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OffShoot Changelog

What's new in OffShoot 24.1.1

Apr 2, 2024
  • OffShoot's EditReady integration no longer reverts to the default preset every time OffShoot is started, thanks to Eric and Greg. It also no longer triggers for S3 Destinations.
  • Unhiding a disk would sometimes cause it to show up twice; that's fixed as well.

New in OffShoot 24.1 (Mar 19, 2024)

  • Stop & Resume transfers, at your leisure. Failed transfers, or transfers that Complete with warnings, can also be resumed.
  • Start transcodes automatically with the new EditReady integration.
  • Want to set multiple sources instead of a collection? Hold the alt key when dragging in a Collection.
  • Pro:
  • Support for AWS S3 Transfer acceleration.
  • Support for Backblaze B2 connections.
  • The generic S3 integration now supports paths too, next to domains.

New in OffShoot 23.3 (Nov 29, 2023)

  • Check the lifespan of your ProGrade media with the new Health Check function.
  • Try upcoming features before they're released with OffShoot Beta (opt-in via Settings > License > Receive Beta updates).
  • Pro Support for Codex Device Manager 7.2.

New in OffShoot 23.2.4 (Nov 27, 2023)

  • Added size calculation support for UDF Sources (thanks for requesting, Ziggy, Gert, and Menno).

New in OffShoot 23.2.3 (Nov 17, 2023)

  • This update fixes a couple of rare crashes. Thanks for reporting, all!

New in OffShoot 23.2.2 (Oct 25, 2023)

  • Codex HDE Sources show the estimated size again (Thanks for reporting, Joep and Ziggy).
  • Improved the number of Connect update messages that OffShoot sends for each transfer.
  • In Beta: Support for Codex 7.2 Beta. Reach out if you are interested.

New in OffShoot 23.1.2 (Sep 27, 2023)

  • Official support for macOS 14 Sonoma!
  • The blue “updates available” ribbon now disappears after 1 minute (Thanks for requesting, all).

New in OffShoot 23.1.1 (Mar 30, 2023)

  • It's now possible to disable the ProGrade integration, to get around a remounting issue when using non-ProGrade cards in ProGrade readers (Thanks for reporting, all)

New in OffShoot 23.1 (Mar 9, 2023)

  • Sanitize your ProGrade media directly in Hedge with the new ProGrade Integration.
  • Drops support for macOS 10.14.

New in OffShoot 22.3.2 (Jan 19, 2023)

  • New Queuing mode: Single Destination. First, offload to your fastest drive to get editing, and then to the slower destinations. Thanks to PhotoJoseph, Mattias, Emma, and Ben 🙏

New in OffShoot 22.3.1 (Jan 4, 2023)

  • The new Finder extensions now also work on macOS 11 (Thanks, Blake!)
  • Hedge now handles purgeable space on your drive gracefully (Thanks for requesting, all)

New in OffShoot 22.3 (Dec 14, 2022)

  • Hedge's copy engines got a massive tune-up, speeding up transfers with 20-250%.
  • Start a transfer directly from Finder, with the new Finder integration.
  • Archive mode is no longer throttled by MD5's lack of speed.
  • Extra checksum generation can now be enabled for all copy modes.
  • C4 checksums are now supported too.
  • Transfer Logs now show the checksum and verification status of each file.
  • Fix for a crash reported by Jon, Hendrik, Wes, Nick, and Hans 🙏
  • Added support for Codex Device Manager 6.2

New in OffShoot 22.2.9 (Dec 7, 2022)

  • Broken media detection; Hedge will show a warning when zero-byte media files are detected on the Source (You can all thank Judy for the idea!).
  • macOS Ventura has an issue setting timestamps on exFAT drives, so we made a workaround for that. (Thanks for reporting, Ben).
  • Want to run a script immediately when Hedge starts? Now you can, with the new Hedge Started event.

New in OffShoot 22.2.8 (Oct 24, 2022)

  • Official support for macOS 13 Ventura!

