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Lt_Riza_Hawkeye 3 days ago

Finder is frustrating but this guy is just complaining about the fact that he's unable to organize his own files into directories in a way that lets him find them later. He then calls himself a power user. Finder even has tags to help with this, which is more than most operating systems get

gkoberger 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

I understand your point, but "Finder" does make it harder to organize things. When you save, they hide away folder browser by default, make it really difficult to navigate to different folders, and push for a "just hit save and search for it later!" mentality.

I agree you can overcome this, but you find yourself fighting against macOS a bit to do it.

(Also, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned this isn't a blog post... it's an ad. So of course the issues are exaggerated a bit. The ironic part is I don't think the app actually solves the problems mentioned.)

re 3 days ago | parent [-]

I don't know where you get "really difficult" and "fighting against macOS" from. You only have to hit the disclosure arrow next to "Where" in the save dialog one time and it remembers it and shows it by default from then on. (Okay, maybe it's once per app? I don't remember for sure, but I can't remember the last time the save panel didn't show me the folder browser by default.)

gkoberger 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

If you read the article, it talks from the perspective of "I help lots of friends and family with IT stuff". For most users, they wouldn't know how to get to the larger menu or that Cmd+Shft+G lets them type in a path.

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ShinyLeftPad 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It's once forever, not once per app.

GiorgioG 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

He’s complaining…because he sells a solution to this problem. I hated Finder when I switched to Mac back in 2007. So much so I bought PathFinder. One thing that pissed me off and still does, is when I copy over a folder with the same name, it doesn’t merge the contents, it deletes everything in the existing folder. That’s not what I expected as a Windows user and it still seems like the wrong behavior almost 20 years later. I no longer use PathFinder, it had its own problems and bugs…but in general I find Finder pretty lacking.

ShinyLeftPad 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

This is not true, it asks to merge or replace (though merge is not always available). It's like that for years already.

GiorgioG 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It wasn't in 2007.

ShinyLeftPad 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You wrote "still does", you haven't upgraded since 2007?

zitterbewegung 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If you do option while moving the file it merges both directories but even I didn't know this until I googled it.

Someone 3 days ago | parent [-]

If you copy-paste a folder using the keyboard, a dialog pops up asking you whether to merge the contents. Totally inconsistent with drag-and—drop, but useful to know.

ShinyLeftPad 4 hours ago | parent [-]

It asks that when dragging too.

maltch 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

So true, so true. Every time I think I've got my structure set up properly, I then do something in haste, and can't find it later. Power user and file manager are two totally different things.

rbanffy 3 days ago | parent [-]

Not all data fits neatly into a hierarchy of boxes.

But, if the person doesn’t know where the file is, Finder has a “Recent” virtual folder right a the top that’ll list all files the person worked on most recent on the top. I often use it to get to screenshots. There’s also a lot of basic operations that are there since the 1990s any power user would know.

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imadtaieber 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Finder sucks, information storing and retrieval should be frictionless

nothingnm 3 days ago | parent [-]

Pronouncing your name is like a drunk French guy saying "I'm outta beer"

greekrich92 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Finder is terrible. Not sure why it's worth defending to the point of attacking someone who simpy made something which fills its gaps.