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QSpace (Finder alternative)
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You might be referring to the ability to lock a workspace panel. If I turn on "View > Show Status Bar", a bar at the bottom of panels shows and has a padlock in it. If a panel is locked, then you can't navigate to a different folder at all. Perhaps you mean something different.
I do lock the panels in some of my workspaces. When I do, I always have it showing as a list so that I can expand the tree of folders. The mostly eliminates the requirement to navigate away from the locked root folder.
I understand this to be the intended behavior. A workspace remembers its state.
This is the biggest limitation of QSpace. The preferences are so numerous and undocumented (not even a hover explaining what a preference does). I can't figure out what many of them do. I would be interested to know if you find a way to have the app work the way you want. I've written the developer a few times. They always respond within a few days. They will certainly be tell you whether this is possible and how to do it.
I have tried locking the workspace and it helps me a lot. It's not quite what I actually want, but it's much better.
I still think that the point of a workspace that I can open via the ‘Workspace XY’ link is that it is always called up exactly as it was created and saved. Otherwise the idea of the workspace makes no sense.
Were you able to speak to support? I wrote to them three times with the same question about the workspace and got exactly ZERO answers. Maybe he doesn't like me, or maybe I'm writing to the wrong address. In the menu, go to QSpace > Feedback. Then a window opens and there is the following e-mail address: qspace@awehunt.com. Did you write to the developer at this address? Greetings from Germany
Making sense is subjective. What they've done makes sense to me. However, I might prefer it the way you describe for some of my workspaces. Currently a workspace is like a bookmark (a real one that you put in place when you're done reading). It remembers where you left off.
Yes and that is the address I used. I've had two exchanges with them. I wrote them on 2024-10-08 and they responded on 2024-10-12. That exchange had one followup, which they responded to on 2024-10-13. I also wrote them on 2023-09-26. They responded the next day.
I'm not sure why they haven't responded to you. I did open one of my emails with a complement of their product. It was genuine. Perhaps developing a little rapport helped.
Support replied to the third email. His solution works. I'm sharing the text from the email with you.
Many thanks for support.
Ronald
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Hi,
Yes, when you open a workspace window, it will automatically remember and restore the state when it was last closed, including the location of the panes. You can set a Start Location for each pane in the workspace window, so that it will be restored to Start Location when reopening.
Strange, I can't reply to your email through qspace@awehunt.com, so I tried to send it through this email address.
Hope it helps!
Thank you,
Wenda
Many thanks for support.
Ronald
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Hi,
Yes, when you open a workspace window, it will automatically remember and restore the state when it was last closed, including the location of the panes. You can set a Start Location for each pane in the workspace window, so that it will be restored to Start Location when reopening.
Strange, I can't reply to your email through qspace@awehunt.com, so I tried to send it through this email address.
Hope it helps!
Thank you,
Wenda
Is it possible to have different views for different folders in QSpace Pro?
In Finder my home directory is set to View -> as Icons / Sort by -> Kind, downloads directory: View -> as List / Sort by - Date Added, etc.
Bought QSpace over a year ago, and I still have to use it with Finder for some things, since that's faster than constantly changing sorting/view options manually in QSpace. Is it possible to somehow "bind" view option to specific directories, so it'll remember them, like Finder does?
Just found the setting required after trying for n-th time:
"Command" + "/" to show status bar, make changes, from status bar select "Display style" and "Set folder individually".
In Finder my home directory is set to View -> as Icons / Sort by -> Kind, downloads directory: View -> as List / Sort by - Date Added, etc.
Just found the setting required after trying for n-th time:
"Command" + "/" to show status bar, make changes, from status bar select "Display style" and "Set folder individually".
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Some services only work with folders, not with files as in Finder, Forklift or Path finder. For example, if I create a shortcut for services such as ‘Run Dropzone Action’ or ‘Send files to Yoink’, this is possible in the settings, but the function itself is not executed on files but only on folders. The service is also not displayed in the context menu in the case of files. I wonder if this is the same for other users.
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Can QSpace compare two versions of a file that are in different folders?
This is something I do fairly often in Forklift. It simply calls FileMerge on the files selected in the left and right panel.
This is something I do fairly often in Forklift. It simply calls FileMerge on the files selected in the left and right panel.
Services don't seem to work correctly in QSpace. I've turned off a bunch in System Settings, yet they still show up in the context menu. I never use services, but if I did I would raise it directly with QSpace support.
I've not had luck getting this to work in QSpace. Within a single panel it is marginally successful, but I've found no way to trigger things that take input from more than one panel. I've played a bit with trying to get it to work with the stash shelf and haven't had any luck. Once the 2 files are in the stash shelf, the File Merge service to compare the files opens File Merge but doesn't fill in the name of the files.
Both of the these questions point to areas that I've found problematic in QSpace.
I worked a bit more on this and got it to work using the stash shelf. You can call FileMerge from the command line using "/usr/bin/opendiff". QSpace has a very nice feature called Quick Launch. You can create any number of Quick Launch entries to launch programs with various options and ways of selecting files. I was able to easily launch FileMerge using opendiff.
I have a bunch of Quick Launch items that I've configured and placed in the configurable right-click context menu. As an aside, having a completely configurable context menu is a big plus for me.
Since I always use tree-view (aka columns), I almost always have both files being compared visible in the same pane. In that case, the stash shelf isn't necessary; I just replace "stash_items" with "selections" in the above configuration.
I'm glad you asked this question and got me motivated to solve this. It will certainly be convenient moving forward. I now have two new Quick Launch configurations: one using the stash and one assuming the compared files are in the same pane.