![]() Multiple folders can be shown in a single window using "tabbed browsing" (as in Safari), and files can be dragged from one tab to another. A folder’s contents can also be filtered, so you can view and work with (for example) just JPEGs, or just JPEGs and TIFFs. Path Finder lists a folder’s contents in the three standard views (icon, list, or column) plus a hierarchical menu, and you can toggle display of invisible files, display of package contents, and "smart" sorting (which groups applications, folders, and files). To describe Path Finder’s interface in detail, and to list all that it can do, would make for a huge article. Plus, Path Finder provides loads of extra information and power that the Finder lacks indeed, Path Finder can replace not only the Finder but several other utilities you may already be using to compensate for the Finder’s general weeniness. At every step, in every detail, Path Finder’s interface and behavior simply do the Right Thing. No! Thanks to Path Finder 4, from Cocoatech, you can bypass the Finder in favor of a sensible, rational, gorgeously clean environment for working with files and folders. After all, we all have to use the Finder constantly, every day, so we must simply live with it – mustn’t we? The Finder is full of unnecessary shortcomings, big and small if you can’t think of a dozen of them immediately, it’s probably just because you’ve deliberately numbed yourself to how bad the Finder is, in order to protect your blood pressure. I could rattle on and on, and so, no doubt, could you. But if you drag multiple files into a folder, it doesn’t – it puts up a separate dialog for each existing file, asking whether you want to replace it, but without the relative date information, which is usually crucial to making an intelligent decision about whether to proceed. When you drag multiple files into a folder, and the Finder asks if you want to replace an existing file, why doesn’t it report relative modification dates? When you drag one file into a folder, the Finder tells you whether an existing file with the same name is older or newer. Why doesn’t the Finder say where you are? Why doesn’t it report what folder each window or column represents in the larger hierarchy of things? You probably know about Command-clicking on a window’s title to see its path but some people, like my mother, don’t – and in any case you still have to do something (the Finder doesn’t just show you where you are), plus you can easily get lost in column view because columns have no headings. It shouldn’t take long! Here are some examples: Take a moment to think of something about the Finder that makes you absolutely furious. The Finder is the application that Mac OS X users love to hate. ![]() ![]() #1684: OS bug fix releases, Finder tag poll results, Messages identity verification, blocking spambots, which Apple services do you use?.#1685: Hidden secrets of the Fn key, Emergency SOS via satellite free access extended, RCS support in Messages, Rogue Amoeba icon evolution. ![]()
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