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CDFinder - 5.6

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All Time:	(4.4)
This Version:	Not rated (0.0)
Current Version:	5.6
Release Date:	2009-05-05
License:	Shareware
Downloads (this version):	1,222
Downloads (all versions):	174,930
Price:	$39.00

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Product Description:

CDFinder is the advanced disk cataloger application for the Mac, to help you organize your disk and data archive, and to keep track of your digital media assets.

Feature Overview:

Catalogue any hard disk, data folder, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, iPod, server volume, Audio-CD, USB-Stick, and more
Networkable: Share your database in your network
Cross-platform: with CDWinder for Windows, you can use one database for both worlds!
Powerful Find functions (more than any other tool in the market), and offline browsing
Search your local disks with Spotlight and as well as your catalogs from inside CDFinder
Import your existing Disk Recall, DiskWizard, FindIt, Disk Tracker, Catalogue and CatFinder catalog files
Read audio MP3 and AAC (iTunes) meta data (AIFF and WAVE, too)!
Quickly catalog a large stack of data CDs or DVDs using the Batch Catalog feature
Catalog your photo data, with EXIF, IPTC meta data, and JPG, TIFF, PICT and BMP photo info
Thumbnails for many photo file formats
Fast and really easy to use
Export or print your catalog data
Print beautiful jewel case and other labels
Handle really large amounts of data (some others are limited to a few thousand files!)
Look inside archive files: ZIP, TAR, .rar, StuffIt (.sit and even .sitx), and others
Multiple languages in one application: English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish, and Dutch
AppleScript Integrate CDFinder into your existing workflow
Extend your database by using the five new custom catalog fields for any content you need
Free email support
and more

What's new in this version:

CDFinder now creates thumbnails for movie files! This includes a large number of file formats, such as avi, mov, mp4, m4v, mpg, flv, mkv, and more. It requires QuickTime, and possible plugins. CDFinder not simply uses the first frame of a movie, but goes into the duration of the movie and grabs a thumbnail at about 20% of the duration of the movie
The extended GeoFinder now has a clearer user interface, and can search your iPhoto 8 database! So without importing any data from iPhoto to CDFinder, you can find all your photos taken at a certain place!
The Locr-Upload has been greatly extended: It now also works for photos without geotags, and you can upload multiple photos in parallel with a dramatic speed increase. Also, you can get a list of your albums on the Locr server, and place the uploaded photos in one of them or create a new one
CDFinder can now also catalog the GPS coordinates stored in sidecar XMP files or XMP records in photos (used by the GeoTate Jobo software for RAW files, and other tools)
New RAR code to catalog the contents of archives larger than 4 GB in size
KMZ Export has been improved with better KML content, and an option to include or exclude the metadata
You can now exclude files from cataloging based on their name suffixes, or folders based on their name. This is done by a file named DatabaseSettings.xml in your CDFinder database folder. More details in the CDFinder Users Guide
CDFinder now detects certain file types even if the files have neither a name suffix or the old filetype info. This includes PDF, EPS, JPG, TIFF, and PSD files. Of course, CDFinder will now also get you a thumbnail for these files as well
CoverArt of AAC-Songs will now be cataloged again, supporting the yet again changed format introduced with iTunes 8
CDFinder now catalogs custom icons for files
The Podcast info text of MP3 and AAC files is now cataloged, and will be displayed, and can of course be searched as well
Creation of all thumbnails is now much more robust, and even the numerous bugs in the Mac OS X cannot crash CDFinder any more
The comment inside JPG photos is now cataloged (that is the unique JPG comment, not the IPTC comment, which CDFinder can already catalog since version 4.5)
Contents of ".sparseimage", and ".iso" disk images are now cataloged, too (along with the DMG and other formats that CDFinder 5.5 already supported)
Spotlight search results and iPhoto files located with GeoFinder in the Found Items window are now badged with the Spotlight or iPhoto logo
Switching from icon to list mode, and changing the size of the icons displayed, now always keeps the selection visible
CDFinder now uses QuickTime to create the preview of PSD files, because CoreGraphics has many bugs with multiple and transparent masks in Photoshop files, which QuickTime surprisingly deals just fine with
Bugfix: RAW photos taken with the new Nikon Coolpix P6000 are now cataloged
Bugfix: You can now again drag files from offline CDFinder catalogs onto the desktop, or any open Finder window. CDFinder will then ask you to insert the volume, and then copy over the files to their destination
Bugfix: A problem detecting volume duplicates if their names contained certain special characters, has been fixed
Bugfix: Reading JPEG-GPS data written by the Dawntech di.Gps Mini II will now work fine. They use a slight variation of the data, and that had confused earlier CDFinder versions
Bugfix: Fixed several AppleScript problems, including the selection of catalogs that was always only based on the selection of the left catalog list, but never on the really active view in the main window
Bugfix: For some audio files, the genre is now correctly cataloged again

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

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Works perfectly - Version: 5.5, 1/29/2009 06:44AM PST

welcome--2008

I must say I'm very impressed. I thought Virtual Machines weren't recognized (cf. my previous post) but it was only a matter of deactivating an option in the preferences. I therefore correct my evaluation: this app rocks by all means and it undoubtedly deserves 5 stars. Also the developper's response is terrific.

No Virtual Machines recognition? - Version: 5.5, 1/29/2009 05:23AM PST

welcome--2008

I'm evaluating CDFinder 5.5 and I'm quite disapointed about one thing: it doesn't recognize virtual machines from Parallels or VMWare Fusion. Instead, the catalogue says the folder size containing the virtual machine is 0 Bytes, which means you have to calculate these sizes manually! Not very practical and quite annoying, because CDFinder is otherwise great. Hope the author finds a fix.

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No Virtual Machines recognition? - But it does! (1 replies)

CDFinder 12 Year Celebration! - Version: 5.1.1, 5/12/2008 02:35AM PST

Norbert M. Doerner 2

To celebrate 12 years of CDFinder, we have prepared a bunch of special offers, such as a special price for the CDFinder Private License, and new CDFinder Business Packages, as well as rebates for license extensions.
Offer valid from now until May 18, 2008, 12:00 noon in Germany.

http://www.cdfinder.de/en/anniversary.html

Thanks again for all your excellent feedback in the past 12 years, and stay tuned for the next 12 years of CDFinder development!!!