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ForkLift 3.5.5 is available

New

  • Default Folder X Menu toolbar item and Default Folder X Drawer toolbar item

Improvements

  • It is possible to work with items that have an apostrophe in their names on Google Drive
  • The Git status of an untracked folder is marked with a question mark (?)
  • The Enter on the numeric keyboard is treated as a separate key, it is now possible to use it in keyboard shortcuts. Enter and Return are treated as two different keys

Fixes

  • Fixes a possible, rarely occurring update issue during remote editing
  • Fixes a crash when the S3 server name contains a colon (:)
  • Fixes a WebDAV issue introduced in v3.5.4 where on some servers, not every item was listed
  • Fixes a multi-rename issue where the Apply to all rule wasn’t treated correctly
  • Fixes a permission issue where it wasn’t possible to write into folders without Read permissions, such as the public Drop Box folder of another user on the same Mac
  • Fixes an issue where it wasn’t possible to change the keyboard shortcuts of the Back and Forward commands when the input source wasn’t English

Download ForkLift 3.5.5

ForkLift 3.5.4 is available

New

  • Option to disable SMB discovery, which could cause double entries of the same local share in the sidebar. If you want to disable SMB discovery, run the following command in Terminal: defaults write com.binarynights.ForkLift-3 DisableSambaDiscovery true
  • Previews SVG files
  • ForkLift now uses short-lived access tokens when connecting to Dropbox

Improvements

  • macOS Monterey compatibility improvements
  • Extended timeout period on S3 and Backblaze
  • During Move operations, issues like loss of internet connection or not enough space in the target location can’t lead to the deletion of the source items when the user clicks Skip in the error window to disregard the error message

Fixes

  • Fixes an issue where a parent folder appeared as its own subfolder on webDAV
  • Fixes a possible memory leak on FTP TLS
  • Fixes an issue where files inside an archive opened in the editor app defined in the Preferences of ForkLift and not in their default apps
  • Fixes a possible crash introduced in version 3.5.3 in Column View, which usually occurred when an item was clicked in the sidebar
  • Fixes the thumbnail loading issue introduced in version 3.5.3 in Icon View: thumbnails were only loaded after scrolling or resizing the thumbnails
  • Fixes an issue where the Quick Select option Select Matches didn’t jump to the match when there was only one match that wasn’t visible in the pane
  • Fixes an issue where permissions weren’t always kept during remote editing
  • Numerous minor fixes and improvements

Download ForkLift 3.5.4

ForkLift 3.5.3 is available

New

  • ForkLift uses the system log (Console App) to write FTP logs

Improvements

  • Improved loading and display of previews of items in Icon View
  • Significantly reduced memory usage during transfer size calculations

Fixes

  • Fixes an issue where ForkLift couldn’t open items on Google Drive with a plus sign in their names
  • Fixes the jumping around of the progress bar on remote connections on Big Sur
  • Fixes the multi-rename issue on remote connections
  • Fixes the Activities toolbar item that couldn’t be opened with Icon & Text enabled in the toolbar on Big Sur
  • Numerous minor fixes and improvements

Download ForkLift 3.5.3

ForkLift 3.5.1 is available

If you use ForkLift 3.5, then you won't be able to update to version 3.5.1 from within ForkLift. Please download and install ForkLift 3.5.1 from here

Fixes

  • Fixes a connection issue to SFTP with passphrase protected private key introduced in version 3.5
  • Fixes file accessibility issue on webDAV introduced in version 3.5
  • Fixes the missing English language in the application updater (Sparkle)

Download ForkLift 3.5.1

ForkLift 3.5 is available

New

  • Universal binary compatible with Silicon Macs using the M1 chip
  • Updated ForkLift icon
  • New Google Drive implementation – OLD GOOGLE DRIVE FAVORITES HAVE TO BE AUTHORIZED AGAIN

Improvements

  • Improved conflict handling in the Multi-rename window (Skip + Apply to all gets registered)
  • Additional tabs of workspaces open using the (saved) default view settings of the list view
  • Memory management improvements, ForkLift should use much less memory than before

Fixes

  • Fixes a text misalignment issue during the creation of new folders and files in column view on Big Sur
  • Fixes an issue of the placement of tags in column view on Big Sur
  • Fixes the Resize columns to fit issue in column view on Big Sur
  • Enhanced error handling while changing the case of items during multi-renaming
  • Fixes a possible crash when updating the previews of files
  • Fixes a file name display issue after duplicating entire folders on Google Drive
  • Fixes the blinking of the items when deleting items inside an expanded folder in list view
  • Fixes a possible crash when a network share returns an invalid service record (caused by a macOS API bug)
  • Fixes an issue where the changes made to an existing multi-rename favorite were saved only temporarily
  • Fixes a possible crash when ForkLift is opened in full screen mode on Big Sur
  • Fixes a connection issue to S3 compatible providers where the provider doesn’t share the region of the bucket, which resulted in an access denied error
  • Fixes a possible crash while creating a new file on Google Drive through the context menu of ForkLift
  • Spotlight metadata enhancement
  • Fixes a cache issue during remote editing when the user doesn’t have permission to write
  • Fixes the order of activities – it follows the order of the selection
  • Numerous minor fixes and improvements

Download the latest ForkLift version

ForkLift 3.4.4 is available

Fixes

  • Fixes the copy item progress when the helper tool is needed to transfer items
  • Fixes the size of the icons in the sidebar on Big Sur
  • Fixes the size of the Activities toolbar icon when there are ongoing activities on Big Sur
  • Fixes small GUI issues in the Connect Panel and Get Info window on Big Sur
  • Fixes a text misalignment in the Preferences > Shortcuts window on Big Sur
  • Fixes the Resize columns to fit view option in column view on Big Sur
  • Fixes the size of the Quick Open and Quick Select windows on Big Sur
  • Displays the Permissions section in the Get Info and Inspector windows on Big Sur

Download ForkLift 3.4.4

ForkLift 3.4.3 is available

Starting from this version, ForkLift 3 requires macOS 10.12 or later

New

  • New Amazon S3 Regions:
    • Africa (Cape Town)
    • Asia Pacific (Hong Kong)
    • Europe (Milan)
    • Middle East (Bahrain)
    • AWS GovCloud (US-East)
    • [Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local)]

Improvements

  • Significantly improved preview handling in the file views
  • Quick Type handles the Space bar, it doesn’t activate Quick Look
  • Preserves the permissions and metadata when remote editing on Amazon S3

Fixes

  • Fixes an FTP TLS connection issue
  • Fixes the order of activities
  • Fixes a conflict handling issue in the multi-rename window that could cause data loss
  • Fixes an issue where ForkLift only listed 1000 items on Amazon S3 even when there were more items in a bucket
  • Fixes a remote editing issue on Google Drive
  • Fixes sync issue on Google Drive
  • Numerous Big Sur compatibility fixes
  • Numerous minor fixes and improvements

Download ForkLift 3.4.3