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The Big Mean Folder Machine Changelog

What's new in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.43

Sep 1, 2021
  • The new version improves the unlock dialog.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.42 (Oct 21, 2020)

  • The new version adds native Apple Silicon support and Big Sur compatibility.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.41 (Dec 22, 2019)

  • The new version correctly displays the trial limitation dialog.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.40 (Oct 9, 2019)

  • The new version adds full macOS 10.15 Catalina compatibility.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.39 (Dec 3, 2018)

  • The new version fixes a problem affecting operation with 10.14 Mojave Dark Mode.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.38 (Dec 3, 2018)

  • The new version fixes a minor bug where the absence of EXIF meta-data was not handled correctly.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.37 (Feb 21, 2018)

  • The new version adds support for HEIC and HEIC image files.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.36 (Jun 28, 2017)

  • This is a minor maintenance release.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.35 (Jan 17, 2017)

  • This release fixes a minor bug on macOS 10.12 Sierra.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.34 (Feb 2, 2016)

  • This release fixes a software update vulnerability in the Sparkle framework that was exposed on the 29th of January.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.33 (Jan 26, 2016)

  • This release features some minor bug fixes and improved mailing list sign-up.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.32 (Nov 18, 2015)

  • This release modernizes the code base for Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.31 (Mar 26, 2015)

  • This release improves the installation experience.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.30 (Jan 14, 2015)

  • This release fixes an OS X drawing bug that could cause the window background to appear empty.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.29 (Feb 4, 2014)

  • Fixes moves to the new Automatic Reference Counting memory architecture.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.28 (Aug 21, 2013)

  • Fixes a bug in the batch folder naming algorithm.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.27 (Jun 18, 2013)

  • This release makes it easier to join the new opt-in mailing list.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.26 (Aug 23, 2012)

  • This is the first Mac OS X 10.7 Lion or later only release of the product.
  • It features an improved integration with the Mac App Store version of the tool.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.25 (Jul 11, 2012)

  • The new version fixes a Mountain Lion-related problem.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.24 (Jul 5, 2012)

  • The new version adopts Apple's Developer ID identification in preparation for Mac OS X 10.7 Mountain Lion.
  • Unfortunately, this makes it impossible to preserve the droplet feature and this version thus removes this feature. Existing droplets should continue to work correctly.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.23 (Jan 18, 2012)

  • The new version can now be used in the Mac OS X 10.7 full screen mode.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.22 (Dec 6, 2011)

  • This release fixes a bug in the id3 tag reading engine.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.21 (Nov 9, 2011)

  • Fixes a conflict resolution bug.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.20 (Sep 14, 2011)

  • This release adds support for reading meta-data in flac, ogg and aiff sound files.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.19 (Sep 12, 2011)

  • This release addresses a sorting and an mp3 tag reading issue.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.18 (Jul 5, 2011)

  • Features a brand new ID3 tag engine for reading the embedded song, artist and album information of your music files. The new engine is up to ten times faster. More improvements to supported formats and tags are coming soon.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.17 (May 4, 2011)

  • This release adds the option of creating batch folders of specific size or number of files while preserving the existing folder hierarchy. This is particularly useful when splitting up existing folder hierarchies for backup.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.16 (Feb 24, 2011)

  • This release fixes a problem affecting music file processing.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.15 (Feb 22, 2011)

  • This is the first Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Intel CPU-only release of "The Big Mean Folder Machine".
  • The internals of the tool have been throughly modernized in anticipation of the migration to XCode 4 and the upcoming Mac OS X 10.7 Leopard developments.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.14 (Feb 19, 2011)

  • Now that "The Big Mean Folder Machine" has been accepted into the Mac App Store, this new version makes it easier for customers to download the trial and buy from the Mac App Store.
  • It also warns customers that the Mac App Store currently lacks the droplet feature as it fell foul of Apple's Mac App Store Guidelines.
  • A Mac App Store version with droplet support is under development.
  • This is also probably going to be the last Mac OS 10.5 Leopard compatible release.
  • We usually support the current version of Mac OS X and one previous version to allow customers plenty of time to upgrade.
  • Apple has, however, made a number of moves in the last few weeks that make it harder than ever to maintain backwards compatibility. The Mac App Store requires that code be targeted to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Apple's XCode 4 development tools that have gone to Gold Master last week have dropped the Mac OS X 10.5 SDK and PowerPC support entirely.
  • In other words, the time has come to get ready for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and drop Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard compatibility a few months early.
  • Obviously, the current, 2.13 release will remain on the website indefinitely and we've made sure that the auto-update feature won't overwrite your current version with an incompatible Mac OS X 10.6-only version by mistake.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.13 (Feb 16, 2011)

  • Allows you to switch off the debugging information being written to the system console.
  • Internally, a lot has changed in preparation for submitting the product the Mac App Store.
  • This is also probably going to be the last Mac OS 10.5 Leopard compatible release.
  • We usually support the current version of Mac OS X and one previous version to allow customers plenty of time to upgrade.
  • Apple has, however, made a number of moves in the last few weeks that make it harder than ever to maintain backwards compatibility. The Mac App Store requires that code be targeted to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and Apple's XCode 4 development tools that have gone to Gold Master last week have dropped the Mac OS X 10.5 SDK and PowerPC support entirely.
  • In other words, the time has come to get ready for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and drop Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard compatibility a few months early.
  • Obviously, the current, 2.13 release will remain on the website indefinitely and we've made sure that the auto-update feature won't overwrite your current version with an incompatible Mac OS X 10.6-only version by mistake.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.12 (Jan 17, 2011)

  • The new version fixes a startup problem introduced in version 2.11.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.11 (Jan 12, 2011)

  • The new version fixes a minor problem with the way in which settings are saved to droplets.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.10 (Nov 16, 2010)

  • Improves performance and memory management.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.09 (Oct 19, 2010)

  • The new version adds the ability to split folder hierarchies based on file creator and type codes.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.08 (Jun 30, 2010)

  • The new version delivers improved handling of missing EXIF information when creating folder hierarchies.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.07 (May 18, 2010)

  • The new version delivers improved handling of missing EXIF information during the batch folder creation stage.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.06 (Jan 20, 2010)

  • Adds a 4th hierarchy level, as well as making significant backend improvements.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.05 (Dec 9, 2009)

  • Droplets can now be safely auto-updated to the latest version of the program via the software update mechanism.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.04 (Nov 24, 2009)

  • This new release now correctly calculates the physical (size on disk) and logical (actual number of bytes) sizes of bundle files.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.03 (Oct 22, 2009)

  • This release contains significant improvements to the handling of unlock codes and should make unlocking the product significantly less error prone.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.02 (Oct 12, 2009)

  • Allows the program to be run more easily for users who do not have administrator privileges.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.01 (Sep 9, 2009)

  • Fixes a crash on Snow Leopard when reading mp3 tags.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.0 (Jul 22, 2009)

  • a reworked user interface that integrates all operations inside of the new resizable assistant-style window
  • better file name conflict resolution that allows to you determine in which order file distinguishers (e.g. "(a)", "(b)", ...) are applied
  • performance optimizations
  • automatic software updates courtesy of the Sparkle framework
  • lots of under the hood improvements
  • some spit and polish here and there
  • minor bug fixes

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.0 Beta 3 (Jul 1, 2009)

  • The new version fixes a number of minor issues, including the auto-update feature which was broken in the first (two?) beta(s).

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.0 Beta 2 (Jun 24, 2009)

  • This new beta fixes a number of minor issues, including the auto-update feature which was broken in the first beta.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 2.0 Beta 1 (Jun 17, 2009)

  • New re-sizable assistant window interface.
  • Faster are more sophisticated file name conflict resolution with advanced sorting.
  • Improved performance.
  • New droplet implementaiton.
  • New auto-update feature courtesy of Andy Matuschak's Sparkle framework.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.6.9 (Apr 8, 2009)

  • This new version makes important speed gains and improves conflict resolution and memory management.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.6.8 (Mar 26, 2009)

  • Fixes the merge feature which became broken in 1.6.7.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.6.7 (Mar 26, 2009)

  • The new version improves the performance of reading EXIF digital camera meta-data and fixes the problem that lead to version 1.6.6 being pulled.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.6.6 (Mar 11, 2009)

  • The new version now allows the folders in newly created folder hierarchies to preserve the case of the original names that it contains.
  • Beyond the user-visible changes there are many internal changes to further improve the performance and reliability of the processing engine.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.6.5 (Feb 24, 2009)

  • The new version delivers significant performance gains throughout.
  • In typical scenarios the conflict resolution step is now up to ten times faster making for a much zippier experience.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.6.4 (Feb 11, 2009)

  • The new release becomes a 64-bit garbage collected application on all 64-bit systems. This should allow for improved scalability and reliability when dealing with very large processing jobs.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.6.3 (Feb 3, 2009)

  • Significantly speeds up hierarchy creation and reduces the memory footprint of the application.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.6.2 (Jan 8, 2009)

  • Fixes a bug affecting the "split into hierarchies" feature introduced in 1.6.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.6.1 (Jan 7, 2009)

  • This is the first offical Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard-only release of this title.
  • This product right from the start used operating system features first introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and then refined in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. As development went on, we hit many limitations of the Tiger implementation of those features that prevented us from delivering the rapid pace of improvements that we were targetting.
  • In recent releases, a dispropriate amount of effort went into maintaining backwards compatibility with Tiger and we've come to the conclusion that this time and energy would have been better spent moving the product forward at an increased pace.
  • This first Leopard-only release contains only nuts & bolts changes that ready the product for more Leopard-only developments.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.6 (Nov 19, 2008)

  • The new version now remembers your settings between different sessions and allows you to create "droplet" mini-applications that store frequently used settings and allow you to re-apply them to the content of new source folders via simple drag & drop.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.6 Beta 1 (Nov 17, 2008)

  • Adds support for creating self-contained droplet mini-applications that can be used to store and re-apply frequently used settings via simple drag & drop.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.5.1 (Oct 27, 2008)

  • Small fix for the MP3/AAC support.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.5.0 (Oct 22, 2008)

  • The new version adds the ability to make the creation of deeper hierarchy levels dependent on the number of files on each level.
  • It also restores MP3/AAC support for the splitting feature.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.5 Beta 2 (Oct 17, 2008)

  • Restores MP3/AAC support for the splitting feature and fixes a few bugs in the first beta.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.5 Beta 1 (Oct 8, 2008)

  • Adds the ability of making the creation of deeper hierarchy levels dependent on the number of files per level.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.4.5 (Sep 23, 2008)

  • New options for batch folder creation.
  • New sentence and proper case options for folder hierarchy creation.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.4.1 (Feb 28, 2008)

  • Restores 10.4 compatibility.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.4 (Feb 27, 2008)

  • Adds support for splitting music collections into folder hierarchies based on id3 tags.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.3.5 (Jan 30, 2008)

  • Improved performance, stability and scalability.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.3.1 (Jan 11, 2008)

  • This releases fixes Tiger compatibility which was broken by version 1.3.

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.2.1 (Dec 13, 2007)

  • This update fixes two problems:
  • Invisible files were previously copied if the "subfolders" checkbox was unticked
  • Copying files containing forward slashes in their name would cause errors and not be copied

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.2 (Nov 30, 2007)

  • fixed a multi-threading bug that could crash the application on Leopard
  • significantly reduced memory foot print of the processing engine, so that it can now safely handle hundreds of thousands of files
  • optimized some slower operations using Leopard-only features
  • remains both Leopard and Tiger compatible

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.1 (Nov 15, 2007)

  • The program now remains open after the end of a run
  • The conflict resolution description has been clarified
  • The case settings for custom hierarchy splitting schemes are now honored
  • The program now provides a better warning that it operates in trial mode

New in The Big Mean Folder Machine 1.0b3 (Sep 12, 2007)

  • Version 1.0b3 can now split files into folder hierarchies based on custom criteria.