BETATESTER  I always liked File Buddy in the past, but now I have to say it seems like a dead program…

There are a lot of things, that don't work on Leopard anymore (set rights, owner, permission, move files,…) and this is known to the developer since a long time.

He even told me (when I bought the app nearly 1 year ago) that the next version will come soon and will solve all problems and of course, you can buy it now and will keep the SN for the next version…

Don't fall for it, like I did.  
(Version 9.0.1)

JOCATRA  FINALLY! It is a welcome update. Thank you very much. :-)  
(Version 9.0.2)

JOCATRA  This program was a good tool under Tiger, but with Leopard it is a pain and, worst, claim with the developer don't solve the problems... They never answer.

I trash my registered File Buddy. :(  
(Version 9.0.1)

SAMPLER  With Leopard 10.5.8 on a Powerbook G4, FileBuddy is working fine so far: moving files, dragging folders into the find "other" window; resetting permissions in its Info window, and finding duplicates, and keep just one of each. The ability to use regular expressions has been a real time-saver for changing file names.

One small bug I noticed back in 10.4: in typing a date, it's necessary to add a space first.

I'll keep using FB until it fails. I don't think it will ever be equaled as a Mac file utility.  
(Version 9.0.1)

CORPSECORPS  Version 9 was in beta about the time i was set to became a serious user. When 9 was supposedly finalized, i was disappointed the UI hadn't been simplified or better organized. It had also developed some peculiar bugs and behaviors which multiplied when Leopard showed up.

Questions and comments to the developer were met with what seemed to be irritation that Leopard had even come along, and very little help or answers as to whether the software would be fixed.

It hasn't. It was overpriced and is much more so now that it has several significant problems just with the functions i'm interested in.

No idea why people would suggest "Tidy Up" as an alternative when it does such a minuscule subset of what this does. Somewhat nearer would be Path Finder.  
(Version 9.0.1)

AJOYCE  I used to use FileBuddy a lot in the early days. But then I quit because of problems encountered. I finally decided to take the plunge again and purchased version 9.0.2. While there have been some problems the most annoying is that every once in a while it tells me that it's in demo mode and I have to go through the whole licensing process again. But the thing that really gets to me is the unresponsiveness of the support team. I have written to them at least half a dozen times and never have heard one word from them. There's no phone number I can find to call them, so I'm forced to use email. My last email said that if I didn't hear from them I was going to remove the program from my system. That didn't work either. It has been so frustrating dealing with a company who is quick to take your money for the program and literally deaf to problems that arise when you ask for help.

If you're considering buying this program... either save your money or be prepared to get absolutely no help when you have a problem.   
(Version 9.0.2)

FABRO  This app used to be very useful, a rela timesaver up to Mac OS X 10.4 but with Leopard the first problems appeared and with Snow Leopard I find it almost unusable for what I do (dragging files/folders from the Finder to the File Buddy icon).

I'm posting my problems here because I wrote to the develeopers two weeks ago but I got no answer:

I have to report several issues I am experiencing with File Buddy, most of them regarding Snow Leopard (I actually have Mac OS X 10.6.1) and some even Leopard. I have a MacBook Pro 2.5 GHz with 4 Gb RAM.

- Under Snow Leopard, dragging one or more file/folder to the File Buddy icon has no effect. My default option is to open the dropped items in a new list window, and I also have the drop keys set so that Cmd-dragging a file/folder I should get the File Buddy Info window. Nothing happens either when I drop or Cmd-drop a Finder item in File Buddy icon, I have to manually open a new List window in File Buddy and drop the files/folders there.

- Droplets no longer work, this happened with Leopard and of course they neither work with Snow Leopard.

- File Buddy preferences are no longer saved: for example, if i change the default drop action from "View in list" to "Get Info" when I launch again FileBuddy I still have the old option set.

- The File Buddy contextual menu is gone under Snow Leopard. Under Leopard I still had it in a "Other" submenu of the Finder contextual menu.

Moreover, I have a very annoying problem with my serial number: one year ago I changed my PowerBook G4 for a MacBook Pro, and now every 1-2 weeks File buddy complains that it is in demo mode and I have to enter my serial number again. The first time I also had to put the date of my MacBook Pro back to a few days after the purchase of my license and reboot to enter my legally owned serial because File Buddy told me it had expired ... yet more annoying!  
(Version 9.0.2)

EAN  An update?! Whoa.

Registration issues appear to be fixed.

Had to trash my old preferences to get everything working.

Super.  
(Version 9.0.2)

ZO219  I've been using File Buddy for years to find duplicates ... and it's just now starting to fail. Pity.  
(Version 9.0.1)

GLOBETROTTERDK  What is the incompatibility with Default Folder? I e-mailed the File Buddy developer and his response wasn't very enlightening:

"I have no idea why it isn't compatible, so that's not likely to change."

I also contacted the people at St. Clair Software and got this answer:

"The only compatibility issue I'm aware of is that if you're running File Buddy in administrator mode, Default Folder X won't work in it. (What I mean by that is that you've given it your admin password after turning on the 'administrator mode' option in FB's general preferences). Default Folder X cannot enhance programs that are running with administrator privileges - Mac OS X won't allow it. The alternative is to run File Buddy without giving it admin privileges."

Is this what you are referring to? I am interested in purchasing File Buddy, so it would be interesting if you could specify more concretely what you mean the incompatibility with Default Folder is.  
(Version 9.0.1)