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@imabuddha imabuddha released this 26 Sep 02:06
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v2.0.7
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SGF Tools 2.0 is a rewrite from scratch of the Mac tools for SGF (Go game) files, for today's
macOS. It has:

  • Thumbnails in Finder: each game's board after the opening moves, with a stack of boards for
    a file that holds several games.
  • Quick Look previews: press the Space bar on a game to see the board beside the players,
    the result, the event, the date, and the rest of the game information.
  • Spotlight search: the players, event, date, result, comments, and more of every game, in
    Spotlight, Finder, and mdfind. The fields keep their 1.x names, so old saved searches work.
  • A screensaver that plays the opening of a random game from your collection on each
    display, two moves a second.

Requires a Mac with Apple silicon and macOS 26 or later.

Installing

  1. Download SGF-Tools-2.0.7.dmg, open it, and drag SGF Tools to Applications.

  2. SGF Tools is signed to run on your Mac but isn't notarized by Apple, so let macOS open it,
    either in Terminal (the surest way, since it also covers the Quick Look and Spotlight
    extensions):

    xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/SGF Tools.app"

    or by opening it, clicking Done, and then clicking Open Anyway in System Settings >
    Privacy & Security.

  3. Open SGF Tools once, and run qlmanage -r in Terminal.

  4. For the screensaver: click Update Screensaver Games in SGF Tools and allow the access
    requests. Drag SGF Tools.saver to your Desktop, run
    xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/Desktop/SGF\ Tools.saver, double-click it, and install it
    for this user only. Then choose SGF Tools in System Settings > Wallpaper > Screen Saver (under
    Other), for each display.

The disk image's Read Me and the README have the
details, including indexing the games you already have.

Credits

SGF Tools was started in 2009 by Jason Foreman
(threeve/SGF-Tools), who wrote its first SGF parser and
Spotlight importer; John Mifsud took it through 1.4.5 in 2010. 2.0 shares no code with 1.x but
keeps its ideas. MIT License.

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