New in File Cabinet Pro Version 3.7 for macOS: Move to File Cabinet Pro Service

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File Cabinet Pro version 3.7 has been released for macOS.

What’s New?

-Added a “Move to File Cabinet Pro” Service. You can now move files to File Cabinet Pro faster than ever from Finder and other supporting apps!
-Fixed issue that caused some items in the context menu to be disabled when control+clicking on an item in Icon View.

See video below for demo:


Exporting NSTableView to HTML [Open Source]

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I needed to export the contents of a NSTableView to HTML, so I wrote a little NSTableView subclass in Objective-C to do this.

ATHyperTextTableView is a simple NSTableView subclass that makes exporting a table view to HTML easy. You can customize the look of the exported HTML table with your own CSS too.

Screenshots Below:
Screenshot of NSTableView.
Screenshot of exported HTML from a the tableView, loaded into a WebView.
Screenshot of the exported HTML loaded into a WebView.

Screenshot of exported HTML from a the tableView, loaded into a WebView with custom CSS set.
Screenshot of the exported HTML loaded into a WebView, styled with custom CSS.

There is a sample project available on Github here.

Word Counter Pro and Raw Dog XML Viewer Now Support the Touch Bar on the New MacBook Pro

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Word Counter Pro and Raw Dog XML Viewer both support the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro. The screenshots below were taken on a Mac that does not have a Touch Bar, however, you can see a visual representation of what the Touch Bar will look like while running these apps via the Touch Bar simulator.

Word Counter Pro Mac app screenshot with touch bar simulator showing. Word Counter Pro now supports the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro.

Raw Dog XML Viewer Mac app screenshot showing touch bar simulator. Raw Dog XML Viewer now supports the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro.

Quick Tutorial: How to Bring Back File Cabinet Pro’s Sidebar After Closing It

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If you want to bring back File Cabinet Pro’s sidebar after closing it, all you have to do is use the following keyboard shortcut: Command+Option+S when File Cabinet Pro’s window is frontmost. If you have a MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar you can alternatively use the sidebar button in the Touch Bar.

Finder uses the exact same keyboard shortcut.

File Cabinet Pro Version 3.5 Adds Support for the Touch Bar on the New MacBook Pro

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File Cabinet Pro version 3.5 has been released for macOS. This update adds support for the Touch Bar on the new MacBook Pro.

If you have a MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar, you will be able to take the following actions in File Cabinet Pro from the Touch Bar:

  • Show or hide the sidebar.
  • Navigate to previously viewed folders using the “Go Forward” and “Go Backward” buttons.
  • Quicklook selected files.
  • Share selected files via Sharing extensions.
  • Tag selected files.
  • Create a new directory.
  • Move selected files to the trash.
  • Show a Get Info panel for selected files.
  • Switch to Icon View, Column View, or List View.

Check out the video below to see some of what you can do with the Touch Bar and File Cabinet Pro (via the Touch Bar simulator). Also note that File Cabinet Pro’s Touch Bar can be customized.

File Cabinet Pro's Touch Bar customization menu.
You can customize File Cabinet Pro’s Touch Bar by adding or removing items.

Quick Tutorial: How to Open a Folder Alias Directly in File Cabinet Pro

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Note: Following this tutorial is only necessary if you purchased the Mac App Store version of File Cabinet Pro. If you purchased File Cabinet Pro from AppTyrant.com, opening a folder alias will automatically work.

If you purchased File Cabinet Pro from the Mac App Store, you may have noticed that you cannot open a folder alias directly within the app. If you double click an alias folder in File Cabinet Pro, it will say “Empty Folder” in the window even if the directory is not empty. It would be reasonable to assume that this is a bug in File Cabinet Pro, but it is not.

So why does this happen?
This happens because Apple requires all apps sold on the Mac App Store to be sandboxed. The sandbox, as of macOS 10.12.1, prevents an application from accessing the contents of a folder alias; this behavior may or may not be a bug in macOS (that is for Apple to decide).

If you want to workaround this restriction, follow the steps below:
1) Launch File Cabinet Pro and bring up the app’s main window.
2) Click the gear button in the bottom left corner of the window and choose “Settings” from the pop up menu.
3) In the Settings window, under the “General” tab, click the “Grant Permission for Alias Folders” button.
4) In the system provided panel that pops up, select a directory to grant File Cabinet Pro permission to access the contents of that directory. After you select a directory, File Cabinet Pro will be able to open a folder alias if the original folder the alias points to resides within the directory you chose in the open panel. If you want to grant the app permission to open folder aliases for folders anywhere on your Mac, choose your hard disk (typically named “Macintosh HD”) in the open panel.

You only have to do the above steps once.