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GoToFile Changelog

What's new in GoToFile 1.11

Mar 17, 2024
  • New:
  • Added close button to search window which appears when the mouse cursor is moved over the search window
  • Added button to toggle "Hide search field on de-focus" to search window which appears when the mouse cursor is moved over the search window
  • Search window now also works as drop destination for other applications (Thanks, Peter!)
  • Fixed:
  • After renaming items in Browser Mode the result list is not updated
  • File operation progress window does not correctly display non-ASCII filenames containing non-ASCII characters (Thanks, Peter!)
  • Random freeze when moving an item to Trash (Thanks, Peter!)
  • Changing case on a filename on a case-insensitive filesystem temporarily shows both versions (Thanks, Peter!)
  • After switching projects the search result is not immediately updated
  • Drag&Drop operations sometimes cannot be cancelled with the Esc key
  • Aborting a copy operation would sometimes report an error
  • File copy progress for multiple files not correct
  • Improved:
  • Improved performance when opening folder containing many thousands of items in Browser mode
  • Service "GoToFile: Browse" now selects all files selected in the program executing it

New in GoToFile 1.10.3 (Feb 21, 2024)

  • Fixed:
  • QuickLook panel not updated when changing selection while it is visible
  • If a search returns no result the info bar is not updated
  • Mounting/unmounting of volumes sometimes not reflected in result list (Thanks, Peter!)
  • Missing tooltips in the Action column visible on the Hotkeys tab of the GoToFile Settings dialog (Thanks, Tom!)
  • Sending the current selection to LaunchBar sometimes immediately closes the LaunchBar window
  • When assigning a keyboard shortcut fails the shortcut recorder erroneously shows key "A"
  • Don't allow expand/shrink path selection when renaming an item
  • Pressing ⌘A while renaming an item selects every item in the result list
  • Improved:
  • Multiple selection now also reduces selection when appropriate (Shift-ArrowDown after Shift-ArrowUp)
  • Provide visual feedback when marking items as copy/move source

New in GoToFile 1.10.2 (Apr 23, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • Crash on macOS 10.14 (Thanks, Berthold!)
  • Random crash when trying to browse selected item
  • Rare case where GoToFile freezed when attempting to browse multiple selected items
  • Random crash in Browser

New in GoToFile 1.10.1 (Jan 4, 2023)

  • Fixed:
  • ⌃-clicking on menu extra does not bring up the menu (Thanks, Jeffrey!)
  • Rare crash when operating on selected items (Thanks, Peter!)
  • User defined keyboard shortcuts involving arrow keys do not work (Thanks, Peter!)
  • Improved:
  • Help file now includes keyboard shortcut for quitting the application (Thanks, Jeffrey!)

New in GoToFile 1.10 (Nov 6, 2022)

  • Compatibility with macOS Ventura

New in GoToFile 1.9.1 (Oct 5, 2022)

  • Fixed:
  • Menu Extra does not change color when background of menu changes (Thanks, Martin!)
  • Modifying the match type of a rule in Project Editor while another rule is selected changes the selected rule instead of the clicked rule

New in GoToFile 1.9 (Jun 11, 2022)

  • New:
  • Configurable keyboard shortcut for Show Help
  • ⌘↓ or ⌘⇧B in Projects Mode allow for browsing of the selected projects if it has only a single configured search folder
  • Browse sole search folder of a project via its hotkey (⌘1…⌘0)
  • Fixed:
  • Random crash on startup
  • Random crash when editing patterns
  • Improved:
  • Context menu now also visible in Projects mode
  • Project selection and reordering hotkeys now work in Projects and Recent Items mode
  • Cycling between previous and current active project now works in Projects and Recent Items mode as well

New in GoToFile 1.8 (May 24, 2022)

  • New:
  • Configurable keyboard shortcuts
  • Configurable font weight
  • Browser Mode: Keyboard shortcut ⌘/ sets current directory to Home directory. Press multiple times in order to cycle between Home -> System Volume -> All Volumes.
  • Pressing ⌘↑ while searching an ad-hoc project will change the search folder to its parent folder
  • Search History: Access previously entered search terms
  • Configurable context menu in result list
  • Support for Alfred, LaunchBar and Quicksilver 2
  • Fixed:
  • Color palette not correctly adjusted according to system appearance when system appearance is set to Auto and appearance changed since last shutdown
  • Possible crash when calling GoToFile system services
  • Actions "Reveal in Finder" and "Show Info in Finder" do not bring Finder to the foreground
  • Quick Filter does not work for Recent Items and Marked Items
  • Improved:
  • Left-click on Menu Extra brings up search field, right-click brings up the menu as before
  • Added keyboard shortcut ⌘Y: Open selection in Quick Look; This is in addition to the old shortcut 2x⇧
  • Improved action preview icons
  • Redesigned Preferences panel
  • The home directory component of a path is now abbreviated with the ~ (tilde) symbol in the Project Editor
  • Long paths are now truncated in the middle instead of at the end
  • Commands Search/Browse contents of folder containing document of frontmost application now work with Finder

