File Juicer Changelog

What's new in File Juicer 4.99 Build 1484

Jan 25, 2024
  • New: Extraction of some RAW audio data from PDF files (rarely needed - ask if you do)
  • Speed: Speed gains for JPG search
  • Logging: will log write errors to the log files if they occur
  • Update: Rebuilt with XCode 15.2 and notarized with Apples newish notarizetool

New in File Juicer 4.98 Build 1476 (Jan 13, 2023)

  • Fix: Fix for extracting some PDF bitmaps from some PDF files

New in File Juicer 4.97 Build 1468 (Sep 18, 2022)

  • Update: Built with XCode 14 Just to use Apple's newest tools and have best performance on Ventura
  • Update: Apple Deprecated function calls updated
  • Update: Fresh Apple codesignature and notarized

New in File Juicer 4.96 Build 1444 (Sep 19, 2021)

  • Update: Built with XCode 13 RC - just to use Apple's newest tools. New version of macOS is coming, this is just a step closer for coming support

New in File Juicer 4.96 (Jul 2, 2021)

  • Fix: extracting some uncompressed FLV videos from PDF files

New in File Juicer 4.95 (May 27, 2021)

  • Fix: extracting tiff files embedded in IsoDraw CAD files

New in File Juicer 4.94 (Apr 18, 2021)

  • Update: can now extract some partial JPG files which as gotten the end chopped off by accident. I expect this to be rather rare, but it may save a few otherwise lost pixels

New in File Juicer 4.93 (Mar 21, 2021)

  • Change: update to pull out files from Evernote enex archives
  • Change: text completely encoded in the somewhat rare UTF16 encoding will now be identified as text.

New in File Juicer 4.92 (Feb 28, 2021)

  • New: convert checkbox to turn on/off conversion of RAW files to TIFF. Useful to switch off conversions when extracting from photo libraries.
  • New: shortcut for browser caches for Brave and Microsoft Edge
  • Changed: when juicing browser cache, the date of the currently juiced files is shown instead of the file name. This lets you stop juicing earlier if you are only interested in recent data.

New in File Juicer 4.91 (Feb 26, 2021)

  • Fix: Shortcuts for juicing Safari and Firefox caches work again on Big Sur

New in File Juicer 4.90 (Feb 4, 2021)

  • Updated: File Juicer's log files now show up in the Console app, and extra logging is available at "info" level in the Console
  • Fix: output folder did not display properly in macOS Dark Mode
  • A good deal of source code grooming - all tests passed

New in File Juicer 4.89 (Jan 29, 2021)

  • New: runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs

New in File Juicer 4.88 (Oct 5, 2020)

  • Fix: now extracts Windows BMP files which use ICC Profiles
  • Fix: html markup error in the index files File Juicer makes for getting an overview of all the images it extracts
  • Updated: to improve future compatibility with macOS I have updated a lot of deprecated API to the modern replacements

New in File Juicer 4.87 (Sep 8, 2020)

  • New: extracts WebP images files (common in the Chrome Cache). Saves the both as Webp and as heic
  • New: extracts heic files. The native photo format of iPhones.
  • Updated localizations: Russian thanks to Michael Krekin and French thanks to Ronald Leroux

New in File Juicer 4.86 (Jul 24, 2020)

  • Fix: Safari Cache juicing bug for macOS Catalina
  • Fix: unchecking uninteresting file formats for cache search now works. Can help a bit with speed if you are only interested in text files. Notice that text files may contain text encoded images which will still get extracted.
  • Added: when juicing many files text contained in all the files is collected in one single large file called "All The Text.txt". This makes search much simpler. Certainly in the case of thousands of files which may be in a browser cache.

