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FilePane Changelog

What's new in FilePane 1.10.7

Dec 13, 2019
  • Some Catalina stability improvements

New in FilePane 1.10.6 (Nov 10, 2019)

  • Upon numerous requests the old image crop view is back! Also added a mark up to it of users with HighSierra and above.

New in FilePane 1.10.5 (Oct 10, 2019)

  • Optimizations and fixes for Catalina;
  • Fixed a crash for drawing tool;
  • New image markup tool
  • Please, make you've allowed Full Disk Access for Filepane on Catalina! Otherwise, you'll be getting that annoying "Allow this or that" for almost any file operation on the system. This dialogue pops up once for every new destination. To allow Disk Access, just click a button in FilePane's Preferences or got to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy tab > Full Disk Access and add FilePane to the list.

New in FilePane 1.10.4 (Jun 18, 2018)

  • you can now select your favorite save destination folders for quick image editing feature;
  • added Taptic engine feedback to Drop area for Macos 10.11+;
  • zip utility will now skip hidden files (.DS_Strore, __MACOSX folder and others);
  • change notification alert style to banner. It'll now close automatically. To reveal files in Finder, just click on its body;
  • fixed occasional error with drag-and-drops from Photos and some other 3rd party apps;
  • optimized support for multiple screen use;

New in FilePane 1.10.3 (Mar 4, 2017)

  • FilePane now supports automatic graphics switching for image processing features.

New in FilePane 1.10.2 (Sep 29, 2016)

  • Some fixes for Sierra and new versions of PathFinder and Forklift.

New in FilePane 1.10.1 (May 31, 2016)

  • Just a quick bug fix for copy/move destination removal submitted by "mac-evers".

New in FilePane 1.10 (May 29, 2016)

  • This update includes some of your most requested features:
  • you can now rename destination paths in file copy/move menu (just enter the Edit mode and click on the destination path name) OR via "manage destinations" menu in Preferences;
  • batch file rename is now available;
  • you can now create aliases by simply dropping files on the left corner of the "Drop here" window; (you'll see a link/alias icon there)
  • image compression slider in "image conversion" window will now remember its last position (has been set back to 50% earlier);
  • preferences menu now shows the current version of FilePane;
  • some minor optimisations;

New in FilePane 1.9.12 (May 18, 2016)

  • You can now create aliases by simply dropping files on the left corner of the "Drop here" window; (you'll see a link/alias icon there)
  • Image compression slider in "image conversion" window will now remember its last position (has been set back to 50% earlier)
  • Preferences menu now shows the current version of FilePane
  • Some minor optimisations

New in FilePane 1.9.11 (May 3, 2016)

  • Added "quick file copy/move mode". You will see a small "+" area in the top right corner of the Drop Here window. If you drop files there, FilePane will immediately get you to the file copy/move menu with all you favourite destinations.
  • File copy/move menu is now bigger;
  • You can now convert PDF to images (PNG, JPEG, BMP, TIFF);
  • Added quick print action for PDF files;
  • Fixed a bug with sub-folders sorting, if they included special characters;
  • A rare bug with "Other..." panel in file copy menu, is now gone.
  • Vvarious other optimizations;

New in FilePane 1.9.10 (Apr 17, 2016)

  • This one is all about optimising and fixing some rare bugs with file move/copy.
  • a quick fix for a minor bug reported by 'weatherguyto';
  • you can now keep both files, if a file with the same name already exists at destination path (only Skip or Replace options were available earlier);
  • fixed a bug that caused copy progress freeze, if you physically removed the external Volume, while still running copy/move operation;
  • fixed a rare bug, when in some rare cases and for some external drives, source file could have been deleted.

New in FilePane 1.9.8.5 (Apr 17, 2016)

  • A quick fix for a minor bug reported by 'weatherguyto'.

New in FilePane 1.9.9 (Apr 6, 2016)

  • notification data being too big crash fixed;
  • a couple UI bugs and localization fixes;

New in FilePane 1.9.8.3 (Apr 2, 2016)

  • A rare notification data being too big crash fixed.

New in FilePane 1.9.8.1 (Mar 28, 2016)

  • A minor update includes:
  • A fix for a nasty bug, that would cause FilePane to crash in some cases when fetching mounted volumes names; (Bob and John, thank you so much for sending this bug report in!)
  • "Image to PDF" preview is now available! Located in the conversions action sheet.
  • You can preview and edit images before saving your PDF file from the images you've selected. You can also drag-and-drop additional ones directly into this preview window.

New in FilePane 1.9.8 (Mar 25, 2016)

  • You can now share files, images and text to any app on the system that has a share extension (Evernote, Encrypto, Pocket, Telegram, Pushbullet and may others);
  • Convert images to PDF (either one by one or merge several images into one); if you are merging several images into a single PDF and care about page order, just name images in alphabetical/numerical order
  • Photos app support and fixed PDF pages drag from Preview;
  • Extended support for other 3-rd party apps as well and added support for more draggable content;
  • Added file move and zip options to image dragged content from other apps;
  • Optimized batch image conversion and resize operations;
  • Fixed a bug for some image drags in Firefox;
  • Various bug fixes and optimisations!

