What's new in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.4.3
Nov 1, 2023
- Removed opt-in telemetry from all apps in the suite
- Plugin Manager - Support for choosing your team ID from a list when creating a plugin installer
- Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where plugin names in the format "01.PluginName" would behave incorrectly
- Plugin Manager - Moved plugin installer notarization to new notarytool service
- All apps, including plugin installers, now require at least macOS 10.13
- General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.4.2 (Sep 29, 2022)
- Crash Analyzer - Fixed an issue that could cause logs to not appear on recent versions of macOS
- Plugin Manager - Improved reliability of plugin notarization
- General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.4.1 (Apr 23, 2022)
- Compressor Repair - Improved permissions checking for Compressor 4.x
- Preference Manager - Improved compatibility with Adobe Creative Cloud 2022
- Plugin Manager - Improved support for creating installers for large plugin bundles
- Media Salvage - Fixed an issue where it was possible to select the wrong codec
- System Toolkit - Fixed an issue where non-movie types could be associated with QuickTime Player
- System Toolkit - Various code modernizations
- General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.4 (May 7, 2021)
- Compatibility with M1 Macs and macOS 11 Big Sur
- Autosave Manager - Improved compatibility with recent versions of Adobe Premiere
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Added a column to show the reason a clip was flagged up
- Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue that could cause duplicate folders to appear
- Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where plugin installer creation could fail if there were a lot of plugins in the installer
- Plugin Manager - Improved the robustness of plugin installer code signing
- Plugin Manager - Shows an option to launch the Apple error log URL in your browser if plugin installer notarization failed
- QT Repair - Fixed several issues where errors could be flagged up for QuickTime movies that were unusual but nonetheless valid
- UI and icon improvements
- Lots of minor tweaks and polish
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.3.1 (Mar 3, 2020)
- Improved compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina
- Plugin Manager Installers - Improved compatibility with Apple's new notarization requirements
- Plugin Manager Installers - Better handling of notarization errors, including the option to easily see the notarization log
- Stability improvements
- General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.3 (Nov 7, 2019)
- macOS 10.15 Catalina compatibility
- Dark Mode support
- Migrated away from QuickTime to AV Foundation - this means that older/third-party codecs are no longer supported by Corrupt Clip Finder and Media Salvage
- Plugin Manager - Support for notarizing installers for macOS 10.15 Catalina - please recreate your existing installers
- Various bug fixes and code modernizations
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.7 (Aug 9, 2019)
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Fixed an issue where some files might get erroneously flagged up
- Plugin Manager - Better support for running installer scripts that take a while or require user input
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.6 (Sep 7, 2018)
- Project Repair - Adobe Premiere projects can now be downgraded to open in earlier versions
- Plugin Manager - Support for running scripts inside plugin installers both pre- and post-installation
- Fixed an issue where some apps may not show the Open dialog at startup
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.5 (May 15, 2018)
- Housekeeper - Support for clearing the Avid App Manager cache
- Replaced Growl with native Notification Center alerts
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Ignore Large Images defaults to on in prefs
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Fixed an issue where aborting a scan may not work correctly
- Media Salvage - Fixed an issue where aborting a salvage may not work correctly
- Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where Motion transitions may not be displayed in the list
- General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.4 (Feb 21, 2018)
- Project Repair can now resolve issues caused by locked FCPX events
- Autosave Manager stability improvements
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.3 (Dec 20, 2017)
- Fixed an issue that could cause an error to appear saying an application was damaged
- Various stability improvements and optimizations
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.2 (May 11, 2017)
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing Premiere media caches in custom locations
- Plugin Manager - Improved compatibility with FCPX plugins
- Plugin Manager - Improved Audio Unit validator reliability
- Preference Manager - Disabled preference locking for certain apps due to incompatibility with newer versions of macOS
- Preference Manager - Fixed several issues with how unlockable preferences are displayed in the Lock pane
- General bug fixes and performance improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.1 (Jan 20, 2017)
- Media Salvage - Support for salvaging ProRes 4444 XQ
- Plugin Manager - VST2 and VST3 plugin support
- Crash Analyzer - Improved support for Avid
- QT Repair - Stability improvements
- Plugin Manager - Stability improvements when verifying Audio Units
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2 (Nov 16, 2016)
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing After Effects disk caches not in the default location
- Plugin Manager - Support for Quartz Composer plugins
- Crash Analyzer - Improved Avid support
- CS Repair - Fixed an issue that could cause files to be erroneously flagged up
- Plugin Manager - Improved plugin installer compatibility with Xcode 8 and macOS Sierra
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.9 (Jul 19, 2016)
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing DaVinci Resolve render caches
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing failed Mac App Store software updates
- System Toolkit - Support for trashing CloudKit caches
- Housekeeper - Improved loading times
- CS Repair - Fixed an issue where Premiere may not automatically close
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes and tweaks
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.8 (May 22, 2016)
- Media Salvage - Stability improvements
- Crash Analyzer - Improved support for OS X 10.11 crash logs
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Minor bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.7 (Jan 27, 2016)
- Pro Maintenance Tools now requires OS X 10.8 or higher
- Plugin Manager - Support for OpenFX plugins (e.g. from DaVinci Resolve, Nuke, etc)
- Plugin Manager - Performance improvements
- Media Salvage - Batch set settings if multiple files are selected
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Improved compatibility with FCPX
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes and tweaks
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.6 (Dec 4, 2015)
- Note: this will be the last version of Pro Maintenance Tools that supports OS X 10.6 and 10.7.
