1   Introduction

EagleFiler is an easy-to-use information manager. It lets you organize and search mail, Web pages, PDF files, notes, and more. Use it to collect stuff from a variety of sources. Browse everything using a standard three-pane interface. Organize using folders and annotate using tags and notes, or just leave everything in one folder and pin-point what you need instantly using the live search. Since EagleFiler stores its library in Finder format, you can use it in concert with the other tools in your Mac ecosystem.

EagleFiler in a nutshell:

1. With a single keypress, import a Web page, mail messages, a scrap of text, or any file on your Mac.
2. EagleFiler stores them in an open format: regular files and folders that are fully accessible to your other applications.
3. Optionally: encrypt the files, add tags, notes, color-coded labels, and other metadata.
4. Browse by folder or by tag, or use the live search to find the information you need (faster than Spotlight).
5. View, edit, or create documents directly in EagleFiler’s streamlined interface, or double-click to edit using a more specialized application.

1.1   Importing Is a Snap

Getting your information into EagleFiler is easy. When you’re viewing a Web page in Safari or NetNewsWire, looking at a mailbox in Mail, or browsing files in the Finder, just press the capture key (F1 by default, or Option-F1 to see the options below). EagleFiler will save the document into its library, and you can go right on working without interrupting your flow. (Of course, you can also use drag and drop or other methods if you prefer.) Once the document is in EagleFiler, you’ll always have a copy of the way it looked when you imported it. No more bookmarking a great article, only to find out later that the page is no longer available or that registration or even payment is now required. If you do research on the Web, you know that pages change—sometimes without notice—so it’s always good to keep a paper trail of exactly what you read. There’s no shame in being a digital pack rat when today’s Macs ship with tens or even hundreds of gigabytes of storage.

1.3   Search Everything

It’s no good to store your information if you can’t find it when you need it. Fortunately, EagleFiler offers some powerful search options. If you know the title, author, or recipient you’re looking for, you can search by one of those fields. Or, use EagleFiler’s indexed search to look through the entire contents of your documents. Like Spotlight, EagleFiler can search different types of files at once—after all, what matters is what you’re looking for, not whether it’s in a PDF, an e-mail, or a chat.

Unlike Spotlight, EagleFiler makes it easy to narrow down the results. You’re searching within the library, not all the files on your hard disk, so the search is fast. You can select one or more folders or mailboxes within the library to restrict the search—reducing the amount of data that EagleFiler has to look through, and number of results that you’ll have to comb through. You can even do Boolean, tag, and phrase-based searches to tell EagleFiler exactly what you’re looking for. Once you’ve narrowed the search results to a manageable number of documents, it’s easy to find the information you’re looking for because you can view the document contents right there in EagleFiler.

For more complex searches, or for quick access to your most common searches, you can create your own smart folders.

1.4   The Library Is Open

Like iTunes and iPhoto, EagleFiler keeps your data in a library. The library is just a special folder in the Finder that EagleFiler manages, so there’s no lock-in. You shouldn’t re-arrange the files and folders in the library except through EagleFiler, but other than that you can treat it just like a regular folder. Browse its contents in the Finder or Path Finder—the folder structure matches the folders in EagleFiler.

View and edit the files using your favorite applications. Drag key files to the Dock or make aliases of them on your desktop. Search the files using Spotlight. Back them up using Time Machine. Label files in EagleFiler, and the labels automatically show up in the Finder—and vice-versa. Files in the library will still show up in your application’s Open Recent menus, and Preview will still remember which page of the PDF you were reading. In short, you can capture, organize, and search your files using EagleFiler, without giving up the normal conveniences of the Mac experience.

1.5   Reliable Data Storage

The library may look like just a folder full of files, but EagleFiler uses a Core Data SQL database (with an automatic XML backup) to keep track of the files and their metadata. This lets you put thousands of files in the library and access them reliably and quickly. Each time you open a library, EagleFiler checks to make sure that all the files are present. It can even verify the library (using MD5 checksums) to make sure that none of the files has been corrupted. There’s no point in storing and backing up damaged files. When you archive your documents in EagleFiler, you can be sure that when you need to read them again they’ll be in pristine condition.

Plus, EagleFiler libraries go great with backups and archival. Your data is stored in individual files, so smart backup and synchronization programs won’t waste time and space copying the documents that haven’t changed. Since the files are in standard formats like PDF, RTF, and mbox, you’ll be able to read them years from now, even if—alas—you’re no longer using EagleFiler.

1.6   Add Tags and Notes

Tags are somewhat like labels in the Finder, except that each record can have as many tags as you want. EagleFiler has some tags such as “unread,” “flagged,” and “replied” built-in, and it will import these from Mail. If you’ve created additional tags in Mail using MailTags, EagleFiler will import those as well. You can also create your own tags. Tags may be treated like keywords, and each tag also appears as a source in the browser window, which acts like a playlist in iTunes or an album in iPhoto.

Each document or message in EagleFiler can also have a note. Notes, which you can edit in EagleFiler’s Info inspector, are like comments in the Finder on steroids. They support rich text with multiple fonts, sizes, and colors. Notes can even include clickable links, graphics, tables, and lists. Use notes to write down information that goes with your documents, to excerpt key passages, to add your own comments or analysis, or to add links to related records in EagleFiler.

2   Installing and Updating

3   Using EagleFiler

3.2   Library Folders

Outside of EagleFiler, for example when you are browsing in the Finder, each EagleFiler library appears as a library folder with the following structure:

• The .eflibrary file is the way that you open the library in EagleFiler. It also holds various information about the contents of the library, such as indexes that EagleFiler uses for searching, as well as tags and other metadata that you’ve added.
• The Files folder contains all the files and folders that have been imported into the library. The folder hierarchy within the Files folder matches that within EagleFiler, so you can easily browse and search the contents of your library from outside of EagleFiler.
• The Notes folder contains one RTF file for each record that has a note. You can edit a record’s notes using the Info inspector. The notes are searchable within EagleFiler and also from Spotlight.
• One way to import files into the library is to move or save them into To Import folder. You can do this even if EagleFiler is not currently running. When EagleFiler completes the import, the files are in the Files folder and no longer appear in the To Import folder. You may wish to drag the To Import folder to your Dock or to the Finder’s sidebar so that it’s easy to find.
• If a file in the To Import folder cannot be imported, EagleFiler moves it to the Unable to Import folder. If there have not been any such errors, this folder will not exist.
• The Smart Folders folder contains a .plist file for each smart folder in the library. You can copy a smart folder from one library to another by copying the associated .plist file. (Make sure that the libraries aren’t open in EagleFiler when you do this.)

The contents of the library folder are managed by EagleFiler. What this means is that the files and folders are fully accessible to other applications, but there are some limits to the kinds of changes you can make to the library from outside of EagleFiler.

You can:

• view and search the contents of the library folder using the Finder, Spotlight, and other applications.
• open files using other applications.
• edit files using other applications and save your changes (without changing the filename).
• add files to the To Import folder.
• change the Finder label, Spotlight comments, and extended attributes of files in the library folder.
• edit folder and file icons using the Finder’s Get Info window.
• store the library folder on a shared volume.

So long as you don’t do it while the library is open in EagleFiler, you can:

• move or rename the library folder.
• move or rename the .eflibrary file.
• backup and restore the entire library folder.

You should not:

• open the library in more than one copy of EagleFiler at a time.
• move, rename, or delete files inside the Files or Notes folders.
• modify the .eflibrary file.
• edit the contents of mailbox files.
• store a library inside another library’s folder.
• tag files from outside of EagleFiler.

These restrictions ensure that the contents of the library folder stay in sync with the .eflibrary, so that EagleFiler knows where all the files are. If necessary, you can create new files inside the Files or Notes folders, but in most situations this is not very useful because EagleFiler will ignore files that were neither created in EagleFiler nor imported.

A common question is about file synchronization software:

• It’s fine to use software that copies folders quickly by only copying the files that have changed. An example of this is SuperDuper’s Smart Update feature. Such software works great with EagleFiler because it copies data in only one direction at a time. You end up with the same result as if you’d done a regular copy, but it doesn’t take as long. If you use ChronoSync, be sure to uncheck Prune folders and Ignore invisibles.
• You should not use software that synchronizes or merges by copying data in both directions at once. This is equivalent to adding/moving/renaming/deleting files, and so it would cause the Files and Notes folders to get out of sync with the .eflibrary file.

/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/EagleFiler/Capture Scripts/

on capture()
    tell application "NetNewsWire"
        set tabIndex to index of selected tab
        if tabIndex is 0 then
            if exists selectedHeadline then
                set theURL to URL of selectedHeadline
            else
                return {{|error|:"No URL is available to be captured."}}
            end if
        else
            set theURLs to URLs of tabs
            set theURL to item (tabIndex + 1) of theURLs
        end if
    end tell
    return {{|url|:theURL}}
end capture

on capture()
    tell application "Finder"
        set theSelection to selection as list
        set theResult to {}
        repeat with theFile in theSelection
            set theFile to theFile as alias
            copy {|path|:POSIX path of theFile} to end of theResult
        end repeat
        return theResult
    end tell
end capture

4   Browser Windows

Each browser window contains a source list, a records list, a record viewer, and a toolbar. Drag the split bars to resize the different portions of the window. Double-click a split bar to collapse it entirely. Hold down the Option key while dragging a split bar to grow or shrink the window as you drag.

You can use the Tab key to move between the different panes using the keyboard. When editing in the record viewer, you may need to type Control-Tab rather than Tab (which will insert a tab character into the document).

4.1   Source List

Drag files here to import them. You can drop onto a folder or tag source to import files directly into that folder or to import them and assign that tag. You can use Exposé mid-drag to bring a window to the front and reveal the source that you want to drop onto.

To hide and show the source list, you can use the Show ‣ Source List command in The View Menu or drag or double-click the divider.

The top-level sources are:

Library

Records

All the records in the library, from all the folders. Click the triangle next to the Records source to see folder sources matching the folders in the library’s Files folder in the Finder. You can drag and drop files and folders to re-arrange their hierarchy.

Trash

The records that have been deleted from the library, but which are still available until you empty the trash. This corresponds to the library’s Trash folder in the Finder.

Search For

Recently Added

The last 25 files that were added to the library.

Recently Modified

The last 25 files that were modified within EagleFiler or using another application.

Unfiled

Files that are at the top level of the library, e.g. ones that are directly in the Files folder rather than in one of its sub-folders. For example, if you like to categorize all your files into subfolders, Unfiled shows you all the files remaining to be categorized.

Untagged

Files anywhere in the library that do not have any tags (other than “note”).

Tags

Tag sources behave like playlists in iTunes or albums in iPhoto. Select a tag source to view all the records with that tag. You can drag records onto a tag source to assign that tag to them. Each record may appear in any number of tag sources. Deleting a record from a tag source unassigns that tag; the record remains in the library. You can drag and drop tags to re-arrange their hierarchy.

You can select more than one source at a time to view all their contents at once. You can type the first few letters of a source’s name to select it. Press Return or Enter to edit its name.

4.2   Records List

The records list shows the contents of the selected source(s). If a folder or tag is the selected source, you can drag files into the records list to import them with that folder or tag.

The columns are:

Tags

The abbreviations for the assigned tags.

Count (#)

The number of pages in a PDF, messages in a mailbox, or attachments in a message.

Icon

An icon that shows the record’s type.

Title

The subject of a message or title of a document. For most document types, the title is separate from the filename, e.g. it’s set in the Properties window in TextEdit and in Microsoft Word. If the title is blank, this column shows the filename.

From

The sender of a message, author of a document, or domain of a Web page.

To

The recipient of a message or document.

Date Modified

The date the record’s contents was modified. For a file, this is the file’s modification date. For a message, this is when the message was received.

Date Added

The date the record was added to the library.

Date Created

The date the record’s file was created. For a message, this is when the message was received.

Size

The amount of disk space used by the record.

File

The name of the file containing the record.

Kind

The type of the record.

Label

The Finder label of the record’s file.

Container

The name of the folder or mailbox that the record is inside.

Tag Names

The full names of the assigned tags.

Drag and drop the column headers to change their order. Click the ▾ or Control-click on a column header to choose which columns are visible.

You can type the first few letters of a record’s title to select it. Double-clicking a record in the list is equivalent to choosing Open With External Viewer. Option-double-clicking is equivalent to choosing Open Source URL. Press Enter (or Return) to rename the selected file or Option-Enter (or Option-Return) to change its title.

4.3   Record Viewer

The record viewer shows the contents of the selected file or e-mail message. Text, RTF, and RTFD files can be edited directly in the viewer. EagleFiler automatically saves your changes to disk, and it supports standard features such as spell-checking, find/replace, and text-to-speech.

EagleFiler knows how to display many different kinds of files. If it does not natively understand a file’s format, EagleFiler uses Quick Look to display a preview of the file.

There is also a tags bar at the bottom of the viewer for assigning or unassigning the tags of the current item.

While the record viewer has focus, you can press Command-Delete to delete the current record(s).

Control-click on a selected word or phrase to set that phrase as the tag, filename, from, or title.

