Version 5.2012th June 2013 The new version makes it easy to sign up for our new mailing list. Version 5.2011th December 2012 The new version:
Version 5.1929th August 2012 The new version improves integration with the Mac App Store version. Version 5.1814th August 2012 The new version delivers Mountain Lion compatible droplet creation. Update: Apple's Mac OS X 10.8.1 update has fixed the bug causing A Better Finder Attributes droplets not to operate correctly on Mountain Lion. Old droplets should now operate correctly again. Version 5.176th July 2012 The new version solves a problem that could cause EXIF adjustments on external drives to fail. Version 5.1627th June 2012 The new version features Retina Display-optimized drawing and artwork. Version 5.1511th June 2012 This version works around a bug in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion that would intermittently cause the droplet application rather than the main application to be launched when double clicking the application icon. Version 5.149th May 2012 The new version adopts Developer ID signing in preparation for Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. Version 5.1315th March 2012 The new version fixes a minor drawing bug. Version 5.1214th March 2012 The new version features a refreshed user interface. Version 5.1125th January 2012 The new version can now be used in the Mac OS X 10.7 full screen mode. Version 5.104th January 2012 The new release adds support for modifying Sony ARF RAW files. Version 5.0914th December 2011 This release adds support for modifying Nikon RAW (.NEF) photo files. Version 5.0829th November 2011 This release works around an international date formatting bug in Mac OS X Lion. Version 5.078th November 2011 The new version cleans up the user interface now that writing EXIF time stamps to CRW, CR2 and CIFF are supported. Version 5.0627th September 2011 The new version now supports adjusting EXIF timestamps in all commonly used Canon RAW file formats, including CRW, CR2 and CIFF. Version 5.0527th July 2011 The new version replaces the previous EXIF date changing engine with a new faster and more expandable implementation. Version 5.0423rd March 2011 The new version allows console logging to be switched off and addresses an unlocking problem affecting Eastern European customers. Version 5.0316th March 2011 The new version features a new "Collect Debugging Information" item in the "Help" menu that allows for much more convenient bug reporting. A cosmetic problem with some of the application's menu items showing up in a smaller font after the migration to the new XCode 4 toolset was also resolved. Version 5.0228th February 2011 This new version updates the information on the Mac App Store purchasing option. Version 5.0122nd February 2011 This new version makes it easier to purchase A Better Finder Attributes 5 in the Mac App Store, where it is called "File Multi Tool 5". Version 5.08th February 2011 Version 5 was modernized inside and out and now requires Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or later. The major visible changes are the brand new single window user interface and the automatic software update. Behind the scenes much has changed and version 5.0 is now ready for major new developments which will as always be released incrementally as they become available. Version 5.0 is a free upgrade to all customer who have purchased A Better Finder Attributes 4 after the 1st of January 2009. It is a paid upgrade for other users. Version 5.0 beta 12nd February 2011 This is the first beta of the upcoming A Better Finder Attributes 5.0 release. The new version is modernized inside and out and now requires Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or later. The major visible changes are the brand new single window user interface and the automatic software update. Behind the scenes much has changed and version 5.0 is now ready for major new developments which will as always be released incrementally as they become available. Version 4.509th November 2010 The new release ensures that the creation date of files that do not have an EXIF timestamp are not affected by the "Copy the date that digital photo was taken to the creation date" action. Version 4.4918th August 2010 The new release allows time to be added or subtracted from both the EXIF shooting date and the file creation date simultaneously. Version 4.4828th July 2010 The new release fixes a minor issue affecting the working on the service menu on Snow Leopard. Version 4.4712th May 2010 The new release adds the ability to "lift" the creation or modification date of an existing file for specifying the creation and modifications of other files. Version 4.4612th January 2010This release works around a bug in Mac OS X 10.6.2 to ensure that creation and modification dates continue to be changed concurrently. Version 4.4511th November 2009This release uses a new implementation for the "force finder to update its information the file(s)" feature. Version 4.4421st October 2009This release contains significant improvements to the handling of unlock codes and should make unlocking the product significantly less error prone. Version 4.4313th October 2009The new release restores the ability to set creator and type codes on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Please note that the Snow Leopard Finder and operating system do no longer use the creator code to associate documents with a particular application. Version 4.425th October 2009The new release removes the experimental EXIF library for Snow Leopard and uses the tried and tested old library instead. Version 4.411st October 2009The new release:
