Best Finder alternative

[AppleSmack]

Did you get any news from the dev about trial. I gave my version back, but I would like to test it again. But dev is very hard to answer

I haven't heard back about the trial. I do like what I've seen so far in Qspace, though haven't had any deep production projects so far to really push it.
If I'd paid as much as the other Finder alternatives, I'd be pi**ed. But sometimes, you've just got to chance your £$€5 and see where it takes you.

 

[dbrewood]

I haven't heard back about the trial. I do like what I've seen so far in Qspace, though haven't had any deep production projects so far to really push it.
If I'd paid as much as the other Finder alternatives, I'd be pi**ed. But sometimes, you've just got to chance your £$€5 and see where it takes you.

So how would you compare it to Forklift.....

 

[AppleSmack]

So how would you compare it to Forklift.....

Sorry, I haven't used Forklift! I only tested some of the free dual pane managers. While I love Windows and Linux too, I found it too jarring using their UI/UX while in Mac OS.

 

[dbrewood]

Aw what the heck, I've just bought it so we'll see how it compares.

 

[AppleSmack]

Aw what the heck, I've just bought it so we'll see how it compares.

I'm hoping to write a mini review of qspace here one day when I have time. The preferences allow some really useful and clever customizations that I at least like.

Let us know how you get on with it when you're ready, it would be helpful to have more opinions on it.

 

[tosbsas]

I'm hoping to write a mini review of qspace here one day when I have time. The preferences allow some really useful and clever customizations that I at least like.

Let us know how you get on with it when you're ready, it would be helpful to have more opinions on it.

that would be nice. As I said - I bought the app, but when it wouldn't show iCloud Drive correctly y looked for answers with the dev on very channel he mentions, but received no answer. I gave the app back and got my money back. After three weeks the dev wrote a non conclusive answer so ....

I am a heavy PF user, but I am really p****d that it won't update file list ever so often after having been in standby. I need to quit PF completely and restart to get the actual filelist in my downloads folder - not a behavior a File manager should have. PF Support says they are looking into it - for several weeks now. looks like they got lost 😡

 

[svenmany]

I am a heavy PF user, but I am really p****d that it won't update file list ever so often after having been in standby. I need to quit PF completely and restart to get the actual filelist in my downloads folder - not a behavior a File manager should have. PF Support says they are looking into it - for several weeks now. looks like they got lost 😡

Did you say you had that issue with Path Finder and ForkLift? If so, then the PF support might not be able to help.

I will say this, PF support on the support forum takes weeks to respond to anything. There's only a single person responding to tons of posts. I don't remember it being this bad before. Perhaps they've been hit hard by Covid.

 

[AZhappyjack]

Did you say you had that issue with Path Finder and ForkLift? If so, then the PF support might not be able to help.

I will say this, PF support on the support forum takes weeks to respond to anything. There's only a single person responding to tons of posts. I don't remember it being this bad before. Perhaps they've been hit hard by Covid.

It was my experience that PathFinder's support effort sucked big time long before COVID hit. That was one of the two major reasons I dropped them in favor of ForkLift. (The second was their "non-subscription" subscription pricing.)

YMMV.

 

[tosbsas]

It was my experience that PathFinder's support effort sucked big time long before COVID hit. That was one of the two major reasons I dropped them in favor of ForkLift. (The second was their "non-subscription" subscription pricing.)

YMMV.

yep. I do have them both, but I kind of got used to PF and its hard to change )

 

[dbrewood]

Well QSpace........ it's a weird app, no shortcut on the menu to copy / move. The Workspaces are strange, cant get my head around them nowhere near as good as the tabbed interface in PF, and I find that PF lacks compared to Forklift.

 

[AppleSmack]

Well QSpace........ it's a weird app, no shortcut on the menu to copy / move. The Workspaces are strange, cant get my head around them nowhere near as good as the tabbed interface in PF, and I find that PF lacks compared to Forklift.

Go to preferences > context menus, and there you can choose what appears in the context menu.

Personally, I never use copy/move from the context menus anyway. Both Finder and Qspace work on the same principle: drag across volumes to copy, drag within the same volume to move. Otherwise, use the modifier key (option or command, I can't remember, it's all muscles memory now!) to change the behaviour as you drag & drop.

 

[robvthof]

yep. I do have them both, but I kind of got used to PF and its hard to change )

I'm a long time user of Forklift, the "old" v.2
Pathfinder is good, but slower in copy/move/delete of files. In moving files around (to/from Thunderbolt disks) difference is around 35%
In ForkLift it goes at 500~600 MB/s and in Pathfinder at 350~400 MB/s

 

[tosbsas]

Go to preferences > context menus, and there you can choose what appears in the context menu.