New in FilePane 1.9.7 (Feb 27, 2016)

  • Fixed a crash when booting after Sleep mode.

New in FilePane 1.9.6 (Feb 22, 2016)

  • Some German locale improvements
  • Fixed UI for Dark mode, in the Preferences panel

New in FilePane 1.9.5 (Feb 21, 2016)

  • fixed occasional crashes in "create new file" menu
  • you can now name the newly created file same as the one you've dragged, by simply clicking a checkbox ("create new file" menu)

New in FilePane 1.9.4 (Feb 21, 2016)

  • you can now descend in to your favourite folders' subfolders, right there in the file move/copy action panel! Awesome, isn't it? ;)
  • mounted Volumes, disks and their subfolder paths will show up automatically on the list, no need to manually add it now;
  • If you have any external/shared volumes, just add them manually. After FilePane will figure out if they are connected or not by itself and either display their destination paths or hide them from the list;
  • added a separate window to manage favourite destinations; (can be accessed in Preferences);
  • newly added favourites will now show up on top of the list for convenience, you can rearrange/reorder them further;
  • you can now choose 'Drop here" window position in Prefs, so it's either near cursor (default) or in the middle of the screen;
  • rounded corners are back! :)
  • other bug fixes, performance improvements and optimisations;

New in FilePane 1.9.3 (Dec 26, 2015)

  • Fixed image rotations if drawing mode is ON;
  • Fixed a rare bug on El Capitan with an empty background in Preferences view;
  • Added Dutch locale. Thank you, Paul, for such a great Christmas present!

New in FilePane 1.9.2 (Dec 19, 2015)

  • fixes UI bugs on El Capitan for some users;
  • bug fixes with button hover effects and tooltips for El Capitan;

New in FilePane 1.9.1 (Dec 19, 2015)

  • bug fix for "hide menu bar icon" feature. Now this setting will store correctly and the menu bar icon's gonna remain hidden after restart or log out. (NOTE: if you want the menu bar icon back, just laugh FilePane from your /Applications folder)

New in FilePane 1.8.8.2 (Jul 16, 2015)

  • Some bug fixes and UI optimizations.
  • Fixed the delete button for copy/move destinations that magically vanished.
  • Removed German locale.

New in FilePane 1.8.6 (Jul 10, 2015)

  • New UI and a bigger action window.
  • FilePane will now remember copy/move destination paths for removable devices.
  • Optimizations and bug fixes.

New in FilePane 1.8.5 (May 25, 2015)

  • bug fixes with crop frame;
  • bug fixes with wallpaper storing inside FilePane;
  • proportional resize is now available for batch image resize;
  • you can now share/mail/airdrop the image directly from the Crop-rotate screen;
  • UI and behaviour changes to Crop-rotate screen;
  • UI changes for the Preferences window;
  • Crop-rotate screen now has a nice tutorial (just press "i" in the bottom left);

New in FilePane 1.8.3 (Apr 11, 2015)

  • A quick bug fix for destination paths not showing up, caused by the previous update. This happened to first time users and those who haven't had their "custom destinations" setup.

New in FilePane 1.8.2 (Apr 7, 2015)

  • Includes:
  • ability to rearrange, delete, move/copy paths; (even the default ones)
  • some new animations when dropping multiple files;
  • fixed a rare bug causing FilePane to steal the "drag&drop" information from a full screen app.

New in FilePane 1.8.1 (Feb 19, 2015)

  • UI optimisations for Yosemite
  • Optimisations for image drag&drop from Safari and other apps

New in FilePane 1.8 (Feb 3, 2015)

  • Update:
  • Share on Flickr and Sina Weibo is now also available;
  • Hide the menu bar icon. To restore it just go to /Applications folder and click on FilePane.app;
  • Fixed glyph and word counter for languages like Japanese, Chinese and couple others;
  • Resize multiple images. (Claudio thanks for this request, hope you've receive my e-mail, cause never heard back from you) ;
  • image conversion to PNG, JPEG, TIFF and BMP is now available;
  • compress images with a 1-100% ratio (high compression ratio may result in lower image quality);
  • optimised the work of wallpaper storing feature;
  • Fixed some bugs and made some optimisations with the Exclusion list;
  • REMINDER: Please use it if you do not want FilePane to be triggered within some apps;
  • optimisations with "Drop here" show/hide;
  • if you are using "drag&drop" to activate FilePane, "drop here" window will not show, by default, with image editing apps: Pixelmator, Sketch, Photoshop and other Adobe apps. Just wanted to make sure "drop here" window does not get in your way, in case you have not added them to the Exclusion list. If someone's using the apps above with FilePane, let me know, I'll make an on/off switch for this feature then.
  • Added a link to the Medium article about FilePane (sort of How To, Features and such..) Take a look and share it with your friends.

