BetterZip 6.0.5 is out now
Here is another update that has a lot of work done on the Favorites sidebar. I rewrote the Favorites for V6, because it was previously based on Spotlight and its index, and that is unfortunately very unreliable. So, I decided to ditch it and index the folders in the sidebar myself. Of course, I missed a few edge cases, especially when users add their home folder with millions of files into the sidebar, and more critical, including folders like Library that macOS writes to all the time, producing more filesystem updates than a simple indexer can handle. I hope this update fixes those problems for good. I still recommend adding more limited folders, e.g., Downloads, Desktop, or an archive folder into the sidebar.
Here are the details for version 6.0.5:
New Features:
- Added an option to trim spaces from the front and end of filenames when saving or extracting.
Enhancements:
- I further reduced memory and CPU usage for Favorites with a very large number of archives and added a limit (configure this in Settings > Places) for the full indexer.
- Additionally, you can now set per Favorite whether it should be fully indexed, listed one folder at a time when you open it, just be a drop target.
- Added more options to filtering: You can now do inverse filtering.
- When closing the window while a huge add operation is still running in the background, BetterZip will now ask whether to cancel the operation, instead of just closing the window. I added similar safety warnings to various other exit points.
Bug Fixes:
- When moving an archive after extraction, the Favorites sidebar was not automatically updated.
- Fixed some localization strings on Settings > Advanced which I inverted in v6, and then forgot to update the translations, like the option “Enable the single-click action”.
- Added a few more missing localized strings.
- Icon\r files couldn’t be extracted from zip and 7z archives.
- Encrypting rar archives without header encryption didn’t work correctly.
- If the images were advanced too quickly in Slide Show mode, BetterZip could hang, making it unresponsive and hard to quit.
- Size and date filters did not work correctly when used in a queued operation.
If you find any problems, please do get in touch and report them. Thanks!