folder trial software / shareware for mac

older Spy is an application that allows you to monitor a folder for changes. You can specify what criteria are used in determining if a folder has changed, as well as how you are notified of those changes.
Version restrictions:
- 15 days evaluation.
Enhancements:
- Added ability to open external apps, scripts and documents when folder contents have changed.
- Added option to auto-start checking when a document is opened.

Hide-A-Folder is a low level security application. It is used best in an environment where the security of the data is not of the utmost importance.
The idea is to be able to keep your information away from prying eyes, snooping employees, or kids who may accidentally damage or alter your files. It works by making folder(s) invisible, which can be made visible easily by anyone with skill or want. It features password protection and the ability to hide/show multiple folders at once.
Version restrictions:
- The demonstration version is the same as the full version, except that you are unable to change the default password and you can only show/hide one folder at a time.
- The default password is password without quotes.
Enhancements:
- Fixed bug that was causing unexpected quit when a folder was added to the list.

Smart Folders creates a special kind of folder that will search your entire hard drive and find all items that match certain criteria that you specify. It can update itself at certain intervals to make sure it is always up to date.
Your files and folders will all be located in a central location so that you do not have to go hunting around your computer for them. Best of all, its fast and easy to use since it doesnt have to copy or move large files across volumes. Instead it creates aliases which are just as good as regular files but without taking up extra hard drive space.
Main features:
- Scours your hard drive for all related documents and places them in one central folder
- Automatically updates as new files and folders are installed
- Fast searching takes place in the background without disturbing your work
- Define powerful criteria to match files and folders
- Search your entire computer or only selected hard drives.
Enhancements:
- Adds the ability to customize the settings of an already created Smart Folder and improves support for Mac OS X 10.3.
- It also adds a notification option when a Smart Folder is done updating itself.

Secret Folder lets you conceal a folder and its contents. It provides you with an easy and fast way to protect documents and avoid them being seen, modified, or erased by other users (either on a network or uninvited!).
The program is really simple to use and can be protected with a password for extra security.
Tiger Compatible.
Version restrictions:
- A shareware reminder window with registration instructions appears and forces you to wait some seconds every time you open the application and the option to protect the application with a password will become unavailable.
- To obtain a full version please purchase a registration code.

Folder Icon X application provides an easy way to create custom folder icons and document icons by placing another icon on a standard plain icon. Users can set custom folder icons for both close and open states.
It fully supports drag & drop, picture-to-icon, icon-to-picture, live icon resize, reading-writing in ".icns" format, and can load any icons from any files or folders.
All generated icons are 32-bit Mac OS X-compatible icons which can be viewed on both Classic Mac OS and Mac OS X. Folder Icon X also allows users to manage icons of files and folder through Finder by using the contextual menu plugin. Folder Icon X has 9 languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, Swedish Polish and Dutch.
Main features:
- Create a folder icon with a logo on it.
- Create customized icons for generic disk and folder icons (view sample).
- Icon outputs have size of 128x128 pixels and 32 bits color depth, i.e. 16 millions color.
- Icons can be viewed on Mac OS 7 through Mac OS X (32-bit icons require Mac OS 8.5 or higher).
- Can import pictures, and save them as icons or ".icns" documents (view sample).
- Can import pictures to be a logo icon, a small icon on a plain icon (pict-to-icon).
- Can export icons as pictures (icon-to-pict).
- Support Apples 8 bits mask (DeepMask), i.e. the icons have different levels of transparency.
- Support drag & drop, live resize and transparency change.
- Unlimited customizable templates.
- Can save icons as folders and ".icns" documents.
- Can create icons with dropping variant or open-drop icon (view sample).
- Can import icons from the Finder by using Finders contextual menus, called Folder IconX.plugin
Version restrictions:
- The list of the Template menu of the application is truncated.
- The list of the Background menu of the application is truncated.
- Some commands of the application and the contextual menu plugin are disabled.
- There is an "Unregistered" mark on the saved icon.
Enhancements:
- Maintenance release.

Default Folder X 4.3.2 is a very flexible and effective tool which gives you fast access to various folders and commands.

Recently rated 5 mice by MacUser UK and 4.5 mice by Macworld, Default Folder X attaches a toolbar to your Open and Save dialogs in any OS X-native application. You just click on the buttons to go to your favorite and recently used folders, manage the folders and files shown in the list, and make changes to your settings.

Default Folder also adds the ability to see zoomable previews in Open dialogs and to save Spotlight comments and OpenMeta tags for documents in the Save As dialog, while you're saving them.

Default Folder enhances all of the Open and Save dialogs in Mac OS 9 so that you can easily and quickly get to the folders you use most often. It also lets you set a default folder for any or all applications.
Default Folder automatically takes you to the folder you want, rather than having to find the same one every time you launch an application.
Main features:
- Set up a default folder for any or all applications.
- Switch quickly among recently used folders.
- Easily navigate to your favorite folders.
- Share common sets of recent and favorite folders between all Open and Save dialogs, including Navigation Services dialogs.
- Click on a Finder window to display its contents.
- See available disk space and switch between disks.
- Open the folder shown in an Open or Save dialog in the Finder.
- Create folders, get information (including changing name, type, and creator), and move items to the Trash from within file dialogs.
- "Rebound" back to the last file you used.
- Click on greyed-out filenames to enter a name in Save dialogs.
- Make "Replace" the default option instead of "Cancel" when saving a file with the same name as an existing file.
Version restrictions:
- 30 days trial.
Enhancements:
- Corrected a bug that prevented Default Folder from adding a folder containing a double-clicked file to the Recent Folders list.
- Default Folder will no longer disable Navigation Services in any Carbon application, regardless of the settings in Default Folders preferences. Carbon applications require Navigation Services in order to function correctly.
- Default Folders recent folder menu now includes a "Forget recent folders" command.