Just like that, we have released NeoFinder 8.6.1 today, with smaller new features and improvements, and lots of fixes for new Apple bugs added to macOS 14 "Sonoma"

Certified for macOS 14.5 – Auto Updater – AVIF Support – Bug fixes

• Massively improved the scheduling of the Auto Updater, increased reliability when running a schedule in situations where a modal dialog is active, and more
• Catalog thumbnails and metadata of high-res open-source ".avif" files, in macOS 14 "Sonoma" and newer
• QuickEdit is available in the Gallery View
• Video Converter can export the audio track as a .m4a file
• Catalog the Publication Date of ePub books
• The Photo Contact Sheet displays the sample output in its window based on the selected page setup format
• Duplicate Watermark Presets, to make it easier to create new, similar presets
• Cataloging a file server volume adds the server name to the Catalog and shows it in the Inspector
• Contextual menu for a folder adds "Export as Web Gallery"
• GeoSearch from the Inspector Label Menu of a GPS GeoTag asks you for the radius of the search
• Moving a Catalog or a Catalog Folder into another folder where such an item would already exist now presents a duplicate items warning, and the option to overwrite, keep both, or ignore
• Improved context menu for locked or write protected items
• Improved compatibility with the new ffmpeg 7

Complete list of all new features in the full release notes

NeoFinder 8.6

April 15, 2024

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November 23, 2023

NeoFinder 8.5.1

October 2, 2023

NeoFinder 8.5

September 12, 2023

NeoFinder 8.4.1 was a bugfix release that contains two fixes for the Smart Folders, and one fix when searching hierarchical keywords.

Today we have released NeoFinder 8.4 with a lot of improvements and new features!

Video Converter – Target Albums – Find Resolutions – Hedge Canister Export – Bug fixes

New features

• Video Converter to quickly convert one or multiple video files into different formats, including audio and subtitle extraction
• Target Album to select one Album, and quickly add items to it with keyboard shortcuts
• Find Editor has a "Resolutions" top level menu, to quickly find videos or photos or a certain size
• The Places window has a search filter to quickly find and filter place names
• Hedge Canister Exporter for NeoFinder Catalogs (for LTO tape libraries)
• Find Duplicates can compare file names without their file type suffix for better results
• Catalog contents of IPA archive files (used by the Apple iOS App Store for application bundles)
• Catalog EXIF Capture Date from MXF video files
• Catalog ARRI metadata from MXF video files
• Catalog special Sony metadata from MXF video files
• Catalog and display Capture FPS values from MXF video files with time lapse or slow motion
• Better and faster cataloging of Phase One IIQ RAW files
• AppleScript has access to additional catalog properties, such as the volume name, media type, file system type, free space, and more
• AppleScript can Update a specified Catalog
• AppleScript can show or hide ever single column in List View, and there are a lot!
• AppleScript can read and write EXIF textual fields like artist, copyright, comment, and description
• AppleScript Scripts menu in the main menu bar of NeoFinder shows script names alphabetically sorted
More new features in the full release notes
• Fixes many minor issues
• NeoFinder 8.4 requires Mac OS X 10.12 or newer, Intel or Apple ARM M1 or M2

We have just released a new version of NeoFinder iOS!

Context Menus – Light Table – Expanded Inspector – Bug fixes

New features in NeoFinder iOS 2.5 include:

• When a Found folder is selected, NeoFinder iOS displays the content of that folder
• Context menu for a folder to view the Inspector for the folder
• Context menu for a Catalog to view the Inspector for that Catalog
• Context menu for the thumbnail in the Inspector to copy the image to the clipboard
• NeoFinder iOS remembers what was displayed when the app is quit, and restores that state the next time it is launched
• Inspector has left and right arrows for faster navigation to the next or previous item in the Catalog or the list of Found items
• Fullscreen Light Table for items in the Inspector, by tapping on the thumbnail. You can scale the image, and navigate to the next or previous item to show off your photos
• Inspector shows audio BPM (beats per minute) value, if contained in the Catalog
• Inspector shows the XMP fields "Alt Text" and "Extended Description", if contained in the Catalog
• Inspector shows the separate Capture FPS data for video files, if contained in the Catalog
• Inspector shows the EXIF text fields Maker, Image Description, Software Name, Artist, Copyright, User Comment and the unique Image ID, if contained in the Catalog
• New icon for folders
• Many smaller fixes and improvements
• Requires iOS 9.3 or newer

Find out more on the NeoFinder iOS web site: www.wfs-apps.de/2/neofinder-ios.html

Buy NeoFinder for iOS now in the Apple iOS App Store!

We are very happy to announce the immediate availability of NeoFinder 8.3!

AppleScript Galore – Web Gallery Templates – EXIF Editor – QuickEdit for metadata – Bug fixes

New features

• AppleScript can be used to access all Catalogs, items in Catalogs, items in Albums
• AppleScript can access all attributes, EXIF, IPTC, ID, and others, of Found Items and Catalog Elements
• AppleScript can modify many attributes, EXIF, IPTC, ID, and others, of Found Items and Catalog Elements
• QuickEdit panel to rapidly copy and paste metadata with a single mouse click in Icon View
• EXIF Editor to modify Maker, Model, Author, lens name, and other textual EXIF values
• Beautiful Web Gallery Template "Blue Cards" with animations, lightbox, modern CSS code, integrated custom font, and more
• Beautiful Web Gallery Template "Green Fluid" with animations, lightbox, modern CSS code, integrated custom font, and more
• Catalog thumbnails and metadata of Canon CRM video RAW files
• Catalog audio ID3 BPM (beats per minute) information from AIFF, MP3, AAC, WAVE and FLAC, and display it in the Inspector
• Added Find Editor options: EXIF User comment contains, EXIF Software contains and EXIF ID contains
• Lossless rotation for .MOV and .MP4 video files
• Bundles the macOS AutoTags engine in the NeoFinder application, so it can be used without additional downloads
• Expert Settings have a list of text file suffixes that NeoFinder will read when Cataloging
More new features in the full release notes
• Fixes lots of problems introduced by Apple in macOS 13
• Fixes many minor issues
• NeoFinder 8.3 requires Mac OS X 10.12 or newer, Intel or Apple ARM M1 or M2

Today, we are pleased to announce the immediate availability of NeoFinder 8.2!

Certified for macOS 13 "Ventura" – Slideshow for photos – Catalog Final Cut Pro project data – Extended Photo Export – Improved Icon View – Bug fixes

New features:

• NeoFinder 8.2 is certified and tested to run in macOS 13 "Ventura". Please note that we very highly recommend waiting to update to macOS 13 due to the very large number of open bugs that are still not fixed by Apple
• Introducing Slideshow for photos
• Photo Export with integrated Multi Renamer and visual watermarks
• Catalog keywords and resource paths from Final Cut Pro project files
• Mark available files and folders in mounted volumes with a green badge in the Icon View
• Pause and Continue cataloging
• Cataloging shows thumbnails of items being cataloged
• Icon View can show up to six annotations or metadata fields
• Photo Contact Sheet can display up to six annotations or metadata fields
• Show or hide GPS GeoTag badge in Icon View and Photo Contact Sheet
• Edit the EXIF Capture Date directly in the Inspector
• Remember the last selected catalog(s), folder(s), or album(s) in LIBRARY for the next launch
• Massively faster cataloging speed for Fuji RAF RAW files
• Catalog giant ZIP archives (zip64 format, larger than 4 GB) generated by Google Takeout and other web services
• Cataloging ZIP archives with a very large number of files has better progress value updates and is easier to cancel
• Improved positioning of the GPS GeoTag and Online badges in the Icon View
• Updated to latest official Dropbox framework
• Works around a crash in Apples NSOutlineView in macOS 13 when trying to edit a name
• Improved behaviour reading XMP metadata written by CaptureOne 22
• Prevents drag&drop to copy a sidecar XMP file for a photo or video more than once
• Prevents a possible problem for saving catalog files of volumes with no real name
• Fixes a problem renaming Found Items, also using the Multi Renamer
• Fixes a problem in the Find Editor where the Plus button was sometimes incorrectly drawn as inactive, even though it was active
• Fixes a problem deleting the last item in the Light Table
• Fixes a problem rotating certain HEIC photos
• Fixes a problem editing metadata of HEIC photos that were transferred to the Mac using AirDrop from an iOS 16 iOS device
• Fixes a bug of macOS 13 when detecting ExFAT volume formats
• Fixes a bug of macOS 13 when detecting FAT16 volume formats
• Fixes a bug of macOS 13 when detecting FAT32 volume formats
• Works around problems created by undocumented changes in macOS 13 when cataloging .EPS (encapsulated postscript) file thumbnails
• Works around problems created by changes in macOS 13 when creating images
• Fixes lots of problems introduced by Apple in macOS 13
• Fixes many minor issues
• NeoFinder 8.2 requires Mac OS X 10.11 or newer, Intel or Apple ARM M1 or M2

Today, we give you another update for the NeoFinder 8.x family, named NeoFinder 8.1.2!

