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NeoFinder (formerly CDFinder) rapidly organizes your data, either on external or internal disks, or any other volumes. It catalogs 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.
Feature Overview:
Feature Overview:
- Catalog: any hard disk, data folder, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, BlueRay, HD-DVD, iPod, Server Volume, Audio-CD, USB-Stick, FTP-Server, and more
- Power: Handle really large amounts of data
- Photo Previews: Create beautiful thumbnails for many photo and image
What's New
Version 6.4:
New Features:
New Features:
- NeoFinder is now a 64bit application. This allows for a lot of more memory to be used to deal with large catalog databases!
- NeoFinder 6.4 has been certified to run in OS X 10.9 Mavericks
- Cataloging now reads the new Finder Tags of OS X 10.9 Mavericks (this even works all the way back to OS X 10.6!)
- NeoFinder can now Find Duplicates in your database!
- The cool new Movie Contact Sheet generates a customisable preview of one or multiple selected movie files as graphic
- The Movie Contact Sheet also works for any arbitrary movie file you have selected in the Finder, using the NeoFinder Services menu!
- NeoFinder now catalogs Adobe XMP metadata, like keywords and descriptions, for movie files!
- The new NeoFinder Global QuickFind gives NeoFinder a place right in your menu bar, near the Spotlight search field!
- NeoFinder can now import Cache-A catalog XML files!
- A much improved memory engine increases overall application speed
- Apples new Map application in Mavericks is connected to the Map in NeoFinder now
- Massively improved MusicBrainz connection for cataloging Audio-CDs with better results for many disks
- That new MusicBrainz code can also read Cover Art of Audio-CDs, if it is available at coverartarchive.org
- NeoFinder can now catalog multiple Audio-CDs parallel, if you have multiple drives connected to your Mac
- ZIP archive files larger than 4 GB can now be cataloged as well
- The Inspector now shows cumulated sizes, and file and folder numbers if multiple catalogs are selected
- The Inspector displays a Lock icon for locked or write protected catalog files in your NeoFinder database
- You can now verify the FileCheck status for multiple selected files and folders at once
- NeoFinder can now also catalog ".mts" movie files, this requires ffmpeg to be installed
- A new FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) file parser that is faster and more stable
- A new deviceID file created during cataloging will make it easier for NeoFinder and abeMeda for Windows to properly detect the correct volumes and devices
- A new optional column displays the FileCheck value in List View
- Improved detection of volume kinds during cataloging
- NeoFinder is properly codesigned with a digital signature for improved security
- The column for the Total Items of catalogs now also displayed the sum of all items of all catalogs inside a catalog folder
- Improved the regex search feature for names (only OS X 10.7 and newer)
- The StuffIt Deluxe archive cataloger is now more stable and works better
- Fixed a problem with the Roxio Toast integration if NeoFinder had to be launched with a large database
- Several catalog related features now handle the "catalog file is locked or write protected" situation better
- Using the latest Adobe XMP toolkit from CS6 for better compatibility with newer Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, and Movie files
- Fixed a problem with catalog folders containing a "/" in their name
- Fixed a problem with type select in List View
- Fixed a problem in the DiskCatalogMaker Importer, if the imported text file had a non utf8 encoding
- Fixed several possible crashes when cataloging FileCheck values on certain damaged disks
- Fixes a bug in Google Earth 7.x, where the AppleScript connection is really broken
Version 6.4:
New Features:
New Features:
- NeoFinder is now a 64bit application. This allows for a lot of more memory to be used to deal with large catalog databases!
- NeoFinder 6.4 has been certified to run in OS X 10.9 Mavericks
- Cataloging now reads the new Finder Tags of OS X 10.9 Mavericks (this even works all the way back to OS X 10.6!)
- NeoFinder can more...
Requirements
- Intel, 64-bit processor
- OS X 10.6 or later
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NeoFinder (formerly CDFinder) rapidly organizes your data, either on external or internal disks, or any other volumes. It catalogs 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.
Feature Overview:
Feature Overview:
- Catalog: any hard disk, data folder, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, BlueRay, HD-DVD, iPod, Server Volume, Audio-CD, USB-Stick, FTP-Server, and more
- Power: Handle really large amounts of data
- Photo Previews: Create beautiful thumbnails for many photo and image formats, such as JPG, TIFF, EPS, RAW, PDF, PSD, BMP, GIF, PNG, TGA, IFF (Maya)
- 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!
- Photo Meta Data: XMP (used by Adobe Bridge), EXIF and IPTC meta data (including GPS geotags), and JPG, TIFF, PICT and BMP photo details
- Movie Meta Data: get the dimension, duration, codec and frame rate out of movie files, supporting AVI, MOV, MP4, FLV, MPG, and M4V
- Geotagging GPS support: CDFinder catalogs and displays GPS EXIF tags of photos, and has direct links to Google Earth, Flickr, Panoramio, Google Maps and MapQuest. CDFinder can even search for photos that were taken near any location (GeoFinder), and export GPS data to KMZ files
- Networkable: Share your CDFinder database in your entire workgroup (requires a Business License)
- Cross-platform: with CDWinder (CDFinder for Windows), you can use one database for both worlds!