New in File Juicer 4.85 (Jun 12, 2020)

  • Fix: extracting URLs form some PDF files now works
  • Added: Saving Next to Juiced files in the preferences

New in File Juicer 4.84 (Jan 30, 2020)

  • Fix: scanned black/white images in some PDF fiex would be cropped on Mojave on Retina equipped Macs
  • Fix: extracts small thumbnail images from 7th generation iPod nano ithmb files named "F1005_1.ithmb"

New in File Juicer 4.83 (Jan 9, 2020)

  • Fix: problem saving the extracted files in a user selected folder. Error message: "Could not make a folder for the juiced files. Check the preferences"

New in File Juicer 4.82 (Dec 8, 2019)

  • New: "Quit After Use" checkbox in preferences->results. It will let File Juicer quit automatically after doing its job. Practical if you have File Juicer in the Dock and want an unintrucive way to juice files.

New in File Juicer 4.81 (Nov 18, 2019)

  • Improved: less junk text when recovering text out of unknown or damaged files
  • Improved: some Safari cached javascript files were omitted
  • New: samples - a cropped PDF and an image file with extras attached
  • New: identifies SVG font files with double extension ".font.svg".

New in File Juicer 4.80 (Oct 25, 2019)

  • Fix: improved extraction from EXE files (self extracting archives using zip compression intended for Windows users). Self extracting archives is a terrible idea abandoned a long time ago. EXE files are not supposed to contain data!
  • Update: improved extraction from CAB files

New in File Juicer 4.79 (Sep 26, 2019)

  • Fix: sometimes asked twice for registration number twice when using copy and paste

New in File Juicer 4.78 (Jul 29, 2019)

  • Fix: crash when juicing large photoslibraries
  • Update: .photoslibrary files now have info on the manual

New in File Juicer 4.77 (Jun 27, 2019)

  • Update: .textclipping files now gets special treatment to improve quality of extracted content

New in File Juicer 4.76 (May 8, 2019)

  • Update: vCard (.vcf) and Calendar (.ics) files are recognized when extracting from email files

New in File Juicer 4.75 (Apr 11, 2019)

  • Update: the trial works on the tiny ithmb files from old iPods.
  • Update: if you open files from File Juicer's Open menu, the folders hidden from Finder are shown.

New in File Juicer 4.74 (Mar 26, 2019)

  • Update: Added shortcut in the File Menu to Apple Mail's browser cache.

New in File Juicer 4.73 (Mar 11, 2019)

  • File Juicer asks for password if you drop in a single encrypted PDF. Then it decrypts the PDF before extracting its contents.

New in File Juicer 4.72 (Feb 12, 2019)

  • Update: Removed all API usage deprecated since macOS 10.11 (Stop using features which may disappear in future releases of macOS)
  • Update: XCode's Static Analyzer found a bit of code which was no longer needed, and I have removed it as it may have slowed File Juicer down (very slightly).
  • Update: French localization.
  • Update: Juicing a Safari Bookmark now downloads the page of the bookmark and juices it. This is not recursive!
  • Update: The webshop is now FastSpring instead of PayPal.

New in File Juicer 4.71 (Nov 29, 2018)

  • Update: Shortcut to Safaris cache updated for Mojave.
  • Update: for relevant text extractions the docx format is now used where doc was used before.

New in File Juicer 4.70 (Nov 29, 2018)

  • Ignore: Only released to specific customers

New in File Juicer 4.69 (Nov 8, 2018)

  • New: Hardened runtime. A security enhancement available in Mojave.
  • Fix: Crash when extracting files from a specific 500 GB disk image
  • Fix: Recognizes FAT16 flash cards again
  • Update: Recognizes HEIC files, and it should extract them should they be embedded in something else (I have no reports of this yet - but it surely will happen)
  • Update: Localization streamlined to be based on xib files with strings.
  • Update: Built with XCode 10.1

New in File Juicer 4.68 (Nov 8, 2018)

  • Update: Built with XCode 10 - minor Mojave update.