To hide and show the record viewer, you can use the Show ‣ Record Viewer command in The View Menu or drag or double-click the divider.

4.4   Searching

The search box lets you filter the records of the selected sources to display only those records that match the search criteria. After searching, the query is automatically entered into the Find panel so that you can search within the current record, e.g. using Find ‣ Find Next/Previous.

There are two kinds of indexed searches:

Anywhere

Searches the contents of the records, as well as the Title, From, To, Cc, attachment names, tags, and notes.

Notes

Searches the notes of the records.

These support an enhanced query syntax:

&, AND

Boolean AND. The <space> character also represents a Boolean AND.

|, OR

Boolean inclusive OR.

!, NOT, -

Boolean NOT. For example, apple -orange finds records that contain apple and do not contain orange.

(, )

Opening and closing delimiters for logical grouping. For example, (apple AND orange) OR (apple AND pear) finds records that contain apple and another fruit, but not ones that contain only apple.

"

Opening and closing delimiter for phrase-based searching. Phrase-based searches find records that contain all of the words in sequence.

*

Wildcard for prefix or suffix. Ignored in phrase-based searches. To search for a partial word, use two *’s, e.g. *ant* will find ant, repellant, anthem, and words with ant in the middle. If Match Partial Words is checked, EagleFiler will find partial word matches without your having to type the wildcards each time.

There are also five kinds of exact searches:

Filename

Searches the filenames as displayed in the records list.

From

Searches both the names and e-mail addresses.

Tags

Finds records that have the specified tag names. If Match Partial Words is not selected, tag searching is exact, so you must type the complete tag names (with the proper case).

To/Cc

Searches both the names and e-mail addresses.

Title

Searches record titles and message subjects.

For both indexed and exact searches, you can restrict a search to records with certain tags by adding tag:<tagname> at the beginning of the query. (This syntax is not available in smart folders; there you should create a separate Tags criterion.) The search will then match only the records with all of those tags. For example, searching for tag:apple steve means to search for steve and show only the records with the apple tag. Searching for tag:mac tag:ipod halo !bungie means to find all the records that include the word halo, do not include the word bungie, and have both the mac and ipod tags.

To perform complex searches with multiple criteria, use the New Smart Folder… command.

5   Menus

5.2   The File Menu

5.2.1   New Library…

Creates a new library. Double-click the .eflibrary file to open the library in EagleFiler. You can move the library folder around in the Finder, so long as it isn’t currently open in EagleFiler.

See also:

• How can I encrypt my files?
• How can I access my library from multiple Macs?

5.2.2   New Record ‣ Rich Text File

Creates a new RTF or RTFD file inside the selected source.

If the File column is visible and editing is enabled, EagleFiler brings the filename into edit mode so that you can set the name of the newly created file. When you’re done, press Tab or click in the viewer to begin entering the contents of the file. If the File column is hidden or editing is disabled, EagleFiler opens a sheet that lets you enter the name of the new file.

If you hold down the Option key when clicking the New RTF button, EagleFiler creates a new plain text file.

5.2.3   New Record ‣ Plain Text File

Creates a new plain text (UTF-8) file inside the selected source.

If the File column is visible and editing is enabled, EagleFiler brings the filename into edit mode so that you can set the name of the newly created file. When you’re done, press Tab or click in the viewer to begin entering the contents of the file.

If the File column is hidden or editing is disabled, EagleFiler opens a sheet that lets you enter the name of the new file. If you enter a name containing an extension, EagleFiler uses that; otherwise, it adds .txt as the file extension.

As a shortcut, you can Option-click the New RTF toolbar button to create a new plain text file.

5.2.4   New Record ‣ Open Stationery Folder

You can create any type of new file from within EagleFiler. Whichever files you put in the Stationery folder become available as templates in the File ‣ New Record menu. You can assign keyboard shortcuts for them from the Keyboard pane in System Preferences.

Setting Metadata via the Finder

You can edit the stationery file in the Finder in order to control the metadata that EagleFiler assigns when creating a new record from the stationery. For example, you can assign a label or add Spotlight comments. The new record will have the same label as the stationery file, and the Spotlight comments will control the tags and notes. To set the tags to “journal” and “draft” and the note to “This is the note.”, set the Spotlight comments to:

&journal &draft This is a note.

Setting Metadata via AppleScript

You can also set the metadata via AppleScript. This provides more control—for example, you can set a title that’s distinct from the filename. It also lets you set the metadata dynamically—that is, it can be determined when making new records from the stationery rather than when the stationery is first created. Therefore, the metadata can be based on the current date, the current user, the current iTunes track or iChat status, or any other information that’s accessible via AppleScript.

To set the metadata via AppleScript, create a compiled script file next to your stationery file. If the stationery file is Journal Entry.rtf, the script should be called Journal Entry.efmeta.scpt. EagleFiler will automatically run the script when you create a new record from the Journal Entry.rtf stationery.

Here’s an example metadata script:

on metadata(_context)
    set _title to "Blog Entry"
    set _base to do shell script "date '+%A, %B %d, %Y'"
    set _systemInfo to system info
    set _from to long user name of _systemInfo
    set _tags to {"journal", "draft"}
    return {|title|: _title, |basename|: _base, |fromName|: _from, |tags|: _tags}
end metadata

This would set the title to “Blog Entry”, the filename would be based on the current date (e.g. “Tuesday, October 21, 2008.rtf”), the from would be the name of the user logged into the Mac (e.g. “John Appleseed”), and the tags would be “journal” and “draft”.

Metadata Script Details

The script should contain a handler called metadata with a single context parameter.

The context is an AppleScript record containing the following keys: |folderName|, |libaryPath|, |stationeryBasename|, |stationeryName|, and |stationeryPath|. The script can ignore the context, or it can use it to find out about the stationery file and where the record will be created.

The metadata handler should return an AppleScript record containing one or more of the following keys: |basename|, |fromName|, |note|, |sourceURL|, |tags|, |title|.

5.2.5   New Folder…

Creates a new folder in the source list of the current library. You can set a custom icon for the folder by selecting it in the Finder, choosing File ‣ Get Info, clicking on the icon, and pasting your own image.

If a smart folder is selected, creates a folder for holding smart folders rather than a folder for holding files.

5.2.6   New Tag

Creates a new tag and selects it in the source list. If records are selected, they are assigned the new tag. If a tag is selected, the new tag becomes a subtag of that tag. You can drag and drop tags to re-arrange their hierarchy.

5.2.7   New Browser Window

Creates an additional browser window for viewing the contents of the current library.

5.2.8   New Smart Folder…

A smart folder is like a saved search; it shows shows records in the library that match certain criteria. EagleFiler has four built-in smart folders: Recently Added, Recently Modified, Unfiled, and Untagged. This command lets you create your own smart folders.

You can organize smart folders into folders. To do this, select a smart folder and choose New Folder…. Then re-arrange the smart folders using drag and drop.

Creating and editing smart folders requires Mac OS X 10.5; however, once created, the smart folders can be used with Mac OS X 10.4.

5.2.9   Edit Smart Folder…

The Conditions tab lets you set the criteria that determine which records are shown in the smart folder.

Search inside

This pop-up menu lets you select a folder, a mailbox, or the entire library to determine which records the smart folder can display.

subfolders

If this is checked, EagleFiler searches the entire contents of the folder or library. If it’s unchecked, it only searches the first level of files in the folder.

mailboxes

If this is checked, when EagleFiler encounters a mailbox it searches the messages inside of it. If you don’t need to search the messages, unchecking this will make the search go faster.

Now that you’ve chosen which records EagleFiler will search, you can create an unlimited number of criteria to narrow down the results. Click + to add a criterion or - to remove one. Option-click + to add a new Any/All/None grouping of criteria. You can drag and drop to re-arrange the criteria.

The possible criteria are:

Anywhere

Searches the contents of the records, as well as the Title, From, To, Cc, attachment names, and notes (but not tags). The detailed search options are described in the Searching section.

From

The names and e-mail addresses.

To/Cc

The names and e-mail addresses.

Title

Record titles and message subjects.

Count

The number of pages in a PDF, messages in a mailbox, or attachments in a message.

Source URL

The URL that a record was downloaded from.

Label

The Finder label of the record’s file.

Notes

The notes, set in the Info inspector.

Tags

The full names of the assigned tags.

Filename

Searches the filenames as displayed in the records list.

Size

The amount of disk space used by the record.

Kind

The type of the record, as shown in the records list.

Container name

The name of the folder or mailbox that the record is inside.

Date added

The date the record was added to the library.

Date created

The date the record’s file was created.

Date modified

The date the record’s contents was modified. For a file, this is the file’s modification date. For a message, this is when the message was received.

Every record

This is useful when combined with subfolders and mailboxes. When you click on a folder in the source list, EagleFiler shows only the immediate contents of the folder. If you create a smart folder using Every record, EagleFiler will show the contents of the folder and of its subfolders.

The Actions tab lets you control what happens when you drag a record onto the smart folder. Actions can add tags, remove tags, set the label, or move the records to a folder.

Creating and editing smart folders requires Mac OS X 10.5; however, once created, the smart folders can be used with Mac OS X 10.4.

5.2.10   Open Library…

Opens a .eflibrary file, letting you view the library in EagleFiler.

When you open a library, EagleFiler will automatically verify that all of the files are present, backup the metadata, and copy the tags to the Spotlight comments (if you’ve selected that option). To skip these operations, hold down the Shift key when opening the library.

If you hold down the Command and Option keys when opening a library, EagleFiler will show the Rebuild Indexes dialog. Rebuilding increases the speed of Anywhere and Notes searches, compacts the index, and repairs any damage to it. For example, you might want to rebuild the indexes if you’ve deleted a lot of files from the library, or if an Anywhere or Notes search is not finding a record that you think should be in the index.

When rebuilding an index you can choose whether EagleFiler should index words or phrases. Indexing for word searches is much faster, but searching for multiple words will find all the documents that contain those words anywhere in the document. Indexing for phrase searches lets you search for a group of words that appear near each other in a document, however indexing will take longer and the index files will be several times as large.

5.2.11   Import URL(s)…

Opens a sheet for importing one or more URLs into the current library, using the Web page format chosen in the preferences. The text field will be pre-filled with the contents of the clipboard. If you enter a URL that’s not for a Web page (e.g. the URL of a PDF or image file) EagleFiler imports the file directly rather than converting it to a Web archive, PDF, etc.

Some Web pages—such as order confirmations and credit card statements—cannot be loaded by URL (even though EagleFiler uses Safari’s persistent cookies). These pages require session state, e.g. entering a password, logging in, and then clicking a link to get to the page. Two ways to import these types of pages are:

• Choose File ‣ Print in your browser and then choose Save PDF to EagleFiler from the PDF button menu.
• Choose File ‣ Save in your browser and save the page into EagleFiler’s To Import folder.

5.2.12   Import File(s)…

Opens a sheet that lets you choose one or more files or folders to be imported into the current library.

5.2.13   Export…

Opens a sheet that lets you choose a folder to which the selected records will be exported.

• The selected files/folders will be copied into the folder.
• Individual selected e-mail messages will be exported as a single mailbox file. To access the messages, import them into a mail program or EagleFiler.

Please note that, because the library is open, it is not necessary to export files in order to open them with other applications. You could instead use the Open With External Viewer or Reveal In Finder commands. The Export… command is intended for when you want to make copies of the selected files or when the selected records are scattered throughout the library so that they would not be easy to access from the Finder.

EagleFiler natively stores e-mail as mailbox files using the standard mbox format. All Mac e-mail programs can import files in this format. Here are specific instructions for some common e-mail programs:

Apple Mail

Choose File ‣ Import Mailboxes…, select the mbox files radio button (or Other if you have Mac OS X 10.4), click Continue, and then choose the folder containing the exported mailbox file.

Entourage

Choose File ‣ Import…, select the Contacts or messages from a text file radio button, then click the right arrow. Select the Import messages from an MBOX-format text file radio button and click the right arrow. Select the file and then click the Import button.

Note: If you’re unable to import a mailbox file that’s stored in EagleFiler, it may help to select the messages and export them as a new mailbox file. This is because EagleFiler stores the messages exactly as you imported them, and some mail programs are not very tolerate of format differences. When you export, EagleFiler tries to convert the messages to as standard a format as possible, and this can lead to more successful imports.

5.2.14   Backup Metadata

Metadata is EagleFiler-specific information such a record’s title, from, checksum, source URL, tags, and notes. It is stored inside the .eflibrary file.

EagleFiler will automatically backup a library’s metadata when it’s opened and also periodically thereafter. You can manually backup the metadata by holding down the Option key and choosing Backup Metadata from the File menu.

Metadata is backed up to invisible EagleFiler Metadata.plist files inside the library folder. These are standard Mac OS X property lists that can be viewed in TextEdit and processed by many other programs.

The backups allow EagleFiler to reconstruct all of your metadata if the .eflibrary file is damaged or deleted. To restore a library:

1. Create a new library.
2. Import the contents of the old library’s Files folder. EagleFiler will copy the files into the library (preserving their hierarchy) and automatically restore the metadata from the backup.
3. Close the library.
4. In the Finder, replace the contents of the new library’s Smart Folders folder with the contents of the old library’s Smart Folders folder.