NeoFinder 8.1.2 catalogs Astronomy AVM Metadata – "Google Drive" support – More bug fixes



Some of the new and amazing features include:

• Catalog "AVM" metadata in XMP records, used by Astronomers
• Catalog and write internal XMP data of HEIC photo files. No more sidecar XMP files needed for HEIC
• Catalog "Google Drive" volumes in macOS 12
• Icon View can display Finder Tags, and the Creation and Modification Date of items
• Auto Updater can run schedules serialized, to prevent network saturation for file servers
• Renaming a Keyword in the Controlled Vocabulary will create a new hierarchy, if the new keyword name contains the "|" divider character
• All EXIF date search parameters in the Find Editor and Smart Folders can use date ranges before 1980
• Improved the TOLIS BRU Importer to handle the newer and different files created by the "ArGest Backup" LTO software
• Catalog the color model for JPG files and display CMYK format in the Inspector
• Massively improved performance when changing the NeoFinder label for multiple selected items if the Display Filter was active for labels
• Double clicking a catalog file in the Finder will show its contents if said catalog file is located inside the NeoFinder database folder
• Export to XML and text-with-tab contains the video bitrate and audio bitrate
• Updated the XMP toolkit to use the latest version provided by Adobe
• Updated the Dropbox.framework to the latest version provided by Dropbox
• Using the scroll wheel or trackpad in the Light Table will scroll the image in the right direction
• Improves behaviour for renaming Found Items and the new name is already in use. Now a proper error message is displayed
• Improves behaviour for text-with-tab Export of Catalogs with metadata fields that may contain multi-line data, such as EXIF comments and more
• Fixes a bug where Updating a Catalog could remove a custom icon applied to the Catalog by the user. NeoFinder will always keep a custom Catalog icon
• Fixes a bug where the completions menu for Places in the Inspector could contain empty entries
• Fixes a bug where renaming keywords in the Controlled Vocabulary wouldn't immediately update the Inspector of the currently shown items
• Fixes a bug where the regex code for folder names could cause problem for catalogs with damaged archive files
• Fixes a bug where reading video metadata with ffmpeg could fail for certain MXF files
• Fixes a bug where renaming an item in Icon View in Dark Mode of macOS 11 and macOS 12 would create visual artefacts
• Fixes many minor issues
• NeoFinder requires Mac OS X 10.11 or newer, Intel or ARM. Older versions of NeoFinder for previous system versions are still available on our web site

NeoFinder iOS 2.0.1 is out now!

We are happy to give you a new version of NeoFinder iOS!

This new version has visually improved list displays, and the Inspector now shows all the new meta data introduced in NeoFinder Mac 7.5. Enjoy!


New features in NeoFinder iOS 2.0.1
- The Inspector now shows media info for WEBM and MXF video files
- The catalog contents list now displays the data size of a folder in the second line
- Fixes a visual problem of iOS 13 "dark mode" in the Dropbox downloader window

New features in NeoFinder iOS 2.0
- The lists now use a narrower font, with better colors to better display the description and content
- The Inspector displays and can search for "people" metadata in photos and videos
- The Inspector displays the new custom annotations for photos and videos, and can also search them
- The Inspector shows the EXIF lens name if it is contained in files
- The Inspector shows the frame rate of videos with decimal places exactly, e.g. 29.94 instead of 30
- For the creation and modification date of files, the Inspector now also shows the time, not just the date
- Improvements in the Inspector on iPhones in landscape mode
- NeoFinder iOS now supports the "dark mode" of iOS 13 in most places
- Many smaller fixes and improvements
- Requires iOS 8.0 or newer


Find out more on the NeoFinder iOS web site: www.wfs-apps.de/2/neofinder-ios.html
and on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NeoFinder

Get NeoFinder for iOS today! Apple App Store

NeoFinder 7.5 available today!

We are happy to present you the new NeoFinder 7.5 today!

This new version contains many fixes needed for macOS 10.15, but also a lot of very exciting new features.

Many users were looking for custom annotation fields, and we have added them to photos and videos for you! You can define them, fill their values, and even import this data from PhaseOne MediaPro and other XMP compliant applications.

The search for Faces and better navigation will help you to add metadata to photos and videos much faster, while the new AutoUpdater options help you keep your NeoFinder catalogs always updated.

