History

version 9.0 - Sep 1, 2023

  • Tuned UI for better user experience.

  • Added the “Export selected only” option in the export functions.

  • Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 14 Sonoma.

  • This version is a free upgrade for registered users of DiskCatalogMaker.

version 8.9 - Aug 28, 2023

  • Updated some localized resources.

  • Fixed some minor bugs.

version 8.8 - Aug 26, 2023

  • Added LZMA format support.

version 8.7 - Aug 18, 2023

  • Added 4 kinds of “Professional Disc” to the disk kind list and made them detectable.

  • Changed the text truncation position from tail to middle like Finder.

version 8.6.8 - Jul 22, 2023

  • Added ability to import a custom icon of a file when scanning with the generate thumbnail option.

  • Changed the maximum icon size of list view from 32 to 64.

  • Fixed a problem where an incorrect permissions error message would appear when catalog files have the wrong filename extension.

version 8.6.7 - Jul 1, 2023

  • Fixed compatibility issues with Paragon NTFS and other third-party file systems.

version 8.6.6 - Jun 10, 2023

  • Fixed a problem where an unnecessary error message could be displayed when saving a catalog file.

version 8.6.5 - May 29, 2023

  • Fixed a problem where canceling a scan task could take a long time.

version 8.6.4 - Apr 14, 2023

  • Fixed a problem that the disk online status in the list view cannot be updated.

version 8.6.3 - Mar 18, 2023

  • Fixed a problem that could not import date fields in a DiskTracker-exported text file with some Language and Region settings of System Preferences.

version 8.6.2 - Feb 26, 2023

  • Fixed a crash bug when importing Finder tags.

version 8.6 - Feb 22, 2023

  • Added the context menu item “Print Pie Chart…” to the Pie Chart view in the Inspector.

  • Added the progress message of importing metadata at the Activity window.

  • Fixed a problem that the Touch Bar of MacBook Pro does not work.

version 8.5.8 - Feb 1, 2023

  • Added the menu item to show the Pie Chart view in the Inspector.

version 8.5.7 - Dec 18, 2022

  • Added the context menu item “Scan with DiskCatalogMaker” for disks and folders in Finder.

  • Fixed some minor bugs.

version 8.5.6 - Dec 3, 2022

  • Fixed a problem where footer page numbers were not right aligned when printing a catalog on macOS 12 or later.

  • Tuned UI for better user experience.

version 8.5.5 - Nov 27, 2022

  • Added ZIPX format support.

  • Added the Show Activity Window button to the toolbar at the top of the catalog window.

  • Fixed a problem that exported text is not sorted when items are in an APFS volume.

  • Fixed a problem that the boot volume “Macintosh HD” can be detected as the same volume on any Mac.

  • Beta Added the size chart to the right of the catalog window. (macOS 11 Big Sur or later)

version 8.5.4 - Oct 31, 2022

  • Added CPIO/PAX format support.

  • Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 13 Ventura.

version 8.5.3 - Oct 15, 2022

  • Added XR format support.

  • Fixed a header layout problem when printing a catalog on macOS 11 or later.

version 8.5.2 - Sep 20, 2022

  • Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 10.10-10.12.

  • Recompiled with older version 13.4.1 of Xcode to avoid the problem.

version 8.5.1 - Sep 19, 2022

  • Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 13 Ventura.

  • Fixed a probem that lead generated thumbnails to be too large in data size.

version 8.5 - Sep 15, 2022

  • Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 13 Ventura.

  • Fixed a layout problem in the Inspector at the right side when resizing the window.

  • Fixed some minor bugs.

version 8.4.9 - Jun 12, 2022

  • Fixed a problem that the scan task cannot be canceled when the Quick Look process of macOS is freezing.

  • Tuned UI for better user experience.

  • Updated some localized resources.

version 8.4.8 - May 5, 2022

  • Added a popup menu with a list of scannable disks to the toolbar at the top of the catalog window.

  • Turned off the show scannable disks option at the Activity window by default. (To enable it again, choose “Show Scannable Disks” from the Catalog menu.)

  • Tuned UI for better user experience.

  • Fixed some minor bugs.

version 8.4.7 - Mar 26, 2022

  • Fixed some minor bugs.

version 8.4.6 - Jan 30, 2022

  • Fixed a problem that an unnecessary search window will open when opening a catalog file from Finder.

  • Fixed a freezing problem when launching application.

version 8.4.5 - Jan 22, 2022

  • Added the option to show the Disk Online attribute in the List style view.