New in File Juicer 4.67 Build 1074 (Jul 24, 2018)

  • Update: Built with XCode 10 - getting ready for macOS "Mojave". Functionlaly identical to the previous build. A few deprecated functions replaced with their up to date replacements.
  • Update: First attempt at supporting "Dark Mode" in Mojave
  • Update: Layout problems in the registration window fixed

New in File Juicer 4.66 Build 1062 (Jan 18, 2018)

  • Fix: Juicing large mailbox files now requires a lot less memory and is many timesfaster

New in File Juicer 4.65 Build 1046 (Dec 19, 2017)

  • Fixed: The shortcut for juicing Safari's cache now works again.
  • Fixed: fireFox cache juicing could cause a crash while extracting URLs from certain files. Nobody have reported this though.
  • New: woff and woff2 files are identified when juicing caches.
  • Updated: minor error messages from unzipping stuff in FireFox caches have been removed

New in File Juicer 4.64 Build 1042 (Nov 30, 2017)

  • Maintenance release. No new features, just cleaning of code. Fine to skip this update if it is working fine as is.
  • Updated: Built on High Sierra with XCode 9.1
  • Updated: replaced use of all API Apple has deprecated and replaced it with the modren API instead.
  • Updated: fixed all XCodes warnings which are technically fine, but might cause errors if not done with proper attention to detail

New in File Juicer 4.63 Build 1038 (Nov 7, 2017)

  • New: File Juicer will give you a hint if you drop a totally empty file onto it. There is absolutely no chance of extracting anything from such a file, so I may as well tell that.
  • Fix: when extracting html from mht files, File Juicer fill now work properly with Cyrillic
  • Updated: more code sanitized according to XCode's recommendations. This is for future proofing File Juicer

New in File Juicer 4.62 Build 1034 (Oct 30, 2017)

  • Fix: crash when making index files after extracting a lot of images on macOS 10.13
  • New: File Juicer will use macOS High Sierra's, lazy file copying if possible (requires APFS file system)
  • Updated: built with XCode 9.0.1 on macOS 10.13
  • Updated: XCode's address sanitizer was used to fix possible crashes, which I have not heard reported
  • Updated: XCode's thread sanitizer was used to fix possible crashes, which I have seen but not heard reported

New in File Juicer 4.61 Build 1026 (Aug 10, 2017)

  • Improved: Extracting text from proprietary datafiles (like Pagemaker) allow for skipping the occasional control characters in readable text

New in File Juicer 4.60 Build 1024 (Aug 10, 2017)

  • Feedback Wanted: File Juicer will check wether it is run from the Applications folder or not and fetch the help file from my server. File Juicer will offer to move itself to the Applications folder if it is not there, which it 8 out of 10 times is not.
  • Feedback Wanted Part 2: regular email to is always answered!

New in File Juicer 4.59 Build 1018 (Jun 5, 2017)

  • Fixed: Conversion for ARW files would sometimes only extract previews
  • Change: the Desktop folder has been replaced by a File Juicer folder as the default place for File Juicer's results. This is helpful if you have Desktop and Documnets synced to the iCloud, as it avoids syncing files needlessly before you have inspected the results.

New in File Juicer 4.58 Build 1012 (May 3, 2017)

  • New: added new handling of Open Office files, so the text now gets extracted with macOS built in support for this. Images and video gets extraced as before
  • Fixed: fixed a problem when extracting many embedded movies from PDF files.
  • Updated: French localization

New in File Juicer 4.57 Build 988 (Apr 27, 2017)

  • New: damaged movies will be extracted to a "damaged" folder
  • New: damaged jpg images will be extracted to a "damaged" folder. Apple's Preview may still open some damaged JPG images.
  • Fixed: some jpeg images would not be found if raw-to-jpeg conversion was turned on, and they were not embedded inside an other kind of file.

New in File Juicer 4.56 Build 986 (Apr 18, 2017)

  • Changed: text files extracted gets an attempt at identifying what kind of text file it may be.
  • SVG files, is a text based graphics file and will be identified as it has a well defined header.
  • Javascript and css files don't have a well defined header, but some will be properly identified.
  • This will increase the order in extracted data and reduce the amount of work Spotlight has to do when indexing it for searches.'

New in File Juicer 4.55 Build 986 (Feb 6, 2017)

  • Fixed: Crash when starting File Juicer. I believe this was rare.
  • Changed: Ignoring namespace URL's like Adobe's and w3c's in the URL extraction function as they don't carry information.

