FileFinder1.7.1

Does not load under ML OS X 10.8.1 Ratings below are notional, you cannot submit without rating sorry. but 1 1/2 is all i am willing to give when it does not launch

still no contextual menu for quick add. that would be nice.

My HD made a big, scary noise when FileFinder scanned it. I hope nothing has been damaged but I can't trust FF after this. Down to the trash

A good start for an application but this app has some pros & cons worth writing about. - Application icon is done in very bad form. A developer should NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER base an application icon off of a disk image icon. Icons look a certain way for a reason. You build up memory & train yourself to recognize certain images as certain things. This developers icon goes 100% against what we've all been training ourselves to recognize and I think thats a much bigger problem than many developers might want to believe it is. I have a huge problem with this one. - The trial crashed when trying a quick add but worked fine when dragging new volumes. - The app supports different search ranges like "selected catalog" or "all catalogs". Thats nice, but after every search it reverts to "selected catalog". Since I would be using this to catalog a bunch of offline bacckup disks, it would be far more useful for me if the app remembered the last chosen search range & kept it until it was manually cahnged by the user. Reverting to "selected catalog" is pretty inconveniant. - The app has list view & column view. Both good options however in column view theres no easy way to see what catalog a found item is located in without using the info drawer. (I'm not a huge fan of drawers) - This is a BIG pet peeve of mine. This app places a database file in my ~/Documents/ folder. ATTENTION APPLICATION DEVELOPERS (Yes, I'm yelling) DO NOT EVER, FOR ANY REASON, PUT ANY FILE OR FOLDER INTO MY HOME FOLDER, OR DOCUMENTS FOLDER WITHOUT GIVING ME A PREFERENCE TO RELOCATE IT. File finder does not support multiple database files (at least not via the GUI). Therefore this is not a user document anyway. This is a database that supports the application. The correct location for this file should be: ~/Library/Application Support/FileFinder/FileFinder.ffdb The app has a lot of promise but the issues above still make it seem like an amateur piece of software. The thing about placing the file in my documents folder is enough to make me not want to use this app. Now I do think the app has some pros: - A nice clean user interface (evven if its a little 10.2 ish with the drawer). - It is easy to learn & intuitive. - Advanced search is nice. Hopefully the developer will address some of the above issues in the next update. One more for the road: Saved searches in the form of "Smart Catalogs" would be a GREAT plus for this app & bring it up to speed with Tiger.