Version 8.0 beta 627th August 2008 This is (hopefully) the last beta release.
This type of development effort is only made possible by the support of a dedicated team of alpha testers, who ensure that by the time the first public beta is released, the new version has already undergone extensive fault and acceptance testing. Special Thanks to:
Extra special thanks to John Spannenburg who's managed to keep me up until late at night for the past few weeks :-) Version 8.0 beta 519th August 2008 In this release:
Version 8.0 beta 411th August 2008 In this release:
Version 8 is a major upgrade and free to customers who have purchased the product after the 1st of January 2007 or who own a forever license. Other users will need to purchase an upgrade. Version 8.0 beta 37th August 2008 This release fixes a crashing bug introduced in yesterday's second beta. Version 8.0 beta 26th August 2008 This is the second public beta of A Better Finder Rename 8. Version 8 is a major upgrade and free to customers who have purchased the product after the 1st of January 2007 or who own a forever license. Other users will need to purchase an upgrade. This second beta:
You can download the new beta release from the download page, or via the automatic update feature ("Check for Update..." in the "A Better Finder Rename 8" menu). Version 8.0 beta 14th August 2008 This is the first public beta of A Better Finder Rename 8. Version 8 is a major upgrade and free to customers who have purchased the product after the 1st of January 2007 or who own a forever license. Other users will need to purchase an upgrade. Here are some of the highlights of the new version:
The major missing feature from this first beta are save-able presets, a much requested feature that will definitely make it into the final release. You can download the beta release from the download page. Version 7.9.9.331st July 2008 Like the last minor release this one was prompted by an alpha tester finding a bug in the forthcoming version 8 (beta 1 probably out next week!) that also affects version 7. The new release fixes a memory leak in the "Add Image Dimensions" rename action. Version 7.9.9.216th July 2008 While development on version 8 is fast approaching the public beta stage, my alpha testers have discovered some bugs that go back to version 7..
Version 7.9.9.17th July 2008 Minor bug fix release: fixes contextual menu problems. Version 7.9.925th June 2008 The new release adds support for UTF-16 ID3 tags in MP3 music files. Version 7.9.821st May 2008 This is a minor update that improves the unlock procedure. Version 7.9.7.12nd April 2008 Improved support for site licensing. Version 7.9.720th February 2008 Adds a new "convert to sentence case" rename action. Version 7.9.6.17th February 2008 Two minor bug fixes:
Version 7.9.616th January 2008 It is now possible to add files to the preview using the Finder context menu while the programming is running. Version 7.9.5.62nd January 2008 This is a minor bug fix update. Version 7.9.5.519th December 2007 This version uses a more robust way of identifying and correctly ignoring invisible files during renames. Version 7.9.5.110th December 2007 This is a very minor update that simply improves consistency between the program and the on-site screencast. In the screencast the demonstrated action is called "Produce sequence number list" whereas we renamed this to "Create sequence number list" in the 7.9.5 release. This apparently has caught out a lot of people. Sorry about that. The name is back to the original now. Version 7.9.528th November 2007
adds the ability to include an image's dimensions to the file name, re-organizes the action menu and fixes a minor bug. Version 7.9.4.511th November 2007 This is a recommend update for all A Better Finder Rename users on Leopard. It sets the correct default renaming mode appropriate for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. Version 7.9.423rd October 2007 Improves the default sorting of the preview window and delivers full Leopard compatibility. Version 7.9.3.518th October 2007 Fixes a bug affecting the "Rename from file list" feature. Version 7.9.326th September 2007 Updates the preview window with an iTunes-like layout, tweaks the user interface for the multi-step rename feature and contains other minor refinements. Version 7.9.229th August 2007 Makes further improvements to the multi-step rename feature:
Version 7.9.18th August 2007 This is a minor bug fix release resolving a launch problem on Mac OS X 10.4.0 only. Version 7.925th July 2007 Introduces a second sorting order for all renaming actions that use ordering. The second sorting order will be used in situations where the first sorting order assigns the same rank to two or more items. Up to now the order in which items with identical rank appeared in the sort was essentially random. Such situations are rare in normal operation, but with the advent of sub-second continuous shooting modes on modern SLR and SLR-like digital cameras, digital photos with identical EXIF timestamps are becoming more common. Setting the first sorting order to "By EXIF digital camera date" and the second sorting order to "By name and sequence number" will allow