New in File Juicer 4.54 Build 982 (Jan 10, 2017)

  • Changed: When converting RAW files AND picking "next to juiced files" for the results, the JPG files will end next to the RAW files and not in their own folder next to the RAW files.
  • Added: File Juicer can identify .ico files usually used for favicons and are found in browser caches.

New in File Juicer 4.52 Build 974 (Dec 21, 2016)

  • Updated: to recognize the cache location of Safari 10
  • Updated: names will be guessed on some cache files and the web source for the file will be shown in Finder's "Get Info" window

New in File Juicer 4.51 Build 968 (Dec 7, 2016)

  • Added: you can now turn off RAW conversion in the preferences. This is useful when you want to extract previews form RAW files fast. Extracting the previews is about 10 times faster than RAW conversion.

New in File Juicer 4.50 Build 966 (Nov 10, 2016)

  • Fixed: crash when juicing files containing tiny m4a audio files.

New in File Juicer 4.49 Build 948 (Oct 14, 2016)

  • Added:Extracting GPS coordinates from XMP files.

New in File Juicer 4.48 Build 936 (Aug 2, 2016)

  • Changed: Buying File Juicer now goes through PayPal instead of Kagi.

New in File Juicer 4.47 Build 934 (Jul 18, 2016)

  • Changed: Juicing Microsoft Office Files no longer search for text inside images contained inside as that is rarely useful and clutters up the output.

New in File Juicer 4.46 Build 932 (Apr 8, 2016)

  • Changed: When juicing RAW files, only the largest JPG preview is extracted, and it is placed in a folder for previews, while the JPG which is converted from RAW in the JPG folder. No changes for TIFF from RAW.

New in File Juicer 4.45 Build 926 (Jan 21, 2016)

  • Changed: File Juicer's log file format is not tab delimited, and the full file path of the files juiced is included
  • Added: link to the forensics page for tips on File Juicer's log file format

New in File Juicer 4.44 Build 912 (Sep 4, 2015)

  • Added: Support for extracting Core Audio Files

New in File Juicer 4.43 Build 908 (Aug 28, 2015)

  • Added: for forensics use extracted files get the "wherefroms" info set. Access it via Finder's Get Info.'

New in File Juicer 4.42 Build 892 (Aug 4, 2015)

  • Fix: crash when juicing text out of RTF and HTML files on Mavericks

New in File Juicer 4.41 Build 884 (Jul 30, 2015)

  • Fix: crash when juicing large number of files (iPhone backups can easily have 50.000 files)
  • New: Notes form iPhone/iPad backups are now extracted as html files.
  • New: shortcut in the File menu for juicing Messages
  • New: shortcut in the File menu for Address Book contents. You will get a nice web page with a gallery of all the images form your address book.

New in File Juicer 4.40 Build 858 (Jun 12, 2015)

  • New: Added support for App Nap on Mac OS X 10.9 and later. When juicing huge files, perhaps for forensics investigation, File Juicer now tells OS X that it should not "App Nap until the job is done.
  • Updated: Memory management updated to ARC.
  • Fix: File Juicer did not find all mp3 files if they were deflated and put inside a PDF.

New in File Juicer 4.39 Build 842 (Mar 10, 2015)

  • Updated: The unofficial support back to OS X 10.6.8 has been improved. Let me know of bugs and send me files which cause them.

New in File Juicer 4.38 Build 834 (Feb 11, 2015)

  • New: App icon.
  • New: File Juicer reports when a file is completely empty or filled with zeroes. From such files nothing can ever be extracted, and for file recovery it is handy to know when a file is beyond hope.
  • Updated: Version checking now includes the version of OS X into its workings, to avoid reporting updates which requiire a newer OS than you have.
  • Temporary: Removal of check for OS 10.8 or newer - it might work on older systems than I have on my macs. Please report!

New in File Juicer 4.36 Build 804 (Jan 28, 2014)

  • Updated: Built on Mavericks with XCode 5 and the latest compiler.
  • Fixed: Trial of non-JPG extraction reenabled.

