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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.

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

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

NeoFinder 8.6.1 can catalog thumbnails and metadata of photos in the ".avif" format.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AVIF

This open source compressor format can contain high-res photos with a large color depth, and a much better compression rate than JPG.

NeoFinder uses the AVIF codec from Apple, available in macOS 14 "Sonoma" and newer.

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

The sample files can be found here: https://github.com/link-u/avif-sample-images

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.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/2/2.5/neo ... dater.html

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.

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

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.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/21/21.2/n ... _epub.html

NeoFinder 8.6.1 expands the video converter to extract the audio track of the movie to a .m4a audio-only file.

This version also fixes a bunch of smaller issues, so make sure to give the new Video Converter a try!

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/22/22.8/v ... erter.html

NeoFinder can read the text contents of ".srt" subtitle files.

The new version 8.6.1 is now able to get utf8 encoded umlauts and text in other languages for you!

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/21/neofin ... _text.html

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.

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

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.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/17/17.9/w ... esets.html

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!

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/3/3.9/auto-updater.html

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".

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/22/22.4/n ... video.html

If you catalog a file server or NAS volume, NeoFinder now adds the server name to the Catalog and shows it in the Inspector.

That is useful for large installation with multiple file servers, so you can quickly see where the data that was cataloged is actually stored.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/inspector.html

When you use the Label Menu in the NeoFinder Inspector to search for items near a GPS location:

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/13/13.7/label_menus.html


NeoFinder will now ask you for the area you wish to cover, with the interactive map, so you can see exactly what you area are searching!

We have added a new command to the contextual menu of a folder: "Export as Web Gallery."


This will allow you to quickly export a HTML web gallery of the items inside that folder, based on the templates that NeoFinder includes, or your own.

https://www.cdfinder.de/guide/10/10.1/n ... eries.html

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:

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

Cataloging or Updating a Catalog now adds the name of the computer that was doing that Update to the NeoFinder Catalog.

It uses the name you have given your Mac in the Apple "System Settings", in the "General" section, and then the "About" section.

This helps when you catalog volumes with generic names like "Macintosh HD" on multiple Macs in your network.

Select a Catalog in the NeoFinder LIBRARY and check out the Inspector for this data: