{"id":1185,"date":"2006-01-15T11:31:04","date_gmt":"2006-01-15T16:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/15\/path-finder-4\/"},"modified":"2020-12-11T15:44:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:44:19","slug":"path-finder-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2006\/01\/15\/path-finder-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Path Finder 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nPath Finder 4<\/a> is out, and it was well worth the wait. As with previous versions, Path Finder makes no attempt to be a spacial<\/em> Finder<\/a>—which is, I think, what I still want. Instead, it goes all-out in trying to be a great browsing<\/em> Finder, and I like the result much better than Apple’s FrankenFinder. There are lots of great little features and details which I’ll write about later. However, to me the main points of the upgrade are that it’s much faster, it updates immediately when the disk changes, and it supports tabbed browsing—which is very useful since the browsing paradigm essentially forces you to have a small number of large windows instead of many small ones.\n<\/p>\n\n

\nUnfortunately, one of the best features of Path Finder 3 was lost in the transition from CocoaTech’s own implementation of columns view to an implementation based on NSBrowser<\/a>. Path Finder used to show each column that was visible in the path navigator, and this made it\npossible to browse up and down the hierarchy and always see where you’d\nbeen. Now, it bizarrely hides nodes both above and below where you are:\n<\/p>\n