EagleFiler 1.4.6 is now available. This is a free update that includes the following enhancements:

• The Drop Pad window now appears on all spaces.
• When creating a Web archive, EagleFiler now uses the proper page title for Web sites such as gmane.org that change the title using JavaScript.
• Added +$*/~()|%^& as characters allowed in tag names.
• The search fields are now scrollable.
• The ruler is now shown by default for editable rich text files.
• Added keyboard shortcuts for showing, copying, and pasting the ruler.
• Updated to version 1.1.7 of the SkimNotes framework.
• Updated the instructions for changing an encrypted library’s passphrase to work around a bug in Disk Utility.
• Improved the display of messages containing invalid Base64 content.
• No longer adds a useless x-msg URL to the bottom of text imported from mail messages as RTFD.
• Worked around a bug in the Safari 4 beta that could cause some images not to be saved into Web archives.
• Fixed a bug where the search wasn’t cleared when opening a folder in a new window with the ClearSearchWhenChangingSources esoteric preference enabled.
• Fixed a bug where changing the plain text font didn’t change the font of newly typed text.
• Fixed a bug where the raw source for a message would sometimes show one extra character.
• The crash reporter works better with pre-release versions of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
• The crash reporter now warns before sending a report without an e-mail address.
• You can now press Enter to click the Send Report button in the crash reporter.
• Updated Korean localization.

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Alan Schmitt explains how he uses EagleFiler and Skim to annotate and review academic papers.

SpamSieve has been updated to version 2.7.4. This is a free update that includes the following changes:

• Improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
• SpamSieve is better able to recover from corpus files that were damaged due to disk errors.
• Improved the Entourage installer’s error handling.
• Improved the error reporting when saving the corpus.
• Improved the troubleshooting instructions.
• Fixed a problem where messages trained as good in Apple Mail could be moved into the inbox of a disabled account.
• Fixed a bug that could cause harmless error messages to be logged to the Console when playing System 7 sound files.
• The crash reporter now warns before sending a report without an e-mail address.
• You can now press Enter to click the Send Report button in the crash reporter.

EagleFiler 1.4.5 is now available. This is a free update that includes the following enhancements:

• When capturing from Apple Mail, EagleFiler can now directly import messages that are selected in smart mailboxes and in special “merged” mailboxes such as Inbox.
• When you do a library search for a phrase, EagleFiler now removes the quotation marks when transferring the query to Preview or Skim.
• EagleFiler now imports tags that are stored in a file’s extended attributes under com.apple.metadata:kOMUserTags by applications such as Tags, TagIt, and Default Folder X.
• Improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
• Added the assigned tag names AppleScript property, which can make writing scripts less verbose.
• Added the ExcludeIndexesFromBackup esoteric preference to exclude EagleFiler’s index files from Time Machine backups.
• Added the FindPanelDiacriticInsensitive esoteric preference.
• Worked around bugs in Microsoft Excel and Word that could cause EagleFiler to import the wrong document.
• EagleFiler’s temporary files are now excluded from Time Machine backups.
• Worked around a bug in the Safari 4 beta that could make Convert For Editing not preserve images.
• Worked around a change in Safari 4 that could cause problems when displaying or indexing Web archives.
• EagleFiler now closes files immediately after you’re done viewing them.
• Fixed a bug where the Errors window did not transform filenames for display.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler didn’t show Growl notifications after importing certain files via AppleScript.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes changes to a text or RTF document were not saved before opening the file in an external editor.
• Fixed a bug with the date format in mbox files.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler did not follow aliases in the Stationery folder.

EagleFiler 1.4.4 is now available. This is a free update that includes the following enhancements:

• Streamlined capturing from Apple Mail. EagleFiler no longer asks whether you want to capture the selected mailboxes or the selected messages; now it always captures the selected messages. Also made other changes to reduce the number of dialog boxes.
• You can now use Command-Down-Arrow (Reveal in Container) with a message or file selected to have EagleFiler select it inside its containing mailbox or folder in the source list. This is useful if you had originally selected the message or file in Records, a tag source, or a smart folder and you want to see it in its original context.
• When you ask EagleFiler to import a file (e.g. by dropping it onto EagleFiler’s Dock icon or choosing Open With ‣ EagleFiler) that’s already in the current library, EagleFiler now opens the file for viewing rather than complaining that it’s already in the library.
• EagleFiler now uses non-modal notification windows (Growl, where available) to display the progress when capturing from a mail program.
• EagleFiler now uses its own Find panel everywhere, not relying on the system Find panel, in order to avoid having two separate windows and to improve the interaction with the search field.
• Added the SendsWholeSearchString esoteric preference, which lets you control whether EagleFiler updates search results as you type.
• When you search for a phrase, EagleFiler now tries to highlight the whole phrase in the viewer, rather than the constituent words.
• The Find panel works better with Spaces.
• Items in the Services menu can now read the selection from EagleFiler’s records list.
• You can now use the capture key to import New York Times Web pages that are in printer format, without having EagleFiler download the screen format instead.
• When importing Web pages as RTF(D), EagleFiler now stores the URL in the file’s Subject field.
• When you do a library search for a phrase, EagleFiler removes the quotation marks when transferring the query to the Find panel.
• When creating PDFs from Web pages, EagleFiler no longer inserts your username into the PDF metadata.
• When you press the capture key, EagleFiler now bounces its Dock icon once. This makes it easier to see that the capture has begun if the Dock was hidden or the sound was turned down.
• When creating a new plain text file with the File column hidden, if you enter a filename with an extension into the sheet, EagleFiler uses that extension instead of .txt.
• When merging mailboxes that are selected in the source list, EagleFiler no longer maintains the selection when the mailboxes are moved to the trash.
• Deleting multiple errors at once is much faster.
• You can now use Page Setup to change the orientation and scaling when printing.
• When printing a text view, no longer scales down the width unless it’s necessary to fit it on the page.
• The print job title now shows the title of the document being printed, rather than the name of the library.
• If a file wasn’t downloaded from the Internet, its source URL is now empty rather than being a file: URL.
• If there’s an error capturing from Firefox, EagleFiler now suggests uninstalling Default Folder X to work around a bug in Firefox.
• Tooltips in the Errors window now show the full path rather than just the name of the file.
• Worked around an OS bug that could cause problems when importing text from Apple Mail via services.
• Better error reporting when EagleFiler encounters an AppleScript bug in NetNewsWire.
• Improved handling of long library names.
• Improved the error reporting when capturing from DEVONthink.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler would start importing a file that was copied into the To Import folder while the copy was still in progress.
• Fixed a bug where indexing could hang if analyzing the file produced a large number of errors.
• Fixed a bug where some Boston Globe Web pages were downloaded as HTML files instead of as Web archives.
• Fixed a regression that could prevent MailTags from being imported from Apple Mail if the message also had annotations.
• Fixed a bug where files that didn’t have notes could be imported with the note tag if it was in the Spotlight comments.
• Fixed a bug where the URL wasn’t properly set when importing Web page text as RTFD via drag and drop.
• Fixed a bug where, when importing IMAP messages from Apple Mail, EagleFiler would sometimes incorrectly report that attachments were missing.
• Fixed a bug where the tags bar was hidden when it shouldn’t have been.
• Fixed a bug where the scroll arrows for the notes text view didn’t work.
• Fixed a bug handling errors when importing Web archives.
• Tried to work around a URL cache problem that could cause imports to stall.

SpamSieve has been updated to version 2.7.3. This is a free update that includes the following changes:

• Rewrote and restructured the manual to make the setup and troubleshooting instructions clearer.
• Replaced the Training Tip window with an alert that’s displayed when SpamSieve’s corpus is empty. This goes along with the more explicit guidance that ongoing training is only necessary to correct mistakes.
• The Entourage installer no longer asks before replacing existing script files. If you want to customize the scripts (rare these days, since there are so many built-in configuration options), you should use copies with different names to avoid having SpamSieve overwrite them.
• Changed the recommended Entourage rule setup to better handle uncertain messages. The installer now creates the Uncertain Junk category if necessary.
• Made the Apple Mail plug-in installer more robust.
• Worked around a problem parsing certain multipart messages.
• Adjusted the built-in blocklist rules for better accuracy.
• Reduced memory usage when processing message attachments.
• Fixed a bug sorting in rules windows.
• Fixed a bug marking incoming Entourage messages as Uncertain Junk.
• Updated the localizations.

The Change Title to Title Case script helps you clean up titles with improper case. For example, some Web pages or PDFs have titles that are all in capital letters. This script changes the title so that only the first letter of each word is capitalized.

PowerMail 6.0 is an upgrade to CTM Development’s e-mail client that includes lots of new features. It continues to work great with SpamSieve, and you can save about $10 by buying the two products together as a bundle.

Here are some recent additions to the EagleFiler AppleScripts page:

• Bulk Print: Prints all of the selected files.
• Export CSV: Saves the metadata for the selected records in a Comma Separated Values file.
• Reload Web Pages: Updates the selected records with the latest Web content.
• Remove Duplicate URLs: Keeps only the latest record for each URL.
• Web archive to PDF: Converts the selected Web archives to PDFs.