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Aren't there any alternative file managers for OSX? I'm just asking, I find it weird not to use a certain OS just because the default FM sucks...

Edited 2009-08-27 17:17 UTC

Mucommander sucks less, but it's still no total commander. (Apple, please make a proper filemanager! Single click to rename is madness)

Path Finder is quite good ... actually almost everything that Finder should be, but it is not integrated perfectly, so from time to time, Finder shows its ugly head.

Mucommander si a TotalCommander-style application, but it doesn't have nearly all the features that you'd expect from a two pane file manager. Also, on my computer I found it unusable due to frequent crashes.

And, as you might know, Apple leaves little room for alternatives.

Edited 2009-08-27 17:55 UTC

If you don't like finder, use another alternative, like PathFinder. Is not that one is using finder to move files exclusively. If your work consists of moving files only, I can see why you're so frustrated… but Finder is not the cause!

Search with spotlight, have some smart folders, smart mailboxes, smart playlists, etc. Man, I don't even use Explorer while in windows. If you're a true keyboard person, you use Launchbar or similar (thus, no finder needed), like I do.

Whem I am lazy about the keyboard only and just wanna use the mouse, Spring Folders + Expose + etc., surpass any Windows Explorer, Thunar, Gnome FileManager, etc. I've seen.

It sounds to me that you're a user who hasn't taken into account all the other tools your OS offers you. (It happened to me before).

Rethink your flow of work the way your OS offers you and only then you will start appreciating it.

Using Windows just because finder doesn't do Cut is as ridiculous as saying I use a car because I have to park it when not in use… Windows may have advantages but I could cite way more reasons why I simply don't use it as my primarily OS.

If finder has lived without Cut for all these years, it's clearly not a show-stopper ('tho it would be great to have it, I admit, but back to point one, how many times a month do I need to cut/paste a file: One. Maybe less).

Cut is just the tip of the iceberg. If you are interested you can read the thread linked in my first post. And Finder is the tip of the iceberg in my OS X 6 month experience.

I could rant for hours about the little annoyances in every Apple application and the OS itself. It's like Apple just has to make all the things different than everybody else whether it makes sense or not.

Switching to Windows was mainly a matter of getting things done instead of fighting with your computer. That said, I'd rather use Windows 98 or Ubuntu 4.10 than go back to OS X.

This is funny as hell. You have problems with Apple and the Finder then go to Microsoft and Explorer.
L O L.

Good news is, now that your are a Microsoft user, I guess we won't have to read your comments on Apple news anymore, will we?

If find it ironic that Microsoft is actually less end user hostile than Apple however.. such is the case.

What features are missing? I've read the whole thread and you haven't mentioned a single thing actually missing - the only thing you have successfully done is whine about the fact that Finder does things different to Windows Explorer. I find this whine feast the height of hypocrisy because every time I even remotely criticise Windows in how things are done I find my post moderated down so low it bypasses the lowest levels of Dante's Inferno.

10.6 marked the re-write of Finder in Cocoa and the move to 64bit; it forms the foundation for future development. It makes no sense what so ever adding features to a Carbon based Finder when it is going to be thrown out in the future and replaced with a Cocoa based one. If there are 'killer features' that need to be added, they'll be added in one of the future revisions.

As for what I use it for, I never do copy/past/cut outside of a document; I drag and drop; we've got a GUI, decent size screens and the ability to do spatial based file browsing - why castrate your experience to some hair brained half witted idea that was dreamt up when Internet Explorer 4 was integrated with Windows and fundamentally changed the way in which the Windows Explorer operated (Active Desktop, Single click, browser oriented file management etc).

I find it funny how people like pandronic whine about Finder whilst ignoring that Windows historically is the odd one out if one were to do an honest comparison on how files are handled and manipulated by the end user. So no, I don't want Finder bastardised to keep a few Windows converts happy - its perfectly fine the way it is with a couple of extra features being added making things nicer; but to claim, as pandronic did, that Finder is fundamentally flawed makes me laugh and cry at the same time. It is funny because what he says is absurd and yet I cry because of his ignorance is being masked as triumphant arrogance.