#Totalfinde install
#Totalfinde update
#Totalfinde plus

The two main features of the app are tabbed navigation and dual-pane mode: there’s not really much to explain, as they work like you expect. Just open a new Finder window, hit CMD+, and start customizing the way TotalFinder should work for you. On first run you’ll get a customized Finder dock icon and a new menubar item, but you can turn them off by accessing TotalFinder’s preferences which live in an additional tab next to the Finder’s default prefs.

#Totalfinde install

All you have to do is download the installation package and run it like you’re used to, then TotalFinder will install itself alongside to the default Finder. TotalFinder now works like a charm and it takes a couple of minutes to install.

#Totalfinde update

I only had an issue with a failed upgrade that forced me to run a permission repair from Disk Utility in recovery mode, but the developer fixed it in 48 hours with an update - haven’t had any problems since then. I switched to TotalFinder in January and haven’t looked back. Yes, think of it as one hell of an “extension”. It definitely isn’t an app for casual users: it’s an advanced tweak (yet pretty simple to set up) for all those who’ve always been wondering whether the Finder could be extended or not.

TotalFinder is a complete revamp of the Finder. DS_Store files, the possibility to show system files and “folders on top”. Other features include a setting that prevents the creation of annoying. It uses Google Chrome’s open-source tabs implementation, but those tabs have been tweaked to fit the look of OS X better. In case you never tested TotalFinder’s alpha and beta builds, here’s a brief explanation: it’s basically a Finder with tabs, dual-pane navigation, Visor mode and lots of tweaks. TotalFinder 1.0 is stable and fast: the developer spent months going through every crash report users submitted, trying to find the best (and most reliable) way to make the app work. TotalFinder reinvented the way I interact and work with OS X so much that I cannot imagine going back to Apple’s default file manager anymore. A few weeks later TotalFinder by BinaryAge came out (as an alpha build) and I immediately started testing it.Ī year later, here we are with a final 1.0 build of TotalFinder and months of reinvented workflow to talk about. I didn’t want a standalone app, I was looking forward to something that would let me modify the native app without replacing it. I even tried to completely replace Finder.app in CoreServices, you can guess how it ended. I wanted a better Finder with dual-pane navigation and tabs, but I also wanted to be able to tweak it and customize it, yet retaining the stability and efficiency of the default Finder.app. I grew tired of them, and most of all I grew tired of PathFinder living as a layer above Finder, but not really replacing it. None of the aforementioned apps and scripts managed to work for me for more than a month.

#Totalfinde plus

Over the years I’ve tried many solutions to make the default OS X file manager, Finder, better and more suitable to my needs: PathFinder, a 3rd party application that can live on top of Apple’s Finder and brings dual-pane navigation and tabs to the mix, plus some custom Applescript and Automator workflows that allowed me to easily perform certain tasks like “move these files to another location” or “copy newly downloaded files with.