New in OffShoot 22.2.7 (Sep 5, 2022)

  • Fix for a rare case where preset values would be cleared after a transfer (Thanks, Patrice!)

New in OffShoot 22.2.6 (Sep 5, 2022)

  • Custom date elements (available in Hedge Pro) now automatically use the system settings if no value is provided (Thanks to Eliot!)

New in OffShoot 22.2.5 (Aug 30, 2022)

  • With this release, we're bringing back a much-requested workflow: Batch Sources. You can now start transferring multiple sources in one go, all using the same preset — with just one click 🚀
  • Hedge now polls for changes like updated system time regularly (thanks, Hart!)

New in OffShoot 22.2.4 (Aug 11, 2022)

  • Clip Review (a Hedge Pro feature) was not showing any stills, that's fixed.

New in OffShoot 22.2.3 (Jul 11, 2022)

  • Fixed an edge-case that caused Hedge to crash when adding Transfers (Thanks for sending in those crash reports, all!).

New in OffShoot 22.2.2 (Jun 29, 2022)

  • Added support for Codex Device Manager 6.1
  • MHL Awareness for ASC MHL: if a source contains ASC MHLs, those checksums are used by Checkpoint rather than regenerating them from the source.
  • ASC MHL history is now fully supported.

New in OffShoot 22.2.1 (Apr 21, 2022)

  • For some users, the Hedge app icon had a bit of an identity crisis, appearing to be a folder. No longer, thanks to Andy and others.

New in OffShoot 22.2 (Apr 13, 2022)

  • Automatically add metadata to all your iconik assets. Generate sidecars containing all your custom elements, to be processed automatically by iconik’s Storage Gateway app. Read more...
  • Support for ASC MHLs for Pro licenses. Reach out if you would like a trial.
  • The Hedge API no longer uses a token, as it's now tied to Pro licenses. This also applies to Hedge Helper which uses the API. Reach out if you need access.

New in OffShoot 22.1.3 (Feb 23, 2022)

  • The "Preparing..." state which handles indexing, MHL awareness, and duplicate detection is now much, much faster and less RAM hungry when a Source contains large MHLs and Checkpoint is enabled. Thanks, Rob!

New in OffShoot 22.1.2 (Feb 9, 2022)

  • Clearing Elements is now also possible to do from the Review pane when not using presets.
  • With Auto Labels, the Source Name element would not always refresh properly.

New in OffShoot 22.1.1 (Feb 3, 2022)

  • The Review pane now shows more elements without having to scroll.
  • The Counter would sometimes refuse to increment, that's fixed. (Thanks for reporting, Will!)
  • Some pop-ups were hard to read in light mode, that's fixed too.

New in OffShoot 22.1 (Feb 1, 2022)

  • You can now organize your offloads using custom metadata elements (i.e Location, Project etc.). Just pop in a source, review, and transfer

New in OffShoot 21.3.2 (Jan 18, 2022)

  • Thanks to your reports, we were able to make some final improvements to the progress bar. Case closed.
  • The Event Log would sometimes not update the "FileCopyCompleted_state". No more, thanks to Tim.

New in OffShoot 19.4.3 (Dec 5, 2019)

  • Some bugfixes and minor improvements
  • This update will prep your Hedge for future updates in 2020 🥕

New in OffShoot 19.4.2 (Nov 1, 2019)

  • Fixed the ParaShoot integration on Catalina (thanks for reporting, Andy, Carl & Davo)
  • Fixed an issue where the green transfer bar did not fully update to 100%.
  • Codex 'incomplete disk detection' is now also able to fix transfers from a read-only Source (Thanks for reporting, Neil).
  • Codex 'incomplete disk detection' now also tries to fix destination warnings.

New in OffShoot 19.4 (Aug 16, 2019)

  • New Codex copy engine with support for High Density Encoding. Built in tight collaboration with Codex to get the most out of your mags.
  • Fixed the warning that PhantomFUSE disks are empty (thanks for reporting, Willis and Josh).

