NeoFinder 8.5

What's new in this version:

New Features:
- READER mode available to Business License holders, for users who should only use NeoFinder to search, but make no changes
- LTFS XML Importer for the free LTFS tool to write LTO tapes
- Auto-Updater can repeat a schedule every nn hours (nn being 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, or 12 hours)
- Catalog Sony DSF and SDS audio files, including metadata like ID3 tags (cover art, composer, ...)
- Movie Converter can copy metadata from the original file, including the EXIF creation date, XMP data, and GPS GeoTags
- Movie Converter can "pass through" audio or video data into a new file container
- Movie Converter can replace existing audio tracks with a separate audio file
- Find Editor has a "On This Day" option for the EXIF Capture Date
- Find Editor has search options for empty and not empty field for all textual ID3 and EXIF fields
- Place Aliases of NeoFinder Database files into the NeoFinder Database folder (Business License only)
- Add any files, or multiple folders to the Image Analysis work list
- Image Analysis work list processes Image AutoTag Detection, OCR, and finding Faces up to to SIX times faster on M1 and M2 chips
- The Map has a contextual menu that allows to move a GeoTag, show the location in OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, or Google Earth, show the location of a GeoTag in the clipboard, and copy the clicked coordinate to the clipboard

Updated Features:
- Find context menu has an option to search for same file names without suffix
- Edit the view GPS direction and altitude of MOV and MP4 video files
- Place Finder has a selector to chose the Catalogs for which the location names should also be added
- Places list command to find items near the GPS GeoTag shows a dialog with a map, a distance control, and a visual circle showing the area searched
- Places list command to add the Place name to all items taken near the GPS GeoTag shows a dialog with a map, a distance control, and a visual circle showing the area searched
- Places window shows GPS GeoTags as degrees, minutes and seconds, not just as a number
- Places list has a context menu with commands to find all photos taken near the GPS GeoTag, or to assign the place names to all items near the GPS GeoTag, and to show the GPS GeoTag in Google Maps, Google Earth, and OpenStreetMap
- Web Gallery templates "Blue Cards" and "Green Fluid" have better folder navigation, if you export catalogs containing folders
- Web Gallery generates a preview of the original file, if the thumbnail in the Catalog is too small, and the original file is available
- A Smart Folder displays all photos and videos taken "On This Day"
- Adding Places from the Places List or the Place Finder will ask if existing location values should be overwritten or merged
- Albums have a context menu command to Export as Web Gallery
- AppleScript menu shows folders and their contents hierarchically in the menu
- Read the GPS GeoTag values using AppleScript
- Write the GPS GeoTag coordinate using AppleScript
- A mouse click during the Slide Show will progress to the next photo
- A long mouse click during the Slide Show will progress to the previous photo
- Find place names improves handling of place names in England
- "Load place names" is also available in the main menu (Item -> Metadata), so you can assign a keyboard shortcut to it
- Double click in the Places list will add the GPS GeoTag (not just the four location fields) to the selected files(s), but only to those that had no GPS GeoTag yet
- Cataloging video metadata, cover art, and more for MKV and other formats (using ffmpeg to catalog them) has been massively improved
- The Persons list has a context menu command to add the clicked Person to all currently selected files
- The Keywords list in the Controlled Vocabulary has a context menu command to add the clicked keyword as a XMP keyword to all currently selected files
- A double click into a folder inside a Catalog shown in the LIBRARY will display the content of that folder in a separate window
- Command-DownArrow opens the selected folder in a new window
- The Map allows clicks into Point-of-Interest and shows the name of that POI in a bubble
- Using the context menu or the Metadata main menu, you can set the EXIF Capture date to the file creation date
- Writing GPS GeoTags to MOV and MP4 video files adds additional private QuickTime metadata that Apples "Photos.app" needs to be able to figure out the location of the GeoTag
- Writing XMP Captions to MOV and MP4 video files adds additional private QuickTime metadata so that Apples "Photos.app" is able to read that caption as well
- Use arrow-up and arrow-down keys to adjust the audio volume of the integrated video player in the Gallery View
- Light Table will show the first item much faster
- NeoFinder can ignore existing EXIF thumbnails, if these differ from the actual photo, e.g. for photos set to Sepia directly in the camera
- Improves reading the IPTC keywords from Canto Cumulus CRE export files

Fixed:
- After deleting an element from a Catalog or an Album, NeoFinder will select the next item in the current view
- Works around massive changes in NSView draw and clip hierarchies introduced by Apple in macOS 14
- Auto Updater log has better error descriptions
- Fixes a problem when search for GPS GeoTags near a place, where two absolutely identical coordinates would not have been considered close by
- Fixes some problems reading and writing GPS view direction and altitude from several file formats
- Fixes a problem in the Map, where searching for a place name would not return the proper GPS coordinate, due to changes made by the OpenStreetMap service that NeoFinder uses for that search
- Improves behaviour when changing the EXIF Capture date for large video files in the Inspector
- Massively improved performance of the Inspector when displaying thousands of selected files that contain more than two dozens of XMP keywords each
- The Image Analysis uses drastically less memory, especially when handling a large number of thumbnails
- Improves behaviour when a network problem occurs while cataloging a very large BackBlaze B2 bucket
- Deleting GPS GeoTags from a MOV or MP4 video file now also completely removes the private Apple specific GPS data
- Fixes a problem changing custom annotation contents using AppleScript
- Fixes a problem adding content to an empty custom annotation using AppleScript
- Fixes a problem where separate windows would always display the content of any freshly activated Catalog, even if the window displayed another Catalog
- Errors generated by AppleScript are shown in a message dialog
- Fixes a couple of memory leaks
- Fixes many minor issues
- NeoFinder 8.5 requires Mac OS X 10.12 or newer, Intel or Apple ARM M1 or M2