Tips & Tricks blog
Latest HoudahSpot posts on the Houdah Tips & Tricks blog:
HoudahSpot 4.4.2
- Fixes a bug where the "+" button to add search criteria could get stuck
- Fixes a bug where dragging search criteria snippets to the Refine pane could fail
- Fixes a bug where HoudahSpot failed to request permissions to search your photos
HoudahSpot 4.4.1
- Fixes a bug that could cause Quick Look preview to crash
HoudahSpot 4.4
- During initial activation, HoudahSpot now offers the option to save your license to 1Password
- On macOS Mojave, HoudahSpot needs to ask permission to automate Finder when you want it to search the frontmost Finder window
- Fixes a bug where searching using "contains all" produced different results depending on the order of search words
- Fixes a bug where previews could fail to follow selection in the list of results
- HoudahSpot could quit unexpectedly when the option to "quit on close of last window" is enabled
HoudahSpot 4.3.9
- Improved instructions for enabling "Full Disk Access" on macOS Mojave
- Works around a bug where Quick Look preview can crash on macOS Mojave
HoudahSpot 4.3.8
- Text preview for Apple Mail messages loads much faster
- After clearing a search, HoudahSpot now puts the focus back on the search field so you can immediately start typing
- Added new privacy controls for access to photos, mail messages, etc. on macOS Mojave
- Fixes an issue where search criteria input fields showed duplicate or incorrect suggested values
- Fixes various minor bugs
HoudahSpot 4.3.7
- In order to prepare for future macOS updates, the HoudahSpot Finder toolbar item is now a 64-bit application
- Added a link to our privacy policy in the About box
HoudahSpot 4.3.6
- Fixes a bug where the "Search Folders in HoudahSpot" Service failed to appear in Finder
- Fixes a bug where HoudahSpot could crash on fresh installs of MacOS High Sierra
- Corrects mistakes in the German and French localizations
HoudahSpot 4.3.5
- Improves performance and reactivity when updating search results as new files are found
- Fixes a bug where HoudahSpot could crash while moving a large number of files to the Trash
- Works a around a bug where results, when shown as grid of icons or previews, would scroll without reason
- Works a around a bug where opening an Xcode file from search results had Xcode open two windows for the file
HoudahSpot 4.3.4
- Works around a crashing bug with Quick Look preview for contacts and vcard files on macOS High Sierra
HoudahSpot 4.3.3
- Works around a bug that prevented HoudahSpot from previewing text for Microsoft Office files on macOS High Sierra
- Fixes a possible crash when closing tabs
HoudahSpot 4.3.2
- Addresses a compatibility issue with Microsoft Outlook where an error message was shown when opening a mail message from HoudahSpot
- Works around a bug where HoudahSpot crashed on macOS 10.13 High Sierra while adjusting system color or accessibility settings
- Fixes a problem that caused excessive CPU usage when opening search templates with many criteria or search locations
HoudahSpot 4.3.1
- HoudahSpot now follows aliases when looking for its Templates folder. This allows you to store search templates in a DropBox folder and keep these synchronized across different Macs
- When renaming files, HoudahSpot now accepts names that include a forward slash
- When moving files to a folder excluded from search, results are updated to exclude the moved files
- Updated file label colors to match closely with the colors shown in Finder on El Capitan and Sierra
HoudahSpot 4.3
- Improved performance. Faster scrolling. Faster refresh when files change
- Easy file tagging from the contextual menu
- Improved autocomplete on Finder tags in search and file tagging
- Improved support for international character sets in text preview
- Corrections to the German and French language versions
HoudahSpot 4.2.10
- Fixed a performance problem (beachball) introduced in HoudahSpot 4.2.9
HoudahSpot 4.2.9
- Improved support for macOS Spaces: New searches now open in the current Space
- Fixed various minor bugs
HoudahSpot 4.2.8
- Some labels and values were displayed in the system language, rather than the application language.
HoudahSpot is currently available in English, German, and French.
HoudahSpot 4.2.7
- The "Search Folders in HoudahSpot" service failed to appear in the context menu in Finder
- The HoudahSpot menubar icon now reveals its menu on option-click
- Fixed various minor bugs
HoudahSpot 4.2.6
- HoudahSpot used to refuse to rename a file if only letter case was changed
- Fixed a bug with initial keyboard focus on macOS Sierra
- Fixed a bug where HoudahSpot could crash while closing an active search
HoudahSpot 4.2.5
- On macOS Sierra, keyboard focus did not honor settings in HoudahSpot > Preferences > Advanced
- On macOS Sierra, the tab key did not work reliably to navigate between input fields in the Refine pane
HoudahSpot 4.2.4
- Ready for macOS 10.12 Sierra
HoudahSpot 4.2.3
- Fixed a bug where dragging files to the Trash failed
HoudahSpot 4.2.2
- HoudahSpot now remembers your preference to have the toolbar hidden
- Text preview now remembers font size preference
- Text preview occasionally failed to show file content
HoudahSpot 4.2.1
- Quick Look preview refreshes when switching between tabs
- Fixed a crash on revealing the info or preview pane
HoudahSpot 4.2
- Text preview loads much faster
- Grid view shows Finder tag colors next to file names
- Grid view wraps long file names over two lines
- File name and path filters now accept the * as wildcard to match any number of characters
- File tagging shows which tags are applied to all or only to some of the selected files
- Fixed a bug that prevented disabled search criteria from being saved to templates
- Fixed a bug that prevented search for phrases containing double quotes
HoudahSpot 4.1.8
- Fixes a few cosmetic bugs
HoudahSpot 4.1.7
- Works around an issue which caused text preview to fail for some Microsoft Word files
- Searches for spreadsheet files now also finds Microsoft Excel .xlsb files
HoudahSpot 4.1.6
- Fixes a crashing bug introduced by HoudahSpot 4.1.5.
