Release Notes

Fixed

• Case where info text not updated when copying files
• Resizing issues (Thanks, Peter!)
• Case where services are not called from 3rd party applications

Improved

• All services can now be found in the "Files and Folders" section in the macOS Services Settings

New

• Window center snaps to horizontal center of the screen when moving close to that area; Hold down ⌥ key while dragging to avoid snapping
• Horizontally resizable search window; Hold down ⌥ key to keep window center in place (Thanks, Berry!)

Fixed

• Non-default file manager icon not displayed when directory is selected

Improved

• Reduced memory usage

Fixed

• Pressing ⌘A while renaming an item does not select the complete file name but instead aborts the rename operation
• Project mode not accessible via popup menu after default keyboard shortcut was changed
• Case where unmount event did not remove related items from index

Improved

• Project search folders are now ordered automatically; When adding a subfolder of an already included folder its configuration is processed before its ancestor

Fixed

• Crash when changing path selection in Recent Items and Marked Items Mode
• Case where item cannot be renamed due to invalid encoding
• Case where symbol in the table header of the second column of the hotkeys table is not shown
• Case where glob/regex matching excluded folders does not work correctly
• Performance issue when using Live Path Filter
• Performance issue when querying full path instead of last path component
• Case where search field background switched to grey after using the Project Editor

Improved

• Default configuration indexes local copies of 3rd party cloud storage
• Opening a bundle in Browser/Recent Items/Marked Items now opens the containing folder and selects the bundle
• Use Regular as the default font weight

New

• Internal action "Toggle Ignore Maximum Result Set Size" (⌘S, configurable)
• Internal action Copy File Content to Clipboard (⌥⌃⏎) (Thanks, Luka!)

Fixed

• Case where pressing ⎋ while the project popover is shown closed the search field instead of the project editor popover
• Memory leak when performing metadata query

New

• Meta data query \t* which matches any timestamp
• Action "Share…"

Fixed

• Keyboard shortcut for action "New Folder" collides with "Load Next Search Term"; New default for "New Folder" is ⌃⇧N
• For bundles action icon shows icon of Finder (or configured Finder alternative) instead of icon of default application
• Date queries do not work for dates before Jan 1st 1970
• When item inside bundle is modified the containing bundle is updated with its metadata

New

• GoToFile shows warnings for keyboard shortcuts already taken by macOS
• Command "New Folder (⌃N, configurable); When called while items are marked for copy/move, the user has the option to copy/move those items into the new folder

Fixed

• Case where sorting by metadata does not work in Recent Items Mode and Marked Items Mode
• Number of items marked for file operations not correctly displayed in status line of Marked Items Mode
• Some keyboard shortcuts listed twice in Keyboard Shortcuts Settings

Improved

• Changed default keyboard shortcuts for the actions Shrink/Expand/Clear Path Selection from ⌃←/⌃→/⌃↓ to ⌃,/⌃./⌃/ so they no longer conflict with standard macOS shortcuts; These shortcuts can be changed in the GoToFile Settings

New

• Support for KeyClu and similar software which provides a cheat sheet of keyboard shortcuts for the frontmost application
• Added support for Finder alternatives Commander One, ForkLift, Path Finder and QSpace
• Visual marker for items marked as copy/move sources
• Pressing ⌘M (configurable) in Marked Items Mode shows items marked for copy/move; pressing it again shows regular marked items again

Fixed

• Case where selected row is no longer visible after cycling metadata visibility results in change of row and window height
• Pressing ⌘↑ in GTFBrowserMode does not perfectly restore previous scroll position
• Action "Open in Default Application" (⏎) does not work properly for symlinks
• Negation modifier without actual query not marked as incomplete
• Entering u or g metadata queries without further data not marked as incomplete query
• Characters after l metadata query (is symlink) not marked as error
• When switching to Actions Mode for the first time after GoToFile has been started the info bar text is not correct
• Changing setting "Ignore Diacritics" for modes other than Search Mode does not work
• Renaming an item in Marked Items Mode makes renamed item lose its mark if it is located in /tmp
• Renaming an item in Browser Mode when current path contains a symlink changes selection
• Case where switching back from a minor mode does not perfectly restore the major mode's scroll position
• Case where pressing ⌃⏎ does not initiate rename action
• Case where row height is not adjusted when switching from mode representing files to other mode
• When recalling previous query, metadata might not be displayed in result set

Improved

• Configurable maximum number of items in Recent Items Mode; defaults to 100

New

• Preferences option to exclude "Never" when cycling through metadata display modes