New features and enhancements:
• Catalog, display, edit, create and export custom metadata or annotation fields for photos and videos
• The iView Importer can read these custom annotations as well
• Find Faces will find all thumbnails in a catalog containing a face , and display a green rectangle in the Inspector as well (can be turned off in the Inspector Settings)
• AutoUpdater has been massively expanded. It can run schedules on specific weekdays, or when a volume is mounted, or when NeoFinder is launched
• NeoFinder 7.5 is certified to run in macOS 10.15 . We still very highly recommend to wait with the update to macOS 10.15 at least until 10.15.5 is released next year
• NeoFinder is "notarized", which Apple promises is supposed increase the security. Or so
• Icon View can display up to 3 lines of metadata or annotations, and you can chose what you want to see
• Photo Contact Sheet also uses up to 3 freely selectable metadata lines
• NeoFinder can use Aliases in the Database Folder pointing to other folders (Business License only)
• Edit EXIF dates in photos, to adjust time offsets, and more
• Play a selected video in Gallery View by pressing the Space key, directly inside the NeoFinder window!
• Navigate to the next or previous item in the Inspector with a menu or keyboard command for much faster metadata editing
• Inspector: Select which sections should be displayed
• Sort the Icon View by Duration
• The Display Filter remembers your settings for the first menu. Keep that in mind if you wonder why NeoFinder may not show all expected items...
• Find Editor can search for file kind "Email"
• Find Editor can search for "codec is NOT"
• "Export Photos as..." is a separate menu command in the Item menu, with Shift-Command-E as a hotkey
• Photo Export can apply XMP Metadata Presets to the exported file
• Copy->Path will copy the full macOS style path of a file if it is online
• Catalog the text content of ".md" (markdown) files
• Visual adjustments in the main window. The slider is now at the right edge underneath the content, and the text with the number of items always in the center as well
• NeoFinder can catalog the boot volume in macOS 10.15 properly
• Photo Export handles rotated photos better
• Cataloging: Phase One EIP files is much faster, and supports all file variations
• Export Photos can export to PDF and HEIC format
• Added more items to the Info.plist to describe the use of the new Folder Cages introduced by Apple in 10.15
• Copy and Paste of a GPS Geotag will use the view direction, too
• Compiled using the "hardened runtime", which should make things safer, Apple claims
• Improved cataloging of certain Person metadata inside of NEF files
• Improved behaviour changing the ratings or labels when multiple items were selected for QuickLook
• New progress window when pasting metadata into more than 10 items
• Massive speed improvements when Updating catalogs with items whose thumbnails were generated by QuickLook
• Improved Spotlight search for Paths
• Improved behaviour when searching for video codecs in the Find Editor
• Improved handling of selecting multiple items in the Icon View
• Fixes a problem with the incorrect menu commands for Person tokens in the Inspector for offline items
• Many small fixes and improvements
Requires Mac OS X 10.8 or newer!

Announcing NeoFinder 7.5 for macOS 10.15

Due to the very early release of Apples macOS 10.15, and the massive amount of changes needed to support that new macOS version, we have decided to move the NeoFinder 7.5 release forward to early November 2019.

NeoFinder 7.5 is currently in beta testing, and the results look really good.

NeoFinder 7.5, among many other exciting new abilities, will be able to support custom annotations for photos and videos!

This is a very important milestone for the huge number of iView MediaPro users, who still haven't had a way of keep working with their important custom annotations.


Apart from many other amazing things, NeoFinder 7.5 will be able to:

• Import custom field data from MediaPro XML Export files
• Catalog custom fields stored in regular Adobe XMP data, for example written by Media Pro in the “Write Annotations” command
• Display all that in the Inspector
• Edit these additional fields, if the original file is currently online (just like the regular XMP editor of NeoFinder)
• Create NEW custom fields
• Find the contents of custom fields in the “Any text contains” Find Parameter or QuickFind

NeoFinder 7.4.1 released!

This version contains important bug fixes, and some exciting new features, such as the new columns and Find options, and even more new file formats supported for cataloging!


New features and enhancements:

• NeoFinder can now catalog thumbnails of Canon compressed RAW ".cr3" files
• NeoFinder can now catalog thumbnails SVG files
• NeoFinder now has nine new columns in List View: Camera Maker, Lens Name, IPTC Persons, ISRC, XMP Caption Writer, XMP Byline, Audio Channels, Audio Sample rate, and Audio Bitrate
• NeoFinder can now catalog Clip Studio ".clip" files
• NeoFinder can now catalog RAW files of Sigma .X3F format
• Preliminary support to catalog thumbnails of Phase One Capture One ".eip" RAW files
• You can now search for EXIF camera name, lens name , and maker name in the Find Editor and of course using the Label menu in the Inspector
• You can now also search for "has no XMP" and "has ISRC" in the Find Editor
• The improved Multi-Editor is now also available for Finder Tags and XMP People fields
• More Label menus in the Inspector for ISRC, FileCheck, EXIF values, XMP Keywords
• NeoFinder now catalogs the iTunes Producer description files "metadata.xml"
• NeoFinder now catalogs EXIF data contained in XMP records , in case the original file has none, or these cannot be processed
• Improved Export as Text and XML by having separate Height, Width, and Duration fields for Media-Info. That is helpful for Stock Photographers
• NeoFinder will now remember the sort order along with the sort type in the Sort menu for Icon View and others
• You can now prevent NeoFinder from sorting keywords alphabetically when displaying and saving them
• The contextual menu for one catalog is much better organised now
• Catalogs now save the date and time they were last Updated (not just modified!)
• Can now properly sort the List View by Path
• The "NoChangePlease" hidden settings is now honoured by the Wikipedia Inspector and the Map
• Fixes a problem with some Find Editor settings
• Fixes a problem with incorrect badge number displays for Album Groups in macOS 10.14
• Fixes a problem with Album and Smart Folders names containing a "." in their name
• Fixes a problem reading certain audio files larger than 4 GB
• Fixes a problem cataloging certain JPG files created by a scanner (containing empty ISO arrays in their EXIF section)
• Fixes more visual problems in macOS 10.14
• Fixes a problem writing Finder Comments when leaving the text field in the Inspector with the Tab key
• Fixes a memory problem when cataloging very large numbers of compressed Fuji RAW files (.RAF)
• Fixes a problem with the CDFinder 2.x Importer
• Many small fixes and improvements
• NeoFinder 7.4.1 requires Mac OS X 10.8 or newer