HoudahSpot 4.1.5
- Added a new sample template. “Misplaced Music Files” finds music files outside the Music folder
- It is now possible to use up/down arrow keys to select a template in the HoudahSpot search bar
- Uses the latest version of the Sparkle app update. This includes security fixes.
HoudahSpot 4.1.4
- It is now possible to search for text within Text Preview. Simply press command-F
- The keyboard shortcut to put the focus on the search field has changed to command-option-F
- HoudahSpot prevents accidentally copying a folder to a subfolder of that same folder
- Fixes a bug that prevented excluding certain folders from searches
HoudahSpot 4.1.3
- Fixes a bug that could prevent HoudahSpot from quitting
- Restores German and French localization of the context menu
- Fixes a bug that could prevent Text Preview from loading document content
HoudahSpot 4.1.2
- Fixes a bug that could cause a crash when switching to grid view
- Fixes a bug that could cause a crash when grouping search criteria
HoudahSpot 4.1.1
- Works around a bug that prevented opening files using Microsoft Word 15
HoudahSpot 4.1
- HoudahSpot searches can now be exported as Finder Smart Folders
- You can now temporarily disable individual search criteria. This is particularly useful in combination with templates: have different criteria preconfigured, enable as needed
- You can now search for the asterisk character by entering \*. Without the backslash, the asterisk is used as wildcard to match any number of characters.
- Text preview now has arrow buttons to navigate between highlighted matches
- Grid view now shows full names and additional information on hover
- “Copy as Tab Delimited” now includes column headers
- Added more options when searching by file extension or kind
- Added a sample template that searches for HD video files
- Added French localization. Disponible en version française
HoudahSpot 4.0.10
- Search results can now be saved as tab delimited text files
- The quick search field now understands a wider variety of date formats
- Addresses minor compatibility issues with the beta version of OS X El Capitan
- Fixes a bug that could cause a crash on closing windows or tabs
HoudahSpot 4.0.9
- The search field can now find files that have no value for a given metadata attribute. For example, images with no latitude information:
kind:image NOT latitude:*
- Fixes a bug where HoudahSpot 4.0.8 failed to show file sizes
HoudahSpot 4.0.8
- “File extension” can now be added as a column in search results
- HoudahSpot now suggests you save your preferred setup of criteria, locations, columns, etc. as default for new searches
- Fixes a bug where keyboard shortcuts for templates in the search bar did not update
HoudahSpot 4.0.7
- The Preview pane now distinguishes between interaction with the preview and drag-and-drop
- HoudahSpot can find files in folders not indexed by Spotlight. The folders need to be explicitly listed in the Locations pane
- Copy as tab delimited could include extra columns
- Fixes a crash when when rearranging tabs
- Fixes a crash when dragging from the Info pane to the Refine pane
HoudahSpot 4.0.6
- HoudahSpot now shows a progress bar when tagging a large number of files
- Larger drop-down menus for Kind, Content Type, Keywords and Tags criteria
- Templates are now listed in the same order as they are in Finder
- The results grid view can now be zoomed using a pinch gesture
- Right-clicking a file in grid view now selects the file
- Folders can now be dragged from the file path at the bottom of the window to other applications
- Fixes a bug that could prevent searches from being saved as files or templates
HoudahSpot 4.0.5
- Adds option to show relative dates in the search results list
- Adds Apple Script commands to set view options
- Fixes an issue where the grid view showed file previews in icon mode
- Fixes a potential crash when nesting search criteria in a group
HoudahSpot 4.0.4
- German localization: “HoudahSpot spricht jetzt Deutsch”
- Fixes a bug with handling spaces in searches from LaunchBar Search Templates
- Works around a bug that prevents pasting multiple file names to some applications including Word 2011 and TextWrangler
- Works around a bug that prevents opening files using the latest Microsoft Word 2016 preview version
HoudahSpot 4.0.3
- Fixes a bug that could cause excessive CPU usage
HoudahSpot 4.0.2
- Files can now be selected by dragging across the list of results
- Improves the performance of loading value lists in criteria
- Improves the performance of auto-completion in the tagging window
- Tabs can now be moved to a different window by drag and drop onto the target window
- Adds lower values to the search results limit option
- Fixes a bug where opening alias files failed
- Fixes a bug where the scroll bar in grid view did not display correctly
HoudahSpot 4.0.1
- Adds options to search by dates within a past number of minutes or hours
- Adds menu items and keyboard shortcuts to switch between tabs
- Fixes a few minor bugs
- A migration tool to convert HoudahSpot 3.x searches is now available from the Houdah Software support forums
HoudahSpot 4.0
- Quick search field: start a search by typing just a few words
- Improved criteria editor: set up and combine search criteria faster than ever before
- Snippets: save sets of frequently used search criteria
- Info panel: shows concise information on your files
- Filters: reduce the number of results shown by selecting values in the Info panel
- Quick Look and text previews within the main window
- Sidebar: provides quick access to templates, snippets and tags
- Tabs: our most requested feature