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).

Performance improvement

• Accelerated index updates and rebuilds when, under Manage Indices, certain pre-defined locations were checked using non-default file types.

Compatibility enhancements with recent macOS updates

• Launching FoxTrot or starting an index could be abnormally slow.
• The log file could report worrisome file exceptions when encountering a folder protected by SIP.
• Webarchive files created by Safari could fail to display correctly.

Miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements

• Some Korean filenames were incorrectly indexed.
• Under certain circumstances, especially when enabling the "Main volume (filenames only)" predefined location, some files could be indexed by filename only instead of by content upon updating the index.
• The indexer log file could report removing from the index a negative number of no longer existent documents.
• In some rare conditions, a few files could be indexed (and thus, could be found) twice.
• The "FoxTrot Pro Starter" background agent could use much more RAM than it should.