NeoFinder 8.9.1

NeoFinder (formerly CDFinder) rapidly organizes your data, either on external or internal disks, or any other volumes. It catalogs all your data, so you stay in control of your data archive or disk library. With extensive metadata support, you can find your files quickly.

Features

• Catalog: any hard disk, data folder, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, BlueRay, HD-DVD, iPod, Server Volume, Audio-CD, USB-Stick, FTP-Server, and more
• Power: Handle really large amounts of data
• Photo Previews: Create beautiful thumbnails for many photo and image formats, such as JPG, TIFF, EPS, RAW, PDF, PSD, BMP, GIF, PNG, TGA, IFF (Maya)
• Audio Meta dаta: MP3, AAC (iTunes), FLAC (Lossless), ALAC (Apple Lossless), and AIFF meta dаta: author, album, title, composer, lyrics, cover art, track number, duration, bit rate, genre, year, comment. Even catalogs whole Audio-CDs, and Apple iPhone ringtone files!
• Photo Meta dаta: XMP (used by Adobe Bridge), EXIF and IPTC meta data (including GPS geotags), and JPG, TIFF, PICT and BMP photo details
• Movie Meta dаta: get thumbnails, the dimension, duration, codec and frame rate out of movie files, supporting AVI, MOV, MP4, FLV, MPG, MKV, M4V, and others
• Geotagging GPS support: NeoFinder catalogs and displays GPS EXIF tags of photos, and has direct links to Google Earth, Flickr, Panoramio, Google Maps and MapQuest. NeoFinder can even search for photos that were taken near any location (GeoFinder), and export GPS data to KMZ files
• Networkable: Share your NeoFinder database in your entire workgroup (requires a Business License)
• Cross-platform: with abeMeda (was CDWinder), you can use one database for both worlds!
• Workflow Integration: Automatically catalog all discs burned by Roxio Toast; Drag any image directly from NeoFinder into applications like Adobe InDesign, Quark XPress, Apple Pages, Microsoft Office; integrate NeoFinder into FileMaker Pro databases, and much more
• Find it! Best Find functions, and of course offline browsing of all your volumes – even in multiple windows, if you want to
• Spotlight Integration: Search your local disks with Spotlight and as well as your catalogs from inside NeoFinder
• Import Catalogs: These twelve formats are supported: Disk Recall, DiskWizard, Iomega FindIt, Portents DiskTracker (both 1.x and 2.x!), Catalogue, CatFinder, “Neometric” Catalog, DiskLibrary, Broken Cross Disk Manager (Windows), and Advanced Disk Catalog (ADC for Windows) catalog or export files, and iView MediaPro and Microsoft Expression Media XML files
• Fast and really easy to use, see screenshots
• Export and print catalog data
• Insight: Look inside archive files: ZIP, TAR, .rar, StuffIt (.sit and even .sitx), and others, including Disk Image contents
• International: English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch user interface, all in one application
• Unicode compatible: Use NeoFinder to catalog file names of any language
• AppleScript: Integrate NeoFinder with FileMaker Pro or any other application, or extend the abilities of NeoFinder
• Extend your NeoFinder catalog database by using five custom fields for any content you need
• FileCheck: Only NeoFinder can generate an industrial strength MD5 checksum for every file being cataloged
• AutoMount: NeoFinder automatically mounts every server volume you have cataloged or updated for you, if needed! And you can of course also ask NeoFinder to mount the volume for you at any time, using the context menu
• QuickLook: Open a QuickLook window for any selected online file(s) right from inside NeoFinder!
• Cross-Grade: you already bought a different disk cataloger or media asset manager application, ask us for a good offer!
• Free email support
• Languages: User Interface in eight languages, all in one application: English, German, Japanese, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch

What’s New:

NeoFinder 8.0

New features and enhancements:

• Fresh user interface with updated icons
• Added interface colors Space Blue, 25% Grey, 50% Grey, and 75% Grey
• Change color immediately
• Code optimized for the new M1 Pro and M1 Max ARM hardware from Apple
• Fully certified for macOS 12 “Monterey”
• New Map with satellite images, Point of Interests, and support to display multiple GPS GeoTags
• Hide and Show the LIBRARY and the entire left window part
• Folders in catalogs can be shown in LIBRARY for fast navigation
• Image Analyse of thumbnails to find text (OCR), faces, or AutoTags (requires macOS 10.15 or newer)
• Place your full contact data in the XMP Dublin Core Contact fields. These values are now cataloged, edited, exported, and can be used in XMP Presets
• Remembers the 30 last used values for each XMP editor field, and offers them for auto-entering
• Show or hide separate XMP fields in the expanded Inspector Settings
• Transfer or copy metadata between fields, in one or even multiple selected files
• Removed the “Save” button when editing multiple files in the XMP editor. Changed values will now update immediately, no button needed
• Show and edit all the usual metadata of any file in the Finder with the More File Info! Drag any file into the NeoFinder dock icon for that, or use the Finder context menu command, or the NeoFinder menu command to open that window as well
• Import Hedge Canister Catalogs of LTO tapes
• Rearrange items in Albums manually in the Icon View with the new “Unsorted” option in the Sort Menu
• Catalog BlackMagic .BRAW video files, with thumbnail and metadata!
• Edit the GPS GeoTag in the Map by just dragging it to a new location
• Edit the GPS view direction and altitude of one or multiple selected files
• ColorFinder: Find similar images by using the primary color, or similar colors
• Find similar images by using AutoTags
• Rename files and folders in the Finder when you rename them in any of the five view styles. Previously that was only possible in the Inspector
• Open an audio file the MP3-Editor Mp3tag.app for you, to edit ID3 tags
• Create a new folder inside a catalog and the volume
• Report generator gathers all used unique comments of the files inside a folder or catalog
• List View has a column “Suffix” for file name suffixes
• Sort menu has a “suffix” option to sort by file name suffix
• Catalog Sony Alpha A1 RAW files “.arw” with thumbnail and metadata
• Inspector setting to hide the thumbnail section when in Icon or Gallery View
• Add the results of a “Get Place name” search to all items within a certain radius around the initial item, optionally in all catalogs
• Menu command to start editing the Person data in the XMP Editor
• Menu commands to activate LIBRARY, the content area, and the Inspector
• “Find place names” now uses Openstreetmap.org for place data
• Cancel any text edit in the Inspector by using the Escape key. That will revert to the previous value of that field
• All edit fields in the Inspector can accept text using drag&drop
• Photo Contact Sheet can use a different background color
• Icon View can hide the file names, also the Photo Contact Sheet
• Find Editor offers “EXIF ISO is higher than” and “EXIF ISO is lower than” options
• Find Editor offers FPS search for video files
• Catalog metadata from .fits astronomical files
• Improves cataloging of very large WAVE files, and those written in 64bit format
• Improves handling of duplicates when copying catalog files into NeoFinder. A new dialog just like in the Finder will ask if the catalog should be replaced, or both kept
• Paste GPS GeoTag string from Google Maps or others as the GeoTag for items in NeoFinder
• Paste GPS GeoTag string from Google Maps or others into the Map search field to center the map at that coordinate
• Improves cataloging Finder Comments in macOS 11 and macOS 12
• Set the color label for a file in the Light Table using the main menu
• Improved handling of “cloned” volumes
• While loading large image files in the Light Table, NeoFinder will already display the thumbnail until loading is completed
• Catalog thumbnails of Olympus “.ORF” files
• Improves behaviour for newer ffmpeg versions cataloging certain .mts video files
• Works around a problem of Apples Photos.app writing non-standard GPS coordinate value formats into sidecar XMP files
• File name sequence detection while cataloging will now discover “.ari” files as well
• Detection of duplicate Keywords when loading the Controlled Vocabulary list works better now
• Improved performance when loading very large keyword lists (> 6,000 items) in the Controlled Vocabulary
• Failure to eject volumes will now display an error dialog
• Improves cataloging TIFF files created by certain scanners
• Capture One “.EIP” files are now recognized as Photos in the Display Filter and Find Editor
• Fixes a problem reading embedded XMP data in certain PDF files
• Improves handling of cataloging XMP color labels from sidecar XMP files of certain RAW file formats
• Fixes a problem in AppleScript when trying to access the “finder path” value
• 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

Language: English, German, Japanese, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch
Compatibility: macOS 10.11 or later
Homepage http://www.cdfinder.de/

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