Version 1.5.10 of EagleFiler is now available. This is a free update that includes the following enhancements:

• The contextual menu Set Filename/From/Title commands are better at handling linebreaks.
• It is now possible to move records to the trash by pressing Delete when multiple tags are selected in the source list.
• The text fields in the smart folder editor make better use of the available window width.
• Improved the Importing Mail From Outlook section of the manual.
• Added the Importing Mail From MailMate section of the manual.
• Improved the What information should I include when I report a problem? section of the manual.
• Documented the TextInspectorBarStayOpen and UseOpenMetaRecentsForCompletion esoteric preferences.
• Worked around a WebKit bug that could cause freezes when highlighting matching search terms.
• Worked around a bug in Apple Mail that could lead to importing two copies of certain messages.
• Worked around a problem where broken Mac OS X installations couldn’t report full error information.
• Fixed a bug that could cause uncommitted changes in the tags bar to be lost.
• Fixed a bug that could cause an error when the Quick Look window was open.
• Fixed a bug where an incorrect error message could be displayed when capturing from Apple Mail.
• Reduced the memory use of the Spotlight importer.
• Improved the reporting of file permissions errors.
• Worked around an OS bug that could cause a crash in Curio.

For information about previous releases of EagleFiler, please see the version history.

2012-05-09: EagleFiler 1.5.10 was submitted to the Mac App Store.

Version 3.1.3 of DropDMG is now available. This is a free update for owners of DropDMG 3.0 that includes the following enhancements:

• DropDMG is now code-signed using a Developer ID certificate for Gatekeeper.
• Layouts and custom volume icons now work with hybrid (.iso) disk images.
• DropDMG’s helper tools are now 64-bit like the rest of the application.
• Improved the reporting of unexpected errors.
• DropDMG now logs more information when a layout item is missing from the source folder.
• Improved the What information should I include when I report a problem? section of the manual.
• Fixed a bug where the Compact Image… command didn’t work on Mac OS X 10.7 when the computer was running on battery power.
• Fixed a bug where Delete after converting didn’t work when converting to .iso format.
• Fixed a bug where DropDMG would report an error when converting a .iso disk image to the same format.
• DropDMG now requires Mac OS X 10.5.8 or later.

For information about previous releases of DropDMG, please see the version history.

2012-05-09: DropDMG 3.1.3 was submitted to the Mac App Store.

2012-05-18: DropDMG 3.1.3 is now available from the Mac App Store.

Version 2.9.1 of SpamSieve is now available. This is a free update that includes the following changes:

• Added support for Microsoft Outlook 2011 SP2 (a.k.a. 14.2.x). If SpamSieve can detect that you were using Outlook 2011 before, and that SP2 has been installed, SpamSieve will auto-update its scripts automatically. Otherwise, you can choose Install Outlook Scripts from the SpamSieve menu. Either way, the SpamSieve rules in Outlook will continue to work without modification.
• SpamSieve now tries to detect whether its Apple Mail plug-in is damaged and auto-heal the installed copy if necessary.
• If there’s an error updating SpamSieve’s Apple Mail plug-in, it now reports more information to try to diagnose the problem.
• If the Apple Mail plug-in detects that it’s damaged, it will alert the user to download and install a fresh copy.
• SpamSieve now checksums the Outlook script files (both the installed and built-in copies) to detect whether they are damaged.
• Made a change to eliminate a particular cause of false positives for some users.
• SpamSieve no longer triggers Mac OS X’s “accept incoming network connections” firewall dialog.
• Added some exception guards to work around bugs in the Growl SDK.
• When an unexpected error occurs and no stack trace is available, SpamSieve will now try to report the approximate location.
• Improved the What information should I include when I report a problem? section of the manual.

For information about previous releases of SpamSieve, please see the version history.

Version 1.5.4 of BBAutoComplete is now available. It includes the following enhancements:

• Added support for TextWrangler 4. Also, completion now works in TextWrangler search results browser windows.
• BBAutoComplete now has an automatic keyboard shortcut in Microsoft Word 2011. (Previous versions of Word need FastScripts to assign a shortcut.)
• BBAutoComplete now runs as 64-bit under Mac OS X 10.6 and later, which should make it launch faster.
• BBAutoComplete is now code-signed using a Developer ID certificate for Gatekeeper.
• Modernized the Software Update window and code.
• Made various improvements to the documentation.
• Updated the disk image and Apple Help layouts.

For information about previous releases of BBAutoComplete, please see the version history.

SpamSieve has been updated to version 2.9. This is a free update that includes the following changes:

• Added support for upcoming versions of Mac OS X.
• Made various changes to improve SpamSieve’s filtering accuracy.
• SpamSieve is now code-signed using a Developer ID certificate for Gatekeeper.
• When training an Exchange message as good in Apple Mail, SpamSieve is better at moving it to the proper inbox.
• Processing incoming messages with Outlook is more efficient. To take advantage of this change, choose Install Outlook Scripts from the SpamSieve menu.
• If you’ve used the SpamSieve - Change Settings command in Apple Mail to tell SpamSieve not to use a local spam mailbox, training a message as spam will now try to move the message to a spam mailbox on the same server account, rather than always using the first account.
• Added support for training messages as spam via Herald (version 2.1.2 and later), a notification plug-in for Apple Mail.
• When sorting spam messages by color in Apple Mail, you can now use Grey as a synonym for Gray.
• The score script command has a new auto training parameter that can be used to override the setting in the preferences on a case-by-case basis. This might be useful, for example, if you’re writing an AppleScript to triage messages that have already been classified, and you just want to get SpamSieve’s opinion without having to make any corrections.
• Adjusted the drone AppleScripts so that they’re easier to troubleshoot.
• If Apple Mail gives SpamSieve empty data for a message, the plug-in now assumes the message is good and does not pass it on to SpamSieve for analysis.
• Added support for Growl notifications via GNTP (requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later).
• SpamSieve is better at handling file permission errors.
• SpamSieve is better at handling errors when running helper tools.
• Improved SpamSieve’s ability to still function when the application package is damaged.
• Added the AddStandardRules esoteric preference, which lets you prevent SpamSieve from creating its built-in blocklist and whitelist rules if you prefer to manage the rules yourself.
• Fixed a bug that could reduce SpamSieve’s filtering accuracy for some messages with attached files.
• Made various improvements to the documentation.
• Updated the German localization.

For information about previous releases of SpamSieve, please see the version history.

EagleFiler 1.5.9 is now available. This is a free update that includes the following enhancements:

• Improved the error message that EagleFiler displays if you try to capture from Apple Mail when it’s busy. You can now click Capture Anyway if you’re sure that Mail is not busy with the messages you’ve asked EagleFiler to import.
• EagleFiler can now capture from Hibari.
• EagleFiler is now code-signed using a Developer ID certificate.
• When printing a text or RTF file, fixed the font size and fixed a bug that could result in an extra blank page being printed.
• Fixed a slowdown and crash that could occur when opening a library with lots of tags.
• Fixed an error when using the Quick Look panel if the toolbar had been collapsed into a menu.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler would report an internal error if there was a problem reading a text attachment.
• Fixed a bug where the Info and Tags toolbar buttons would be disabled under rare circumstances.
• Fixed a regression that could lead to logged error messages about setting OpenMeta tags on a non-existent note file.
• Fixed a bug where sometimes EagleFiler would rename the main thread.

For information about previous releases of EagleFiler, please see the version history.

2012-02-21: EagleFiler 1.5.9 was submitted to the Mac App Store.

2012-02-23: EagleFiler 1.5.9 is now available from the Mac App Store.

Version 3.1.2 of DropDMG is now available. This is a free update for owners of DropDMG 3.0 that includes the following enhancements:

• Added support for Growl notifications via GNTP (requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later).
• When renaming a configuration, layout, or license in the preferences, you can now press the Esc key to cancel.
• Fixed a bug where DropDMG would log an error to the console when converting a ZIP archive to a disk image.

For information about previous releases of DropDMG, please see the version history.

2012-02-07: DropDMG 3.1.2 was submitted to the Mac App Store.

2012-02-07: DropDMG 3.1.2 is now available from the Mac App Store.

EagleFiler 1.5.8 is now available. This is a free update that includes the following enhancements:

• EagleFiler can now import rich text copied or dragged from Firefox and Google Chrome.
• Made various optimizations to improve the responsiveness of the user interface, particularly when resizing the main browser window.
• Searches by Filename, Title, From, and To/Cc, as well as matching in smart folders, are now diacritic-insensitive. For example, you can now search for resume and find résumé. (Anywhere and Notes searches have always been diacritic-insensitive.)
• Added the Copy Filename, Copy File Path, and Copy File URL AppleScripts.
• Added support for Growl notifications via GNTP (requires Mac OS X 10.7 or later).
• When printing an image, EagleFiler will now center it and scale it down, as necessary, to fit the paper.
• The Import From Apple Mail script now works in Full Screen mode on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.
• EagleFiler now skips importing temporary files for Microsoft Excel and invisible files from IntegrityChecker.
• Tried to work around a bug in Mac OS X 10.6 that could cause EagleFiler to open multiple copies of the same library.
• The update checksum script command is now synchronous, and it gains an optional for parameter that takes a list of records. This is much faster for bulk operations.
• When rebuilding a library, EagleFiler now restores all the tags, not just the ones that were in use.
• EagleFiler is better at checking fallback locations when reading OpenMeta tags.
• EagleFiler is better at handling errors when setting OpenMeta tags.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler could crash after a token field malfunction.
• Fixed a bug importing the selected Web text from newer versions of Safari Reader.
• Fixed a bug displaying e-mail messages when the Source URL column was shown.
• Fixed a bug where the color of newly created tags could be set to white instead of black.
• Fixed a bug where the wrong tag could be applied if you clicked a checkbox in the Tags inspector while renaming a tag.
• Fixed a bug that could lead to a tag temporarily not showing in the source list after changing its position in the hierarchy.
• EagleFiler’s reporting of unexpected errors is now more detailed and more robust.
• The Importing Mail From Outlook section of the manual now explains how to use a smart folder to capture mail from multiple Outlook folders at once.
• The manual now specifically recommends telling iWork applications to include previews with their documents.
• The direct build of EagleFiler is now code-signed, too.
• Cache folders for EagleFiler’s helper tools now have a reverse domain name prefix.
• The preferences for the Apple Mail capture script are now stored in the main EagleFiler preferences file.
• Launched applications no longer inherit EagleFiler’s Python environment variables, which could cause problems if they also used Python.

For information about previous releases of EagleFiler, please see the version history.

2012-01-24: EagleFiler 1.5.8 was submitted to the Mac App Store.

2012-01-26: EagleFiler 1.5.8 is now available from the Mac App Store.

EagleFiler 1.5.7 is now available. This is a free update that includes the following enhancements:

• Added support for Growl 1.3.
• Added support for importing hierarchies of mailboxes from Apple Mail on Mac OS X 10.7 via drag and drop from the Finder.
• The Import From Instapaper via NetNewsWire script lets you quickly import all your new Instapaper articles into EagleFiler.
• The Replace in Filenames (Regex) script lets you batch-rename files using regular expressions.
• On Mac OS X 10.7, EagleFiler supports emoji tag abbreviation pictures.
• Various operations, such as arrow-keying through the records list, are faster and more responsive.
• EagleFiler can now display previews for OmniGraffle documents that are internally compressed.
• Added the PrefersRichText esoteric preference, which can be used if you want the EagleFiler: Import service, Import From Clipboard, and New Record ‣ From Clipboard to create plain text files instead of rich text files.
• The commands in the Go menu now bring the focus to the source list for more predictable keyboard navigation.
• Improved capturing of large batches of messages from Microsoft Outlook.
• The Info inspector can now be opened via Command-I as well as Command-Option-I.
• Records now have a universal type identifier scripting property, which should make certain kinds of AppleScripts much easier to write.
• Pressing the Esc key will now cancel editing in the source list or records list (for consistency with Finder).
• Clarified the error message when importing non-standard-format archive mailboxes from Apple Mail.
• You can now use the ImportSkipFilenamePattern default to specify a regular expression. When EagleFiler imports a folder, any files whose names match the pattern will be skipped.
• EagleFiler no longer maintains the same default note text between multiple invocations of Capture with options. This behavior can be reversed via the RememberCaptureNotesState default.
• Fixed a bug where, in rare cases, files imported via the To Import folder were incorrectly thought to be duplicates if they had the same names as files that had been previously imported and recently moved.
• Fixed a bug where an AppleScript would hang if it tried to start a scan for new files while another scan was already in progress.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler sometimes thought that files whose names ended with a period were missing.
• Fixed a bug reporting Spotlight importer errors.
• Fixed a bug where the contents of the Quick Look window weren’t always updated before it was shown, leading to flicker.
• Fixed a bug importing locally stored Web pages.
• Fixed a problem with saved view state and Full Screen mode.
• Fixed a bug that could cause a crash if there was an internal error launching a helper tool.
• Fixed a bug where the = character wasn’t always treated as a word separator in phrase searches.
• Added logging to help track down tag completion errors.
• Updated the French localization.
• Added a 1024×1024 application icon.

For information about previous releases of EagleFiler, please see the version history.

2011-12-07: EagleFiler 1.5.7 was submitted to the Mac App Store.

2011-12-12: EagleFiler 1.5.7 is now available from the Mac App Store.

SpamSieve has been updated to version 2.8.8. This is a free update that includes the following changes:

• Improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Mac OS X.
• Added support for Postbox 3.0.
• Added support for Growl 1.3.
• Made various changes to improve SpamSieve’s filtering accuracy.
• The Exclude my addresses feature now lets you specify additional addresses via Terminal, if you don’t want to clutter your “Me” card in Address Book.
• The Apple Mail plug-in installer is more resilient to permissions errors.
• Added example of using colored flags to sort spam messages in Apple Mail by spamminess.
• Added some logging to detect obscure errors when loading SpamSieve’s Apple Mail plug-in.
• Improved the French localization.

For information about previous releases of SpamSieve, please see the version history.