PATH FINDER MAC OS X DOWNLOAD WINDOWS
It can be told to open folders in new windows or not (spatial mode), enable/disable spring folders, always show file extensions, automatic resolve of shortcuts, change font preferences, terminal preferences, set default permissions for new files and much more. PF’s Preferences are really vast and it should please many tweakers. At this point we should mention that parts of PF have been open sourced recently. Currently, PF includes two plugins, “Convert Image” and “View as Hex”. Version 3.x includes a brand new API where third party developers can write their own plugins and extend the functionality of the file manager. It also incorporates a “hot spot” (grey rectangle next to the file name) which when single-clicked it loads the default open action for this item. Path Finder supports spring folders, for all you BeOS and OS 9 users who learned to love it.
You can create shortcuts, you can CopyTo and MoveTo (with a file-selector window popping up to guide it where to perform the action), email it, compress/decompress it, create disk images, enable AppleScript’s folder actions, open the current directory on the Terminal, label files, get long and advanced information via “Get Info” (allows “touch”, permissions etc), open with a running or an application from a list or with the default etc. The main view of the file manager has all three modes (list view, icon view, hierarchical) and with the help of the context menus you can do all the traditional stuff (copy/move files etc) but also a whole lot more. By clicking any of these automatically placed buttons you can navigate faster than any “Back” or “History” button or drop-down menu! It is truly such a simple idea and at the same time so outstanding and functional that is beyond description! When navigating into a folder, and then into another, and then into another, your path is recorded and displayed in the form of a button, as you can see in the screenshot above the main view. The next view is the Path Navigator, a fantastic idea and innovation: maybe the best feature found on Path Finder. This is how I put my Volumes to show on my Shelf, because I needed them to be accessible at all times, without having to have open the drawer on the left (cause it takes space). Please note that drag and dropping works great, you can move or copy items on any sub-view from any other sub-view. You can create your own sets of shelves, so for example you can have a shortcut set for graphics apps or folders, another set for games etc. There, like in the new Finder, you get easy access to widely used folders with a single click. Underneath the Drop stack you will find the Shortcut Shelf. The drop stack is a temporary placeholder for files and folders if you want to use your Clipboard for other operations. The Shelf includes two sub views, the Drop Stack, where you can drop files and folders in there (copies their path), and then do other stuff, and whenever you feel like moving these objects elsewhere, you can drop them out of the drop stack. The main file manager window has six views, and includes an icon option-rich toolbar, two status bars (!), the Shelf window, the Path Navigator and the main file view. Underneath this list, you get the Trash icon, and all its accompanied actions (Empty Trash, view trash for User XX). Right clicking on them, you will get options like “Get Info”, “Show Original in a file manager window”, hide it, quit it etc. The second sub-view is called “Processes” and it lists all currently running applications, it is literally a taskbar. Clicking on them, they will open their contents to the main window. The left side drawer has three sub-views, the first one is named “Volumes” and includes shortcuts to all your hard drives, optical and disk images and network. The drawers can be opened or closed with a click of a small arrow just below the main toolbar of the program. The default window includes the main body and two drawers (a widget found on OSX’s Cocoa API). It can reside happily next to Finder, or it can replace it completely, drawing its own desktop, by unloading the Finder altogether. It’s a file manager, but with a lot of extras.
Path Finder is one of the most interesting products that I have come across lately. Everyone knows of Mac OS X’s Finder file manager, but not many know of a third party file manager by CocoaTech called Path Finder.
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