Default Folder X 5.0 is finally done and out! You can get it from https://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/index.html now. A quick list of the new features is at https://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/release.html, though there’s so much new and improved that it’s impossible to really list it all. It’s a ground-up rewrite that brings in all the improvements I’ve wanted to do for years.
Important details, for those of you who haven’t been following the betas:
- It’s fully compatible with El Capitan and doesn’t require that you turn System Integrity Protection off anymore.
- Yes, it’s a paid upgrade. It’s $14.95 unless you bought your license on or after June 1, 2015.
- There are more features that are on the way – I held back a few in order to get 5.0 out sooner.
- Localization in other languages still needs to be done – that’s a high priority now.
- Version 5 also runs on Yosemite, but not on earlier versions of OS X.
- If you turned off System Integrity Protection to use version 4 on El Capitan, you can turn it back on now.
$14.95? That’s outrageous! First I paid full price for 2.x. (Don’t recall the year.) Then I paid $14.95 for an upgrade to 3.x back in 2006. Now I have to pay another $14.95 for an upgrade that likely required a significant (if not “ground up”) re-write of the software to be compatible with an operating system released nine years later?
Ok, ok. Hopefully everyone is sensing my attempt at a little ‘net humor and extreme sarcasm here. (And got a little chuckle in the process.)
Congrats and thanks to Jon for the open beta approach this time around, keeping the upgrade costs extremely reasonable (not even a cost of inflation since circa 2006), and for all the years of providing and maintaining this brilliant software utility! 🙂