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Aug 19, 2020 Path Finder is a utility that comes as an alternative to using Mac's Finder for browsing and managing your file collection. It brings you a wide variety of file management tools, provides you with quick access to your favorite Mac utilities and documents, and so much more. Path Finder might prove to be of good use when organizing your local data. Path Finder and macOS version compatibility Looking for an older version of Path Finder? Confused on which version to download? Just follow the guideline below, and click the version number to begin a download of that version. Path Finder 9: Requires 10.12 Sierra or newer starting PF 9.2. How to use Path Finder 8 as a macOS Finder alternative by Erik Eckel in Software on June 14, 2019, 11:14 AM PST Path Finder 8 is an expansive macOS Finder alternative.
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Path Finder is similar to the Finder, but it also puts an Aqua user interface on many powerful Unix tools for operating on files. Path Finder also has a well-designed user interface for viewing and navigating your hard disks.
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- Access frequently-used folders and files: The Shelf gives you quick and easy access to applications, files, and folders.
- New! Fast File Search: Utilizing new Mac OS X searching technology, Path Finder 3 helps you find your files faster and more effectively than before.
- New! Simple File Sharing and Networking: Path Finder 3.2.1 now has a completely brand new and improved Connect to Server feature, which makes connecting to remote servers and computers a snap.
- “Pause” drag-and-drop operations: Drag some files or folders to the Drop Stack, and drag them out when you need them.
- Action Menu button: access contextual menus from the menu bar
- Document menu button: Superfast access to folders inside of your Documents folder from the menu bar
- Process and Volumes drawer: View currently running applications and mounted volumes in a convenient file browser drawer.
- Improved! Reports: Generate information*filled reports detailing all kinds of esoteric information about your files, directories, fonts, and system.
- Add Icon Previews: Turn an image’s icon into a small thumbnail preview for easier file identification
- Label your files and folders: set colors to visually organize your files
- Securely delete files for maximum security
- Open any file with any application: from a menu or from within a file listing
- Connect to computers on your network: just like Apple’s Finder
- View invisible files and inside file packages
- Navigate through file paths quickly: the Path Navigator allows you to “jump up” folder levels in your hard drive quickly.
- Endless customization: Want brushed metal? Want aqua? Sick of Lucida Grande? Want green text on black for your file listings? Path Finder is completely customizable in ways that other file browsers can only dream of.
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What's New:
- This window now correctly reflects All windows user preferences as starting point (before you had to start customizing from factory defaults)
- you can again have two windows open with two different types of sorting
- Added a gear button below the Shelf with Hide/Show Shelf and Hide/Show Drop Stack options
- Fixed a one pixel alignment issue that occurred to the Drop Stack when the Bookmarks bar was hidden
- By popular request, we added a preference to make the Shelf blue (click on the new gear wheel button under the Shelf)
- Fixed font size differences in the Shelf contextual menu
- You can now access Sorting Preferences in Column View by clicking on the column header triangle
- Fixed the drawing of the reload button in the status bar
- Fixed an issue where the Tab text color was hard to read when windows were in the background
- Fixed an issue where the preview columns background was inccorect when displaying movie previews
- Fixed the option key to work as Meta
- Fixed the broken Terminal background transparency preference
- Terminal window now matches browser window style
- Fixed an issue with opening text files in the text editor when automatic encoding detection was turned on
- Fixes to the iTunes browser plugin (fixed a burning and isolated crash)
- Updated Taiwan, Japanese, German and Dutch localizations
- Updated the Stuffit engine to the brand new version (version 12)
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More than a year ago, we introduced Path Finder: Version 8. As you can read here, with that version, we started a long overdue process of overhauling the entire application. The PF 8 update added all the new features that were needed to bring Path Finder into modern days of ever-changing macOS. We continue that process with version 8.5. Even though it doesn’t bring the required amount of innovation and changes to justify a significant version bump, it still brings a lot of new fundamental things, which deserves a dedicated blog post. Moreover, since it is not a new major version, we released it for free to our community of over 100k users.
So what is the big news in this version? Continuing our pursuit for better performance, reliability, and modern code base, we replaced outdated StuffIt SDK with our own archiving engine based on system libraries and frameworks already built-in into the system. A huge change like this deserves a few lines of history.
“We were busy adding new features and capabilities, and we rarely gave any thought about archiving because it was already functioning very well. Our application overhaul process finally came to haunt us and ultimately expel StuffIt SDK this spring, with the introduction of our own archiving engine based on libarchive.”
