Mac OS X People: Have you tried PathFinder?

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I posted this link to the iPod ??? thread but I thought I would give this thing a thread of its own since this is possibly the most brilliant thing I've seen in a long time and possibly since I started using computers. It's a replacement of sorts for the Finder in OSX (it also replaces about 3 other applications as far as my needs are concerned).

Has anybody else used this? What are your experiences?

http://www.cocoatech.com/pf.php

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

It looks good - can see uses for it. What you using it for? ie, what's so good about it as far as you're concerned?

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

treating my iPod like a regular disk for one, image editing/conversion, text, pdf and hex viewing for another. I actually haven't done that much with it yet since I just got it yesterday but I suspect I'll be dragging a few more apps off the dock by tonight.

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

That's a pretty good use of general resources, I agree. I'll keep it in mind -- is it optimized for 10.3?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cocoatech.com/faqs.php

― TOMBOT, Thursday, 19 February 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah good. *reads duly*

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 19 February 2004 16:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks TOMBOT... based on your recommendation I tried this out earlier today, and it is still blowing me away. The integrated terminal is probably my favorite thing so far...

― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Friday, 20 February 2004 03:47 (twenty-two years ago)

i. must. get. this.

― dyson (dyson), Friday, 20 February 2004 04:37 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

so does anybody around here actually still use pathfinder?

i installed it over the weekend. i can't say i'm very happy with it - i am spending too much time stumbling around trying to figure the damn thing out. the lack of good documentation is pretty lame, too.

any suggestions on smoothing this out?? streamlining??

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:02 (twenty years ago)

If you guys just need to use iPod as a disk:

http://ipoddisk.ourbiti.com/

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:06 (twenty years ago)

nah, i'm trying it out as a finder replacement. although after 48 hrs i'm still trying to remember why i wanted to replace finder in the 1st place. i think i had a really bad experience on friday trying to move files around.

i've had this powerbook for a year and i'm still trying to use finder like the NT file manager i had on my thinkpad. they should have a class or something on using the finder, i'm a n00b when it comes to file management.

esp pressing since for the first time i'm doing lots of document creation and revision and i have like many copies and revisions of multiple projects floating around in various formats w/ PDF copies of everything and lots of associated tables and clipart.

actually if anybody can suggest a good book or something on keeping projects like this organized - even dummies-guide level stuff would help, i think - i'd appreciate it.

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:31 (twenty years ago)

using version control is great for that. There are subversion plugins for the finder, too.

― stet (stet), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:33 (twenty years ago)

are there any universal ready subversion plugins for the finder?

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)

subversion looks pretty damn good, no?

― renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:50 (twenty years ago)

I have a subversion repository on a hosted server that I mirror to my home daily.

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Subversion rocks, aye. Oh: Biggest difference to remember between Explorer and Finder is that dropping one folder on top of another with the same name does not merge them, it replaces it entirely.

Jon: The scplugin builds for intel with a few tweaks apparently; binaries are due soon.

― stet (stet), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 03:08 (twenty years ago)

one super helpful thing for os is the "open" unix command which acts likes double clicking on an item in finder

thanks stet

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 04:52 (twenty years ago)

nope, never used it. i'm an idiot, i could probably not find it anyway. get it? never mind. stupid joke, move along. hey look birdie!

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 06:15 (twenty years ago)

no comment!

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 15:56 (twenty years ago)

what's subversion?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:00 (twenty years ago)

http://subversion.tigris.org/

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 16:01 (twenty years ago)

"open ." blew my mi nd the first time I ran it. Also, dragging a file to Terminal is useful.

― caek (caek), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Open . is very helpful

― lord pooperton (ex machina), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:42 (twenty years ago)

I was like, "I wonder if this works. Surely this doesn't work. MOH!"

― caek (caek), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 17:43 (twenty years ago)

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