

- #PUBLICSPACE A BETTER FINDER RENAME MAC OS X#
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This was a planned event: certificates are used for digitally signing applications and they are only valid for a particular period of time, after which they need to be replaced with new certificates. The recent Mac App Store (MAS) fiasco that left many (1% of Mac App Store users? 100%? Nobody knows) users unable to use their apps purchased from the Mac App Store was down to Apple’s root certificate expiring. The reasons for this are manifold and diverse but boil down to: too much change, too little communication, too much complexity and finally too little change management and quality control at Apple.
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The truth is that Mac OS X development has become so very fragile. Nobody other than Apple knows how many Mac App Store customers were affected by the recent MAS certificate fiasco that had the distinction of making it all the way into the pages of Fortune magazine. The situation on the Mac App Store is much, much worse. Lots of big as well as small developers have recently shipped similarly compromised releases. Despite the fact that I did not spend nearly as much time ensuring that everything worked properly with the release management. Right now I don’t know how many users were affected by the “botched” A Better Finder Rename 10.01 release. Luckily that time around it only took a few minutes to become aware of the problem and a few hours to ship a fix so very few users were affected.
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There I’ve done it again: I shipped a broken A Better Finder Rename release despite doubling down on build system verification, code signing requirements validation and gatekeeper acceptance checks, automation, quality assurance measures, etc.
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DecemA Better Finder Rename, iOS, Mac, Programming,, Software In practice, you will probably almost always filter by “First sort by name and sequence number” as this is the way that the files normally come over from your camera, but you also use sorting by EXIF shooting date as long as both your JPEG and RAW image files have the correct meta-data.


Naturally, when it comes to changing the names of these files, they want to apply the same changes to both file types, e.g. Many photographers working with RAW files often end up with file pairs along the lines of “my RAW image file” + “my JPEG preview image file”, e.g.
