NeoFinder 8.7 available today!

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We are thrilled to give you NeoFinder 8.7 today, packed with new features and abilities!

Find out all about it: https://www.cdfinder.de/news.html

Download the update today with the built-in Updater, or get it from the NeoFinder web site:

https://www.cdfinder.de/download.html

As always, we will post a lot more about the details here in the next weeks. Stay tuned!

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It was a Very Dark and stormy night.

Wait!

But yes, we have made NeoFinder 8.7 Very Dark.

All windows, dialog, items, are dark when you select the Dark Mode.

But don't change to the Dark Side, okay?

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NeoFinder can convert photos into new formats.
It can also convert videos into different formats and encodings.

And now, NeoFinder 8.7 can also convert your audio files!

All of that happens in the background, while you can keep working with NeoFinder, of course.

Read more about it in the updated NeoFinder Users guide: https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/15/15.1/a ... erter.html

This feature currently supports these formats: MP3, M4A, WAVE, WAV, AIF, AIFF, FLAC, CAF, and OGG.

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EPS is, yep, BACK!

With a little help, though, but back it is.

Apple had removed the EPS converter in macOS 14, but we found a nice way to get EPS thumbnails back for you!

The NeoFinder Users Guide has more:

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/17/17.12/catalog_eps.html

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What is a Phocus?

And why does it lose Annotations and other metadata?

NeoFinder 8.7 now supports the free Hasselblad Phocus software, which can be used to develop RAW photos, and not just those of their own .FFF or .3RF formats, but many others as well!

But working with Annotations and metadata in Hasselblad Phocus has some important issues that you need to know about first!

A new chapter in the NeoFinder Users Guide has more about that: https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/17/17.13/ ... hocus.html

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Another highly useful addition to NeoFinder 8.7 is that you can now use the Find Editor to search for relative date.

Like all photos taken within the last 14 days.

Or all files created within the last month.

This works for the Creation Date and Modification Date of files and folders, but also for the EXIF Capture Date of videos and photos.

We have added this new ability to the NeoFinder Users Guide: https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/5/5.2/findeditor.html

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"The BBC Sound Effects Archive is available for personal, educational or research purposes. There are over 33,000 clips from across the world from the past 100 years."

NeoFinder 8.7 can now catalog the full set of metadata and descriptions embedded in the amazing audio files of the free BBC Sound Effects Archive!

Both in their MP3 and WAV audio files.

https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

This includes the ID3 "TXXX" tags and an extended "bext" WAVE record.

And NeoFinder will not only display that data, you can of course search for it, too!

Read more about how NeoFinder can Catalog your Music: https://cdfinder.de/music-library.html

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You want to catalog NextCloud, ownCloud, Box, Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure, OneDrive, SharePoint, Google Cloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, BackBlaze, FTP, WebDAV with NeoFinder?

That is easy with the separate and very cool Mountain Duck tool!

You can find it here: https://mountainduck.io/

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We have updated NeoFinder to safely identify these special, virtual volumes mounted by Mountain Duck, so you can use them like any other server with NeoFinder.

The freshly updated NeoFinder Users Guide has more: https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/3/3.20/ca ... vices.html

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NeoFinder 8.7 can now catalog Nikon .NEV video files in their RAW format!

You can get beautiful thumbnails, and the full set of metadata, as with all the other video file formats that NeoFinder already supports.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/22/neofin ... ideos.html

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The completely reworked Details View in NeoFinder 8.7 has a lot of new features, you can now decide for yourself what data you wish to display in the seven fields in the right column.

Just open the View Options, and select what you want to see.


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

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The Auto-Updater in NeoFinder allows you to automatically Update certain Catalogs at a given time, and interval, or when NeoFinder is launched, or just on specific weekdays.

In NeoFinder 8.7, you can now select an existing Auto-Updater schedule and its settings to be used as a default value for new schedules you will add later!

This powerful option is available in the context menu for the list of schedules.

The NeoFinder Users Guide has more: https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/3/3.9/auto-updater.html

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The "Rename Person" command in NeoFinder 8.7 now has the ability to change the old value in all photo and video files, too!

The NeoFinder Users Guide has been updated for that new powerful ability:

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.4/n ... rsons.html
Section: Rename a person

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The integrated Photo Converter in NeoFinder is now able to convert the Color Profile of the exported file for you!

The available color profiles currently are: sRGB, Adobe RGB, Pro Photo RGB, Display P3, and BT.2020.

Enjoy!

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/17/17.7/e ... hotos.html

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Due to a lot of requests for these, we have added three additional fields to the Icon View and the Photo Contact Sheet in NeoFinder 8.7.

These can be displayed below the thumbnail, set this up in the View Settings.

"EXIF Date (just the date, no time!)", "Kind" and "GPS GeoTag"

Enjoy!

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

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/17/17.1/p ... sheet.html

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NeoFinder 8.7 installs two new default Smart Folders for you when you install it.

These use the new relative date search of the Find Editor.

One will show you all files that were created within the last two weesk, and the other one finds all photos modified in the last month.

You can use the context menu to edit them, and add more paramters, or change the time interval.

Or just create your own, as you need them.

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The Details View in NeoFinder 8.7 now has a full integration of QuickEdit.

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

Just move the mouse to the top left edge of an item, and the QuickEdit palette will appear, so you can copy and paste metadata and annotations, like the keywords, persons, EXIF Capture Date, GPS coordinate, and more.

Make usre to activate that option in the View Settings for the Details View.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/17/17.10/quickedit.html

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Import and Export your NeoFinder AutoUpdater schedules for better backup of these values, and easier deployment on multiple machines:

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/3/3.9/aut ... portExport

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The Preferences in NeoFinder 8.7 now have a Use System Appearance option that will automatically switch between White and Dark if the macOS Appearance changes.

We have updated the NeoFinder Users Guide with more details:
https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/2/2.4/neo ... ences.html

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The View menu now has a Clear Display Filter command that allows you to quickly reset the current Display Filter settings for the active window in NeoFinder.

Use this to make sure that you see all items in your Catalogs!

This even has a keyboard shortcut for power users: Alt-Command-D.

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

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The "View all ... items" context menu commands are now located in a separate View submenu (previously in the Find submenu).

Also, they now work for multiple selected Catalogs and even entire Catalog Folders!

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/25/faq.html
Topic: Can NeoFinder show all photos of a catalog or folder at once?

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