I love the way #macOS #Finder will just randomly shit the bed and corrupt its own preferences, causing folders to disappear from view, then resurface with nonsense or missing properties. *I* can't be trusted with the ability to remove apps I will never use, like Apple Music, or Podcasts, however...

Does anyone know which Finder bug / feature I’ve managed to invoke here?

I accidentally dragged from the far right hand side of the screen and apparently found a secret window.

#MacOS #Finder alternatives. Because it really, really sucks. Why aren’t there any file managers with a persistent tree like you see in Windows? Is it really that difficult to do? It makes dragging files and folders to a destination incredibly intuitive.

https://www.xda-developers.com/4-finder-alternatives-on-macos-to-level-up-your-file-management/

A simple Mac app that colors the folder icon based on the tag color. It brings back the feeling of Finder labels.

https://decoding.io/2025/01/dyet-color-your-folder-icons-automatically/

If you're on MacOS Sequoia, and you're used to clicking on the Desktop to get hold of the Finder, check SysPrefs / Desktop & Dock / Desktop & Stage Manager / Show Items: On Desktop. #apple #macos #sequoia #systempreferences #desktop #finder

#macOS rant: Clicking on an app icon in the #Finder for a menubar-based app currently does *nothing* for several such applications. (see Cursor Pro, Caffeinated, AutoRaise, etc.)

It should bring up the menubar settings for the aforementioned app, at the very least. (Ice, the menu bar organizer, does this, as does iStat.)

Question in regards to #macOS:
When I search in #Finder in a folder I get a list of hits. But how do I go back to the directory? I only found a way to create a new tab or window and then travel down the paths . This is annoying. After having found what I wanted I want to go back to the directory, before I searched. Any Idea.?

GitHub - projectdiscovery/subfinder: Fast passive subdomain enumeration tool. https://github.com/projectdiscovery/subfinder #OpenSource #subdomain #GitHub #finder #golang #find #list #tool #cli

Wow - I had never heard of the "HFS pixel" in the Macintosh Finder before now. Is this common knowledge?

From a post by @rezmason, mentioned in my feed by @splorp.

From page 66 of "Encyclopedia Macintosh" (1990)

PDF: https://vintageapple.org/macbooks/pdf/Encyclopedia_Macintosh_1990.pdf

#TIL

Ce très vieux bug qui traine dans les colonnes du Finder http://dlvr.it/TGgkYR #macOS #Finder

Copiar y pegar archivos en macOS.
"No se puede completar la operación, hubo un error".
¿En qué archivo, macOS? ¿Qué has copiado y qué no, macOS? ¿¡Puedes decirme algo, macOS!?
He tenido que ir carpeta por carpeta, archivo por archivo, hasta descubrir que daba problemas el nombre de uno, que se me había pasado simplificar.
En serio, el Finder fue, es y será una absoluta basura hasta el final de los tiempos.

C'MON APPLE!

A #Finder copy from one #macOS to another via mounted drive (#SMB 3) is est. 9 min.

rsync'ing that same file over ssh is 43 seconds!

WTH, #Apple!?????

ps: 2.5gbps ethernet, not wifi (LAN, not WAN).
pps: Reading from AND to an SSD.

Tagging @siracusa cos I know he'll know the reason!

My kids use an #ipad & #MacBookAir for studies. Their relevant folders & apps are synched to their personal #icloud which I administer. I can manually synch their stuff onto their user accounts (logons) on my #MacBookPro. I can regularly trigger a #timemachine #backup of the #macbookpro & so their stuff too. But to synch their cloud data to the macbookpro I need to click on folders & files in #finder for each user! How can I force a global synch of icloud folders of all users of my #macbookpro?

Okay because I’m still not getting this:

Why don’t you like Finder and/or what do you get out of another File Manager that you really enjoy?

I can’t seem to understand what exactly the problem is

Meet my new favorite terminal tool!

**television**: A general purpose fuzzy finder TUI

Supports files, text, Git repos, environment variables, shell aliases & more!

The revolution will (not) be televised.

Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

GitHub: https://github.com/alexpasmantier/television

Today I learned how to create a Finder alias using AppleScript and the command line:

```bash
$ osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to make alias file to posix file "/opt/homebrew/opt/emacs-plus@29/Emacs.app" at posix file "/Applications" with properties {name:"Emacs.app"}'

alias file Emacs.app of folder Applications of startup disk
```

This is for the particular case of creating an Emacs.app named alias at the Applications folder for the Homebrew version of the `emacs-plus` package, but changing the paths above will allow you to create arbitrary Finder aliases from the command line.

Weiß jemand wie ich man smb und ftp connections in der shell mounten kann? Ich kenne nur den Weg über das Finder Menü.
#macos #finder

Before I wade well out of my depth, does anyone know of an #Arduino #wifi library (or extension of the core one) that allows you to add callbacks to handle #DHCP options? A bit like this but for WiFi, not wired etherent... https://github.com/njh/EtherCard/blob/1b8b5a446461fd316985bbcc5cbac23a58a46743/src/dhcp.cpp#L367

Why you ask? So I can have my embedded controller honor the NTP server address(es) in DHCP opt 42 and if I can get there domain stuff in 15 and 119. I don't want to hardcode this stuff. Hardcording(ish) wifi creds is bad enough.

For those interested, I'm using a #finder #arduino #opta PLC form factor unit for the easy tophat DIN rail mount and decently handled packaging/PCB design.

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