File Cabinet Pro version 8.8 brings a cleaner look, better browsing controls, and usability enhancements that make the app more customizable.

Here’s What’s New:

A Modern Look for the Favorites Sidebar

• The Favorites sidebar has been moved into the main window and placed on Liquid Glass by default (Liquid Glass requires macOS 26.0 or later).
• The Favorites sidebar now displays larger and better looking icon images (requires macOS 11.0 or later).
• Fans of the retro style sidebar can set the new “Sidebar Style” preference to “Classic” in app settings.

Automatic Column View Resizing

• File Cabinet Pro can now automatically resize columns in Column view to fit filenames. To enable this feature turn on the “Resize columns to fit filenames” checkbox in app settings.

Invoke “Verify Checksum” from the Toolbar

• You can now add a ‘Verify Checksum’ button to File Cabinet Pro’s toolbar. While the “Verify Checksum” feature has been included in File Cabinet Pro for many years, you previously had to invoke this action from the Services submenu.

Faster Icon View Zoom Controls

• You can now enlarge the size of images in Icon view using the Command+ keyboard shortcut.
• You can now shrink the size of images in Icon view using the Command- keyboard shortcut.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed rare crash related to Icon view reloading when restoring directory state.
• Workaround fix for a bug in macOS that could cause a crash when viewing files in iCloud.

Previously

• File Cabinet Pro 8.7.1 Update Adds Visual Folder States, Toolbar Toggle Shortcut, and More
• File Cabinet Pro Version 8.7 Adds Collapsible Icon View Sections, Performance Improvements, and More

Improvements:

• When a folder in the Favorites list is on a volume that needs to be mounted, File Cabinet Pro now displays a warning icon () to indicate that the folder is unreachable.

What Happens When you Click on a Folder Displaying the Warning Icon () ?

If the volume is local (for example, a folder inside a disk image stored locally on your Mac), File Cabinet Pro will mount the volume automatically.

1. Mount the volume (if possible for network volumes where a remount URL can be determined).
2. Remove the entry from Favorites.
3. Relink the folder (choose a new folder location manually).
4. Cancel to keep the Favorites list as is.

Why This Matters

If you rely on Favorites for folders that aren’t always connected—like NAS shares, external drives, or disk images—8.7.3 makes that workflow more reliable. When volumes aren’t mounted your sidebar stays intact, you get clear visual status of folder availability at a glance, and you decide what happens next.

File Cabinet Pro version 8.7.2 has been released for macOS. This release focuses on making file organization more flexible, reliable, and efficient. You’ll find new options for sorting grouped files, improvements to the settings interface, faster file loading, and important bug fixes for macOS 26.0. The complete list of changes are provided below.

New Features:

• You can now group files by name. When using “Group By Name” files are grouped by the first character of the filename.
• Added a “Sort Groups by” submenu when the “Use Groups” sorting option is turned on. This submenu can be used to apply an additional sort policy to grouped files.

Fixes:

• Workaround fix for a newly discovered bug in macOS 26.0 that could cause File Cabinet Pro’s window to suddenly disappear when interacting with the batch file renaming sheet.
• Fixed a bug that could cause files to be sorted in an unexpected order after creating a new directory in Column View and then adding files to that newly created directory.

Improvements:

• Faster file loading when opening a directory for the first time.
• Made visual improvements to the settings window.

File Cabinet Pro version 8.7.1 has been released for macOS.

What’s New?

• Folder icons visually indicate if the folder is empty (requires macOS 26.0 and later).
• File Cabinet Pro’s toolbar can be hidden using the Option+Command+T keyboard shortcut.
• Quick Look Previews for .icon files created with Icon Composer are displayed instead of the generic icon for the file type.
• Resolved a rare issue where icons might fail to load properly in Column View.
• Fixed layout bug in Icon View when using collapsed sections.
• Minor bug fixes and improvements.

File Cabinet Pro version 8.7 has been released for macOS.

What’s New?

• You can now collapse and expand sections in Icon View.
• Column View and List View show Quick Look thumbnails for image file types.
• The position of the Split View that divides Cover Flow and List View is now restored when navigating back to a directory.
• The Split View that divides Cover Flow and List View resizes proportionally when you resize the window instead of always snapping to a 50-50 split.
• More efficient loading of thumbnails and file metadata.
• The “Show in Finder” toolbar button now opens the current directory in Finder when there is no selection.
• A bunch of minor bug fixes and UI tweaks for macOS Tahoe 26.1.

