FoxTrot Personal Search release notes

Welcome to FoxTrot™ Personal Search, the most focused find-by-content solution for Mac OS X 10.4.3, 10.3.9 and 10.2.8.

For further information on FoxTrot, please visit:

http://www.foxtrot.ch

Change notes - version 1.0.4 (build 155)

	•	Coordinated with the release of PowerMail 5.2.2, FoxTrot 1.0.4 now allows indexing of PowerMail messages on Mac OS X 10.4, 10.3 and 10.2.
	⁃	On 10.3 and 10.2, a new category named "PowerMail messages" can be found in preferences (on 10.4, PowerMail messages are simply categorized as mail)
	•	Fixed some typos and misspellings in the french localization / corrigé des typos et fautes d'orthographe dans la version française
	•	The new "Rebuild index" command now works correctly on Mac OS X 10.2

Known bugs

	•	There seems to be trouble indexing some Microsoft Word version 6 and 5 documents; for the time being, we're pegging this onto the Tiger-supplied Microsoft Office MDImporter plugin, as Spotlight seems to suffer the same problem, but this is being investigated further.

Known incompatibilities

	•	We suspect that the SpotMeta extension conflicts with FoxTrot in causing very slow performance, and therefore recommend deleting SpotMeta before indexing
	•	The Spotless utility for disabling Spotlight also disables all the metadata importers ! As such, if you wish to disable Spotlight, use the FoxTrot preference pane instead.

Change notes - version 1.0.3 (build 153)

	•	Added a new "Index Maintenance" item in the File Menu; the former Update Index button previously found in the Status window has been moved there and assigned a command key. A new "Rebuild Index" feature has been added as well, which keeps your settings of folders to be indexed, then reconstructs a new index from scratch. 
	⁃	Please note: If you have currently have an index constructed with FoxTrot Personal Search versions 1.0, 1.0.1 or 1.0.2, we recommend that you use this "Rebuild Index" feature at least once soon after installing 1.0.3. You don't need to do it immediately, but doing it soon would be a good idea, as performance will be improved.
	•	Safari's web archives are now also displayed as HTML in the preview pane (on Mac OS X 10.3.9 and higher).
	•	Binhex files (.hqx) and Eudora mailboxes could be indexed as text files, causing the indexer to index very slowly.
	•	Fixed a memory leak in the indexer
	•	Files larger than 2 GB were displayed with an incorrect file size
	•	Some file names were incorrectly decomposed when they contain multiple words not separated by spaces, but by capitals (ex: ThisIsAFileName)
	•	The "view only n most relevant items" slider is no longer reset to 1000 every time.
	•	AAC files (.m4a) are now shown in the "music" category, instead of "video"
	•	AVI files are now shown in "video" instead of "other"
	•	As a precaution, indexing now stops when there is less than 1 GB available, in order to preclude an inconsistent index state if one were to run out of disk space
	•	An alert is displayed when Spotlight's importers are disabled or broken

Change notes - version 1.0.2 (build 132)

	•	The result list can now be sorted by name, rank, date or size (there is no sorting by location, but the location categorization can be used, partially, instead)
	•	Items in the result list can now be dragged to an application icon in the dock or Finder to be opened; they can also be copied/moved/aliased into the Finder with the appropriate modifier keys (option to copy; option-command to alias)
	•	Added a contextual menu operating on a selection in the list of found documents
	•	Enhanced the display of iCal events; those events containing comments now have their text displayed in the preview pane
	•	iCal events, Mail and PowerMail messages are now displayed with the event or e-mail message's date (instead of the corresponding disk file's date)
	•	FoxTrot's list of supported files is now extensible by third-party and in-house developers ! To this effect, we are making a portion of the FoxTrot file importer source code available under the GNU Open-Source license (see http://www.foxtrot.ch/developers)
	•	When enabled, version checking only occurs once a day at most (instead of upon each launch) 
	•	FoxTrot now includes a French-language version for those running under a French-language setting in Mac OS X
	•	Fixed a bug which could cause some PDF files containing NULL characters to be improperly indexed
	•	Worked around what is probably a bug in the System's MDimporter for Excel files on Mac OS X 10.4.2 and 10.4.3 which, depending on how it is invoked, could crash the calling application

Change notes - version 1.0.1 (build 126)

	•	Fixed a potential crash after timeout on starting up the application
	•	[Cosmetic] Changed the wording in the version checking preference pane

Change notes - version 1.0 (build 125)

	•	First commercial release; feature-complete to 1.0 specifications
	•	Corrects all known conditions revealed during internal and public beta testing