I really wish I could find this more useful. However, I'm a professional photographer and I use a pretty involved backup scheme (a combination of SuperDuper! and CarbonCopyCloner, along with limited Time Machine), and this seems to create issues with file/folder exclusions in Blast.

Specifically, no matter how many times I exclude certain types of files or specific folders, my backups keep producing "new" or "modified" files that keep popping up in Blast, so I spend more time right-clicking to exclude things than getting to the files I want.

Also, there seems to be a bug when right-clicking on items in the list, as after removing a file/folder/file type, the next right-click will still bring up information related to the item I just excluded. For example, if I right-click on folder "Backups" and exclude it, then right click on the item that has moved into "Backups" position in the list, the context menu will offer to exclude "Backups" rather than the current item.

Still, a good idea with potential, and it probably works very well for people with less convoluted disk and backup setups than I have.

Great that you can now get the latest version of the developer tools without being a member of the developer program. Yes, it will cost all of $4.99, but it's still free if you are in the developer program, and releasing the tools for a small price should encourage more people to learn to use them (vs. requiring a $99 membership).

Hmmm, is it just my machine where beta 2 doesn't actually do anything it's supposed to, but instead starts TextEdit whenever it's activated and won't let it close, to the point where the only way to restart the machine is to deactivate MondoMouse so that TextEdit won't stop the machine from restarting? Weird............