New in OffShoot 19.3.2 (Aug 7, 2019)

  • Improves overall stability (thanks for sending in those bug reports).
  • Fixes an issue where the new Organize settings where reset after updating to 19.3.1 (thanks for reporting, Rob).

New in OffShoot 19.3.1 (Aug 7, 2019)

  • Bundle contents are no longer renamed or filtered.
  • Files in a collection are now also renamed.

New in OffShoot 19.3 (Aug 7, 2019)

  • Rename files automatically during a transfer
  • Filter files by extension, copy only what is needed
  • Automatically create folder structures
  • Folders moved to the new "Organize" settings panel
  • Added a {YY} parameter for 19 next to 2019 ({YYYY}
  • Parameters are now draggable
  • Existing settings are automatically converted to the new parameters

New in OffShoot 19.2.7 (Jul 11, 2019)

  • Beta support for the upcoming Codex 5.0 release. Note: only Codex 4.6 is officially supported in production!
  • Added security checks to detect changes to a Codex drive after a transfer has started.
  • In some cases, the “Source Is Empty”-alert could pop up instead of the “Source Already Transferred”-alert (Thanks for reporting, Will and Jacob!).
  • Source disk attributes are not copied when set to 01-01-1970 (Thanks for reporting Andy)

New in OffShoot 19.2.6 (Jun 17, 2019)

  • Better performance of large transfers (thanks for reporting all)
  • Empty Source detection is now more robust
  • Parashoot integration handles identically named drives more graceful (Thanks to Kevin!)

New in OffShoot 19.2.5 (Jun 4, 2019)

  • MHLs are now also included for transfers of read-only folders (Thanks for reporting Connor).
  • Aliases don't cause false warnings anymore (Thanks for reporting Jeroen).

New in OffShoot 19.2.4 (Jun 4, 2019)

  • Auto-eject did not always work (thanks for reporting Zack & Kevin).
  • MHL awareness would sometimes not kick in (thanks for reporting Andy).
  • Queued transfers did not always start (thanks for reporting Jack & Michael).

New in OffShoot 19.2.3 (May 10, 2019)

  • Fixes Duplicate Detection for network destinations (Thanks for reporting, Lucas).

New in OffShoot 19.2.2 (May 6, 2019)

  • Transfer Logs now use the Big Endian checksum
  • MHLs now use both checksums (xxHash64 and xxHash64BE)

New in OffShoot 19.2.1 (May 1, 2019)

  • Improvements:
  • Check whether a Source is empty before starting a transfer
  • New Dark Mode Collection icons for folders
  • Dark mode text improvements
  • Workaroound for macOS 10.14's new sleep settings (thanks for reporting this, Pierre & Rasmus!)

New in OffShoot 19.1.6 (Apr 9, 2019)

  • Fixes duplicate detection for Collections (Thanks for reporting this Tyler).

New in OffShoot 19.1.5 (Mar 21, 2019)

  • An issue where the update windows would popup automatically
  • An issue when clearing the transfer list

New in OffShoot 19.1.4 (Mar 15, 2019)

  • The transfer list now automatically scrolls to newly added transfers.
  • Fixed a permission issue that caused MHLs not to be written (Thanks for reporting Jasper, Brennan and Vesela).

New in OffShoot 19.1.3 (Mar 13, 2019)

  • Fixes:
  • Fixed a crash related to transferring huge file sets (Big thanks to Peter, Michael, Jannik, Chase and Henry!)
  • The API Folder Format call allows for variables (Pro license required).
  • MHL timestamps are now UTC.
  • Network drives no longer complain about being full when they're not.
  • Hedge again prevents the Mac from going to sleep.
  • After activating, user details are visible immediately.

New in OffShoot 19.1.1 (Feb 24, 2019)

  • macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) works again (thanks for reporting the crashes all)
  • we fixed progress bars that sometimes stayed blue
  • some disks were not reporting back to Hedge properly (resulting in missing Eject buttons, "Disk Full" alerts and "Calculating…")

New in OffShoot 19.1 (Feb 21, 2019)

  • Features:
  • Control which transfers run simultaneously with Queuing, in the new Transfers Preference pane:
  • Off: all sources are copied at the same time. New transfers start while others are still running.
  • Single Source: only transfers of a single source run simultaneously. When finished, the next source starts automatically.
  • Single Transfer: transfers run one by one, even when sharing a source.
  • Simultaneous Transfers are now kept in sync for faster overall offloads (thanks for suggesting this Ronald and Ben).
  • Improvements:
  • Transfer Log filenames now shows Labels instead of raw volume names
  • Fixes:
  • Transfer Log 'Total Files Transferred' now only counts visible items
  • Fixed not starting transfers due to a permissions issue
  • Fixed folder paths when offloading multiple folders

New in OffShoot 18.3.9 (Jan 10, 2019)

  • No false warning when copying a full CodexVFS volume
  • Transfering multiple sources from the same folder no longer confuses the incrementer (Thanks to Christian Eichenauer!)

New in OffShoot 18.3.6 (Jan 10, 2019)

  • This version contains a couple of small bug fixes.

New in OffShoot 18.3.5 Build 519 (Oct 26, 2018)

  • New features:
  • Transfers now show the current speed next to the time remaining
  • Extra logging features for Site Licenses
  • Improved:
  • Foolcat integration (thanks for reporting Davide & James)
  • Many small bug fixes and improved performance (Thanks for reporting all!)
  • Changed:
  • Script Log is now called Event Log. The log is now persistent and more events are added

New in OffShoot 18.3.4 Build 511 (Sep 26, 2018)

  • Support for macOS Mojave
  • Fixes for multiple bug (Thanks for sending them in!)
  • Improved the activation flow for project licenses

New in OffShoot 18.3.3 Build 506 (Sep 4, 2018)

  • Small fixes and adds support for automatic remote deployment for Site Licenses.

New in OffShoot 18.3.2 Build 494 (Aug 9, 2018)

  • Performance improvements:
  • Improved overall RAM usage (thanks for reporting all)
  • Fixed 2 exotic crashes (thanks for sending in the crash reports)

New in OffShoot 18.3.1 Build 493 (Aug 2, 2018)

  • Improved overall CPU and RAM usage (thanks for reporting Jasper & Marc)
  • Improved the transfer bar color for completed and cancelled state (thanks for reporting Chris & Tim)
  • Fixed a bug that caused Foolcat reports to be saved in the root of the destination (thanks for reporting Zack)
  • Fixed a rare bug that kept the Source from ejecting after successful transfer (thanks for reporting Cody & Ted)

New in OffShoot 18.2.3 Build 454 (Jun 14, 2018)

  • Removed blockade of macOS 10.14
  • Improved interface snappiness

New in OffShoot 18.2.2 Build 452 (Apr 25, 2018)

  • Duplicate Detection now supports read-only folders (thanks, Matt!)
  • Workaround for a permissions bug in Apple's AFP network protocol (thanks, Funda!)

New in OffShoot 18.2.1 Build 448 (Apr 25, 2018)

  • Updated Foolcat integration to work with version 6.0
  • Fixed a rare issue that caused a drive not to show up (Thanks, Laura Aliukonytė!)
  • You can now see which Source or Destination a Browse dialog belongs to (Thanks for suggesting this, Mario C!)

New in OffShoot 18.2 Build 444 (Apr 5, 2018)

  • Features:
  • Copy into existing folders - no more "Folder already exists"!
  • With duplicate detection, Hedge copies just the new files.
  • Toggle between the ETA and current speed
  • Improvements:
  • If the ETA can't be calculated, the current speed is shown.
  • Starting a bunch of transfers at once is all smooth now.
  • 刘汉源 (Hanyuan Liu) did Hedge's Chinese translation. Thanks!

New in OffShoot 18.1.4 Build 429 (Mar 30, 2018)

  • Found and fixed a few issues we didn't want to keep from you until its release.

New in OffShoot 18.1.1 Build 416 (Mar 12, 2018)

  • Gets rid of some bugs that turned up recently:
  • Some users reported a slowdown with multiple transfers. Got fixed. (Thanks, Pim!)
  • Integrations were sometimes firing too late (Thanks, Anthony!)
  • Transfers that would not fit on a Destination would start anyway.
  • All Connect notifications show the correct status again.
  • Move to Applications now works on 10.10-12 as well.
  • Free/used space calculation for Macintosh HD has improved.
  • Selecting a Recent location didn't always show in the UI.
  • Auto-Destination couldn't be disabled.
  • According to the ETA, transfers would sometimes take forever.

New in OffShoot 18.1 Build 405 (Mar 12, 2018)

  • Features:
  • Allow for multiple sources from the same device
  • Allow multiple destinations on the same drive
  • Reset drives to unused, while transferring
  • New shortcuts: ⌘-R for Reset... and ⌘-Return for Add Transfers
  • Networks: nested folder mounts are now supported on AFP, SMB and NFS
  • Fixes & Tweaks:
  • Free/used space on network drives is now calculated instead of relying on macOS (Thanks, Tai Ngo!)
  • Foolcat: Catalog name is no longer mandatory (Thanks, Utsab Bandopadhyay!)
  • Collections don't break Script Events (Thanks, Chris Roy!)
  • Ignore .afpDeleted files when copying

New in OffShoot 18.1 Build 398 (Feb 26, 2018)

  • Features:
  • Allow for multiple sources from the same device
  • Allow multiple destinations on the same drive
  • Reset drives to unused, while transferring
  • New shortcuts: ⌘-R for Reset... and ⌘-Return for Add Transfers
  • Networks: nested folder mounts are now supported on AFP, SMB and NFS
  • Fixes & Tweaks:
  • Free/used space on network drives is now calculated instead of relying on macOS (Thanks, Tai Ngo!)
  • Foolcat: Catalog name is no longer mandatory (Thanks, Utsab Bandopadhyay!)
  • Collections don't break Script Events (Thanks, Chris Roy!)
  • Ignore .afpDeleted files when copying

New in OffShoot 17.14.1 Build 385 (Jan 30, 2018)

  • The start time in MHLs was actually the finished time. Not so anymore. We thank Tore Lie for reporting this!
  • In the Folder Format, combining an incrementer and a label would sometimes lead to unexpected destination paths. Now it always does exactly what you think it'll do. Thanks, Kevin Blanc!
  • Fixed two rare exceptions when ejecting drives. Only two anonymous users were affected, but we wanted to be sure to get this out of the way.

New in OffShoot 17.14 Build 379 (Dec 23, 2017)

  • New & Improved:
  • Foolcat integration, for creating PDF and HTML reports 🗒
  • A rollback is offered when running a non-compatible version
  • Hovering over disks now shows a tooltip with the full path
  • Transfer Log View now sorts the other way around
  • Fixed:
  • Network and SoftRAID mounts show their sizes again
  • Our update provider found and fixed the update issue 🙌
  • Not all scripts were being fired due to integrations. Thanks for reporting this, Chris Roy!

New in OffShoot 17.14 Build 377 (Dec 22, 2017)

  • New & Improved:
  • Foolcat integration, for creating PDF and HTML reports 🗒
  • A rollback is offered when running a non-compatible version
  • Hovering over disks now shows a tooltip with the full path
  • Transfer Log View now sorts the other way around
  • Fixed:
  • Network and SoftRAID mounts show their sizes again
  • Our update provider found and fixed the update issue 🙌
  • Not all scripts were being fired due to integrations. Thanks for reporting this, Chris Roy!

