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Networkable search for legal, media, mobile professionals. Demo ($129)
FoxTrot Professional Search... Extending far beyond Mac OS X's buit-in Spotlight, CTM FoxTrot Professional Search builds on years of experience in search functionality refined within CTM's PowerMail and FoxTrot Personal Search products; it includes:
- Multiple categorizations of search results, relevance-ranked
- Document preview and full view, with secondary document-level search
- Multiple indexed collections and timed updates without the application launched
- Client-server access to peer-to-peer and dedicated CTM FoxTrot Search
What's New
Version 4.0:
Modernized result list
- The result list has been modernized; it is more configurable, and can be less wide, so more space can be used to preview found documents.
- 100 % scale now takes into account the screen resolution.
- The "Zoom to Fit" toolbar button has been replaced by "Automatically Resize", so the PDF document will be resized when resizing the window.
- Supports Mac OS X 10.7's full screen mode.
- The Dock icon now displays a progress bar when the index is being built or updated.
- All applications and processes are now 64-bit.
- Added predefined indexable locations for Outlook 2011 and Evernote 3.
- Most document types can now be zoomed using the pinch gesture.
- The categorization list would sometimes show only the six most common file types (PDF, Word Processing, HTML and so on), omitting the "More..." option for displaying additional file types.
- fixed continuous disk access when an index file can't be found, in certain circumstances.
- fixed a crash in certain circumstances, when optimizing the index.
- fixed a crash when the index size is larger than 4 GB.
- fixed a performance issue in certain circumstances.
- Fixed a rare file permission problem which prevented FoxTrot to launch its indexer.
- Some temporary files could be left in the folder /Library/Caches/TemporaryPublicItems.
- It was sometimes impossible to select and copy text from found mail messages.
- A rare hang or crash on startup has been fixed.
- Installing a new version of FoxTrot from the Software Update module could fail, if the application name has been changed in the Finder.
- A rare crash has been fixed when closing a search window.
- The "spotlight" preference pane could display some hidden volumes.
Version 4.0:
Modernized result list
- The result list has been modernized; it is more configurable, and can be less wide, so more space can be used to preview found documents.
- 100 % scale now takes into account the screen resolution.
- The "Zoom to Fit" toolbar button has been replaced by "Automatically Resize", so the more...
Requirements
Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
Intel, Mac OS X 10.4 or later
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FoxTrot Professional Search... Extending far beyond Mac OS X's buit-in Spotlight, CTM FoxTrot Professional Search builds on years of experience in search functionality refined within CTM's PowerMail and FoxTrot Personal Search products; it includes:
FoxTrot Professional is relevant to anyone with documents saved for future reference; in field testing, the product has been especially well received in legal (law firm and courts), media (newsrooms researchers, ad agencies and editors) and mobile contexts (MacBook users with document collections).
- Multiple categorizations of search results, relevance-ranked
- Document preview and full view, with secondary document-level search
- Multiple indexed collections and timed updates without the application launched
- Client-server access to peer-to-peer and dedicated CTM FoxTrot Search servers
FoxTrot Professional is relevant to anyone with documents saved for future reference; in field testing, the product has been especially well received in legal (law firm and courts), media (newsrooms researchers, ad agencies and editors) and mobile contexts (MacBook users with document collections).
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Francisco Medina Espinosa reviewed on 29 Feb 2012
At work, it has signified for me much less stress to find that letter, that PDF, that report, that email where the information I urgently needed was —having very often someone at the other side of the phone waiting for it. I also use it at home to find that citation I needed among my research papers or OCR scanned documents.
I used to have other database applications, more tag orientend, but having to deal with Gigabites of texts, it simply was not the best approach. Now, although I still classify my info in mayor cathegories, I don't spend more time in tagging files, trying to guess when will I need to find them in order to arrange them accordingly. With FoxTrot I can find the context in the document I'm looking for, and not just the file to search in it. And the time scroll also lets me narrow the results, in real time.
I also use Yojimbo very much, and it was a so nice surprise to find out that FoxTrot even searches the Yojimbo database without necessarily having it running.
A computer is as powerful as the programms you run in it, and FoxTrot has really empowered me to instantly find the right information. It's excellent!
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Offline reviewed on 04 Oct 2011
This is the equivalent product to DTSearch on Windows and performs just as well.
It indexes files and content (including system files in both Libraries) so you can look for any word or phrase and expect a return set of what it found and where.
It's so fast and the results so complete (on my early 2008 MacBook Pro) that no other desktop search product is worth paying for.
My sole regret is the lack of responsiveness of the developers.
But it's a hell of a product!
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Of course, having an upgrade price at their store would be a better option.
Have you tried this?
http://www.mail-archive.com/foxtrot-discuss@ctmdev.com/
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Aydin Yulug
Ankara, Turkey
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Ronkoller reviewed on 10 Sep 2010
Once I moved to Mac, the search function was just not enough. I bought an earlier version of FoxTrot and it was ready to go in almost no time at all. I was surprised at how fast it indexed all of my files. I have several old external drives hooked up and have more than a terabyte of old data.
With FoxTrot, I was finding files that I didn't remember having. It was waaaaaay better than Google Desktop search. I now save countless hours of searching and have the confidence to know that if FoxTrot doesn't turn it up, I don't have the file.
I sleep much better since I don't feel quite as disorganized.
The newest version of FoxTrot put everything together in a seamless window rather than have optional windows to the side of the main search window. It is pretty darn simple. You search, you find, you get closure fast.
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Rlevent reviewed on 01 Apr 2010
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Zeb B reviewed on 24 Sep 2009
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I suspect that writing to the little-used forum would also get you some response from a user. Since this is the app I use most, I'm reluctant to switch to Snow Leopard until I hear some reports that it works there.
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sampler reviewed on 03 Jan 2009
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I'm really curious, considering that they never replied to my questions from over two months ago. This has been a typical behavior from them.
As soon as Devonthink Pro Office goes out of beta I'm making my purchase. So far it seems to be superior to FoxTrot both in terms of functionality and support.
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FT Professional is theapp that comes closest to the all time champion, the classic App Ultrafind (now free). But it's much faster. The Preview and View options quickly show words in context much more usefully than SpotInside does. One can choose the file types to view (mail, pdf's...) from a side bar, a great time saver.
Documentation is sparse. FT builds its own index and does not use Spotlight's index. That's an advantage, but it does not index some document types that Spotlight can. For these, SpotInside is a good backup. The support, as the last poster says, is spotty. The Support staff has not responded (in public at least) to some recent serious issues. Seee the mailing list at http://www.mail-archive.com/foxtrot-discuss@ctmdev.com/ .
I bought the professional version and don't regret it. I need the extra options, and the program has already paid for itself in time saved. However for most, the Personal version is the true bargain.
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Badgerone rated on 20 Feb 2012
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Badgerone rated on 08 Sep 2011