Previously

• View Extended File Attributes with One Click on macOS with File Cabinet Pro 8.6.4 — Plus macOS Tahoe Improvements
• File Cabinet Pro 8.6.2 Update: ‘Show in Finder’ Toolbar Button + Minor Improvements and Bug Fixes
• File Cabinet Pro 8.6 Update: macOS Tahoe Support, Refreshed Icon, and Major Fixes

File Cabinet Pro version 8.6.4 has been released for macOS.

What’s New?

• You can now invoke the “View Extended Attributes” action from the toolbar. To do this simply add the ‘xattr’ button to your toolbar in the customization palette.
• The icon image used in the “Show in Finder” toolbar button is now slightly larger (macOS 26.0 and later).
• Workaround fix for a crash caused by a bug in Apple’s ImageKit framework, which File Cabinet Pro uses.
• Fixed annoying jitter when resizing the window on macOS 26.0.

File Cabinet Pro version 8.6.2 has been released for macOS.

What’s New?

• In icon view if there is no selection you can select the first file by pressing the down arrow key.
• You can now add a “Show in Finder” button to the toolbar.
• Fixed issue that caused File Cabinet Pro’s window to remain behind the active app window when clicking the menu bar icon.
• Fixed bug in the Settings window on macOS Tahoe when the system is in Dark mode.

File Cabinet Pro version 8.6 has been released for macOS.

What’s New?

• File Cabinet Pro has a new app icon and is compatible with macOS Tahoe.
• You can now invoke “Deselect All” using the Option+Command+A keyboard shortcut.
• File Cabinet Pro’s popover window now has rounded corners.
• Resizing the popover window is more flexible. You can enlarge the popover window even when the menu bar icon is close to the right edge of the screen.
• Fixed an issue that caused icon view to sometimes show low quality images after enlarging the zoom value.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes caused File Cabinet Pro’s window to inappropriately get moved to the front when toggling the visibility of the Dock and/or when switching between Spaces.
• Fixed an issue that caused icons in icon view to show placeholder images for far too long under certain conditions.
• The “Sidebar” toolbar item is now included in the default set of items in the toolbar customization palette.
• Fixed an issue that caused the “Go to Folder” window to sometimes get clipped off the right edge of the screen.
• Changed the image used in the “Arrange by” toolbar item on macOS 11.0 and later.

File Cabinet Pro version 8.5.7 has been released for macOS.

What’s New?

Improved Alias Icon Handling in File Cabinet Pro

Fixed an issue that caused the Terminal icon to be inappropriately displayed in alias file icons. Since macOS Ventura the Quick Look framework provided by the operating system started creating flawed icons for alias files.

Instead of relying completely on Quick Look, File Cabinet Pro now composites icons for alias files to workaround this issue. File Cabinet Pro still uses the Quick Look framework to generate the icon for the original file type and then layers the alias arrow badge over it. Prior to Ventura, Quick Look handled all of this and no additional work was required by developers.

Conditions for Proper Alias Icon Display

File Cabinet Pro needs to know the type of file an alias points to in order to composite the icon. Because of this, alias icons will only display properly if at least one of the following conditions is true:

1) The file type of the original file the alias points to can be inferred by the filename extension (e.g. Filename.png alias).
2) File Cabinet Pro has permission to resolve the alias and query the original file to determine its type.

If either of the above conditions aren’t met the icon may still display incorrectly. Usually File Cabinet Pro has permission to the original file but if you are using the sandboxed version of the app (the Mac App Store version) there may be times where File Cabinet Pro can’t resolve the alias. But you can fix this problem by doing one of the following in the Mac App Store version:

• Make the name of the alias file end in: .fileExtension alias (replace .fileExtension with the actual file extension of the original file).
• Add the parent directory (or any ancestor directory) of the original file to your Favorites sidebar.
• Follow this tutorial and grant File Cabinet Pro permission to an entire directory tree in File Cabinet Pro Settings.
• Grant File Cabinet Pro full disk access in System Settings.

Developer Feedback to Apple

I filed two bug reports with Apple about this. The first bug report I filed back in 2023 against NSWorkspace -iconForFile: (which presumably uses the Quick Look framework internally). I also filed a bug report against the Quick Look framework back in March. Apple did not respond to either bug report.

The image below is an example of the preview Quick Look provides for alias files to third-party apps (starting in Ventura):

And here is a screenshot of the icon File Cabinet Pro now generates for file aliases in version 8.5.7:

File Cabinet Pro version 8.5.6 has been released for macOS.

What’s New?

-Brought back the ‘Launch at Login’ feature in File Cabinet Pro settings if you are running macOS 13.0 or later. Due to changes in prior versions of macOS we had to remove this feature but now it is back. If you are on a version of macOS prior to 13.0 you can still have File Cabinet Pro launch at login but you must configure it in System Settings.

-Minor bug fixes.