FileAtlas 1.10.0 Beta 2

New Features

• ZIP backups with an optional SHA-256 manifest are now verified against the actual archive contents.
• New batch rename with preview, prefix, suffix, optional sequential numbering, and collision protection.
• GitHub CI now runs the unit tests in addition to building the app.

Beta Notes

• Renames run only after explicit confirmation and cannot be undone in FileAtlas.
• Please test renaming and backup verification with copies or non-critical data first.

FileAtlas 1.10.0 Beta 1

Highlights

• Backup history and retention controls per location.
• Expanded smart collections, rules, cleanup queue, and saved-location availability.
• Duplicate comparison defaults to the same location, with an optional cross-location setting.
• Complete German and English settings labels, including menus, controls, and descriptions.
• Refreshed bilingual manuals and README documentation.

FileAtlas v1.9.0

Full Changelog: v1.9.0-beta.5...v1.9.0

FileAtlas 1.9.0 Beta 5

Highlights

• Six selectable color themes, including a full-window Glass appearance with a continuous colorful glow and ambient light points.
• Refined motion across scanning, navigation, lists, backups, insights, and the first-launch experience, with a Reduce Motion preference.
• Optional tooltips in Settings, clearer view controls, improved table columns, stable tag interaction, and a more useful default detail panel width.

Reliability

• Improved duplicate detection and added regression coverage for duplicate hashes and tag selection.
• Updated the German and English manuals for color themes, Glass ambience, and tooltip controls.

FileAtlas 1.9.0 Beta 4

What's new

• Live scan feedback with loading placeholders, incoming results, animated counts and current-path updates.
• Refined sidebar, detail, filter, duplicate and first-launch interactions with motion that respects accessibility settings.
• Clearer backup feedback for item changes, cancellation cleanup and successful archive details.
• Updated German and English manuals with the new interface motion behavior.

Verification

• Debug build and automated tests completed successfully.

FileAtlas 1.9.0 Beta 3

New

• A friendly first-launch screen appears only while FileAtlas has no saved locations, recent locations, or indexed entries.
• Add a folder, open the matching manual, or choose optional guided help with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or Claude.
• The three services use local official logos. Selecting one copies a general prompt to the clipboard and opens only the chosen website.

Privacy

• The prepared prompt contains only general FileAtlas guidance and the public manual link for the selected app language.
• FileAtlas never includes local paths, catalog contents, files, credentials, licenses, or other user data, and never pastes or sends the prompt automatically.

Improvements

• Update checks now recognize newer published beta releases as well as stable releases.
• German and English PDF manuals document the first-launch help and its privacy behavior.

Testing

• The new automated tests cover the three service URLs, both language-specific manual links, and the data-minimal prompts.

FileAtlas 1.9.0 Beta 2

Beta release focused on targeted backups.

Changes

• Back up a single file, several selected items, or a folder recursively from the context menu.
• The same folder-backup action is available for every visible subfolder in the sidebar.
• Choose the destination, compression, and optional SHA-256 manifest for each selection backup.
• Selection backups leave configured full backups and schedules unchanged.

Notes

This is a beta prerelease. Please test restoring a small selection by extracting its ZIP archive in Finder.

FileAtlas 1.9.0 Beta 1

Beta release introducing scan insights and organization tools.

Changes

• Automatic scan summaries show new, changed and removed items after follow-up scans.
• Storage Analysis highlights the largest indexed items, file types and duplicates.
• Safe Cleanup Queue lets you review items before moving them to the macOS Trash.
• Rules can flag files by type, minimum size and age after a scan.
• Smart Collections provide saved dynamic views for file type, size, recent changes and duplicates.

Notes

This is a beta prerelease. Please test smart collections across all indexed locations, rules, and cleanup-queue behavior before treating this version as stable.

FileAtlas 1.8.3 Beta 2

Beta release with the updated title bar and build configuration.

• Discord and GitHub buttons beside FileAtlas
• Correct app icon in development and release builds
• Separate app identity for development builds

FileAtlas 1.8.3 Beta 1

Beta release focused on the backup workflow.

Changes

• Full backups can now use an explicitly selected file or folder as source.
• Backup settings now include compression and SHA-256 manifest options.
• Large files are streamed during ZIP creation to reduce memory pressure.
• Backup progress now shows the active source and current item.
• Cancel handling during backup is more responsive.
• Fixed build settings required for Swift 6/Xcode builds.

Notes

This is a beta prerelease. Please test backup source selection, cancellation, and large file backups before treating it as a stable release.