Use HoudahSpot for Mac to find important documents, mail messages, photos, image files and more. It shows search results in a convenient and easy-to-use interface that keeps all the important details at your fingertips. The program is a powerful desktop. A full version of HoudahSpot 3.0.2, which requires OS X 10.5 and is fully compatible with Snow Leopard, costs $30 and can be purchased directly from Houdah Software’s website. A 15-day trial is.
Houdah Software has introduced version 3.0 of HoudahSpot, a Spotlight replacement that allows users to perform powerful, complex searches on their filesystems.
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Use HoudahSpot for Mac to find important documents, mail messages, photos, image files and more. It shows search results in a convenient and easy-to-use interface that keeps all the important details at your fingertips. The program is a powerful desktop.
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The latest release—the application is actually at version 3.0.2 already, thanks to a couple of bug-fix updates—includes a number of enhancements over its predecessor. The flagship feature is file tagging, which allows you to append metadata to files and folders and then perform searches based on it. For example, you could catalogue all your business files by customer for easy retrieval of a client’s entire data set.
In addition, HoudahSpot includes an all-new “tray”—a window that can be anchored to any side of the screen which pops up, Dock-style, when you move the mouse cursor to the edge of your display. The tray can be used to quickly look for particular file types based on one of the application’s search templates, or to examine and tag a given file by simply dragging it into the appropriate inspection slot.
A full version of HoudahSpot 3.0.2, which requires OS X 10.5 and is fully compatible with Snow Leopard, costs $30 and can be purchased directly from Houdah Software’s website. A 15-day trial is also available.
Customers who bought the software after January 1, 2010 can upgrade for free, while other users will have to pay an upgrade fee of between $5 and $8. The company is also offering special prices for students ($15) and for household installation of up to five users ($45).
In Big Sur 11.1, Apple introduced an annoying system bug that made Open and Save dialogs revert to a very small size every time you used them. To see anything in the dialog, you pretty much had to resize them. Every. Single. Time. Default Folder X 5.5.4 brought a fix for this – forcing the dialogs back to your preferred, larger size whenever they came up.
Fast forward to Big Sur 11.2, and Apple has fixed the bug so dialogs now stay larger once you resize them – yay! Well, mostly yay anyway. The sidebar still bounces back to its narrow, “I can’t read the names of my folders” width of about 100 pixels every second time you use an Open or Save dialog. <sigh>
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So here’s Default Folder X 5.5.6. If you resize the sidebar in an Open or Save dialog, Default Folder X will make sure it bounces back to that size the next time you use the same file dialog.
In addition, this release expands support for HoudahSpot so that you now get the “Search in HoudahSpot” menu item in Default Folder X’s utility menu if you’re using the version of HoudahSpot included in the Setapp subscription service. It previously only worked with copies of HoudahSpot bought directly from Houdah Software.
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And because someone asked for it, holding down the Option key while selecting a Folder Set from Default Folder X’s menu in your menu bar will open all of your Favorite folders in the Finder. So if you’ve got multiple Folder Sets for different projects or workflows, you can now instantly open all of those folders in the Finder when you’re starting work. (A few of you old-timers might remember that this was actually a feature in version 4 that didn’t make the jump to v5 – now it’s back!)
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There are also a few bug fixes in version 5.5.6, as I’m still chasing after the elusive problem of the cursor sporadically disappearing on some Macs (but not others). Full release notes and download links are on the Default Folder X Release Page. Or just choose “Check for Updates” from Default Folder X’s menu if you’re already running it.