New in OffShoot 17.13 Build 369 (Dec 8, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • New Integration: ParaShoot
  • New onboarding, explaining Labels
  • Improvements:
  • Improved support for RED and ARRI UDF. Thanks to Freek Zonderland and Paul Morin 🙌

New in OffShoot 17.12.1 Build 363 (Nov 24, 2017)

  • Files & Folders:
  • Sometimes, instead of offloading a whole disk, you only need to transfer a single clip, or a few folders. With Collections, Hedge can now transfer whatever you need: single or multiple files, multiple folders, and of course combinations. A Source Folder is now also easier to spot.
  • You can cherrypick right inside Hedge’s browser, or drag selections from Finder to Sources.
  • Collections also removes the need to create a unique folder for each transfer. Just select all folders on a disk and Hedge will copy them straight to your Destination, without creating an intermediate folder.
  • If your Collection contains items with a name that already exists in the target folder, Hedge automatically increments these files. Just like you’re used to with Finder.
  • Digital gaffer:
  • Everybody labels his physical media. If it’s that ubiquitous in the real world, why not use the same metaphor in the digital domain? Sometimes a little skeuomorphism goes a long way. Meet Labels.
  • With a Label, you tell Hedge how to name that offload, and where to put it. It doesn’t have to be a single identifier like A001 — a slash (/) works as a folder divider, and parameters like %d (for current day) are recognized too.
  • Labels means you’re finally rid of those UNTITLED folders. It speeds up many workflows: when Recents recognizes a buried DCIM folder as a Source, just add a Label and off you go.
  • On a sidenote: with the new Add Transfer button you can start transfers without having to switch back.
  • Adding a Label to a disk and confirming it with Enter automatically sets it as a Source, bringing down your drive time even more. Don’t want to move it there just yet? Click somewhere outside the disk you’re labeling, and it remains in the Disk View.
  • With Labels and Collections most workflows will be covered, and sped up considerably. But how about advanced folder organization?
  • Folder Formats:
  • Labels doesn’t replace the existing Folder Format; it’s a refinement.
  • The default Folder Format ${DISKTITLE} ${INC} has been replaced with ${DISKTITLE}. It uses either the Label, the Source Folder or the Source Disk, and does so in that specific order. If a source is a Collection, no additional folder is created unless a Label is specified.
  • Combining Labels with a Folder Format lets you easily create deep and advanced folder structures like Project/%Y/%m/%d/Cam ${DISKTITLE}. Set it up once, and the data handler only has to set labels like A/001 for each Source.
  • One more notable change is the Destination Folder. We renamed it to Project Folder, to reflect that it should not be altered for each individual transfer. Set up your Destinations, select a Project Folder if needed, and you’re done with the right-hand side of Hedge. Sources is where’s it’s at, people 👈
  • All roads lead to Rome:
  • Between Labels, Folder Formats, and the Project Folder, you now have many ways to organize your data. Hedge doesn’t prefer a certain way. Still, it’s a good thing to consider the overall hierarchy: Destination / .. / Project Folder / Folder Format including Label
  • When post production requires you to offload all media into a specific deep folder, use the Project Folder. If you need to create different folders for each offload, use a Label. Need to create automatc folders like day, month and year? Folder Format is your friend. You can of course use a complete Folder Format as the Label, but try to keep it short. You don’t want to find yourself copy-pasting into Labels — a Recents for Labels is on the roadmap.

New in OffShoot 1.8.5 Build 332 (Sep 29, 2017)

  • Detect other apps that move or edit files while transfers are still running.

New in OffShoot 1.8.4 Build 330 (Sep 25, 2017)

  • High Sierra is here!

New in OffShoot 1.8.3 Build 317 (Aug 29, 2017)

  • We changed how Hedge listens for events to make life easy for ParaShoot users
  • Hedge now alerts you when files have been moved during a transfer by another process (or a human)
  • Fixed a bug where it wasn't always possible to return to or open the the Disk View
  • The incrementer value in Preference is being updated again
  • MHLs and Transfer Logs now ignore custom icon resource forks
  • PS: we also posted new scripts on GitHub at https://github.com/hedgeformac/hedge-scripts, for DropDMG, ParaShoot and automated file permission changes.

New in OffShoot 1.8.2 Build 306 (Aug 9, 2017)

  • All free users automatically get another 10-day trial 🔥
  • Auto-Source now recognizes RED, ARRI and UNTITLED disks.
  • Transfers that fail now show what macOS thinks is going on.