5.2.15   Empty Trash…

Empties the trash of the current library. Hold down the Option key to skip the warning.

5.2.16   Print

EagleFiler will print either the list of records or the contents of the record viewer, depending on which you have clicked on.

5.5   The Record Menu

5.5.1   Mark as Unread/Read

Add (or remove) the “unread” tag to the selected records.

5.5.2   Mark as Flagged/Unflagged

Add (or remove) the “flagged” tag to the selected records.

5.5.3   Tag

Gives keyboard focus to the tags text field at the bottom of the browser window, which lets you edit the tags of the selected record.

5.5.4   Set Label

Lets you set the Finder label of the selected records. Since e-mail messages do not appear as distinct files in the Finder, setting the label of a message sets the Finder label of the message’s mailbox.

5.5.5   Batch Change…

This window lets you set the title, from name, label, tags, and notes of multiple selected records at once. You can either Append or Replace. For example, appending tag mac will add that tag to the selected records, while Replace would add the mac tag and remove any pre-existing tags.

There are keyboard shortcuts for Append (Shift-Command-A), Replace (Shift-Command-R), Label (Command-3), Cancel (Command-. or Escape), and OK (Enter).

5.5.6   Convert for Editing

Converts the selected Web archives to (editable) rich text files, preserving the tags, notes, source URL, and other metadata.

The ImportTextAsWebArchive esoteric preference can be used to make selected Web text always import in rich text rather than Web archive format, so that it’s not necessary to convert for editing.

5.5.7   Verify

When you open a library, EagleFiler checks that all the files and notes are present. The Verify command does this, and it additionally checks that their contents are what EagleFiler was expecting.

This can help you detect file corruption before it becomes a serious problem. For example, if there is damage to your disk and a file becomes corrupt, you’ll learn of the problem as soon as you use the Verify command. Without Verify, you would only learn of the problem when you tried to access the file (perhaps a long time in the future), and perhaps not even then, because the corruption might not be readily apparent. Because you learn about the damage early, you can restore a correct version of the file from a backup, rather than filling your future backups with damaged copies of the file.

In order to detect when files have changed, EagleFiler stores a checksum of each file. If EagleFiler reads a file and calculates the same checksum that it got before, it knows that the file has not changed. Thus, if the file was in good condition before, it is still in good condition. If EagleFiler calculates a different checksum, that means that the file’s contents are different.

Sometimes, the checksum should be different. For example, when you edit a file, you intentionally change its contents, resulting in a different checksum. When you edit a file within EagleFiler, EagleFiler automatically updates its stored checksum to match the file’s new contents. Thus, if you only edit files using EagleFiler, the checksums will always be in sync with the files’ contents, and any checksum that doesn’t match means that the file is damaged.

EagleFiler also allows you edit files using other applications. For example, you can double-click a Microsoft Word document to open it in Word, make some changes, and choose File ‣ Save. In this case, the file has changed, but there is no way for EagleFiler to know that this is because of what you did in Word. The changes could have been due to damage. Thus, if you edit a file outside of EagleFiler, you must use the Update Checksum to tell EagleFiler that the file’s current contents are correct. EagleFiler will then update its stored checksum to match.

Verify is a specialized feature for people who want extra data integrity protection. If you don’t need this, or if you frequently edit files outside of EagleFiler and don’t want to have to Update Checksum, then you can simply ignore the Verify command. EagleFiler will then behave like a normal Mac application: it won’t complain about files being different than it expected, but neither will it detect when they are damaged.

5.5.8   Update Checksum

The Update Checksum command tells EagleFiler that you have edited the selected file(s) using another application. This is necessary for proper operation of the Verify command and duplicates detection.

If you do not edit files outside of EagleFiler, or if you do not use Verify or duplicates detection, you can ignore the Update Checksum command.

5.5.9   Merge Mailboxes

Merges the selected mailboxes into a single mailbox file with the name and location of the oldest mailbox in the selection. The tags and notes of the messages are preserved. The original mailboxes are then moved to the trash.

Merging mailboxes can reduce clutter in the source list and speed up EagleFiler.

5.5.10   Reply to Message

Lets you reply to a message in your default e-mail program.

5.5.11   Open With External Viewer

Opens the selected records in a specialized viewer application such as Preview, Safari, or Mail. Folders and mailboxes will open in a new window in EagleFiler. If you open an e-mail, the message that’s displayed in Mail is the message that’s stored in EagleFiler’s library, not the original message that was imported from Mail (which might already have been deleted).

If a search is in effect, EagleFiler passes the search string to the external viewer so that it can show you the matches in the document.

Double-clicking a record is a shortcut for choosing this command from the menu. Hold down the Option key to open the source URL instead of the stored file.

To change which application will open a document, use the Reveal in Finder command, then choose Get Info from the Finder’s File menu and look in the Open with section of the info window.

5.5.12   Open Source URL

With a Web archive record (or an RTFD file converted from a Web archive) selected, this opens the (live, not archived) Web page in your Web browser.

You can also Option-double-click on a record to open its source URL.

5.5.13   Open in Delicious

This opens a Web archive’s URL in the Delicious social bookmarking site to help you find related pages.

5.5.14   Quick Look

EagleFiler uses Apple’s Quick Look technology to preview in the record viewer files that it doesn’t natively understand. The Quick Look menu command lets you open a larger preview window.

5.5.15   Reveal in Finder

This shows the selected records in the Finder. If you have Path Finder running, the files will be revealed in it instead.

5.7   The Window Menu

5.7.1   Show Info

This window lets you view and edit the properties of the selected records. You can type Tab to move between to text fields, or Control-Tab to move out of the notes text view.

File Properties

This shows the file’s name, kind, size, and dates, as well as EagleFiler metadata such as the title, source URL, and from.

If a record doesn’t have a title and you haven’t set one manually, EagleFiler will use the filename (without the extension) as the title, and the title will stay in sync with the filename if you rename it.

Label

This is the Finder label of the file. In EagleFiler, the label is shown as the background color in the records list and also in the Label column. E-mail messages are stored as mailboxes, not as individual files, so all the messages in the mailbox share the mailbox file’s label. You can edit the label names from the Finder’s Preferences window.

Tags

This shows the tags assigned to the record. You may find it more convenient to create and assign tags by typing them in the text field than by using the Show Tags command.

Notes

Notes support rich text, clickable links, embedded graphics, tables, etc. Most of the commands for editing notes are in the Format menu. As a shortcut, you can type Option-Tab to start a bulleted list or Option-Shift-Tab to dedent the current list item. EagleFiler automatically adds the “note” tag to records that have notes, and removes it from ones that don’t.

5.7.2   Show Tags

This window shows a list of tags for the current library.

The columns are:

✓

The box is checked if all of the selected records in the browser window have this tag. It shows a - sign if some (but not all) of the selected records have the tag. It is disabled if no records are selected.

•

The abbreviation (if any) for the tag. Abbreviations are shown in the Tags column of the records list; for example, the “unread” tag is shown as a blue •. Double-click on an abbreviation to edit it. The abbreviation can be composed of ordinary letters, or of special symbols. To enter a special symbol, first double-click to edit the abbreviation. Then click the Characters button to open the Character Palette. Make sure that you are using a View that does not have a Font pop-up menu; this way you can ensure that you enter a true Unicode character. Click on the character that you want, then click the Insert button.

Name

The name of the tag. Double-click on a name to edit it. (The names of built-in tags such as “unread” cannot be edited.) Each tag must have a unique name.

You can give the tags palette keyboard focus by:

• Clicking in its title bar.
• Choosing Show Tags from the Record menu.
• Clicking the Tags button in the toolbar of a browser window.
• Editing an abbreviation or name.

Once the tags palette has keyboard focus, you can:

• Type the first few letters of a tag’s name to select it in the list.
• Press the spacebar to toggle whether the selected records in the browser window have the selected tags. This is like checking or unchecking the boxes of all the selected tags at once.
• Click the Colors button in the toolbar. Then choose a new color for the selected tag(s) and abbreviation(s).

You can Control-click on a tag to reveal it in the source list, thus showing all the records with that tag.

5.7.3   Show Tag Cloud

The Tag Cloud window shows a compact listing of all the tags. You can click on a tag to toggle whether it’s assigned to the selected record(s).

A shortcut for opening the Tag Cloud window is to Option-click the Tags button in the toolbar.

5.7.4   Activity

EagleFiler can do many operations—such as adding files and URLs to the library, indexing, verifying—in the background. This window shows a list of the tasks that EagleFiler is currently working on for each library.

5.7.5   Drop Pad

The Drop Pad tells you which library is active. You can drag files onto the Drop Pad to import them into the active library. You can use the pop-up menu on the Drop Pad to change the active library (without introducing window clutter). The Drop Pad also provides information about whether EagleFiler can capture from the current application.

5.7.6   Errors

This window shows a list of errors that have occurred since you launched EagleFiler. You can select errors and copy them to the clipboard.

6   Preferences

6.1   Capture key

You can always import into EagleFiler using Import URL(s)…, Import File(s)…, or drag and drop. However, if you are already viewing the information that you want import, it’s much easier to just press the capture key.

When you press the capture key, EagleFiler automatically determines what you’re currently viewing (or what you have selected) and imports it into the current library. If no library is currently open, EagleFiler opens the Capture with options window so that you can pick a library.

There are many applications that support capture. EagleFiler will play a camera sound, bounce its Dock icon once, and show a camera icon in its Dock tile to let you know that the capture has started. When it’s finished, if you have Growl installed, you’ll see a notification bubble.

By default, the capture key is F1. If you have a notebook or an aluminum Apple keyboard, you’ll need to hold the fn key to type F1 unless you’ve checked Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys in the Keyboard & Mouse preferences pane. (This setting is called Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys in Mac OS X 10.4.) You can also change the capture key to a different key or key combination if you prefer.

If you’d rather import just the selected text instead of the entire Web page or document, you can use drag and drop or the EagleFiler: Import service (⌘%) instead of the capture key.

EagleFiler must be running in order for the capture key to work. Thus, you may wish to add EagleFiler to your Login Items in the Accounts pane of System Preferences. You can easily do this by clicking on the EagleFiler icon in the Dock and choosing Open at Login.

6.2   Capture with options

This works like the capture key: you press it while in one of the applications that support capture, and EagleFiler imports the “current item” into your library. The difference is that you can specify which library to import into, and which folder within that library. You can also set the title, from name, label, tags, and notes:

EagleFiler remembers this metadata (except the title) for each library, so it’s easy to quickly capture a bunch of related items. Pressing the Reset button clears the metadata and sets the folder so that EagleFiler once again imports into the Unfiled source.

There are keyboard shortcuts for choosing the library (Command-1), folder (Command-2), Label (Command-3), Reset (Command-K), Cancel (Command-. or Escape), and Capture (Enter). Once the folder menu is open, you can select a folder by typing the first few letters of its name.

/Users/<username>/Library/Application Support/EagleFiler/Startup Items

7   Frequently Asked Questions

8   Legal Stuff

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9   Version History

1.4.14—January 22, 2010

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

1.4.13—January 21, 2010

• 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.

1.4.12—December 8, 2009

• 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.

1.4.11—November 12, 2009

• 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.

1.4.10—November 10, 2009

• 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.

1.4.9—September 4, 2009

• When using Mac OS X 10.6, you can use the Keyboard pane in System Preferences to add EagleFiler’s import service to contextual menus in your other applications.
• Added the OpenEagleFilerURLsInNewWindow esoteric preference, which can be used to make EagleFiler open record links in an existing window rather than creating a new one.
• When dragging from the records list, EagleFiler now makes x-eaglefiler URLs available (instead of titles) when the receiving application expects plain text. This makes it possible to, e.g. drag and drop to Things to create a link to an EagleFiler record.
• EagleFiler now preserves the flagged state when capturing from Yojimbo.
• Updated the How can I put my library on my iPhone? section of the manual to reference Quickword, which allows editing of plain text and Microsoft Word documents from the iPhone.
• Added a note saying that accessing EagleFiler’s Dock menu (e.g. to open a recent library) requires a right-click or a Control-click under Mac OS X 10.6.
• Added a workaround for an error logging bug in the OS.
• Improved number entry in the smart folder editor.
• Fixed an appearance glitch when dragging from the records list.
• Worked around a bug in Mac OS X 10.6 that could cause EagleFiler to crash when indexing.
• Worked around a bug in Mac OS X 10.6 that could prevent some files from being indexed.