Fixed

• Metadataquery for age in weeks does not support sort instruction (e.g. \tb<2w:a for finding items which have been created within the past two weeks, sort result in ascending order)
• Query for quarter does not work properly
• Query by owning group does not work
• When copy/move/link destination is a bundle, the setting 'Tread Bundles as Files' is not honored

Improved

• Orange parts in metadata query indicate incomplete query, red parts indicate error
• To prevent accidental quits, you must hold ⌘Q for one second before GoToFile actually quits
• Search string history is added to whenever an operation is performed on a file/folder and when switching modes (Thanks, Peter!)
• Environment variables of user shell are cached; This will reduce the time needed to start user actions for some users

New

• History pseudo-mode (⌘H) to get a searchable list of previously entered queries (Thanks, Berry!)

Fixed

• Crash when switching between LastPathComponentMatch and AbsolutePathMatch
• Case where the gtfs/gtfb command line utilities would not start searching immediately (Thanks, Peter!)
• it is possible to select multiple items in modes not representing files
• Random Crash
• Selecting or deselecting dozens of items in the result list shortly blocks the UI

Improved

• Search history now keeps the latest 100 queries (was 20)

Fixed

• Issue where closing the search window does not restore focus to the previously active window

Fixed

• In Hotkeys settings, when focus is on empty filter field, pressing ⎋ does not close the settings window
• broken links and formatting issues in help file (Thanks, Peter!)
• GoToFile does not detect some of the lesser known terminal emulators when determining whether to escape paths or not
• When activating GoToFile via Service closing the search panel does not restore focus to the application that called the service
• Random crash

New

• Custom sort order: by name, size, timestamp, owner, permissions, …)

Fixed

• gtfs/gtfb don't work correctly when started without arguments
• gtfs command line option --project does not work as expected
• When performing Reveal in Finder on multiple items in the same folder, Finder only selects one of them (Thanks, Peter!)
• Crash when searching result list data provider mode

Improved

• Much improved scan speed
• Don't provide value for gtfs command line option --project to search currently active project

New

• Open With… action (⌘O): Get a list of applications capable of opening the selection
• User definable actions: perform any action on the selection (⌘K) using scripts or external executables
• Output of user actions may be read by GoToFile or opened by other applications
• Support for querying metadata: Search for file size, owner, timestamps, etc. This needs to be enabled in the search tab of the GoToFile Settings.
• Support for --path, --project and -- query to the gtfs command line utility
• Support for --path -- query to the gtfb command line utility
• Commands to add items to the list of copy/move sources (defaults: ⌃⇧C, ⌃⇧X)
• Internet Access Policy for Little Snitch

Fixed

• When entering a directory in GTFBrowserMode and moving back out (⌘↓ followed by ⌘↑) the result table is scrolled so that the selected item is visible at the top regardless of its previous position
• Incorrect icon is displayed for the item below the selected item after the selected item has been trashed or deleted (Thanks, Peter!)
• Changes to the keyboard shortcut setting "Show in Context Menu" not saved
• Case where GoToFile crashed when a search parameter was changed
• Case where the selection is reset to the first entry in the search result when deleting entries in Search Mode

Improved

• The search window reappears when the Settings window, which was opened while the search window was still active, is closed.

New

• Folder option "Include root"; Use it to include a configured project folder in the search index

Fixed

• In Search Mode when changing the search string does not affect the search result, matching characters are not marked
• In Regex search last matching character is not marked as matched
• Color of symbol B somewhat off in Browser Mode
• Rare case where GoToFile freezes
• Browser does not sort result numerically when search string is empty

New

• Search flag "Ignore Diacritics"

Fixed

• Search flag buttons may not always show correct keyboard shortcut in tooltip
• Some items don't show up in Recent Items
• Case where search field does not receive input focus after being shown
• Timestamp not updated in Recent Items when item was renamed
• Case where wrong application is activated when closing the search window by clicking on another application's window
• Case where path selection is not restored

Improved

• Dim filename while path component is selected

New

• Added configuration option to hide search window after successfull drag&drop action; defaults to YES

Fixed

• Recent Items not updated in real time while search window remains open
• Case where selection changes after renaming items
• Cannot drag items from GoToFile while application is not frontmost application
• GoToFile fails to update an item's icon if item is renamed outside GoToFile while the search window is visible (Thanks, Peter!)
• QuickLook unavailable in Recent Items mode
• Graphics glitch in file operations progress indicator (Thanks, Peter!)
• Reveal in Finder does not properly work when performed on multiple items (Thanks, Peter!)
• Random crash when searching an SMB share while indexing is not finished (Thanks, Sybren!)

