MAC heads - how do i use finder??

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:14 pm

thelocalhost wrote:
noisetonepause wrote:Mate, I've been using it for years - since before Tiger and Spotlight. For a while I didn't even run the Finder, I just used QS. I know what it can do, and I'm not asking, I'm telling you: it's a commandline. Search is 10% of what it does.
I love the internet.

Heh. Err. Yeah. Fucking Slashdot, ruining my manners...

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:17 pm

I can't believe path finder hasn't come up in this thread yet!

It totally blows apple's finder away, and offers you the ability to actually replace the apple finder with it by only a modest amount of hacking. Seriously, it's the best piece of shareware out there on the mac.

Alexis Forge · Post by **Alexis Forge** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:22 pm

sqook wrote:I can't believe path finder hasn't come up in this thread yet!

It totally blows apple's finder away, and offers you the ability to actually replace the apple finder with it by only a modest amount of hacking. Seriously, it's the best piece of shareware out there on the mac.

well I'm broke so the having to pay for it thing instantly made me hit cmd+[

Alexis Forge · Post by **Alexis Forge** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:32 pm

axtually quicksilver is looking pretty damn cool

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:33 pm

Alexis Forge wrote:
sqook wrote:I can't believe path finder hasn't come up in this thread yet!

It totally blows apple's finder away, and offers you the ability to actually replace the apple finder with it by only a modest amount of hacking. Seriously, it's the best piece of shareware out there on the mac.
well I'm broke so the having to pay for it thing instantly made me hit cmd+[

Understandable. But what the heck does cmd+[ do? On my machine, it just makes the error beep go off..

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Fri May 18, 2007 5:54 pm

sqook wrote:
Alexis Forge wrote:
sqook wrote:I can't believe path finder hasn't come up in this thread yet!

It totally blows apple's finder away, and offers you the ability to actually replace the apple finder with it by only a modest amount of hacking. Seriously, it's the best piece of shareware out there on the mac.
well I'm broke so the having to pay for it thing instantly made me hit cmd+[
Understandable. But what the heck does cmd+[ do? On my machine, it just makes the error beep go off..

'Back'.

sparklepuff · Post by **sparklepuff** » Fri May 18, 2007 6:03 pm

Thank you, boys, Quicksilver rules. I can't believe being such a Mac fanboy I just found out about it now. Me so happy now.

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Fri May 18, 2007 6:42 pm

noisetonepause wrote:
sqook wrote:
Alexis Forge wrote: well I'm broke so the having to pay for it thing instantly made me hit cmd+[
Understandable. But what the heck does cmd+[ do? On my machine, it just makes the error beep go off..
'Back'.

Weird. On my safari, it's cmd+(left arrow)... whatever.

ejectorset · Post by **ejectorset** » Fri May 18, 2007 6:46 pm

either works in my Safari but i use cmd+left arrow

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Fri May 18, 2007 7:09 pm

sqook wrote:
noisetonepause wrote:
sqook wrote: Understandable. But what the heck does cmd+[ do? On my machine, it just makes the error beep go off..
'Back'.
Weird. On my safari, it's cmd+(left arrow)... whatever.

Maybe cos your keyboard's germish?

sqook · Post by **sqook** » Fri May 18, 2007 7:32 pm

noisetonepause wrote:
sqook wrote:
noisetonepause wrote: 'Back'.
Weird. On my safari, it's cmd+(left arrow)... whatever.
Maybe cos your keyboard's germish?

Dvorak, actually.

But this shouldn't make a difference, since it uses the same key combos as the english layout.

noisetonepause · Post by **noisetonepause** » Fri May 18, 2007 7:45 pm

sqook wrote:Dvorak, actually.

Geek!

shaneblyth · Post by **shaneblyth** » Fri May 18, 2007 11:45 pm

Here is a secret that keeps things exactly as u like in the Finder

Hold Option Key and drag
now exit finder and anytime you re open it it will stay exactly the same.

So what I do is choose column view and resize the window so I see 2 columns and then option drag the width of the columns so they are wider but only showing the 2 columns

It works a treat and tends to be alot cleaner and look a bit like explorer
Finder use to piss me off till I found this out

Here are 2 other options for you

If you love explorer in Windows then try Rage Macintosh Explorer
http://www.ragesw.com/

Or the best ever file management tool and everything else on the planet ultra customizable too is Pathfinder
http://www.cocoatech.com/

Alexis Forge · Post by **Alexis Forge** » Sat May 19, 2007 12:43 am

noisetonepause wrote:
sqook wrote:
noisetonepause wrote: 'Back'.
Weird. On my safari, it's cmd+(left arrow)... whatever.
Maybe cos your keyboard's germish?

weird - I'm convinced I tried all the combinations of left arrow + cmd, ctrl,option, shift and in the end had to look in the safari documentation to get cmd+[

but now you say it the arrows work

I wonder if I was still in Jaguar + safari 1 last time I checked because I'm sure I remember it really annoying me that it wasnt straight forward and I think the arrows would have been the first thing I tried

shaneblyth · Post by **shaneblyth** » Sat May 19, 2007 12:50 am

sparklepuff wrote:Thank you, boys, Quicksilver rules. I can't believe being such a Mac fanboy I just found out about it now. Me so happy now.

I never quite got using quiksilver as a launcher. I used it for a while then simply removed it and used the Apple + Spacebar and did pretty much the same thing with spotlight Apple Space then hit the first 2- 3 letters of the app and then down arrow once and enter to lauch. Ok I have to hit one more key the down arrow, but that takes 1/10th second at most. I know Quiksilver can do a bunch of other stuff but never got into it as i didnt find it usefull to me