December 2, 2009

Default Folder X 4.3.5 remembers the size of the sidebar, fixes compatibility problems and adds refinements
Screencast: Default Folder X Overview		If you are using Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6), please make sure you are running Default Folder X version 4.3.5. It contains important compatibility fixes. Default Folder X 4.3.5 is also compatible with Mac OS 10.4 and 10.5. This release includes changes to support those OS versions as well as Mac OS 10.6. This update is FREE if you own a license for version 4, or if you purchased a new version 3 license or upgrade on or after June 1, 2007. If you have an older copy of Default Folder X, there is a $14.95 upgrade fee for this version. If you need to purchase an upgrade, you can do so by clicking here.

What's new in Default Folder X 4.3.5

• Fixed an error which could leave Default Folder X's controls on-screen after a Save dialog was dismissed. This would occur in Carbon applications if you entered a Spotlight tag or comment and then clicked Save or Cancel in the first Save dialog to come up after the application was launched.


• There's now a switch to disable the updating of OpenMeta tags. The latest version of OpenMeta uses different names for its tags, and therefore has to convert all your existing tags to the new format. Default Folder X normally initiates this process soon after it launches, but it can use a lot of CPU time, so you may want to postpone it until your computer is unused by turning it off temporarily.
  
  Note that if you use Default Folder X for OpenMeta tagging, your old tags must be converted before Default Folder X will recognize them. If you only use tags where Default Folder X will never see them, such as in your email with MailTags, you can safely disable the tag conversion.
  
  To turn off tag updating, option-click on the Settings button in Default Folder X's preferences, then turn on the DisableOpenMetaUpgrade checkbox. After changing this setting, make sure you turn Default Folder X off and back on again.

What was new in Default Folder X 4.3.4 (December 1)

• Default Folder X now remembers the width of the sidebar in Open and Save dialogs. Resize it once and it will be the same size the next time.


• Solved the problem of the Default Folder X Addition.osax file getting moved to the Trash every time Default Folder X was restarted.


• A white 'ghost' of Default Folder X's controls no longer appears after a file dialog has been dismissed.


• Preferences were not always saved when you restarted your Mac. This has been fixed.


• Default Folder X is now compatible with the latest release of Cinema4D (version 11.528).


• There's no longer a long delay when you use the Get Info command from within the Default Folder X application or from the menubar menu.


• If a floating window popped up (in PTHPasteboard, for example) while Default Folder X was displaying its rename dialog or another modal window, the application owning the current Open or Save As dialog could hang. This has been fixed.


• Default Folder X's logic for remembering and restoring the size and position of file dialogs has been improved.


• Default Folder X's controls now correctly show and hide themselves in Save As PDF dialogs.


• Numeric sorting works correctly in hierarchical menus ("Folder 1", then "Folder 2", then "Folder 12").


• When expanding a Save As dialog using the little triangle next to the filename box, Default Folder X's windows no longer flicker.


• The keyboard equivalent shown in the Recent Folders menu now has one arrow instead of two when running under Snow Leopard.


• The appearance and disappearance of the Default Folder X bezel is now smoother.


• Text is no longer truncated in the Info window of the French version.


• Default Folder X uses the latest version of OpenMeta.

Download Links

Download Default Folder X 4.3.5
(a server will be selected for you automatically)

Danish version of Default Folder X 4.3.5
localized by Mogens Thyregod

German version of Default Folder X 4.3.5
localized by Eberhard Woentz

Japanese version of Default Folder X 4.3.5
localized by Takanori Taniguchi

French version of Default Folder X 4.3.5
localized by Philippe Bonnaure

If you have trouble contacting our servers, please let us know at support@stclairsoft.com.

Useful Helper Utilities

Tagging

You can tag your files in Default Folder X and then modify or search for those tags later using Spotlight or any OpenMeta-compatible tagging application. Any of the following applications work with Default Folder X to manage your OpenMeta tags:

• Tags from Gravity Applications
• TagIt from Ironic Software
• Deep from Ironic Software
• Tag Folders from Jon Stovell
• Fresh from Ironic Software
• Leap 2 from Ironic Software
• TagoMan from Onflapp
• Punakea from nudge:nudge

The following applications will search for, but can not modify OpenMeta tags:

• Hazel 2.2.4 from noodlesoft
• HoudahSpot from Houdah Software
• FileSpot from Synthesis Studios
• EagleFiler from C-Command Software

Get Info

Default Folder X can use the following utilities to provide enhanced capabilities for its "Get Info" command. Check these links for more information and downloads:

• Super Get Info from Bare Bones Software
• FileXaminer from Gideon Softworks
• FileBuddy from SkyTag Software
• Path Finder from CocoaTech

Replacing the Finder

Default Folder X supports CocoaTech's Path Finder as a replacement for the Mac OS X Finder.