1.4.8—August 24, 2009

• Capturing a bookmark from NetNewsWire, OmniWeb, Safari, and WebKit Nightly is much faster because EagleFiler no longer goes online to download the contents of the page.
• The records list now supports click-through. This means that it no longer takes two clicks to select a different record when one of the inspector windows has focus.
• Added an optimization so that image files with custom icons can be displayed in the records list without having to ask Quick Look to generate a thumbnail.
• Improved the library opening speed by reducing the time spent building the action menu.
• The How can I access my library from multiple Macs? and How can I put my library on my iPhone? sections of the manual now discuss SugarSync.
• Updated the How can I put my library on my iPhone? section of the manual to add a link to Apple’s new MobileMe iDisk app.
• The Errors window now appears on all spaces.
• EagleFiler no longer auto-opens the Errors window at launch if it was open at quit.
• The crash reporter works better with pre-release versions of Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
• The software updater now supports two-digit version numbers like “1.4.10”—just in case.
• Made the progress window wider so that the text fits better.
• Updated the links for Mailsmith’s new home.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler’s auto-conversion from an RTF file to RTFD (e.g. when you pasted in an image) could overwrite a pre-existing RTFD file.
• Fixed a bug where the Reply to Message command didn’t work properly with Entourage.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler sometimes didn’t let you type a space in the Capture with options window.
• Fixed a bug where the fields and text view in the Info inspector would lose keyboard focus when switching to another application.
• Fixed a bug where editing in the records list wasn’t committed before switching to an inspector.
• Fixed a bug where importing a .webloc file via drag and drop didn’t set the proper source URL.
• Fixed a bug where the record viewer would not remain collapsed when resizing the window.
• Fixed a bug where double-clicking on a column header in the records list would open the selected records.
• Fixed a bug where, for the first Capture with options for a library, EagleFiler would suggest the “unread” tag even if the preferences were set not to mark new records as unread.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler would report an error when importing an empty message from Apple Mail.

1.4.7—July 28, 2009

• EagleFiler now copies tags into the extended attributes for Spotlight searchability and interoperability with applications that use OpenMeta (requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later). EagleFiler also integrates with OpenMeta’s list of recent tags and (since version 1.4.5) imports tags that were assigned using OpenMeta. As with previous versions, EagleFiler’s primary tag store is its database, so you won’t lose any metadata if you store, edit, or copy files in a manner that discards extended attributes, or if you restore from a Time Machine backup. Once a file is in EagleFiler, the tags must be edited using EagleFiler. The Copy tags to Spotlight comments option still works, but since OpenMeta support makes it largely redundant it is no longer recommended except for use on Mac OS X 10.4 and for interoperability with non-OpenMeta applications.
• EagleFiler now displays thumbnail icon previews of image files (requires Mac OS X 10.5 or later).
• Improved EagleFiler’s capture support for Journler. It now preserves the tags, comments, images, and resources, and it omits the entry header.
• Revealing a message in the Finder now reveals a .eml file instead of an .emlx file. You can use File ‣ Get Info on this file to make Entourage the default message viewer.
• When exporting messages, EagleFiler now adds a .mbox file extension so that Entourage will recognize that it can import from the file.
• Improved the Web archives that EagleFiler imports from pages served as XML.
• Now shows Growl notifications when using drag and drop to copy files from one library to another.
• EagleFiler now shows a library’s spinning progress indicator for all types of user-initiated operations, not just imports.
• Improved the parsing of invalid e-mail addresses.
• Increased the default capacity of encrypted libraries.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler allowed editing of locked files and then didn’t save them properly (due to a suspected OS bug).
• Fixed a bug where some auxiliary frame content wasn’t saved into Web archives.
• Fixed a bug where tags and notes were not preserved when dragging a bookmark from one library to another.
• Fixed a bug where Control-Tab didn’t work with Web views.
• Fixed a bug where certain Web pages wouldn’t import from Safari via the bookmarklets.
• Fixed a bug where the search field lost focus after pressing Return/Enter.
• Fixed a bug updating the search field label.
• Fixed a bug where some file URLs wouldn’t import via bookmarklets.
• Fixed a bug creating Web PDFs from non-conforming URLs.
• Fixed a bug importing messages with X-From_ headers.
• Fixed a bug importing messages from Entourage with Mac linebreaks and unescaped “From ” lines.
• Fixed a bug indexing notes for libraries inside non-ASCII-named folders.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler highlighted search operators in the viewer.
• Removed a Web archive workaround that’s no longer needed due to a bug fix in Safari 4.
• Updated the French localization.

1.4.6—June 1, 2009

• 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.

1.4.5—March 24, 2009

• 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.

1.4.4—February 11, 2009

• 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.

1.4.3—November 20, 2008

• EagleFiler can now display Skim notes attached to PDF files.
• Added an esoteric preference to make EagleFiler import the selected text from a Web view in RTF(D) format rather than as a Web archive.
• Added an esoteric preference to control whether EagleFiler displays images in HTML e-mails, for those concerned about Web bugs.
• The color list tab is now available in the color panel.
• In the records list, pressing Return now edits the filename rather than opening the file.
• EagleFiler now preserves filesystem metadata when editing a smart folder’s .plist file.
• PDF annotations are now indexed for searching.
• The metadata backup files are no longer touched unnecessarily, for more efficient backups and syncs.
• Improved error reporting when emptying the trash.
• Fixed a regression where some files couldn’t be deleted.
• Fixed a bug where tag searches with partial word matching didn’t work with non-lowercase tag names.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler did not report unexpected errors when viewing files.
• Fixed a bug displaying property list files that were not dictionaries.
• Fixed a bug in the German localization for smart folders.
• Fixed a bug where text could be truncated when printing.
• Fixed a bug displaying Web archives created from Mail.

1.4.2—October 30, 2008

• Fixed a regression where the + button in the source list didn’t work.
• Fixed a regression where phrase searches found records that didn’t match.

1.4.1—October 28, 2008

• The Tag Cloud window now supports tagging/untagging multiple records at once.
• You can now setup a stationery file’s Spotlight comments so that new records created from that stationery have certain tags and/or notes.
• EagleFiler now supports metadata AppleScripts to customize what happens when you create a new record from stationery. For example, for a journal entry a script could set the From to the name of the current user and set the filename based on the current date. This is described in the New Record ‣ Open Stationery Folder section of the manual.
• The Quick Look window now works more like in the Finder. Instead of multiple windows, there’s now a single window whose content changes depending on what’s selected.
• Added some toolbar shortcuts: Option-click the New RTF button to create a new plain text file, and Option-click the Tags button to open the Tag Cloud window.
• EagleFiler can now display Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) images.
• EagleFiler now displays XHTML files as rendered HTML rather than as XML source.
• Faster tag searching in Anywhere searches.
• EagleFiler now understands .url files.
• Made some AppleScript improvements: creation and modification dates are now settable, the import command now has an option for importing a named stationery file, you can update record checksums, and you can set the contents of the search field. An example script shows how to initiate an EagleFiler search from LaunchBar.
• When you click to edit in the File column, EagleFiler no longer selects the file extension. (Previously, this only worked when pressing Enter.)
• When importing a selection of text via the Services menu, EagleFiler now stores the source URL if the text was in a WebKit-based view (requires Mac OS X 10.5). Due to a bug in Mac OS X 10.4, dragging and dropping text onto EagleFiler’s Dock icon now requires Mac OS X 10.5.
• For consistency with the Finder, the Label column of the records list now shows “--” instead of “None” and sorts by name instead of number.
• Now uses “&” as the default prefix when copying tags to the Spotlight comments.
• Improved reporting of unexpected errors.
• Undo now works when the Tag Cloud window is in the front.
• Changed the zooming keyboard shortcuts so as not to conflict with the ones for Universal Access. (You can still use Command-- and Command-+.)
• Fixed spacing of Set Title in contextual menu.
• Added Help button to the Software Update window.
• Removed extra space in contextual menu.
• Fixed a bug trying to open the Find panel when EagleFiler was displaying an image.
• Fixed a bug where some toolbar icons didn’t load if you weren’t running under an administrator account.
• Fixed a bug where the Find panel didn’t always pick up the query from the search field.
• Fixed a regression where messages in mailboxes could not be opened in Apple Mail when running on Mac OS X 10.4.
• Fixed a regression where Spotlight comments on files weren’t preserved when importing, if you had Copy tags to Spotlight comments unchecked.

1.4—October 14, 2008

Highlights

• You can now create custom smart folders, which can contain an unlimited number of criteria, optionally using nested Any/All/None criteria. Creating and editing smart folders requires Mac OS X 10.5; however, once created, the smart folders can be used with Mac OS X 10.4.
• Smart folders can now be organized into folders.
• You can define actions to occur when you drag a record onto a smart folder. For example, you could make a smart folder that shows records with a certain combination of tags, and that will assign those tags to dragged records.
• You can now create any type of new file from within EagleFiler. To do this, choose New Record ‣ Open Stationery Folder from the File menu. Whichever files you put in the Stationery folder become available as templates in the File ‣ New Record menu.
• You can now drag messages out of mailboxes to convert them to freestanding .eml files. It’s less efficient to store messages individually rather than in mailbox files, but there are also several advantages: the messages can be stored alongside other types of files, they can be freely moved between folders, and they are searchable by Spotlight.
• Added a Tag Cloud window, which shows a compact listing of all the tags. You can click on a tag to toggle whether it’s assigned to the selected record.
• Added a Find panel for searching within PDFs and Web archives.
• Added a preference to control which format Web pages are imported in. The supported formats are: Bookmark, PDF, Plain Text, Rich Text, Rich Text With Images, and Web Archive (the default).
• Added a preference to control what happens to Spotlight comments when importing. This is useful, e.g. if you had already used another application to tag your files or if you had entered notes from the Finder. If you tell EagleFiler to Import as tags, each word is imported as a tag. If you tell it to Import as notes and tags, EagleFiler extracts tags (prefixed by & or marked using Punakea’s format) and imports the remaining comments text as notes.
• Added commands to the contextual menus (Assign Tag, Set Filename, Set From, Set Title) so that you can quickly turn the selected text into metadata.

File Formats

• Added New Record ‣ Plain Text File command.
• EagleFiler can now display Microsoft Word 2007 (.docx) files (requires Mac OS X 10.5).
• EagleFiler can now display and edit OpenDocument Text (.odt) files (requires Mac OS X 10.5).
• EagleFiler can now display and search XML and binary property list (.plist) files.
• Now imports .webloc files as-is rather than converting them to Web archives.
• EagleFiler now imports .eml files as-is rather than converting them to single-message mailboxes.
• Bean documents are now imported as a separate file type rather than as RTFD.

Interface

• Added Quick Look command, which opens a Quick Look preview of the selected records in a separate window (requires Mac OS X 10.5).
• Added an Enclosing Record command in the View menu. Replaced the Select Source command with the similar but more useful Contents of Record command in the View menu. As a result, you can now use Command–Up Arrow and Command–Down Arrow to navigate up and down the hierarchy of folders and mailboxes.
• Added Search for Selection contextual menu command.
• When you mouse over a link in a Web view, EagleFiler now shows the URL at the bottom of the window.
• Revised the toolbar icons and simplified the default toolbar configuration.
• If there are no matches for a search, EagleFiler draws the records list background in yellow.
• Adjusted the unread and flagged menu item titles and toolbar labels for consistency with Mail.
• Increased the resolution of the Dock badges.
• The viewer now shows some helpful text describing the “note” tag.
• Moved Show Inspector and Show Tags from the Record menu to the Window menu and renamed Show Inspector to Show Info.

Capture

• Can now capture from Entourage, and preserves the message flags, categories, and projects. If you want EagleFiler to skip a message, you can assign it the category “OmitFromArchive”.
• Can now capture from PowerMail, and preserves the message status and label.
• Can now capture from Preview, if you make it scriptable.
• Can now capture from Together, and preserves the tags, comments, labels, and ratings.
• When capturing from Mailsmith, EagleFiler can now import individual messages (before, only mailboxes were supported), and it now preserves the message status, label, and notes.
• When capturing from Camino, EagleFiler now reads the URL of the current tab rather than the first tab.
• In the Capture With Options window, if you edit the tags and then choose a different library, EagleFiler no longer overwrites the tags with the default ones for the new library.

Importing

• You can now import Web pages using bookmarklets.
• Empty files and files that contain only a resource fork (such as font suitcases) no longer count as duplicates.
• Added an esoteric preference for importing Spotlight keywords as tags.
• When you try to import a file that’s already inside of the library folder, EagleFiler can now reveal the file in the browser window.
• If a connection times out while EagleFiler is importing a Web page, it will now retry twice.
• When importing bookmarks from a Web browser, EagleFiler now uses the titles you’ve assigned rather than fetching them from the Web.

