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Springy - 1.5

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All Time:	(4.5)
Version 1.5:	(5.0)
Selected Version:	1.5
Release Date:	2009-04-01
License:	Shareware
Downloads (version 1.5):	448
Downloads (all versions):	26,570
Price:	$18.00

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Product Description:

Springy is a simple to use, yet powerful archiving and compression utility for Mac OS X. Springy integrates seamlessly with the Finder and includes some very useful features. All archiving tasks can be done via Drag and Drop or through Springy's Finder contextual menu.

Springy features at a glance:

Open and browse the contents of an archive or disk image without extracting any file from it.
Quickly extract all files or only files of choice from an archive or disk image.
Modify the contents of an existing archive or disk image: add, overwrite, delete and rename files.
Full Drag & Drop support for archiving and extracting from and into Finder.
Edit and modify any file in an archive or disk image by double click.
Archiving and extracting tasks may be accomplished quickly and efficiently using Finder contextual menu.
Browsing files in archives and disk images and extracting particular file or folder using hierarchical Finder contextual menu.

Springy supports the following file types: ZIP, TAR, PAX, CPIO, CPGZ, DMG, ISO, GZIP, BZIP2, Unix Compress, RAR, SIT, JAR, WAR, EAR... Support for more types is planned for future releases.

What's new in this version:

No Panther support. Starting with version 1.5, first release of Tiger (10.4) or above is required.
Springy contextual menu is shown in the root of Finder contextual menu even in Leopard, diving into More submenu is not needed any more (contextual menu plug-in only).
Complete support for archiving and extraction of files containing extended attributes, ACL lists and quarantine data, in accordance with AppleDouble standard.
Redesigned and enhanced handling and processing of RAR archives, bringing faster operation, less memory and disk I/O usage and better error handling.
Improved processing of DMG and ISO disk images.
Much better treatment of non-ASCII characters in file names inside TAR, PAX and CPIO archives.
UTI are now used to distinguish recognisable file types application can handle (application only).
Springy now tries to open every file handed to it, even if UTI suggests non-recognisable file type. If a file is any of archive type Springy can handle, it is successfully open regardless of UTIs. Otherwise, Springy will report that the file is not recognisable archive.
Added option to either quickly archive/add files into an archive using default archiving parameters, or to choose particular parameters just prior start of archiving.
Added option to either quickly extract files to the archive's enclosing folder, or to choose particular extraction location (application only).
Archive and compressed file operations can be paused and continued at any time.
Modified archive processing so that files partially processed due to an error are preserved and the operation is continued, with option to abort it completely.
Complete redesign of view preferences panes (application only).
Added option to show real file contents as file icons in addition to standard file type icons (application only).
Redesigned and enhanced preview column in column view (application only).
Added option to show real file contents in a preview column in addition to standard file type icon (application only).
Sorting of listed files in all three view types (icons, list, columns) using all available file attributes (name, dates, comment, etc...) for sorting criteria (application only).
Added option to show list of files in list view and search view using alternate row colours (application only).
Added path text field, which enables easy positioning to particular folder in an archive just by typing folder full path into it (application only).
Added option to show real characters in password secure text fields in addition to masking them with bullets.
New application icon (includes 512�?512px version for Leopard).
New document icons for all supported file types (include 512�?512px version for Leopard).
Redesigned alarm panels and sheets, removing all possible incorrect rendering and quirks.
New licensing system.
Sparkle framework code directly included into contextual menu plug-in, not as a framework as before, thus eliminating occasional crashes which some users experienced (contextual menu plug-in only).
Redesigned preference panel.
Redesigned About Panel, which now includes licensing information.
Maximal number of recent extraction locations increased to 20.
Maximal number of favourite extraction locations increased to 40.
Many changes in UI in order to unify experience in both Tiger and Leopard and to make it even more Finder-alike (application only).
Menu items for archive creation moved one level up in the hierarchy (contextual menu plug-in only).
Fixed bug which sometimes caused setting of wrong permissions of files extracted from ZIP archives.
Fixed bug which enabled renaming a file to a same name as some other file in the same archive (application only).

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
Mac OS X 10.4 PPC

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.5:
Overall Rating:	(5.0)	Features:	(4.5)	Support:	(4.5)
Ease of Use:	(5.0)	Quality / Stability:	(5.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Slow as molasses - Version: 1.5.6, 8/23/2009 07:29PM PST

(1 of 2 users found this comment useful)

tod3

I just downloaded the demo and fired it up. first thing I tried was to open an existing .dmg file that was 25mb. It took 90 seconds before it displayed the contents of the dmg, which is about 85 seconds too slow.

I then tried to create a .dmg image from a folder that contained two related files totaling a bit over 4mb. After going through the necessary options it finally began processing it. This took a couple of minutes. I haven't used any other image creators so I don't know if this is average, slow or fast. To me, though, it is incredibly slow and not the sort of tool I could use to compress and create disk images of large folders of files.

I'm sure that this is covered somewhere in the help or FAQs but at this point I'm not going to look for it: When double-clicking on other .zip or .dmg files I get asked so many questions rather than simply opening and mounting the image as the Finder does or extracting the contents of the zip image as the Finder does. Perhaps these extra steps are a blessing to some users but for me, they're just impediments to a smooth work flow.

RE: claims of problems on Mac - Version: 1.5, 4/11/2009 02:44PM PST

(3 of 3 users found this comment useful)

askincscott

THe guy who is running around claiming false advertising is, I was going to say an idiot, but he's probably smart enough. He made assumptions and then expected the developer to some how "make it happen". He also didn't hear a word of the very patient explanations. His chief complaint is that split archives are not supported by other Mac applications, even though it is a standard format. Which is like saying Microsoft WORD is not a Mac word processor because not every word processor on the Mac can open .doc files.
I have been testing Spriny today and it does everything it says it does and does it quite well. I have a small collection of archiving tools right now and I plan to dump the rest of them and just use Springy. It's fast and has some features that are not available on any other archiving utility on the Mac. Ironically that was basically the malcontents problem, that the developer had the nerve to do some things that nobody else on the Mac was doing yet! How dare he!!!

Perfect and an absolut standard tool for every - Version: 1.5, 4/3/2009 05:04AM PST

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Andreas S.

I use this software since about 1,5 years and at the latest with this release I also decided to kill every Stuffit application on my Mac. Springy is always the right tool for archiving and compressing.
The contextual menu is nice and user-friendly for every day use and give you perfect options right at your side:
- Option to preserve Macintosh contents
- Password and compression level on the fly
- etc.

Over the years I tried many other solutions, but nothing can beat Springy for my opinion.

Try it for yourself.

Regards,
Andreas.