Since the initial release of CDFinder 1.0 in 1996, a lot of the really cool stuff in this wonderful software only came to life because someone dared to ask 'wouldn't it be nice if NeoFinder could do...'
Feedback was always incredibly important for the development of CDFinder and NeoFinder, and we want to bring that to the next level.

In the NeoFinder Coffee Talk, we will tell you what we are planning for NeoFinder in the future, and what we are working on. You can tell us how you use NeoFinder, what questions you have, and what feedback and suggestions. All while we drink a nice cup of coffee.

And what is best? The NeoFinder Coffee Talks are free. Except for the coffee :-)

But you will gain important insights in our plans and ideas for the future, and helpful tips for your daily operation with NeoFinder.

In June 2019, there are a few open NeoFinder Coffee Talk spots still available in the following cities in the USA:

June 6, 2019 Washington DC
June 7, 2019 Washington DC
June 11, 2019 Dayton, OH
June 13, 2019 Iowa City, IA
June 14, 2019 Lincoln, NE
June 15, 2019 Cheyenne, WY
June 19, 2019 Salt Lake City, UT
June 20, 2019 Salt Lake City, UT

If you work in that region, and would like to offer me a nice cup of coffee and talk about NeoFinder, please contact us!

NeoFinder 7.4

We are happy to announce NeoFinder 7.4, the 90. update since CDFinder 1.0 was released in 1996!

The new version adds more than 50 new features and enhancements, many will help iView MediaPro and Aperture users to work better with NeoFinder.

After the demise of iView MediaPro, many users have started using NeoFinder, and things like the iView compatible web gallery templates, or the people metadata cataloging and editing have been added to NeoFinder due to feedback from these people.

NeoFinder can use new scene detection engines to automatically find Tags in thumbnails! That will make it a lot easier to handle large amounts of images, and discover surprising photo motives hidden deeply in the folders of the data.

Video professionals will be delighted by the codec search, additional supported formats and metadata, and the ability to "fold" single frame sequences, which massively increases cataloging speed for these cases.


New features and enhancements:

• Catalogs “People" fields in Adobe XMP and IPTC data (and data written by Picasa and Mylio)
• Search for People metadata , and add them to photos and movies in the XMP Editor
• Web Gallery now uses beautiful HTML templates , and you can even design your own! Or use your existing iView Media Pro gallery templates (with some small changes)
• AutoTags: Use ML scene detector engines to automatically detect scenes and items in thumbnails. NeoFinder currently offers two different engines, more to come. This requires macOS 10.13 or newer
• AutoTags: Search a catalog for thumbnails with a particular automatically detected Tag
• AutoTags Inspector shows the detected Tags, and allows you to place them in the file directly
• NeoFinder reads iView MediaPro CatalogSets from XMP records and builds albums and album folders for these automatically during cataloging
• Massively improved handing of XMP keywords for multiple selected files. NeoFinder now displays all keywords in these files, and allows you to add, remove, or edit them, and to place an existing keyword in all selected items
• Refresh thumbnails from photos or videos when updating a catalog , if you need larger or smaller thumbnails
• Delete a keyword from all items in the catalog and even from all files as well
• Detect and "fold" image sequences during cataloging . That is great for video producers with thousands of single frame files to catalog
• Search for video codecs in the Find Editor. That is helpful to quickly find files encoded with deprecated codecs
• The new command "Edit keywords" in the Metadata main menu with the keyboard shortcut Cmd-T places the text cursor in the XMP keywords field of the XMP editor for the selected items
• Rename keywords both in the Controlled Vocabulary, as well as in all items in the database
• A new command in the Metadata menu allows you to write all XMP metadata back to a file. That is useful if you have imported metadata and want to make sure it is actually written into the file, where it belongs
• Catalog metadata and audio thumbnails of ".CAF" Apple CoreAudio Files
• Catalog the number of audio channels for audio files , including 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 formats
• Catalog thumbnails and metadata of compressed Fuji RAW files (RAF file format). Even Apple still cannot do this, but NeoFinder is now able to accomplish that for you!
• Catalogs .JPX, .J2C, and .JPF JPEG 2000 photo files
• Catalog stereoscopic files in the JPS format with thumbnails and metadata
• Edit->Copy now copies the names of all selected items to the clipboard
• File->Open now works like a double click on the selected items
• "Find all media items in a folder" options are now also available in the View menu
• Search for empty, and non empty XMP text fields in the Inspector with a new menu when you click on the label of a field
• The Find Editor can now also find empty and not empty XMP fields
• NeoFinder now displays the number of items in Album Groups (the sum of all files in all contained albums)
• The Display Filter can now filter by "Ratings larger than"
• The QuickLook window will now be opened fullscreen if you hold the Alt key
• Improved handling of .dv video files
• Improved handling of cataloging BMP files
• Improved scrolling in the Gallery View
• NeoFinder now catalogs metadata and thumbnails for Phantom Cine video files
• NeoFinder now catalogs the Creation Date of video content (not the file!), if it is embedded in the data stream
• The Photo Contact Sheet items can now be sorted by EXIF date, too
• NeoFinder can now catalog thumbnails and metadata of Kodak .KDC RAW files
• New AppleScript cataloging option to quit NeoFinder after the cataloging has completed
• You can now drop a folder or whole volume on the icon of NeoFinder in the Dock to catalog it
• The suggested keywords while typing XMP Editor and Find Editor are much better now
• The Help buttons are located for the German translation, too
• After deleting items from a catalog, NeoFinder no longer displays the first item in the current folder
• The Find Editor can now search for Disk Images
• Smart Folders and Groups can now have "/" in their names
• Find all media items in a folder is much faster now
• More improvements in dark mode of macOS 10.14
• Improved handling of cataloging BMP files
• Improved cataloging of BWF and WAV files in their newer extended format
• Editing GPS Geotags in a file now properly updates the creation and modification date of that file in the NeoFinder catalog
• Many small fixes and improvements
• NeoFinder 7.4 now requires Mac OS X 10.8 or newer!

We are happy to announce the new NeoFinder 7.3.3!

NeoFinder 7.3.3 contains a lot of small fixes and improvements, but also some very interesting new features as well. NeoFinder now supports the Internet Access Policy of the powerful Little Snitch security tool. It also works better with song files purchased in Apples iTunes store, and works around a couple of newly discovered bugs in Apples macOS 10.14.


New features and enhancements:

• NeoFinder now supports Little Snitch network security, so that every outgoing network connection is described for its purpose
• NeoFinder can now read the ratings written to the IPTC section of photos by Photo Mechanic and some iOS tools like ViewEXIF
• NeoFinder can now catalog the newer ID3 tags that the Apple iTunes store uses for .m4p files
• Fixes a problem of macOS 10.14 failing to generate thumbnails for certain PSD files . Until Apple fixes this bug, NeoFinder now uses a different way to get these thumbnails for you
• Improved handling of certain umlauts when finding files by name
• Adding and removing Keywords for multiple selected PDF and InDesign files now works properly
• When you switch to Gallery View, NeoFinder will now activate the navigation bar at the bottom, so you can immediately use the arrow keys to navigate through your images
• Fixes a problem cataloging WAV files with certain ID3 tags
• Fixes a problem cataloging folders named "Volumes" on the top level of volumes
• Fixed several problems in Mac OS X 10.7.x
• Fixes a drawing problem of the Fill Bar in Mac OS X 10.7 and Mac OS X 10.8
• Fixes a Icon View redraw problem in macOS 10.14 on certain displays
• Fixes a translation problem in macOS 10.14
• Writing Finder comments for files that contain a " in their path now works properly
• Fixes a problem when certain volumes weren't properly recognized
• Fixed a problem finding more than 40000 media files with the Find context menu
• Fixes a problem cataloging AAC song files created by Rogue Amoeba Fission
• Please note: This will be the last NeoFinder version to support Mac OS X 10.7 . If you still use that old Mac OS X, please check this NeoFinder version very carefully, and if anything doesn't work for you, please let us know immediately!
• Requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later

We are incredibly happy to present the 23 year Anniversary Version of NeoFinder!

On this day, December 5, 1995, the very first lines of code were written for the CDFinder project. It was a very cold day, I still remember that.

And today, 23 years later, we are happy to release the latest version 7.3.2 of NeoFinder, with some exciting new features and improvements.

Enjoy!

New features and enhancements:

• NeoFinder can now flip photos vertically and horizontally!
• NeoFinder can now Import "Media Catalog" csv export files
• Color labels in all five view styles look much better now
• Now catalogs the EXIF creation date of video files in many formats
• Improved behaviour when deleting many items from multiple different catalogs
• XML Export now contains the text file content excerpts, too
• Fixes a problem of macOS 10.14 when renaming a Smart Folder, catalog, or Album in LIBRARY
• Fixes a problem of macOS 10.14 when trying to select the Photos library for cataloging
• Fixes a problem when trying to "Open with..." multiple files with unknown file types
• Fixes a problem in text export for mp3 comments with multiple text lines
• Fixes a problem when switching between different view styles if the navigation bar was deactivated
• Fixes a problem exporting path values of offline volumes into XML format
• Fixes a possible problem with the Video Contact Sheet in case the font "Arial" was not active in the system
• Fixes a problem detecting the exact format of certain Blu-ray and DVD disks
• Fixes a problem cataloging certain WAV files created by ProTools
• Video file fps generated by ffmpeg (for mkv, mxf, avi, and other formats) are now properly stored as float values, too

• Many smaller visual improvements and fixes
• Please note: This will be the last NeoFinder version to support Mac OS X 10.7 . If you still use that old Mac OS X, please check this NeoFinder version very carefully, and if anything doesn't work for you, please let us know immediately!
• Requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later

We are happy to announce the new NeoFinder 7.3.1, certified for macOS 10.14 Mojave!

