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Butler 4.1.12 released

Butler 4.1.12 has been released, fixing one crashing issue (which only affected those running 10.7.x) and one cosmetic issue. The crasher wasn’t actually a bug in Butler, but a change in how the system deals with ejecting disks. Basically, if you used Butler’s Volumes menu to eject a disk/disk image, Butler would then crash and burn, but only in OS X 10.7 or newer.

(The cosmetic issue was an abbreviations window that wouldn’t disappear if you used it to run a web search while the browser was the frontmost window.)

You can get the update via in-app updates (the Updates item in the Preferences tab of Butler’s window), or by downloading Butler from our site.

Important: Butler 4.1.12 requires Mac OS X 10.6 or later; if you’re using Mac OS X 10.5 and/or a PowerPC-equipped Mac, you’ll need to stay on Butler 4.1.11. If you find issues with Butler on your PowerPC and/or 10.5 Mac, please send me an email and we’ll see what we can do about the problem.

This entry was posted on Thursday, November 10th, 2011 at 7:05 am by Rob Griffiths and Peter Maurer, and is filed under Butler, Products. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

7 Responses to “Butler 4.1.12 released”

  1. artie hall says:
    November 11, 2011 at 2:12 pm

    Hi, Rob,

    It’d be helpful if you change your MacUpdate page to reflect the fact that Butler 4.1.12 is non-functional in Leopard.

    I found out the hard way.

    Thanks.

    Artie

    • Rob Griffiths says:
      November 11, 2011 at 6:33 pm

      They (Macupdate) actually updated that entry on their own; I’ll login and fix it, thanks for pointing it out.

      regards,
      -rob.

  2. L Spell says:
    December 13, 2011 at 2:06 pm

    Rob,

    Am I missing something – I thought Butler was 64-bit. Can’t imagine why but I thought I saw it running previously in 64 bit. Oh well – when might it be so?

    –Thanks

    LCS

  3. Rob Griffiths says:
    December 14, 2011 at 9:00 am

    Butler isn’t 64-bit, mainly due to internal architectural reasons.

    -rob.

  4. 0KB says:
    January 4, 2012 at 4:44 am

    hi manytricksters.

    is there a way to send the current path finder selection to a butler’s menu with a hotkey (like dragging the item to the menu)? applescript, automator workflow, anyhting? i think this would be useful to quickly archive items using the “move to” function, in a mouseless way.

    thanks a lot.

  5. Rob Griffiths says:
    January 5, 2012 at 10:32 am

    As of today, there’s no programmatic method of sending a selection to a Butler action, sorry.

    regards,
    -rob.

  6. 0KB says:
    January 5, 2012 at 1:11 pm

    thanks a lot, rob.
    best.