Big thanks to everybody for your feedback!

With this update we’re introducing a strongly structured overall layout of the Surface plus an easy way of navigating through your folder tree using links to subfolders and links to navigate up the tree. It also includes many improvements to overall stabilty and faster performance.

We are happy to receive any kind of feedback about Raskin Beta, don't hesitate to use the built-in feedback dialog. Big thanks to everybody for your feedback so far!

NEW

• Each folder now shows a clickable table of contents for direct navigation into its subfolders. Folders already open on the Surface appear in bold print.
• Links positioned left to each folders header to navigate to the enclosing folder.
• Links positioned in the top part of the headers of Places to navigate further up the folder tree.
• All folders are now is as wide as the Place and cannot be individually resized.
• A double-click on a folder that is already focused will open the folder (and it's subfolders when holding the Option (ALT) key.


IMPROVED

• Overall look and feel.
• More consistent Display More and Display Less functions.
• Readability through improved typography.
• Overall performance and stability.
• Place resizing handle area is easier to hit and improved accuracy of the cursor.
• Finer scrolling with touchpad and Magic Mouse.
• Duplication of an item is now shown more appropriately.
• Progress bar with with more accurate values while launching Raskin.
• Feedback and crash reporting.


FIXED

• Crash on entering Full Screen mode.
• No longer asks on second launch for granting access. Properly stores sandbox permissions on initial build.
• No longer crashes when starting Raskin by dropping something onto Dock or Surface.


REMOVED
• Manual layout: we're investigating new ways of including a manual layout feature. Please send us in any comments if or how you're using manual layout.
• Removed "Reveal in Finder" button in footer of folders. (There is a new graphical button top right, visible when a folder is selected.)

Big thanks to everybody for your feedback!

We fixed the reported bugs and made some «under the hood» preparations for Mac App Store Release.

We are happy to receive any kind of feedback about Raskin Beta, don't hesitate to use the built-in feedback dialog. Big thanks to everybody for your feedback so far!

IMPROVED

• The way that sandbox permissions are stored. You will probably have to allow access to some of your directories.
• After hiding all items of a folder, the folder now will adjust its size to minimal.


FIXED

• A newly created claim now properly shows its footer and resize handle.
• The Raskin Surface window no longer comes to foreground when clicking from outside of Raskin and start dragging a file or folder

Big thanks to everybody for your feedback!

We fixed the reported bugs and made some «under the hood» preparations for Mac App Store Release.

At any time you can launch Raskin while pressing the Option (ALT) key to rebuild your Surface (Factory Reset) and then choose how to build the Surface.

We are happy to receive any kind of feedback about Raskin Beta, don't hesitate to use the built-in feedback dialog. Big thanks to everybody for your feedback so far!

NEW

• Dialog to ask user to grant access to the file system on first launch.
• Dialog asking user to grant access to inidividual folders.


IMPROVED

• Wording and dialogs of initial launch, rebuild surface and other sandbox related dialogs.
• Caching of file previews.
• Longer Battery life on Mavericks by refining App Nap and adding Timer Tolerance.


FIXED

• Creation of new Places.
• Places can be resized properly.
• Opening Quick Look from Context Menu
• Potential crash at end of movie playing.
• Potential crash for unreadable files when opening context menu
• Position and wording of Registration Window.


REMOVED
• Button to «Open System Preferences: Keyboard» in Helper Prefs

With this release we're introducing sandboxed Raskin giving users the possibility to grant access to the entire file system or just individual folders.

An Apple requirement for all new major releases in the Mac App Store, sandboxing of applications allows them to only perform a specific set of expected operations. These limitations are enforced by the system's kernel. While it may seem that Raskin would need to request broad entitlements to read and write files, that isn't necessarily the case. Any action initiated by the user, such as dragging a file onto an application icon, can open the sandbox, granting the application access to that specific file.

• After first launching this update, you may choose to grant access to your startup volume which includes access to all other volumes as well, also removable drives and server volumes.
• Alternatively you may choose to give Raskin access to only a specific folder on your volume. To do so, press Cancel in the initial dialog. Your current Surface arrangement will be lost and you can add individual folders to build a new Surface.

At any time you can launch Raskin while pressing the Option (ALT) key to rebuild your Surface (Factory Reset) and then choose some other folders.

Everything else will work as it did before.