Improved

• New icon
• Changes made to filesystem by other processes while Browse Mode is active and GoToFile is visible are now displayed

New

• Added close button to search window which appears when the mouse cursor is moved over the search window
• Added button to toggle "Hide search field on de-focus" to search window which appears when the mouse cursor is moved over the search window
• Search window now also works as drop destination for other applications (Thanks, Peter!)

Fixed

• After renaming items in Browser Mode the result list is not updated
• File operation progress window does not correctly display non-ASCII filenames containing non-ASCII characters (Thanks, Peter!)
• Random freeze when moving an item to Trash (Thanks, Peter!)
• Changing case on a filename on a case-insensitive filesystem temporarily shows both versions (Thanks, Peter!)
• After switching projects the search result is not immediately updated
• Drag&Drop operations sometimes cannot be cancelled with the Esc key
• Aborting a copy operation would sometimes report an error
• File copy progress for multiple files not correct

Improved

• Improved performance when opening folder containing many thousands of items in Browser mode
• Service "GoToFile: Browse" now selects all files selected in the program executing it

Fixed

• QuickLook panel not updated when changing selection while it is visible
• If a search returns no result the info bar is not updated
• Mounting/unmounting of volumes sometimes not reflected in result list (Thanks, Peter!)
• Missing tooltips in the Action column visible on the Hotkeys tab of the GoToFile Settings dialog (Thanks, Tom!)
• Sending the current selection to LaunchBar sometimes immediately closes the LaunchBar window
• When assigning a keyboard shortcut fails the shortcut recorder erroneously shows key "A"
• Don't allow expand/shrink path selection when renaming an item
• Pressing ⌘A while renaming an item selects every item in the result list

Improved

• Multiple selection now also reduces selection when appropriate (Shift-ArrowDown after Shift-ArrowUp)
• Provide visual feedback when marking items as copy/move source

Fixed

• Crash on macOS 10.14 (Thanks, Berthold!)
• Random crash when trying to browse selected item
• Rare case where GoToFile freezed when attempting to browse multiple selected items
• Random crash in Browser

Fixed

• ⌃-clicking on menu extra does not bring up the menu (Thanks, Jeffrey!)
• Rare crash when operating on selected items (Thanks, Peter!)
• User defined keyboard shortcuts involving arrow keys do not work (Thanks, Peter!)

Improved

• Help file now includes keyboard shortcut for quitting the application (Thanks, Jeffrey!)

New

• Compatibility with macOS Ventura

Fixed

• Menu Extra does not change color when background of menu changes (Thanks, Martin!)
• Modifying the match type of a rule in Project Editor while another rule is selected changes the selected rule instead of the clicked rule

New

• Configurable keyboard shortcut for Show Help
• ⌘↓ or ⌘⇧B in Projects Mode allow for browsing of the selected projects if it has only a single configured search folder
• Browse sole search folder of a project via its hotkey (⌘1…⌘0)

Fixed

• Random crash on startup
• Random crash when editing patterns

Improved

• Context menu now also visible in Projects mode
• Project selection and reordering hotkeys now work in Projects and Recent Items mode
• Cycling between previous and current active project now works in Projects and Recent Items mode as well

Many thanks to Koichi and Wolfgang for your bug reports and suggestions!

New

• Configurable keyboard shortcuts
• Configurable font weight
• Browser Mode: Keyboard shortcut ⌘/ sets current directory to Home directory. Press multiple times in order to cycle between Home -> System Volume -> All Volumes.
• Pressing ⌘↑ while searching an ad-hoc project will change the search folder to its parent folder
• Search History: Access previously entered search terms
• Configurable context menu in result list
• Support for Alfred, LaunchBar and Quicksilver 2

Fixed

• Color palette not correctly adjusted according to system appearance when system appearance is set to Auto and appearance changed since last shutdown
• Possible crash when calling GoToFile system services
• Actions "Reveal in Finder" and "Show Info in Finder" do not bring Finder to the foreground
• Quick Filter does not work for Recent Items and Marked Items

Improved

• Left-click on Menu Extra brings up search field, right-click brings up the menu as before
• Added keyboard shortcut ⌘Y: Open selection in Quick Look; This is in addition to the old shortcut 2x⇧
• Improved action preview icons
• Redesigned Preferences panel
• The home directory component of a path is now abbreviated with the ~ (tilde) symbol in the Project Editor
• Long paths are now truncated in the middle instead of at the end
• Commands Search/Browse contents of folder containing document of frontmost application now work with Finder

Many thanks to Ivan, Mark, Michael and Wolfgang for your valuable input!

