NeoFinder for Mac
Catalog your external media and disks (was CDFinder).
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NeoFinder overview
NeoFinder (formerly CDFinder) rapidly organizes your data, either on external or internal disks, or any other volumes. It catalogs and manages all your data, so you stay in control of your data archive or disk library. With extensive metadata support, you can find your files quickly.
Features:
- Catalog: any hard disk, SSD, Server Volume, Backblaze B2, Dropbox, data folder, CD-R, DVD-R, Blu-Ray, iPod, Audio-CD, USB-Stick, FTP-Server, and more
- Power: Handle really large amounts of data
- Organize: Add Keywords, Ratings, Descriptions, and more in the XMP editor for photos and videos, even multiple files at once
- Photo Previews: Create beautiful thumbnails for many photo and image formats, such as JPG, TIFF, EPS, RAW, PDF, PSD, Affinity Photo, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, Affinity Publisher, Adobe Indesign, BMP, GIF, PNG, TGA
- Photo Meta Data: XMP (used by Adobe Bridge), EXIF and IPTC meta data (including GPS geotags), and JPG, TIFF, PICT and BMP photo details
- Audio Previews: Let NeoFinder create short sound snippets of your music in the catalog
- Audio Meta Data: MP3, AAC (iTunes), FLAC (Lossless), ALAC (Apple Lossless), and AIFF meta data: author, album, title, composer, lyrics, cover art, track number, duration, bit rate, genre, year, comment. Even catalogs whole Audio-CDs, and Apple iPhone ringtone files!
- Movie metadata: get thumbnails, the dimension, duration, codec and frame rate out of movie files, supporting AVI, MOV, MP4, FLV, MPG, MKV, M4V, and others
- Geotagging: NeoFinder catalogs and displays GPS EXIF tags of photos, and has direct links to Google Earth, Flickr, Panoramio, Google Maps and MapQuest. NeoFinder can even search for photos that were taken near any location (GeoFinder), and export GPS data to KMZ files
- Networkable: Share your NeoFinder database in your entire workgroup on a server (requires a Business License)
- Cross-platform: With abeMeda (was CDWinder), you can use one database for both worlds!
- Workflow Integration: Automatically catalog all discs burned by Roxio Toast; Drag any image directly from NeoFinder into applications like Adobe InDesign, Quark XPress, Apple Pages, Microsoft Office; integrate NeoFinder into FileMaker Pro databases, and much more
- Find it! Best Find functions, and of course offline browsing of all your volumes - even in multiple windows, if you want to
- Spotlight Integration: Search your local disks with Spotlight and as well as your catalogs from inside NeoFinder
- Import catalogs: These formats are supported: FileFinder, DiskCatalogMaker, Disk Recall, DiskWizard, Iomega FindIt, Portents DiskTracker (both 1.x and 2.x!), Catalogue, CatFinder, "Neometric" Catalog, DiskLibrary, Media Catalog, DiskCatalogMaker (Text export), TOLIS Group BRU, Cache-A XML files, WhereIsIt (Windows), SuperCat for Windows (".idx" database files), Delicious Library XML, Broken Cross Disk Manager (Windows), and Advanced Disk Catalog (ADC for Windows) catalog or export files, and iView MediaPro and Microsoft Expression Media XML files
- Fast and really easy to use, see screenshots
- Export catalog data to text, XML, and web galleries
- Insight: Look inside archive files: ZIP, TAR, .rar, StuffIt (.sit and even .sitx), and others, including Disk Image contents
- International: English, German, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch user interface, all in one application
- Unicode compatible: Use NeoFinder to catalog file names and metadata of any language
- AppleScript: Integrate NeoFinder with FileMaker Pro or any other application, or extend the abilities of NeoFinder
- Extend your NeoFinder catalog database by using five custom fields for any content you need
- FileCheck: Only NeoFinder can generate an industrial strength MD5 checksum for every file being cataloged
- AutoMount: NeoFinder automatically mounts every server volume you have cataloged or updated for you, if needed! And you can of course also ask NeoFinder to mount the volume for you at any time, using the context menu
- QuickLook: Open a QuickLook window for any selected online file(s) right from inside NeoFinder!
- Cross-Grade: you already bought a different disk cataloger or media asset manager application, ask us for a good offer!
