Re: Finder

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Finder
Date: 19:23 on 19 Jul 2006
> No kidding. And here I thought I was escaping Windows into a  
> wonderful new world of "connecting to a network without blocking the  
> rest of the shell". Alas, no. Connecting to a reluctant share on Mac  
> OS X is just as balky as it is on Windows -- perhaps more so as it  
> seems to block *all* Finder windows instead of just the one in which  
> you initiated the connection.

Yes, Windows Explorer is a better file manager than Finder in all kinds
of ways, but alas either of them beat the snot out of the available
competition.

Including things like PathFinder that I *have* paid money for.

> > I would pay money for an updated Cocoa implementation of the NeXT file
> > manager on OS X.

> As would I. As would pretty much any Mac user.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of Mac users who Really Really Like the
spatial Finder and don't even want to give up the shoddy remnants that
persist in OSX finder.

File managers are a whole category of hate.

There's stuff above here

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