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing Motion 5 font / style caches
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing cached NVIDIA CUDA driver installers
- Housekeeper - Improved support for trashing Adobe font caches
- Housekeeper - Minor UI improvements
- Plugin Manager - Performance optimizations
- Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where plugins may not be removed from the list after deletion
- Media Salvage - Fixed an issue where it may not take a custom salvage location into account when checking for available disk space
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes and tweaks
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.5 (Sep 28, 2015)
- OS X 10.11 El Capitan support
- Redesigned Housekeeper user interface
- Media Salvage - Fixed an issue where it may display an error if the source drive doesn't have enough space, even if a custom destination is set
- System Toolkit - Removed Verify / Repair Permissions options from the Disk tab due to them being unavailable in OS X 10.11
- Various other bug fixes and tweaks
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.4 (Sep 5, 2015)
- Housekeeper - Improved Adobe Premiere support
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing FCPX font cache
- Housekeeper - Support for removing Avid App Manager unfinished downloads
- Preference Manager - Improved support for FCPX
- Preference Manager - Improved compatibility with OS X 10.10
- System Toolkit - Toggle Spotlight indexing of network drives
- Various bug fixes and improvements to the app launcher
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.3 (Jun 24, 2015)
- Adobe Creative Cloud 2015 compatibility
- Housekeeper - Support for clearing After Effects disk cache
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing Audition plugin caches
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.2 (May 19, 2015)
- Project Repair - Improved compatibility with FCPX events
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.1 (Apr 6, 2015)
- Project Repair - Support for stripping stabilization data from FCPX projects
- XML Repair - Added a fix for the FCPX error "Element audio does not carry attribute ref."
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing Avid image caches
- Preference Manager - Improved compatibility with OS X's preference caching mechanism
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1 (Feb 10, 2015)
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing Avid waveform caches
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing Avid DSM logs
- Plugin Manager - Crash Tester now supports FCPX, Adobe Premiere and Avid Media Composer
- Plugin Manager - You can now show video / audio plugins only
- Plugin Manager - Various UI improvements
- Preference Manager - Minor bug fixes
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.28 (Dec 12, 2014)
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.27 (Dec 11, 2014)
- Project Repair - Analyzes Premiere project structures to determine if the project data has been truncated
- System Toolkit - Added the ability to reset Adobe plugin blacklists
- Plugin Manager - Improved Adobe CC 2014.1 compatibility
- Preference Manager - Improved Adobe CC 2014.1 compatibility
- Crash Analyzer - Fixed an issue that may cause it to erroneously say a newer update is available when submitting a log
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.26 (Oct 18, 2014)
- OS X 10.10 compatibility
- System Toolkit - Added an option to turn off App Nap globally
- System Toolkit - Overhauled the Caches pane
- System Toolkit - Added support for clearing QuickLook and Help caches
- System Toolkit - Various UI improvements
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Fixed a hang when color coding large numbers of files at once
- Project Repair - Fixed a crash that could occur when closing the window in the middle of a Premiere project repair
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.25 (Sep 18, 2014)
- Plugin Manager - Searching
- Preference Manager - After Effects default scripts are now ignored
- OS X 10.9.5 compatibility
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.24 (Aug 20, 2014)
- QuickFix now runs System Toolkit cache clearance tasks
- Housekeeper - Locates additional libraries for cleaning via Spotlight
- Media Salvage - Support for 32kHz audio
- QT Repair - Fixed an issue that could cause high memory usage
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.23 (Jul 1, 2014)
- Support for Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2014
- Support for FCPX 10.1.2
- Autosave Manager - Support for FCPX backups
- System Toolkit - Support for trashing the ColorSync cache
- Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where plugins may not be draggable
- Plugin Manager - Stability improvements
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.22 (May 29, 2014)
- Compressor Repair - Fixes the "Unable to submit to queue" error in Compressor 4.1
- Housekeeper - Added a fix for QuickTime Player X UI unresponsiveness
- Housekeeper - Added support for trashing FCPX library caches
- Media Salvage - Simplified the output codec menu
- Media Salvage - Fixed an issue where temp files may not be removed
- Crash Analyzer - Improved support for logs generated on OS X 10.9
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.21 (Mar 7, 2014)
- Crash Analyzer - improved compatibility with OS X 10.9.2
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.20 (Mar 1, 2014)
- Media Salvage - You can now choose a custom salvage location
- Preference Manager - Improved compatibility with OS X 10.9
- Crash Analyzer - Fixed an issue where notifications could appear for old crashes
- Plugin Manager - Stability improvements
- Fixed an issue where Software Update may not work when launched manually