We are happy to receive any kind of feedback about Raskin Beta, don't hesitate to use the built-in feedback dialog. Big thanks to everybody for your feedback so far!

NEW

• Sandboxed Raskin no longer has access to file system without explicit user consent.
• Dialog to ask user to grant access to the file system on first launch.
• Dialog asking user to grant access to inidividual folders.


IMPROVED

• Security

Big thanks to everybody for your feedback!

We fixed some of the reported bugs and made the migration from Raskin 1 to Raskin 2 smoother.

We are happy to receive any kind of feedback about Raskin Beta, don't hesitate to use the built-in feedback dialog.

IMPROVED

• Speed up Surface with more than 10'000 items on low-end systems.
• When coming from Raskin 1.x and the Surface background color has never been changed, Raskin now shows the much lighter color which is also the default for new users.
• When launching Raskin 2 for the first time, the focus is now closer to where you left in Raskin 1.x.
• Text in Activity panel while launching Raskin more accurate.


FIXED
• Fixed potential crash that occurred under rare circumstances after hiding files or folders.

It’s been a while since the last beta. With this one, we’re introducing "Raskin Helper", a new companion app, that can be installed as a “Switch to Raskin” button in your Finder toolbar.

It also provides the system-wide shortcuts to reveal the currently edited document from any other application, a feature that can not be made available directly from within the sandboxed version of Raskin bound for Mac App Store.

We are happy to receive any kind of feedback about Raskin Beta, don't hesitate to use the built-in feedback dialog.

NEW

• Companion app "Raskin Helper" adds a Raskin button to your Finder toolbar. You will be asked to download it separately.
• A link to download "Raskin Helper" can be found at the bottom of the Quick Start Guide.
• "Raskin Helper" also works with Raskin 1.8.x
• Even brighter and smoother look of the Raskin Surface.
• Rebuild Surface (Factory Reset) now available when pressing ALT key while launching Raskin.
• Folders and Places that don't show all items are visually distinguished by a grey footer.
• Label colors more accurately match the label buttons.
• Default sorting of folders changed to Name.
• Service "Reveal in Raskin" from any other application: now available through Raskin Helper. Will bring Raskin to foreground showing the document you were working on.
• Service "Reveal Selected Item in Raskin": available in Finder as service on files and folders.
  
  
  IMPROVED
  
• Moving one single file or folder into a sorted folder now keeps the sort order of the folder.
• Check for modifier conflict: you can now use the same modifier inside Raskin to zoom as well as outside to reveal in Raskin.
• Updated Preferences windows to reflect the introduction of Raskin Helper.
• Rendering of metadata of files on selection.
• Better default values make rendering of folders more consistent.
• Filesystem Aliases now show their own icon (instead of random app icon) in metadata.
• Files with no preferred application now show no icon at all.
• Handling of filesystem changes outside of Raskin.
• Faster saving and loading of Surfaces with many Place aliases
• Shortcut Command-Option-O (cmd-alt-O) is back with "Display as Many as Possible". "Add Files and Folders" now uses Command-Option-I (cmd-alt-I)
• Position of Preferences window when opened the very first time
  
  
  FIXED
• Potential hangs and crashes under several circumstances.
• Display of filesystem Alias file names containing periods (.).
• Alias can be renamed even when name contains periods.
• Files no longer show a colored backdrop on right-click in Light Table view.
• No longer crashes when Light Table view is active while launching Raskin.
• Correct font is used when renaming a Place.
• Renamed Mac OS X to OS X in Preferences.
• Resizing of a Place is now consistently possible throughout the full length of the Place. Removed misplaced resize handle.
• Dragging folders no longer crops top left buttons (they are now hidden while dragging).
• Fixed bug that didn't remove old prefs on Rebuild Surface (Factory Reset).
• Choosing "Reveal Selected Item in Raskin" from the Finder context menu (right-click on a Finder item) now also works when Raskin is in the foreground (active application) and Finder in the background.
  
  
  REMOVED
• Removed "Open Raskin on login" from Preferences: Please click on the Raskin icon in the Dock (Options) to change this setting.
• Removed "Rebuild Surface" from preferences: Rebuild Surface (Factory Reset) now available when pressing ALT key while launching Raskin.
• Removed Raskin Introduction Videos from Surface: now available through the Help menu.