NeoFinder for Mac
Catalog your external media and disks (was CDFinder).
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NeoFinder 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 version 8.7
New and updated features
- "Very Dark" NeoFinder fully supports macOS Dark Mode in all windows and everywhere
- NeoFinder Preferences have a "Use System Appearance" option that will automatically switch between White and Dark if the macOS Appearance changes
- Integrated Audio Converter to quickly convert song files into other formats
- Full Support for mp3 and WAV audio files from the BBC Sound Effects Archive, which adds interesting metadata and descriptions to these audio files. This includes the ID3 "TXXX" tags and an extended "bext" WAVE record
- Full Support for the "Mountain Duck" software, allowing NeoFinder to catalog data on Amazon S3, Box, pCloud, NextCloud, Azure, and countless other cloud based servers
- Find Editor can find dates relative to today (like: "in the last 14 days") for the EXIF Capture Date, file creation date, and file modification date.
- Two default Smart Folders added: "Files created in the last two weeks" and "Photos created in the last month"
- Details View Settings can select what field values the seven data fields in the second row should display
- Details View has a full Ratings control to directly modify the rating of an item
- Details View has QuickEdit, can show the green "is online" marker, and the GeoTag symbol
- Catalog metadata from Hasselblad "Phocus" sidecar files with the ".phos" suffix
- Write XMP metadata to existing ".phos" sidecar files created by the Hasselblad Phocus software
- Write XMP Metadata directly into NEF, CR2, FFF, and 3RF RAW photo files, and read that metadata when Cataloging
- Catalog thumbnails and metadata from EPS (encapsulated Postscript) files in macOS 14 "Sonoma" and macOS 15 "Sequoia", using the free Ghostscript software
- Catalog thumbnails and metadata for Nikon .NEV video files in their new RAW format
- Catalog very large PhaseOne EIP files much faster, especially when Updating an existing Catalog; shows the file name and resulting thumbnail in the progress window
- Import and Export Auto-Updater schedules for better backup of these values, and easier deployment on multiple machines
- Select an existing Auto-Updater schedule and its settings as a default value for new schedules to be added
- "Rename Person" command with the ability to change the old value in all media files, too
- Catalog video chapter names and time marks, display them and search them
- Photo Converter can convert the Color Profile of the exported file
- Icon View and the Photo Contact Sheet have "EXIF Date (no time)", "Kind" and "GPS GeoTag" as possible fields to be displayed
- AppleScript can modify the names of files and folders in Catalogs, and the name of Catalogs and Albums
- Multiple highly useful sample AppleScripts are installed to the Scripts folder of NeoFinder
- AppleScript has read access to the md5 FileCheck value of files in Catalogs
- Contextual menu for a file with a GPS GeoTag has the option to display the Wikipedia Inspector for interesting places near the GPS location
- Contextual menu command to search for the EXIF Capture Date of a photo or video, including the time (hour and minute)
- View menu has a command to show all items with a thumbnail in the selected folder, Catalog, or even Catalog Folder
- "View all ... items" context menu commands are located in a "View" submenu, and work for multiple Catalog and even entire Catalog Folders as well
- "Clear Display Filter" command in the View menu resets all values in the Display Filter and shows all items
- Contextual Menu for an Album Group has commands to create a new Album, or a new Album Group
- Improved cataloging ID3 tags that don't adhere to the standard
- Updated to use the latest Adobe XMP Toolkit software to read and write XMP metadata
Fixes
- Fixes a problem where a new color label or comment of a Catalog Folders wasn't immediately synced to the database folder and to other Macs
- Updated multiple code sections to remove deprecated macOS APIs and use newer system calls
- Fixes a problem where the contextual menu for audio files didn't always show the "Update Metadata" command
- Fixes a problem where a Collection of all items in a folder didn't always work for folders in the Found Items
- Improves the visual design of the Columns View
- Improves reliability when reading Finder Comments from certain older volumes
- Fixes a problem in AppleScript where changes to the color label index would't always be immediately displayed in the NeoFinder windows
- Shows the pixel size and number of pages for CBR and CBZ comic book files cataloged on Windows with abeMeda
- Improved behaviour when trying to identify renamed volumes
- Fixes many minor issues
- NeoFinder 8.7 requires Mac OS X 10.14 "Mojave" or newer, including macOS 14 "Sonoma", Intel or Apple ARM M1, M2, or M3
NeoFinder for Mac
$39.99
In English
Version 8.7
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Aug 2 2022
Version: 8.1.2
It's a good app, but it needs some tweaking. As far as the interface is concerned, it's fine.
Mar 30 2022
Version: 8.1
A fantastic program which I've used and loved it since 2006. NeoFinder catalogs your drives, media, and the contents of disk images, ZIP files, etc. Now you can search the catalog to find what you want, discover where it is, and get information about disks, files, folders, and media files -- without needing to mount or open the item you're searching. Search is fast and powerful.
NeoFinder is super useful if you've got
+ lots of files
+ lots of disks
+ removable media
+ unmounted virtual disks
+ disk images
+ archives (ZIP, Stuffit, etc.)
+ disconnected backup drives
+ remote backups
Every night, my backup system Carbon Copy Clones my boot drive to a second hard drive. Every week, that hard drive gets swapped for another. Right before the swap, I use NeoFinder to catalog my backup disk, so I know exactly which files, folders, versions are on which backup disk without needing to mount the drives (or bring them back onsite). It's magic!
NeoFinder is powerful, easy to use, and rock solid reliable. I've used it on a job that involved cataloging 16 million files on an 8TB HD, then repeatedly updated the catalog. It took a little while, but NeoFinder did the catalogs and updates without a hiccup. Superb programming, excellent user interface, rock-solid reliability, and first-rate documentation and support make this program a real winner.
Mar 11 2022
Version: 8.1
I use CloudMounter so I can use Dropbox as an external drive and store all my photographs on it. Accessing the photographs is occasionally a problem when my Internet connection is slow. I use NewFinder to store the catalog locally so I will have instant access to my entire album. It works very well.
Dec 16 2021
Version: 7.8.1
Version 8.0 has been released. The upgrade cost is $25.99 for the single user license. Details can be found here: https://www.cdfinder.de/en/news.html
Sep 28 2020
Version: 7.6
I have to say that I really like Neofinder. It's not perfect but I've found the developer extremely responsive to queries and have received updates specifically for the issues I've raised. I've run out of patience with Apple with iPhoto and Aperture disappearing and have looked for a simple DAM program and for me Neofinder is it! I'm an Evernote user for documents, web clippings etc and have never considered Neofinder for this but for image and media cataloguing and searching it's brilliant. I have numerous smart folders for photos by year, image title etc and my ripped DVDs and downloaded films etc have metadata shown. Neofinder also shows geolocation data, EXIF data etc etc.
The app has been around in one guise or another for many years and the developer seems to be in it for the long term. If cataloguing images and media files is what you need then, as I say, I think it's great.
