Leap: your new Finder

Leap 1.1.1

• Fixed some bugs in dealing with tags in spotlight comments
• Added note about Leap 2 (Leap 2 is Leopard only)

Leap 1.1.0

• Italian translation - www.omnidea.it
• Now imports all of your Finder saved searches - they appear in the bookmark bar
• Added option to choose background color
• Added preference to search everywhere, including in 'Library' folders
• Better file name searching - now searches for 'any match' in file names
• Better searching for partial matches to tags
• Some speed improvements
• Better support for 'Spaces'
• Support for OS X services - Leap exposes the current selection to 3rd party applications
• Added 'Search In Leap' service
• Added 'Only Show These Documents' contextual menu item (and in File menu)
• Pasting into the tags field is now handled better
• Other bug fixes

Leap 1.0.6

• New feature! Time Machine support for Leopard. Now you can select any file, and Leap will look on your time machine for all revisions it can find. See more below here.
• Danish Translation - thanks to Niels Danielsen
• Fixed two rare crashers
• Fixed slow startup problem that could occur sometimes
• Fixed problem where some spotlight searches produced different results depending how you started them

Time Machine?

• You need to have your Time Machine disk mounted. This only works for time machine backups on the root of a backup drive. Select a file in Leap, right click on it for the contextual menu, then pick Show Time Machine Revisions. It works on Folders as well as files, but if the name of a folder or file has changed, then Leap will not find the old documents with the old name. Still pretty handy, though. You would usually use this feature on a file that you have been working on in order to see previous versions. The files that Leap finds are in the Time Machine, backup folder, and need to be treated as read only (which they should be anyway).

Leap 1.0.5

• New feature! - exclude tags and file types by command clicking on them to turn them red
• New feature - the Finder panel is now more consistent in the way it behaves
• Fixed Omni Outliner (+ a few other rare file types) problem where spotlight comments would not be set
• Fixed missing parameter for Apple event problem
• Fixed crash where remove tag could crash program in certain situations
• New contextual menu for bookmarks - faster for certain tasks
• Fixed spotlight searching problem with multiple word searches when one word only has single character

Leap 1.0.4

• Fixed file type group problem
• Fixed problem with some extension based file types

Leap 1.0.3

• Speed increases - faster 'Go Deep' searches
• Less memory for some searches
• Fixed a number of bugs, including some crashers
• Added new MS Office 2008 file types
• You can now create folders by right clicking in the Locations Panel
• Open with... list improved
• Fixed some warnings that showed up in the Console on Tiger
• Fixed a number of bugs, including some crashers
• Some minor UI changes - file totals are now in the crumb trail
• Better syncing with upcoming Yep 1.7.8
• Fixed problem on Tiger with Photoshop files

Leap 1.0.2

• Updated French translation
• Fixed a trash bug
• Fixed some drawing bugs in the Finder Panel

Leap 1.0.1

• French translation
• New QuickLook - now supports full screen, remembers window location, etc
• Added Safari Bookmark support as a file type
• Fixed a bug in selecting documents
• Fixed problem in Tiger with the bottom toolbar
• Tag order is now retained
• Fixed auto-complete and double entry problems when entering tags with umlats, etc
• Fixed problem with pasting tags from other applications into Leap
• Fixed date tags button problem
• Copying selected documents now copies paths to clipboard
• Spacebar viewer for Tiger reliability improved
• Info window 'Even More Info' section improved and made Leopard only

Leap 1.0

• Few small problems fixed
• Leap store updated

Leap b10

• Bookmark panel more reliable
• Move to folder now moves documents, instead of sometimes copying
• Various improvements to tagging window
• Finder panel now works better
• Changing a filename to make files disappear fixed
• Overlapping tags in tag cloud fixed
• Scrolling bug fixed - heavy scrolling would sometimes lock up the UI
• Copy and pasting tags works better
• Turning off spotlight read only tags in prefs now works
• Better file types for old classic mac documents
• Simpler, more direct file type searching
• Spotlight comments now more reliable - You need to rebuild your spotlight database due to a bug
• Leap now hides some thumbnail folders in iPhoto, Apeture, and iMovie

