I didn’t want a standalone app, I was looking forward to something that would let me modify the native app without replacing it. I even tried to completely replace Finder.app in CoreServices, you can guess how it ended. I wanted a better Finder with dual-pane navigation and tabs, but I also wanted to be able to tweak it and customize it, yet retaining the stability and efficiency of the default Finder.app. I grew tired of them, and most of all I grew tired of PathFinder living as a layer above Finder, but not really replacing it. None of the aforementioned apps and scripts managed to work for me for more than a month.
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Tags APFS Apple AppleScript Apple silicon backup Big Sur Blake bug Catalina Consolation Console diagnosis Disk Utility Doré El Capitan extended attributes Finder firmware Gatekeeper Gérôme HFS+ High Sierra history of painting iCloud Impressionism iOS landscape LockRattler log logs M1 Mac Mac history macOS macOS 10.12 macOS 10.13 macOS 10.14 macOS 10.Over the years I’ve tried many solutions to make the default OS X file manager, Finder, better and more suitable to my needs: PathFinder, a 3rd party application that can live on top of Apple’s Finder and brings dual-pane navigation and tabs to the mix, plus some custom Applescript and Automator workflows that allowed me to easily perform certain tasks like “move these files to another location” or “copy newly downloaded files with. Maybe metadata are just supposed to be a mystifying maze. I’ve looked for a third-party utility which might be able to take control and iron out some of the strangeness, but can’t find any. DS_Store (which is so secret that it isn’t shown even when hidden files are listed). Not only that, but you can sometimes cheat the Finder into offering those extensions in another folder if you rename it to one of those standard names, and that can persist after you have changed to name to something else.Īs far as I can see, these behaviours are set by the Finder’s code, its preference file (which contains many lists of metadata which could be involved), and hidden files such as. In ~/Movies, ~/Music and ~/Pictures the Finder offers extended options according to the types of file it expects to find there. In your ~/Documents folder, there are only the standard metadata to choose from. The final oddity is that extended options for columns in List view only apply to certain folders. And the moment you close Preview Options, the information displayed flips back to what it was showing before, which isn’t what’s selected here.
But there’s something very strange going on here: the moment that you open Preview Options, the Information displayed under the thumbnail changes to match what’s selected in the list, which is different again from what’s shown in Get Info, thumbnail information, or the options for columns in List view. Select the Show Preview Options command, and you’ll see a list of the metadata categories which you can select from. To see the options for displaying metadata of any given file type, find a file of that type and Control-click on it for the contextual menu. This list lacks Audio channels and Sample rate, but adds Rating and Track number.
At first sight, this appears to include the same categories as shown in the Get Info dialog and thumbnail information, but look closely and it isn’t. What is shown again depends on the file type, and for the same music track matches that shown in the Get Info dialog.ĭepending on where that file is, if you switch the Finder window to List View and Control-click on any of the column headers, you’ll be shown a list of metadata which can be viewed in columns. If you use the Finder’s Column View and select a file, below its QuickLook thumbnail is another list of information about that item. Select any file (or folder) and press Command-I to see the Get Info dialog.ĭepending on the type of file selected, you should also see in the More info section anything from a blank to this detail for a music track. This article looks at three different ways Finder presents file metadata, and their peculiarities. When it comes to metadata, it can be highly informative and at the same time deeply puzzling. Finder remains, for all its warts and quirks, an amazingly powerful front end to what’s stored on your Mac.
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