Miscellaneous

• Encrypted libraries can now be created as sparse bundle images, for more efficient Time Machine backups (requires Mac OS X 10.5).
• Encrypted libraries can now use 256-bit rather than 128-bit encryption (requires Mac OS X 10.5).
• You can now type tag names directly into an Anywhere search.
• You can now view messages in Microsoft Entourage instead of Apple Mail (requires Mac OS X 10.5). To do this, Get Info on a .eml file in the Finder, choose Entourage from the Open with pop-up menu, and click Change All.
• The Copy Record Link command now creates links using persistent IDs so that they will still work if you delete EagleFiler’s database and import the files into a new library.
• Added How can I put my library on my iPhone? section to the manual.
• Added Shortcuts section to the manual.
• Added an esoteric preference to clear the search field when you select a different source.
• You can now double-click a smart folder to open it in a new window.
• EagleFiler now indexes a file’s Spotlight keywords for searching.
• Improved auto-generated titles.
• Improved the display of improperly encoded message headers.
• Worked around a bug in Mac OS X 10.4 when highlighting matching search terms in the records list.
• Removes stray index files when opening the library.
• If there’s an error getting the downloads folder for a software update, EagleFiler now defaults to Downloads rather than Desktop.
• No longer shows the __deleted__ tag in the records list.
• The Untagged source now shows records that only have the “note” tag.
• Improved parsing of invalid mbox files.
• Improved error reporting when downloading Web pages.
• Rewrote filesystem code to improve performance and error reporting.
• Made various changes to improve interface responsiveness.
• Note files now include a relative URL to the file that they’re attached to, so that you can easily find the file if EagleFiler isn’t installed.
• Added placeholder text to the Purchase window.
• No longer lets Web pages steal focus from the records list.
• You can now bring up the Find panel when the source list or records list has focus.
• EagleFiler now saves damaged index files for possible future analysis of why Search Kit couldn’t open them. It also tries multiple times to open indexes, since Search Kit sometimes changes its mind about which indexes are valid.

Bug Fixes

• If an unexpected error occurs while EagleFiler is emptying the trash, it no longer leaves the library in an inconsistent state. Also, EagleFiler will now detect and repair this sort of damage when opening a library.
• Fixed a bug where a duplicate “From ” line could be inserted when generating an mbox file from an Apple Mail mailbox. This was harmless but unsightly.
• Fixed a bug where, in rare cases, two messages imported from Apple Mail could be joined into one, so that it looked like some had been skipped.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler changed the selection if you tried to delete a source and then cancelled.
• Fixed a bug where Reveal in Finder didn’t work when KeePassX was running.
• Fixed a bug where you could, via the contextual menu, open a different page when viewing a Web archive.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler could freeze when revealing a non-existent file in the Finder.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler’s Web fonts would not be consistent with Safari’s if you’d never changed the fonts in Safari’s preferences.
• Fixed a bug where, when capturing multiple items with notes, some records without notes would be assigned the notes from one of the other records.
• Fixed a bug where certain errors when creating a new library were not correctly reported.
• Fixed a bug where the PDF viewer state wasn’t always preserved.
• Fixed a bug where the title of text records wasn’t linked to the filename by default.
• Fixed a bug where newly added tags weren’t selected if you had been renaming another tag.
• Fixed a bug where EagleFiler could crash when closing a browser window.

1.3.8—July 23, 2008

• Fixed a regression where capturing from Firefox didn’t work.

1.3.7—July 22, 2008

• Fixed a regression where editing a keyboard shortcut could cause EagleFiler to crash.

1.3.6—July 22, 2008

• Opening the Capture With Options window is faster and uses much less memory.
• When capturing a headline from NetNewsWire, EagleFiler now preserves the flagged status.
• Improved the error message when capturing from Firefox 3 fails due to a bug in Firefox.
• Fixed some small memory leaks.
• Fixed bug where .eml files converted to mbox format weren’t From-escaped.
• Moved .nib files that don’t need localization out of the English.lproj folder. This should make it easier to run EagleFiler in a language other than English without changing the default language on your Mac.
• Fixed bug truncating filenames containing decomposed characters.
• Improved the French localization.

1.3.5—July 2, 2008

• Made various performance optimizations to the browser and activity windows.
• If you click on a mailbox in the source list whose table of contents has not yet been built, EagleFiler now reports this in the viewer so that it’s more clear why no messages are shown yet.
• Dropping between folders in the source list no longer targets the containing folder, since this made the subfolder drop targets too small.
• Improved the way EagleFiler handles special “merged” mailboxes when capturing from Apple Mail.
• Added EnableWebPlugIns to the esoteric preferences, so that you can prevent Web plug-ins (e.g. Flash) from loading in EagleFiler’s viewer.
• Capturing a mailbox in Apple Mail no longer captures its submailboxes, unless they’re also selected.
• Fixed bug extracting the metadata from files during import.
• Fixed a bug where, in rare cases, EagleFiler would end up with two internal database records for the same file. This could happen with Web archives in the To Import folder.
• Fixed the title of the Copy Image command when Control-clicking on an image in the viewer.
• Fixed bug where EagleFiler would clear the display of the selected Web archive when using Capture With Options.
• Fixed regression where AppleScripting a browser window didn’t work.
• Reduced the delay before showing the Capture With Options window.
• The font-chooser text fields now draw the text centered.
• Single-click editing in table and outline views now requires Mac OS X 10.5, since it now relies on the standard OS functionality.
• In certain circumstances, auto-updating no longer requires authentication.
• Fixed bug where some operations in the Activity window would hang if the OS hung while setting a Spotlight comment.
• Worked around suspected OS bug, which sometimes caused a file’s creation date to change when you changed the modification date.
• Fixed bug where the Capture With Options window would be shown even if there were no items to capture.
• Fixed bug editing filenames with no extension in the records list.

1.3.4—June 3, 2008

• Fixed regression where parts of the Drop Pad didn’t accept dropped files.
• Fixed regression where source list titles sometimes would be truncated prematurely.
• Fixed regression where the top of the viewer was cut off in the German localization.
• Fixed regression where changes to the tags weren’t saved if you closed the window before pressing Return/Tab or clicking elsewhere.
• The default search scope is now Anywhere.
• The divider in the Info inspector now remembers its position.
• The Tags field in the Info inspector can now be made shorter.
• Improved launching speed.
• Added Importing Mail section to the manual.
• Added FolderMailboxTitleSeparateFromFilename to the esoteric preferences.
• Improved error reporting when capturing from Microsoft Word.
• Fixed bug importing Apple Mail messages when running under certain non-English locales.
• Worked around a framework bug that could cause errors when closing a library.
• Removed logging of invalid URLs.
• Updated the German localization.

1.3.3—May 20, 2008

• Improved the speed of displaying large numbers of files or messages for the first time.
• Can now capture from Opera.
• Added New Rich Text File command to the Dock menu.
• The Drop Pad is now resizable.
• Worked around Mac OS X bug that prevented EagleFiler from indexing certain documents for searching.
• The Capture With Options window no longer suggests the title from the previous capture, since that wasn’t very useful.
• If a mailbox’s messages are not yet ready for display (because EagleFiler is rebuilding the table of contents), the mailbox name is now shown in gray in the source list.
• Added placeholder text to the tags bar so that it’s more clear that it’s editable.
• Expanded the documentation for the Verify command.
• On Mac OS X 10.4, the viewer pane now shows custom rather than generic icons for files that it doesn’t know how to display. (On Mac OS X 10.5, it continues to use Quick Look.)
• When searching, EagleFiler now ignores trailing meta characters in the query string, rather than returning no results.
• The Drop Pad menu command now hides the Drop Pad if it was already visible.
• Reorganized the Dock menu so that the fixed commands are easier to find with the mouse.
• Improved error reporting when capturing from a “merged” mailbox in Mail.
• Adjusted spacing in source list.
• Added “raised” background style to the label in the tags bar.
• Skips importing .git folders.
• Improved error logging.
• Fixed bug where the Tags palette sometimes showed the tags for the wrong library.
• Fixed bug where the Tags field in the Batch Change… window didn’t become checked when you started typing tags in it.
• Fixed bug with text color of non-highlighted text in selected rows of the records list, when it didn’t have keyboard focus.
• Fixed error resizing the browser window.
• Fixed importing of Word documents with blank titles.
• Fixed bug where the command in the Window menu said Activity Viewer instead of Activity.

1.3.2—April 24, 2008

• Faster indexed searches when lots of results are found.
• Faster at displaying large text files when running on Mac OS X 10.5.
• The Title and From fields in the Capture With Options window will now try to clean up any text that you paste in, e.g. removing linebreaks and coalescing multiple spaces into one.
• Enlarged the Title field in the Capture With Options window.
• Some errors now have a tooltip that shows which library they pertain to.
• Preserves more file metadata when editing documents within EagleFiler.
• EagleFiler can now import URLs that contain the | character.
• Adjusted mail-related icons when running on Mac OS X 10.5.
• Added MaxEditableTextFileSizeInMB esoteric preference, which lets you set EagleFiler to only show the first few megabytes of large text files, so that they display more quickly.
• Disabled undo in the Title and From fields in the Capture With Options window to work around a bug in Cocoa.
• Fixed bug where the viewer could lose keyboard focus when using Previous/Next Record.
• Fixed bug where mailbox names were not indexed for Anywhere searches.
• Fixed bug editing text or RTF documents that were stored on non-HFS volumes.
• Fixed bug where indeterminate progress bars didn’t animate when running on Mac OS X 10.5.
• Fixed bug importing messages from Apple Mail that claimed to be sent in the year 2038 or later.
• Fixed mbox separator-line dates for imported IMAP messages.
• Fixed regression where files and messages didn’t sort together properly by modification date.
• Updated the .sdef file to the latest format.
• Updated to Python 2.5.2.
• Renamed the Activity Viewer window to Activity for consistency with Mail and Safari.
• Fixed color of non-highlighted text in selected rows of the records list.

1.3.1—April 9, 2008

• When searching the Tags scope (or using tag:<name> with another search scope), EagleFiler now lets you type incomplete tag names if Match Partial Words is checked.
• The @ character is now allowed in tag names.
• When using Capture With Options, any tags or notes that you set are now used in addition to rather than instead of any tags or notes suggested by the capture script.
• Changes to notes are now undoable.
• Improved responsiveness by limiting the number of simultaneous file copy operations.
• Fixed regression where Copy tags to Spotlight comments didn’t work.
• Fixed regression editing files in the viewer whose path contained non-ASCII characters.
• Fixed regression deleting notes.
• When you delete the selected sources, EagleFiler now selects the next source in the list and maintains the scroll position.
• Canceling a Capture With Options now brings you back to the application that you were in.
• The tag abbreviation column now sorts by the actual tag names, rather than by the abbreviation symbols.
• Worked around a Web Kit bug saving certain pages as Web archives.
• Worked around OS bug that could cause a crash when resizing a browser window.
• Tried to work around OS bug revealing files in the Finder.
• After revealing a file in Path Finder, brings Path Finder to the front.
• Re-positioned Format menu for consistency with Mail.
• Fixed a rare crash when searching a PDF.
• Fixed bug where dragging records in the list sometimes required an extra click.
• Fixed sorting of sources, records, and tags whose names contain combining marks.
• Fixed bug where the contextual menu sometimes had duplicate Highlight commands.
• Fixed bug where sometimes the original title of a document (stored in the file) wasn’t indexed if you’d set a custom title in EagleFiler.
• Fixed bug where .plist files were sometimes imported as text.
• Fixed bug where a displayed Web archive could auto-open a window in the user’s Web browser.
• Fixed bug remembering the PDF zoom level.
• Updated German localization.

1.3—March 11, 2008

Highlights

• Added Capture with options command (Option-F1 by default), which lets you set the library, destination folder, tags, and other metadata right when you press the capture key.
• Added Batch Change… menu command and button in the tags bar. This lets you set the title, from name, label, tags, and notes of the selected records all at once.
• Now uses Quick Look to display file types that EagleFiler doesn’t natively understand (e.g. Pages, Keynote, OmniGraffle, fonts). This feature requires Mac OS X 10.5.
• Added Untagged smart folder to the source list.
• Added Date Created and Tag Names columns to the records list.
• Added Set Label submenu and contextual menu.
• Added specialized viewing and indexing support for iCalendar (.ics) and vCard (.vcf) files.
• Now indexes Skim notes attached to PDF and PDFD files so that you can search for them within EagleFiler.
• Revised the icons and layout throughout the user interface.
• Made various optimizations so that EagleFiler is faster and more responsive.

Browser Windows

• When creating new rich text files or notes, EagleFiler now creates RTF files instead of RTFD ones when possible. RTF files are more compatible and faster. Additionally, when editing files in the viewer, EagleFiler automatically converts between RTF and RTFD depending on whether RTFD is required.
• When using the Record ‣ Tag command to jump to the tags bar, EagleFiler now moves the insertion point to the end of the tags, rather than selecting all of them.
• When you create a New Rich Text File within EagleFiler, it’s no longer marked as unread.
• The Open With External Viewer toolbar button now shows which application will be used to open the file.
• Added Update Checksum toolbar button.
• Now shows tag colors in the source list.
• You can now tab from editing the File column in the records list into the record viewer, which makes creating new RTF files smoother. (Requires Mac OS X 10.5.)
• When you open a library on a smaller screen than it was previously opened on, EagleFiler now overrides the OS and shrinks the window so that it fits on the screen.
• Added Select Source to the contextual menu.
• Added a custom drag image for the records lists.
• Added ellipsis-truncation to column headers in the records list.
• Increased the maximum width of the date columns.
• Holding down Option to skip the confirmation when emptying the trash now works from the contextual menu.
• When displaying Usenet messages from mbox files, EagleFiler now shows the name of the newsgroup in the To area of the viewer.
• You can now copy an image file that EagleFiler’s displaying to the clipboard.
• Now remembers between launches if you’ve set the PDF view to display continuous or facing pages.
• You can now press Command-Delete to delete the selected record(s) when the viewer has focus.
• You can now double-click the drag strip to collapse the source list.
• Increased the font size in the tags bar.

