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Fairly new OSX user and I kind of hate finder. My first gripe is of course the feeling that no one cares about these basic conveniences @apple. Some of these a
by tmd83 12y ago
Fairly new OSX user and I kind of hate finder. My first gripe is of course the feeling that no one cares about these basic conveniences @apple.
Some of these are also found from other people's comment but I want to highlight that they also matter for me.
1. The fact that most file browser has editable auto-complete location field.
2. That it doesn't show the size of the selected files in status bar.
3. That when you try to fix it by opening the info menu on the selection it does the most idiotic thing possible (in my judgement) and open a separate info window for each file. As far as I know I have no way in finder to find the size of a selection (to guess the time for a copy operation or space needed).
4. That the most basic operation in a file manager getting inside a folder or getting back requires a two key action (cmd+enter, cmd+delete). Seriously?
5. That opening a file is not the default but renaming is. Again seriously?
6. No cut-paste.
7. No compact view. Without it browsing a large selection of files quickly and organise cut/paste don't really work for me.
8. Zero find ability without index. Am I suppose to index all my portables?
I have been using xtraFinder so I don't know if I remember all the problem correctly. But I was almost ready to rip my hair off when I first moved to OSX specially when it felt like most people were happy with finder. It feels to me that for apple finder is kind of a file viewer in a limited sense and you are suppose to only organise files through the respective programs iPhoto, iMovie etc. I will shy away from calling finder a 'File Manager'. The way I try to manage/organise my files, finder is a nightmare.
The gold standard for me right now is Nemo. Handles all the above case and as a bonus (for me)
Just start typing and the cursor moves through sub selection starting with that prefix. Very helpful with a quick find or selection.
- kevinschumacher 12y agofor your issue 3 about not being able to check the size of multiple files: In the right click menu (where you'd normally go to "get info"), hold option/alt. You'll see "get info" (cmd+i) change to "show inspector" (cmd+opt+i). Couldn't agree more that it's dumb, but there's your multi-file properties window.
- tambourine_man 12y ago3 - Show Inspector: command-option-i 6 - command-c, command-option-v 7 - Don't know if that's what you mean, but you can hide everything on the view menu. 8 - If you mean spotlight index, yes
- jwn 12y ago6 - You just specified copy/paste, the parent post mentioned cut/paste. I too find the lack of cut/paste annoying.
- vvhn 12y agolook carefully at the 2nd command, it's NOT copy (cmd-c) and paste (cmd-v)
- tmd83 12y agoXtraFinder solves a few of the problems for me like enter/backspace for navigation. But thanks for chipping in with some of the solutions. 7 - Essentially is the default view of Windows Explorer, files are listed from top to bottom and wrapping around to next column. This is the most compact way to browse a lot of files when you are not worried about their size/type and only interested in the names. But even if some of the problems can be fixed by installing extra software or obscure shortcut the fact remains finder is simply painful to use as is to manage or work with files. It can't even find files unless someone provides an index and it's named finder. Apple and OSX has a lot to love from build quality to universal copy-paste (a sore issue in linux). But I find in some failures/limitations apple is by far the worst player around.
- tambourine_man 12y agoI think the main criticism the Finder receives is due to it being very different from Windows Explorer (and the many midnight commander's heir) and worse than the classic Finder in a few but important ways. But to me, it is still far better than any of the alternatives. I like the way it protects the user from doing potentially dangerous actions by hitting a single key and I'm not bothered by command-o, command-delete at all. It finds files on unindexed disks for me, it just takes longer (as expected). You might have a permission problem or using an unsupported format (like NTFS, through FUSE) You can also get crazy file density in the Finder: http://i.imgur.com/wLW9WvF.jpg http://i.imgur.com/wLW9WvF.jpg
- 12y ago
- leviathant 12y agoHaving moved to OSX at work last August, I tried to approach it as openly as possible, and to learn how to use it the way everyone else in my company uses it. Finder is terrible. Window management is terrible. Installing uBar helped a bit with Window management. I'm going to be working in OSX for a long time, but for file and window management, give me Windows 8.1 any day of the week. Or Windows 10, which is purring along nicely on my six year old Dell laptop.
- ubar 12y agoHey I'm the developer of uBar - please let me know if you have any suggestions or feedback to make uBar help with your window management even more:)