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I've bought a new MacBook pro. It works reasonably well, but : it is seriously bug-ridden. For instance, at times the Finder won't allow any drag and drop oper

by wazoox 10y ago

I've bought a new MacBook pro. It works reasonably well, but : it is seriously bug-ridden. For instance, at times the Finder won't allow any drag and drop operation (you need to kill it). Access to network shares is hit and miss. Globally the OS X Finder has been a pretty poor piece of essential software since... Developer Preview? :/ The absence of at least one standard USB port is really annoying, you need an adapter to plug in just about anything, a thumb drive, a phone, a mouse... any of the bazillions of USB gizmos and cables everyone has lying around in his house or at work. Wherever you are, you need to have this stupid adapter at hand. It's incredibly annoying; in practice you have to carry your nice, sleek laptop with a constantly dangling white protrusion on a side.

oneeyedpigeon 10y ago
Finder really needs some attention beyond adding features like tagging that add complexity without, as far as I can tell, bringing any real benefit. I want a Finder that's keyboard-accessible, that lets me easily restart it when it crashes, that doesn't frustrate my efforts to view certain hidden files. I'd still take it over windows explorer, on balance, but only barely, and that's pretty damning. I've recently started using fman [0] which seems a promising alternative. [0] https://fman.io https://fman.io
- nortoncommander 10y ago
  fman looks awesome...Norton Commander for mac.
- arthurfm 10y ago
  I want a Finder that's keyboard-accessible, that lets me easily restart it when it crashes, that doesn't frustrate my efforts to view certain hidden files. Forklift 3 would also meet those criteria. http://binarynights.com/forklift/ http://binarynights.com/forklift/
falcolas 10y ago
Regarding finder, one of the best things I ever did was enable "Quit" for it. Now I can easily handle when it bugs out like every other program... "Turn it off and back on again" defaults write com.apple.Finder QuitMenuItem -bool true
kolinko 10y ago
For the phone you can get usb-c to lightning cable.
rsync 10y ago
"The absence of at least one standard USB port is really annoying, you need an adapter to plug in just about anything, a thumb drive, a phone, a mouse." Agreed. I am not the owner of any new mac laptop for this specific reason. My current 11" MBA is has a lot of utility with a standard USB port on each side and it's not that uncommon that I need both of them simultaneously. For instance, I get a very large file on a USB attached device and need to move it up to the network and my ethernet dongle would be 10x faster than wifi ...

by wazoox 10y ago

oneeyedpigeon 10y ago

Finder really needs some attention beyond adding features like tagging that add complexity without, as far as I can tell, bringing any real benefit. I want a Finder that's keyboard-accessible, that lets me easily restart it when it crashes, that doesn't frustrate my efforts to view certain hidden files. I'd still take it over windows explorer, on balance, but only barely, and that's pretty damning. I've recently started using fman [0] which seems a promising alternative. [0] https://fman.io https://fman.io

nortoncommander 10y ago
fman looks awesome...Norton Commander for mac.
arthurfm 10y ago
I want a Finder that's keyboard-accessible, that lets me easily restart it when it crashes, that doesn't frustrate my efforts to view certain hidden files. Forklift 3 would also meet those criteria. http://binarynights.com/forklift/ http://binarynights.com/forklift/

falcolas 10y ago

Regarding finder, one of the best things I ever did was enable "Quit" for it. Now I can easily handle when it bugs out like every other program... "Turn it off and back on again" defaults write com.apple.Finder QuitMenuItem -bool true

kolinko 10y ago

For the phone you can get usb-c to lightning cable.

rsync 10y ago

"The absence of at least one standard USB port is really annoying, you need an adapter to plug in just about anything, a thumb drive, a phone, a mouse." Agreed. I am not the owner of any new mac laptop for this specific reason. My current 11" MBA is has a lot of utility with a standard USB port on each side and it's not that uncommon that I need both of them simultaneously. For instance, I get a very large file on a USB attached device and need to move it up to the network and my ethernet dongle would be 10x faster than wifi ...