NeoFinder 7.2.1 – Catalog your external media and disks (was CDFinder).

February 24, 2018

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 7.2.1:

New features and enhancements:

NeoFinder can now generate thumbnails and metadata from Luminar 2018 files (".lmnr" file suffix)
Massively improved speed during updating a large catalog
Deleting folders or multiple files form a catalog now shows a progress that also can be stopped
The names of files in a catalog can no longer disappear during the update of that catalog
The Spotlight search for fonts, RAW files, media files, and songs works better now
Improved handling of Spotlight Found Items
"Open with..." now also works for Spotlight results
If a Dropbox server returns errors during cataloging, NeoFinder can now keep a partial catalog of your Dropbox
Prevented problems cataloging RAR archive files that contain file names in strange character encodings
Improved handling of possibly corrupted QuickLaunch Cache files
Improved Find for "no keyword is", if a file has both Finder Tags and XMP Keywords
Fixes a problem cataloging certain malformed GPS values in Adobe XMP files written by Adobe Lightroom
Many places where code was modernized to use newer APIs
EXIFTool updated to the most recent version
Fixes a possible problem reading movie metadata
Many little improvements and fixes