EagleFiler 1.4.14 is now available. This is a free update that fixes a problem with EagleFiler 1.4.13:

• Fixed a regression that sometimes caused errors when opening a library window when running on Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5.

EagleFiler 1.4.13 is now available. This is a free update that includes the following enhancements:

• Improved EagleFiler’s responsiveness with libraries containing many files.
• Updated the instructions for how to make EagleFiler’s capture key work with Preview on Mac OS X 10.6. EagleFiler will automatically show this when you try to capture from Preview.
• Google Chrome does not have sufficient AppleScript support to work with EagleFiler’s capture key, so EagleFiler will now display a message that tells how you can add an EagleFiler button to Chrome’s toolbar.
• Added the Convert Plain Text to Rich Text script.
• Added # as a word character for indexing, so that you can search for preprocessor directives and hashtags. This will take effect for new libraries or if you rebuild your indexes by holding the Command and Option keys when opening a library.
• Added the Drag and Drop section of the manual and expanded the Importing Mail and The Edit Menu sections.
• Improved the styling of the Apple Help.
• Fixed a bug searching for certain terms with Match Partial Words enabled.
• Fixed a regression where EagleFiler wouldn’t launch on a PowerPC G3–based Mac.
• Fixed a bug dragging iChat files.
• Fixed a bug where messages didn’t sort properly by Date Created.
• Fixed a bug where some closed windows still showed up via AppleScript.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler would crash when processing certain invalid URLs.
• Worked around a bug in Mac OS X 10.6 that could cause inconsistent font sizes in the contextual menus.

Two more blog posts from Clay Moore:

• A second look at EagleFiler
• How to make a blog ideas database with EagleFiler

EagleFiler’s capture key is often the easiest way to get files into EagleFiler. You can just press the F1 key to import the selected items or the frontmost window of the current application. Unfortunately, this does not work in Preview. The capture feature relies on AppleScript, and Preview does not support AppleScript. Macworld wrote an article in 2006 that shows a way to enable AppleScript in Preview. The Terminal commands need to be modified slightly for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard:

sudo defaults write /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/Info NSAppleScriptEnabled -bool YES
sudo chmod a+r /Applications/Preview.app/Contents/Info.plist

(The above two commands also work on Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5.)

This procedure seems to work for lots of people, and we believe it to be safe. However, you should be aware that you are modifying the Preview application to work in a way that Apple did not intend.

Clay Moore has written some interesting blog posts about how he uses EagleFiler:

• Using EagleFiler
• Setting up an encrypted Library in EagleFiler
• How to use EagleFiler Stationery to make a database

I think most EagleFiler users could benefit from using stationery more. You can use it to easily create different kinds of documents, use it as as sort of database (as Moore describes), and you can even write scripts to apply metadata when you create a new record via stationery. For example, a script could assign tags and name the new file based on the current folder or date.

EagleFiler 1.4.12 is now available. This is a free update that includes the following enhancements:

• EagleFiler is faster at building a mailbox’s table of contents after importing it.
• You can now use the characters []{}=#. in tag names.
• The Date Created for e-mail messages now shows the date from the message’s headers rather than the creation date of the mailbox file.
• Added the ViewEMLOnTiger esoteric preference, which is useful for people who want to use Microsoft Entourage as their external mail viewer on Mac OS X 10.4.
• Tweaked the spacing in the source list to match Mail.
• Tweaked the positions of the tag icons in the source list when it’s set to large icon mode.
• The New Record ‣ Open Stationery Folder command now opens the folder instead of revealing it.
• EagleFiler is now more robust with respect to errors when importing mail from Entourage, Mailsmith, and PowerMail.
• Fixed a bug where read records might be tagged as unread when restoring from a metadata backup.
• Fixed a bug where, in some circumstances, EagleFiler could display an error message or crash when undoing too many times in the record viewer.
• Fixed a bug where the Tag Cloud didn’t immediately update after changing the font in the preferences.
• Fixed a bug where Command Up/Down didn’t move the insertion point in a text document when the viewer had keyboard focus.
• Fixed a bug opening files in MacVim.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler didn’t show the alternating row background colors after a failed search.
• Fixed a bug capturing from Flock when using Mac OS X 10.4.
• Fixed a bug capturing large amounts of mail from PowerMail at once.
• Fixed a regression where some icons in sheets were drawn as dimmed.
• Fixed a bug where New Record ‣ Open Stationery Folder and Reveal in Finder didn’t work if TableText or another old application was running.

“Readability is a simple tool that makes reading on the Web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.” To use Readability with EagleFiler, install it as a bookmarklet in your Web browser. After cleaning up a Web page, you can import it into EagleFiler by using File ‣ Save As to save a Web archive into EagleFiler’s To Import folder or by printing and choosing Save PDF to EagleFiler.

EagleFiler 1.4.11 is now available. This is a free update that includes the following enhancements:

• The EagleFiler: Import service (for importing the selected text, URL, or files) is now enabled by default on Mac OS X 10.6. You may still need to log out and log back in for the system to recognize it, however.
• Worked around a change in Mac OS X that could make EagleFiler report an error when opening a library.
• Fixed a regression where sometimes EagleFiler didn’t open files in the proper external viewer/editor application.

EagleFiler 1.4.10 is now available. This is a free update that includes the following enhancements:

• EagleFiler can now capture from Microsoft Exchange mailboxes in Apple Mail.
• Updated the How can I put my library on my iPhone? section of the manual with a link to the Dropbox iPhone application.
• You can now double-click an embedded file in the viewer or notes to open it in a separate window for viewing.
• Improved the instructions for importing mail from Thunderbird.
• The script for quickly creating new text files from LaunchBar will now let you enter tags as well.
• If a bug in Mac OS X 10.6 has erased the OpenMeta tags for a file that EagleFiler is importing, it will now look under kMDItemOMUserTags, which Spotlight may have preserved.
• Deleting a tag now removes it from the shared list of recent tags, so that it doesn’t appear to still be hanging around.
• Worked around a change in Flock so that EagleFiler can capture from it again.
• EagleFiler now displays image files according to the orientation information in their metadata (requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later).
• EagleFiler now writes the tags to kMDItemOMUserTags (and sets kMDItemOMUserTagTime) for compatibility with newer versions of OpenMeta.
• EagleFiler now gives priority to the org.openmetainfo extended attributes if they’re present and have more recent timestamps. This will make it possible to transition away from keys in Apple’s domain.
• Added the RecordsListHasAlternatingBackground esoteric preference for people who prefer a solid white background color in the records list.
• When you ask it to create a new file, EagleFiler no longer replaces / in the filename with -.
• To avoid confusion with the single-selection case, pressing Return in the records list no longer opens multiple selected records externally.
• Fixed a bug where the keyboard shortcut for New Record ‣ Plain Text File didn’t work under non-English localizations.
• Fixed a bug in the URL colorer that prevented some message bodies from being displayed.
• Fixed a bug that could result in empty tag names after renaming.
• Worked around a suspected bug in Mac OS X that could prevent EagleFiler from restoring the correct window position and size when opening a library.
• Fixed a bug where some individual message files didn’t sort properly by title.
• Fixed a bug with the French localization when creating a new file.
• Changed the way the Software Update feature finds the downloads folder on Mac OS X 10.5 and later because sometimes the one that Internet Config returned would be invalid or unwanted.
• Improved EagleFiler’s error handling when it can’t read a metadata backup file due to a disk error.
• Modernized the code.

SpamSieve has been updated to version 2.7.7. This is a free update that includes the following changes:

• Improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Mac OS X.
• Made some changes to improve SpamSieve’s filtering accuracy.
• Fixed a bug where the “Train as Good” command in Apple Mail didn’t move Exchange messages back to the inbox.
• Encoded HTML mail is spam is now off by default, to reduce the number of false positives.
• Modernized the code.
• Updated the Vietnamese localization.
• Updated the Apple Mail script for discarding spam.