New in File Juicer 4.35 Build 794 (Jul 1, 2013)

  • Improved: File Juicer will extract images from office documents larger than 256 MB. For office documents larger than 512 MB it will still extract images, but it will then use a recovery algorithm with worse performance.

New in File Juicer 4.34 Build 792 (Apr 11, 2013)

  • Fixed: rare crash on extracting everything from some PDF files.

New in File Juicer 4.33 Build 786 (Mar 27, 2013)

  • New: Extracts JPG images from ithmb files pulled out of the iPhoto library.
  • Updated: Portuguese localization - thanks to Luís Damas.

New in File Juicer 4.32 Build 782 (Feb 6, 2013)

  • New: Extracts base64 encoded images from HTML files. Google image search can return images this way, and other sites are likely doing the same.

New in File Juicer 4.31 Build 764 (Oct 20, 2012)

  • New: Extracts doc and docx files when they are embedded inside PDF files as attachments.

New in File Juicer 4.30 Build 758 (Jul 25, 2012)

  • New: Works on OS X 10.8 with Gatekeeper turned on.

New in File Juicer 4.29 Build 736 (Apr 24, 2012)

  • Fixed: Sometimes File Juicer would not extract anything from files larger than 1 GB
  • Changed: Built with Xcode 4.4. This might give a small performance improvement.
  • Removed: Automator actions. If needed they are still in the older versions (version 4.25) of File Juicer.
  • Removed: PPC support. File Juicer 4.25 is the last version with PPC support. See requirements above for the appropriate download.

New in File Juicer 4.28 Build 726 (Aug 8, 2011)

  • New:
  • Will use Apples RAW converter on PEF and ORF files if possible
  • Fixed:
  • Gives extracted sound recordings from newer Microsoft Word documents the .mov extension needed for QuickTime Player to play it correctly.

New in File Juicer 4.27 Build 704 (Feb 16, 2011)

  • Improved: if you juice the Flash Cache, File Juicer will now also extract cached videos in mp4 format
  • Improved: internally some deprecated API has been removed. Good in preparation for Mac OS X 10.7 "Lion" and more

New in File Juicer 4.26 Build 686 (Dec 12, 2010)

  • Improved: if you use Path Finder File Jucier will now show the results folder there instead of launching Finder

New in File Juicer 4.25 Build 682 (Nov 11, 2010)

  • Added: support for recovering photos from ithmb files from the 6th generation iPod Nano

New in File Juicer 4.24 Build 672 (Sep 29, 2010)

  • Added: shortcut for extracting files from Chrome and Opera's caches

New in File Juicer 4.23 Build 648 (Aug 2, 2010)

  • Improved: support for VoiceOver.

New in File Juicer 4.22 Build 644 (May 17, 2010)

  • Improved: automatically setting proper text encoding improves extraction of text from WPS files.

New in File Juicer 4.20 Build 632 (Apr 7, 2010)

  • Added hint about OCR when attempting to extract text from scanned files.
  • Fixed: a bug with extracting some images from Word files
  • Fixed: a crash with extracting images from already damaged PPT files

New in File Juicer 4.19 (Oct 27, 2009)

  • Added: support for recovering photos from the iPod Nano 4th and 5th generation
  • Fixed: a bug with extracting some images from PPS files

New in File Juicer 4.18 (Jul 15, 2009)

  • Added: shortcut in the File Menu for iPhone and iPod Touch backup files.
  • Added: Finder Info for origin of files extracted from iPhone and iPod Touch backup files.

New in File Juicer 4.17 (Jun 4, 2009)

  • Fix: crash when extracting images from some pps files.

New in File Juicer 4.16 (Jun 2, 2009)

  • Updated: Portuguese localization by Luís Damas
  • Added: Shortcut in the File menu for ectracting images from Safari's page preview cache.
  • Fix: crash when extracting mp3 files from PF files (rarely seen!).

New in File Juicer 4.15 (May 11, 2009)

  • Added: Swedish localization.
  • Added: Extracted text now gets saved in Word format in addition to rtf and plain text.
  • Fix: Extraction of images embedded in word files embedded in other files now work.

New in File Juicer 4.14 (Dec 30, 2008)

  • Added: Russian localization.

