macOS Finder is still bad at network file copies

Otherwise the path becomes clickable buttons... which is nice sometimes when you're going back a few directories as you can just click any parent to get a list of it's siblings drop-down style.

My favorite feature is just typing cmd into the title bar which launches it at the current directory.

I would be willing to blame Xrdp, but Thunar works just fine side by side with the same file at the same time.

Also kind of interesting was that Dolphin's status bar shows a different free space amount than Dolphin's properties window.

Put on your headphones... Apple Music launches. Save files to a certain directory, and it's a tacit request to put it in iCloud. Mouse acceleration is default, disabling it is as easy as a terminal command though (or a third-party tweaking tool). Safari will send nag notifications, but only if you don't disable it. Leaving iCloud alone will add a bright red (1) balloon to your Settings app for no reason; probably for the best. Disable Crash Reporter, disable telemetry, disable the program terminator, disable the sleep image, disable OCSP and Gatekeeper... on top of all that, I still disable automatic updates since Apple cannot be trusted to maintain basic functionality between minor updates.

In all my time on MacOS, the only piece of compelling software I found was iTerm2. Which is a shame, since I don't use MacOS for terminal stuff besides SSH anyways.

Literally there’s no tooling I know of that will drop random hidden files.

The ext4 filesystem does have a special hidden directory for data partially recovered/corrupted

Cmd+whatever = annoying chord.

Now, my mac has enter marked as 'return'. Let's follow the same logic, assume I have a file selected, what should 'return' on a file do? Return it to where?

Here we made these columns. But arbitrarily we decided can't use them, so here's a flat, non-structured, hodgepodge miniature list of stuff in a drop-down.

Granted that's not that hard with how bad finder really is.

I always find it very fursting to get back to my user folder too without being stuck inside my documents or my downloads. End up adding a shortcut to the navigation panel for it.

Still, to me, inspector should be the default.

I have to amend my previous comment; reading the thread I do understand the hate now, nearly all of the comments here where people are angry at Finder are just things I’ve never had to do. And I suppose if I had to do them I would just use a shell script.

A big one is “no button to go up in the folder hierarchy”, I always open folders in a list view at a high level directory like ~/Documents so I just… didn’t notice the lack of this button. Huh.

Does this mean Finder is “good”? Well clearly not since so many people are unhappy. But it’s working fine for me. Without any other info I would assume it’s working fine for a majority of macOS users.

I use Transmit sometimes when I'm just trying to copy folders and files and don't want to whip out scp, but otherwise, I like Samba and NFS, just... they're terrible in Finder.

I feel like if you’re going to use the keyboard, though,

cd ..

is just as fast.

If your SMB server is running Linux, IIRC (this was ~8 years ago, so this might no longer be true) that it also seemed to work, to run avahi on the Linux host, configured to announce the system the way you would if you were setting up AFP on the host; and to have avahi then announce SMB as a service (mDNS SRV record) for the system.

I'd recommend trying to find an old guide for setting up a Linux AFP server. You don't actually have to set up (or even install) AFP, though; just do all the avahi parts!

Why does this work? I think it's because, unlike for the WINS names underlying SMB, macOS seems to have an optimized and cached name-lookup path within discoveryd for the mDNS SRV records that would underlie AFP shares. And this code-path seems to be perfectly happy with discovering an SMB share via mDNS. (Probably because of some legacy transition Apple went through internally, where AFP shares were deprecated + replaced with SMB shares, while still being published "as if they were" AFP shares, via mDNS.)

I'm not sure I've run into this state, but I would guess it would work to toggle your wi-fi off to trip the folder over into the "transfer failed" state (where it's no longer greyed out, and instead displays the little "Retry" emblem on the filename), and then delete it.

I’ll use cloud storage for off-premises backup in addition to local backups, but that’s about it.

I think Time Machine supports it, but you'd need one single drive large enough to store the content of all external drives you use.

As long as you back your stuff up correctly at some point. The pile of drives can be part of your 3-2-1 if you want.

Retrieval is also terrible with "my stack of drives" as well. Having to physically search through drives to get to a file is why we left paper to the 20th century.

Windows to me is intuitive by default, I can't find macOS intuitive after 10 years even when being forced to work with it professionally.

I still can't deal with copy paste ctrl/cmd btn being in an awkward position and if I change it in the settings other problems ensue. My muscle memory is all kinds of done.

I swear, half the people on HN are OSX sychophants who can't fathom a minor criticism on the UX for OSX. It doesn't, "just work" all the time and guess what? Even IOS has its own UX quirks (swipe back ring a bell)?

We get it, you're a herd follower and like looking cool by buying over priced fashion tech pieces.