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.19 (Jan 22, 2014)
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Improved FCPX 10.1 compatibility
- Preference Manager - Improved compatibility with Adobe Creative Cloud 7.1
- FCPX libraries are now browsable within relevant applications
- Plugin Manager - Stability improvements
- System Toolkit - Stability improvements
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.18 (Jan 4, 2014)
- Compressor Repair - Compressor 4.1 compatibility
- Housekeeper - FCPX 10.1 compatibility
- Plugin Manager - Stability and performance improvements
- Plugin Manager - Added an option to ignore FxFactory plugins
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Plugin Manager - Stability improvements
- Preference Manager - Logic Pro X support
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and polish
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.17 (Oct 18, 2013)
- OS X 10.9 compatibility
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing FCPX share cache
- MC Repair - Fixed an issue that could cause it to erroneously say there more than 5000 media files in a folder
- Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where FCPX plugins with version numbers in the title may not appear
- Plugin Manager - New icons for Motion Template plugins
- Plugin Manager - Stability improvements
- Preference Manager - Logic Pro X support
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Various other bug fixes, tweaks and polish
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.16 (Jul 16, 2013)
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Fixed an issue that could cause no files to be scanned with Adobe Premiere CC projects on certain systems
- Project Repair - Fixed an issue that could cause repairing to fail with Adobe Premiere CC projects on certain systems
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.15 (Jul 12, 2013)
- Compatibility with Adobe Premiere CC
- Preference Manager - Cloud backups via Kollaborate
- Preference Manager - Adobe Creative Cloud support
- Preference Manager - Pro Tools support
- QT Repair - Fixed an issue where the Repair button may be disabled if you cancel the Quick Start dialog
- Crash Analyzer - Improved compatibility with Adobe Premiere
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.14 (Apr 24, 2013)
- Plugin Manager - Plugin list can now be printed
- Plugin Manager - Improved performance when switching between application filters
- Crash Analyzer - Improved FCPX trial support
- Task Scheduler - Improved the reliability of scheduling tasks at a specific date and time
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Stability improvements
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.13 (Feb 15, 2013)
- Project Repair - Improved compatibility with Adobe Premiere
- Project Repair - Added an option to strip Adobe Premiere Warp Stabilizer cache metadata
- Project Repair - Added the ability to reset scratch disks for Premiere projects
- Project Repair - Added the ability to strip Premiere workspace information
- Plugin Manager - Stability improvements
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.12 (Dec 7, 2012)
- Crash Analyzer - Fixed an issue where the crash log list could be empty at startup
- CS Repair - Checks to see if Premiere is set to open in 32-bit
- Housekeeper - Clears caches for FCPX projects and events on external drives
- MC Repair - Checks to see if Avid is set to open in 32-bit
- MC Repair - Improved stability
- Media Salvage - When copying settings from another file, if an audio or video format is unsupported it now still fills in the other details such as frame rate and interlacing
- Plugin Manager - Support for plugin installer registration with CocoaFob
- Plugin Manager - FCPX Motion templates can now be installed for all users
- Plugin Installer - Improved compatibility with network home folders
- Preference Manager - Improved compatibility with network home folders
- Preference Manager - Fixed a crash that could occur if Final Cut Pro took too long to launch
- Project Repair - Changed the renaming of backups to prevent conflicts with FCPX
- System Toolkit - Option to force English language UI for Media Composer and Symphony
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.11 (Oct 12, 2012)
- CS Repair can now reset the Creative Suite memory balancer
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing Saved Application States
- MC Repair - Checks for more than 5000 files in an MXF folder
- Preference Manager - Support for backing up Premiere Pro audio channel layouts
- Preference Manager - Added a function to relink FCP 7 preferences back to Motion 4 to prevent an error at startup if Motion 5 is installed
- System Toolkit - Support for resetting Address Book privacy decisions
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Fixed a hang that could occur when moving or trashing large numbers of corrupt clips
- Path Manager - Fixed an issue where FCP paths may not display correctly
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.10 (Jul 13, 2012)
- OS X 10.8 support
- QuickFix - Significant performance boost
- Media Salvage - Support for specifying interlacing settings
- MC Repair now checks permissions on StartupItems
- Plugin Manager - Options for adding an EULA, background image and icon to plugin installers
- Autosave Manager - Fixed an issue where the interface would not display in certain circumstances
- Plugin Manager - Fixed a crash that could occur when cmd-tabbing back to the app
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.9 (Jun 13, 2012)
- Fixed an issue that could cause an app to hang
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.8 (May 23, 2012)
- IMPORTANT: This version requires OS X 10.6 or higher. An older version for OS X 10.5 is available here.
