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Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one

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Re: Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one

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Post by flyingshelf »

I think you're gonna lose a lot of comments here to the "Finder" word here. The problem is not the Finder but directories, which exist on all operating systems.

With that aside, this is a great idea for most files. Of course my images are still in folders with the projects they belong to, but my life photos are in one stream. Files, contacts, a lot of data would benefit greatly from this visualization.

As for people with 1000 files on their desktop, who cares, they are as good as hoarders and they get what it comes to them. Discipline helps both in the real and in the digital world.

Re: Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one

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Post by maltch »

Lt_Riza_Hawkeye wrote: post #6

Finder is frustrating but this guy is just complaining about the fact that he's unable to organize his own files into directories in a way that lets him find them later. He then calls himself a power user. Finder even has tags to help with this, which is more than most operating systems get

So true, so true. Every time I think I've got my structure set up properly, I then do something in haste, and can't find it later. Power user and file manager are two totally different things.

Re: Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one

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Post by flyingshelf »

mosura wrote: post #10

The problem with Finder is historic. The classic Mac finder was a work of art, if you are the sort of person that arranges things spatially, but most programmers are not. Hence NeXT created something else which got merged back incoherently into what became OSX. The Risc OS filer remains king, largely because managing windows on Risc OS is much more tolerable.

You didn't read past the title.

Re: Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one

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Post by greekrich92 »

Lt_Riza_Hawkeye wrote: post #6

Finder is frustrating but this guy is just complaining about the fact that he's unable to organize his own files into directories in a way that lets him find them later. He then calls himself a power user. Finder even has tags to help with this, which is more than most operating systems get

Finder is terrible. Not sure why it's worth defending to the point of attacking someone who simpy made something which fills its gaps.
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