  • Fixed a problem that could not show Path Bar from the View menu.

version 8.4.4 - Jan 4, 2022

  • Fixed a problem when restoring the position of a search window.

version 8.4.3 - Jan 1, 2022

  • Added the search option pane in a search result window of quick search field of window toolbar.

  • Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 12.2.

version 8.4.2 - Dec 1, 2021

  • Added support for atomic safe-save when saving catalog data in an APFS volume.

  • Tuned UI for better user experience.

version 8.4.1 - Nov 1, 2021

  • Tuned UI for better user experience.

  • Updated some localized resources.

version 8.4 - Oct 1, 2021

  • Tuned UI for better user experience.

  • Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 12 Monterey.

version 8.3.9 - Aug 14, 2021

  • Added support for Command-Left Arrow, Command-Right Arrow and Option-Command-Right Arrow shortcuts for expanding and collapsing folders.

  • Added the “Show icon preview” option for the list view.

  • Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 11 Big Sur.

version 8.3.8 - Jul 26, 2021

  • Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 11.4.

version 8.3.7 - Jun 18, 2021

  • Tuned UI for better user experience.

  • Updated some localized resources.

version 8.3.6 - May 25, 2021

  • Updated the app icon to fit in with macOS 11 Big Sur.

  • Fixed a crash bug when scanning large number of Finder tags.

version 8.3.5 - May 5, 2021

  • Fixed some minor bugs.

version 8.3.4 - Apr 17, 2021

  • Fixed a problem that field separators will be missing after empty fields when exporting a text file.

  • Updated some translations.

version 8.3.3 - Feb 22, 2021

  • Fixed some minor bugs.

version 8.3.2 - Jan 7, 2021

  • Fixed compatibility issues with Apple Silicon (M1).

version 8.3.1 - Jan 4, 2021

  • Fixed some minor bugs.

version 8.3 - Dec 20, 2020

  • Added native support for Macs running Apple Silicon.

version 8.2.8 - Nov 29, 2020

  • Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 11.1.

  • Fixed a crash bug when generating a thumbnail image from a corrupted file.

  • Fixed a crash bug when reading a corrupted catalog file.

version 8.2.7 - Nov 22, 2020

  • Tuned UI for better user experience.

  • Updated some translations.

version 8.2.6 - Nov 1, 2020

  • Fixed a problem where a modal dialog will get stuck when handling disk mount events.

version 8.2.5 - Sep 19, 2020

  • Fixed a problem that the file name extension ‘.csv’ cannot apply to the name field of the save panel on macOS 10.15 Catalina. (The macOS no longer allow apps to modify the user defined file name.)

  • Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 11.0 Big Sur.

version 8.2.4 - Aug 18, 2020

  • Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 11.0 Big Sur.

  • Fixed compatibility issues with OS X 10.11 El Capitan.

version 8.2.2 - Aug 16, 2020

  • Added Touch Bar support.

  • Improved compatibility when importing data from other cataloger program.

version 8.2.1 - Aug 8, 2020

  • Added the progress message for a long running thumbnail image generation task.

  • Added a 10 minutes timeout to every thumbnail image generation task.

  • Replaced the “Others” option with the “Files have a filename extension of…” option in the Generate thumbnail settings.

  • Fixed a bug that drag-n-dropping a subset of catalog from another catalog window will fail if there is Finder tags data.

  • Fixed some minor bugs.

version 8.2 - Jul 27, 2020

  • Tuned UI for better user experience.

version 8.1.6 - Jul 27, 2020

  • Fixed some minor bugs.

  • Updated some translations.

  • This is the last version of DiskCatalogMaker that will run on Mac OS X 10.7 / OS X 10.8 / OS X 10.9 / OS X 10.10.

  • Shareware Edition If you encounter any problems with the “Install and Relaunch” process of the in-app software updater, please download and install the latest version manually instead, from diskcatalogmaker.com. There is a bug in some previous versions (6.7 - 7.1).

version 8.1.5 - Jul 5, 2020

  • Tuned UI for better user experience.

  • Updated some translations.

version 8.1.4 - Jun 14, 2020

  • Tuned UI for better user experience.

  • Fixed compatibility issues with macOS 10.12 Sierra.

version 8.1.3 - Jun 10, 2020

  • Added a keyboard shortcut Shift + Command + ‘.’ to toggle the “Show invisible items and contents of packages” option.

