FoxTrot Professional
Search

FoxTrot Professional Search extends far beyond OS X's buit-in Spotlight, building 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 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).

Note: Version 6 is a paid upgrade from previous versions.
Note: Now requires OS X 10.9 or later.

Increased Performance

• Optimized some operations when the index is stored on a rotational HDD
• Reduce file fragmentation
• Reduced memory usage when displaying some HTML or PDF files
• Now built using Apple’s latest Xcode version 8 compilers

Enhanced

• Added option to only index filenames when indexing contents
• "Copy path" added to the contextual menu (search results, indexed locations, black list)
• Show missing disk space when attempting manual compact and disk is almost full
• File paths are now clickable with a popup menu to reveal in finder any parent folder
• Also display in the status bar the number of items found outside of the target folder, when searching only in a specific folder
• Allow drag-select to toggle multiple checkboxes (manage indices’s file types)

Code Modernization

• Implements modern windows (with no window title)
• Modernized some icons and widgets
• New minimum requirements: OS X 10.9 or later
• Removed dependency to deprecated QuickTime to preview video and audio files

Improved Diagnostics

• Logged file exceptions include filenames
• More detailed logging when in indexing is very slow
• When processing a specific file takes longer than usual, the file name is now displayed in the "manage indices" progress

Synchronization

• Added built-in Google Drive support for maintaining up-to-date index archives from FoxTrot Pro or Server to iOS devices running FoxTrot Attaché Search

Miscellaneous

• Highlighting of [washington -"new york" boston] (no longer highlights occurrences of [new] or [york])
• Highlighting of a quoted string (or "consecutive words") with the same word repeated (e.g., "to be, or not to be") would not work correctly
• Possible crash fixed on startup in certain circumstances
• On OS X 10.11 and later, pinch-zooming would not work as expected
• An "unregistered" dialog could appear when launching FoxTrot, when using regular expressions or exact matches