Personally, I never use copy/move from the context menus anyway. Both Finder and Qspace work on the same principle: drag across volumes to copy, drag within the same volume to move. Otherwise, use the modifier key (option or command, I can't remember, it's all muscles memory now!) to change the behaviour as you drag & drop.

You are the fan. I would jump on the Wagon if there would be any kind of support.

 

[dbrewood]

Go to preferences > context menus, and there you can choose what appears in the context menu.

Personally, I never use copy/move from the context menus anyway. Both Finder and Qspace work on the same principle: drag across volumes to copy, drag within the same volume to move. Otherwise, use the modifier key (option or command, I can't remember, it's all muscles memory now!) to change the behaviour as you drag & drop.

Oh I know that, but I prefer selecting files and then hitting an icon to copy or move instead of dragging and dropping, too much risk IMHO to accidentally drag on top of a folder etc. As far as I can see there is no way of adding a copy/move icon onto the task bar.

That I could live with, it'd the workplaces that are weird. Ideally I'd want a set of source folders on the left and a selection of default destination folder tabs on the right. Easy with PF or Forklift, but seems impossible to do with qSpace.

 

[AppleSmack]

Nimble Commander is on sale at Bundle Hunt. $2.5 plus the $2.5 'unlock' price. I may or may not have tested it back when I was looking for a Finder alternative, so I can't vouch for whether it's any good. However, if you're already looking for it, that's a total of $5, down from the full $25 price. If you do try it, let us know how you get on!

 

[AppleSmack]

You are the fan. I would jump on the Wagon if there would be any kind of support.

Haha, only because it didn't do things exactly how I wanted, but found that I could configure it to do so through the preferences.

 

[AppleSmack]

Oh I know that, but I prefer selecting files and then hitting an icon to copy or move instead of dragging and dropping, too much risk IMHO to accidentally drag on top of a folder etc. As far as I can see there is no way of adding a copy/move icon onto the task bar.

That I could live with, it'd the workplaces that are weird. Ideally I'd want a set of source folders on the left and a selection of default destination folder tabs on the right. Easy with PF or Forklift, but seems impossible to do with qSpace.

I had a look, I don't think there's an icon you can add to the toolbar. Command + XCV work though if that's any consolation.

As for source and destination folder tabs, it sounds like PF/FL do what you need, except they have bugs that break the reliability. Personally, whether in Finder or QS, I'd just have a folder of aliases, and drag/drop on to those to simulate what you're doing.

This is a good thread, I'm glad someone started it... it really shows that we all have different expectations and processes of working. I've always used drag/drop, but your message made me try using Command+XCV, which I'm starting to like more.

 

[tosbsas]

Nimble Commander is on sale at Bundle Hunt. $2.5 plus the $2.5 'unlock' price. I may or may not have tested it back when I was looking for a Finder alternative, so I can't vouch for whether it's any good. However, if you're already looking for it, that's a total of $5, down from the full $25 price. If you do try it, let us know how you get on!

one can download a test version before buying here https://magnumbytes.com

Tested it - no sidebar, no back buttons - nice but old fashioned imHO

 

[dbrewood]

I've done some more experimentation with qSpace, to get the best out of it I'd need to buy the extra packages, but those tabs are still the killers for me, so difficult to use.

 

[MacBH928]

Well QSpace........ it's a weird app, no shortcut on the menu to copy / move. The Workspaces are strange, cant get my head around them nowhere near as good as the tabbed interface in PF, and I find that PF lacks compared to Forklift.

so forklift is best?

 

[dbrewood]

It is for me yes....

 

[AZhappyjack]

so forklift is best?

IMO, yes.

 

[tosbsas]

its a real close battle between Forklift and Pathfinder - BUT Pathfinder is activly being developed, Forklift is talking about betatest for version 4 over a year now :-((

 

[dbrewood]

Pathfinder is reportedly being developed but a lot of that is fixing old bugs that have persisted for a long time. Forklift may not have betas out but it is updated on a regular basis at least v3 is.

 

[Apple_Robert]

its a real close battle between Forklift and Pathfinder - BUT Pathfinder is activly being developed, Forklift is talking about betatest for version 4 over a year now :-((

BinaryNights is changing the business model for Forklift.

"We want to switch to the new model in a few months and release ForkLift 4 in the Spring of 2021. With increasing the version number we want to make a clear distinction between ForkLift 3 and ForkLift 4 to make the transition for our existing users easier to understand."

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