New

• Preferences option to leave search window open when focussing on another application (Thanks, Michael!)
• Search panel now remembers position across restarts (Thanks, Michael!)
• Starting GoToFile with the ⌥-key held down will reset the saved window positions

Fixed

• Increased height of editor field when renaming items
• Starting GoToFile with no current project selected shows an empty result list when it should not display a result list at all
• Adding multiple 'include' live filters does not work properly
• Project-local rules to hide items are nor processed if "Ignore global rules" has been enabled
• Content of popup menu not updated when menu is opened via right-click
• Position of popup menu off when opened via left-click
• Graphic glitch (flicker) when opening the preferences window while the search panel is open

Improved

• Warn before deleting Project in Project Editor

Fixed

• Crash when switching between Spaces (Thanks, Mark!)
• Preferences window does not open while search window is active (Thanks, Mark!)
• Graphics glitch in Preferences window (Thanks, Mark!)
• Include default search folders in Recent Items

New

• Include iCloud drive contents in default search set (Thanks, Alan!)

Fixed

• Random crash when bringing up the search field
• Crash on macOS Monterey

Improved

• When dragging a project's search folder on another search folder ask for user confirmation before applying the dragged folder's settings to the drag destination

Fixed

• Moving an item across volume boundaries does not remove the source
• Crash when letting GoToFile "type" selected paths into the foreground application an macOS 10.15+
• Minor graphic glitch on Big Sur

Improved

• Improved manual
• Search window can now be moved by dragging the status area directly below the search input field (Thanks, Bernd!)

Fixed

• Some buttons in Project Editor are not displayed on macOS Big Sur
• A label in the project editor is not visible in dark mode

Improved

• Reduced size of application

Fixed

• Wrong keyboard shortcut indicated in tooltip for Clear Live Filter
• Highlighting of selected row does not work on macOS Big Sur
• QuickStart window misplaced on first start on macOS Big Sur

Fixed

• ShowDirectories und ShowFiles switches did not work for Virtual Projects (Thanks, Aboo!)
• Close button in Project editor did not work reliably (Thanks, Aboo!)
• Text in "About GoToFile" hardly readable in Dark Mode
• "Go to location in Terminal" did not work properly in Mojave and Catalina (Thanks, Michael!)

New

• Send selection to Quicksilver (⌘⎋)

Fixed

• Transparency issue in project editor
• Sometimes items would end up in 'Recent Items' although the corresponding option has been set to false
• Random crash when activating GoToFile from Finder via the Search Service (⌘S)

Improved

• Clear Live Path Filter is now ⌥⎋
• Changed Sparkle appcast URI

New

• Notarized by Apple
• Support for partial Dark Mode (dark Menu and Dock only)
• Quickly exclude folders from current project with new menu item "Exclude from Search folder"

New

• Support for macOS Mojave
• Support for Mojave Dark Mode
• Regexp search for Project, Browser and Recent Items modes
• Copy item: ⌃C, ⌃V at destination
• Move item: ⌃X, ⌃V at destination
• New mode Marked Items (⌘M): Items from any mode can be stored in this extra list via ⌃M
• Duplicate item (⌃D)

Fixed

• Info bar would sometimes stay red after indicating an error
• Renamed items would show up multiple times in the list of recently modified items
• Items would end up in Recent Items because a folder's search depth limit was ignored
• Possible crash when using GoToFile Finder Services

Improved

• The root path component may now also be selected
• Changed layout of project editor to provide more vertical space for Search Folders

Fixed

• GoToFile would stop updating it's cache due to incorrect handling of Unix pipes. (Thanks, Luke!)
• Rare crash while updating internal cache.
• Files saved by certain programs would end up in Recent Items Mode but not in Search Mode (Thanks, Luke!)

