NeoFinder 7.3 – Catalog your external media and disks.

September 15, 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 7.3:

NeoFinder now has a Display Filter that you can use to filter items based on their kind, name, rating, label, or other attributes! That is highly useful when working with large amounts of data, and works in all five view types!
NeoFinder now has a cool Gallery View! Not just in macOS Mojavo, like Apples Finder, but in all Mac OS X and macOS versions since 10.7!
You can now update one or multiple media files in an existing catalog!
NeoFinder can now catalog the text from email messages! Currently, .emlx (Apple Mail) and .eml (MS Outlook) formats are supported
Many windows have a Help button that will open the suitable page in the NeoFinder Users Guide for you
Find Duplicates can now find Duplicate Folders!
In the Inspector, you can now Find Tags in Instagram by clicking on them
The Find Editor now autocompletes keywords for you, using the keyword list in the Controlled Vocabulary
You can copy and paste entire sets of XMP metadata from one file to another
NeoFinder catalogs Affinity Publisher documents, and of course allows you to edit the whole set of XMP metadata for these, too!
The XMP Editor in the Inspector now has a new Date editor, so you can change the XMP date for one or multiple items at once
The XMP Presets Editor now has a date field as well
NeoFinder can now of course catalog that XMP date field from existing files
A new Filefinder Text Importer allows you to import the text files from that abandoned old disk cataloger
You can now copy and paste GPS coordinates, and the XMP locations fields, separately
You can now sort the catalog LIBRARY by Volume Modification Date as well
The Movie Contact Sheet now has an option to turn off the time display in the thumbnails
Also, the Movie Contact Sheet can now automatically be saved next to the original file, even when multiple video files are selected. That is a great way of creating a lot of these at once
You can now duplicate Albums and Smart Folders, using the context menu
The file information that the Movie Contact Sheet displays is much more detailed and precise now
The Movie Contact Sheet now uses the modern AVFoundation in macOS for better results
The main window has a new button that will open the free NeoFinder Video Tutorials for you
NeoFinder can now catalog Aurora 2018 documents
NeoFinder can now catalog the BWF, or BEXT records from ProTools, with date and unique ID values for audio files
NeoFinder can now catalog thumbnails for Cinema 4D (".c4d") files, if that app is installed
NeoFinder can now catalog ICNS thumbnails
NeoFinder now catalogs thumbnails for stereoscopic MPO files
NeoFinder can now catalog the lens name of the EXIF record, and display it in the Inspector, and search it in the "any text" parameter or QuickFind
NeoFinder now catalogs the fps value of movies as floating point, allowing for values like 29.97
Find Duplicates can now search for duplicate audio files by the BEXT record
A new button can now display and reverse the sort order in the navigation bar of NeoFinder
The Photo Contact sheet can now include a second line with details from each photo
You can now download an entire folder with all files and subfolders from the Backblaze B2 and a Dropbox catalog!
The LIBRARY sidebar now uses a more modern "view based" control from Apple. It will look better, and interactions are better with this
You can now open an Album in a separate window, too
Ejecting volumes now runs in the background, and won't block NeoFinder anymore
You can now double click one or multiple keywords in the Controlled Vocabulary list to add these to the one selected file
You can now remove files and folders from the Found Items list, to generate better reports
The number of items of albums is now displayed in green
Exporting a file using the Item menu will now also copy a possible sidecar XMP file to the target location
The Web Gallery now adds the media info to its Details page
The Web Gallery uses a lot less memory while generating the HTML pages for you
The folder list in the Batch Cataloging window is now always hierarchically sorted by name, even if your NeoFinder database is placed on a APFS volume
Date changes in the Auto Updater will now be used for all selected catalogs, not just one of them
Updated the code to read the Audio CD cover art from Coverartarchive.org
Cataloging certain malformed Sound Designer 2 audio files cannot crash NeoFinder anymore
Fixes a problem of reading CD-TEXT from certain Audio-CDs in macOS Sierra and newer
Fixes a problem cataloging EXIF date values in certain time zones
Fixes a problem with losing folder comments and color labels during updating of a catalog
Fixes a problem when exporting to XML with no thumbnails
Fixes a problem with the precision when cataloging and pasting GPS Geotags
Fixes a problem changing the XMP byline value in certain files
Fixes a problem cataloging certain malformed AIFF audio files
Fixes some problems in macOS Mojojava, but isn't yet completely certified due to the lack of the final macOS 10.14 version from Apple
Improved reading of audio tags in certain Apple AAC files
Improved reading of certain ID3 tags in MP3 and WAV files
Improved code for searching Ratings
Improved code for the internal debug log feature
Works around a weird bug in macOS removing the contextual menus in NeoFinder immediately after opening them (only macOS High Sierra and macOS Mohava)
Many little improvements and fixes