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At the time Path Finder gained the ability to archive/compress and expand/decompress archives, the most used program on macOS for such purposes was StuffIt Expander (used for expanding and bundled with OS installation) and StuffIt Deluxe (which could also handle archiving) from Smith Micro Software. Few others were coming from old MacOS 8/9 and ported to macOS using Carbon framework, but they were not widely used. Most importantly, there wasn’t any library or framework built into the system, which could handle those tasks. Besides offering above mentioned applications, Smith Micro also offered StuffIt SDK, a framework that could handle archiving/expanding task with most widely used archiving and compression formats at the time. Their SDK was a natural choice for Path Finder, which has been using it ever since version 2.0
Years were passing by and StuffIt application and SDK were becoming less and less used, as macOS was getting more and more capabilities and built-in libraries and frameworks expanding the number of tasks Path Finder could do without reaching for the help of 3rd party frameworks. Finally in 2009, macOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) came with build in libarchive library. That made a huge positive turn regarding archiving and expanding tasks in macOS without reaching for external help. Almost ten years have passed since then, and Path Finder continued using StuffIt SDK for much longer than it was necessary. We were busy adding new features and capabilities, and we rarely gave any thought about archiving because it was already functioning very well. Our application overhaul process finally came to haunt us and ultimately expel StuffIt SDK this spring, with the introduction of our own archiving engine based on libarchive.
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All this brings some incredible gains and depending on archive/compression format; the new engine offers up to 30% speed improvement when archiving and even more (in some cases up to 65%) when expanding files. Path Finder can now create ZIP, that is password protected, 7-ZIP, XAR, TAR, PAX and CPIO archives, compressed with various compression formats, such as GZIP, BZIP2, Compress, XZ. Expanding support now includes ZIP, 7-ZIP, XAR, TAR, PAX, CPIO, AR, LHA/LZH, RAR and CAB archives, with various decompression filters, including XZ, LZIP, and LZMA. Worth noting is that due to the new archiving engine, the application bundle size has been reduced from 53 MB to 38.5 MB! Additionally, we didn’t just replace the old archiving engine. We took the opportunity of introducing the new one to also integrate it much better into file operations workflow. Now, archiving and expanding operations are treated as any other file operation (copy/move/delete). This includes queueing, progress bar and finish time estimation, so it is as easy to learn and use them as the rest of Path Finder.
Version 8.5 brings some other improvements as well. Since we’ve already touched file operations, we took the opportunity to improve copy/move/delete engine as well. There are speed improvements across a wide range of different file copying scenario, and the most significant gains come when copying a bunch of files in folder hierarchies on SSD volumes formatted with APFS. In this particular case, file copying can be up to three times (3x) faster, but on average, you will see a 5 – 50% increase in file copying speed. File deletion has also gained some minor speed improvements. See it in action below:
Second to saving time, we wanted to save you space on your Mac in several ways. Direct mail 5 7 100. As mentioned, the application itself is 30% smaller, some new archiving and compression formats sport better compression ratio (like 7-ZIP and LHA/LZH/LZMA). Additionally, we wanted to make files that take up tons of space, easier to find. We have had the Size Browser as a tool for many years, but many people did not know about it and had a hard time finding it. So, we added a button to it right in the toolbar as a default.
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Size Browser shows the list of files and folders inside a selected folder ordered by size so you can find the large ones you forgot about and delete or compress them.
One more thing we did to save you time is to add a new “undo” panel in case you mistakenly moved a file or performed any other undoable operation and want to undo it quickly. Again, undoing actions was always possible, but we just made it easier and more apparent. In case you don’t want to be reminded of undoable actions, uncheck “Show undo panel” in Path Finder preferences.
Finally, we want to rest assure you that we listen to users feedback. We are aware of issues, small bugs, and feature requests you send to us, and we take all of them seriously. We are continually working on them to improve Path Finder in general. We are also currently working on a comprehensive Path Finder Manual. If you have pro tips to share, please reach out to [email protected]. We will happily credit your unique contributions. All those activities and difficulties that we are facing in implementation deserve a dedicated blog post, so look for our next blog post in a few weeks. To be sure not to miss it, please sign up for our e-newsletter on our home page and find us on Facebook & Twitter. We hope our loyal users recognize the efforts we consistently put in to make Path Finder the best file management experience for MacOS. Enjoy the Path Finder 8.5 update and keep your eyes peeled for partner offers and more news right around the corner! May you have many productive hours with PF 8.5 coming in your future.