- Free email support
- Languages: User Interface in eight languages, all in one application: English, German, Japanese, French, Italian, Swedish, Spanish and Dutch
What’s new in version 8.7.1
New and updated features
- Certified for macOS 15.0 "Sequoia". We do however highly recommend to wait for Apple to fix the FireWall, SMB, and networking bugs in macOS 15.0, among others
- Catalog thumbnails and metadata of Nikon Z 8 and Z 9 compressed NEF files
- Auto-Updater writes the duration time and the number of files and folders to the log file after updating of a Catalog has completed
- AppleScript has access to the cataloged text content of files
- Catalog the EXIF copyright text of some RAW formats
Fixes
- Fixes a problem with photos taken with iOS 17.x (both JPG and HEIC), where the GPS view direction could contain certain values that caused NeoFinder to compute the wrong view direction for some files
- Works around a bug in iOS 17.x, where HEIC files from PRO or MAX iPhones contain multiple malformed XMP records, which caused adding new metadata with NeoFinder to fail
- Works around bugs in Apples iCloud drive in macOS 14 and macOS 15, when trying to Catalog the entire "Macintosh HD" startup volume
- Works around bugs in Apples Xcode 16.0, which creates code that crashes applications in macOS 10.14 "Mojave"
- Improves cataloging the XMP color label name from certain RAW files
- Improves the dialog when NeoFinder asks to remove a hierarchical keyword from all files. That could sometimes display the wrong keyword name
- Editing the EXIF Capture Date immediately updates that value in any content view, not only the Inspector
- The Places window immediately reacts properly to changes of the Appearance
- Fixes a problem of incorrectly showing QuickEdit in the Details View for offline or write protected files
- Fixes a problem where exporting data from offline volumes could be very slow if the path field was activated for the export
- Saving a new Smart Folder works when the name contains a "/" character
- Duplicating a Smart Folder works when the name contains a "/" character
- Improves speed when updating a Catalog containing many XMP sidecar files
- Improves behaviour when cataloging malformed Release Date values of some ePub files
- Fixes a problem using the "no keyword is" search parameter in the Find Editor
- Improves editing the EXIF Capture Date for very large MP4 files (larger than 2 GB)
- Improves behaviour when trying to catalog damaged or malformed EPS files with Ghostscript
- The place name search field in the Map is also "very dark"
- Fixes many minor issues
- NeoFinder 8.7.1 requires Mac OS X 10.14 "Mojave" or newer, including macOS 15 "Sequoia", Intel or Apple ARM M1, M2, or M3
NeoFinder for Mac
$39.99
In English
Version 8.7.1
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Aug 2 2022
Version: 8.1.2
It's a good app, but it needs some tweaking. As far as the interface is concerned, it's fine.
Mar 30 2022
Version: 8.1
A fantastic program which I've used and loved it since 2006. NeoFinder catalogs your drives, media, and the contents of disk images, ZIP files, etc. Now you can search the catalog to find what you want, discover where it is, and get information about disks, files, folders, and media files -- without needing to mount or open the item you're searching. Search is fast and powerful.
NeoFinder is super useful if you've got
+ lots of files
+ lots of disks
+ removable media
+ unmounted virtual disks
+ disk images
+ archives (ZIP, Stuffit, etc.)
+ disconnected backup drives
+ remote backups
Every night, my backup system Carbon Copy Clones my boot drive to a second hard drive. Every week, that hard drive gets swapped for another. Right before the swap, I use NeoFinder to catalog my backup disk, so I know exactly which files, folders, versions are on which backup disk without needing to mount the drives (or bring them back onsite). It's magic!
NeoFinder is powerful, easy to use, and rock solid reliable. I've used it on a job that involved cataloging 16 million files on an 8TB HD, then repeatedly updated the catalog. It took a little while, but NeoFinder did the catalogs and updates without a hiccup. Superb programming, excellent user interface, rock-solid reliability, and first-rate documentation and support make this program a real winner.
Mar 11 2022
Version: 8.1
I use CloudMounter so I can use Dropbox as an external drive and store all my photographs on it. Accessing the photographs is occasionally a problem when my Internet connection is slow. I use NewFinder to store the catalog locally so I will have instant access to my entire album. It works very well.
Dec 16 2021
Version: 7.8.1
Version 8.0 has been released. The upgrade cost is $25.99 for the single user license. Details can be found here: https://www.cdfinder.de/en/news.html
Sep 28 2020
Version: 7.6
I have to say that I really like Neofinder. It's not perfect but I've found the developer extremely responsive to queries and have received updates specifically for the issues I've raised. I've run out of patience with Apple with iPhoto and Aperture disappearing and have looked for a simple DAM program and for me Neofinder is it! I'm an Evernote user for documents, web clippings etc and have never considered Neofinder for this but for image and media cataloguing and searching it's brilliant. I have numerous smart folders for photos by year, image title etc and my ripped DVDs and downloaded films etc have metadata shown. Neofinder also shows geolocation data, EXIF data etc etc.
The app has been around in one guise or another for many years and the developer seems to be in it for the long term. If cataloguing images and media files is what you need then, as I say, I think it's great.
