v1.0.0

Forel v1.0.0

🎉🍾 Forel is exiting beta. This release marks the transition to a stable. Faster, safer, and ready for everyday use.

Added

• Added an options button to the Rename action with a "Clean file name" toggle that strips accents and special characters, lowercases, and converts camelCase and spaces to hyphens.
• Added a directory filter and paginated loading to Activity so large histories open faster.
• Added an option to Move to Folder and Copy to Folder rules for handling a file that already exists at the destination: rename the new file (default), replace the existing file (sent to the Trash, not deleted), or skip the file to avoid creating a duplicate.
• Added a History retention setting to limit stored activity entries, with automatic background cleanup of entries older than the configured number of days.

Changed

• Dry Run, Run Now, and the automatic watcher now always agree on what a rule would do to a file, including which files are skipped, blocked, or already sorted — no more surprises between a preview and what actually happens.
• Undo now refuses to act if the file changed since the original action, or if an active rule would immediately reprocess the restored file, instead of silently restoring the wrong file or letting the watcher redo what was just undone.
• Copy to Folder is no longer undoable — a copy is an independent file once created, not something to roll back.
• The action options button in the rule editor is now hidden for actions that have no options instead of showing an empty popover.
• Database upgrades now run through an ordered migration list to keep future updates safer.

Fixed

• Fixed a rare crash in automatic history cleanup caused by unsynchronized database access from background threads.
• Fixed history retention cleanup incorrectly comparing dates across timezones — dates are now always stored and compared in UTC.
• Fixed the watcher re-evaluating every file once after migrating to the new path-state schema, instead of trusting a matching fingerprint.
• Fixed Run Script actions hanging forever when the script doesn't exit — they now time out after 60 seconds.
• Delete now permanently removes the file instead of moving it to the Trash (undo is no longer available for Delete).
• Fixed rename patterns containing / being able to move files outside the source directory — they now produce an error instead.
• Rename patterns are now validated against macOS filename rules (., .., trailing spaces/dots, max length) and show live warnings in the editor.
• Fixed Dry Run showing an empty action area instead of explaining when a matched rule has no actions.
• Fixed Activity becoming unresponsive when opening very large history logs.
• Fixed renamed or moved files being immediately reprocessed by the watcher and receiving repeated rename suffixes.
• Fixed Dry Run crashing when a very large folder produced too many preview matches.
• Fixed rules stopping after a successful Move to Folder action instead of continuing with later actions on the moved file.
• Fixed Dry Run showing rename actions as unavailable after a simulated move when the rename pattern only used the file name.
• Fixed unreadable rule editor selectors in Light mode.
• Fixed Dry Run hiding files that matched a rule with conditions but no actions.
• Fixed a bug where a destination conflict could rename a file mid-move into a numbered duplicate that Dry Run never showed.
• Fixed the automatic watcher repeatedly re-running a Copy to Folder rule on the same untouched file, flooding Activity with duplicate entries.
• Fixed the automatic watcher logging a spurious "doesn't exist" entry for a file it had just successfully moved, caused by a duplicate filesystem notification for the same change.

Two builds available. Download the one that matches your Mac:

• Forel-v1.0.0-darwin-arm64.dmg Apple Silicon (M1 / M2 / M3 / M4)
• Forel-v1.0.0-darwin-x86_64.dmg for Intel

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later.

1. Download the correct .dmg for your Mac.
2. Open it and drag Forel into Applications.
3. First launch: the app is ad-hoc signed (not notarized), so right-click Forel.app -> Open and confirm. (Or run xattr -cr /Applications/Forel.app.)