  • Added the “Byte size unit” option for the size field of the list view at the Advanced preferences panel.

  • Added the “Icon size” option for the list view at the Advanced preferences panel.

  • Added the “Don’t Show This Again” button in the Ask-for-scan prompt at the Activity window. After pressing the button, all mount events of the disk will be muted, even if the “Show scannable disks” option is enabled. (You can clear the muted disk list by turning off the “Show scannable disks” option.)

version 8.1.2 - May 9, 2020

  • Added ability to show user whether DiskCatalogMaker has Full Disk Access permission or not when a scanning result is empty.

  • Fixed a problem that the Ask-for-Rescan prompt message in the Activity window does not appear again after the rescan task.

version 8.1.1 - Mar 27, 2020

  • Added ability to scan the logical size of folders. (The Size column now displays the logical size. The physical size is shown in the parentheses at the Size field of the right-side inspector panel.)

  • Fixed compatibility issues with Mac OS X 10.7-10.9.

version 8.1 - Mar 20, 2020

  • Added option to import Finder tags. (OS X 10.10 or later)

  • Fixed a problem that prevented revealing an original item which has a slash ‘/’ in its name.

version 8.0.1 - Feb 16, 2020

  • Fixed a problem that will take long time to scan a boot volume.

version 8.0 - Feb 14, 2020

Summary of changes from version 7 to 8

  • Added support for macOS Mojave Dark Mode.

  • Added “Copy Attributes as Text” to the contextual menu.

  • Added an “Automatically save changes (after scan)” option in the Scan preferences panel.

  • Undo now still works after saving the catalog file.

  • Added ability to aggregate the total size of selected items.

  • Added the Total Items Count field.

  • Added the most recent file information to the modified date field in the disk inspector panel.

  • Added the button for finding duplicates of a single file in the right side Inspector panel.

  • Added “Show Package Contents” to the contextual menu.

  • Added the Volume Format (Filesystem) attribute to disk items.

  • Added the “Alternate row background color” option for the catalog list view.

  • Added ability to change the byte number format by expanding the Size field width at the catalog list view. (3 steps - KB/MB/GB/TB, KB and bytes)

  • Added a menu item for importing data from another catalog file.

  • Added ability to import a text file exported from DiskTracker.

  • Improved scanning performance for APFS.

  • Improved startup time when opening a large catalog.

  • Improved compatibility when importing data from other cataloger program.

  • Improved the UI for skipping a long-running task.

  • Changed the scan completion message using the macOS Notification Center (macOS 10.8 or later).

  • Added “Customize Notifications” in the Scan preferences panel (macOS 10.8 or later).

  • Added a scan option to disable multi-processing for less load (usable on busy file servers and tape drives).

  • Added the option to skip scanning a Time Machine backup folder.

  • Added duplication check for already running scan for the same target. (It can be caused by double-clicking on the Rescan button.)

  • Added the “does not contain” option to the search criteria editor.

  • Added the “Print header and footer” option to the print panel.

  • Added a pop-up message at the read-only indicator of a catalog window.

  • Added ability to import a custom icon of a folder when scanning with the generate thumbnail option.

  • Tuned UI for better user experience.

  • Fixed compatibility issues with LTFS and other FUSE file systems.

  • Fixed compatibility issues with AVID and other third-party file systems.

  • If you encounter any problems with the “Install and Relaunch” process of the in-app software updater, please download and install the latest version manually instead, from diskcatalogmaker.com. There is a bug in some previous versions (6.7 - 7.1).

version 7.0 - Jun 16, 2017

Summary of changes from version 6 to 7

  • 64-bit Cocoa app supports over 4GB data.

  • Added columns view.

  • Added Retina display support.

  • Added the ask-for-scan option when a disk is mounted.

  • Added the smart rescan engine which tries to keep existing catalog data of unchanged files.

  • Added the filename extension filter to the generate thumbnail option.

  • Added the font settings in the Advanced preferences panel.

  • Added support for recording the scan date.

  • Added ability to search by path and the scan date.

  • Added more status at the bottom of a catalog window.

  • Added an editable thumbnail image field in the inspector panel.

  • Added Brazilian Portuguese translation.

  • Added “do not ask this message again” option in the alert “Do you want to replace existing catalog item?”.

  • Added the preview style option to the Advanced preferences panel. (It can disable the reflection effect on the preview panel.)

version 1.0 - Mar 22, 1993

  • Initial public release for Mac OS (System 7).