File handling improvements
We have recently added the option to remove downloads from your Mac and offload items to iCloud Drive by right-clicking an item and selecting Remove Download. Now it is also possible to do this with multiple items at the same time, making it easier to manage large numbers of downloaded files.
We have also improved how ForkLift prepares files before copying or deleting a large number of items. Subitems are now checked differently, which has significantly sped up the entire process.
In some cases, when you dragged a file from another app into ForkLift, the app would pass only a thumbnail instead of the original file. This has now been fixed, so you should be able to drag items, such as photos from the Photos app, without issues.
Fixes for Columns, Activities Window, and Drive Ejection
In ForkLift 4.5, we introduced new columns in List View that display additional data for files. This addition unfortunately caused several issues, which we have now addressed.
One problem was that retrieving the additional metadata sometimes caused ForkLift to automatically download files from cloud providers, even if those items had been offloaded to the cloud. This no longer happens.
It is now also possible to auto-size these columns by double-clicking the column header divider. The new columns had also caused the Name column not to auto-resize, even when that setting was enabled. After updating the macOS build environment and rebuilding ForkLift, this issue has been resolved. Hopefully, it will not return.
There was also a possible crash on macOS Tahoe that could occur when the Activities pop-up was open and automatically resized as items disappeared from the list. This turned out to be caused by a macOS bug and does not appear to occur on the latest macOS version, so updating macOS should prevent this crash. While investigating this issue, we also noticed that the Activities pop-up window was not always updating and resizing correctly, which has now been fixed as well.
Finally, in some cases ForkLift still asked to eject multiple drives even when only one drive was attached. This now works as expected.
Full List of changes:
New
- Option to remove multiple downloaded items at the same time from iCloud Drive by selecting Remove Downloads from the right-click context menu
Improvements
- Improved preparation for deleting and copying a large number of items
- Improved handling of drag-and-drop operations when dragging from some apps, such as Photos
Fixes
- Fixes a display issue of the Activities pop-up, where the window didn’t get resized correctly as the items disappeared from it
- Fixes the issue that auto-fitting the name columns wasn’t working
- Fixes an issue with the Always resize name column feature introduced in version 4.5
- Fixes the issue that media files automatically downloaded from the iCloud Drive even when they were stored in the cloud only
- Fixes an issue in Column and Icon View where selected items in the inactive pane were displayed with incorrect custom text colors
- Fixes the activity description when Undoing the Move to Trash activity
- Fixes an issue where in some cases ForkLift asked to eject all drives even when there was only one drive
