• Fixes display glitches with the Tray window
• Improves compatibility with Mountain Lion

• Fixes a bug where duplicating a criterion would leave the copy ignored by the query
• Fixes a bug where the Limit… was not applied correctly

• Now shows the number of selected files in the results title bar
• Works around a bug when opening files with Adobe InDesign
• Fixes a bug where upgrade purchase or activation may crash

• Fixes a problem with excessive CPU usage by HoudahSpot Helper
• Restores compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

• Show results with their respective Finder label colors
• Added a new column for a minimal path display
• Improved tag search with a list of known tags
• Improved search by kind with a list of known kinds
• Text preview again works for Apple Pages, Microsoft Word, … documents
• The drop area for tagging file would on occasion disappear

• Improvements in the window naming logic
• HoudahSpot no longer shows an extra empty window on BlitzSearch
• HoudahSpot now reports the correct size of very large folders
• Restores support for QuickLook on Mac OX X Leopard
• Several minor bug fixes

Enhancement: Tray positioning The Tray is now smarter about positioning itself when attached to the bottom of the screen

Enhancement: Tray sizing The Tray no longer uses the full height of the screen when attached to the bottom of the screen

Enhancement: Tray vs. Dock The Tray no longer overlaps with the Dock when the Dock is not set to auto-hide

Enhancement: Tray hiding The Tray may now hides faster after the last interaction with it

Enhancement: Searching for mails HoudahSpot 3.0.3 adds a template for finding mail messages

Enhancement: Dock The Tray no longer overlaps with the Dock

Bug fix: Preferences Fixes an issue where HoudahSpot Helper's preferences became out of sync with the main application

Bug fix: Tagging multiple files Tagging multiple files should default to only tags shared by all files

New feature: The Tray
The main purpose of the HoudahSpot Tray is to provide access to the file tagging features. The Tray may also list your templates
New feature: File tagging
HoudahSpot 3 adds the ability to tag files.
Tags are non-hierarchical keywords assigned to files. They serve a similar purpose than folders. The crucial difference being that a file may be assigned several tags and be located by any of them.
HoudahSpot's tagging feature is based upon the OpenMeta technology. It is thus compatible with a growing number of third party tagging applications.
New feature: Tag searches
The HoudahSpot Tray lists your favorite tags as well as tags recently used by HoudahSpot or another OpenMeta tagging solution.
Drag a file to a tag to assign it that tag. Drag a file to the file well to be presented with a window to enter any number of tags.
Select tags and double-click to start a search. Hold down the option key while double-clicking to match any of the selected tags.
Enhancement: HoudahSpot menu bar item
The behavior of the HoudahSpot menu bar item has been changed slightly.
Clicking the menu bar item now reveals the BlitzSearch window.
Right-clicking the menu bar item opens an actual menu listing HoudahSpot templates.

New feature: The Tray
The main purpose of the HoudahSpot Tray is to provide access to the file tagging features. The Tray may also list your templates
New feature: File tagging
HoudahSpot 3 adds the ability to tag files.
Tags are non-hierarchical keywords assigned to files. They serve a similar purpose than folders. The crucial difference being that a file may be assigned several tags and be located by any of them.
HoudahSpot's tagging feature is based upon the OpenMeta technology. It is thus compatible with a growing number of third party tagging applications.
New feature: Tag searches
The HoudahSpot Tray lists your favorite tags as well as tags recently used by HoudahSpot or another OpenMeta tagging solution.
Drag a file to a tag to assign it that tag. Drag a file to the file well to be presented with a window to enter any number of tags.
Select tags and double-click to start a search. Hold down the option key while double-clicking to match any of the selected tags.
Enhancement: HoudahSpot menu bar item
The behavior of the HoudahSpot menu bar item has been changed slightly.
Clicking the menu bar item now reveals the BlitzSearch window.
Right-clicking the menu bar item opens an actual menu listing HoudahSpot templates.

New feature: Find similar files From within the Inspector, you may now find other files matching the selected properties

Bug fix: Preferred Template Searches created from the preferred template would auto-start under some situations

Bug fix: QuickLook The main window no longer loses focus when activating QuickLook using the space bar

Bug fix: BlitzSearch Under Mac OS X Leopard, HoudahSpot would not always come to front for a BlitzSearch

Enhancement: Search locations Upon adding a search location, HoudahSpot now picks a location which is not already covered.

Enhancement: Date columns Modification & creation date columns now also show time.

Bug fix: Global shortcuts & menu HoudahSpot 2.7 failed to install itself as login items when it should have.

New feature: Any text criterion

The any text criterion now also matches text content.

New feature: Global shortcuts

Global shortcuts may now be enabled independently of the global menu item.

New feature: Inspector window

Links in the Inspector window are now clickable.

Enhancement: Trashing remote files

HoudahSpot now offers the option to delete files which it cannot trash.

Bug fix: Various

HoudahSpot 2.7 includes various bug fixes. It is a recommended update for all users.

Enhancement: Inspector windows HoudahSpot now remembers which inspectors were open and restores them on launch.

Bug fix: Crash with empty "text content" criteriaHoudahSpot could crash when running a search with an empty "text content" criterion.

Bug fix: Boolean valuesHoudahSpot was unable to restore boolean values (e.g file invisible) from saved files or templates.

Bug fix: Result counterThe result counter was off after files were removed from and restored to the searched location.

Bug fix: Hot key preferencesThe global hot keys are available only when the global menu is enabled.

Enhancement: File size display On Snow Leopard, HoudahSpot now uses 1000 Bytes = 1 KB.

Enhancement: Help book The Help book as seen some updates and corrections.

Bug fix: Column width persistence Column with is again correctly restored as persisted.

Bug fix: Column width in new documents Column again use up the full width of a new document.