- Avid Symphony support
- Adobe Premiere CS6 support
- CS Repair - Improved processing speed
- Housekeeper - Ability to reset Premiere title editor settings
- Housekeeper - Ability to clear Adobe Media Encoder queue
- Plugin Manager - Stability improvements
- Preference Manager - Improved compatibility with multi-user environments
- Preference Manager - Ability to backup Premiere Pro keyboard layouts
- Improved OS X 10.8 Gatekeeper compatibility
- Fixed an issue where it could say an application was damaged
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.7 (Apr 4, 2012)
- IMPORTANT: This version requires OS X 10.6 or higher. An older version for OS X 10.5 is available at here.
- Plugin Manager - Plugin installer added. This is useful for developers to create self-contained installers for their plugins and effects. End-users do not need Pro Maintenance Tools installed to use the installer.
- Plugin Manager - Improved compatibility with FxFactory plugins
- Plugin Manager - Added a Delete all Disabled Plugins function
- Plugin Manager - Minor performance improvements
- Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where some system Audio Units would always fail the validation test
- Housekeeper - Fixed an issue where it could hang when trashing FCP waveform or thumbnail caches
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.6 (Feb 22, 2012)
- Compressor Repair - Fixed an issue where it may not properly clear out Compressor history
- Crash Analyzer - Fixed several issues with the error message search function
- CS Repair - Performance improvements
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing audio aggregate device preferences (can solve Premiere Pro issues)
- MC Repair - Performance improvements
- Plugin Manager - Improved compatibility with FxFactory plugins
- Plugin Manager - Enhanced support for Motion effects
- Plugin Manager - Fixed several issues with plugin installation
- Preference Manager - Fixed an issue where it could present an error dialog when automatically launching Final Cut Pro
- Project Repair can now repair Motion projects
- Project Repair - Support for stripping Premiere project keyframes
- QT Repair - Added an option to not create a backup before repairing
- QT Repair - Fixed an issue where the app would hang when removing edits on very large files
- QT Repair - Various reliability and performance improvements when removing edits
- QT Repair - Fixed an issue where long movies might not be able to be scrubbed after removing edits
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.5 (Jan 6, 2012)
- Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where the Crash Tester could get stuck at the Initializing stage
- Plugin Manager no longer asks whether to only install for the current user when installing Adobe / Avid plugins
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing ProKit preferences
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.4 (Dec 15, 2011)
- Avid Media Composer 6 support
- Compressor Repair - Improved Compressor 4 support
- Compressor Repair - Faster processing speeds
- Crash Analyzer - Improved reliability when pasting logs
- Housekeeper - Support for Compressor 4
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing Final Cut Pro X thumbnail, peak and analysis caches
- Housekeeper - Improved support for Premiere media caches
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing the Avid Media Composer 6 web cache
- Housekeeper - Fixed an issue where Final Cut Pro X may fail to close properly
- Path Manager - Compressor 4 support
- Plugin Manager - Improvements in loading speed
- Project Repair - Support for repairing Adobe Premiere projects
- Project Repair - Fixed an issue where it would not repair FCP projects without file extensions
- System Toolkit - QuickTime components now list their manufacturer
- Option for all apps to show Open dialog at startup
- Compatibility with Growl 1.3
- Improved general stability and reliability
- Fixed an issue where Pro Maintenance Tools may ask you to re-enter your registration information unnecessarily
- Fixed an issue where Pro Admin could erroneously say that Pro Maintenance Tools was not installed correctly
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.3 (Oct 27, 2011)
- Support for the Final Cut Pro X trial
- Crash Analyzer - Color coded logs now appear colored in the Finder
- Crash Analyzer - Color coding is now preserved when updating Pro Maintenance Tools or trashing caches
- Crash Analyzer - Error message search box is more forgiving if your search query doesn't exactly match the error message
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing Premiere Pro plugin cache and column settings
- Housekeeper - Fixed an issue where some files would only be trashed for Premiere Pro 5.0 and not earlier or later versions
- Housekeeper - Fixed a Leopard crash when trashing waveform and thumbnail caches
- MC Repair - Fixed a crash when performing a repair
- Plugin Manager - Improved startup times
- Plugin Manager - Improved performance when filtering plugins
- Plugin Manager - Fixed a crash when adjusting the host application filter before the plugin list had loaded
- Preference Manager - Added an option to replace all files in a backup with the current versions on disk
- Preference Manager - Support for backing up Premiere Pro sequence presets, styles and column settings
- Preference Manager - Fixed a crash when performing a backup
- Project Repair - Support for repairing FCPX project database headers
- System Toolkit - Support for trashing Mac App Store caches
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.2 (Sep 22, 2011)
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Add custom file extensions (e.g. MTS, R3D) to allow Corrupt Clip Finder to scan additional formats if you have installed third-party QuickTime components to support them
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Support for scanning FCPX XML files
- CS Repair - Fixed an issue where it can cause error 10810
- CS Repair - Fixed an issue where it could fail to set the correct permissions on certain files
