NeoFinder (formerly CDFinder) rapidly organizes your data, either on external or internal disks, or any other volumes. It catalogs 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, data folder, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, BlueRay, HD-DVD, iPod, Server Volume, Audio-CD, USB-Stick, FTP-Server, and more
• Power: Handle really large amounts of data
• Photo Previews: Create beautiful thumbnails for many photo and image formats, such as JPG, TIFF, EPS, RAW, PDF, PSD, BMP, GIF, PNG, TGA, IFF (Maya)
• Audio Meta dаta: MP3, AAC (iTunes), FLAC (Lossless), ALAC (Apple Lossless), and AIFF meta dаta: 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!
• Photo Meta dаta: XMP (used by Adobe Bridge), EXIF and IPTC meta data (including GPS geotags), and JPG, TIFF, PICT and BMP photo details
• Movie Meta dаta: get thumbnails, the dimension, duration, codec and frame rate out of movie files, supporting AVI, MOV, MP4, FLV, MPG, MKV, M4V, and others
• Geotagging GPS support: 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 (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 twelve formats are supported: Disk Recall, DiskWizard, Iomega FindIt, Portents DiskTracker (both 1.x and 2.x!), Catalogue, CatFinder, "Neometric" Catalog, DiskLibrary, 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 and print catalog data
• 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 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:

New features and enhancements in NeoFinder 9.2

• Import native WinCatalog database files (".w3cat" file name suffix)
• Display and edit custom folder items for Catalog Folders in the NeoFinder LIBRARY
• Catalog contents of .tgz compressed TAR archives ("tarball" format)
• Import metadata presets directly from Adobe Products
• Display Filter has a menu to select which field is being used: name, comment, persons, keywords, caption, or location
• Display Filter allows "##" for "empty field" and "@@" for "not empty field"
• Display Filter can search for identical terms ("==") and NOT identical terms ("!=")
• "Invert Selection" menu command for all content view styles
• Volume Media type can now be "SSD"
• When cataloging SSD disks, or folders on SSD disks, the media type will be set to "SSD"
• Edit the text content excerpt for a file in a catalog, using the Inspector
• Find Editor supports "==" and "!=" prefix values for all XMP search parameters, to search for the exact field content, or different field content
• Find Editor has path related parameters to search for exact folder names, "folder name begins with" and "folder name ends with" options
• Editing the Filter in the controlled Vocabulary window will keep selected items selected and visible
• QuickTags menu has a command to open the Controlled Vocabulary window
• QuickPersons menu has a command to open the Persons window
• The Controlled Vocabulary window tools menu has a command to open QuickTags
• The Persons window tools menu has a command to open QuickPersons
• QuickTags and QuickPersons have help tags for long and truncated content
• Massively improved detection of moved or renamed catalog folders in the LIBRARY synchronisation
• Massively improved detection of moved or renamed catalogs in the LIBRARY synchronisation
• Deleting a Metadata Preset in the Presets Editor now supports Undo
• Icon View has a multi line tooltip for keywords and persons annotation field
• Details View has a multi line tooltip for keywords and persons annotation field
• Details View has tooltips for all data fields
• Cataloging video files with ffmpeg now recognizes the "media still frame" value of the Expert Settings
• The contextual menu for catalogs and folders in Catalogs has the "New Folder..." command
• Details View expands the width of the second column and leaves the first column width unchanged
• More Finder Info shows metadata for external Finder files in RED, NEV, BRAW, Pixelmator, IIQ, EIP, GoPro and other formats
• Open any selected folder in the Light table by using the "+" key
• QuickTags has a destination menu to decide, whether the new tags should be written as Finder Tags, XMP Keywords, or both
• Fixes a problem of the integrated software updater in macOS 15 and macOS 26. Please manually update this version, future updates will work inside NeoFinder again
• Works around a bug in macOS 26 "Tahoe" where some menu items in the main menu had distracting random tiny images assigned to them
• Works around a bug in macOS 26 "Tahoe" where the "expansion tooltips" in List View of macOS were using the abbreviated content of the column
• Works around a bug of macOS 26, which returns bogus creation and modification date values for FAT32 volumes
• Works around a bug of macOS 26 that could cause the "Share" icon of the NeoFinder toolbar to appear black in macOS Dark Mode
• Improves behavior when cataloging the contents of TAR archives created with newer macOS versions
• Updated some code modules in NeoFinder to use a more modern XML parser
• Fixes a problem when the sort order for Albums wasn't properly stored in the Album if the "Keep folders together" option was active
• Improves detection of video rotation in MOV files written by some newer iOS versions
• Improves error reporting if writing a new catalog file into the database folder fails
• Massively improves behavior if a volume that is being cataloged or updated suddenly disappears. NeoFinder will now cancel the Update in that case and report to the NeoFinder console or the Auto-Updater log
• Improves behavior in Image Capture when you ask it to close the window and also show the new files in an updated Catalog afterwards
• Fixes a problem in the photo contact sheet, where in some specific cases, an empty page would be added
• Addresses numerous minor issues
• NeoFinder 9.2 requires Mac OS X 10.15 "Catalina" or newer, including macOS 26 "Tahoe", Intel or Apple ARM M1, M2, M3, or M4

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