undefined 29 points a year ago

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.

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dohpaz42 35 points a year ago

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)

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SmoothLiquidation 8 points a year ago

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.

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undefined 3 points a year ago

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

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ScintillatingStruthio 15 points a year ago

Because if you're looking for a subfolder you're not looking for a file, and vice versa? It doesn't matter much in sparse directories, but it annoys me having to scroll through a ton of files to find the folder I want in directories with both.

I too like a lot of things about Mac, but finder could be improved, for sure.

(I have gotten used to a lot of its features and hate Windows' defaults too, so there's that. I don't think an ideal exists, unless it's in Linux somewhere and I just need to dual boot the desktop and get it over with)

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undefined 3 points a year ago

On macOS I just type the first few letters of the file/folder and because it’s in alphabetical order, I find it immediately. I don’t want to have to think “oh is this a file or a folder” then scroll around to the appropriate area.

This reminds me of users who complain about <select> fields on websites: they always want some weird sorting instead of just tabbing into the field and typing a few letters.

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ScintillatingStruthio 2 points a year ago

Thar makes sense, although I am generally not trying to use the keyboard at the same time (to be honest I was not aware you could filter a finder view like that, I thought it only ran search and I have never found MacOS's search to be satisfactory)

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undefined 4 points a year ago

I grew up on Windows but when I came to macOS I went hard into key commands; the UI is a lot more uniform so using a combination of key commands and Trackpad gestures you can fly through tasks pretty quickly.

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