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I feel exactly the same way as you. It boggles my mind that Finder is the best OSX has to offer for file management after all these decades. I find windows expl

I feel exactly the same way as you. It boggles my mind that Finder is the best OSX has to offer for file management after all these decades. I find windows explorer to be far superior and more intuitive in almost all cases. What really boggles my mind is how difficult it is to simply get a text string for the current path in Finder - https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/252171/mac-finder-getting-the-path-of-a-directory-or-file-as-as-string https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/252171/mac-finder-... I absolutely love that in Windows Explorer, you can simply click the navbar in the top to transform it into a selected/highlighted text-string path representation (Pro-tip, type cmd in this navbar and hit enter and a DOS prompt opens in the specific folder you are in). Windows explorer also provides a "Copy Path" button in the navbar (that can also be accessed via keyboard shortcuts rather than some gymnastics of right-clicking and holding option keys down). There are definitely things that OSX does better than Windows, but Finder absolutely infuriates me. I much prefer Files in Ubuntu over Finder.

contextfree 7y ago
I always add the copy-path button to the quick access toolbar (right-click on the button in the ribbon's Home tab) for faster mouse access when the ribbon is minimized. You can even select multiple items and copy-path to get a list of paths, to paste into a text file for command-line processing, or into Excel.
WorldMaker 7y ago
> (Pro-tip, type cmd in this navbar and hit enter and a DOS prompt opens in the specific folder you are in) Your system default shell (shared with Win+X menu, defaults to PowerShell for the last few Windows releases but you can switch it back to CMD) is also directly on the File menu in the modern ribbon and opens in the current path. (Alt+F,R is the keyboard shortcut I see, with PowerShell as my system default.) It's a little bit faster than the use the path box as a launcher trick (though use the path box as a launcher is an older trick that predates the modern ribbon).
- _coveredInBees 7y ago
  Ha! Nice. Not sure why it's hidden away under the File tab, but that is pretty handy. Thanks. edit - Apparently you can add it to your quick-access toolbar as well, in which case it saves you one key-press with keyboard shortcuts :-) Alt + <quick access number>
tekknik 7y ago
right clicking with option held is difficult? you’re not a mac user so maybe you didn’t realize this but the option key is used to modify many things (like promptless shutdown/restart/trash empty). click open a menu and press option and you’ll seem some menus entirely change. Also Finder absolutely does support showing the path, and right clicking on any node gives you the option to copy the path as a string.
- _coveredInBees 7y ago
  Having to use a keyboard modifier and a mouse right-click and then traversing down a menu to pick the correct option to copy the path is indeed annoying. It really should be one or the other, and ideally you should be able to do the same both ways because it is a lot faster to just be able to do it via keyboard shortcuts if you are used to navigating your filemanager via keyboard. Windows also lets you Shift+right click to get a copy path option which I find equally annoying, but I can copy it using pure keyboard shortcuts very quickly (or alternately, simply clicking in the navbar and right-click, "copy"). Both of those approaches are way faster. Even in Ubuntu, you can use Ctrl + L to get a selected file-path for your current folder in the Files application which is a lot faster than having to deal with the way Finder exposes file paths.
  - tekknik 7y ago
    i feel like you’re complaining about minor issues. if you really find this one thing annoying enough to write off a whole OS then you’re being a bit ridiculous. most of us are tech savvy so why are you using the GUI anyways when you have unix? either way, to each their own.
    - _coveredInBees 7y ago
      I mean you seem overly defensive about this. Firstly, I never said that I wrote off the entire OS because of this... you are just putting words in my mouth. I did state that Finder feels like a very subpar file manager compared to Windows Explorer and I completely stand behind that. Lastly, it is absolutely absurd to excuse a poor file manager by saying that you should just use a terminal anyways. There are plenty of reasons to still use a file manager over the terminal, even if you are an "elite" unix God.

contextfree 7y ago

I always add the copy-path button to the quick access toolbar (right-click on the button in the ribbon's Home tab) for faster mouse access when the ribbon is minimized. You can even select multiple items and copy-path to get a list of paths, to paste into a text file for command-line processing, or into Excel.

WorldMaker 7y ago

> (Pro-tip, type cmd in this navbar and hit enter and a DOS prompt opens in the specific folder you are in) Your system default shell (shared with Win+X menu, defaults to PowerShell for the last few Windows releases but you can switch it back to CMD) is also directly on the File menu in the modern ribbon and opens in the current path. (Alt+F,R is the keyboard shortcut I see, with PowerShell as my system default.) It's a little bit faster than the use the path box as a launcher trick (though use the path box as a launcher is an older trick that predates the modern ribbon).

_coveredInBees 7y ago
Ha! Nice. Not sure why it's hidden away under the File tab, but that is pretty handy. Thanks. edit - Apparently you can add it to your quick-access toolbar as well, in which case it saves you one key-press with keyboard shortcuts :-) Alt + <quick access number>

tekknik 7y ago

right clicking with option held is difficult? you’re not a mac user so maybe you didn’t realize this but the option key is used to modify many things (like promptless shutdown/restart/trash empty). click open a menu and press option and you’ll seem some menus entirely change. Also Finder absolutely does support showing the path, and right clicking on any node gives you the option to copy the path as a string.

_coveredInBees 7y ago
Having to use a keyboard modifier and a mouse right-click and then traversing down a menu to pick the correct option to copy the path is indeed annoying. It really should be one or the other, and ideally you should be able to do the same both ways because it is a lot faster to just be able to do it via keyboard shortcuts if you are used to navigating your filemanager via keyboard. Windows also lets you Shift+right click to get a copy path option which I find equally annoying, but I can copy it using pure keyboard shortcuts very quickly (or alternately, simply clicking in the navbar and right-click, "copy"). Both of those approaches are way faster. Even in Ubuntu, you can use Ctrl + L to get a selected file-path for your current folder in the Files application which is a lot faster than having to deal with the way Finder exposes file paths.
- tekknik 7y ago
  i feel like you’re complaining about minor issues. if you really find this one thing annoying enough to write off a whole OS then you’re being a bit ridiculous. most of us are tech savvy so why are you using the GUI anyways when you have unix? either way, to each their own.
  - _coveredInBees 7y ago
    I mean you seem overly defensive about this. Firstly, I never said that I wrote off the entire OS because of this... you are just putting words in my mouth. I did state that Finder feels like a very subpar file manager compared to Windows Explorer and I completely stand behind that. Lastly, it is absolutely absurd to excuse a poor file manager by saying that you should just use a terminal anyways. There are plenty of reasons to still use a file manager over the terminal, even if you are an "elite" unix God.