- Workflow Integration: Automatically catalog all discs burned by Roxio Toast; Drag any image directly from CDFinder into applications like Adobe InDesign, Quark XPress, Apple Pages, Microsoft Office; integrate CDFinder 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 CDFinder
- Import Catalogs: These twelve formats are supported: Disk Recall, DiskWizard, Iomega FindIt, Portents DiskTracker (both 1.x and 2.x!), Catalogue, CatFinder, "Neometric" Catalog, DiskLibrary, 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 (requires separate CDFinder Transporter (iView))
- Fast and really easy to use, see screenshots
- Export and print catalog data, and print CD or DVD covers. inlay cards, and booklets
- 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 CDFinder to catalog file names of any language
- AppleScript: Integrate CDFinder with FileMaker Pro or any other application, or extend the abilities of CDFinder
- Extend your CDFinder catalog database by using five custom fields for any content you need
- FileCheck: Only CDFinder can generate an industrial strength MD5 checksum for every file being cataloged
- Imation Disk Stakka support: CDFinder shows you where a disk is located in a Disk Stakka, and can even eject it from there
- AutoMount: CDFinder automatically mounts every server volume you have cataloged or updated (with CDFinder 5.1 or newer) for you, if needed! And you can of course also ask CDFinder 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 CDFinder! (Leopard only)
- 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
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I have many server shares/drives setup with the same path names for XBMC.
They are named !Files/TV and !Files/Movies on every drive/share.
Once I loaded all the drives into NeoFinder, I can manually see them all, but Smart Folders fail every time.
I setup a search by Path for the above paths, but for some reason, it will not search past 1 volume, and there are 10.
Smart Search just stops after 1 drive. I cannot get it to keep searching to the other drive no matter how many ways I have tried.
Does Neofinder generate any error messages?
How exactly did you set up the query for the Smart Folder? Please send a screenshot to support@cdfinder.de
Thank you.
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Jimmy Backe reviewed on 24 Jul 2013
Highly recommended!
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will it run on Mountain Lion?
NeoFinder 6.2.1 has been certified to run in Mountain Lion just fine :-) The first tests on a certain not yet released newer version of Mac OS X have shown it will work fine there as well...
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The methodology has changed as how we archive things has changed. As result, the cataloging has sped up significantly from when it was CD Finder.
I agree its a little pricey & hard to justify for backups when there are other toys to buy. At least until you spend a long time trying to find a specific archived file which could be on a CD, DVD, flash media or another disconnected hard drive.
If you’ve accumulated a lot of files that are keepers & offload them to whatever media you choose, this will catalog it & give you thumbnail visuals that make it easier to recognize misplaced archived files. I’ve been in that situation with a pressing need to locate those files.
NeoFinder has a lot of ways to categorize those archives which are not well included in music & photo library apps. Certainly not at the bargain end of the music & photo spectrum. This is a valid professional tool.
If you archive your sketches, drawings, writing & other things not music & photo related, there aren’t vast choices for management. If you are serious about archiving - then you would be parking that drive offline after the update, not running it constantly, or expecting Spotlight to find it.
Caveat: Being disciplined enough to do the backups is important.
The developer has been very responsive over the years.
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Cowicide reviewed on 06 Mar 2013
Today, I backed up everything from CDFInder 5.x and then updated to NeoFinder 6.2 and I'm VERY glad I did. NeoFinder 6.2 starts up faster, searches faster and the interface now looks just like the Mac OS interface and behaves the same as well which is awesome.
There has been some extras added to NeoFinder that I have no use for currently like the map/GeoFinder thing, but I was able to turn that off with one click of a button. I also would prefer that there was an option to turn off the Dock icon animation it does when it runs as well. It doesn't appear to slow anything down, but I find it distracting and want to be able to turn that off. There also doesn't appear to be a way to turn off checking for updates when it starts and that's annoying.
The update from CDFinder 5.x to NeoFinder 6.2 was absolutely seamless. It found the database without any user interaction and was available literally instantly without taking time to "update" the database, etc. Also, it appears that no data was lost and it seem to respect my old settings as well. I'm not sure I've ever had such a seamless experience updating a app like this that relies on a database.
I also really love how I can still double-click on a hard drive catalog and it will open in a new window if I want it to. I was nervous that after updating the developer was going to jump on the one-window-interface-only bandwagon that Apple has errantly done with iTunes 11, etc. -- So that was a relief that the dev smartly allows you to do what YOU want to do instead of forcing you into a "trend" that may or may not hurt your productivity.
