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Most people having issues with the finder do not know half of what it can do; it’s interesting, really.

It appears some people having problems with Finder haven’t used it for ten years.

Is there any way to stop /prevent it enumerating tif files over the network ?

When i open a directory of 400 30MB tif files it grinds to a halt while it thumbnails them all over the network. Its unusable.

Just pushed an update. There's now a setting in Preferences to disable icon previews on network volumes. You can also set which file extensions should be excluded, which I hope will fix the grinding. Grab the latest build from the site. Thanks for the catch.

ahh i just saw this. I will try your software when i get a minute.

AFAIK, yes.

`cmd-J` -> Uncheck “Show icon preview”

Hopefully it’s enough, but I haven’t tried.

yeah but it's not configurable for local vs network as far as i can tell

Not AFAIK, no.

Do you have anything in particular in mind here? Long time macOS user but I like a good pro tip :)

I don’t have much actually, but at least:

    - Batch rename files (select multiple files, right click, “Rename…”);
    - Show/hide hidden files: `shift-cmd-.`;
    - Go to folder: `shift-cmd-G`;
    - `cmd-1` to `cmd-4` to quickly change view.

All four of these are awesome tips, thank you!

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