Just like that, we have released NeoFinder 8.6.1 today, with smaller new features and improvements, and lots of fixes for new Apple bugs added to macOS 14 "Sonoma"
Certified for macOS 14.5 – Auto Updater – AVIF Support – Bug fixes
Of course, we will post all the details about this new version here during the next weeks.
NeoFinder 8.6 had already received the brand new integrated Updater with better security and encryption, and now you can use that to update your NeoFinder to the newest version 8.6.1!
You can read the full release notes for the new version before updating, or just let it quickly run automatically.
The popular QuickEdit tool can quickly copy and paste capture dates, persons, keywords, geotags, or all XMP data, and it is now available in the Gallery View of NeoFinder as well!
Activate this tool in the View Settings for the Gallery View, and then move the mouse to the top left corner of one item to get the QuickEdit button. If you linger on that button, the QuickEdit palette will appear.
The eBook reader in NeoFinder, responsible to grab interesting and important metadata from the electronic books, like the cover, description, author, title and all that, is now able to read the publishing date of ePub files as well.
This gets added to the Text Preview section in the Inspector, but also to the Caption Date, so it can be used to search and sort these books.
The Photo Contact Sheet in #NeoFinder 8.6.1 now displays the sample output in its window based on the selected page setup format, so you can really see how it looks!
In this case, the "Landscape" page format was used, and NeoFinder now shows that properly.
And of course, Neofinder will now remember your selected page setup for the next time you will to use it.
The editor for the photo export Watermark Presets now allows you to duplicate an existing watermark. That makes it a lot easier to create multiple similar watermarks.
Use the context menu in the list of watermarks, and the Duplicate command there.
We have massively improved the scheduling of the Auto Updater, increasing the reliability when running a schedule in situations where a modal dialog is active, and others.
Some features have improvements that you cannot see, but they are still there!
New context menu command "Save video frame" in the built-in player in Gallery View.
It will take the current video frame, and save it as a JPG file to the location you tell it.
We had initially added that to NeoFinder 8.6 already, but Apple has introduced a bug in macOS 14.4 where they were not showing our context menu, but stubbornly used their own, which we explicitly told it not to.
Well, now it works even in macOS "Sonoma".
If you move a Catalog or a Catalog Folder into an Catalog Folder where such an item already exists, NeoFinder now presents a duplicate items warning, and the option to overwrite, keep both, or ignore.
That makes it much easier to manage large numbers of Catalogs!
We have updated the NeoFínder Users Guide with more information: