Filter Forge 4.0 Released: Official Thread

That's good news thanks.

When do we get our key if we preordered?

Jerry

Let's have a look then and congrats on release

Great, I got the email already (I also preordered 4.0 when I purchased 3.0). Unluckily, it won't work for some reason
I've posted in the appropriate forum. [update: solved!!]

Anyway... congrats for releasing FF 4.0 as promised, before the end of the year. Not everybody keeps their word these days!

Yay congrats!

haha yup as Indigo said, my "bug-dirty lines" is in the screen cap.

Wooooo Hooooo!!! Already started filing filters... Big time happy with this feature addition!!!

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License keys are being sent out at the moment (there are thousands of those with 4.0 preorders, and the process takes several hours.)

Would "several" be more than 8?

Just wondering as I have not yet received mine. (Spam folder checked. Ten zillion emails with the words "Black Friday", none with the words "Filter Forge"

lol course you'd mention the things that didn't get added in. Means there's more to look forward to, but as much as I'd rather see a really really really stable version of FilterForge.

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Oh and it would be great if there was an option to rename the filter in Custom Filters.

This was tested and scrapped - don't know the particular reason.

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One small thing, I find it very annoying when dragging filters fr om My Filters into new folders, that I have to go back and scroll all the way back to wh ere I just was. It would be nice if it remembered it´s position or just stayed wh ere it was.

Could you please elaborate on that? On my machine it remembers the current position in any library or custom folder. I see what you mean -- this is going to be implemented in 4.007.

Awesome..
Congratz on getting out the "Official" release..

Well I usually wait for about a week or so anyway if I had not received a key.
Still have 30 days anyway.

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CFandM Well I usually wait for about a week or so anyway if I had not received a key. Still have 30 days anyway.

I totally agree, sorry that I do not understand why many are desperate to get the key when really is not needed, unless you have already used the trial and needs the key to keep using it.

I installed FF 4.0 and when running first time it did ask for the key, BUT instead of this I simply clicked on the 30 days trial and it works, because as far as I know there is no limitation on the demo VS full version.

I have not seen if I have received any key or not, as CFandM have there is still much time until is really needed

NOTE: I posted the following message under a different topic that had already been started by someone else, but then decided that it would be more appropriate here, being as this is the official 4.0 thread.

Hello. Thank you for promptly sending me the email this morning containing my registration number for Filter Forge Professional 4.0. I appreciate it.

I just became a Filter Forge user barely a month ago when I purchased FF 3.0, along with pre-ordering FF 4.0, so I am obviously a newbie, and I have barely gotten my feet wet.

At any rate, upon installing FF 4.0 this morning, I realized that, as you noted above, 4.0 is a completely separate installation from 3.0, including the folder that is stored in the "Application Support" folder under Mac OS X Mavericks.

Upon recently receiving the library backup DVD for 3.0, I installed the entire library from the DVD, as well as some other filters which I downloaded directly from your site, into 3.0.

Upon launching 4.0 for the first time, I realized that all of the additional filters which I had installed in 3.0 are not included, obviously because 4.0 has a separate folder in the "Applications Support" folder.

So my question is this: What is the safest, easiest, quickest way to transfer or import all of my filters from 3.0 into 4.0? Is this even possible, or am I going to have to use the backup library DVD to install those filters into 4.0, and then re-download the filters I had also downloaded directly from your site?

If there is no easy way to do this, I would like to suggest that you consider writing some kind of migration assistant which will automatically import all of my filters from 3.0 into 4.0.

Finally, I have a question regarding the lifetime license. Being as I just purchased 3.0 a month ago, and pre-ordered 4.0 at the same time as well, I am a little confused, and I am wondering how the lifetime license offer affects me, and how much I would have to pay for it.

Thank you for your kind attention to these matters. I look forward to your response.

I got a key for 4.0 beta.will this Work with the new release?

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Sharandra I´m missing an option to copy/paste filters and folders...

Sorry that I do not understand you, what you mean with miss?

Do you want to copy and paste filters instead of the drag and drop?

Why copy and paste folders?

Sorry, that I may be missing something and as it is new I have not had much experience with filter manager

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I´m missing an option to copy/paste filters and folders

AFAIK this is being developed, though I wouldn't expect it this year.

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Apart from the lag and freezes

Sharandra, these might happen because of our extra-paranoid pre-deletion checks. Every time we move filters from one location to another (e.g. when migrating a storage folder or during drag-and-drop move), we do a mandatory binary comparison of source and destination folders. If and only if the comparison indicates that source and destination folders have identical content, we proceed with deletion of the source folder.

Until the dust settles, I'd like to keep this check in the code. We can consider removing it later.

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I´m missing an option to copy/paste filters and folders...

We'll add this when important bugs are fixed.

The bug I reported with on Mac OS X in Beta 2 is still there making it useless. Click a couple of times on different filters in the browser, bam.

Sorry guys, I got a bug-point but the bug is still there.

LOVE the new custom folders! i think i was the original guy that suggested these way back when! nice to have them thanks, guys!

Like very much and is very useful to have the new History list of used filters and the searches you have done before, well done and cool idea.

It has happened to me many that I want to back to a filter I was using yesterday and I have to search for it, and sometimes I do not remember wich one was, and also in the search before you could only do just one search at a time, and now with the search history list you can made many and have them available again when you want it to use it again (until is deleted from the list)

Worthy and valuable addition to filter forge

KeithS, we sent three emails to you — please check your spam folder.

Bertan, we did — I've replied in your thread.