New in GoToFile 1.7 (Jan 23, 2022)

  • New:
  • Preferences option to leave search window open when focussing on another application (Thanks, Michael!)
  • Search panel now remembers position across restarts (Thanks, Michael!)
  • Starting GoToFile with the ⌥-key held down will reset the saved window positions
  • Fixed:
  • Increased height of editor field when renaming items
  • Starting GoToFile with no current project selected shows an empty result list when it should not display a result list at all
  • Adding multiple 'include' live filters does not work properly
  • Project-local rules to hide items are nor processed if "Ignore global rules" has been enabled
  • Content of popup menu not updated when menu is opened via right-click
  • Position of popup menu off when opened via left-click
  • Graphic glitch (flicker) when opening the preferences window while the search panel is open
  • Improved:
  • Warn before deleting Project in Project Editor

New in GoToFile 1.6.4 (Jul 11, 2021)

  • Fixed:
  • Crash when switching between Spaces (Thanks, Mark!)
  • Preferences window does not open while search window is active (Thanks, Mark!)
  • Graphics glitch in Preferences window (Thanks, Mark!)
  • Include default search folders in Recent Items

New in GoToFile 1.6.3 (Jul 5, 2021)

  • New:
  • Include iCloud drive contents in default search set (Thanks, Alan!)
  • Fixed:
  • Random crash when bringing up the search field
  • Crash on macOS Monterey
  • Improved:
  • When dragging a project's search folder on another search folder ask for user confirmation before applying the dragged folder's settings to the drag destination

New in GoToFile 1.6.1 (Dec 13, 2020)

  • Fixed:
  • Some buttons in Project Editor are not displayed on macOS Big Sur
  • A label in the project editor is not visible in dark mode
  • Improved:
  • Reduced size of application

New in GoToFile 1.5.1 (May 15, 2019)

  • New features:
  • Send selection to Quicksilver
  • Fixes:
  • Transparency issue in project editor
  • Sometimes items would end up in 'Recent Items' although the corresponding option has been set to false
  • Random crash when activating GoToFile from Finder via the Search Service (⌘S)
  • Changes:
  • Clear Live Path Filter is now ⌥⎋
  • Changed Sparkle appcast URI

New in GoToFile 1.5 (Dec 5, 2018)

  • New:
  • Notarized by Apple
  • Support for partial Dark Mode (dark Menu and Dock only)
  • Quickly exclude folders from current project with new menu item "Exclude from Search folder"

New in GoToFile 1.4 (Oct 28, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Support for macOS Mojave
  • Support for Mojave Dark Mode
  • Regexp search for Project, Browser and Recent Items modes
  • Copy item: ⌃C, ⌃V at destination
  • Move item: ⌃X, ⌃V at destination
  • New mode Marked Items (⌘M): Items from any mode can be stored in this extra list via ⌃M
  • Duplicate item (⌘D)
  • Bug fixes:
  • Info bar would sometimes stay red after indicating an error
  • Renamed items would show up multiple times in the list of recently modified items
  • Items would end up in Recent Items because a folder's search depth limit was ignored
  • Possible crash when using GoToFile Finder Services
  • Changes:
  • The root path component may now also be selected
  • Changed layout of project editor to provide more vertical space for Search Folders

New in GoToFile 1.3.3 Build 865 (Jul 17, 2018)

  • Bug fixes:
  • GoToFile would stop updating it's cache due to incorrect handling of Unix pipes. (Thanks, Luke!)
  • Rare crash while updating internal cache.
  • Files saved by certain programs would end up in Recent Items Mode but not in Search Mode (Thanks, Luke!)

New in GoToFile 1.3.2 Build 854 (Jun 22, 2018)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Random crash when switching between Search Mode and Project Mode
  • When removing a Search Folder from the Project Editor the list of excluded folders would not be updated (Thanks, Luke!)
  • The image of the close button in the Project Editor did not exactly cover the click-sensitive area. As a result clicking on the ✕ image did not always close the Project Editor. (Thanks, Luke!)
  • Included help file would not be displayed
  • Clear search field after changing to home or root folder in Browser Mode (⌘/)
  • Closing the search panel with ⎋ while an ad-hoc project is active also reverts back to the previous "real" search project. In this case the info bar was not updated to reflect the change.
  • Clear Browser selection before switching to Browser Mode via ⌘⇧S or ⌘↓ from Search Mode
  • If GoToFile is called via Finder Service 'GoToFile: Search' check if current search folder equals the one to be searched. Re-use index if folders match.

