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Comment by Benjamin_Dobell | Hacker News Reader

I don't mind the design too much, my biggest issue is all the bugs.

- Files not displaying until you navigate away from a directory and return again.

- The visibly selected file not being the actual selected file. This is most obvious if you hit spacebar to preview contents and it previews the wrong file contents (typically one file above in the list). However, it can occasionally happen with copy and paste, meaning you paste the wrong file!

- Crashes. I don't actually use Finder all that often, typically command line. Nonetheless, I do still experience the occasional Finder crash.

However, in addition to bugs, there is one design issue that I dislike:

- "Recents" being the default when you open a new window. Finder tends to come to a grinding halt unless you swap location quickly as macOS does who-knows-what trying to determine your "recents".

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In Finder preferences, you can set the default finder view to somethng other than Recents. Anecdotally, i’ve never experienced any of the other issues in 15 years of using macOS. YMMV i guess.

> In Finder preferences, you can set the default finder view to somethng other than Recents.

Cheers :)

> Anecdotally, i’ve never experienced any of the other issues in 15 years of using macOS.

I've only got just over 10 years up my sleeve, but I suspect most of the issues I run into are because I don't exclusively use Finder. File system changes originating from other processes (typically terminal) seem to be what trips Finder up.

> - Files not displaying until you navigate away from a directory and return again.

That's strange. I have never seen this and I've been using OS X since day one, every day. In fact I remember being thrilled when the Spotlight hooks where added and I could run “touch test” on Terminal and the file would instantly appear in the Finder.

> - "Recents"

Oh yes, one of the first things I change, Finder -> Preferences -> General -> New Finder Windows Show…

> > - Files not displaying until you navigate away from a directory and return again.

> That's strange. I have never seen this and I've been using OS X since day one, every day.

It happens to me quite often when working with network shares. Never happened on local disks, though.

Ah, that explains it. Finder is dreadful on network file systems

The Command+, preferences window lets you change the default folder. I don't think I've really experienced the other things you list.

Go to Preferences in the Finder and change the setting under "New Finder windows show:" to do something else (such as show your Home directory).

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