NeoFinder 8.1.2

August 1, 2022

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

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 thumbnails, the dimension, duration, codec and frame rate out of movie files, supporting AVI, MOV, MP4, FLV, MPG, MKV, M4V, and others
Geotagging GPS support: 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 (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 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
Fast and really easy to use, see screenshots
Export and print catalog data
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 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

Version 8.1.2:

Catalog "AVM" metadata in XMP records, used by Astronomers
Catalog and write internal XMP data of HEIC photo files. No more sidecar XMP files needed for HEIC
Catalog "Google Drive" volumes in macOS 12
Icon View can display Finder Tags, and the Creation and Modification Date of items
Auto Updater can run schedules serialized, to prevent network saturation for file servers
Renaming a Keyword in the Controlled Vocabulary will create a new hierarchy, if the new keyword name contains the "|" divider character
All EXIF date search parameters in the Find Editor and Smart Folders can use date ranges before 1980
Improved the TOLIS BRU Importer to handle the newer and different files created by the "ArGest Backup" LTO software
Catalog the color model for JPG files and display CMYK format in the Inspector
Massively improved performance when changing the NeoFinder label for multiple selected items if the Display Filter was active for labels
Double clicking a catalog file in the Finder will show its contents if said catalog file is located inside the NeoFinder database folder
Export to XML and text-with-tab contains the video bitrate and audio bitrate
Updated the XMP toolkit to use the latest version provided by Adobe
Updated the Dropbox.framework to the latest version provided by Dropbox
Using the scroll wheel or trackpad in the Light Table will scroll the image in the right direction
Improves behaviour for renaming Found Items and the new name is already in use. Now a proper error message is displayed
Improves behaviour for text-with-tab Export of Catalogs with metadata fields that may contain multi-line data, such as EXIF comments and more
Fixes a bug where Updating a Catalog could remove a custom icon applied to the Catalog by the user. NeoFinder will always keep a custom Catalog icon
Fixes a bug where the completions menu for Places in the Inspector could contain empty entries
Fixes a bug where renaming keywords in the Controlled Vocabulary wouldn't immediately update the Inspector of the currently shown items
Fixes a bug where the regex code for folder names could cause problem for catalogs with damaged archive files
Fixes a bug where reading video metadata with ffmpeg could fail for certain MXF files
Fixes a bug where renaming an item in Icon View in Dark Mode of macOS 11 and macOS 12 would create visual artefacts
Fixes many minor issues
NeoFinder requires Mac OS X 10.11 or newer, Intel or ARM. Older versions of NeoFinder for previous system versions are still available on our web site