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Pro Maintenance Tools Changelog

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.4.4

  • Plugin Manager - More user-friendly error messages if notarizing a plugin installer fails
  • Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
  • Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
May 2024

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.4.3

  • Removed opt-in telemetry from all apps in the suite
  • Plugin Manager - Support for choosing your team ID from a list when creating a plugin installer
  • Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where plugin names in the format "01.PluginName" would behave incorrectly
  • Plugin Manager - Moved plugin installer notarization to new notarytool service
  • All apps, including plugin installers, now require at least macOS 10.13
  • General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
September 2023

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.4.2

  • Crash Analyzer - Fixed an issue that could cause logs to not appear on recent versions of macOS
  • Plugin Manager - Improved reliability of plugin notarization
  • General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
September 2022

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.4.1

  • Compressor Repair - Improved permissions checking for Compressor 4.x
  • Preference Manager - Improved compatibility with Adobe Creative Cloud 2022
  • Plugin Manager - Improved support for creating installers for large plugin bundles
  • Media Salvage - Fixed an issue where it was possible to select the wrong codec
  • System Toolkit - Fixed an issue where non-movie types could be associated with QuickTime Player
  • System Toolkit - Various code modernizations
  • General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
April 2022

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.4

  • Compatibility with M1 Macs and macOS 11 Big Sur
  • Autosave Manager - Improved compatibility with recent versions of Adobe Premiere
  • Corrupt Clip Finder - Added a column to show the reason a clip was flagged up
  • Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue that could cause duplicate folders to appear
  • Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where plugin installer creation could fail if there were a lot of plugins in the installer
  • Plugin Manager - Improved the robustness of plugin installer code signing
  • Plugin Manager - Shows an option to launch the Apple error log URL in your browser if plugin installer notarization failed
  • QT Repair - Fixed several issues where errors could be flagged up for QuickTime movies that were unusual but nonetheless valid
  • UI and icon improvements
  • Lots of minor tweaks and polish
May 2021

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.3.1

  • Improved compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina
  • Plugin Manager Installers - Improved compatibility with Apple's new notarization requirements
  • Plugin Manager Installers - Better handling of notarization errors, including the option to easily see the notarization log
  • Stability improvements
  • General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
March 2020

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.3

  • macOS 10.15 Catalina compatibility
  • Dark Mode support
  • Migrated away from QuickTime to AV Foundation - this means that older/third-party codecs are no longer supported by Corrupt Clip Finder and Media Salvage
  • Plugin Manager - Support for notarizing installers for macOS 10.15 Catalina - please recreate your existing installers
  • Various bug fixes and code modernizations
November 2019

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.7

  • Corrupt Clip Finder - Fixed an issue where some files might get erroneously flagged up
  • Plugin Manager - Better support for running installer scripts that take a while or require user input
  • Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
  • Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
August 2019

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.6

  • Project Repair - Adobe Premiere projects can now be downgraded to open in earlier versions
  • Plugin Manager - Support for running scripts inside plugin installers both pre- and post-installation
  • Fixed an issue where some apps may not show the Open dialog at startup
  • Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
  • Minor bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
September 2018

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.5

  • Housekeeper - Support for clearing the Avid App Manager cache
  • Replaced Growl with native Notification Center alerts
  • Corrupt Clip Finder - Ignore Large Images defaults to on in prefs
  • Corrupt Clip Finder - Fixed an issue where aborting a scan may not work correctly
  • Media Salvage - Fixed an issue where aborting a salvage may not work correctly
  • Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where Motion transitions may not be displayed in the list
  • General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
May 2018

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.4

  • Project Repair can now resolve issues caused by locked FCPX events
  • Autosave Manager stability improvements
  • Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
  • General bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
February 2018

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.3

  • Fixed an issue that could cause an error to appear saying an application was damaged
  • Various stability improvements and optimizations
December 2017

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.2

  • Housekeeper - Support for trashing Premiere media caches in custom locations
  • Plugin Manager - Improved compatibility with FCPX plugins
  • Plugin Manager - Improved Audio Unit validator reliability
  • Preference Manager - Disabled preference locking for certain apps due to incompatibility with newer versions of macOS
  • Preference Manager - Fixed several issues with how unlockable preferences are displayed in the Lock pane
  • FCS Remover - Improved compatibility with macOS 10.11 and higher
  • General bug fixes and performance improvements
May 2017

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2.1

  • Media Salvage - Support for salvaging ProRes 4444 XQ
  • Plugin Manager - VST2 and VST3 plugin support
  • Crash Analyzer - Improved support for Avid
  • QT Repair - Stability improvements
  • Plugin Manager - Stability improvements when verifying Audio Units
  • Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
  • Various other bug fixes, tweaks and optimizations
January 2017

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.2

  • Housekeeper - Support for trashing After Effects disk caches not in the default location
  • Plugin Manager - Support for Quartz Composer plugins
  • Crash Analyzer - Improved Avid support
  • CS Repair - Fixed an issue that could cause files to be erroneously flagged up
  • Plugin Manager - Improved plugin installer compatibility with Xcode 8 and macOS Sierra
  • Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
  • Various other bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
November 2016

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.9

  • Housekeeper - Support for trashing DaVinci Resolve render caches
  • Housekeeper - Support for trashing failed Mac App Store software updates
  • System Toolkit - Support for trashing CloudKit caches
  • Housekeeper - Improved loading times
  • CS Repair - Fixed an issue where Premiere may not automatically close
  • Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
  • Various other bug fixes and tweaks
July 2016

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.8

  • Media Salvage - Stability improvements
  • Crash Analyzer - Improved support for OS X 10.11 crash logs
  • Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
  • Minor bug fixes, tweaks and improvements
May 2016

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.7

  • Pro Maintenance Tools now requires OS X 10.8 or higher
  • Plugin Manager - Support for OpenFX plugins (e.g. from DaVinci Resolve, Nuke, etc)
  • Plugin Manager - Performance improvements
  • Media Salvage - Batch set settings if multiple files are selected
  • Corrupt Clip Finder - Improved compatibility with FCPX
  • Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
  • Various other bug fixes and tweaks
January 2016

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.6

Note: this will be the last version of Pro Maintenance Tools that supports OS X 10.6 and 10.7.

  • Housekeeper - Support for trashing Motion 5 font / style caches
  • Housekeeper - Support for trashing cached NVIDIA CUDA driver installers
  • Housekeeper - Improved support for trashing Adobe font caches
  • Housekeeper - Minor UI improvements
  • Plugin Manager - Performance optimizations
  • Plugin Manager - Fixed an issue where plugins may not be removed from the list after deletion
  • Media Salvage - Fixed an issue where it may not take a custom salvage location into account when checking for available disk space
  • Updated Crash Analyzer definitions
  • Various other bug fixes and tweaks
December 2015

Changes in Pro Maintenance Tools 2.1.5

  • OS X 10.11 El Capitan support
  • Redesigned Housekeeper user interface
  • Media Salvage - Fixed an issue where it may display an error if the source drive doesn't have enough space, even if a custom destination is set
  • System Toolkit - Removed Verify / Repair Permissions options from the Disk tab due to them being unavailable in OS X 10.11
  • Various other bug fixes and tweaks
September 2015