- New: Scripted Rules allow for custom file matching with Lua or JavaScript code. This makes complex rules possible – see the website for useful examples.
- New: If you have Default Folder X running, the pop-up menu showing the search locations
will include DFX's Favorites and Recent Fodlers.
- New: If you have BBEdit's Command Line Tools installed, you'll get two new commands in the Results' right-click menu (see above).
- New: Rule File Content now looks inside zip files, including .docx (Word) and .xlsx (Excel) files.
- New: Rule Comments to search for Finder comments (see Info window) aka "Spotlight Comments".
- New: The context menu in the Results window now offers a Copy Paths command.
- New: Unlock command removes the file locks (user & system) as well as any ACLs.
- New: Rename command lets you rename files and folders in FAF's Result window. Use the menu or type cmd-E.
- New: The … any of rules now allow entering multiple choices separated by returns instead of spaces, which enables you to provide a list of choices that contain spaces.
- New: Adds is either of rule, in case one wants to find any matches for a set of specific file or folder names.
- New: Found file names now highlight the matched part. You can turn this off in the View menu.
- New: Files or paths in the clipboard can now be pasted into a Results window, adding them to the list in that window.
- New: Adds Font, Folder, Directory, Alias and Symlink to the Kind rule, while removing (actually: hiding them as expert options)
the now-outdated Is a folder and Is a Finder Alias rules.
- New: Adds does not contain to the File Content search rule.
- New: Adds Name begins with any of rule.
- New: The popup menu with the search locations includes a Recent Locations menu that lists folders you had previously chosen for a search.
- New: If you hold down the command key when double clicking on items in the results, they're not opened but revealed in Finder instead.
- New: When saving results, one can now choose to include the rules for later reference.
- New: The hidden preference "HotkeyActivationMode" controls what happens when the Hotkey is used: Value 1 will always bring a Find window to front, even if a Results window was frontmost. Value 2 will always make a "clean" (default) Find window or tab available.
- New: Folder sizes can now be shown in the results by option-clicking the Preference option Calculate size of applications and packages. It will then show a dash (–) instead of a checkmark (√) to indicate this feature.
- New: Japanese translation.
- Change: Change: The Kind, Label and Script rules now let you choose any. With that, you can preset your
search with these rules set to do nothing unless you change their value.
- Change: The Path rule now matches on the entire path, not just on the item's enclosing path any more.
- Change: When choosing the iCloud folder as a search location, FAF will search all iCloud related application folders, not just the "iCloud Drive" folder.
- Change: When restarting in root mode (Find All) while there are still result windows open, the non-root app remains running along the root app so that the results aren't lost.
- Change: The option Show Results Early won't display a blocking overlay during search any more (option-click on the preference checkbox to get old behavior back).
- Change: By default, the "(Data)" volumes are not shown any more. Set the hidden pref "Volumes list mode" to 1, 2 or 3 to get them back.
- Change: The rule File content has been renamed to Text content.
- Change: The menu title "startup disk" is now "startup volume" because it's technically the correct term. (Do you find that confusing? Please let me know)
- Change: The "Copy to JSON" menu command doesn't escape slashes any more (requires macOS 10.15 or later).
- Change: The "(slow)" indicator for volumes is not shown any more by default as it's more confusing than helpful.
- Change: When Tabs are enabled in Result windows, new results appear in another Tab instead of a new window.
- Change: The Results menu has been re-arranged to better match the order Finder uses.
- Change: The rules in the Find window have been re-arranged.
- Change: The rule title "contains literally" is now called "contains phrase" in hopes of better understanding.
- Change: When using the Filter in the Results window, diacritical marks are now ignored in the search unless the filter text uses them explicitly. For instance, a filter "a" finds both names with "a" and "à" in them, whereas a filter with "à" only finds "à" but not "a".
- Change: The rules "Name ends with" and "Name ends with any of" will now optionally ignore file extensions. That means that searching for names ending in "week" will find "last week.docx" now.
- Improves the way found files are passed by the "Pass to App" rule, making it faster and more reliable.
- Improvement: File content search with regex now also finds unicode variants of accented chars and UTF-16 text.
- Fixes a visual glitch in the Preferences window under macOS 13 "Ventura".
- Fixes an issue where "Limit Folder Depth" didn't work with Spotlight enabled and some rules such as "Kind is Folder".
- Fix: The rule Kind is Text now includes PDF files, as documented in the manual.
- Fix: The rule Kind is not … for Video, PDF, Word & Pages, Spreadsheet and eBook now works correctly.
- Fix: The rule "Kind is not PDF" works now.
- Fix: The rule "Kind is not Video" does now correctly exclude video files.
- Fix: Searching specifically the startup disk's Applications folder will now also find files inside
/System/Applications/ on macOS 10.15 and later.
- Fix: When performing another search while looking at the results of a previous search, the new Results window won't pop up in front any more.
- Fix: Determining the Finder selection shouldn't stall FAF any more. (This used to happen whenever FAF was activated.)
- Fix: Searching folders now properly skips excluded folders again.
- Fix: The Dock icon won't clash any more with some other apps (such as Captin).
- Fix: Reading .paths files now properly ignores comments and JSON lines, e.g. from Scherlokk.app.
- Fix: Support for Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK): A full-width space character can now be used instead of the regular
(half-width) space in the Find window to separate text fragments.
- Fix: Supports searching Google Drive better when it's in "Mirror Mode".
- Fix: Shift-Backspace for "Remove from Results" didn't work in Icon view.
- Fix: No more ghost items when deleting found items, then recreating them.
- Fix: When using the Results Filter on Dates, the month and weekday names only match at the beginning of the words now (before, filtering on "ar" would also match on any date in February, now you need to type "f" or "feb" etc. to match those dates).
- Fix: Using the "Reset All" button in the Preferences window won't take many seconds any more.
- Fix: "In Finder Selection" won't show duplicate names any more, and will not use an excessive width.
- Fix: Hot Keys can be set to cmd-F again, provided the option "Works only in Finder" is checked.
- Fix: Using Copy with the ctrl key ("JSON format") now writes the values for "dataForkSize" and "rsrcForkSize" correctly (they were switched until now).
- Fix: Using Copy with the shift key ("Copy columns") outputs the size column as a plain number instead of using units (K, M, G), so that these values can be better used in a spreadsheet.
- Improves the Toolbar in the Results window:
- Shows narrower items with a pop-up menu if the space is too tight on macOS Big Sur and Monterey.
- You can now customize the Toolbar (ctrl-click on it) and choose the older textual switches instead of the new icons.
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