Leap b9

• Better file type searching for files with no extension
• Page Up/Down keys now work better
• Added button to clear search constraints when no search results come back
• Changing case on tags now works
• Tags panel now dodges the dock
• Tag editor now shows when you drag items to Leap's icon in the dock
• more search bugs fixed
• GoDeep searches work better for large searches

Leap b8

• Unified tags - pick which tags to include with buttons
• Bookmarks now have bar at top and panel for organizing/renaming
• Add tags to a document by dragging it to a bookmark that has tags
• Fixed some crashing and other bugs from b7
• Up' button in toolbar allows you to move location up
• Some problems with changing only the case of a file name have been fixed
• various search bugs fixed
• Fixed some crashing and other bugs from b7
• manual updated a bit for b8

Leap b7

• Quick Look now closes with spacebar or escape key
• much better experience when moving or copying files in Leap -SEE MANUAL
• confirmation dialog for moving and copying files when using drag and drop
• tag completion now keeps same case as letters are typed in
• spotlight comment writing are now OFF by default
• tokens in tag editor no longer have contextual menus
• RETURN no longer dismisses the token editor when suggestions are being shown
• multi document tag editor now dismisses with return or enter
• added toolbar item for hiding and showing locations panel
• tag filter is no longer case sensitive
• added menu command to View menu for hiding and showing the bottom toolbar
• clicking on tag now clears tag filter search field after it is selected
• command key and menu item for selecting search field
• command key and menu item for selecting tag filter
• rearranged menus to better match Finder
• added optional inspector panel for viewing file info
• added "Files and Folders" and "Go Deep" to location list contextual menu
• filename search now sorts documents with numbers correctly (e.g. Picture 1, Picture 2, Picture 11)
• file types can now be edited
• added an "Edit File Types..." item to the orange menu
• added "Files and Folders" and "Go Deep" as menu items with key equivalents to the Go menu
• Open With menu now sorted alphabetically
• Saved places now has an edit menu item and a "save current place" item
• Fixed look of sort popup on Tiger
• file modification dates now up to date
• bookmark editor now shows all bookmark additions in current session
• selecting multiple documents in thumbnail view now handled better
• manual has fewer errors. Still more to do

Leap b6

• Total rework from beta 5
• Blue source list is gone. Use the orange menu instead. Yeah orange!
• Numerous bug fixes. Really lots
• Faster, uses less memory
• Quick Look available with space bar
• Works well with Yep 1.7 or later
• XMP support for Adobe Bridge users
• Reads more TagBot, Punakea, Quicksilver, and many other spotlight tagging systems

Leap b5

• Fairly major changes from b4
• Leopard aware. Now uses Quick Look for thumbnails on Leopard. Also Leopard style window, path tool at bottom of window.
• Leap now reads and writes tags from spotlight comments. This means support for Tagbot, etc.
• NOTE: for b5 the pref for writing out tags to comments is not on by default. See the preferences.
• Less memory
• You can now group file types together - see the manual and the Prefs
• Manual updated a bit with new features
• New floating window at edge of screen allows you to quickly tag documents. - See the prefs.
• Better alias handling
• Sometimes Leap failed to launch correctly - fixed
• Finder pane now better reflects current search results, also all drives are listed when you click on any library folder
• Some bugs in searching for text fixed ( a few still remain)
• New Date Tags - handy
• New Demo limit - all testers get a refreshed 3 week testing period
• Move to Trash now should always work
• Inability to rename some files fixed.
• New show package contents
• Lots more smaller stuff

Leap b4

• fixed memory leak
• help menu updated

Leap b3

• Made searching faster in some circumstances.
• new looking file name window changes use Finder-like return-to-change file name
• new looking tags window can be brought forward with space bar
• better handling of files on removable media
• selections no longer disappear without warning
• tags entering window works better in table view
• fixed problem where multiple volumes would sometimes appear in Finder pane

Leap b2

• There is now a manual - use the Help menu to get to it...
• You can now search entire computer for any file type - right click on a file type
• Names for some user added file types now display better
• Bugs in saved searches (aka filters) fixed
• The Finder pane is now much faster
• Some searches are faster
• Bugs fixed in moving and deleting documents
• Bug fixed in exporting search results to html
• 'All' button now different color in Filter Panel
• Searches for file types with dynamic UTIs now search better
• Image loading a little faster - also fewer skipped files
• Fixed a memory leak

Leap b1

• Leap 1.0 beta 1!