NeoFinder
7.5.1
NeoFinder
7.5.1Catalog your external media and disks (was CDFinder).
Overview
NeoFinder (formerly CDFinder) rapidly organizes your data, either on external or internal disks, or any other volumes. It catalogs and manages all your data, so you stay in control of your data archive or disk library. With extensive metadata support, you can find your files quickly.
Features:
- Catalog: any hard disk, SSD, Server Volume, Backblaze B2, Dropbox, data folder, CD-R, DVD-R, Blu-Ray, iPod, Audio-CD, USB-Stick, FTP-Server, and more
- Power: Handle really large amounts of data
- Organize: Add Keywords, Ratings, Descriptions, and more in the XMP editor for photos and videos, even multiple files at once
- Photo Previews: Create beautiful thumbnails for many photo and image formats, such as JPG, TIFF, EPS, RAW, PDF, PSD, Affinity Photo, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher, Adobe Indesign, BMP, GIF, PNG, TGA
- Photo Meta Data: XMP (used by Adobe Bridge), EXIF and IPTC meta data (including GPS geotags), and JPG, TIFF, PICT and BMP photo details
- Audio Previews: Let NeoFinder create short sound snippets of your music in the catalog
- Audio Meta Data: MP3, AAC (iTunes), FLAC (Lossless), ALAC (Apple Lossless), and AIFF meta data: author, album, title, composer, lyrics, cover art, track number, duration, bit rate, genre, year, comment. Even catalogs whole Audio-CDs, and Apple iPhone ringtone files!
- Movie metadata: get thumbnails, the dimension, duration, codec and frame rate out of movie files, supporting AVI, MOV, MP4, FLV, MPG, MKV, M4V, and others
- Geotagging: NeoFinder catalogs and displays GPS EXIF tags of photos, and has direct links to Google Earth, Flickr, Panoramio, Google Maps and MapQuest. NeoFinder can even search for photos that were taken near any location (GeoFinder), and export GPS data to KMZ files
- Networkable: Share your NeoFinder database in your entire workgroup on a server (requires a Business License)
- Cross-platform: With abeMeda (was CDWinder), you can use one database for both worlds!
- Workflow Integration: Automatically catalog all discs burned by Roxio Toast; Drag any image directly from NeoFinder into applications like Adobe InDesign, Quark XPress, Apple Pages, Microsoft Office; integrate NeoFinder into FileMaker Pro databases, and much more
- Find it! Best Find functions, and of course offline browsing of all your volumes - even in multiple windows, if you want to
- Spotlight Integration: Search your local disks with Spotlight and as well as your catalogs from inside NeoFinder
- Import catalogs: These formats are supported: FileFinder, DiskCatalogMaker, Disk Recall, DiskWizard, Iomega FindIt, Portents DiskTracker (both 1.x and 2.x!), Catalogue, CatFinder, "Neometric" Catalog, DiskLibrary, Media Catalog, DiskCatalogMaker (Text export), TOLIS Group BRU, Cache-A XML files, WhereIsIt (Windows), SuperCat for Windows (".idx" database files), Delicious Library XML, Broken Cross Disk Manager (Windows), and Advanced Disk Catalog (ADC for Windows) catalog or export files, and iView MediaPro and Microsoft Expression Media XML files
- Fast and really easy to use, see screenshots
- Export catalog data to text, XML, and web galleries
- Insight: Look inside archive files: ZIP, TAR, .rar, StuffIt (.sit and even .sitx), and others, including Disk Image contents
- International: English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch user interface, all in one application
- Unicode compatible: Use NeoFinder to catalog file names and metadata of any language
- AppleScript: Integrate NeoFinder with FileMaker Pro or any other application, or extend the abilities of NeoFinder
- Extend your NeoFinder catalog database by using five custom fields for any content you need
- FileCheck: Only NeoFinder can generate an industrial strength MD5 checksum for every file being cataloged
- AutoMount: NeoFinder automatically mounts every server volume you have cataloged or updated for you, if needed! And you can of course also ask NeoFinder to mount the volume for you at any time, using the context menu
- QuickLook: Open a QuickLook window for any selected online file(s) right from inside NeoFinder!
- Cross-Grade: you already bought a different disk cataloger or media asset manager application, ask us for a good offer!