- FCS Remover - Fixed an issue where FCS Remover may not be able to create the temporary folder and removal will fail
- MC Repair - Fixed an issue where it can cause error 10810
- MC Repair - Minor speed boost
- Plugin Manager - Plugins can be filtered on a per-host application basis
- Plugin Manager - Improved Audio Unit validation speed
- Plugin Manager - Support for Avid RTAS plugins
- Plugin Manager - Support for Premiere VST plugins
- Plugin Manager - Support for Motion 5 templates
- Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where the application could time out at startup if a large number of plugins were installed
- Preference Manager - Fixed a crash when opening a backup from the Finder
- Preference Manager - Added an option to zip and email a backup
- System Toolkit - Added an option to mount the Lion recovery partition
- System Toolkit - Disk scan status messages now appear in real-time
- System Toolkit - Added an option to reset Avid licenses
- System Toolkit - Fixed an issue where disk scans could hang if a large number of errors were reported
- XML Repair - Support for repairing FCPX XML files
- Fixed an issue where the Bug Reporter would not appear if a crash occurred
- When running a QuickFix from the launcher, it now always favors the Pro Maintenance Tools version if FCS Maintenance Pack is also installed
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0.1 (Aug 16, 2011)
- Housekeeper - Support for trashing FCPX Motion Template cache
- Housekeeper - Support for removing FCPX saved layouts
- Plugin Manager - Support for Avid AVX2 plugins
- Preference Manager - Linked projects can now be added, viewed and removed by ctrl-clicking a backup
- Preference Manager - Fixed several issues when editing and renaming backups
- Crash Analyzer - Fixed an issue where some dates would appear as 1903
- Software Update - Fixed an issue where Pro Admin would hang after installing an update for Software Update
- System Toolkit - Added an option to disable app icons from bouncing in the Dock
- System Toolkit - Added an option to disable Lion window launch animations
- System Toolkit - Added an option to prevent Lion restoring windows when relaunching an application
- System Toolkit - Added an option to show or hide the user's Library directory
- System Toolkit - Added an option to enable 10.6-style key repeating in Lion
- System Toolkit - Added an option to enable the Cmd+D shortcut for "Don't Save" in save panels in Lion
- System Toolkit - Added an option to disable automatic spell checking in Lion
- XML Repair - Fixed an issue that could prevent certain types of XML files from being repaired
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.0 (Jul 12, 2011)
- 64-bit support
- Lion compatibility
- Support for Final Cut Pro X, Avid Media Composer for Mac and Adobe Premiere Pro for Mac
- Preference Manager - Completely rewritten with simplified interface
- New applications - CS Repair and MC Repair, for fixing Adobe Premiere and Avid Media Composer issues, respectively
- Crash Analyzer - New log management features including annotations and color coding
- Crash Analyzer now backs up crash logs to prevent OS X from deleting them automatically
- Crash Analyzer can now display a Growl dialog showing the cause whenever your editing application crashes
- System Toolkit - Ability to set 32/64-bit boot mode
- System Toolkit - Overhaul of the Streamlining system, resulting in greater reliability
- System Toolkit - Overhaul of the Cleanup Tasks system (called Trash Caches in previous versions), resulting in greater reliability
- System Toolkit - QuickTime Components section now shows whether a component is 32- or 64-bit
- System Toolkit - Easily set QuickTime Player 7 or QuickTime Player X as the default video player with just one button press
- Autosave Cleaner is now Autosave Manager
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- Over 300 additional changes and bug fixes
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.3.4 (Apr 18, 2011)
- Compatibility with Pro Media Tools
- FCS Maintenance Pack Launcher has now been replaced with Digital Rebellion App Launcher
- Compressor Repair - Can now repair issues where Start / Stop Sharing hangs or fails to function
- Crash Analyzer - Performance boost
- FCS Housekeeper - Support for trashing Quartz Composer caches for Final Cut Pro and Motion
- Preference Manager - Fixed several issues where preferences would not be trashed due to incorrect permissions
- Fixed a potential crash when closing an alert
- Minor speed boost for all apps
- Fixed a potential Corrupt Clip Finder crash
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.3.3 (Mar 8, 2011)
- Fixed an issue with Corrupt Clip Finder erroneously flagging up files
- Corrupt Clip Finder now reports all files being scanned, not just media files (restoration of 1.3.1 functionality)
- Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue with Crash Tester not working correctly with plugins that need an admin password in order to be disabled
- System Toolkit - Verify / Repair Permissions are now disabled on all drives except the boot volume
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.3.2 (Feb 22, 2011)
- Crash Analyzer - Printing support
- Crash Analyzer - Support for emailing logs
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Significantly improved scanning times
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Added tooltips for each file to show why it was flagged up
- Improved Autosave Cleaner loading speed
- Improved Path Manager loading speed
- Improved Crash Analyzer loading speed
- FCS Housekeeper - Fixed an issue that could cause the "files in use" message to appear when emptying the trash
- Fixed an issue that could cause tasks that require an admin password to fail if run more than once
- QT Repair - Fixed an issue that could cause invalid files in certain circumstances
- QT Repair - Fixed a crash that could occur if a file was heavily corrupt
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.3.1 (Dec 15, 2010)
- QT Repair now works better with large files