Please note that Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger customers should downgrade to version 3.39 which is the last Tiger compatible version. Version 4.4028th September 2009The new release fixes a crashing bug when changing EXIF information in JPEG files when the program is used on Snow Leopard. Version 4.3923rd September 2009This is the last Tiger compatible release! The new release uses a new library to change EXIF information in JPEG files when the program is used on Snow Leopard. It also includes a new version of the preferences pane that handles system with a legacy A Better Finder Launcher installation more gracefully. Version 4.3816th September 2009This release makes further tweaks for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Version 4.379th September 2009This release updates the preferences pane for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Expect more Snow Leopard tweaks next week. Version 4.3612th August 2009This release adds an "A Better Finder Attributes 4..." menu item to the services menu and allows A Better Finder Attributes to be started by selecting files in the Finder or other applications via the "Services" menu. This also means that the new release is now Snow Leopard compatible. Version 4.3527th July 2009 Fixes a bug that prevented the "Copy the date that the digital photo was taken to creation date" action to work correctly for non-JPEG files. Version 4.348th July 2009 Optional preference pane now correctly reports A Better Finder Attributes update status. Version 4.333rd June 2009 The new adds the ability to change both the file creation and modification date in a single operation. Version 4.3229th April 2009 The new version fixes a minor bug. Version 4.3127th April 2009 The new version restores the full digital photography features. Version 4.3015th April 2009 The new version now directly links to the new support forums. Version 4.8.52nd March 2009 The new version now correctly handles Mac OS X "bundles", such as ".pages" and ".numbers" documents as files rather than folders. Version 4.8.42nd February 2009 It is now possible to switch off the validity check before attempting to change EXIF timestamps in JPEG files. In that manner, it is possible to attempt to overwrite corrupted timestamps. This validity check is switched on by default, but can be switched off in the "Preferences..." dialog. Version 4.8.35th January 2009 This release fixes a bug in the "Copy the creation date to date that the digital photo was taken". Version 4.8.217th December 2008 This release fixes a bug in the preferences pane component. Version 4.812th November 2008 The new version adds the ability to remove file creation and modification dates and improves preview and error handling. Version 4.7.927th October 2008 The new version fixes a bug with the legacy creator and type code setting feature. Version 4.7.810th October 2008 Corrects an incorrectly displayed error message. Version 4.7.77th October 2008 The new version fixes a bug that affects the legacy creator and type code setting feature. Version 4.7.617th July 2008
Version 4.7.52nd April 2008
Version 4.713th February 2008 The new release allows the EXIF shooting date of JPEG picture files to be set to an arbitrary date and time. Version 4.6.79th January 2008 Fixes a bug affecting the "Change Modification Date" feature. Version 4.6.623rd October 2007 Delivers Leopard compatibility and makes minor corrections. Version 4.6.517th October 2007 The new release adds support for setting Finder color labels. Version 4.6.13rd September 2007 This release fixes a bug that caused the 'Add or subtract time from JPEG EXIF capture date' feature to fail on batches of more than 100 items. Version 4.68th August 2007 The new version adds features for visualizing invisible files (including those pesky .DS_Store files) and removing them from entire file hierarchies. Version 4.5.618th July 2007 This is a minor update that warns users that Mac OS X 10.4 does not always display file dates pre-dating the 1st of January 1970 correctly, but the program does change dates correctly within the 1904 to 2040 time range. The update also contains the newest system preferences pane. Version 4.5.56th June 2007 The new version now allows you to remove legacy creator and types codes from existing files. Version 4.524th April 2007 The new version offers EXIF time stamp reading support for:
and improves error checking. This latest version is the requires Mac OS X 10.4! Version 4.4.521st March 2007 The new version:
This latest version is the first that requires Mac OS X 10.4! Version 4.419th February 2007 The new version:
Version 4.3.524th January 2007 The new version:
Version 4.313th December 2006 You can now force the Finder to update its information on files and folders when it displays stale information. Version 4.215th November 2006 The new version integrates the features of the discontinued A Better Finder Creators & Types product:
For more information on creator & type codes please refer to this explanation on wikipedia. Version 4.1.130th September 2006 The new version updates the optional program components: the systems preferences pane, hot key and contextual menu plugin. Version 4.113th September 2006 The new version improves the handling of inconsistent date values and makes a number of minor fixes and improvements. Version 4.0.319th April 2006 The new version updates the System Preferences Pane and the Hot Key Component to address a minor installation bug. Version 4.0.212th March 2006 Version 4.0.2 is a bug fix release that corrects registration inconsistencies and a minor bug in the hot key component. Version 4.0.18th March 2006 This bug fix release corrects an installation problem with the 4.0 release that prevented the context menu from working. Version 4.08th March 2006 Version 4 will be a free upgrade for all owners of version 3. A Better Finder Attributes 4 is based on the same code as A Better Finder Rename 7, released late last year. It inherits much of its user experience and features:
Version 3.9.511th January 2006 This is the first release as a "Universal Application" running at full speed on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macintoshes. Version 3.97th December 2005 This new release features faster and more reliable EXIF shooting date acquisition. Version 3.8.616th November 2005 This minor release ensures compatibility with the new version 7 release of A Better Finder Rename. Version 3.8.56th July 2005 The new release updates the hot key and preference pane components to provide an improved user experience:
Version 3.816th March 2005 The new version allows time intervals to be added or subtracted to existing modification and creation date and times. Version 3.79th February 2005 The new version introduces a swizzle user interface and makes significant internal changes. The new "progressive disclosure" user interface is based on the use of swizzle triangles and brings A Better Finder Attributes in line with the latest A Better Finder Rename releases. Internal changes exploit Cocoa bindings to make it easier to add significant new user interface features in the future. Version 3.6.117th November 2004 This minor update contains the new version of the System Preferences pane shared with the other A Better Finder series tools. The System Preference Pane update:
Version 3.620th October 2004 The new release introduces a file details drawer designed to make it easier to judge file changes interactively. Version 3.521st July 2004 The new release:
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