I’ll say that as much as I love Apple and macOS, Finder has some pretty terrible defaults that make file management pretty difficult for the average user. The default “All Files” view is atrocious.

[–] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 10 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Not being able to create a file
Folders aren’t by default listed at the top
Spring-loaded folders are hit or miss
No good intuitive way to set defaults for ALL folders at once
No good intuitive way to reset any folder defaults
.DS_Store and ._DS_Store (nuff said)

[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I HATE that windows will sort folders at the top instead of alphabetically with everything else. I guess it comes from using a Mac for so long.

I agree about .DS_Store in any mixed os environment though.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 36 minutes ago

Yeah, I don’t know why having folders at the top would make anything easier.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Download iTerm2
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[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

What is a spring-loaded folder?

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

https://techpp.com/2021/08/17/mac-spring-loaded-folders-guide/

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

This doesn't sound any easier than using Ctrl+X to cut files and Ctrl+V to paste them wherever you want to?

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 2 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago)

Depends on how you use your computer. Plenty of people would tell you that using a GUI file manager and cutting/moving files is inefficient on any platform as opposed to just using a terminal.

There are times where it’s nice to drag a file or group of files and have Finder show me the content of the destination folder before I decide to drop the files. But sure I could do that with 3 mouse clicks and 4 keyboard taps.

I think that terminal only or primarily terminal is valuable, a combination of mouse and keyboard with shortcuts is valuable, and also the ability to just use your mouse (especially helpful for accessibility) is also valuable, and they all should be supported.

[–] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

Why would you use the Finder when macOS has a perfectly fine shell?

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 38 minutes ago (1 children)

zsh? I mean, I use that too… but what does that have to do with anything?

[–] BorgDrone@feddit.nl 1 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)

You can do all file management operations from the command line. No need to use the Finder.

[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 1 points 1 minute ago

I don’t think the “average user” is going to drop Finder to use the terminal.

In fact though I’m not an “average user”and use bash, zsh pretty much every day, there are still some things I’d rather do in Finder.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

Image previews because I give my memes really dumb filenames