New in GoToFile 1.3.1 Build 839 (Jun 10, 2018)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Random crash when switching from Project mode to Recent Items mode.

New in GoToFile 1.3 Build 837 (Jun 8, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Selection can now be renamed (⌃⏎)
  • Fixes:
  • Set timeout for double-⇧ key event (QuickLook) to 0.5 seconds. Prior versions had no timeout which resulted in activating QuickLook regardless of the time passed between two consecutive ⇧ key events.
  • The first path component(s) of paths with a size larger than the width of the search window were not visible when selecting them. Now GoToFile makes sure that the selected path component is visible.
  • Changes:
  • Live filter: Exclude folder now excludes folder itself from result set (not just its content); Include folder will show only content of of folder, not folder itself

New in GoToFile 1.2 Build 780 (May 5, 2018)

  • New features:
  • New mode: Recent items (⌘R); Searchable list of items recently created/modified.
  • File type filter setting is now persistent for Browser mode
  • All actions (Open, Open in frontmost application, Browse, Reveal in Finder, …) now operate the same way: If no path component is selected -> operate on selected item. If a path component is selected -> operate on the path component.
  • New action "Open in Terminal". It opens a new Terminal window and sets the current directory to the selection. Uses iTerm if available, Terminal otherwise.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Current path would not be updated in info bar after switching between Home and Volumes (⌘/)
  • Changes:
  • Path component selection via mouse replaced by path component selection via keyboard (⌃←, ⌃→)
  • Keyboard shortcut for "Reveal in Finder" changed to ⌘F

New in GoToFile 1.1.4 Build 741 (Feb 28, 2018)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Program could get stuck when using Finder service 'GoToFile: Search' (Thanks, Frank!)
  • Possible crash when focusing search on a path component
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Improved responsiveness when searching large sets

New in GoToFile 1.1.3 Build 715 (Feb 15, 2018)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fixed code signing issue on macOS 10.0 (Thanks, Frank!)
  • Changes:
  • Updated documentation

New in GoToFile 1.1.2 Build 710 (Feb 9, 2018)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Keep selection visible when changing it via cursor keys in QuickLook mode
  • Crash in Browser Mode when matching item containing special cheracters
  • Miscellaneous:
  • Performance tweaks when searching full path

New in GoToFile 1.1.1 Build 700 (Jan 29, 2018)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Random crash in Search Mode
  • Some components in the Application Bundle were not signed

New in GoToFile 1.1 Build 696 (Jan 26, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Multiple selection
  • Added 'Check for update' button to preferences window (Thanks, Theo!)
  • Updated documentation (Thanks, Jean-Luc!)
  • Display short info when modifying filter
  • Display visible and total number of matches in info bar
  • Hightlight invalid regular expressions in search field and Preferences/Project Editor
  • Bug fixes:
  • Don't allow preferences window to close when no access method is enabled
  • Make sure that GoToFile is always accessible via either hotkey or menu item
  • Crash when switching exclusion pattern containing '*' from GLOB to REGEX (Thanks, Luke!)
  • Improved reliability of cache update (Thanks, Luke!)
  • Rare random crash when changing search string
  • ⌘= and ⌘- did not work exactly as documented when pressed while a directory was selected
  • ⌃W did not update result set after modifying search string
  • Switching to Search Mode via ⌘S would sometimes leave the 'Type Path' action indicator visible instead of the default application of the selected item
  • In Project Editor rules tables would sometimes not be updated if another project was selected (Thanks, Kenneth!)
  • "New project from selection" menu item did not work
  • Changing the maximum result set size now takes effect without modifying the query (Thanks, Kenneth!)
  • ⌥⌫ and ⌃W were not properly handled when result of the command was an empty string
  • Result table was sometimes reloaded even though the result set had not changed
  • Changes:
  • "New project from selection" (⌘⇧P) now also works if selection is not a file

New in GoToFile 1.0.3 Build 621 (Oct 2, 2017)

  • Fixes:
  • Graphic glitch in macOS High Sierra

New in GoToFile 1.0.2 Build 618 (Sep 11, 2017)

  • Result list would snap back to selected item if result was updated while scrolling via mouse (Thanks, Luke!)
  • Improved performance when scrolling
  • Problems with unresolved symlinks
  • Improved handling of symlinks/aliases
  • Escape special characters when typing path to Terminal or iTerm

New in GoToFile 1.0.1 Build 602 (Sep 5, 2017)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Ignore keyboard input while preferences window is open (Thanks, Luke!)
  • Resized keyboard shortcut control to fix content (Again, thanks, Luke!)
  • Improved handling of symlinks (Thank you once more, Luke!)
  • Trigger rescan when removing a rule/excluded folder from preferences
  • Info bar in browse mode was not always updated when changing directories
  • 'Ignore global rules' checkbox in Project Editor did not work.