As Apple had added all kinds of undocumented changes and the AppleScript cage very late in the beta process, we were required to verify more or less any system call that NeoFinder makes (several thousand of them), and see if there are any unexpected results in macOS 10.14 that differ from what happened in previous versions.

And we needed to write code to work with the new limitations that Apple has introduced.

Nevertheless, this is a nice NeoFinder version to use in macOS 10.14, and it has a lot of cool new improvements as well.


New features and enhancements:

• NeoFinder is now certified to run in macOS 10.14. We still don't recommend to use that new macOS, until Apple has fixed more of the bugs, but NeoFinder will run in it
• Better workflow integration: "Open with" now works for multiple selected items! It will also only display applications from your startup volume
• Faster! Displaying and scrolling photos in the Icon View is now much faster , especially in macOS 10.14
• Improved iView Media Pro importer now reads labels, ratings, lens name, and is much faster and stable
• Expanded Display Filter with the additional "No Thumbnail" option and other improvements
• NeoFinder now ignores password protected disk images during cataloging
• The Cataloging progress when cataloging entire disks and during a catalog Update now shows the approximate number of items
• You can now select more than one item in the new Gallery View . NeoFinder will display the large thumbnail of the first item. This will make tagging and rating much easier
• The Gallery View can now display Ratings in the icon list
• The separate "Update in NeoFinder & Eject" tool is now 64-bit and codesigned
• Find in Instagram now is also available in the keyword list of the Controlled Vocabulary
• The Metadata Presets Editor now also has a Help button
• The Metadata Presets Editor now has new "all" and "none" buttons which will select all or no fields in the current preset being edited
• Better workflow: NeoFinder can now import external catalog or export files with a shell script
• The Auto Updater now has a "clear" button that will erase the log
• Improved behaviour when a new catalog folder is found during the sync
• Improved behaviour when cataloging certain Adobe InDesign files
• Finding Any EXIF in the Find Editor contains will now properly find lens names
• Fixes a problem with the icons in the LIBRARY being too large in Mac OS X 10.9 and earlier
• Fixes a problem when trying to drag out files or folders into the Finder that had been renamed, moved, or deleted
• Fixes a problem of the date editor in Mac OS X 10.9 and earlier
• Fixes a problem where the number of catalogs in the LIBRARY section wasn't always updated properly
• Fixes a problem with ejecting disks after cataloging by AppleScript
• Fixes a problem when NeoFinder sometimes couldn't find your database folder after an update
• Fixes a problem in the Photo Contact Sheet: The header is now really only drawn when actually selected
• Find in Instagram now works with tags that contain umlauts and other special characters
• Many smaller visual improvements and fixes
• Many other fixes
• Please note: This will be the last NeoFinder version to support Mac OS X 10.7 . If you still use that old Mac OS X, please check this NeoFinder version very carefully, and if anything doesn't work for you, please let us know immediately!
• Requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later

We are happy to announce the new NeoFinder 7.3!

This is a massive update with more than 60 new features and improvements brings the long-awaited display filter, and the ability to catalog emails, as well as the cool Gallery View (and not only for macOS 10.14, but for Mac OS X 10.7 and newer!).


New features and enhancements:

• NeoFinder now has a Display Filter that you can use to filter items based on their kind, name, rating, label, or other attributes! That is highly useful when working with large amounts of data, and works in all five view types!
• NeoFinder now has a cool Gallery View! Not just in macOS 10.14, like Apples Finder, but in all Mac OS X and macOS versions since 10.7!
• You can now update one or multiple media files in an existing catalog!
• NeoFinder can now catalog the text from email messages! Currently, .emlx (Apple Mail) and .eml (MS Outlook) formats are supported
• Many windows have a Help button that will open the suitable page in the NeoFinder Users Guide for you
• Find Duplicates can now find Duplicate Folders!
• In the Inspector, you can now Find Tags in Instagram by clicking on them
• The Find Editor now autocompletes keywords for you, using the keyword list in the Controlled Vocabulary
• You can copy and paste entire sets of XMP metadata from one file to another
• NeoFinder catalogs Affinity Publisher documents, and of course allows you to edit the whole set of XMP metadata for these, too!
• The XMP Editor in the Inspector now has a new Date editor, so you can change the XMP date for one or multiple items at once
• The XMP Presets Editor now has a date field as well
• NeoFinder can now of course catalog that XMP date field from existing files
• A new Filefinder Text Importer allows you to import the text files from that abandoned old disk cataloger
• You can now copy and paste GPS coordinates, and the XMP locations fields, separately
• You can now sort the catalog LIBRARY by Volume Modification Date as well
• The Movie Contact Sheet now has an option to turn off the time display in the thumbnails
• Also, the Movie Contact Sheet can now automatically be saved next to the original file, even when multiple video files are selected. That is a great way of creating a lot of these at once
• You can now duplicate Albums and Smart Folders, using the context menu
• The file information that the Movie Contact Sheet displays is much more detailed and precise now
• The Movie Contact Sheet now uses the modern AVFoundation in macOS for better results
• The main window has a new button that will open the free NeoFinder Video Tutorials for you
• NeoFinder can now catalog Aurora 2018 documents
• NeoFinder can now catalog the BWF, or BEXT records from mProTools, with date and unique ID values for audio files
• NeoFinder can now catalog thumbnails for Cinema 4D (".c4d") files, if that app is installed
• NeoFinder can now catalog ICNS thumbnails
• NeoFinder now catalogs thumbnails for stereoscopic MPO files
• NeoFinder can now catalog the lens name of the EXIF record, and display it in the Inspector, and search it in the "any text" parameter or QuickFind
• NeoFinder now catalogs the fps value of movies as floating point, allowing for values like 29.97
• Find Duplicates can now search for duplicate audio files by the BEXT record
• A new button can now display and reverse the sort order in the navigation bar of NeoFinder
• The Photo Contact sheet can now include a second line with details from each photo
• You can now download an entire folder with all files and subfolders from the Backblaze B2 and a Dropbox catalog!
• The LIBRARY sidebar now uses a more modern "view based" control from Apple. It will look better, and interactions are better with this
• You can now open an Album in a separate window, too
• Ejecting volumes now runs in the background, and won't block NeoFinder anymore
• You can now double click one or multiple keywords in the Controlled Vocabulary list to add these to the one selected file
• You can now remove files and folders from the Found Items list, to generate better reports
• The number of items of albums is now displayed in green
• Exporting a file using the Item menu will now also copy a possible sidecar XMP file to the target location
• The Web Gallery now adds the media info to its Details page
• The Web Gallery uses a lot less memory while generating the HTML pages for you
• The folder list in the Batch Cataloging window is now always hierarchically sorted by name, even if your NeoFinder database is placed on a APFS volume
• Date changes in the Auto Updater will now be used for all selected catalogs, not just one of them
• Updated the code to read the Audio CD cover art from Coverartarchive.org
• Cataloging certain malformed Sound Designer 2 audio files cannot crash NeoFinder anymore
• Fixes a problem of reading CD-TEXT from certain Audio-CDs in macOS Sierra and newer
• Fixes a problem cataloging EXIF date values in certain time zones
• Fixes a problem with losing folder comments and color labels during updating of a catalog
• Fixes a problem when exporting to XML with no thumbnails
• Fixes a problem with the precision when cataloging and pasting GPS Geotags
• Fixes a problem changing the XMP byline value in certain files
• Fixes a problem cataloging certain malformed AIFF audio files
• Fixes some problems in macOS 10.14, but isn't yet completely certified due to the lack of the final macOS 10.14 version from Apple
• Improved reading of audio tags in certain Apple AAC files
• Improved reading of certain ID3 tags in MP3 and WAV files
• Improved code for searching Ratings
• Improved code for the internal debug log feature
• Works around a weird bug in macOS removing the contextual menus in NeoFinder immediately after opening them (only macOS High Sierra and macOS 10.14)
• Many little improvements and fixes
• Requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later

iView Media Pro: Rest in peace!

The latest owners of the venerable iView Media Pro, PhaseOne, just announced that the digital asset management tool Media Pro is finally officially dead.

https://www.phaseone.com/en/Products/Software/Capture-One-Pro/mediapro-discontinue.aspx

With the advent of 64bit only macOS versions, the very old code base of Media Pro could no longer be maintained nor updated. This is in stark contrast to NeoFinder, for example, whose code base has been continuously updated, rewritten, and modernized in the last 22 years, to always be on level with all new macOS updates and feature improvements.

iView Media Pro has a long and colorful history, but the core code base was never rewritten or properly updated, and was ageing rapidly. Previous owners like Microsoft simply added some visual changes to the software, and charged for feature-free updates.

Now that iView is finally really officially dead, it is the perfect time to migrate over to NeoFinder!

If you have a Media Pro license, you can get a cross-grade to the NeoFinder Private License for only 24 USD!

And yes, NeoFinder can import the iView XML export files.

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