New in FilePane 1.7.4 (Nov 25, 2014)

  • fixed a rare "loose focus" bug, when dragging files to the side bar of Finder and Path finder;
  • performance improvements for Yosemite;

New in FilePane 1.7.3 (Nov 19, 2014)

  • Quick fix for "Drop here" window bug on Yosemite caused by 1.7.2 update.

New in FilePane 1.7.2 (Nov 15, 2014)

  • Just some minor drag-and-drop bug fixes.

New in FilePane 1.7.1 (Nov 10, 2014)

  • Fixed a couple "add app to exclusion list" bugs;
  • Added "exclude all but Finder" checkbox to the exclusion list menu;

New in FilePane 1.6 (Oct 25, 2014)

  • add/remove custom destinations for file move/copy;
  • FilePane now stores 3 of your most recent file move/copy destinations, if those are not in your custom destinations list;
  • fixed a tiny lag when opening dialogue panels, when selecting destination to move/save file;
  • app exclusion list, within which FilePane will not be triggered via drag&drop (located in Prefs menu);
  • minor UI optimizations;
  • FilePane has been tested on Yosemite, and known bugs have been fixed. The system is still a bit 'raw', but hopefully Apple fixes all the bugs soon enough.

New in FilePane 1.5.3 (Sep 26, 2014)

  • added support for e-mail attachments (before, FilePane worked only for embedded content in e-mail clients);
  • final minor bug fixes and optimizations with image crop/rotate/resize;

New in FilePane 1.5.2 (Sep 17, 2014)

  • fixed image crop/resize/rotate on Retina displays (must admit this was a trough one to resolve);
  • edited images now preserve its original DPI;
  • applied some memory usage optimization;
  • you can now rotate and save images with hot-keys:
  • - Command+right/left arrow to Rotate image;
  • - Command+S to Save image;

New in FilePane 1.5.1 (Sep 10, 2014)

  • fixed the image drag&drop bug in Chrome
  • fixed Login at launch not turning on in some cases;

New in FilePane 1.5 (Sep 3, 2014)

  • an ENORMOUS Thank you! and Vielen Dank! goes to Ralf Puchmeler, how has been of a huge help translating FilePane into German. Can not express, how grateful I am to this kind man!
  • new, better looking and more structured UI ! Hope you're going to like it :)
  • you can now create New Files whenever you want to - New Folder, RTF, TXT and now even MSWord and Excel documents are at your disposal;
  • while copying/moving files, the app will display multiple progress, and each can be managed on its own;
  • in addition to Resize, images can now be easily - Cropped and Rotated;
  • image resize, crop text field values can be edited with arrow buttons on the keyboard;
  • image resize, crop can be executed with a push of the Enter/Return button; (Cmd+Z can be used to revert the changes made to the original image);
  • the window is now draggable by its background or special area marked as a three horizontal line icon;
  • as some of you requested- Trash files action is now available;

New in FilePane 1.4 (Jul 19, 2014)

  • now copy/move progress also shows file name and destination path;
  • fixed a rare bug, when permissions stopped working for Documents folder with in some time;
  • fixed a rare "wallpaper missing" bug, which occurred after restart if the desktop picture source image has been removed;
  • "set image as Desktop" feature now stores 3 of your most recent wallpapers, and will replace those as you continue changing your wallpaper via FilePane. You can set the wallpaper and remove the source image, FilePane will store it for you. You can also share your great wallpaper with the world, if you want to.
  • you can now see how much time has FilePane saved you on a weekly and total basis. Note, it'll only start counting the moment you install this update, so at first, it's going to be only a couple seconds. FilePane will allow sharing the time saved only after it's 30 min+. To learn more how is this calculated, please refer to the "how is this calculated" link below the time counters.

New in FilePane 1.3 (Jul 10, 2014)

  • New:
  • FilePane now supports external hard and flash drives, and shows progress while file moving/copying;
  • and yes, you can now also COPY files, just check the "copy" checkbox when choosing your copy destination;
  • if you drop text into FilePane, it'll now show you Glyph and Word count;
  • added ability to copy image path to clipboard if dropped from Safari;
  • Bug fixes:
  • fixed the resize bug with images ending with "@2x";
  • fixed a rare crash if the image could not be retrieved, when drag/drop from Safari;
  • fixed "FilePane rate/share" window reappear if closed with traffic lights red "x" button;
  • fixed the bug when moving multiple files into one folder, some source folders were not removed after completion;
  • Other:
  • some minor UI changes;
  • added About, Twitter, Facebook contact menus to Preferences.

New in FilePane 1.2 (Jun 12, 2014)

  • when creating new Folder/RTF/TXT you can now define if it should be created inside the folder you chose or parent folder.
  • having dropped the image from Safari or any other app, you'll now see its dimensions and copy the value to clipboard if click on the label.
  • move file menu now has a new look, and you can quickly move files to most popular locations with a single click, like Desktop, Movies, Documents, Downloads, etc..
  • optimized the work of image resize feature.
  • fixed the "drop here" window "quick disappear issue if Finder is showing files in list mode.
  • improved animation transitions between panels.
  • added a "make developer happy" menu option, check it out.