About this release - We are committed to making File Buddy the most useful and reliable utility on your Macintosh, and have been since it was first released in 1993. If your copy of File Buddy is more than a month or two old, be sure to check the File Buddy download page at <http://www.skytag.com/filebuddy/7/download.html> for the current release.
System Requirements - Mac OS 10.1 or later, or Mac OS 9 with CarbonLib 1.5 or later. If you're using Mac OS X, we strongly recommend you update at least to Mac OS 10.1.4 or later, and suggest using 10.2.8 or later.
Panther Compatibility - The release addresses all reported issues with File Buddy 7.5 and Panther. That said, understand that we have not tested File Buddy 7.5 extensively with Panther. If you try File Buddy 7.5 with Panther and experience a problem, please let us know.
Purchasing or Upgrading to File Buddy 7 - The single copy price of File Buddy 7 is $49.95. Purchasers of File Buddy 5 or 6 can upgrade to version 7 for $19.95. File Buddy is distributed as a fully functional demo which will cease to run after the latter of 30 days or 15 launches unless a valid serial number is entered. To purchase File Buddy 7, upgrade to File Buddy 7 from an earlier version of File Buddy, or obtain additional pricing information, please visit:
Reporting Problems - SkyTag Software is committed to providing the highest quality software and good support. If you encounter a bug or unexpected behavior which you feel may be a bug, please report it to <bugreport@skytag.com>. If you feel it would be of value to included any message which File Buddy has displayed, please note that the contents of File Buddy's standard alert dialog box can be copied to the clipboard with the Copy command in the Edit menu.
File Buddy 7.5 Release History
File Buddy 7.5.9 - November 24, 2003
Issues addressed
- Lists of volumes which could be searched were showing an extra, non-existent volume. Fixed.
- In Panther, the expanded list of volumes in the Find window (only available if more than four volumes are mounted) was not working correctly. Fixed.
- In Panther, using the delete key in a sheet dialog attached to the List window would remove items from the list. Fixed.
File Buddy 7.5.8.1 - August 9, 2003
Issues addressed
- The delete key was not removing items from the List window. Fixed.
- Snapshot recording could fail on occasion in Mac OS X with an error of -43 (file not found). We've changed the code to ignore bad file references, so this should no longer be a problem.
- We've started looking into compatibility with Panther and addressed a couple of issues. We will address more Panther-related issues in a future release.
Fix for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X
- Fixed a problem which could cause a crash after certain actions such as using the Copy command to copy List window data.
File Buddy 7.5.8 - July 26, 2003
Fixes for Mac OS X
- It came to our attention that programmatically renaming files in Mac OS X will cause any Finder comments to be lost. The release works around the problem by getting the comment and setting it back again when renaming files via the Info window and multiple file renaming options. Note: Droplets configured to rename files will still cause Finder comments to be lost in Mac OS X.
- File searches configured to ignore items in packages or special folders such as Trash were reporting them anyway. Fixed.
Fix for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X
- Fixed a problem which could cause a crash after certain actions such as using the Copy command to copy List window data.
File Buddy 7.5.7 - July 5, 2003
Fixes
- Fixed a problem in which editing text in text boxes which limit input to numerical digits, such as those in the Rename Sequentially window and the size fields in the Find window, could cause File Buddy to crash.
- Restored the ability to select volumes in lists of volumes to search with Cmd-1, Cmd-2, and so on. This had stopped working as a side effect of changing how some events are handled and the fact that these commands aren't on any menu.
- Several minor changes to improve stability and performance.
File Buddy 7.5.6a - May 29, 2003
Fix
- File searches would return almost immediately and claim no items were found. This problem was not present in other builds and we still aren't sure why, but it's correct in this build.
File Buddy 7.5.6 - May 28, 2003
Changes and Fixes
- Corrects a problem which could cause File Buddy to crash under some circumstances if an error is encountered during a search. In particular, searching a Windows volume connected via SMB no longer causes a crash.
Most of the work on v7.5.6 has focused on improving performance and making more efficient use of system resources. In addition to several general improvements in these areas, special attention was given to improving performance when dragging files from a List window:
- Dragging a large number of files out of an List window is faster.
- Dragging files from one List window into another is significantly faster.
- When initiating a drag involving a large number of items from a List window, the drag can be canceled while the cursor is spinning with the Escape key or Command-'.'.
File Buddy 7.5.5 - May 10, 2003
Changes and Fixes
- Corrects a problem which could cause File Buddy to crash after completing a search.
