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. Alternative to Finder find better file filtering Path Finder, ForkLift, and HoudahSpot are fine adjuncts/alternatives that are worth a try.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.I myself can never understand why any people with sanity can work in that pesky layout that wastes two/third of screen space. If "file explorer" by your definition is a window with have multiple columns for displaying file hierarchy, file list of current working directory, and file preview, get Pathfinder (). It's personal preference so I'm not commenting on it. If you want even for reactivity, try Marta. ![]()
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