you to maintain the proper ordering of continuous shooting mode pictures when creating new sequence numbers from the original file names. Version 7.8.616th July 2007 Fixes a crashing bug introduced by a recent QuickTime update that affects only droplets. Version 7.8.526th June 2007 This releases introduces "silent" droplets that are capable of being used in fully automated workflows without human supervision. More information is available in the manual. The are also various minor bug fixes and improvements especially in the confirmation dialog. Version 7.8.111th June 2007 The new release fixes a bug affecting the "Add folder name to beginning" and "Add folder name to end" rename actions. Version 7.823rd May 2007 The new version adds a few additional renaming actions to make the interface more easily understandable:
The new release also updates the preferences pane component to correctly reflect the fact that all users who have purchased version 7 after the 1st of January 2007 will be given free upgrades to version 8 (including minor updates up to, but not including version 9.0) Version 7.7.714th May 2007 This releases fixes two problems:
Version 7.7.623rd April 2007 This release adds the "ultra-fast, ultra-safe" renaming mode, which uses the same renaming procedure as the Finder thus optimizing both speed and safety. This is now the default renaming mode. A minor problem with the conflict resolution dialog is also solved. Version 7.7.518th April 2007 The new release upgrades the mp3/mp4 tag reading code:
and introduces new mp3 renaming options:
Version 7.714th March 2007 The new release
Version 7.6.57th February 2007 The new release makes substantial improvements to the preview list:
Version 7.6.15th February 2007 This bug fix releases resolves a problem affecting the ability to edit droplets. Version 7.610th January 2007 The new version improves support for EXIF digital picture format to include the following:
Version 7.5.68th December 2006 This new release is a recommend update for all 7.5.5 users. It fixes a startup problem. Version 7.5.56th December 2006 The new version substantially improves the preview window, allowing it to be docked to the top, bottom or the right hand side and assisting with smart resizing and dragging. The preview drawer is still available but the separate preview window now becomes the default. The new release also adds new options for the date and time-based renaming actions. This is the first release that requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later! Version 7.5.11st December 2006 Fixes a minor menu error, where the positions of "Add sequence number to beginning" was accidentally swapped with "Add sequence number to end". Version 7.58th November 2006
Version 7.4.714th October 2006 The new version fixes the droplet editing feature that was accidentally broken in version 7.4.5. Version 7.4.630th September 2006 The new version updates the optional program components: the systems preferences pane, hot key and contextual menu plugin. Version 7.4.527th September 2006
Version 7.430th August 2006
Version 7.3.512th July 2006 Version 7.3.5 makes it easier than ever to use regular expressions to manipulate the file names through its new expression group preview. Version 7.37th June 2006 The new adds version adds an "Apply" button, which performs a rename without closing the application. You can vote to change the standard behavior of the tool by participating in our online poll. Version 7.2.53rd May 2006 The new release focuses on improving performance on large rename batches of more than a few hundred files. Other changes:
Version 7.2.219th April 2006 The new version updates the System Preferences Pane and the Hot Key Component to address a minor installation bug. Version 7.2.122nd March 2006 This release fixes a problem with case changes introduced in version 7.2 and is a recommend update for 7.2 users. Version 7.222nd March 2006 The new version improves the way in which file name conflicts are handled. It already marks potential name conflicts with warning signs inside the preview and offers a conflict resolution dialog during renaming. Version 7.1.515th February 2006 The new version adds improved RAW photo file handling:
The new version also adds more date formats and fixes a startup bug. Version 7.118th January 2006 The new release adds the ability to remove files from the preview window and further refines the preview feature. It is also the first Universal binary release of the product, meaning that it will run at native speeds on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintoshes. Version 7.0.514th December 2005 The new version corrects teething problems with the entirely rewritten 7.0 release. In particular the tool now supports file names that contain forward slashes or composed unicode characters correctly, the hotkey component (if previously installed) is now upgraded automatically, minor UI glitches were fixed, etc. The new version is a recommend upgrade for 7.0 users. Version 716th November 2005 A Better Finder Rename 7 is the result of a complete 10-month rewrite of the 70,000+ lines of code that made up the version 6.9.5 release. Version 7 was engineered from ground-up to take advantage of Mac OS X's Cocoa application frameworks to offer a best-of-breed Macintosh user experience. We have taken the opportunity to improve nearly all aspects of A Better Finder Rename and there are countless small and not-so-small improvements. Amongst other features, version 7 adds the long-awaited ability to combine a number of different rename action in a single rename. Version 6.9.56th July 2005 The new release updates the hot key and preference pane components to provide an improved user experience:
Version 6.9.425th May 2005 This bug fix release correcting a sorting-related problem when you rename more than 1500 files at a time. Version 6.9.313th May 2005 Fixes problems under Mac OS 10.3. Version 6.9.212th May 2005 Fixes an installer bug. Version 6.9.111th May 2005 This a bug fix release fixing the "Change Number" feature that allows you to pad numbers embedded in your file names (image1.gif) with additional zeros (image001.gif) or add and subtract values (image005.gif). Version 6.913th April 2005 Version 6.9 now allows you not only to convert Macintosh files names to legal Windows NTFS file names, but also into account limitations of the SMB Windows file sharing service. Version 6.8.523rd March 2005 The new version provides sentence and title case conversion for MP3 and AAC tags. Version 6.823rd FEBRUARY 2005 A Better Finder Rename 6.8 provides a smart truncating feature which preserves file extensions wherever possible. Version 6.7.526th January 2005 Allows the current date and time to be exploited for renaming files. Version 6.71st December 2004 This update provides more advanced options for renaming MP3/AAC-encoded music files. More information in the manual. Version 6.6.617th November 2004 This minor update contains the new version of the System Preferences pane shared with the other A Better Finder series tools. The System Preference Pane update:
Version 6.6.54th NOVEMBER 2004 A Better Finder Rename now handles Apple iTunes AAC-encoded audio files as well as MP3 files. Version 6.613th OCTOBER 2004 A Better Finder Rename can now read MP3 music tags, including:
The new "Rename to MP3 information" action allows you to combine this information in a variety of ways. The new feature uses Quicktime extensively and this means that the renaming may not be quite as fast as usual. We have provided a first level MP3 Tag cache to speed up interactive previewing. Version 6.5.515th SEPTEMEBR 2004 The EXIF digital photo metadata support based on QuickTime technology introduced in version 6.4.5 proved to be accurate, but also slow. Something that became particularly obvious when dealing with large numbers of files. This new release thus focuses on EXIF performance improvements:
This has resulted in dramatically faster preview and rename performance for all EXIF or date-based actions. Version 6.518th AUGUST 2004 The new version improves compatibility with FileVault and some third-party file systems and external or remote devices. You can now choose between a "safe" mode which preserves file comments under Mac OS X but may not work on some third-party file systems, and the "fast" mode which will work with FileVault and under other non-standard configurations. Version 6.4.514th JULY 2004 This is the second release that focuses on EXIF digital photo metadata. It adds supports for EXIF data in TIFF and Canon Raw (.CRW & .THM) format files; both formats are used by some professional grade digital cameras for loss-less image capture. Version 6.416th JUNE 2004 The new version can use the date and time at which a digital camera picture was taken rather than relying on the picture's file creation date. This information is extracted from the EXIF metadata embedded in the picture files produced by most leading camera manufacturers. Version 6.3.519th MAY 2004 The new version allows the name of the enclosing folder to be added to the file name. Version 6.3.124th APRIL 2004 This point release fixes a startup bug affecting first-time users. It is a recommended upgrade for all 6.3 users. Version 6.321st APRIL 2004 The new version introduces regular expression substitution. This advanced renaming technique will be familiar to BBEdit users, UNIX veterans and most programmers. It may prove inappropriate for novice computer users. The A Better Finder Rename implementation covers:
The new version also improves the error reporting and handling. |
Download the combined A Better Finder Rename/ A Better Finder Attributes disk image or older versions for existing users. A Better Finder Rename costs only $24.95 on its own, and $34.95 together with A Better Finder Attributes. Version 8 is a free upgrade for customers who purchased after the 1st of January 2007 or own a forever upgrade. Screencasts Reviews "Arguably the best file renaming utility on the market" Mac OS X Power Tools " About this Particular Macintosh "A utility that is as discreet as it is effective." Recommended by MacDigit.Com 27th August 2008 Version 8.0b6 is the first release candidate for version 8. Our Better File Rename for Windows product offers similar functionality for Windows users. User Manual
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