I've sent my findings to the developer and got a response back with a phrasing that indicated that the developer wouldn't even give this issue the time of day.Īt least that's now the understanding from the subsequent updates to Path Finder and from reading comments related to users own bug findings. I initially wanted Path Finder to be a replacement for the whole of Finder with Desktop and such - that's not going to happen with the version 9 or perhaps ever version 10 of Path Finder. Path Finder also doesn't have Stacks for its Desktop and as such I only use PathFinder as a fun app. While I haven't been using it much since the purchase simply because there's just one thing that the developer(s) hasn't been updating since we switched over to a different way of rendering fonts - try activating the Path Finder's Desktop 'takeover' feature and be prepared. I too am using ForkLift 3 and I have just recently bought into a software bundle over at that allowed for a purchase of Path Finder for around $8 and I took that just because I could. XtraFinder and TotalFinder still operates using Catalina(disable SIP) - the former is a free program(wih a trial period which seems to run forever?) while the latter is Shareware and according to TotalFinder's forums there's seemingly a way that Big Sur might also get a taste of TotalFinder. The 'best' anything is the one that works for you. It does offer a dual pane interface and included an app deleting function.Īgain, the best judge of whether or not ForkLift (or other file managers) is to do the test drive.
And I don't see it so much as what extra does ForkLift do that Finder doesn't (though there are some things), it's more about how much easier or cleaner some of the functions are done in ForkLift - things like Dropbox support, file transfers and remote server connectivity. I still use Finder for some things, but for browsing and moving files/folders around, I prefer the dual pane interface. but it was a dual pane file manager similar to XTree and Norton Tools.
One of my most favorite utilities in Windows as a program called Total Commander (originally known as Windows Commander until Windows came after them for copyright/trademark issues - another story for another thread). I moved to macOS as my primary computing platform in about 2008.