Capture

• If no library is open when you press the capture key, instead of showing an error alert, EagleFiler now opens the Capture with options dialog, which lets you open or create a library to complete the capture.
• Can now capture from Address Book, Flock 1.0, iCab 4, Keynote, MindManager, Pages, OmniGraffle, and TextMate.
• Revised the user interface for setting the capture key.
• While EagleFiler is in the process of capturing (i.e. running the capture script or showing the capture options dialog), it now badges the Dock icon with a picture of a camera.
• Added |creationDate| and |modificationDate| options for capture scripts.
• Improved preservation of modification and creation dates when capturing from DEVONthink Pro, MarsEdit, Journler, and Yojimbo.
• Improved the reliability when capturing from WebnoteHappy, e.g. if it returns invalid tag, note, or title information.
• EagleFiler now creates the user Capture Scripts folder for you.

Miscellaneous

• If EagleFiler is busy when you ask it to close a library, it now stops any existing operations (except when doing so would cause data loss), so you no longer have to wait and/or stop them yourself.
• When dealing with “Bad Checksum” errors in the Errors window, you can now update the checksums for multiple errors at a time, and after updating a checksum EagleFiler removes the error from the window.
• Reduced EagleFiler’s RAM use for large libraries.

Importing

• Text dragged from a Web page is now imported as a Web archive instead of an RTFD file. (If you want an RTFD file, you can use the Convert For Editing command.)
• In addition to checking periodically, EagleFiler nows checks the To Import folders when it becomes the active application. This should get new files imported sooner.
• Now shows a single Growl notification for each batch of files imported, rather than for each individual one.
• Now shows a progress spinner next to the action menu while EagleFiler is busy importing.
• Changed the Dock icon indicator that shows when EagleFiler is importing. Instead of a red circle, it now shows a downward pointing arrow.
• Improved EagleFiler’s recovery when WebKit runs into an internal error while saving a Web archive file.

Info Inspector

• Added URL field.
• Enlarged the Title field and Notes text view.
• Now displays three dates—Created, Added, and Modified—and the creation and modification dates are editable.
• Fields that are unavailable are now disabled rather than just marked as uneditable.

Search

• Now shows the search scope beneath the search box so that it’s clear which parts of the records you’re searching.
• When searching, you can now use OR as a synonym for |, and you can use -word as a synonym for !word.
• EagleFiler is better at estimating how long indexing will take when some of the records in the library are already indexed.

AppleScript

• The import command now returns a list of the imported records. This makes it easier to set the properties of the new records. Additionally, import now waits until the records have been imported before returning, so the script knows when the import has finished.
• The import command now supports a deleting afterwards option, which makes EagleFiler delete the source file after successfully importing it.
• You can now use the import command outside of a tell library document block; it will then target the frontmost library.
• The source URL property is now settable.

Bug Fixes

• The order in the labels pop-up menu now matches the Finder.
• Now remembers the sorted column of the Tags inspector between launches.
• Fixed bug where the source URL wasn’t set if you imported a URL of a file that wasn’t a Web page.
• No longer shows the Rebuild dialog when opening a library if you hold down other modifier keys in addition to Command-Option.
• If EagleFiler was unable to capture due to a bug in the Finder, the error message now suggests using drag and drop, updating to Mac OS X 10.5, or disabling FileVault.
• Now preserves the creation date when editing files within EagleFiler and when saving notes.
• Fixed bug where the Import File(s)… command didn’t let you import items that were next to the library folder.
• Fixed bug where certain Apple Mail mailboxes (typically those imported from another mail program) weren’t imported as mailboxes.
• Fixed bug where the Reveal button in the Errors window didn’t work properly for duplicate files that came from the To Import folder.
• Fixed bug where the Highlight command didn’t work properly when no text was selected.
• Fixed bug where the Highlight toolbar button in the main browser window would be enabled when editing a note.
• Fixed bug where EagleFiler would add a uniquing number if you renamed a file/folder to a name that differed only by case (and you were using a case-insensitive filesystem).
• Worked around a Cocoa bug that could, in rare cases, lead to an infinite loop when saving the library.
• Fixed bug where some Format ‣ Font menu commands were enabled even though they couldn’t be used because Allow Editing in Record Viewer was unchecked.
• Fixed bug where toggling Allow Editing In Record Viewer didn’t take effect immediately.
• Fixed crash involving the tags bar.
• Fixed bug where capturing just messages from an Apple Mail mailbox with submailboxes would import empty folders for the submailboxes.
• Fixed bug where newly imported records sometimes didn’t sort properly by modification date.
• Fixed bug where the Info inspector sometimes didn’t show the correct record.
• Fixed bug where custom icons on the To Import folder were not preserved.
• The software updater is better at handling invalid downloads folders.
• Fixed crash involving the Info inspector.
• Fixed bug where Edit ‣ Find ‣ Library Search… didn’t bring the window to the front.
• Fixed bug hiding and showing the source list when running on Mac OS X 10.5.2.
• Fixed bug checksumming packages containing symlinks.
• Fixed bug where JavaScript was disabled in the viewer.

1.2.7—November 14, 2007

• If you create a New Rich Text File while one or more tag sources are selected, EagleFiler now assigns those tags to it.
• Colored quote levels now work in HTML messages.
• You can now hold down the Option key to empty the trash without a warning.
• Now uses the proper Skim icon for PDFD files.
• Combined the three system services into one, which detects whether it was invoke with a file, text, or URL(s). The keyboard shortcut can now be configured using System Preferences rather than a separate utility.
• If you make EagleFiler a login item, set it to be hidden, and have it set to open a library when it’s launched, EagleFiler will now re-hide itself after opening that library.
• Drag-importing from MacJournal works now.
• The system service now works properly when EagleFiler wasn’t already running.
• Control-clicking on a source group no longer selects it.
• Improved scaling of the library document icon.
• Fixed bug where the Apple Help didn’t work on Mac OS X 10.5.
• Fixed regression where assigning/unassigning tags using the Spacebar in the Tags inspector didn’t always work.
• Fixed bug displaying some encoded message subjects.
• Fixed regression where the top couple pixels of the viewer could be cut off.
• Fixed bug where the icons of some types of sounds, movies, or images showed the wrong file type.
• Fixed bug where the source list sometimes had the wrong background color.
• Fixed ellipsis truncation of selected source names.
• Updated German localization.
• Added Korean localization.

1.2.6—October 24, 2007

• Modernized the source list and buttons.
• Capturing the selected mailboxes/messages from Apple Mail now works when an IMAP path prefix is set.
• Can now capture from MarsEdit (based on work by Eric Blair).
• Added support for Skim .pdfd bundles.
• Tags in the tag bar and inspectors now have contextual menus that let you reveal them in the source list, to see all the records with that tag.
• Added French and German localizations.
• There are new AppleScripts for importing from LaunchBar and Quicksilver.
• You can now modify capture scripts while EagleFiler is open without having to relaunch for it to notice the changes.
• Improved import speed, particularly when the source volume is slow.
• You can now cancel an import in the middle of EagleFiler checksumming a file.
• Fixed bug where capturing from Apple Mail didn’t work on pre-release versions of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
• Capturing now works with pre-release builds of Camino 1.6.
• Select Source now preserves the selection in the records list after selecting the container sources.
• Using the spacebar to toggle tags in the Tags inspector now interacts better with type-selection.
• The search field now expands and contracts based on the available space in the toolbar.
• Convert For Editing now preserves the title and allows duplicates.
• After deleting a record or tag, EagleFiler will now select the next item in the list.
• Clicking a link to open another EagleFiler record now gives it keyboard focus.
• Now clears Web views that aren’t in use, saving memory and silencing sounds.
• Capturing PDF files from Safari now works when the Schubert|it PDF Browser Plugin is installed.
• Renamed the Library source to Records.
• Improved capture script error reporting.
• Metadata files are now invisible by default, and you can prevent them from being created automatically. There are esoteric preferences to control this. Also, EagleFiler avoids writing metadata files to disk if they haven’t changed.
• After opening a library with EagleFiler 1.2.6, it will no longer be openable in previous versions of EagleFiler. Of course, the files and metadata are still accessible in the Finder.
• Fixed color of selected tags in inspector.
• Fixed memory leak with the Activity Viewer window.
• Fixed progress bar inaccuracy when importing a folder of files.
• Fixed bug importing .eml files exported from Thunderbird.
• Fixed bug where certain types of sound files were imported as text.
• Fixed bug displaying attachment names that used the Big5 character set.
• Choosing colors is more robust and defaults to the spectrum view.

1.2.5—August 21, 2007

• Can now capture from Cyndicate.
• Fix bug where Flash was disabled in Web views.
• Fixed bug where the insertion point would sometimes move if you edited in the record viewer and then manipulated the window before it had saved.
• Improved the robustness of the startup code to prevent some rare problems when launching EagleFiler.
• Improved handling of FDF files.
• Fixed rare errors importing lots of files at once.
• Verifying checksums is faster.

1.2.4—August 2, 2007

• The records list uses gentler background colors to indicate the files’ labels.
• Now shows labels in the source list.
• Added keyboard shortcuts for going to the next or previous PDF page.
• Now shows tooltips in the source list.
• The records list now has an alternating background color, like the Leopard Finder.
• Improved the responsiveness of the user interface when highlighting search matches in PDFs.
• Fixed incorrect outline/table row heights when using certain fonts.
• Now preserves extended attributes when copying files into the library.
• When using Copy Record Link and pasting into a rich text view, the pasted text’s font will now match that of the surrounding text.
• Improved the Next/Previous toolbar buttons.
• Dragging from EagleFiler to a burn folder now creates a link instead of copying the file.
• If the File column is hidden, both Enter and Option-Enter will bring the Title column into edit mode.
• After you drop a file onto a spring-loaded folder in the source list, EagleFiler will collapse the temporarily expanded folders.
• EagleFiler no longer tries to import SketchUp files as text, and therefore it won’t try to display them, which led to long freezes as the data overloaded Cocoa’s text system.
• Improved capture error messages.
• Fixed bug parsing tags from strings containing non-ASCII alphabetic characters.
• Fixed bug where labels were lost when editing RTF or RTFD files within EagleFiler.
• Now preserves modification dates when capturing from Yojimbo.
• If the records list is empty because nothing matched the search, this is now reported in the viewer so that you don’t wonder why the list is empty.
• If Allow Editing in Record Viewer is off, New Rich Text File will now always bring down a sheet for setting the text of the new file.
• Choosing Edit ‣ Find ‣ Library Search… now works when the toolbar is in Text Only mode.
• Fixed help book icon.

1.2.3—July 2, 2007

• Calculates folder sizes and shows them in the records list.
• Added import plain text AppleScript command for when you want to import a string as a text file rather than an RTF one.
• When you view a file, EagleFiler now makes sure that it’s up-to-date in the index, in case you modified it outside of EagleFiler.
• When you edit a filename in the records list, EagleFiler no longer pre-selects the extension.
• The Errors window no longer auto-selects errors when they are added.
• Added progress bars when creating or opening a library.
• Rotates the log file to prevent it from growing too large.
• Changed the verification icon.
• Improved error handling when creating or opening a library.
• Fixed bug where folder labels weren’t preserved when importing.
• Worked around OS bug that caused an internal error when pressing Option-Tab in an empty text view.
• Errors reported from EagleFiler’s lower level frameworks are now reported in the log file rather than on the system console.
• Fixed bug where EagleFiler would let you import the library into itself.
• Fixed regression where canceling an import sometimes didn’t work.
• Worked around suspected QuickTime bug that caused EagleFiler to not import the proper ID3 tags from some MP3 files.
• Improved reporting of duplicate file errors.
• No longer tries to import .localized files.
• Fixed bug handling locked files and folders.
• Fixed bug where an error could be reported if you emptied the trash when a record in it was selected.
• No longer tries to backup the metadata for missing folders.
• Fixed bug displaying e-mail messages when the chosen font was no longer available.

1.2.2—June 20, 2007

• Fixed bug where some menu commands were disabled when the record viewer had focus.
• When you view a PDF file, EagleFiler will now update the page count in the records list in case it has changed.
• Fixed bug where PDF page counts weren’t transferred when dragging from one library to another.
• Fixed bug importing text via drag and drop.
• Fixed PyObjC bugs that could cause various crashes and hangs.
• Fixed regression where Open in Delicious didn’t work.
• Fixed icon scaling in Activity viewer when merging mailboxes.
• Fixed regression where where changing Allow Editing in Record Viewer didn’t take effect immediately.
• Fixed bug where EagleFiler would re-open at launch even libraries that were in the trash.
• Worked around Cocoa bug that could cause the record viewer’s scroll bars to be hidden if you expanded the viewer when the ruler was hidden.
• Fixed bug where EagleFiler tried to import invisible metadata files.
• Fixed bug where the copy cursor was shown when dragging and dropping within the record viewer.
• Fixed bug where the spell-checking state wasn’t remembered.
• Fixed bug with the PDF zoom-to-fit state and the contextual menu.
• Worked around PDF Kit bug where the password field wouldn’t disappear.
• Fixed bug with To Import folders and locked files.
• Fixed bug where EagleFiler let you create a new library on top of an old one.
• Fixed bug indexing certain HTML and Microsoft Word files.
• Fixed bug with multiple backup metadata operations at once.

