Quickly catalogs your entire media and disk library, and your backup archive

NeoFinder for Mac

NeoFinder 8.7

  -  39 MB  -  Freeware

Sometimes latest versions of the software can cause issues when installed on older devices or devices running an older version of the operating system.

Software makers usually fix these issues but it can take them some time. What you can do in the meantime is to download and install an older version of NeoFinder 8.7.


For those interested in downloading the most recent release of NeoFinder for Mac or reading our review, simply click here.


All old versions distributed on our website are completely virus-free and available for download at no cost.


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What's new in this version:

New and updated features:
- "Very Dark" NeoFinder fully supports macOS Dark Mode in all windows and everywhere
- NeoFinder Preferences have a "Use System Appearance" option that will automatically switch between White and Dark if the macOS Appearance changes
- Integrated Audio Converter to quickly convert song files into other formats
- Full Support for mp3 and WAV audio files from the BBC Sound Effects Archive, which adds interesting metadata and descriptions to these audio files. This includes the ID3 "TXXX" tags and an extended "bext" WAVE record
- Full Support for the "Mountain Duck" software, allowing NeoFinder to catalog data on Amazon S3, Box, pCloud, NextCloud, Azure, and countless other cloud based servers
- Find Editor can find dates relative to today (like: "in the last 14 days") for the EXIF Capture Date, file creation date, and file modification date.
- Two default Smart Folders added: "Files created in the last two weeks" and "Photos created in the last month"
- Details View Settings can select what field values the seven data fields in the second row should display
- Details View has a full Ratings control to directly modify the rating of an item
- Details View has QuickEdit, can show the green "is online" marker, and the GeoTag symbol
- Catalog metadata from Hasselblad "Phocus" sidecar files with the ".phos" suffix
- Write XMP metadata to existing ".phos" sidecar files created by the Hasselblad Phocus software
- Write XMP Metadata directly into NEF, CR2, FFF, and 3RF RAW photo files, and read that metadata when Cataloging
- Catalog thumbnails and metadata from EPS (encapsulated Postscript) files in macOS 14 "Sonoma" and macOS 15 "Sequoia", using the free Ghostscript software
- Catalog thumbnails and metadata for Nikon .NEV video files in their new RAW format
- Catalog very large PhaseOne EIP files much faster, especially when Updating an existing Catalog; shows the file name and resulting thumbnail in the progress window
- Import and Export Auto-Updater schedules for better backup of these values, and easier deployment on multiple machines
- Select an existing Auto-Updater schedule and its settings as a default value for new schedules to be added
- "Rename Person" command with the ability to change the old value in all media files, too
- Catalog video chapter names and time marks, display them and search them
- Photo Converter can convert the Color Profile of the exported file
- Icon View and the Photo Contact Sheet have "EXIF Date (no time)", "Kind" and "GPS GeoTag" as possible fields to be displayed
- AppleScript can modify the names of files and folders in Catalogs, and the name of Catalogs and Albums
- Multiple highly useful sample AppleScripts are installed to the Scripts folder of NeoFinder
- AppleScript has read access to the md5 FileCheck value of files in Catalogs
- Contextual menu for a file with a GPS GeoTag has the option to display the Wikipedia Inspector for interesting places near the GPS location
- Contextual menu command to search for the EXIF Capture Date of a photo or video, including the time (hour and minute)
- View menu has a command to show all items with a thumbnail in the selected folder, Catalog, or even Catalog Folder
- "View all ... items" context menu commands are located in a "View" submenu, and work for multiple Catalog and even entire Catalog Folders as well
- "Clear Display Filter" command in the View menu resets all values in the Display Filter and shows all items
- Contextual Menu for an Album Group has commands to create a new Album, or a new Album Group
- Improved cataloging ID3 tags that don't adhere to the standard
- Updated to use the latest Adobe XMP Toolkit software to read and write XMP metadata

Fixed:
- Fixes a problem where a new color label or comment of a Catalog Folders wasn't immediately synced to the database folder and to other Macs
- Updated multiple code sections to remove deprecated macOS APIs and use newer system calls
- Fixes a problem where the contextual menu for audio files didn't always show the "Update Metadata" command
- Fixes a problem where a Collection of all items in a folder didn't always work for folders in the Found Items
- Improves the visual design of the Columns View
- Improves reliability when reading Finder Comments from certain older volumes
- Fixes a problem in AppleScript where changes to the color label index would't always be immediately displayed in the NeoFinder windows
- Shows the pixel size and number of pages for CBR and CBZ comic book files cataloged on Windows with abeMeda
- Improved behaviour when trying to identify renamed volumes
- Fixes many minor issues
- NeoFinder 8.7 requires Mac OS X 10.14 "Mojave" or newer, including macOS 14 "Sonoma", Intel or Apple ARM M1, M2, or M3