- Free email support
- Languages: User Interface in eight languages, all in one application: English, German, Japanese, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch
What's new in NeoFinder
Version 7.5.1:
- The List View has six additional XMP columns, for Headline, Instructions, Byline Writer, Credit, Source, and Date
- Copy and Paste all Annotations from one file to other files, using the Metadata menu
- Catalog iView Event metadata into a new custom "Event" annotation field
- Catalog metadata and audio previews of ".aac" audio files
- Catalog metadata of ".GIF" image files
- The Icon View can show file size, image dimensions, and color profile as custom fields
- "Find in these items" is available as a command in the main menu
- The four "All photos in this item" and similar commands in the View menu now have keyboard shortcuts to quickly use them
- Massively improved speed when cataloging email files (.emlx) in HTML format
- Use the "Play / Pause" menu command to play and pause audio previews in the Inspector
- "Find Faces" is now available as a command in the main menu
- The Display Filter now has the option to show only items with no Rating
- It is now possible to catalog much larger files with metadata from very slow volumes (CrashGuard Timeout can be increased)
- Improves behaviour of getting thumbnails and metadata of .DNG and .RW2 files that don't work with Apples ImageKit
- Improved context menu for the Column View if no item is selected
- Fixes a problem in the People and Keywords editor if the option "Only items from the list" was active
- Fixes a memory problem reading PowerCADD files
- Fixes a problem in the DiskTracker 2 Importer in macOS 10.14 and macOS 10.15
- Fixes a problem importing EXIF Camera and Camera Maker fields from iView XML files
- Get thumbnails of PDF documents that are print protected
- Improves behaviour when receiving MusicBrainz data for Audio-CDs, such as "Best of James Bond"
- Improves behaviour when cataloging iView CatalogSets from TIFF files
- Improves behaviour when updating catalog with PDF files that have text content
- The title region of the main window is now in Dark mode, if that interface style is selected
- Fixes problems with cataloging very old Finder comments on certain server volumes. And yes, there is still no official API from Apple for that
- Fixes a problem in the text export for metadata fields containing CR or LF characters
- Fixes a problem deleting items from Albums if the Display Filter was active
- Fixes a possible problem in the Canto Cumulus CRE importer with very large data
- Fixes a problem with the Filecheck value during catalog updating after NeoFinder has changed XMP data or GPS geotags for a file
- Fixes a problem revealing items in compressed archives. NeoFinder will now reveal the archive file in Apples Finder
- Fixes a possible crash of macOS 10.15 when deleting a lot of items at once
- Fixes a possible crash of macOS 10.15 when selecting certain custom colors for color labels
- Fixes a possible crash of macOS 10.15 when searching for GPS place names in very remote areas
- Many small fixes and improvements
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$39.99
App requirements:
- Intel 64
- OS X 10.8.0 or later
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You are David Groover, is that correct? We have no recent purchase under a name of "LevelBest", but based on what you write, we guess that is you?
You claim we would advertise features that NeoFinder does not have, but actually, everyone can see this is not the case. NeoFinder does keep track of all your documents. All of them.
The NeoFinder users Guide explains in very great detail all the abilities of the product, especially in regards of how it treats text files, and their contents.
If the display of a text thumbnail in the content area of the app was so important for you, how come you didn't simply check out the free demo version to see if it fits your needs?
And last, NeoFinder does not display "fuzzy PDF". It generates a graphical PDF thumbnail based on your cataloging settings, and an additional text preview for the Inspector, as the NeoFinder Users Guide explains, and the free demo version lready shows in the Sample Catalog that comes with it.
So no, we do not think your review here is "fair" in any way, and we think buyers should be aware of that.
No, it's not. The main purpose of this software is to catalog external storage devices. And for doing that, it's terrific.
It does "keep track" of documents in the sense that it catalogs the location of each and every one on volumes that are cataloged (if that is selected in the settings).
What it doesn't do is show full-size previews, as levelbest complained about above. But they are large enough that most users should be able to discern their contents.
Derek, why can I create previews of photos and videos up to 4096 pixels, but am limited to undersized document previews?
Am a heavy user of MediaPro for more than 15 years, and rely on it daily. Very disappointed (and concerned) that Phase One can’t/won’t update that app to 16 bit.
Here’s a brief summary of my workflow. Please reply to me with your thoughts on IF NeoFinder can do approximately the same function(s).
I use Mac’s. My photo jobs are all folder based.
-I import images into a job folder or shoot a tethered job to a folder, folder is named with a job number.
-IN that folder of images (raw and/or processed to jpg, tiff etc.) is an iView catalog. The iView catalog icon (named with the same job number as the parent folder) always stays IN the specific job folder.