- Task Scheduler - Fixed an issue that could prevent tasks from being added
- System Toolkit now displays a prompt before force unmounting
- Crash Analyzer - Added a Consolidate function to import crash logs from other users on the system
- Crash Analyzer - Improved how overloaded crashes are detected
- Fixed several issues with context menus not appearing and keyboard shortcuts not being recognized
- Path Manager - Improved handling of Final Cut Pro paths
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.3 (Nov 9, 2010)
- New utility - QuickFix
- Keyboard shortcut support
- Growl support for certain applications
- File Salvage has been renamed Media Salvage to better reflect its purpose
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Support for Motion, Color, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro and LiveType projects
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Flags up images greater than 4000px
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Support for CMYK images
- Crash Analyzer now has a feature to look up error codes
- Crash Analyzer's suggestions have been overhauled to be clearer and more visually appealing
- Crash Analyzer - Crash logs can now be dragged out of the window
- FCS Housekeeper - Support for resetting Soundtrack Pro and Cinema Tools window layouts
- QT Repair can optionally ask you for the location of the destination file when repairing instead of defaulting to the current folder
- QT Repair - Multithreaded file scanning
- QT Repair - Fixed several issues that could prevent trimmed media being restored correctly
- Fixed several System Toolkit crashes
- Various UI improvements
- Updated icons (thanks to Ben King)
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.3 Beta 2 (Sep 23, 2010)
- Corrupt Clip Finder now supports all Final Cut Studio applications:
- Corrupt Clip Finder can now search for corrupt clips inside Motion, Color, Soundtrack Pro, DVD Studio Pro and LiveType project files.
- It can now also search for corrupt image files and flag up images that are larger than 4000 pixels, the maximum allowable image size in Final Cut Pro.
- QT Repair is now multi-threaded:
- QT Repair now uses all of your available cores to scan files, resulting in significantly improved processing times. For best results, run it on Snow Leopard, as it benefits from optimizations made in 10.6.
- QT Repair presets:
- QT Repair now offers you several presets for getting the most out of your files. It significantly reduces the learning curve and ensures that you don't waste time using settings that won't repair your file.
- Keyboard shortcuts now supported for all apps:
- Keyboard shortcut support, introduced in beta 1 for QuickFix and FCS Housekeeper, has now been extended to all applications in the suite. Growl notifications, however, are still limited to QuickFix and FCS Housekeeper.
- FCS Maintenance Pack uninstaller:
- FCS Maintenance Pack now has an uninstaller, included on the disk image. This makes it easy to go back to the stable 1.2.8 release after installing the beta, should you wish to do so.
- Network Admin now works on restricted user accounts:
- FCS Maintenance Pack Network Admin, our tool for managing FCS Maintenance Pack over a network, now works correctly with restricted user accounts when used in conjunction with FCS Maintenance Pack 1.3b2.
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.2.8 (Aug 25, 2010)
- File Salvage – Audio detection improvements
- Software Update – Fixed an issue with installation failing due to incorrect permissions
- Numerous stability improvements
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.3 Beta 1 (Aug 20, 2010)
- New tool - QuickFix - Ever had a problem with Final Cut Pro but don't know (or care) what it's caused by? There are lots of tools in FCS Maintenance Pack but you need to have a general idea of what the problem is in order to know which tool can fix it.
- QuickFix aims to solve this problem by becoming a one-stop solution whenever problems occur. When something goes wrong simply launch it, press the QuickFix button and it will perform a series of common tasks to resolve issues that would normally require launching several tools at once. You can then quickly get back to work without needing to worry about determining the cause of the issue.
- Keyboard shortcuts - Now you can perform common maintenance tasks simply by pressing a keyboard shortcut. When used in conjunction with QuickFix, it makes it even more powerful by enabling you to easily fix common problems simply by pressing a button. It makes QuickFix even quicker.
- Note: keyboard shortcuts are only supported for FCS Housekeeper and QuickFix in this beta. Support for the other apps in the suite will be added in future betas.
- Crash Analyzer error message database - Crash Analyzer is invaluable when Final Cut Studio applications crash, but what if they just display an error message without crashing? That's why we've added a new tool to Crash Analyzer that allows you to search for common error messages and receive tips for overcoming them.
- The database is very much a work in progress right now so not every error message is supported. If you receive a message that's not in the database we'd appreciate it if you could use the built-in error message submission system to send it to us so that we can support it in future versions.
- File Salvage droplets - You can now create droplets (mini-applications that you can drag files onto) within File Salvage to make it easier to salvage multiple files of the same format at once. Just go to File > Create Droplet, select the relevant source and destination formats and then drag corrupt files onto the droplet.
- Growl notification support - If you schedule a task or use a keyboard shortcut it can be difficult to tell when the task is running. If you have Growl installed, FCS Maintenance Pack can now notify you when these background tasks run.
- Note: Growl is only supported for FCS Housekeeper and QuickFix in this beta. Support for the other apps in the suite will be added in future betas.
