We are pleased to announce the immediate release of CM Batch Photo Resizer v1.0.9 for Mac on the Apple’s App Store.

This update contains two major changes, improved error checking and compliance to the Apple’s App Store’s Sandboxing requirement.

In the past, if CM Batch Photo Resizer encounter a photo which is malformed or faulty, it would prompt a blank pop up screen and crashes the application. This issue could be caused because of a mismatch file extension, malformed header, corrupted file or encoding which CM Batch Photo Resizer cannot handle. Now the application when it encounters such issues would echo the error messages within the Status Box at the bottom right hand order. This would allow the application to continue processing the rest of the images on the list while skipping those it cannot handle.

As for the Sandboxing requirement, this only applies to OS X 10.7 Lion users. Apple has set the dateline for all apps sold on the App Store to be sandboxed by November for future updates. We decided to comply with the Sandboxing requirement early so that we could on one hand, get that issue out of the way and it also allows us to concentrate on features updates. Sandboxing requires us to rewrite a huge portion of the application to work in its ecosystem. Natively, the application would have no access to any files outside its sandboxed area so it cannot read or write any files. All access to files and folders would need to be explicitly specified by the user by using the Open and Save File Dialogs or by doing a Drag and Drop. That is the only way files can be added to this ecosystem.

What Sandboxing means to you as the user is that now you would have to always specify the “Save In” location each time you launch the application. This is the only way the application will be granted permission to write to that folder. As such, we have moved the “Save In” settings option to the main screen out of the Preference/Settings Page.

If you do encounter any issues or have any suggestions to improve the application, feel free to contact us by emailing us at support@batchimage.com . We would certainly love to here from you.