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macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by FeloniousHam »

FeloniousHam wrote: post #285
YcYc10 wrote: post #116

Any recommendations for some kind of file manager to replace finder?

I like ForkLift and QSpace. ForkLift "feels" more Mac native, but QSpace is kind of the everything tool use see in the Windows world.

QSpace is bad. You can't use it without turning off the firewall:

https://www.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1ea3aye/qspace_fil...

(I like the functionality in QSpace. I just happened to be looking for a Finder replacement a day before this post came out and downloaded whole bunch of them)

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by crazygringo »

soci wrote: post #154

> Open/Save Dialogs > Drag a file or folder from Finder into an open/save dialog to jump directly to that file. Doesn't work consistently anymore (Sequoia 15.2). Instead of focusing on the file, it moves the file you selected from Finder to the folder shown in the save dialog. It completely breaks the workflow. Surprisingly, it works as expected one out of ten times. It seems to depend on where on the save dialog you…

That's never happened to me. I'm on Sequoia 15.3.1 and just tried it out, and can't get it to move a file at all. It correctly selects the dragged file/folder every time. No matter if I drag it right on top of an existing folder in the open/save dialog. I've just tried with multiple applications.

Definitely seems like a bug. Maybe you have some kind of system extension interfering? Or I hate to tell you to reinstall macOS, but hopefully that would fix it?

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by kbutler »

crazygringo wrote: post #302
aheckler wrote: post #282

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IIRC Finder has an option to delete files from the Trash 30 days after they're put there. I just enable that option and forget about the Trash completely.

You clearly aren't regularly deleting tens of gigabytes of files at a time... ;)

You can generally permanently delete with one action - but be sure you want to!

GUI: select item(s) and Option-Command-Delete

Command-line: rm -rf folder-or-file-path (or srm to securely remove)

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by fiddlerwoaroof »

eszed wrote: post #90
fiddlerwoaroof wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The command-tab switcher has a lot of hidden functionality: I always only use cmd-tab to open the switcher, then I use arrow keys to pick an application, up/down arrows to view an application’s windows (arrow keys and enter to select a specific one) You can also hit Q to quit an application from the switcher and probably more things I’m currently forgetting.

Wait... What? That application-window trick is awesome. How have I been using been using Macs for twenty+ years and never found that? Discoverability = not-awesome. As repetitive as these top-tips threads can be, we need one every now and again. Someone's guaranteed to learn something from them, and I'm grateful it was my turn today.

I have mixed feelings about discoverability. I'd usually rather functionality be available in a non-discoverable fashion than unavailable because designers couldn't figure out how to surface it in the UI. And, one of the things I like about vim and emacs is the interface can be extremely minimal with all the functionality I need behind key shortcuts and the like. (Although, emacs has a nice solution of `C-x C-b` list all the available shortcuts for the current window and `M-x` listing all the available commands.

The way I learned these shortcuts was reading macOS's help back in 2007, but the quality of documentation bundled with macOS has gone downhill quite a bit.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by fredoliveira »

amitgupta6 wrote: post #58

Does anyone know of a good solution to manage menubar on Mac? Have M2 Pro with a notch which hides many of many items and it's so difficult to access them unless I quit a few of them.

I have used HiddenBar for a while and it's been pretty solid. It's open-source: https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by tcoff91 »

urxvtcd wrote: post #169
tcoff91 wrote: post #164

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Aerospace is much better than yabai especially workspaces feature without disabling SIP

I'm using yabai with SIP enabled. The only thing that is missing is sending a window to another workspace. To do that I launch Mission Control and simply drag the window to desired workspace. It turns out I don't do that often so I can live with that.

The workspaces feature in Aerospace is phenomenal and so much better than native macOS workspaces. I highly recommend it. Also the accordion layout of aerospace is better than Yabai’s stacks, and the way that resizing windows works is also better

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by urxvtcd »

tcoff91 wrote: post #336
urxvtcd wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm using yabai with SIP enabled. The only thing that is missing is sending a window to another workspace. To do that I launch Mission Control and simply drag the window to desired workspace. It turns out I don't do that often so I can live with that.

The workspaces feature in Aerospace is phenomenal and so much better than native macOS workspaces. I highly recommend it. Also the accordion layout of aerospace is better than Yabai’s stacks, and the way that resizing windows works is also better

I tried it, it's nice. There's an issue where high CPU usage makes it unusable though, last time I checked it was still open. Will probably try again in future.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by edanm »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #39
nomilk wrote: post #20

Love that this is straight to the point. My tips: - Use Alfred. Game changer. It's an immediate improvement on spotlight search, you can run commands with three keystrokes (rather than opening a terminal, just command + space, then > ), it gives clipboard history and fast append (lets you press command + c twice fast to append to clipboard, and opt + command + c to search clipboard history), and lets you make 'workfl…

I've been using SizeUp for window management on macOS for...15 years now I think? https://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

I've been using SizeUp for 15 years too, but I just switched to Rectangle a few months ago. Mostly because it's faster. You wouldn't think it matters, but for some reason it does.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by edanm »

notpushkin wrote: post #72

> Press ⇧⌘/ to search all of the current app's menu items. Then use the Up/Down arrow keys to navigate the results and press Return to execute that menu bar action. Kinda like command palette for every app, I like it. Would be even better if it preselected the matching option. Unfortunately, this is broken in Firefox – they’ve bound ⌘ ? to their help page, and it opens then immediately closes the Help menu. You can r…

Thank you! This has been driving me crazy ever since I switched to Firefox.

Re: macOS Tips and Tricks (2022)

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Post by gaws »

wiredfool wrote: post #306
cbm-vic-20 wrote: post #278

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Rectangle supports thirds, "two-thirds", fourths, "three-fourths", and sixths (top/bottom * thirds).

Must have happened after I made my changes. Would have been roughly 2020, based on when I got the monitor.

Rectangle had those options before 2020.
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