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.2.7 (Aug 4, 2010)
- Improved compatibility with FCS Maintenance Pack Network Admin
- Autosave Cleaner - Copy and Move Files manual actions added
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Cmd-K can now be used to skip files that are taking a long time to scan
- System Toolkit - Improved reliability when streamlining applications
- Fixed an issue where Preference Manager would sometimes refuse to launch
- Preference Manager - Improved compatibility with network user accounts
- Comments can now be added to Crash Analyzer log submissions
- Several installer bugs fixed
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.2.6 (Jun 29, 2010)
- File Salvage now works better with large DV files
- Path Manager - Significant improvements in loading times
- Path Manager now works better with locked preference files
- Fixed an issue where System Toolkit would pop up a password dialog when running as a task
- New installer to resolve installation issues experienced by some users on 10.6
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.2.5 (Jun 1, 2010)
- Autosave Cleaner - Improved Final Cut Express support
- Autosave Cleaner - Can now automatically archive autosaves instead of removing them
- Autosave Cleaner - Additional manual cleaning options added
- Compressor Repair - Fixed an issue where multiple clusters would sometimes appear after repairing
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Significant speed improvements when scanning folders
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Accuracy improvements when scanning Final Cut Pro projects
- Path Manager - Final Cut Express support
- Preference Manager - Fixed an incompatibility with the Open in Editor function of Final Cut Pro
- QT Repair can now repair invalid ImageDescription extensions
- QT Repair - Added m4v support
- System Toolkit - Now lists system QuickTime components
- Task Scheduler - Now runs certain tasks as root to prevent password dialogs from popping up
- XML Repair - Interface improvements
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.2.4 (Apr 14, 2010)
- QT Repair - Fixed an issue where large files would not repair correctly
- System Toolkit - Speed increases when performing Refresh Files and Strip Temp Files scans
- System Toolkit now pays attention to language settings when showing eligible files for streamlining
- Corrupt Clip Finder no longer stops processing when it encounters a read-only hidden file
- FCS Housekeeper - Now closes running apps before cleaning and reopens them when it finishes
- Software updater can now check for beta updates (switch this on in preferences)
- Path Manager - Fixed a bug with the Qmaster cluster path not being recognized when using the Browse button
- Task Scheduler - Reduction in the CPU usage and disk I/O of scheduled tasks
- Task Scheduler - Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause tasks to repeat over and over
- Plugin Manager - Many UI improvements
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.2.3 (Mar 25, 2010)
- QT Repair - added options to ignore certain consistency checks when rebuilding - this can help to repair particularly problematic files
- QT Repair - added option to renumber track IDs to ensure they are unique
- QT Repair now caches file information to speed up rebuilds when rebuilding from the same working file
- File Salvage - Improvements to audio salvaging
- File Salvage - Fixed an issue with green frames appearing in the middle of DVCProHD movies
- File Salvage - Improved memory usage and responsiveness when scanning
- System Toolkit - Improved memory usage when scanning applications
- Launcher - Fixed an issue with a blank launcher window appearing on 10.6
- Crash Analyzer now shows an icon to indicate when a log has been submitted to Digital Rebellion for analysis
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.2.2 (Mar 6, 2010)
- Improved Corrupt Clip Finder clip detection
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Batch operations on corrupt clips are now supported
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Corrupt files can now be color coded in the Finder for easy identification
- Corrupt Clip Finder - UI improvements
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Added a timeout to prevent reference movies with missing data from tying up the application
- Path Manager - Support for Final Cut Pro user paths (read-only)
- Autosave Cleaner - Added the ability to specify autosave paths manually
- FCS Housekeeper - Simplified the application by adding presets for common tasks
- File Salvage - Improvements in responsiveness when creating a QuickTime movie
- QT Repair - UI improvements
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.2.1 (Feb 12, 2010)
- Improved Task Scheduler memory usage
- Fixed an Autosave Cleaner crash
- Improved compatibility with PowerPC processors
- File Salvage now supports Big Endian audio formats
- File Salvage now supports audio for DV QuickTime movies
- Path Manager automatically creates a subfolder for safety if you set a path to an important directory such as your user library or system root
- Corrupt Clip Finder can now locate corrupt audio files
- Preference Manager can now automatically launch the Final Cut Pro System Settings dialog when a new project is opened
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes, tweaks and performance improvements
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.2 (Jan 20, 2010)
- General:
- Final Cut Express support
- Apps can now be password protected to prevent user abuse
- General bug fixes, performance enhancements and stability improvements
- New application - QT Repair:
- Repairs files where the movie data is intact but the QuickTime container is corrupt
- Repairs invalid CLUT IDs
- Removes edits and restores trimmed content if the movie data is still inside the file
- For more heavily damaged files, it can combine the movie data of the damaged file with the QuickTime structure of a working file
- New application - Path Manager (replaces Content Manager):
- Manages user paths and content directories
- Repair broken content links and remove or move content quickly and easily
- New application - XML Repair:
- Repairs invalid Final Cut Pro XML (XMEML) files
- Can convert files from one XMEML version to another for compatibility with earlier versions of Final Cut Pro
- File Salvage:
- New batch processing interface
- Support for DVCPRO HD
- Support for Apple Intermediate Codec
- Support for ProRes 422, HQ, LT, Proxy and 4444 formats
- Audio support for certain formats
- Encoding settings can now be taken from a working file
- Crash Analyzer:
- Now supports all Final Cut Studio applications, not just Final Cut Pro
- Dramatic improvement in loading times
- Improved support for Boris Title3D
- Updated definitions
- Autosave Cleaner:
- Motion support added
- System Toolkit:
- Streamline backups can now be restored
- Disk refreshes can now be resumed
- FCS Housekeeper:
- UI redesign
- Additional cache locations added
- Now works if Spotlight is disabled
- Corrupt Clip Finder:
- UI improvements
- Directories are now searched recursively
- Improved accuracy of corrupt clip detection
- Plugin Manager:
- You can now make plugins available for all users or just the current user
- Includes a new Audio Unit validation tool
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.2 Beta 2 (Dec 21, 2009)
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Improved progress display.