The Smart Folders get a little clunky while waiting to populate the list and I at first was worried that the app was stalling, but then the list popped up. Considering the hundreds of thousands (maybe millions?) of files it sorted through to show the results, it was quick to say the least. The only complaint I have is it might be a good idea if the smart folder icon shows a spinning icon or something while it's processing so you know it's working. Or just an option to have that would be nice.
Scrolling around CDFinder was pretty smooth and played nice with the indispensable Smart Scroll prefpane I use. But NeoFinder is even smoother, faster and better at scrolling than before so that's another great bonus of updating.
I also tested updating an external FW800 G-Drive Mini's catalog and found that it respected most of my old settings. It added the option of adding thumbnails to images, but I decided that I did want that and allowed it. It went through about 75,000+ items with a huge percentage of images this way in about 7 minutes (which was fast as heck for how many thumbnails it processed). After it was done, I was really impressed with how fast the larger thumbnails popping up the the Get Info window on the right as I scrolled down the images with the down arrow key. Also after that intial huge scan that created all the image thumbnails, I added a few more items to the external hard drive and a subsquent "update" of the catalog only took about 13 seconds which seems to be on par with how fast the older CDFinder updated the drive but without the added responsibility of checking the thumbnails. So NeoFinder did great there as well.
Although my fans blasted while doing the thumbnail update (as it should when speedily processing so many images), my MBP i7 didn't seem to slow down while this was going on even while running many other apps, etc.. There was a lot of old images that I know were probably corrupt and wondered if NeoFinder would choke and crash on them, but it all went smooth which is definitely a testament to it's stability in that regard.
Unfortuantely, while scanning and going through the tens of thousands of images and adding thumbnails for each, it did eat up a LOT of the RAM (I have 8GB of RAM) on my laptop, but I expected it to that as well to keep the process speedy. The major problem is it didn't release the RAM memory after it was done which was quite a bummer (but hopefully this will be resolved in future updates) or if it did, it released very little of it over time. YMMV with this, I'm using Mac OS 10.6.8, so it might release the RAM better with 10.7.x or 10.8.x. -- But, for me, it ate up RAM and didn't let it go.
All in all, I think this developer did an absolutely fantastic update and I highly recommend this update and NeoFinder in general. I never tested with the previous versions of NeoFinder before 6.2, so it may be that I'm using a version that has many previous bugs fixed.
The only glaring downside is at least with Mac OS 10.6.8 and NeoFinder 6.2 and indexing/cataloging a lot of image thumbnails, it ate up RAM and didn't release it when it was done, nor after I quit NeoFinder. So the dev needs to fix that before I can rate the stability higher. I don't want to have to run "purge" in Terminal or restart the laptop after using NeoFinder to update lots of image thumbnails on catalogs in order to keep my RAM free.
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Also, I ran NeoFinder 6.2 again and no real issues with RAM usage. It jumped up a little bit after using a smart folder and didn't release it upon quitting, but once again, this might just be Mac OS 10.6.8 memory management so it runs faster the second time I launch it.
Overall, it looks like I ended up getting most of my RAM back over time without purging, restarting, etc. so that's great.
Once again, I HIGHLY recommend Neofinder 6.2.
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Ogilvy reviewed on 20 Feb 2013
Maybe it did not come across so well.
So, to clarify my review...
Everything was great, quick response, and very knowledgable support from Norbert.
Whew, I feel better now.
Ogilvy reviewed on 20 Feb 2013
The wait time was (maybe) 2 minutes.
Norbert was excellent! - after a few back-n-forth questions,
he zeroed in on the problem.
He tried to say it was all my fault, I know better.... but seriously...
Many thanks for helping me.
A great, time saving product
Thanks again Norbert.
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After searching existing catalogs, the "Found Items" window appears, but there are blank areas in the space above the search results, with just a few vertical and horizontal dividers and a right-facing arrow.
If I click on an item in the Found list, then a couple of the blank spaces are populated with the Disk and Folder name, but the rest stay blank.
I've no idea what these areas are for! It looks unfinished.
In fact, the whole user interface layout, even after its overhaul looks quite un-Mac like and inconsistent with the OS and other apps.
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Well, as you already use CDFinder, you already know that CDFinder uses the header section of the Found Items window to display information about the volume that the selected item belongs to. That hasn't change since CDFinder 4.7.
But of course, what does a savvy Mac user do if there are areas of unknown content? Yes, hover with the mouse over it. And after a short while, you get a nice yellow text explaining what would be seen there. Or, you could have a look at the comprehensive CDFinder Users Guide, as this also explains this quite well...
But I still don't see how that would be un-Mac like?
But you are right, CDFinder should select the first Found Item after finishing a Find operation, causing the scary blank areas to be filled with important information...
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