I tried to make navigating through very large Catalogs in my #NeoFinder for #macOS software as easy as possible.
Use the LIBRARY to open the Catalogs, and the folder structure, and click on a folder to see its contents.
You can also use the View context menu to get all items of a kind in multiple selected folders at once.
Exporting a very large Catalog into the text format now uses a LOT less memory with my #NeoFinder 8.8 for #macOS.
After receiving some reports from users telling us that NeoFinder Catalogs with more than 15 million files and folders would need a lot of memory during the export into the text format, we have inspected the code and massively reduced that amount for NeoFinder 8.8.
Now the memory usage curve is nice and flat, as it shall be!
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=606#p606
Exporting a very large Catalog into the text format now uses a LOT less memory with #NeoFinder 8.8.
We have inspected the code and massively reduced that amount for NeoFinder 8.8.
Now the memory usage curve is nice and flat, as it shall be.
Enjoy!
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=606#p606
Among a lot of other useful attributes, #NeoFinder now offers #AppleScript read access to the md5 FileCheck value of files in Catalogs!
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=605#p605
The Help menu in my #NeoFinder 8.8 for #macOS now has the option to search for menu commands!
That is pretty useful if you can't find a specific command in the many menus of NeoFinder. 
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=603#p603
The Help menu in #NeoFinder 8.8 now has the option to search for menu commands!
That is pretty useful if you can't find a specific command in the many menus of NeoFinder.
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=603#p603
Q: How can I check if I have full write access to my #NeoFinder for #macOS database folder?
A: The NeoFinder Users Guide shows you how this can be done:
Q: How can I check if I have full write access to my #NeoFinder database folder?
A: The NeoFinder Users Guide shows you how this can be done:
More cool little things new in #NeoFinder 8.8 for #macOS:
When you select more than 9 files to be opened by any external application, NeoFinder will ask you for a confirmation.
Pretty helpful when, in the heat of the moment, you have selected 2K of photos and double clicked…
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=599#p599
This one had me puzzled for quite a while, but finally I figured it out.
Who owns the XMP sidecar?
The infamous XMP "sidecar" files contain structured metadata, such as your ratings, keywords, captions, and a lot more. NeoFinder and other applications create them if the media file itself cannot hold that metadata, such as for some RAW formats, or some video formats.
The problem here is that the ".xmp" suffix is usually used by replacing the actual media file suffix. So for a file named "NMD_2201.NEF" the XMP file name will be "NMD_2201.xmp". Which is OK, until you ALSO have a file named "NMD_2201.JPG" in the same folder. Because then the question is: Which media file does that XMP data belong to?
#NeoFinder 8.8 for #macOS answers that question!
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=595#p595
#NeoFinder 8.8 has been enhanced to catalog additional metadata out of PDF files.
These are the special PDF keywords (in additional to possibly also existing XMP keywords), the document title, and the author information.
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=586#p586
I have expanded my #NeoFinder 8.8 for #macOS software to catalog additional metadata out of PDF files.
These are the special PDF keywords (in additional to possibly also existing XMP keywords), the document title, and the author information.
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=586#p586
The Icon View in #NeoFinder 8.8 now retains previous selections and offers an "Undo" functionality for these most recent selections.
Utilize this feature to prevent accidental clicks that may result in the loss of the entire selection. By simply executing the "Undo" command, you can restore the previous selection.
The new ability to change the names of items in #NeoFinder catalogs using #AppleScript allows for some very exciting things.
Like a script to replace parts of file names with a different part.
In case your rock band has a lot of live videos, but the file names show the wrong city name!
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=578#p578
That is a very nice Christmas surprise for us!
#NeoFinder is now being used not only on the beautiful island of La Réunion, but also in the Vatican!
Which makes it a total of 110 countries now. Amazing.
Thank you so much for supporting us, and keep going! ;-)
This is also one of the things that a lot of my users had asked for, and after using it myself, I find it incredibly powerful!
#NeoFinder 8.8 for #macOS can copy selected metadata fields, and that includes things like the GPS GeoTag, EXIF Capture Date, Finder tags, Finder comment, color label, and more:
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=566#p566
One major new feature in #NeoFinder 8.8 for #macOS allows you to specify exactly which metadata fields you wish to copy, so you can later paste these annotations and more to other files:
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=566#p566
We have a RELEASE!
#NeoFinder 8.8, your Digital Asset Management software for #macOS is out NOW!
https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=565
Lots of new features and improvements, download it now and have a look!
#NeoFinder 8.8 has reached BETA, and we hope to release it next Monday! Stay tuned!
During our intense testing plan for NeoFinder, we did already find two new bugs of #macOS 15.2, and for one of these, we have found a work-around. Let's hope that new #Apple version is more stable than the previous ones...
Q: Make it easier to grab the vertical divider between the left pane and the right pane. Currently it’s very difficult to properly aim the cursor to grab the divider.
A: Yes, which is why there are large grabbing areas for both dividers at the bottom of them:
