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Name Mangler Flexible batch file renamer. Hazel Folder actions on steroids and with a very good GUI. Browses and expands all formats I know flawlessly.

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The Archive Browser Archive browser and expander. Before you buy compare the feature differences between the App Store version and the direct-buy version.

It also supports encrypted libraries (based on encrypted DMGs).

Sounds like minor stuff, but it makes a world of difference. This allows you to set up very specific tags for your libraries, without cluttering your more generic Finder tags. Besides that, it has an excellent tagging system, which can (optionally and on a per-library base) be isolated from the Finder tags ( disable tag syncing). Your files remain completely transparent and accessible via Finder. It maintains a database of the contents of the library but it doesn’t force your files into a database structure. Yep, you can see it as streamlined sibling of DEVONThink, and with some crucial advantages: Less stupid UI and, above all, a transparent file/folder structure. EagleFiler This is two programs in one: The best email archiver I know, and a universal file manager. Befor you buy, compare the features of the App Store version with the ones of the direct-buy version.

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In addition to that it has some handy features: You can store your preferred settings, you can drag and drop folders, and it lets you save your custom templates for software distribution and it can even codesign your DMG. You can perfectly craete and manage your DMGs with the hdiutil command line tool, but DropDMG gives you a great GUI for that. DropDMG Apple’s DMG is a great format for file archiving, compression and encryption, and for software distribution. See also my Archive Assistant script, which makes good use of p7zip. Makes also AES-encrypted zips, just to mention it. Does also gzip, zip, b2zip, and all these very fast. tar.xz faster than the xz tool that comes with macOS, because it works multi-threaded. But it’s more useful than that: LZMA is also the codec used for xz archives (which are fully Mac-metadata-compatible and Unix-ok). 7z is useful if you want to transfer an archive to your Win friend.

Command-line tool, can be installed via Homebrew. It lets you even run shell scripts on the found dupes. But then it works: It will show you exactly how similar the dupes are (you also can set thresholds), and it lets you even create symlinks – and even hard links – to the originals, before deleting the duplicates. You have to know which folders you want to check for duplicates. This is not one of those “I clean everything automagically”-crappy-pseudo-cleaning utilities. Utilities, Tools File management/manipulation dupeGuru Very configurable duplicate file finder.

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Plain Text, Code & Markup Editors and Tools.

Information & Task Management, Note Taking.

So please make sure you don’t misinterpret the rating system: Even a one-star app in this list is at least OK and can easily have a four- or five-star rating at MacUpdate. Thus the rating system here is shifted and more fine-grained. Here, it is rather different: Since the list is about more or less essential apps, crappy apps are not listed at all. That is because they have to list all apps, even the worst ones. On MacUpdate a rating of one or two stars usually means that the app is complete crap. Probably you are familiar with the rating system at MacUpdate or similar sites. If you have been here before, go to the bottom of the article to see if any apps have been added since your last visit. So don’t forget to check back from time to time. Due to its nature the list is continuously evolving.

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This list once started out as my personal check list for setting-up a fresh Mac (and it still serves that purpose). MacOS Working Environment (Sierra, El Capitan)

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