http://www.fatcatsoftware.com/blog en bwebster@fatcatsoftware.com Copyright 2021 2021-10-25T16:15:20+00:00 https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/comments/powerphotos_1.9.10_now_supports_macos_monterey https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/site/powerphotos_1.9.10_now_supports_macos_monterey#When:16:15:20Z With Apple’s release of macOS 12 “Monterey” today, PowerPhotos has been updated to version 1.9.10 with full support for the new operating system. The most important fix is that if you try launching version 1.9.8 or earlier on Monterey, PowerPhotos will crash at launch time. This crash was fixed in the 1.9.9 release a couple months ago, but if you’re still running an earlier version, you’ll want to download the free update and replace the version you currently have with the new one. There are a couple other minor bug fixes included, but otherwise there are no other major changes for Monterey. Updates, PowerPhotos, News, 2021-10-25T16:15:20+00:00 https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/comments/powerphotos_1.9_is_out_with_support_for_macos_big_sur_and_apple_silicon https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/site/powerphotos_1.9_is_out_with_support_for_macos_big_sur_and_apple_silicon#When:22:41:30Z Today, PowerPhotos has been updated to add support for macOS Big Sur, as well as running natively on Apple’s new Apple Silicon Macs that use Apple’s own M1 CPU rather than Intel’s. PowerPhotos 1.9 adopts the new look and feel of Big Sur, including an updated sidebar, toolbar icons, and other fit and finish, as well as ensuring all of PowerPhotos features such as finding duplicates and merging libraries work as expected on the new operating system. This update also runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs, giving maximum performance for users running PowerPhotos on those new machines. The PowerPhotos 1.9 update is free for all users, and requires either macOS Catalina or Big Sur.In addition to these big compatibility updates, PowerPhotos 1.9 includes a handful of bug fixes, and one new feature: the ability to copy RAW+JPG pairs that are imported as a single item from a digital camera. In previous versions, PowerPhotos could only copy one of the two versions of the photo over to another library, but in version 1.9, both versions of the photo are copied, and PowerPhotos also retains the choice that you have made for which format is used as the “original” when performing edits. Updates, PowerPhotos, News, 2020-11-11T22:41:30+00:00 https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/comments/powerphotos_1.8_now_keeps_albums_intact_when_deleting_duplicates https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/site/powerphotos_1.8_now_keeps_albums_intact_when_deleting_duplicates#When:20:55:04Z I’m pleased to announce the release of PowerPhotos 1.8 today, which contains a couple big new features and several other small improvements. It is a free update for all PowerPhotos users, and you can either use the “Check For Updates” menu item in your current version of PowerPhotos to update, or download the new version from our website. This update tackles one of the common problems people run across when deleting duplicate photos, which is that any photos you delete also get removed from any albums they belong to in your library. In version 1.8 when running on macOS Catalina, you can now opt to have PowerPhotos replace the deleted duplicates with the “keeper” copy of the photo that is not being deleted, thus keeping all your albums intact. There is also a new option to add all the photos to a new album in the library rather than deleting them straight away (this is the same method used on Mojave, where deleting photos directly is not possible). This allows you to review the photos before deleting them manually, or handle them otherwise as you see fit.Also new in version 1.8 (for macOS Catalina users) is the ability to delete photos directly from PowerPhotos, rather than having to open your library in the Photos app and delete them from there. Simply select the photos and press command-delete, and they’ll be removed from the library. Note that this did change some keyboard shortcuts: before, command-delete would remove the currently selected library from your library list. Now, command-delete deletes photos, and command-shift-delete is used to remove a library. There are also a number of small improvements, such as an update default duplicate keeper rule, a new option to choose duplicates based on whether they’ve been edited, and a few other improvements and bug fixes. You can read the full release notes here. Updates, PowerPhotos, 2020-05-19T20:55:04+00:00 https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/comments/powerphotos_1.7.8_freezing_fix_for_large_libraries_on_macos_10.15.2 https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/site/powerphotos_1.7.8_freezing_fix_for_large_libraries_on_macos_10.15.2#When:18:41:17Z PowerPhotos 1.7.8 is now available for download from our website, and existing customers can update using the “Check For Updates” menu item within the PowerPhotos app. The update is free for all customers. The most important fix is for a performance issue that cropped up starting in macOS 10.15.2, which would cause PowerPhotos to take an exceptionally long time to display large libraries. This could cause PowerPhotos to hang with the “spinning beachball” cursor for quite a while on launch, or when selecting a new library. Large libraries should load much faster in 1.7.8, so if you’ve been seeing troubles with that, I highly recommend downloading the new version from our website and replacing your current version.This update also includes a handful of other bug fixes. You can read the full release notes here. Updates, PowerPhotos, News, 2020-01-16T18:41:17+00:00 https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/comments/powertunes_is_being_discontinued https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/site/powertunes_is_being_discontinued#When:16:01:02Z Starting in macOS 10.15 Catalina, Apple has announced that they will be discontinuing iTunes in favor of a suite of separate apps: Music, Apple TV, and Podcasts. Unfortunately, the new Music app does not provide the necessary hooks for PowerTunes to be able to function with it the way it could with iTunes. Therefore, I’ve decided that I’ll be discontinuing development of PowerTunes. This means: PowerTunes will no longer be available for purchase on our website, and will no longer be officially supported. I have posted one final update for PowerTunes which makes it no longer require registration in order to run. When run on macOS Catalina, the only function available is to browse and locate your libraries. All other functions (copying, merging, finding orphans, etc.) are disabled. For users who have multiple iTunes libraries and want to migrate them over to the new Music app on Catalina, I have posted a short guide on how to use the new Music app to migrate your iTunes libraries. If you wish to perform any copying or merging of your libraries, you should do so using iTunes and macOS Mojave first. Once you upgrade to Catalina, you’ll no longer be able to use PowerTunes to perform these tasks. Anyone who has purchased PowerTunes in the last three months (i.e. since July 1st, 2019) and would like a refund, contact us at support@fatcatsoftware.com. Thanks to everybody who used PowerTunes over the years and found it useful for wrangling your iTunes libraries. I’m sad to see it come to an end, but PowerTunes had a good run, and I look forward to be able to concentrate my efforts on PowerPhotos going forward. iTunes, PowerTunes, Updates, 2019-10-08T16:01:02+00:00 https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/comments/powerphotos_1.7_now_available_with_support_for_macos_10.15_catalina https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/site/powerphotos_1.7_now_available_with_support_for_macos_10.15_catalina#When:22:45:36Z I’m happy to announce the release of PowerPhotos 1.7 today, with support for macOS 10.15 Catalina. The new operating system provides a brand new method for PowerPhotos to access and work with the content of Photos libraries, so a significant amount of rewriting was necessary, but Catalina also opens up lots of possibilities for adding new features and improvements to PowerPhotos in the future. PowerPhotos 1.7 has two significant new abilities when running on Catalina: When copying photos between libraries, PowerPhotos can now preserve both the original and edited version of each photo, along with the reversible photo edit list so that all your changes can be reverted in the destination library the same as they could in the source library. In previous versions of PowerPhotos, you were limited to choosing either the unmodified original photo or the edited JPG, but couldn’t copy both together as a unit. This is a big improvement for people who want to preserve the maximum amount of photo data when performing a copy or a merge, and for those who want to save same space and only want one or the other version of a photo, those options are still there as well. When removing duplicate photos, PowerPhotos can now send the photos directly to the trash for you. In previous versions, PowerPhotos had no way to actually delete photos for you, so it instead had to collect them into an album and have you delete them manually from your Photos library afterwards. Needless to say, this is a much simpler solution with far fewer necessary steps. The new version also contains a bunch of performance improvements, especially when it comes to how long it takes to load your library when you first select it in PowerPhotos, as well as a handful of other bug fixes. This update is free for all PowerPhotos users and can be download either using the “Check for Updates” menu item within PowerPhotos itself, or by downloading the new version from our website. PowerPhotos 1.7 requires macOS 10.14 or later. Enjoy!   Photos, Updates, PowerPhotos, 2019-10-07T22:45:36+00:00 https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/comments/powerphotos_1.7_public_beta_for_macos_catalina https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/site/powerphotos_1.7_public_beta_for_macos_catalina#When:18:40:15Z I’ve been working over the summer on some major updates to PowerPhotos in order to support macOS Catalina when it comes out in October. Things have been progressing well, and now that the Catalina betas are a little further along, I’d like to get some more widespread testing before the final release next month. So, I’m releasing a public beta of PowerPhotos that folks who are running Catalina already can try out and put it through its paces.Anyone who wants to try out the PowerPhotos beta can download it from the link at the end of this post. The PowerPhotos beta has the same registration requirements as the normal version, so you will need to have a registered copy if you want to do things like a full library merge or deleting duplicate photos. A few things to note before diving in: This is beta software. There may very well still be undiscovered bugs that you’ll encounter in using the program. If you want to merge libraries but you’d rather not have to deal with potential bugs, then just wait until the final release is available. Make sure to back up your Photos libraries before using the beta. Since there may very well still be bugs that need fixing, so you should make sure to have your data backed up before you dive in. If you use Time Machine or another local backup program, that will work fine, or you can simply make a straight copy of your Photos library, either using the Finder or the “Duplicate Library” command in PowerPhotos. iCloud Photos is not a backup. Any changes you make to the local copy of your library (e.g. by copying new photos into it) will automatically start getting uploaded to your iCloud library, and there will be no easy way to revert your iCloud library to its previous state after doing so. You should have a separate local backup of the library you have set up to sync with iCloud, and if you want to do any work with that library, it’s recommended that you either make a copy of the library first and work with the copy, or disable iCloud syncing while you do your work. Once you’ve finished your work and made sure you approve of the results, you can then reenable iCloud syncing to let Photos upload your new changes. If you encounter any problems while using the PowerPhotos beta, the best way to contact us is by using the “Contact Support” menu item, accessible via the Help menu within the app. This will let you easily submit logs and other configuration information that will help troubleshoot your problem. You can also get in touch at support@fatcatsoftware.com. Download the PowerPhotos 1.7 beta Photos, PowerPhotos, 2019-09-18T18:40:15+00:00 https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/comments/information_on_the_macos_catalina_beta https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/site/information_on_the_macos_catalina_beta#When:20:28:51Z Apple just announced the next version of macOS 10.15, called Catalina, which will have its final release in the fall. A beta version of the OS has been provided to developers, and will be available to those in the public beta program in a few weeks. These initial betas are only intended for development and not to be run full time, but for those brave souls running the beta seeds, I’ve done some initial testing of our software with the initial beta, and this is what you should know.  PowerPhotos currently isn’t able to read Photos libraries that have been upgraded by the version of Photos on Catalina. PowerPhotos will be updated with support for Catalina by the time the final release comes along, but until then, if you need to do work using PowerPhotos with your Photos libraries, you should keep using macOS 10.14 Mojave. iPhoto Library Manager already only supports up to macOS 10.13 High Sierra, and iPhoto itself appears to no longer work on Catalina either, so if you do plan on upgrading in the fall, you will need to migrate over to Photos/PowerPhotos at that time. In macOS Catalina, Apple has split iTunes into three separate apps: Music, Podcasts, and TV. The new Music app does not appear to support multiple libraries like iTunes does, so PowerTunes will not be updated to work with the Music app on Catalina. I don’t yet know if iTunes will still be available for people who still want to run it on Catalina, and whether it will make sense for PowerTunes to support it if it does end up being possible. I’ll post further updates as things become more clear on this front. PlistEdit Pro appears to work fine on Catalina, and shouldn’t require any major updates. PlistEdit Pro, PowerTunes, iPhoto, Apple, Photos, PowerPhotos, iPhoto Library Manager, News, 2019-06-05T20:28:51+00:00 https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/comments/powerphotos_1.5_now_available_with_support_for_macos_mojave https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/site/powerphotos_1.5_now_available_with_support_for_macos_mojave#When:15:29:45Z I’m happy to announce the release of PowerPhotos 1.5 today, with support for macOS 10.14 Mojave. The most visible addition to PowerPhotos 1.5 is support for Mojave’s new dark mode, which I really like and have been using all during the Mojave beta period. PowerPhotos 1.5 also fixes a couple important bugs that would prevent being able to do merging or duplicate searches on Mojave, support for Photos version 4.0, and a few other miscellaneous bug fixes. This update is free for all PowerPhotos users and can be download either using the “Check for Updates” menu item within PowerPhotos itself, or by downloading the new version from our website. PowerPhotos 1.5 requires macOS 10.13 or later. PowerTunes and PlistEdit Pro will also be updated soon to fully support macOS Mojave (the addition of dark mode support being the most significant change), but the current versions should function fine with Mojave for the time being. iPhoto Library Manager will not be updated to support macOS Mojave. With iPhoto having been declared dead by Apple for over 3 years now, I’ve decided it’s not worth the effort to continue updating iPLM for future versions of macOS. It will still be made available for use on older systems, but won’t be receiving any future updates. PlistEdit Pro, PowerTunes, Photos, Updates, PowerPhotos, iPhoto Library Manager, 2018-09-24T15:29:45+00:00 https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/comments/information_on_the_macos_mojave_public_beta https://www.fatcatsoftware.com/site/information_on_the_macos_mojave_public_beta#When:19:12:41Z Apple just started the public beta program for their next version of macOS, called Mojave, with the final release coming sometime in the full. All Fat Cat Software products will be made compatible with Mojave upon its final release, but in the meantime we do not officially support the Mojave betas, and you may encounter incompatibilities if you try using our software on the beta releases. If you want to ensure you can get actual work done, please continue using macOS Sierra or High Sierra. Below is the current list of known incompatibilities:  PowerPhotos: PowerPhotos has several issues caused by bugs in the current Mojave beta. The most severe issue is that it’s not possible to set up a duplicate search or a merge, because trying to drag a library into the list of libraries to search or merge does not work. There are also some various display issues and glitches when browsing photos. If you have already upgraded a library using Mojave, that library will no longer be readable by High Sierra or earlier versions of macOS, so you will also need to revert that library to a backup copy made before upgrading. iPhoto Library Manager: iPhoto Library Manager has similar issues to PowerPhotos in being unable to set up a duplicate search or merge. PowerTunes and PlistEdit Pro: Both have some minor cosmetic issues on Mojave but don’t have any major known incompatibilities. If you do come across issues while running the Mojave beta, do feel free to email us at support@fatcatsoftware.com with a bug report. We may not have an immediate solution for you, but we will fix whatever bugs come up before the final release of Mojave. Again, if you do come across a bug and need to get real work done, you should do so using Sierra or High Sierra instead PlistEdit Pro, PowerTunes, Updates, PowerPhotos, iPhoto Library Manager, 2018-06-26T19:12:41+00:00