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Product Description:
We've all felt that drop in workflow when we've had to locate a file in the Finder. Even if you know exactly where something is, it can take many clicks to navigate to that place in the hierarchy. It always seems like work to remember where you left things. Why after 20 plus years are we still having to navigate folders in order to find something on a hard drive?
What's new in this version:
- Italian translation - www.omnidea.it
- Now imports all of your Finder saved searches - they appear in the bookmark bar
- Added option to choose background color
- Added preference to search everywhere, including in 'Library' folders
- Better file name searching - now searches for 'any match' in file names
- Better searching for partial matches to tags
- Some speed improvements
- Better support for 'Spaces'
- Support for OS X services - Leap exposes the current selection to 3rd party applications
- Added 'Search In Leap' service
- Added 'Only Show These Documents' contextual menu item (and in File menu)
- Pasting into the tags field is now handled better
- Other bug fixes
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.4.10 or higher
- Uses Leopard only features like Quick Look
- G5 or faster
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- Version: 1.1.0, 8/28/2008 08:51AM PST
FloridaLaura
It takes a while to wrap your head around this program and for my own purposes I see its greatest strength in finessing specific projects with user-created tags and other parameters. In that regard, it is far superior to Spotlight, which seems to me best suited for very fast, non-specific searches. Anyway, I made my purchase after using it for about 12 days of the one-month demo period. Part of my purchase was based on excellent technical support, which was very quickly responsive to some very lengthy e-mail exchanges that helped me understand how best to use this program.
Leap is not for everyone. But for those who really need powerful search capabilities, integration with Quick Look, and a variety of ways to quickly view results, I’m not sure anything else comes as close, and I tried a few other competitive projects.
That said, I think Leap would do well to lower the price by about ten bucks.
Leap is not for everyone. But for those who really need powerful search capabilities, integration with Quick Look, and a variety of ways to quickly view results, I’m not sure anything else comes as close, and I tried a few other competitive projects.
That said, I think Leap would do well to lower the price by about ten bucks.
Nice design but a few odd problems - Version: 1.1.0, 8/23/2008 07:27PM PST
che26julio
I tried to use Leap for management of my files. It does not allow me to do a search for a date range of creation date, so it is totally useless for my purposes. Incidentally, Spotlight does allow for a search by date range and seems to do everything else Leap does.
I had a problem with the tagging system also. When you add tags to Spotlight Comments on a file using Leap, it adds the "&" sign before each term. I assume this is a Leap feature for a reason, but then Spotlight does not find files by those terms and it continues to automatically place that term on my files even after it is thrown away. I don't know why, but if I create a new folder now by the same name and path as my previous folder, it automatically has the Spotlight terms entered through Leap on the previous folder (which I had also thrown away). That is a strange problem and a little scary since I have deleted all related files. It is as though Leap continues to run on my computer.
I had a problem with the tagging system also. When you add tags to Spotlight Comments on a file using Leap, it adds the "&" sign before each term. I assume this is a Leap feature for a reason, but then Spotlight does not find files by those terms and it continues to automatically place that term on my files even after it is thrown away. I don't know why, but if I create a new folder now by the same name and path as my previous folder, it automatically has the Spotlight terms entered through Leap on the previous folder (which I had also thrown away). That is a strange problem and a little scary since I have deleted all related files. It is as though Leap continues to run on my computer.
I assume it's re-indexing everything instead of using the OSX spotlight index?
Waaaay too much cpu.
if i can remember to re-launch it and let it index while I'm away, then i might give it another chance.
for now it's not the least bit useful if it's hogging all the power this imac is sluggish enough as it is.
using g5 ppc 1.5GB ram 2.0Ghz
suggestions welcome.
I'm not rating it now as that would not be fair since I really haven't been able to fully run it through the paces.