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We have a RELEASE!

NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS is now available, full of new features and improvements!

We will post all that is new here and on all social media channels in the next weeks.

Please note that in macOS 15 and macOS 26, the integrated updater may not work.
In that case, please download the new version from here, and replace the older NeoFinder.app with that new version.
From NeoFinder 9.2 onwards, the integrated updater will work properly again!

Download NeoFinder 9.2 from the NeoFinder website: https://www.cdfinder.de/download.html

NeoFinder is proudly engineered by actual human beings, no AI was involved in the creation of this software.

Number 25!

WinCatalog is the twenty-fifth format that NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS is now able to Import and convert to valuable NeoFinder catalogs directly!

WinCatalog is being used a lot on Windows, and now its users can convert their native ".w3cat" database files into NeoFinder catalogs with the NeoFinder Importer.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/3/3.6/import.html

NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS now allows you to change the icon that is being used for a Catalog Folder in your NeoFinder LIBRARY.

It works similar to changing the icons of a Catalog, and we have updated the NeoFinder Users Guide to show you how that works.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/4/4.1/folders.html

NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS is able to import metadata presets from Adobe products directly into the NeoFinder Metadata Presets.

We have updated the NeoFinder Users Guide with the new information:

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.3/m ... esets.html

The Display Filter in NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS now allows you to choose which field is being used for the filter: name, comment, persons, keywords, caption, or XMP location.

So now you can filter out certain keywords, or people, or what you need. That is a massive improvement for flexibility!

We have updated the NeoFinder Users Guide with a screenshot and additional information about that.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/4/4.13/di ... ilter.html

Welcome, SSD!

NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS now finally has a Volume Media type "SSD." You can select it in the Inspector from the menu for any catalog.

NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS can now edit the text content excerpt for a file in a catalog, using the Inspector.

This is particularly helpful when these were created by the Image Analysis process that uses OCR to grab text from thumbnails.
There are sometimes incorrect or unwanted text sections in there.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/30/30.5/i ... lysis.html

Use the Tools menu to edit the content.

We have updated the NeoFinder Users Guide to show you how:
https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/21/neofin ... _text.html

NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS has a new "Invert Selection" menu command for all content view styles!

That makes it again easier to quickly work with large amounts of data.


And that is how it will look afterwards:

NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS has more and better path related parameters in the Find Editor to search for exact folder names, "folder name begins with" and "folder name ends with" options.

We have updated the NeoFinder Users Guide with more information:
https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/5/5.2/fin ... .html#Path

We really think it is the small things that make all the difference.

Like Help Tags.

We have added them to the QuickTags and QuickPersons tools in NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS.

If the panel is not wide enough to show the full text of a person name or keyword, you can hover over it with the mouse and NeoFinder will show you the complete content in a Help Tag.

Another nice improvement, thanks to very good feedback from our users!

Read more about QuickTags and QuickPersons in the NeoFinder Users Guide:

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.2/1 ... ktags.html

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.4/1 ... rsons.html

And since we talked about Help Tags (or tool tips) being helpful, how about this one?

NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS shows the entire set of keywords for an item in Icon View, and Details View, as a Help Tag.
Incredibly useful for people using hierarchical keywords, or just a LOT of keywords.

And yes, of course, NeoFinder is able to detect a disk as an SSD when you catalog it!

NeoFinder now uses the same code that Apple uses in its "Disk Utility.app" to find out if a device is actually really an SSD.

This is the Information window in Apples "Disk Utility.app" for a real SSD.

The Display Filter in NeoFinder 9.2 allows "##" for "empty field" and "@@" for "not empty field" placeholder values.

This feature offers a whole new power to just see the items you need for a specific task at hand.

We have updated the NeoFinder Users Guide with that additional ability:

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/4/4.13/di ... ilter.html

I love to say this: It is the little things!

It is always the little things that help your job getting finished faster and easier.

Like this one.

NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS now has a command to open the Controlled Vocabulary window directly from the QuickTags menu.

The NeoFinder Users Guide has been updated with this new ability:
https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.2/1 ... ktags.html

And the other way around, you can now open QuickTags directly from the tools menu in the Controlled Vocabulary Window of NeoFinder 9.2.1 for macOS, as it should be!

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.2/n ... words.html

The Icon View in NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS has a new multi line tooltip for keywords and persons annotation fields.
So very helpful!

Read more about the Icon View in the NeoFinder Users Guide:
https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/1/1.1/icon_view.html

And about how NeoFinder supports Keywords or Tags:
https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.2/n ... words.html

And yes, NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS now has the multi-line Help Tags for Keywords and Persons in the Details View as well!
Because of course!

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/1/1.1/details_view.html

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.2/n ... words.html

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.4/n ... rsons.html

Some new features actually don't show up much in the user interface, but are important anyway.
Here is one we added to NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS.

It is about deleting a Metadata Preset in the Metadata Presets Editor, which now supports Undo, and thus won't ask you for confirmation anymore.

Yet if that deletion was a mistake, no worries, you can undo it now!

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.3/m ... esets.html

https://www.cdfinder.de/photo-organizer.html

NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS adds the ability to catalog the contents of .tgz archive files, an archive format similar to .zip, but with a higher efficiency.

We have updated the NeoFinder Users Guide with that new feature:

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/3/3.3/cat ... tings.html

You do know about the More Finder Info option in NeoFinder? Right?

Where NeoFinder can show to detailed metadata and thumbnails of any file in the Finder, without the need to catalog it with NeoFinder?

We have improved that feature for NeoFinder 9.2 for macOS, and it can now show metadata for external Finder files in RED, NEV, BRAW, Pixelmator, IIQ, EIP, GoPro and other formats!

Check out More Finder Info in the NeoFinder Users Guide:
https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.10/ ... _info.html