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Hi Kenny, Fileloup looks great, but is it possible to have a test version first? 29$ is certainly not that much, but also not so little, one just spends right away. would appreciate it! thanks, manzoni

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You can download a beta version of Fileloupe at the link above and take it for a spin. Note that this is a beta for version 1.1 so some features are present that haven't yet made it to the Mac App Store version. If you find that Fileloupe is of value to you, then I'd love to have your support in the Mac App Store.

Thanks a lot! have you planned to include the possibility to add/change the infos of the file or add tags? although you say and probably do not want to change the files? i am thinking of the case of adding red tags, and then in the finder, the file have this red background.

At the moment, I'm taking a very conservative approach to adding what I would call "file manager" features. I'm not trying to create a Finder replacement and with the restrictions that the app sandbox imposes, it's very difficult (if not impossible) to even perform some operations that users might expect if they started to see Fileloupe as a file manager. That's not to say that I'm against them ("Move to Trash" might appear in v1.1) but I am being overly cautious.

With specific regards to Finder labeling and tagging, it's more likely that I'd add support for Fileloupe to be able to show labels and tags long before I added the ability to add or edit those tags.

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