- Fixes a bug which could cause the Rename window to take several seconds to display (which made File Buddy appear as if it had frozen).
- Searching for possible targets in the Unattached Aliases window now uses a progress sheet window, so it no longer appears as if File Buddy is frozen, searches can be canceled, and in Mac OS X you can do other things in File Buddy while those searches are in progress.
- The list of volumes is now immediately visible in the alias repair options window. Fixed once before, we think a recent release of Mac OS X broke this again.
- Improved compatibility with recent releases of Mac OS X (10.2.6 as of this date).
File Buddy 7.5.4 - May 5, 2003
Fixes in Mac OS X and Mac OS 9
- Corrects an issue which prevented droplets from being configured, or working after attempting to configure. Problem was related to the new option to act on files with a particular extension, introduced in v7.5.3.
- Significantly improves the speed of file searches and the responsiveness of progress windows.
- Improved stability.
File Buddy 7.5.3 - April 29, 2003
Fixes in Mac OS X and Mac OS 9
- Fixed a problem in some file lists (such as in the Duplicate Files window) which could cause a crash.
- Find window searches based on resource fork size which were limited to specific folders were not returning correct results. Fixed.
- Save list files can once again be opened with the Open List command.
- Under some circumstances saved lists could have invalid entries in them, resulting in an alert when attempting to rebuild the list. Fixed.
- Minor performance enhancements.
Fixes in Mac OS 9
-The "No matching items were found." alert now goes away when you click OK.
- Specifying a folder should not be searched no longer causes the volume on which that folder resides to be searched.
Changes
- Added Move to Trash to the list of actions in a List window which require confirmation when acting on more than the number of items specified in the Preferences window's File Lists preferences. Prior to Mac OS X, items in the Trash could be returned to their original locations with the Put Away command. Sadly, this command doesn't exist in Mac OS X, so you could really hurt yourself if you accidentally move lots of items to the Trash in Mac OS X.
- Before moving items to the Trash from the List window, File Buddy now verifies that the items are visible.
- Added a configuration option to droplets to limit the processing of files to those with a given extension.
- A scan for duplicate or unique files can now be canceled while building the digests used for comparing file contents.
- Find window searches which scan the contents of files ignore certain kinds of files because they are known to not contain human-readable text. This release recognizes more kinds of these files, which will improved the speed of those searches. Searches can also now be canceled while a file is being scanned.
File Buddy 7.5.2a - April 3, 2003
Fixes
- A change in 7.5.2 was causing some instability for some users, most notably after closing a List window in some cases. The change has been removed to eliminate the problem.
File Buddy 7.5.2 - April 1, 2003
Fixes
- This release addresses a number of minor issues reported by users in v7.5.1.
- Memory use in Mac OS X is slightly reduced for some operations.
- Some changes in the online help which didn't make it into v7.5.1 have been included in this release.
- Some droplet issues have been addressed, mostly cosmetic.
File Buddy 7.5.1 - March 11, 2003
New
- A new Edit as Hex option has been added to the Info window for editing file types and creator signatures. While it's not anticipated many people will actually want to edit these values in their hexadecimal representations, some people may wish to use it to examine a file type or creator when the value in the corresponding text box has or appears to have fewer than four characters. A help tag has also been added to each text box to display the hexadecimal representation of the current type and creator. Both of these changes are intended to help with the confusion people occasionally experience when they see fewer than four characters in one of both of these text boxes.
- Information in Brief Info windows can now be copied to the Clipboard using the Copy command.
Fixes for Mac OS X
- The following windows now fully support Unicode: Info, Find, Rename, and Rename Sequentially. Strictly speaking, this is an enhancement which required numerous code changes, but to anyone who couldn't use any of these at any point because of the lack of support for Unicode (or in the case of the Rename window, high ASCII), this will be viewed as a fix.
- Searching specific folders in Mac OS X by creation, modified, or access date was not working. Fixed.
Fixes for Mac OS 9 and Mac OS X
- This release addresses several issues to improve general reliability. It also optimizes the performance of some file searches.
- The Unattached Aliases window was crashing in Mac OS 9, and occasionally in Mac OS X. Fixed.
- Minor changes to the online help.
- Disk space for folders was being under reported. Fixed.
File Buddy 7.5 - February 18, 2003
Changes
Read the separate file "What's New in File Buddy 7.5" for a description of what's new and different.
Complete Release History
For a complete history of changes and fixes in File Buddy 7, please visit the File Buddy 7 release history web page at:
