AnySearch Pro

AnySearch 2.5.0 — What’s New File Landscape See your whole Mac at a glance — no rescan required. Built from your existing index: • File & folder counts, total size • Breakdown by type (PDFs, images, videos, code…) and extension • Largest folders and files • Activity over the last 12 months, plus files untouched for a year • Possible duplicates • Per-disk view (This Mac / external / offline) Click any item to jump straight into search. Open via toolbar, Window → File Landscape, or ⌘⇧L.

You can now hide the recent files list. When the search bar is empty, AnySearch shows your 20 most recent files — handy for some, clutter for others. Turn it off under Settings → General → Results → Show recent files for a clean, empty start. It stays on by default, so nothing changes unless you want it to. Also in this release: • The help icon next to the Content toggle now opens its explanation on click, so the tip is easy to find instead of relying on hover.

This major release adds full search support for external drives and fixes a long-standing issue where custom index folders were lost after restarting the app. External Disk Search • USB and Thunderbolt drives are detected automatically — authorize once and the drive is indexed in the background • Local and external files appear together; the toolbar lets you switch between All, Local Only, and a specific drive • Indexes are kept when a drive is unplugged and incrementally refreshed when it returns • Renamed or remounted drives are recognized and the index is migrated automatically • Settings › Index now has an External Disks section for per-drive rescan and remove Fixes • Custom index folders now persist across app restarts. If you lost folders in an earlier version, please re-add them in Settings › Index — they will stick from now on.• External-drive search is available immediately on launch instead of waiting for the home scan to finish • Volume list and file counts in Settings load faster and update more smoothly • Default exclusions extended to common dev caches: .docker, .npm, .cargo, .gradle, .cocoapods Other • "Choose Folder..." in the filter toolbar now persists across restarts • Stability improvements around drive mount, unmount, and authorization