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Stability improvements.
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Corrupt files are now displayed in the list as they occur.
- Corrupt Clip Finder now searches directories recursively.
- File Salvage - Fixed an inaccuracy when processing DV NTSC footage.
- File Salvage - Added support for NTSC and PAL ProRes files.
- File Salvage - Drag and drop support added.
- Project Repair - Stability improvements.
- System Toolkit - Checks apps are closed before streamlining.
- Crash Analyzer - Updated definitions.
- Path Manager - Updates parent directory when an individual item is edited.
- Plugin Manager - Lots of bug fixes and performance boosts.
- Plugin Manager - Audio Unit Validation UI improvements.
- Plugin Manager: Added the ability to drag plugin folders into the window.
- QT Repair - Stability and memory usage improvements.
- QT Repair - Added support for removing edits from QuickTime files.
- QT Repair - Now supports files larger than 4 GB.
- General bug fixes and performance improvements.
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.2 Beta 1 (Nov 6, 2009)
- New application - XML Repair. Fixes illegal characters, malformed XML, missing tags and elements not supported by the current XMEML version.
- New application - QT Repair. Repairs various structural problems with damaged QuickTime movie files to allow them to be opened by QuickTime again.
- New application - Path Manager (replaces Content Manager). Allows you to manage your user and content paths from a central location.
- Autosave Cleaner now supports Motion.
- Plugin Manager now allows you to change whether or not a plugin is available to the current user or all users.
- Plugin Manager - added a new tool to validate Audio Units
- Corrupt Clip Finder - now works on movie files without a .mov extension
- Corrupt Clip Finder - improved the accuracy of corrupt clip detection
- Redesigned FCS Housekeeper UI
- FCS Housekeeper now works even if Spotlight is disabled on the scratch drive
- Crash Analyzer now supports all applications in Final Cut Studio
- Crash Analyzer - dramatic improvement in loading speed
- System Toolkit can now restore streamline backups
- File Salvage now supports Apple Intermediate Codec, ProRes and DVCPROHD
- Redesigned File Salvage interface with a focus on batch processing
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.1.6 (Oct 16, 2009)
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Fixed a random Snow Leopard crash
- Corrupt Clip Finder - Improved the speed of Final Cut Pro project scanning
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.1.5 (Oct 6, 2009)
- Improved compatibility with non-administrator user accounts.
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions.
- General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations.
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.1.4 (Oct 1, 2009)
- Improvements to trial validation
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- System Toolkit now shows per-file progress when refreshing large files
- General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.1.3 (Sep 25, 2009)
- Improved Launcher UI.
- Corrupt Clip Finder now operates independently of Final Cut Pro.
- Crash Analyzer now informs users if their version of FCP is incompatible with their
- operating system.
- Task Scheduler now notifies the user if the application associated with a task has been
- removed.
- Fixed a bug where File Salvage would report the wrong frame count.
- General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations.
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.1.2 (Sep 17, 2009)
- Snow Leopard compatibility.
- Improved Crash Analyzer UI.
- Added a crash reporter to all applications.
- Plugin Manager window now refreshes automatically.
- Autosave Cleaner now updates automatically.
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions.
- Significant improvement in Task Scheduler launch speed.
- Added registration option to launcher.
- General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations.
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.1.1 (Sep 12, 2009)
- Added a QuickTime section to System Toolkit
- You can now choose to save multiple languages when streamlining, instead of just the current system language
- General bug fixes and optimizations
New in Pro Maintenance Tools 1.1 (Sep 10, 2009)
- Added a Launcher application for convenience
- New UI for Plugin Manager - plugins can now be grouped
- Task Scheduler can now execute tasks whenever a file changes inside a watched folder
- Extra disk options for System Toolkit - you can now toggle Time Machine and Spotlight support and trash Spotlight caches on a per-volume basis.
- Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
- General bug fixes and tweaks