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Could you elaborate on what you prefer about explorer over finder?

by casion 11y ago

Kluny 11y ago
You can paste a filepath in the top bar as you would paste a URL. There's also the window snapping, which is not specific to Explorer, but is awesome. Those two features are absolutely killer. I'm not ready to switch from a Mac yet, but I have to agree with the article that the overall Mac situation seems to be getting worse.
- chc 11y ago
  In the Finder, you can hit command-shift-G and paste a path too. (Not disagreeing, just a (hopefully) helpful tip.)
  - Kluny 11y ago
    Nice! Thanks for the tip.
  - secstate 11y ago
    That's pretty much exactly what the OP is complaining about. Sure you can do that, but Cmd+Shift+G? Not the most discoverable interface in the world.
    - mcphage 11y ago
      It's also in the "Go" menu, under "Go to Folder...". Which, sure, you'd have to want that feature to go looking for it, but if you did search for it in the interface, it's pretty clearly the obvious place to look.
      - scott_karana 11y ago
        The Go to Folder feature does not show the current path when you're in a Finder window. In Windows, you can modify the path, eg, change from C:\Users\Scott\Desktop to C:\Users\Fred\Desktop easily just by selecting and typing. In OSX, the Go To Folder dialogue remembers the last path you entered. So yet another step to drag the current Finder's folder icon into it, and then modify. For example.
        chc 11y ago
        You're right, but I don't really think it's too bad. The Go To Folder dialogue generally works like cd. So you can enter a relative path and it will work, you can type ~Fred/Desktop and it will work, and you can type lon[TAB]/ot[TAB] and get longfoldername/otherlongfolder. They have different strengths, I suppose.
        scott_karana 11y ago
        I didn't realize you could tab-complete there, that's awesome. Are there any other "generic text-areas" that actually support that? Discoverability again... :)

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Could you elaborate on what you prefer about explorer over finder?

by casion 11y ago

Could you elaborate on what you prefer about explorer over finder?

Kluny 11y ago
You can paste a filepath in the top bar as you would paste a URL. There's also the window snapping, which is not specific to Explorer, but is awesome. Those two features are absolutely killer. I'm not ready to switch from a Mac yet, but I have to agree with the article that the overall Mac situation seems to be getting worse.
- chc 11y ago
  In the Finder, you can hit command-shift-G and paste a path too. (Not disagreeing, just a (hopefully) helpful tip.)
  - Kluny 11y ago
    Nice! Thanks for the tip.
  - secstate 11y ago
    That's pretty much exactly what the OP is complaining about. Sure you can do that, but Cmd+Shift+G? Not the most discoverable interface in the world.
    - mcphage 11y ago
      It's also in the "Go" menu, under "Go to Folder...". Which, sure, you'd have to want that feature to go looking for it, but if you did search for it in the interface, it's pretty clearly the obvious place to look.
      - scott_karana 11y ago
        The Go to Folder feature does not show the current path when you're in a Finder window. In Windows, you can modify the path, eg, change from C:\Users\Scott\Desktop to C:\Users\Fred\Desktop easily just by selecting and typing. In OSX, the Go To Folder dialogue remembers the last path you entered. So yet another step to drag the current Finder's folder icon into it, and then modify. For example.
        chc 11y ago
        You're right, but I don't really think it's too bad. The Go To Folder dialogue generally works like cd. So you can enter a relative path and it will work, you can type ~Fred/Desktop and it will work, and you can type lon[TAB]/ot[TAB] and get longfoldername/otherlongfolder. They have different strengths, I suppose.
        scott_karana 11y ago
        I didn't realize you could tab-complete there, that's awesome. Are there any other "generic text-areas" that actually support that? Discoverability again... :)