1.2.1—June 8, 2007

• You can now use the Export… command to export the selected messages in mbox format, so that they can be imported into any mail program.
• The names of To Import folders now include the library name, so that you can tell them apart in a Finder or open panel sidebar.
• Can now capture from Pukka and WebKit Nightly. When capturing from Yojimbo, now preserves the label as an EagleFiler tag. When capturing from Cocoalicious, Journler, Yojimbo, and WebnoteHappy now preserves the title rather than extracting it from the file.
• The label colors now more closely match those in the Finder, and the pop-up menu sorts alphabetically.
• The tooltip for the Tags column in the records list now shows the names of all the assigned tags.
• Allow duplicate files in library is now a full preference.
• When copying tags to Spotlight comments, EagleFiler now separates the tag names with a space instead of a comma-space, and there is an esoteric preference to set a tag prefix such as &.
• When copying files into the library, now copies the Spotlight comments, too.
• Added tooltips to help with setting tag abbreviations in the inspector.
• The Backup Metadata command can now be used to force EagleFiler to copy the tags to the Spotlight comments, if you don’t want to wait for this to happen automatically.
• Added esoteric preference to make EagleFiler display Web pages using their print stylesheets.
• When writing a capture script, if you obtain the tag names as a single string, you can pass it as |tagsString| to let EagleFiler parse it into individual tag names.
• You can now select more than one error at a time in the Errors window.
• Adjusted the word characters used for indexing to make it easier to find words containing $, @, %, and _. (This will only take effect after rebuilding the indexes.)
• Made some changes to the New Library… interface to make it more clear that the maximum library size only applies to encrypted libraries.
• Fixed regression where EagleFiler couldn’t open libraries inside folders with non-ASCII names.
• Fixed regression where the Info inspector sometimes displayed information for the wrong record(s).
• Fixed bug where .webloc files in the To Import folder were not deleted after importing.
• If EagleFiler encounters an error while importing a file in a To Import folder, it now moves the file to the Unable to Import folder so that it won’t encounter the same error again the next time it scans the To Import folder.
• Fixed bug importing WMA URLs.
• Worked around crash due to bug in Search Kit.
• Fixed bug where the records list lost focus when a search was active and you clicked on a Web archive.
• Fixed bug with the foreground color of highlighted text in the records list.
• Fixed bug where EagleFiler would be slow and could run into an OS error when capturing a large number of documents at once.
• Made various error reporting improvements.
• Improved undo in the inspectors.
• Fixed cosmetic bug with the Reveal In Library button.
• Fixed interface glitch where it looked as though EagleFiler would let you move the trash and smart folders around.
• EagleFiler will no longer crash when opening a library on pre-release versions of Mac OS X 10.5.

1.2—May 30, 2007

• Made a variety of changes to improve EagleFiler’s speed and responsiveness, especially for libraries with many files.
• You can now copy from one library to another via drag and drop. All of the EagleFiler metadata will be preserved.
• The New Library… command now offers the option to create an encrypted library.
• Highlights search matches in the items list and the record viewer.
• Each library now has a To Import folder in the Finder. Any files that you save into this folder will be imported when you open the library (or within the next minute or two if the library is already open).
• You can now delete (and undelete) individual e-mail messages.
• Uses the available Spotlight importers to index the content of many types of files that EagleFiler doesn’t natively understand.
• Added Match Partial Words option to the search pop-up. When this is checked, you can search for partial words without having to type wildcards (*) in the query.
• tag:<tagname> searches now work with Filename, From, To/Cc, and Title searches, rather than just Anywhere and Notes searches.
• Can now capture from Skim and Journler (preserving tags).
• When capturing from Cocoalicious, EagleFiler now preserves the tags and the description and extended description.
• Added Backup Metadata command. EagleFiler will automatically backup a library’s metadata when it’s opened (unless you have Shift held down) and also periodically after it’s been opened. You can manually backup the metadata by holding down the Option key and choosing Backup Metadata from the File menu. Metadata is backed up to EagleFiler Metadata.plist files inside the library folder. If you import a file that has backed-up metadata, EagleFiler will use the stored metadata to set the title, from name, checksum, source URL, tags, and notes.
• Added Copy tags to Spotlight comments preference. When this is enabled, you’ll be able to find files in your library by searching for their tag name using Spotlight.
• If you hold down the Command and Option keys when opening a library, you can access the new Rebuild Indexes dialog. This lets you optimize or repair EagleFiler’s search indexes, and you can choose whether it indexes for word searches or phrase searches. Previous versions of EagleFiler always indexed for phrase searches. Switching to word indexing will speed up EagleFiler’s indexing and substantially reduce the amount of disk space that the indexes consume.
• Added Update Checksum command, so that it’s easier to tell EagleFiler when you’ve modified a file using another application.
• When importing via AppleScript, you can now specify which folder to import into, e.g. import files {theFile} container theFolder.
• It’s now possible to change filenames via AppleScript.
• When using Previous/Next Record with the Info inspector in front or the tags bar focused, the text field will retain its focus as the selected record changes, making it possible to quickly edit multiple tags/titles/filenames in sequence.
• You can now press Option-Delete when viewing a tag source to move the selected records to the trash rather than unassigning the tag.
• Added Esoteric Preferences.
• When exporting messages in .emlx format, now includes the tags and notes.
• Now shows a determinant progress bar when importing a folder.
• No longer shows a progress window when opening a library.
• Improved the display of various kinds of multi-part e-mail messages.
• No longer shows the children of smart folders in the source list.
• Now shows the pointing hand cursor when you hover over a clickable link in a text view.
• From the AppleScript interface, it is now possible to access records by name, subject to the filename being unique.
• Added backup metadata AppleScript command.
• You can now change the case of a file’s extension.
• Updated to Python 2.5.1.
• Worked around OS bug that could cause crash when viewing PDFs.
• Fixed bug where the note tag could get out of sync.
• Fixed bug where creating a link when editing in a rich text view would sometimes insert the link after the selected text.
• Fixed crash when indexing certain QuickTime files.
• Fixed bug calculating checksums of certain document packages.
• Fixed memory leak with Activity Viewer window.
• Worked around Search Kit bug that could cause a crash when doing a phrase search.
• Fixed bug where if you drag-imported multiple folders into a folder, the second and subsequent folders would be imported at the top level.
• Fixed bug capturing from Yojimbo 1.4.2.
• Fixed bug where the URL colorer didn’t find certain valid URLs.
• Fixed bug where EagleFiler allowed duplicate files to be added to the library.
• Fixed threading bugs when importing multiple files at once.
• When viewing a Web page, if you click on a link to another part of the same page, EagleFiler now scrolls the window rather than opening the location in a new window.
• Modernized the crash reporter code.
• Fixed bug where EagleFiler would sometimes keep files open after a library had been closed.
• Fixed bug where the Info inspector showed “()” for the size of a folder.
• Fixed bug in reporting library save errors.
• Fixed bug where application-level menu commands could get permanently disabled.

1.1.6—March 5, 2007

• Now supports searching by filename.
• Can now capture from Flock.
• The interface is a bit more responsive, due to threading improvements when importing, indexing, and merging.
• No longer hangs when indexing a movie with unresolved file references.
• No longer uses any CPU time when idle.
• Can now import malformed mbox files generated by MailSteward.
• Fixed bug where fields in the inspector could lose their focus when a background operation completed.
• Fixed bug dropping onto an item inside the Trash source.
• Fixed regression displaying contents of multiple folder sources.
• Fixed regression where new rich text records weren’t auto-selected.
• Improved error handing during menu/toolbar validation.

1.1.5—February 20, 2007

• Worked around a Cocoa bug that could cause a crash when closing a window or open/save panel.
• The Date column is now called Date Modified.
• Fixed bug where a record’s cached modified date could get stale.
• Fixed bug where closing a window or pulling down the File menu could be slow if there were messages selected.
• Fixed regression where the same mailbox could be indexed by duplicate threads.
• Fixed bug remembering the open libraries when quitting.
• Fixed display of library names containing slashes.

1.1.4—February 16, 2007

• Added Show ‣ Messages in Records Source option. This makes it possible to view and search everything in the library by selecting the Records source. Previously, to search e-mail messages you had to select one or more mailboxes; you can still do that, if you want to restrict the search to just those mailboxes.
• The Tags inspector now sorts the assigned tags to the top.
• Added Bigger/Smaller commands for adjusting the text size for rich text documents and Web archives.
• You can now omit the Shift key when pressing the keyboard shortcut to zoom in, i.e. Command-= is now equivalent to Command-+.
• Improved URL coloring in messages.
• Made various performance improvements, particularly to file indexing, display in the browser window, and emptying the trash.
• Now shows custom file icons (rather than a generic text icon) for files such as OmniGraffle documents that are in XML format but are not strictly text documents.
• Added New Folder button to the Export… dialog.
• The Import File(s)… and Export… dialogs are now sheets.
• Worked around Search Kit bug that caused crashes when doing phrase searches.
• Worked around suspected Cocoa bug that could cause a crash if you pressed Cancel when creating or opening a library.
• Worked around Cocoa bug that could cause the source list not to properly scroll to show a new tag that had been created.
• Fixed bug importing MailTags projects.
• Fixed bug where the tags field in the Info inspector didn’t wrap when there were a lot of tags, or update when the record selection changed.
• Fixed bug where insertion point didn’t advance when pressing Space while editing a tag’s name in the Tags inspector.
• Fixed bug accessing tags via AppleScript.
• Fixed bug displaying Web archives.
• Fixed problem displaying messages in tag sources if an index file had been damaged.
• Improved compatibility with pre-release versions of Mac OS X 10.5.
• The Software Update auto-updater is now compatible with FileVault.
• No longer shows inaccurate size for folders.
• Made various improvements to the error reporting and error logging.

1.1.3—January 25, 2007

• Can now capture from DEVONagent, DEVONthink Pro (preserving comments), Nisus Writer Express, and Yojimbo (preserving comments and tags).
• Added Copy Source URL to the contextual menu.
• Better display of e-mail messages with embedded messages (such as digests and bounced messages).
• You can now use just plain Tab instead of Control-Tab to tab out of the viewer pane in the browser window when the viewer is a read-only text view.
• In the records list, you can now type Option-Enter to edit the title of the selected record.
• If a message attachment doesn’t have a name, EagleFiler will list the content subtype next to the paperclip instead of omitting that attachment.
• When capturing from Apple Mail with both messages and mailboxes selected, “Mailboxes” is now the default choice.
• Better error messages when you try to capture a smart mailbox in Apple Mail.
• EagleFiler cannot import mailboxes from Apple Mail on Mac OS X 10.3 and earlier. Rather than importing the mailboxes as folders, it now reports an error.
• Can now import more types of text clippings.
• Spaces in tag names are now converted to underscores instead of being deleted.
• Fixed error when pressing Enter in the records list.
• Fixed bug where capturing packages from the Finder didn’t work.
• Fixed bug where the scroll position and selection in the notes editor would be messed up when switching to another application.
• Worked around a Web Kit bug that caused it to needlessly fetch archived portions of a Web page over the network, or not display them at all if you were offline.
• Worked around a Web Kit bug when displaying a Web archive created from a local HTML file.
• Fixed bug where Reveal In Library sometimes looked in the wrong library.
• Fixed error undoing in the tags fields.
• Fixed error using the Highlight command with no selection.
• EagleFiler’s helper tools don’t use the URL cache, so now they tell Web Kit not to store one.

