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Re: Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)

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AFAIK, yes. `cmd-J` -> Uncheck “Show icon preview” Hopefully it’s enough, but I haven’t tried.

yeah but it's not configurable for local vs network as far as i can tell

Not AFAIK, no.

Re: Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)

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//confused noises// Wait, are you telling me that macOS has gotten so ensh---ified that many of its users feel the need to purchase a bespoke file manager , arguably one of the most fundamental functions of an operating system? Surely this is a very specific product for a very specific class of users? This can't be a widespread need, right? RIGHT? (Context: I haven't used modern macOS in roughly a decade and have no…

I think most of us software engineering (or related) people don't use the gui interface for file management. I've been using macOS for the last 20 years and I only used the gui for files like 10 or 20 times maybe. Not sure who the target audience is but at $19.99 I would pay a lot of money to have a list of the people who bought the app.

Re: Show HN: Fast, native Mac file manager (filters, fuzzy find, 9 MB, no Electron)

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I like many of the ideas in this app, but IMHO it does not yet look like a macOS app: eg. strange blue focus outlines to denote active state, which on my system are larger vertically than the button they contain but not horizontally which results in a very untidy display, some buttons are smaller than the required/recommended minimum size. Some other things I've noticed, compared to Finder: far less items in the same…

After putting a lot of thought into this, I've ended up making my own dual pane file manager. Oops!
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