Using services, menu items are no longer created dynamically prior to the opening of a contextual menu. As a result, File Buddy’s additions to the Finder’s contextual menu are less contextually sensitive than they were in File Buddy 9. For example, it is no longer possible to offer a command only if multiple items are selected or provide different menu item text based on the current Finder selection, such as “Copy Path” versus “Copy 4 Paths.” The Finder can do this for its own commands, but commands provided by other software cannot.

The Preferences ▶ Contextual Menu command has been removed because the current mechanism for adding items to contextual menus does not provide a way to dynamically control which items are offered.

All File Buddy commands appropriate for items selected in Finder are automatically available by default and will appear in Finder ▶ Services menu as well as any Finder contextual menus. This is a departure from previous releases of File Buddy where the File Buddy contextual menu plug-in had to be explicitly installed before File Buddy’s commands could be available. See File Buddy’s contextual menu help topic for a discussion of the available commands and how to customize them using the Keyboard preferences pane.

File Buddy 10 fully supports the larger 256x256 and 512x512 icon sizes introduced in Leopard and Snow Leopard respectively. All sizes supported in Mac OS X 10.6 – 10.9 can be viewed in the icon family viewer, created, copied, pasted. In addition, File Buddy 10 uses new code that produces better results when creating custom icons from images.