can now switch between the edit fields in the catalog list using the Tab key (and Shift-Tab to reverse direction). That makes the direct editing of the new custom fields a lot easier
* Greatly improves behaviour if being used with a network Database folder, and also with CDWinder for Windows. Updates and changes in catalog data are propagated faster, and more reliable
* Batch Create for cataloging many disks at once now senses the selection of a folder in the catalog list, and places new catalogs in that folder by default
* Fixes an incompatibility with DAVE 6.x, where CDFinder couldn't reveal items in such catalogs in the Finder
* Fixes a potential crash when cataloging media files
* CDFinder now reads the proper permissions of catalog files in a Database folder on AFP, DAVE, and SMB volumes, and shows non-writable catalogs as locked
* Fixes a problem writing catalog files on Intel Macs
* Fixes a problem searching EXIF values like F-Stop, or Exposure time



4.6.1 (July 10, 2006)

* Printing CD Covers now prints a list of files and folders of the disk, even for Audio-CDs
* AppleScript improvements, such as the ability to catalogue just folders, or improve Find speed by not showing the results window
* The "Ignore Package Contents" setting can now again be turned off
* The automatic updating of the Database Folder now works again
* Printing of catalogs now works better for medium and large icon display
* CDFinder and also the CDFinder CMM 1.2 now properly detect the "can eject" status of FireWire and USB disks in Mac OS X 10.4 again
* The "Update & Eject" helper tool is now also a Universal Binary
* Quite a lot of issues have been solved, so make sure you update quickly!



4.6 (May 16, 2006)

* CDFinder is now a Universal Binary for PowerPC- and Intel-Macs!
* The Find function has been extended dramatically. You can now enter up to 16 search parameters, up from only two, and more
* Five new custom fields for catalogs allow you to extend the CDFinder database very flexibly
* Two additional fields can contain a "location" and a "serial number" value, that latter is automatically created by CDFinder
* All seven new fields and the comment can now be edited directly in the list window!
* CDFinder can now catalogue the contents of .sitx archive files (requires Mac OS X 10.4 and StuffIt Deluxe)
* A new "link" button in the header section of the Found Items and the Catalog windows improves navigation. It quickly reveals the catalog in the main window
* The "New Folder" command will now just quickly create a new folder, and start an editing session for it. Previously, a modal window would appear where you had to type in the name
* All printing functions have been rewritten for Quartz imaging. That produces very crisp results
* The Disk Tracker 1.x and 2.x importer now both read the serial number and write it into the new field in CDFinder
* Several windows have been re-designed for better Aqua appearance
* Saving new catalogs on non HFS+ volumes now works better, and prevents the errors -48 and -1704
* Resizing column widths is now live
* Quite a lot of issues have been solved, so make sure you update quickly!
* For the adventurous ones: There is a cool new hidden feature to be found in the Scripts menu. Enjoy, and send me feedback about it! Hint: It has to do with printing...



4.5.1 (November 30, 2005)

* Adds support to read the Lyrics data from iTunes 6 for both MP3 and AAC (.m4a, .m4b, .m4p) formats
* Adds the ability to directly import Disk Tracker 2.x catalog files
* Adds support for the Apple Mighty Mouse: Scrolling by the mouse ball is now possible in both directions. The same is true for Logitech mice with a tilt-able scroll wheel
* Improves visuals, more controls are now fully Aqua compliant, and most messages now use the standard message window of Mac OS X
* Deletion of catalog items is up to three times faster than before
* Adds "Flash-Drive" as a possible volume type in the catalogs Get Info window
* Much improved French translation by Hervé Bismuth!
* Fixes a problem when cataloging Audio-CDs. Sometimes, one or a few tracks of any given CD were not detected properly as music tracks, but as data tracks
* Fixes a problem with some Contextual Menus inside CDFinder that failed to work while the Inspector window was open
* Fixes a problem of iTunes 6, where the CD titles were stored incorrectly in the old "Remote Database"
* Fixes a little quirk where the date of catalogs was shown incorrectly in the Inspector
* Fixes a little problem with shrinking window sizes of catalog windows
* Fixes a problem where CDFinder could hang if the Inspector window was partially outside the main screen
* Fixes a problem where CDFinder would never shrink the size of a catalog file, even after items were deleted from it
* Fixes a potential crash when CDFinder failed to locate a catalog file
* Fixes a problem where the main window could partially disappear underneath the menu bar. That was due to the toolbar, and the way that CDFinder calculated positions
* As always, a couple of other minor issues has been solved