-That job folder containing the iView catalog is backed up/archived, to an external hard drive.
-When I’m finished with a project, and it’s billed to the client, the job folder is removed/deleted from my working machine but remains on the external drive.
-IF I need to retrieve images, I reference the job number on my external drive, connect the drive, launch iView from the catalog icon in the job folder and I can view the images via the connected external drive.
I also have a series of “portfolio folders”, each containing an iView catalog. I update these as needed when I add (or remove) portfolio images. I use iView’s slide show function to achieve beautiful dissolves from one image to the next. I manually advance the images in the iView catalog, to allow me to control the flow of the presentation to my client.
It'd be great to hear if I can achieve even some of my preferred workflow prefs. using NeoFinder. My time with iView unfortunately, is running out!
I believe you mean 64-bit. macOS 10.15 is going to require that all processes be 64-bit, knocking out all 32-bit processes from working. And yes, at this late period of time, it is disturbing that ANY developers haven’t bothered to recompile their software as 64-bit. ALL Macs went 64-bit at the end of 2006. That’s eleven (11) years developers have had to transition. Note of course that Apple themselves have dragged their feet going 64-bit. But at this point, all of macOS 10.14 Mojave is 64-bit.
What’s regrettable is that many useful macOS apps are never going to go 64-bit without a miracle. That includes the brilliant Spell Catcher program which still works great on Mojave, but whose developer died years ago. There is no equivalent application, nothing as high quality as Spell Catcher available. It’s going to be a profound loss to the writing community when it no longer runs on macOS. We’re also going to lose quite a few useful Dashboard widgets that will never be updated to 64-bit. I wish the code for all these dead-ended apps could be made public and open source in order that they be updated to 64-bit code. *sigh*
All NeoFinder licenses purchased in 2016 will receive the upgrade to NeoFinder 7.0 for free, please contact us.
BTW i have a paid upgrade but will stay with version 6 as I don't need all new version 7 features.
Not only that there are now normal and pro versions. Argh. Another shareware author has chosen to punish his most loyal users and reward the pirates.
(or whatever your real name may be)
We have no record of any NeoFinder purchase from you.
This is only the second paid upgrade for this product in 21 years of continuous development.
I take it you work for free?
I root for the small developer and spend thousands on software from small developers every year but I don't like being played for a mark.
1. Select the catalogs you wish to search in LIBRARY, and use the "Find in these items" command in the context menu to search only these catalogs
or
2. Open the Find Editor, and chose "selected catalogs" from the second menu, and then select the catalogs you wish to search.
It's nice to be able to see what's on them even when they aren't here. And I don't have to plug in several of the drives I have here to locate a file I'm looking for.
BUT, I've been very dissatisfied with support from Norbert, the developer.
Since upgrading to El Capitan several months ago, I've had a couple of irksome issues that he has failed to diagnose. He obviously isn't interested in actually resolving the issues - he doesn't respond to many of my emails, and has never tried to work through the issues in a methodical manner. He has basically just said that these issues shouldn't be happening. DUH!
Thanks for the revelation, Einstein.
My rating would have at least doubled if the app performed as well now as it did on my Mavericks system.
Our support is very fast, concise, and, if the user works with us, usually is able to solve any NeoFinder issues quickly, as you can see yourself from all the positive feedback here in this page.
In the case of El Capitan, Apple has added a huge number of very serious bugs and problems to that new version, a lot of things that many many developers have to fight with, some of it far outside the reach of developers to fix.
You didn't respond to a long message on 2/20. I've emailed you several times about some problems, and they've never been resolved.
And the file sort bug I told you about on 8/26/15 still hasn't been fixed.
On 1/10/16 you said "the next major release of NeoFinder will allow you to change the sort order for the columns in Column View."
When can we expect the next major release?
I'm not concerned about that bug, but more about the other issues, like the invisible file not being created on ANY of my 50 volumes except ONE.
You will be thrilled to hear that the new NeoFinder 7.0 offers the ability to sort the Column View now. You can chose between all the sorting options that NeoFinder already had for the Icon View, and some more that were added to the new verison.
Of course, NeoFinder 7.0 has a LOT more to offer, as you can see in the release notes...
Yours,
What show stopper bugs? We are not aware of any of those in NeoFinder 6.9.3.
Unfortunately, there are no emails from a "uncoy" in our support database, and as you hide your real name, we will never know.
But I take it you work for free, right?