1.1.2—January 9, 2007

• Tabbing between the source list, records list, and viewer works much better, as EagleFiler now overrides the Cocoa keyboard loop.
• You can now press Enter in the records list to edit the filename or press Return to open the selected records.
• Can now capture from PDFView.
• AppleScript enhancements:
  • Added import text command, which takes a string and creates a new rich text file in the library.
  • You can now access the open browser windows along with their displayed records and selected records.
  • Added note file and trashed properties to library record. Also, various formerly read-only library record properties are now writable.
  • Added container property to tag.
• If you click the + button in the browser window with the Tags folder or a tag selected, EagleFiler will create a new tag instead of a new folder.
• EagleFiler is more responsive when emptying the trash, as the lengthy index updating now takes place in a background thread. Also, EagleFiler now compacts the search index when emptying the trash, which should reduce the disk space used and speed up future searches.
• Added a hidden preference to make EagleFiler not check for duplicate files during importing. Click the link to allow duplicate files or to forbid them.
• Worked around PDF kit bug that could cause repeated zooming out when viewing a PDF.
• Fixed bug where EagleFiler didn’t recognize document packages when importing a folder full of files.
• Fixed regression where EagleFiler could freeze when clicking an X button in the Activity Viewer.
• If the library changes while you’re in the middle of editing a table cell or text field, EagleFiler will no longer replace your in-progress changes with the value from the database, nor will it mess up the insertion point.
• When following an EagleFiler link, if the specified library can’t be found, but one with the same name is already open, EagleFiler will try to use that library to open the link.
• Made various changes to improve the responsiveness of the interface.
• Faster file deletions, with better threading, should improve the performance of all background operations that create temporary files.
• Fixed crash when logging indexing errors.
• Worked around some framework bugs that could cause a variety of different crashes.
• The indexer recovers better when a file is unexpectedly deleted.
• Worked around Cocoa bug that could cause some tags to be removed if you ended editing in a tags field by pressing Return when the insertion point wasn’t at the end of the field.
• Fixed regression where changes to the tags weren’t saved when closing the Info inspector.
• Text filenames are now allowed to have no text before the extension, so you can now store and rename “dotfiles” in EagleFiler.
• It is now possible to edit the extensions of text files.
• If you launch EagleFiler by dropping a file onto it, it will now open the default library before importing the file rather than complaining that no library is open.
• Added blank line before the source URL in the records list tooltip.
• No longer brings the Errors window to the front (which was undesirable if you were in the middle of typing something) when an error occurs—instead, it just makes sure the window is visible.
• The mailbox importer now handles messages that start with “>From ” instead of a header.
• Better handling of encrypted PDFs.
• Better error reporting in Endo capture script.
• Better error message when can’t capture from Mail.
• Fixed bug logging errors during mailbox rebuild jobs.
• Fixed bug where browser windows didn’t remember whether the trash source was expanded between launches.
• Fixed bug where Command-Right Arrow and Command-Left Arrow didn’t work in text views.
• Fixed bug where Reveal In Library didn’t work for records that were in the trash.
• Simplified the Purchase window.

1.1.1—December 18, 2006

• When capturing a selection of files from the Finder, Spotlight comments may now be imported as tags or notes.
• Can now capture from Microsoft Excel.
• The keyboard shortcut for Import Text is now Command-% instead of Command-<, as the latter conflicted with a system-wide shortcut when using certain keyboard layouts.
• When creating a rich text record using text dragged from Safari (or, generally, any WebView), EagleFiler will now set the source URL and add it to the bottom of the text.
• You can now create records by dragging text selections from within EagleFiler to its source list or records list.
• After you choose Convert For Editing, EagleFiler will now select the newly created RTFD files rather than leaving the original Web archives selected.
• When pasting the results of Copy Source URL into a rich text view, the clickable text is now the URL itself, rather than the title, and no trailing newline is added.
• Added source URL to tooltip in records list.
• Generates better titles from dragged text.
• If you change the PDF view away from Zoom To Fit, it now remembers the current scale factor.
• Improved the speed of the initial index check when opening the library.
• Improved parsing of mbox files.
• Fixed bug where capturing some URLs didn’t work.
• Fixed bug where, when opening a new window to display a record, the record wasn’t always selected.
• Fixed bug where EagleFiler could hang if you tried to edit the title or filename of a record while it was doing something else.
• Fixed regression where importing via drag and drop from another application sometimes didn’t work.
• Fixed bug and reduced RAM usage when importing a large number of files/folders at once.
• Fixed bug where the source list or records list would go into edit mode when you clicked on it and it didn’t already have focus.
• Fixed bug where a PDF or Web archive would needlessly be scrolled to the first page.
• Stopping indexing operations by clicking the X button works better now.
• Indexing no longer hangs if there’s a problem loading a Web archive or if it’s corrupt.
• Worked around OS bug that prevented some Word documents from being indexed.
• Fixed bug reporting errors while adding a file to the library.
• Better error reporting for damaged Web archive files.
• Fixed bug where tag sources showed messages for mailboxes that were in the trash.
• Fixed bug where child tags weren’t sorted in the source list.
• EagleFiler no longer lets you give a tag an empty name.
• Worked around issue when saving libraries on Leopard.
• Worked around OS issue that caused EagleFiler to be the default opener for Word files.
• Worked around some bugs in libraries that EagleFiler uses, which caused errors when importing text via drag and drop.
• Better error reporting when can’t write a temporary file or save the library.
• The contextual menu now says Delete instead of Move To Trash, since deleting from a tag source doesn’t move to the trash.

1.1—December 6, 2006

Importing

• EagleFiler will now let you import any kind of document. If it doesn’t know how to display the document, it will simply show the file’s icon, which you can click to open it in another application.
• When importing via drag and drop, you can now drop onto folders or tags in the source list or into the records list in order to put the imported records into that folder or assign them that tag.
• Now recognizes many more kinds of text files and text clippings.
• Can now import individual messages from Entourage via drag and drop.
• Added Command-< keyboard shortcut for the Import Text service.
• You can now import by control-clicking on a file in the Finder and choosing Open With ‣ EagleFiler.
• Added Import Clipboard command to the Dock menu.
• It is now possible to specify tag names and note text when importing via AppleScript.

Capture

• Can now capture IMAP mailboxes and individual selected messages from Apple Mail.
• Can now capture from Endo, Firefox, and WebnoteHappy.
• If you press the capture key when there is no library open or while in an unsupported application, EagleFiler will now try to help you open a library or import the data in another way.
• Capture scripts can now import tags and notes.

Text and Rich Text Files

• It’s now possible to edit text, RTF, and RTFD files directly in the record viewer. EagleFiler will automatically save any changes that you make and update the files’ checksums.
• Creating new rich text files is much smoother. The keyboard shortcut is now Command-N instead of Command-Control-N. If the File column is visible, EagleFiler will bypass the sheet, select the new file in the records list, and bring the File cell into edit mode so that you can set the filename and title. You can then tab into the record viewer to begin typing the contents of the file.
• You can drag records into the record viewer (or the notes text view) to create links to them.

Searching

• You can now search by tag. You can also add tag criteria when doing an Anywhere or Notes search (e.g. tag:apple steve).
• Now remembers the last-used search scope (globally and per-window).
• You can now access the search syntax help page from the toolbar search field menu.

Tags

• Added auto-completion when typing tag names.
• Added tags field to the bottom of the browser window, so that you can edit the tags of the selected record without having to open another window. You can quickly give the tags field keyboard focus by pressing Command-Shift-T.
• Tag sources now show all the e-mails with that tag (rather than just the files).
• Tag sources now behave more like iTunes playlists and iPhoto albums. If you delete a record from a tag source, EagleFiler unassigns the tag, but the record remains in the library.
• You can now arrange tags into a hierarchy in the source list, to organize them or to hide the ones you don’t want to see at the moment.
• Added New Tag menu command. If records are selected it changes to New Tag From Selection and the selected records are assigned the new tag.

Browser Windows

• You can now single-click to edit the Title, From, or File directly, instead of having to open the Inspector window.
• Added Convert For Editing command, which lets you convert Web archives to RTFD files that can be edited.
• If you hold down Option when double-clicking a Web archive (or a RTFD file converted from a Web archive), EagleFiler opens the current version of the page rather than the archive.
• EagleFiler now shows custom icons for folders. You can set a custom icon using the Finder’s Get Info window.
• Added Show ‣ Source List and Show ‣ Record Viewer commands for people who want to use the menu or keyboard instead of double-clicking the divider.
• Added Actual Size and Zoom to Fit commands. The PDF viewer now remembers its zoom state, so that it won’t keep resetting to Zoom to Fit if you’ve zoomed in.
• Remembers the selected sources between launches.
• Arrow-keying through the records list is faster now.

Libraries

• Added Remember open libraries between launches preference and Startup Items folder.
• The Drop Pad now has commands for creating a new library, opening a library, and opening recent libraries.
• The Dock menu now shows recent libraries.

Other Enhancements

• If you ask EagleFiler to import a URL and the URL can’t be saved as a Web archive (e.g. because it’s an image or PDF), EagleFiler will download the file and import it as-is, rather than reporting an error about not being able to save a Web archive.
• Now imports MailTags projects as tags.
• The Zoom In and Zoom Out commands now work with Web archives, where they change the font size.
• The Copy URL command is now called Copy Record Link.
• Added Highlight command, which changes the background of the selected text to yellow.
• Added Outline and Styles… to the Format menu.
• Dragging a library file onto the Drop Pad now opens the library rather than complaining that the library can’t be imported.
• Improved the way EagleFiler auto-generates file names when creating a file from dragged text or a Web page’s title.
• Now skips importing Apple Mail messages that are marked as deleted.
• Capture scripts are now allowed to use the compiled script format, with the .scpt extension.
• Folders and mailboxes no longer have a title attribute that’s separate from the file name.
• When creating a new rich text file inside a sub-folder, it’s now revealed there instead of in the Records source.
• Indexing is now somewhat faster and uses less memory.
• Double-clicking a folder now opens it in EagleFiler instead of in the Finder.
• In the source list, single-clicking now enters edit mode and double-clicking now opens the source.
• Improved secondary sorting of records list.
• Increased maximum width of the Kind column.
• Added keyboard shortcuts for Select Source and Hide Others.
• Rich text copied using Copy Record Link now includes the title of the record, rather than just the URL.
• Now displays the proper background color for RTF documents.
• Added Open Source URL, Copy Record Link, and Verify to the contextual menu.
• The underscore and hyphen characters are now allowed in tag names.
• You can now drag into the records list of a tag source to assign that tag.
• Shortened toolbar button labels.
• The menu commands for Show Inspector and Show Tags now toggle the visibility of the windows rather than showing them.
• The Software Update checker now works behind an HTTP proxy.
• The Import Files menu command no longer allows you to import individual files inside an Apple Mail mailbox, as this is usually an error.
• Moved Open in External Viewer command to the Record menu.
• Added keyboard shortcut for Open Source URL.
• Reordered Record menu.
• Reduced number of threads used on single-core Macs.
• You can now delete tags from the source list.

Bug Fixes

• Periods in the names of folders are now treated as part of the name, rather than as the beginning of a path extension.
• Worked around OS bug that prevented phrase searching from working. Because of this, EagleFiler will automatically rebuild the indexes of any opened libraries.
• Fixed bug that could cause a crash when importing large folder hierarchies.
• When importing a folder, EagleFiler will now ignore any invisible Find By Content index files.
• Fixed bug importing and moving files with very long names.
• Fixed bug in .emlx exporter.
• Fixed bug where EagleFiler couldn’t import a Web page if WebKit crashed while trying to extract its text.
• Fixed bug with using Capture command in Dock menu.
• Fixed bug where EagleFiler didn’t let you capture if you launched it by opening a library from the Finder and then switched to another application so that it finished launching in the background.
• The capture key is now ignored if EagleFiler is frontmost.
• Fixed spelling and resizing of “Title” label in the New Rich Text File sheet.
• Fixed crash that could occur when indexing.
• Fixed bug where an indexing operation could stall indefinitely.
• If a document or message can’t be indexed, EagleFiler is better at continuing on and indexing the rest of the documents or messages.
• Better logging of index problems.
• Fixed bug where indexed searching didn’t work in tag sources.
• Fixed bug where undo didn’t work after renaming in source list.
• Fixed bug where the user could use drag and drop to change the page that the Web view was displaying to one other than that of the selected Web archive.
• Better display of messages with no text parts.
• Fixed bug where the Recent smart folders didn’t show records that were inside folders.
• Fixed bug where Web archives couldn’t be displayed, depending on if you had certain preferences set in Safari.
• Fixed bug where the selection in the notes text view would be needlessly reset when the library changed.
• Fixed bug that could lead to error when undoing too far in the notes text view.
• No longer allows you to give a file an empty name (before the extension), as this confuses Cocoa.
• Fixed bug where the Show Inspector command opened the inspector but didn’t give it keyboard focus.
• Worked around OS bug that could cause crash when using NetNewsWire Lite.
• Fixed a few bugs that made it impossible to launch EagleFiler from a path containing non-ASCII characters.
• Fixed small memory leak when processing errors.
• Fixed bug where you couldn’t create a new folder with / in the name.
• Fixed bug where showed : instead of / when displaying file names.
• The file system encoding is no longer hard-coded to UTF-8.
• Improved thread-safety of record properties.
• When launching, no longer prints “CMSCreateDataProviderOrGetInfo : Invalid colorspace type” message to console.
• Fixed bug where changes to a file’s name or title weren’t always propagated to the index.
• Fixed bug where source URLs weren’t being cached properly.
• Fixed bug opening aliases of libraries.
• Fixed bug where you couldn’t create or open a library if its path contained non-ASCII characters.
• Worked around bug in SOHO Notes (and other applications) that prevented drag-and-drop importing of promised files from working.
• Fixed bug importing notes from MailTags.
• Fixed bug where the drag image for a selected source used white text.
• Fixed bug where displaying an HTML e-mail message would take too long to timeout.
• Fixed bug in reporting HTML rendering errors.
• Fixed internal error when closing a library right after opening it.
• Improved error recovery when an untrusted server certificate is encountered while creating a Web archive.

1.0.2—October 14, 2006

• Fixed bug capturing from Apple Mail.

1.0.1—October 14, 2006

• Fixed problem where EagleFiler would sometimes crash at launch if an input manager or haxie was installed.
• Worked around OS bug that caused jitter in the software update progress bar.
• The software update installer no longer says it failed if it succeeded.

1.0—October 13, 2006

• First public release.