ShotGrab 0.2 is out. It adds the things people asked for most since the first release: shoots that cross midnight, a way to see all your disks at once, a safe answer to "can I format this card?", and projects that follow you from one Mac to another. Here is what changed, and why. If you only want the list, the short version is on the changelog.
Shooting past midnight stays in one day
A wedding does not end at 23:59. Until now, a clip shot at 00:40 landed in tomorrow's folder, away from the rest of the evening. In 0.2, a clip shot after midnight, a few hours after the previous one, can stay in the same day's folder. You choose what happens in Settings: Never, Ask or Always.
The rule is not a hard cut at 4 a.m. The allowed pause shrinks steadily from three hours at midnight to nothing at 5 a.m., so a late party joins the evening and an early start does not. The copy never waits for you: if you do not answer within a minute, the clips go to their own day, and you can still merge them later. Moving clips that are already copied shows a progress bar, and picks up where it stopped if you quit the app.
A sidebar for your disks
The new Disks sidebar sits at the top left of the home, next to the title. It lists the cards that are connected, each with a bar that shows what is already copied, what is still to copy and what is free. Your destinations are there too, with free and total space. It never interrupts a shoot: you look at it when you want to, not while the copy runs.
Right-click a card, or select several with Cmd or Shift, to open
it in Finder, eject it or mark it for formatting. An ejected card does not vanish: it stays
in the list, greyed out, and one click brings it back. The automatic eject at the end of an
import works the same way, so the card is safe to pull out and still within reach.
Cards that ask to be formatted
Mark for formatting makes a card that is already copied look unformatted, so the camera offers to format it when you insert it. A card that opens normally still has work to do; a card that asks to be formatted is done. Nothing is deleted, and it is reversible with Restore card until the camera formats it.
It only works on cards that are safe. ShotGrab marks a card only when every file on it has a verified copy in your archive. If that copy exists on one disk only, it tells you and suggests a second backup, without blocking you. macOS asks for your password or Touch ID each time, once for any number of cards.
We wrote a longer explanation of how it works and why it is safe in How to Mark an SD Card for Formatting.
A clearer way to say goodbye to a project
When you stop listening to a project, ShotGrab now asks "Eject <destination>?" in its own sheet instead of a system alert, with the name of the destination in large type. With several disks around, you see which one you are about to unmount.
Project export is now a full backup
The .shotgrabproject file used to carry your settings and structure. Now it also
carries the history of every file already copied and verified. Import it on another Mac and
that history is restored under the destination you choose, so the same cards are not
imported again.
The files themselves are not inside the export. Archives above one million files are cut to the newest ones, and ShotGrab says so when that happens.
iCloud sync between your Macs
Turn it on in Settings > iCloud sync. Your projects, with their settings, destinations and the history of what is already imported, follow you through your private iCloud. Your general preferences travel too: the Settings switches, the ignored devices and the text corrections, merged entry by entry.
- Edits made offline on two Macs are merged field by field: change different things on each, and you keep both.
- A deletion never overrides a change made on the other Mac.
- A destination whose disk is not connected on that Mac shows as "Not connected", and you pick another.
- Files are never uploaded, and each Mac still needs its own license.
Settings, redesigned
Settings used to be one long page. It now has a sidebar with six sections: Import, Ignored
devices, Text corrections, iCloud sync, License and About. Options sit in rows with the
explanation beside the control, and the four things ShotGrab always does (SHA-256
verification, no duplicates, continuous listening, keeping the Mac awake) are listed under
Always on. Text corrections are listed and editable right in their section.
Small thing, big difference: Esc now takes you back to the home from Settings and
from a project's page, and still asks before discarding unsaved changes.
Under the hood
Most of the work in this release is invisible, and it is about the one promise the app makes: no file lost. Verification now reads back from the disk instead of the cache, so a copy is confirmed by what actually reached the destination. Database errors are no longer silent. A file is never skipped because a different one happens to have the same name and size.
How to update. ShotGrab checks for updates on its own and asks before it installs one. It never restarts while a copy is running. Prefer to check now? Use Check for Updates in the ShotGrab menu. The full history is on the changelog.