I don't understand why you hate PF when you are actually saying it covers all your needs?
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It doesn't even come close to covering all my needs. I'm sorry if I suggested that. (Where did I suggest that?)
The handling of window-part sizing drives me crazy. It's their failure to address the reported problem for years now that pushed me to such negative feelings.
I frequently open and close the various shelves holding the modules I've configured. Also, I frequently switch between dual pane and single pane display. They've made some fundamental design mistakes that manifest when you resize windows. Here are two examplse that I've reported to them.
In a large window with the right-side shelf open, close the right-side shelf. Shrink the window to a much smaller size. Try to open the shelf. It will not open. The problem is that they incorrectly maintain the state of hidden things as the window resizes. I've reported it - they've reproduced it - they haven't fixed it.
They also screwed up dual-pane state. I desperately want to maintain a 50/50 split; I find that impossible. If I close the last window with a 50/50 split, and it happens to not have remembered as the default size of new windows, when I open a new window, it won't be 50/50. They seem to be recording the absolute size of the left pane rather than the proportions of the split.
I find myself constantly readjusting things in windows to put them back to the desired state. The only solution is to avoid resizing Path Finder windows. I really want to find a dual-pane alternative to Path Finder. ForkLift comes so close but lacks the essential feature of remembering tree expansion state.
Did you put in a feature request to ForkLift? I would love to see this feature in ForkLift as well.
I did indeed. Here is there response
From the wording, I think it might help if you also wrote them.
Understood. Not my experience tho, PF is my everyday tool since version 1. Never had a problem with it and their support has been great for me.
Do you mean the support you receive on their forum or support you get from them directly?
I think there is a single person handling the forums, named Mary. I find that Mary is very slow to respond to my questions. I do see that she responds quickly to common problems and often gives pat answers. The forum is way too busy with problem reports for a single person to handle them.
I Love PF too but I have to agree. Support is pretty bad even in the betatester forum sometimes it takes a week to get an answer.
Seems to be a very small Team
Seems to be a very small Team
I don't really use goo for stuff, but I do have an old account with a handful of directories and files. I just connected ForkLift to it and it seems kind of slow-ish. Navigating into a folder is somewhat just under 1 second, but that's a folder having one or two items in it. It seems much slower than my sftp servers.
However, if ForkLift is left open after I've visited each of the directories, subsequent navigation to those directories is really fast.
Purchased QSpace Pro yesterday.
Thoughts: App seems fine. But what an awful way of getting the Pro version. I mean what the actual F.
Did only cost me 9 danish kroner. which is $1.99 in American Apple Store lingo I'm guessing. There's a rather large discount on QSpace Pro. From $29.99 to $7.99.
The Danish Mac App Store listed the QSpace Pro price as 9,00 dkr - and that was neat.
The binding procedure is absolute dog💩
I finally managed to find out that I needed to use the same code, sent to me via e-mail(which in itself is a terrible way to engage users for the purpose of an upgrade) for both apps.
As always, I might be doing this all wrong. QSpace from Mac App Store was Pro after the upgrade. I wasn't certain that I actually got the Pro version, so I went ahead with the binding.
My whole issue with this QSpace is that;
Lastly, I am well aware of the fact that I did not have to download or use QSpace Pro and I'd like to subsequent comments steer clear of this and focus on my idiot approach on binding or some of my other talking points.
Thoughts: App seems fine. But what an awful way of getting the Pro version. I mean what the actual F.
Did only cost me 9 danish kroner. which is $1.99 in American Apple Store lingo I'm guessing. There's a rather large discount on QSpace Pro. From $29.99 to $7.99.
The Danish Mac App Store listed the QSpace Pro price as 9,00 dkr - and that was neat.
The binding procedure is absolute dog💩
I finally managed to find out that I needed to use the same code, sent to me via e-mail(which in itself is a terrible way to engage users for the purpose of an upgrade) for both apps.
As always, I might be doing this all wrong. QSpace from Mac App Store was Pro after the upgrade. I wasn't certain that I actually got the Pro version, so I went ahead with the binding.
My whole issue with this QSpace is that;
- The website itself is in a serif font - I mean, who does that? Oh yeah, The Path Finder developers does that in the registration window for Path Finder 10 for a brief moment until fonts are also downloaded or w/e
- there's no international payment option for QSpace Pro.. then why even bother translating the application to English if you're catering to the Chinese market. Just leave the app as a Chinese novelty.
- I love that the author now has my App Store e-mail. I don't think they would have gotten that through only a purchase on the Mac App Store(perhaps because of privacy settings)
- QSpace Pro will be just another application in my arsenal - I love the folder preview - similar to that of Live folders in Windows 7. If you know what I mean, wink wink.
Lastly, I am well aware of the fact that I did not have to download or use QSpace Pro and I'd like to subsequent comments steer clear of this and focus on my idiot approach on binding or some of my other talking points.
I actually like qspace but as long as it won't let me access my iCloud folder correctly its not too usable
I love xtrafinder and have it running on my home personal computer that still has Catalina on it. I refuse to update that computer because that is the last system OS that will allow xtrafinder to run on it by only turning off SIP for the installation and then you can re-enable it again. I really wish and have been waiting patiently on a person who can write a procedure to allow this to work once again for xtrafinder. Such a waste of a finder app where you have to sacrifice your macs security to use it. Something I am not willing to do with more and more viruses, malware, and trojan horses popping up everyday. Thoughts people on how to get it to work on Big Sur and Montery without permanently disabling SIP? I also don't know who is running that xtrafinder site but I have sent maybe 10-20 emails over the past decade and I have never EVER received any reply back, its clear their philosophy is "hey its there to use if you want to, but F off we aren't here to provide any customer service.
XtraFinder works through code injection, so it's inherently insecure. It's not likely that someone is going to figure out a way to make that work on a more secure OS.
I am experiencing the Same. So sad that it died with Catalina. And Support is not existent. I also Hope that Someone might get a way to do this - Maybe with a Helper programm
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I’m finding Monterey has improved Finder a bit. At least there is a preview option on detail list. I’m looking for something that keeps width of columns.