Release Notes

Name Mangler 2.2.2 - Aug 16 2010

New Features

• Copy and paste can be used to copy files, URLs, and paths to the file list area.
• Drag and drop URLs and paths (e.g., from a text file) to the file list area.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Aliases can now be renamed (prior versions of Name Mangler ignored aliases). Hat tip to C.P. Williams for reporting this issue.
• Fixed a bug where non-ASCII characters could go unmatched in regular expressions and/or advanced mode because of Unicode normalization differences. Hat tip to Daniel Coradi for reporting this one.

Name Mangler 2.2.1 - Jun 28 2010

New Features

• Added in-app purchasing module.

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed an issue where renaming both files and folders may not always work. (Hat tip to Shiro W. for reporting this one.)
• Fixed an issue where dragging both files and folders from Finder could result in duplicate entries, depending on Name Mangler's filter settings.

Name Mangler 2.2 - Jun 2 2010

New Features

• Large preview images can be seen on hover or click (set in Preferences)
• Quick Look previews available with click-after-hover or double-click (in non-hover mode)
• Added 'created' and 'modified' variables to Advanced mode
• Added the ability to process several top-level expressions in Advanced mode while assigning each expression's result to the <name> placeholder for each step

Bug Fixes and Improvements

• Image previews are now threaded and much more efficient
• License files are no longer saved with the wrong file extension after downloading with some webmail apps
• Worked around a Sparkle issue that resulted in wrong "last checked" dates being displayed for automatic update attempts under certain circumstances

Name Mangler 2.1.1 - Mar 25 2010

New Features

• New 'shuffle' mode (Command-S in Sort pop-up) to sequentially but randomly modify filenames; useful for images for a picture frame, for instance

Bug Fixes

• Fixed permissions issues for users running on non-admin accounts

Name Mangler 2.1 - Mar 22 2010

New Features

• Automatic updating via Sparkle

Bug Fixes

• Name Mangler no longer chokes on colons or slashes in pre-existing file names (you still shouldn't use those, though)

Name Mangler 2.0 - Feb 14 2008

New Features

• Files can now be listed in a less detailed way (cf. "General" preferences), allowing you to survey a larger number of files at once
• You can now have File List ignore " ", "-", "_", and "0" characters when determining the common prefix (cf. "Processing" preferences)
• By default, image files are now represented by previews instead of generic icons (cf. "General" preferences)
• Streamlined the user interface and turned this into a universal binary

Bug Fixes

• Path Finder support on Mac OS X 10.5
• Sorting by path

Other

• Changed product name to Name Mangler

File List 1.2 - Aug 22 2005

New Features

• You can now have the list of files update instead of being cleared after processing files. (Uncheck the "Clear list after processing files" checkbox in File List's "Processing" preferences.)
• You can now configure File List to quit after processing files successfully. (Check the corresponding checkbox in File List's "Processing" preferences.)
• New function for File List's Advanced Renaming: [truncate] returns a constant with (source expression) truncated to (maximum length) characters if (source expression) is longer than (maximum length). Returns the orginal (source expression) otherwise.
• New function for File List's Advanced Renaming: [pad] returns a constant formed from (source expression) by either removing characters from the end, or by appending as many occurrences of (padding expression) as necessary.
• File List no longer allows making files invisible by specifying a name that starts with a "." character. (Please contact me if you absolutely need this "feature".)
• Reworded some preferences for better understanding.
• Updated File List's documentation with a short paragraph on using back references in regular expressions.

File List 1.1 - Aug 9 2005

New Features

• You can now hide the tool bar of File List's main window.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where droplets didn't behave as documented, i.e., they didn't ignore the "Ask me before actually processing files" setting. (Rebuilding droplets is not required to get this to work as advertised.)

File List 1.0 - June 14 2005

Takeoff

• Initial release in English and German