Holiday season and all, we’ve kept long and busy nights for the past weeks, all for the public good, so we can give an optimistic kickoff to this new year with a new service update.
But we’re not going to give it to you without a speech first, because we want to share with you a short look back at last year, the excitement we feel towards the next 
2009 has been an incredibly busy year, I guess for everyone, but certainly so for us. It new seems incredible that just 12 months ago we were in the runup of releasing ForkLift 1.6.
This was the release that introduced the great new UI and workflow that made ForkLift the synonym for cutting edge file manipulation on OS X Leopard, or so I hear.
Halfway into the year arrived ForkLift 1.7, our Coming of Age release. With the new major features of folder synchronization, folder merge, and terminal access added in this version, ForkLift finally became the application we all had visioned when we started out in 2007.
At this point, it was really time to lay back and take up World of Warcraft for a while, but instead we started working in secret on the next major release of ForkLift – the big 2.0.
Indeed, the core 1.x framework was over 2 years old at that time, and we felt we have learned enough to significantly improve ForkLift by doing a complete rewrite of the app, a true v2.0.
And while we were slightly held back by the unexpected difficulties of the 1.x version with the upgrade to Snow Leopard, we kept it tight in hand and managed to maintain the current version and at the same time to make good progress with 2.0.
So much that I’m happy to say we’re still shooting for a March release of the first public beta.
And one more thing. In 2009, the number of ForkLift users has passed the 20000 mark. Thanks everyone for that 
Now we can get back to this shiny new year and this new release.
ForkLift 1.7.8 fixes a couple of issues, still under the sign of the Snow Leopard aftermath. Here’s a list
FIXES
- Move to bug: we hope to catch this one in time. Several users reported this bug, that ForkLift (and the filesystem) fails to report it when an error occurs on the target volume during a Move operation on Snow Leopard. This could potentially cause loss of files, so this is the most important fix of this release.
- invert selection: the keyboard shortcut assigned in the Commander set didn’t work properly.
- get info owner: the get info dialogue failed to correctly display file owners after the ownership was changed on a file.
- move to menu item: the Move to menu stayed active for local-to-remote transfers, although the operation is supported. This is now fixed.
- open enclosing folder: the operation was broken on Spotlight search results. Fixed.
- typos: corrected some UI typos
That’s all for tonight folks. Stay tuned!
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I certainly would like the option to have VIEW mode selections other than detail view. Like thumbnail.
Either that or forklift needs to create empty space at the end of the detail listing to allow pasting to take place.
New view modes will of course be arriving with 2.0.
You have two more wishes to be granted
(And don’t wish for more wishes
)
I’m whit Howard, if Forklift has more view mode i will left Finder back… In folder sync it should be a way to sync in both way, not just selected to not selected… it is hard to have two or more computers!
Thx, Forklift is the best app… when are you taking it to other languages?
Other nice feature will be send by mail, like other programs, usually i forget to attach the files! Bye
What can’t i do a double click in the name of a file and rename it like in finder ???
@Eusebio
Well, the quick double click is reserved for opening files in ForkLift, and we don’t have Finder’s slow double click. There are many other ways to do a rename, for instance hitting Enter like in Finder (if you have the Finder keybinding set loaded in Prefs), or clicking the toolbar icon.
I just discovered ForkLift, after unfortunately having spent money on Flow, which has a lot of major hiccups and may look a bit more polished than ForkLift, but works much worse, lacks a lot of features and crashes more often. Additionally, the developers don’t react the tiniest bit on my feedback.
Enough rants about other FTP clients, it’s sad that I didn’t discover ForkLift earlier, but I’m definitely going to buy it and I’d love to betatest 2.0 when it’s available.
If everybody has three wishes, I’d like
1. Core Animation for showing/hiding panes, sidebars, etc. (It’s just a little bit of effort, but so much more usable imho)
2. Pausing and resuming for transfers (if I haven’t overlooked it)
3. A chocolate chip cookie.
Also, if you’d like, I could translate ForkLift into German. You got my mail address.
–Xjs.
@Xjs
I wish the whole world could read your comment… oh, right, they can
Though Mudi sometimes looks like a genie to me, I’m not sure about the three wishes…
Still, if you’re really interested in doing a bit of betatesting for us, something can be arranged. Just send me a note to csabaATbinarynightsDOTcom.
Hi,
I’m glad to see that your project is turning into a 2.0 version this year! I do have a question though. I have been in the process of testing the various FTP services available for Mac and have decided that ForkLift is the best one for my use but now I am puzzled into the choice of purchasing it now, or wait until 2.0 comes out.
Any advices on this? Will the update be free ?
Cheers,
JP
Hello JP,
The 2.0 version will be a complete rewrite of the app, and it will be our first paid upgrade.
Although we are progressing well with the new version, an official release is still a few months away. A public beta is certain to come before the official release, but it’s going to take a couple of months before we reach that. Our public betas usually take 6-8 weeks.
I promise, the upgrade will be well worth every penny
Hi Csaba,
Thanks for your reply! That information has definitely cleared that point out. I have decided that after testing the application throughout the weekend that I will take the step and purchase it! Thank you again! I would love to be considered for the beta if possible.
Cheers,
JP