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File Buddy

View and edit file and folder metadata.

Version: 9.0.2

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Complaints are mistaken

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Contributed by: jjuni Sunday, October 22 2006 @ 12:51 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

The programmer's email is listed right on the SkyTag website. I emailed to find out product status and received reply within hours. The programmer (Larry) was amazed that anyone had problems with the beta expiring since he had uploaded a newer version before the expiration of the previous one. He confirmed that File Buddy is still an active product and is being actively maintained and improved.

I have tried every search program on VersionTracker and FileBuddy is far and away the best. Superb user interface - minimal interaction needed for basic searches, yet permits very sophisticated searches and manipulation of file characteristics. Combines excellent searching with the capabilities of both Get Info and X-Ray. I use this dozens of times per day and love it.

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Give me a break. - Hal Itosis

> The programmer (Larry) was amazed that anyone had problems
> with the beta expiring since he had uploaded a newer version
> *before* the expiration of the previous one.

WHAT A LIE! The non-functional beta 12 is the only thing that's been on
the website these past 3 weeks. It said beta 12 and I downloaded it anyway.
It did NOT launch successfully. Don't try to revise history, now that beta 13
is finally up. I checked that website every day (with a clean cache)... and,
it was not on the skytag website -- or VersionTracker -- until today (Oct. 22)

Period.

-HI-

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Sunday, October 22 2006 @ 03:23 PM PDT

Larry is a Strange Cat - MAC_1984

Larry is a strange cat. Great piece of must-have software, but strange cat developer. It looks more like that he's relocated to Florida from the Carolinas, and during that transition things floated about. I still love File Buddy though.

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Sunday, October 22 2006 @ 05:17 PM PDT

Not an accident - brian163

Yeah, this comment is a serious heap of crap. I wrote the author weeks ago when b12 died and no one has responded to date. Maybe he was in a coma. Maybe he's Rip Van Winkle. See? Anyone can make up excuses as dumb as this explanation. Why even try to cover the mistake? He screwed with a bunch of paying customers that expected better. Leave it at that, apologize, and start working on beta 14-29 so this doesn't happen again. Or, try releasing a non-expiring beta for a change.

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Sunday, October 22 2006 @ 10:12 PM PDT

Not an accident - brian163

Yeah, this comment is a serious heap of crap also. I wrote the author weeks ago when b12 died and no one has responded to date. Maybe he was in a coma. Maybe he's Rip Van Winkle. See? Anyone can make up excuses as dumb as this explanation. Why even try to cover the mistake? He screwed with a bunch of paying customers that expected better. Leave it at that, apologize, and start working on beta 14-29 so this doesn't happen again. Or, try releasing a non-expiring beta for a change.

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Sunday, October 22 2006 @ 10:13 PM PDT

Just Call Him - MAC_1984

Just call Larry: Contact Skytag

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Tuesday, October 24 2006 @ 02:24 AM PDT

Complaints are mistaken - gslusher

You know, there's a solution to this, the one I've adopted: don't use beta software, expiring or not. Wait until the software is officially released. That will solve all your problems and, I would hope, hold down the whining.

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Friday, November 03 2006 @ 09:51 PM PST