Fixed

• Random crash when switching between Search Mode and Project Mode
• When removing a Search Folder from the Project Editor the list of excluded folders would not be updated (Thanks, Luke!)
• The image of the close button in the Project Editor did not exactly cover the click-sensitive area. As a result clicking on the ✕ image did not always close the Project Editor. (Thanks, Luke!)
• Included help file would not be displayed
• Clear search field after changing to home or root folder in Browser Mode (⌘/)
• Closing the search panel with ⎋ while an ad-hoc project is active also reverts back to the previous "real" search project. In this case the info bar was not updated to reflect the change.
• Clear Browser selection before switching to Browser Mode via ⌘⇧S or ⌘↓ from Search Mode
• If GoToFile is called via Finder Service 'GoToFile: Search' check if current search folder equals the one to be searched. Re-use index if folders match.

Fixed

• Random crash when switching from Project mode to Recent Items mode (Thanks, Luke!)

New

• Selection can now be renamed (⌃⏎)

Fixed

• Set timeout for double-⇧ key event (QuickLook) to 0.5 seconds. Prior versions had no timeout which resulted in activating QuickLook regardless of the time passed between two consecutive ⇧ key events.
• The first path component(s) of paths with a size larger than the width of the search window were not visible when selecting them. Now GoToFile makes sure that the selected path component is visible.

Improved

• Live filter: Exclude folder now excludes folder itself from result set (not just its content); Include folder will show only content of of folder, not folder itself

New

• New mode: Recent items (⌘R); Searchable list of items recently created/modified.
• File type filter setting is now persistent for Browser mode
• All actions (Open, Open in frontmost application, Browse, Reveal in Finder, …) now operate the same way: If no path component is selected -> operate on selected item. If a path component is selected -> operate on the path component.
• New action "Open in Terminal". It opens a new Terminal window and sets the current directory to the selection. Uses iTerm if available, Terminal otherwise.

Fixed

• Current path would not be updated in info bar after switching between Home and Volumes (⌘/)

Improved

• Path component selection via mouse replaced by path component selection via keyboard (⌃←, ⌃→)
• Keyboard shortcut for "Reveal in Finder" changed to ⌘F

Fixed

• Program could get stuck when using Finder service 'GoToFile: Search' (Thanks, Frank!)
• Possible crash when focussing search on a path component

Improved

• Improved responsiveness when searching large sets

Fixed

• Fixed code signing issue on macOS 10.0 (Thanks, Frank!)

Improved

• Updated documentation

Fixed

• Keep selection visible when changing it via cursor keys in QuickLook mode
• Crash in Browser Mode when matching item containing special cheracters

Improved

• Performance tweaks when searching full path

Fixed

• Random crash in Search Mode
• Some components in the Application Bundle were not signed (Thanks, Theo!)

New

• Multiple selection
• Added 'Check for update' button to preferences window (Thanks, Theo!)
• Updated documentation (Thanks, Jean-Luc!)
• Display short info when modifying filter
• Display visible and total number of matches in info bar
• Hightlight invalid regular expressions in search field and Preferences/Project Editor

Fixed

• Don't allow preferences window to close when no access method is enabled
• Make sure that GoToFile is always accessible via either hotkey or menu item
• Crash when switching exclusion pattern containing '*' from GLOB to REGEX (Thanks, Luke!)
• Improved reliability of cache update (Thanks, Luke!)
• Rare random crash when changing search string
• ⌘= and ⌘- did not work exactly as documented when pressed while a directory was selected
• ⌃W did not update result set after modifying search string
• Switching to Search Mode via ⌘S would sometimes leave the 'Type Path' action indicator visible instead of the default application of the selected item
• In Project Editor rules tables would sometimes not be updated if another project was selected (Thanks, Kenneth!)
• "New project from selection" menu item did not work
• Changing the maximum result set size now takes effect without modifying the query (Thanks, Kenneth!)
• ⌥⌫ and ⌃W were not properly handled when result of the command was an empty string
• Result table was sometimes reloaded even though the result set had not changed

Improved

• "New project from selection" (⌘⇧P) now also works if selection is not a file

Fixed

• Graphic glitch in macOS High Sierra

Fixed

• Result list would snap back to selected item if result was updated while scrolling via mouse (Thanks, Luke!)
• Improved performance when scrolling
• Problems with unresolved symlinks
• Improved handling of symlinks/aliases
• Escape special characters when typing path to Terminal or iTerm

Fixed

• Ignore keyboard input while preferences window is open (Thanks, Luke!)
• Resized keyboard shortcut control to fix content (Again, thanks, Luke!)
• Improved handling of symlinks (Thank you once more, Luke!)
• Trigger rescan when removing a rule/excluded folder from preferences
• Info bar in browse mode was not always updated when changing directories
• 'Ignore global rules' checkbox in Project Editor did not work.