4.5 (September 1, 2005)

* CDFinder now reads numerous photo meta data, such as EXIF and IPTC, and also JPG, TIFF, BMP and PICT sizes and color depths. This is not using Spotlight, so it will work even in Mac OS X 10.2 and 10.3
* Of course, a number of new Find parameters are available to quickly find photos by the new meta data
* In Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, CDFinder can now use Spotlight to search the local disks while a normal catalog search is in progress
* To display the new meta data, CDFinder has a new Inspector window where all know information to any selected file will appear
* CDFinder now requires Mac OS X 10.2 or newer. This allowed us to remove a lot of old code, and increase the speed of most operations
* It is now possible to read the file and folder comments of the Mac OS X Finder. Previous versions could only read the old comments from Classic. This new features is quite slow, though, because the official way to obtain that data according to Apple is simply really slow
* The User Interface of CDFinder has been improved and looks a lot better now
* Copying the Found Items into the Finder is a lot faster and more efficient now, as all items of one volume are copied in a single step
* When cataloging audio CD's, CDFinder will now make better use of iTunes data
* CDFinder can now Find new files thanks to the cool freeware tool "Incremental", written by Miguel Saro
* As always, a couple of other minor issues has been solved



4.3.2 (March 23, 2005)

* CDFinder can now Find new files thanks to the free Third-Party tool "Incremental", written by Miguel Saro (Mac OS X only!)
* Fixed a crashing bug with certain Find parameters (by Size and by Duration)
* Fixed a problem in classic resources that could cause CDFinder not to launch in Mac OS 9
* Fixed a problem converting certain old catalog files into the new format
* Fixed some AppleScript problems
* As usual, a couple of other minor issues has been solved
* IMPORTANT: This is the last version of CDFinder that will run in Mac OS 9. All future versions of CDFinder will require Mac OS X 10.2 or newer.
* IMPORTANT: This is the last version of CDFinder that will read the catalogs created by CDFinder 2.8 and earlier. Please convert your old catalogs to the new format introduced in CDFinder 3, by using the "Convert Catalog(s) to new format" menu command in the Special menu!



4.3.1 (January 18, 2005)

4.3 (November 30, 2004)

4.2.2 (January 26, 2004)


4.2.1 (October 20, 2003)

4.2 (September 22, 2003)

4.1.2 (May 30, 2003)

4.1.1 (May 14, 2003)

4.1 (April 28, 2003)

4.0.3 (March 5, 2003)


4.0.2 (January 25, 2003)

4.0.1 (January 20, 2003)


3.6.4 (September 19, 2002)

3.6.3 (August 23, 2002)

3.6.2 (July 3, 2002)

3.6.1 (May 21, 2002)

3.6 (31. March 2002

3.5.1 (December 21, 2001)

3.5 (November 24, 2001)

3.1.2 (July 15, 2001)

3.1.1 (May 6, 2001)

3.1 (March 24, 2001)



CDFinderX Public Beta (February 11, 2001)

This was the first version running native in Mac OS X Public Beta. Regarding functionality, this was similar to 3.0.2

3.0.2 (January 19, 2001)

3.0.1 (January 5, 2001)

3.0 (December 18, 2000)

2.8.1 (July 7, 2000)

2.8 (May 21, 2000)

2.7.1 (February 13, 2000)

2.7 (October 31, 1999)

2.6.1 (May 31, 1999)

2.6 (December 22, 1998)

2.5 (November 18, 1998)

2.1.1 (July 24, 1998)

2.1 (March 12, 1998)

2.0a (December 30, 1997)

2.0 (December 16, 1997)

1.5.1 (September 27, 1997)

1.5 (August 30, 1997)

1.3 (May 7, 97)

1.2.2 (February 28, 1997)

1.2 (December 20, 1996)

1.1.1 (November 1, 1996)

1.1 (May 12, 1996)

First english version released.

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