The App Store version of this product is annoyingly marred

I have loved and used this for years, and will still use it with joy, but was hesitant to try the Apple App Store version of a file system utility, mainly because in recent years, the iOS glorified iPad apps rules for products pretending to be OSX utilities make most things useless to release on the App Store. Interestingly, because I assumed file renaming (not file content reading) could perhaps be achieved in the ridiculous user-hostile iOS “sandbox”, I happily paid the nearly 19 dollars for this 2014 September version of “Name Mangler 3”. WHAT A NIGHTMARE ! In the first 2 hours of usage I had to laboriosly dismiss over 200 nag warning dialogs halting my every move. If it was a genuine OSX utility, because all my removable drive volumes were designated in the finder as “IGNORE OWNERSHIP FOR THIS VOLUME” there should not have been a fiasco. Wrong, Apple iOS ignores this user setting in the Finder. But this is a glorified iPad app version, not a tool compiled to use genuine OSX libraries from the developers site. Therefore, though the programmer could possibly have noticed the 200 error dialogs and then hinted at a workaround, or warned me of a workaround upon intial launch, I sufferred and nearly demanded my money back until I found a one time hack, per drive. I cannot reveal it, probably the same way the programmer can’t , due to censorship or some license rule, but you can figure it out. I learned my lesson though, this is the first and last product i will ever buy on App Store that is meant to dou OSX utility actions, or access files.

Second sad problem : It defaults to light font on grey background for majority text and is unreadable and horrid ! The top 50 web sites in user popularity are all 100% pure black font on pure white background. This legibility is not a coincidence. The other web sites dropped out of the top 50 rank over a decade ago. The top 50 web sites are all pure black on white for a reason, as are all PROPERLY WRITTEN genuine OSX applications. Not this new nasty hostile version. UGH!!! Unreadable text! Thankfully there is a preference option to revert this font abomination ! I think the developer must not be familiar with how Mac OSX users and proper font usage works. The Top 50 web sites in history are that way for a reason. There are also countless psychology fontography books that include timed legibility metrics for over the past 50 years on thousands of test subjects that prove this point of BLACK over WHITE, for superior high speed legibility comprehension.

Third problem, because I accidently bought this iOS glorified iPad app from the App Store instead a genuine OSX version from the developers site, if it gets auto-updated by “App Store: version that crashes with my particular OS or Machine, I can’t revert back to a working version very easily. Upon reading the few complaints this app ever got in history, that scenario actually happened to some 10.6.X OSX users who briefly got useless versions of this app. Avoiding the App Store would avoid this downgrade crash in the future, when the developer might stop actively test-supporting your machine or your OS.

This tool is worth far more than its price, because it does 100 AMAZING things no other tool does on Windows, Mac, or Linux, but the version bought from the App Store is a near unusable waste of money for some experts, unless the purchasers stumble upon the unmentionable unspeakable secret workaround to avoid the sandbox that the developer could streamline into the first launch, if they cared to annoy the powers that be.

I can only rate this version 4 stars not 5 because of these GENUINE problems.

the expert_user about Name Mangler 3