![]() #Totalfinder alternative mac mac osįaster and better than drag & drop.Any readers out there who are using the Mac OS and editing video have probably made good use of Mac OS Finder labels over the years to assign a designated color to a folder, file or group of files for whatever reason one might color anything. They were big, bright colors that were easy to identify, especially in list view. With Mavericks, Apple changed this behavior and made these colored labels much less easy to see by removing them entirely in favor of tags. Colors are still there but a lot less useful. While tags are useful in their own right Mavericks took away the nice, big, easily seen colored labels that we have come to know, love and rely on. These tiny colored dots just aren’t useful when it comes to quick, at-a-glance, organization. With Mavericks Apple gave us tagging which might very well be infinitely more useful than just colored labels but to be honest I haven’t really used it. ![]() All I did was notice that the bright, colorful labels that used to be available in Finder list view are now just tiny dots.Įven in icon view the colors are reduced to dots in Mavericks. Tagging has been available for years via the awesome Finder replacement Pathfinder but I didn’t use it there either. ![]() Leave it to third party products to get those nice colored labels back and easy to see. Of course there’s the $40 Path Finder from Cocoatech. Path Finder does so much it’d take someone smarter than me to list all the amazing features but keeping the colored labels is the thing we’re looking at here. Path Finder has been a part of Useful Tools for Editors in the past and this just keeps it my favorite go-to tool as a Finder replacement.īig, bright and easy to see. Path Finder rocks and the upcoming version 7 will have Dropbox integration. Path Finder makes the icon view labels much better as well. XtraFinder is probably the easiest way to get those list label colors back as this free Finder add-on is very unobtrusive as it doesn’t take over the whole Finder the way Path Finder does. The Preferences window helps you personalize TotalFinder and hide or show the progress bar in the Dock, enable or disable Visor, customize various keyboard shortcuts and disable tabs entirely.That’s nice and viewable labels in list view. You can easily pin or resize Visor and customize the sliding effect by adjusting the sliding duration and adding the fade effect. Although this function is disabled by default, advanced users can easily enable it by accessing the Preferences window. Visor is another useful feature inspired by TotalTerminal that allows you to summon a system-wide TotalFinder window at the bottom of your screen with the push of a keyboard key. All hidden files are also displayed before normal items for a smoother and easier browsing experience. On top oft that, you can display all hidden system or user files with just a keystroke. Thanks to TotalFinder you can always show your folders at the top of the list and sort your files and directories just like you would do in the original Finder. But if you like to view your folders first and your files last regardless of the sorting options, then TotalFinder can help you out. Folders on topĪ normal Finder window displays your folders and files mixed together and you can sort them according to their name, modification date and size. Moreover, both Finder windows can keep their own toolbar as well as the sidebar that is placed on the right edge for the right side window while the width of the right sidebar is automatically synchronized with the one of the left sidebar. ![]() If you miss classic dual-panel file managers, then you will enjoy this feature when moving files from one panel to another. TotalFinder offers you an enhanced Finder capable to display two Finder windows side-by-side. ![]() TotalFinder is a versatile and intuitive application specially made for power users and developers that need more than just a simple Finder window. ![]()
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