Releases

Adds Templated Copy: copy a selection while skipping files and folders you exclude, by exact name or wildcard pattern, with a saved reusable template and a dry-run preview.

• New Copy Template… command (Items menu, and each pane's context menu) copies a selection while excluding files/folders you name — by exact name (e.g. .git) or wildcard pattern (e.g. *.log; *.tmp).
• Exclusion rules are saved as named, reusable templates, managed from the Copy Template window, so you can reuse the same rules across copies.
• Dry Run previews exactly what will be copied versus excluded — including inside ZIP/TAR archives — before you apply it. Applying enqueues the same persisted, pausable/resumable copy job as a plain copy.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

The Feedback sheet now closes automatically once a Like goes through, and the API returns clean errors instead of a raw crash page if the database is briefly unreachable.

• Liking MacFolders now closes the Feedback sheet as soon as the like is confirmed, instead of leaving it open.
• The Like and Feedback endpoints on macfolders.com now return a clean error instead of an unhandled crash page if the database is briefly unreachable while checking your email.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Remembers the email you use for Feedback and Like, and hardens the Like count endpoint against a database error.

• The Feedback sheet now remembers the email you last used for a bug report, feature request, or Like, and fills it back in automatically the next time you open it.
• The Like count endpoint on macfolders.com now fails safe instead of returning an unhandled error page if the database is briefly unreachable.
• The site's download form (used whenever you get a new version or update) now remembers the email you enter and fills it back in on future downloads too.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Adds a Like button next to Feedback for a quick way to show some love for the app.

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• The Feedback sheet gains a heart-shaped Like button, gated on the same registered email as a bug report or feature request. Tap it as many times as you like — repeat taps are batched into a single request, and a running total is shown beside it.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Fuller Cloud Providers coverage on the Features page, plus small nav and analytics tweaks.

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• The Features page's Cloud Providers section now covers WebDAV, S3 (and S3-compatible services like MinIO, Backblaze B2, and DigitalOcean Spaces), and Dropbox in the same depth as the FTP/SFTP section, with its own entry in the on-page jump menu.
• Renames the site's nav toggle to "Go to" and the "Product" link to "Overview".
• Adds GA4 download tracking to the site's download button, which is a form submit and wasn't picked up by GA4's automatic link tracking.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Fixes the Install page's download fallback callout showing up on every visit instead of only after a real download.

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• Fixes the /Install page's "Download not started yet?" callout appearing on every visit — including a direct visit from the nav link, where it made no sense — instead of only when you actually landed there from a download. The download-form redirect now tags the URL so the callout only shows when it's relevant.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Fixes the download form occasionally not starting a download on the first attempt, and highlights the in-app Feedback button.

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• Fixes the download form on macfolders.com sometimes not starting a download on the first attempt (only working on a retry): a slow server response could lose a race with the page's redirect to the Install page, aborting the file mid-flight. The Install page also gains a fallback link to get the release again if a download still doesn't start.
• The in-app Feedback button now highlights in the app's accent color, with a new BETA tag beside it in the status bar.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Adds an in-app Feedback button for reporting bugs and requesting features.

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• Adds a Feedback button to the bottom status bar for sending a bug report or feature request straight from the app.
• On macfolders.com, the Releases and Download pages no longer get cached by the browser, so they always show the newest release right after it ships.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Fixes FTP folders showing empty when connected to Windows' built-in FTP server (Microsoft FTP Service / IIS FTP).

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• Fixes FTP directory listings appearing completely empty when connected to a server that sends MS-DOS-style listings instead of the Unix ls -l style MacFolders previously assumed — most notably Windows' built-in FTP server (Microsoft FTP Service / IIS FTP). Both listing formats are now recognized automatically.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Adds Bulk Delete and Bulk Rename with a dry-run preview across local, FTP/SFTP, and cloud connections, and auto-opens the Transfers window when a remote transfer starts.

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• Bulk Delete and Bulk Rename: right-click a folder to open a new window that walks its whole tree and previews every matching file before anything runs. Local folders get full Find-style filters (name, size, date, attributes, content search); FTP, SFTP, S3, WebDAV, and Dropbox get simple name wildcards. Rename combines find/replace, case conversion, prefix/suffix, sequential numbering, and extension rules with a live preview and conflict warnings. Both run through the same queue as copy/move, so they can pause, resume, and survive an app relaunch mid-run.
• Fixes deleting a non-empty folder over FTP or SFTP, which previously failed because those protocols require an empty directory before they'll remove it.
• FTP, SFTP, and cloud connections now auto-open the Transfers window the instant a job starts sending or receiving bytes, and it can be shown or hidden with a new Control-T shortcut.
• SFTP connections now show a command log like every other protocol — a pseudo-command per operation (CONNECT, LIST, MKD, RMD, DELE, RENAME, RETR/STOR, DISCONNECT), since SFTP has no plaintext wire protocol to tap directly.
• Fixes the embedded terminal ignoring the Native theme's Light/Dark override, staying dark even with the app set to Light while macOS itself was in Dark mode.
• On macfolders.com, the Install page gets a screenshot of macOS's Gatekeeper "Open Anyway" confirmation dialog.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Fixes Escape not closing Preview, a relaunch bug that could leave the wrong remote tab selected, and gives the embedded terminal its own spotlight on the website.

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• Fixes Escape not closing the Preview window — every other popup window already closed on Escape; Preview was the one exception.
• Fixes relaunching with multiple saved remote tabs sometimes leaving the wrong tab selected, which also silently kept that tab from reconnecting (only the selected tab's view triggers reconnect-on-focus).
• Fixes the Permissions… menu item staying enabled with nothing selected, matching every other action in the Items menu.
• On macfolders.com, the embedded terminal — which follows the pane's folder as you navigate — gets its own dedicated section on the home page and Features page.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Makes the Connections window resizable, highlights the bookmark icon while its list is open, and adds an Install page for macOS's unidentified-developer warning.

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• The Connections window (FTP/SFTP and cloud provider list) can now be resized taller, so it's easier to see many saved connections at once.
• The bookmark icon next to the path field now highlights while its bookmark list is open.
• Adds an Install page with the three steps for opening MacFolders past macOS's unidentified-developer warning; the download form now redirects there after you submit it.
• Fixes a website crash (500.30) caused by concurrent app-pool restarts racing to migrate the database at the same time.
• Refreshes the screenshots throughout macfolders.com and adds Retro and Xcode theme captures to the home page.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Extends Sync Browsing to remote and cloud folders, and adds line numbers to the Large File Viewer.

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• Sync Browsing now works with remote and cloud folders too — pair a local folder with its SFTP/FTP/S3/WebDAV/Dropbox backup, or two remote trees, and it mirrors navigation the same way, confirming the target folder exists on the remote side with a live directory listing.
• The Large File Viewer now shows line numbers alongside the text; long lines scroll horizontally instead of wrapping, so the numbers stay aligned with their lines.
• On macfolders.com, fixes an intermittent form-submission error after the site restarts, by persisting Data Protection keys to disk instead of relying on IIS's per-app-pool key loading.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Adds a Large File Viewer for oversized text files, and Finder comments in the file list.

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• Large File Viewer: Preview's text fallback no longer silently truncates large files at 20,000 characters. Files over 5MB now show a banner offering to open a new Large File Viewer window instead, which streams the file in bounded-memory pages rather than loading it whole — with paged navigation, jump-to-line, and find-in-file that stay fast regardless of size. Reach it from Preview's banner or toolbar button, or a file's context menu.
• Right-click one or more files or folders and choose Comment to set or clear their Finder comment, and a new Comments column shows it in the file list — mirrors the existing Tags feature.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Adds Shortcuts.app automation support, checksum-verified cloud transfers, and a beta launch discount.

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• Shortcuts.app support: Copy Files, Move Files, Create Archive, Extract Archive, and Find Files are now available as Shortcuts.app actions, so MacFolders can be chained into your own automations.
• Uploads and downloads to S3, Dropbox, and WebDAV are now checksum-verified after each transfer, catching silent corruption instead of trusting a completed transfer unconditionally; a new Verify checksums after transfer setting (default on) controls this per connection.
• The embedded terminal now follows the pane as you navigate to a new folder, instead of staying pointed at wherever it launched.
• Sync Browsing now also requires both panes' current folders to share a name before it can turn on, and turns itself off if the mirrored subpath doesn't exist on the other side.
• On macfolders.com, a new beta discount offer locks in 80% off MacFolders Pro for life for anyone who downloaded during the beta with a valid email.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Adds Sync Browsing, mirroring navigation between the two panes for comparing parallel project or backup folders.

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• Sync Browsing (View menu, toolbar, or ⌃⇧Y), enabled once both panes' current folders share a name, pins each as a root and keeps both at the same relative subpath as you navigate either one — turns itself off if a pane reaches a subpath the other side doesn't have, moves outside its root, switches tabs, or the synced tab closes.
• The font size toolbar group (Bigger/Smaller) no longer ships in the default toolbar; add it back via toolbar customization if you use it.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Adds a Retro theme, and merges the FTP/SFTP and Cloud Provider toolbar groups and manager screens into one.

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• A new Retro theme puts bright green-phosphor text on near-black backgrounds, for a vintage 80s terminal look.
• The separate FTP/SFTP and Cloud Provider toolbar groups and manager screens are now one Connections group and one Connections sheet, freeing up toolbar space.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Adds a persistent transfer queue — copy, move, and delete jobs survive a relaunch, can be paused, reordered, and retried, and resume mid-file instead of starting over.

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• A new Transfers window (replacing Failed Transfers) lists every copy, move, and delete as a queued job — pause, resume, cancel, retry, or drag to reorder any of them, or pause/resume the whole queue at once. Jobs persist across a relaunch and come back paused, so nothing runs until you say so.
• A dropped SFTP/FTP/S3/Dropbox/WebDAV connection now pauses the affected job instead of failing files one by one, and resumes automatically once the network is back; retries use exponential backoff instead of a fixed delay.
• Interrupted SFTP, FTP, S3, and Dropbox transfers resume from where they left off instead of restarting — including large S3 uploads, which now use multipart upload. WebDAV downloads resume the same way; WebDAV uploads still restart (no resume standard for it).
• Fixes the embedded terminal's Clear button not clearing the visible screen, and the git panel's Commit All button not opening its popover.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Adds cloud provider connections — WebDAV, S3, and Dropbox — that browse like a local folder alongside FTP/SFTP.

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• Add Cloud Provider… (Go menu, or the network icon on a pane header) connects to a WebDAV, S3, or Dropbox account and browses it like a local folder — drag files to upload or download, or rename, delete, and create folders remotely. Manage Cloud Providers… lists saved connections to reconnect, edit, or delete.
• Dropbox connects with a personal access token generated in the Dropbox App Console rather than a full sign-in — see the new Dropbox walkthrough in Docs for step-by-step setup.
• WebDAV connects with a server URL, username, and password; S3 (and S3-compatible services like MinIO, Backblaze B2, and DigitalOcean Spaces) connects with an access key, bucket, and region. All cloud credentials are stored in the macOS Keychain, never written to settings.json in plain text.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Saved FTP/SFTP connections join the pane bookmark list, and file lists gain a real Finder Get Info command.

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• The bookmark list under a path field now also lists your saved FTP/SFTP connections, right after the folder bookmarks — click one to connect and open it in a new tab in that pane.
• Right-click one or more files or folders and choose Get Info to open the real Finder Get Info window for them, the same window Finder itself shows. Disabled inside archives and on remote (FTP/SFTP) panes, since it needs a real file on disk.
• On macfolders.com, the Docs page's Help and Shortcuts sections drop their icons for a plain bulleted list (Overview keeps its icons), and 11 toolbar symbol images that were rendering upside-down across the site are fixed.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Finder tags come to the file list, and a new Settings window (⌘,) gathers appearance, file list, and window preferences with reset buttons.

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• File lists gain a Tags column showing each item's Finder tags as colored dots and names, off by default like Kind and Permissions. Right-click one or more items for a Tags submenu: toggle any of the 7 standard colors, or an existing custom tag, across the whole selection at once — checked when every selected item already has it, same as Finder — plus Add Tag… for a custom name and Remove All Tags. Disabled inside archives and on remote (FTP/SFTP) panes, since tags are a local-disk feature.
• A new Settings window (⌘,) gathers General, File List, and Windows preferences into one place, each tab with its own Reset to Defaults button, plus one button to reset everything at once. Bookmarks, saved connections, and open tabs are left alone by every reset.
• The Preview window gains a remember window position toggle in Settings; turned off, it always opens centered over the main window instead of at its last saved spot.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Fixes FTP transfers freezing when Cancel is tapped mid-stall, adds automatic retry and a Failed Transfers window for files that can't be written, and adds an Xcode dark theme.

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• Cancelling an FTP upload or download no longer freezes the app if the server stops responding mid-transfer (e.g. writing to a locked file) — the stuck connection is now torn down immediately instead of waiting on a server that may never reply.
• A file that fails during a remote copy or move (locked, permission denied, etc.) is retried a few times, then skipped instead of aborting the whole batch. Skipped files land in a new Failed Transfers window (View → Show Failed Transfers) with a Retry button per file and Retry All — a file that succeeds on retry disappears from the list on its own.
• Adds an Xcode dark color theme, lifted from Apple's own Default (Dark) Xcode colors.
• Fixes an upside-down parent-folder icon on the Features and Docs pages of macfolders.com.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Fills in file permissions for FTP/SFTP listings, retries a dropped remote connection once before giving up, and adds an interactive toolbar tour to the Features page.

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• FTP and SFTP file listings now populate the Permissions column — FTP parses the rwxr-xr-x field from LIST output, and SFTP forwards the mode bits it already receives.
• A dropped FTP/SFTP connection (idle timeout, network blip) is now retried once with a forced reconnect before a listing fails, so Refresh on a disconnected remote pane reconnects instead of surfacing a stale error.
• Clicking the FTP command log — header, text, or its toolbar — now makes that pane the Source, matching the embedded terminal.
• On macfolders.com, the Features page gains an interactive action bar tour: every toolbar icon is clickable and opens a panel describing what it does.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Adds a live FTP command/response log below the file list, and remote tabs now reconnect lazily when you actually switch to them.

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• The toolbar button that shows the embedded terminal now also shows a live FTP command/response log below the file list on a remote FTP tab: every command sent and reply received on the control channel appears as it happens, with Clear, Copy All, and find-in-text/font-size controls, and it stays scrolled to the latest line as new output arrives.
• Restoring FTP/SFTP tabs from the last session now reconnects lazily — a remote tab connects only when it actually gets focus, instead of every saved connection opening over the network before the UI even draws. A tab that fails to connect stays visible with a Retry button instead of disappearing.
• FTP protocol errors now name the exact command and transfer mode that failed, making server-specific quirks easier to diagnose.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Fixes FTP transfers reporting an error right after they finish, and gives long git branch names better handling in the toolbar.

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• Fixes FTP uploads and downloads reporting an error right at the end of the transfer, even though the file had already moved: the client was closing the data connection before the server's completion reply arrived, and one failure path could silently retry the whole transfer over active mode on a connection that was no longer in sync.
• Clicking into the embedded terminal now focuses that pane too (border highlight, keyboard shortcuts), instead of leaving focus on whichever pane was active before.
• Long git branch names in the toolbar badge are now truncated so they don't crowd out the path field; hover to see the full name.
• On macfolders.com, the mobile menu now scrolls if it's taller than the screen and closes itself after you tap a link, and the Features/Docs sidebar switches to a horizontal row on narrower screens instead of a fixed column.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

The toolbar gains a dedicated FTP group, and Hidden Files becomes a switch in the main group.

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• The toolbar gains a dedicated FTP group — New Connection and Manage Connections — right after the folder actions group, so starting or managing a remote connection no longer needs the Go menu.
• Hidden Files moves out of the View group and becomes a switch in the main toolbar group, right after Refresh.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

File lists gain a Permissions column, and a Permissions… command to change a file or folder's Unix permissions.

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• File lists gain a Permissions column showing each file or folder's Unix permissions (e.g. rwxr-xr-x), on by default at the end of the columns.
• Right-click one or more files or folders and choose Permissions… to change them: tick owner/group/other read, write, and execute boxes, or type an octal mode directly, with an Apply to enclosed items option to recurse into a selected folder.
• The Git status column is renamed Git and made narrower, since it only ever shows a single letter.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

The path field predicts local folders as you type, and bookmarks move to their own icon and an F12 shortcut.

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• Typing a local path in a pane's address bar now shows matching subfolders below it, with the top match highlighted — Return fills in the highlighted match, navigates the pane there, and keeps predicting that folder's own subfolders, so you can keep drilling in without leaving the keyboard.
• Bookmarks move to an explicit trigger: a new bookmark icon just before the path field, or F12 (new), ⌘L, or ⌃L for the Source pane. They no longer open just from clicking into the field, so they never compete with a path you're typing.
• The bottom function-key bar gains F12 Bookmarks, alongside the existing F1–F11 row.
• Folder listings used for prediction are cached per folder for the session, so retyping or backing up to an already-visited folder doesn't re-read it from disk.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

The embedded terminal gains a small toolbar: Clear Terminal, and git actions inside a working tree.

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• A small toolbar above the embedded terminal always offers Clear Terminal. Inside a git working tree it also offers Git Status, Fetch, Pull, Push, and Commit All… (opens a small popover for a commit message, then stages every change and commits it).
• These git actions run as real shell commands in the pane's own terminal, using your actual git config, SSH keys/credentials, and hooks — their output is visible like any other command, and the existing branch badge/status column pick up the results automatically.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Search in Files can now look inside .zip and .tar archives, and the path bar shows when you're browsing inside one.

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• Search in Files gains a Search inside archives (zip, tar) option: turn it on and matching files inside any archive found during the search show up right alongside regular files — by name, or by their contents too when Search file content is on. Go to Source, Open, and Edit all work on these results just like normal files.
• The path bar now shows an archive icon next to the pane badge whenever you're browsing inside a zip or tar file, so it's clear at a glance.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Fixes an FTP directory-listing failure on servers that reject the LIST -a flag.

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• FTP browsing sent LIST -a unconditionally (since 1.6.7), but some servers — Microsoft/IIS FTP and other strict implementations — reject that flag with "Syntax error in parameters or arguments." The transfer itself succeeded; only the listing refresh right after failed. MacFolders now falls back to a plain LIST when a server rejects the flag.
• The in-app Docs page is reorganized with clearer subheadings within each topic, for easier scanning.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

MacFolders now shows git status: a branch badge, a Git Status column, and a diff view in Preview.

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• A folder that's a git working tree shows its current branch as a badge next to the path field, and a new Git Status column (Control-click a column header, or View → Columns) shows each file's staged/modified state.
• Preview gains a Show Diff toggle for a file with a git status: it shows what changed since the last commit instead of the plain file.
• The branch badge, Git Status column, and diff stay live — switching branches or staging changes updates them without a manual reload.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

FTP directory listings now include dot-folders like .well-known, and the two View menus are merged into one.

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• FTP browsing now sends LIST -a instead of a bare LIST, so servers include dot-folders such as .well-known in the listing. They were previously left out by the server itself, before the app's Show Hidden Files setting ever got a chance to filter them.
• The two separate View menus — one of them holding only Enter Full Screen — are merged into a single View menu.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Appearance and Theme are now one Theme menu, and a new Commander theme joins the color themes.

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• The Appearance and Theme menus are combined into a single Theme menu.
• A new Commander theme, inspired by Norton Commander: a deep blue background with bright yellow text and cyan accents.
• Fixed the Source pane badge text being unreadable on bright accent themes (like Commander's yellow); it now picks black or white based on the accent color.
• The bookmark dropdown under a path field now follows the selected theme instead of always using plain system colors.
• Go → Show Embedded Terminal also has an F11 shortcut, and the status bar now shows the running app version.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Fixes the update check, which was silently failing because the version file it reads was missing from the live site.

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• The background and File → Check for Updates… check now reads /.well-known/version.txt (renamed from version), which had never been deployed to macfolders.com and made every check fail.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

An embedded terminal: a colored, resizable shell below a pane's file list, without leaving the app.

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• The green terminal icon on a pane header, Control-click, or Go → Show Embedded Terminal (⌃⌘T) opens an interactive shell in that pane, below the file list — a colored, in-app terminal alongside the existing Open Terminal, which still opens Terminal.app.
• Drag the bar above it to resize; each pane remembers its own terminal height and whether it is open, independently for left and right.
• Runs your default shell in the pane's current folder. Unavailable inside a zip/tar archive or a remote connection.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

The Files menu is renamed to Items, and the File menu gains a Check for Updates… command.

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• The Files menu is renamed to Items, matching its file and folder commands more clearly; Help and the Shortcut Guide are updated to match.
• File → Check for Updates… checks macfolders.com right away and reports whether you are up to date, instead of waiting for the periodic background check.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Toolbar buttons are grouped into capsules, and Help / Shortcut Guide now document Connect to Server (FTP/SFTP).

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• The toolbar groups related buttons in capsules with dividers, instead of one continuous row.
• Help and the Shortcut Guide now describe Go → Connect to Server… (⌘K) and Go → Manage Connections…, which were missing since FTP/SFTP shipped in 1.6.
• The Features and Docs pages on this site also gained a dedicated FTP/SFTP entry.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

The app checks macfolders.com for a newer release and shows Update available when one is ready.

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• On startup, and every few hours while it is open, MacFolders reads /.well-known/version.txt on this site and compares it with the running version.
• When the site lists a higher version, an Update available badge appears on the status bar above the function keys.
• Click the badge to open this Releases page in your browser and download the new zip.
• Failed checks stay silent and retry later. Help → About also describes the check and links to macfolders.com.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

FTP and SFTP support (new, beta): connect to a server and work with a remote folder like a local one.

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• Go → Connect to Server… (⌘K) opens an FTP or SFTP connection, with an option to save it; Go → Manage Connections… lists, edits, and reconnects saved connections.
• A connected pane browses, uploads, downloads, renames, deletes, and creates folders on the remote server the same way a local pane does — drag files between a local and a remote pane to transfer them.
• SFTP supports password and ed25519 private-key authentication (passphrase-protected keys included); FTP supports password authentication.
• Saved passwords and key passphrases are stored in the macOS Keychain, never written to disk in plain text. SFTP host keys are pinned the first time you connect and rejected if they later change.
• Compare, Find, and archive browsing stay local-only for now; those actions are disabled on a remote pane.
• This is a new feature area and has not yet had extensive real-world testing — please report anything that looks wrong.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Double-clicking the title bar or the empty space next to the logo no longer changes a pane’s folder.

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• Only a double-click on a file list row (or a Find result) opens or enters an item.
• Double-click a folder, archive, or .. in the list still enters it; double-click a file still opens it.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Rename a file or folder in the list, like Finder: click the selected name, or press F2.

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• Click the name of a selected file or folder to edit it in place. Return saves; Esc cancels.
• F2, ⌃N, the toolbar Rename button, and Control-click → Rename use the same in-list edit.
• For files, the name is selected and the extension is left as-is. Double-click still opens or enters.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Copy and Move toolbar icons point toward the Destination pane and flip when Source changes.

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• Copy uses a document-and-arrow icon that points the same way as Move.
• Both icons flip when you Flip Source or click the other pane.
• Help, the Shortcut Guide, and Docs describe the directional icons.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Panes refresh on their own when the folder changes on disk. The center toolbar logo is gone.

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• A pane reloads when files appear, disappear, or change in that folder — Finder, Terminal, or another app.
• Selection and scroll position stay put. Folder Compare is left alone so its colors are not wiped.
• If the folder itself is removed, the pane goes up to the parent. View → Refresh (⌘R) still reloads every tab.
• The square MacFolders mark is no longer in the middle of the toolbar.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

Finder drag and drop into a pane, plus Help and Shortcut Guide updates for Open in Finder, Terminal, and drops from Finder.

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• Drop files or folders from Finder onto a pane, the path bar, or empty list space, then choose Copy or Move.
• Drops into a ZIP add items; tar archives and read-only volumes are refused. Existing names use the same overwrite dialog as Copy.
• Help and the Shortcut Guide document Open in Finder (⌥⌘F), Open Terminal (⌥⌘T), and Finder drag and drop.
• Requires macOS 14 or later. Apple Silicon and Intel. Not Mac App Store; see the first-launch note on the download page.

First public release of the native Mac app. Dual-pane Source and Destination workflow, with the toolbar, Help, and Shortcut Guide.

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• Native dual-pane lists, folder tabs, path bar, bookmarks, Terminal, and Open in Finder.
• Copy and move with progress, overwrite choices, and folder compare.
• File Comparator (text and hex), Find in files, and Save File List to CSV.
• Browse zip and tar like folders; writable ZIP; Pack and Extract.
• Preview window, themes, and a customizable toolbar.