New in File Juicer 4.13 (Dec 30, 2008)

  • Added: Dutch localization.

New in File Juicer 4.12 (Dec 8, 2008)

  • Updated: Portuguese localization.
  • Added: Support for ithmb files from iPod 5th gen found in iPhotos cache.

New in File Juicer 4.11 (Nov 20, 2008)

  • Added: File Juicer can now extract the slightly corrupt JPEG files found in older Flash files and fix them.

New in File Juicer 4.10 (Sep 24, 2008)

  • Added: shortcut in the file menu for the Flash video cache. This is where you can find the flv files from the moment they are downloaded until you leave the web page.
  • Added: support from extracting previews and coonverting Sony ARW files. Conversion requires Mac OS 10.5.4

New in File Juicer 4.9.9 (Aug 27, 2008)

  • Added: support for discovering contents of iPhone applications (ipa files), including use of the iPhonePNG normalizing tool for the "png" like files used on the iPhone.
  • Added: automatically digging into zip files (which are found inside other files - exe or ipa are examples) to extract files from their content.
  • Added: extraction of Microsoft Office files types: doc, ppt/pps and xls from other file types - like msg files from Microsoft Outlook.
  • Fixed: blue color cast on converted WMV files on systems with Quicktime 7.5 or newer.
  • Fixed: crash on Mac OS X 10.3.9 when extracting images from PowerPoint and setting the dates from EXIF tags.

New in File Juicer 4.9.8 (Jul 17, 2008)

  • Added: support for iPhoto's ithmb files for the iPod Photo (they are different from the ones on the iPod).
  • Added: extract of content of .webarchive files from Safari 4.
  • Added: extract of xml coded binary data from .plist files.

New in File Juicer 4.9.7 (Apr 21, 2008)

  • Improved: when recovering JPG images from flash cards, File Juicer will set the date of the file from the date the photo was taken, if this information is available in the recovered file.

New in File Juicer 4.9.6 (Mar 31, 2008)

  • Improved: File Juicer will now automatically unpack gz compressed files which are found in FireFox cache, and Apple Pages documents.
  • Sanity check: File Juicer will not generate index html files if there is more than 20.000 images. To browse this amount of images, an application like iPhoto is better than Safari.
  • Fix: Can generate the disk image needed for recovery needed for recovery of images Casio Exilim cameras. Advanced users can also make this disk image this with Disk Utility, but File Jucier is simpler.
  • Fix: Extracted a non-JPEG from CR2 files.

New in File Juicer 4.9.5 (Mar 10, 2008)

  • Updated: File Juicer has support for juicing the Safari cache in Mac OS X 10.5.2
  • New: Menu shortcut to extracting thumbnails and previews from Aperture libraries.
  • New: Chinese translation
  • New: Automator action for extracting jpeg previews from RAW images

New in File Juicer 4.9.4 (Feb 25, 2008)

  • Fixed: The "Extract Images" Automator action works again (It gave the error code -1708).
  • Fixed: Blue pixels in images extracted from iPod Nano 3G ithmb files.
  • Fixed: Crash when juicing some PDF files for JPEG and TIFF while showing image progress.
  • Fixed: Crash when juicing for corrupt TIFF files on large disk images (forensics).
  • Improved: speeed when processing many small files (Safari 2.x cache files)

New in File Juicer 4.9.2 (Dec 8, 2007)

  • Improved: improved speed (and memory use) when extracting from Safari's caches on Leopard
  • Improved: speed when extracting FLV files from the Temporary Items used by the Adobe Flash plug-in. Speed tip - uncheck all, but FLV in the preferences.
  • Fixed: Extracting MP3 files - support for a variant of ID3 tags - used when naming mp3 files from the tag.

New in File Juicer 4.8.4 (Sep 17, 2007)

  • New: extraction of ithmb images from the new 3rd generation iPod Nano.
  • Improved: File Jucier can now extract images from very large PPT presentations (Like 250 MB!)
  • Fix: extraction of grayscale images with alpha channel from PDF now preserve the alpha channel.