Dumb MacOS question: I have a bunch of folders in various locations that need to be put on my network drive in various different locations (ie, not a mirror).
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Michael B. Johnsonreplied to Curt Clifton last edited by
@curtclifton @octothorpe from the NeXT days.
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Matt Christensenreplied to CM Harrington last edited by
@octothorpe the not queuing thing is frustrating. I have timed it before and it’s almost always about the same manually queued vs letting Finder pretend it can multitask.
You could select them all then drag them to the root or maybe a temp folder of the destination. That will serially copy them all (as one operation, but serially such that if interrupted what is finished is there). Then move them once they are on the destination which is then just a quick folder change not a network move.
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Matt Christensenreplied to CM Harrington last edited by
@octothorpe honestly I used to use this solely for the preference to auto-resize columns in column view to fit the length of the longest name.
That is a daily paper cut in Finder for me.
I forget why I stopped using it…maybe some instability years ago? I could be tempted to try again…
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CM Harringtonreplied to Matt Christensen last edited by
@mattchristensen yeah, I’ve timed it as well, and from my data, there’s a lot of flailing. It could be because I’m specifically going over a network and onto winchester drives that exacerbates the problem.
Anyway, I just remembered Path Finder exists, and it optionally queues file actions.
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CM Harringtonreplied to Matt Christensen last edited by
@mattchristensen that is such a breath of fresh air!! I remember why I stopped using it… it was A LOT of UI. A lot of power sure, but there’s some jank in the experience. Historically that was enough friction to keep me from using it.
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Giuseppe Allettireplied to Michael B. Johnson last edited by
@Drwave @curtclifton @octothorpe also Option-Command-C will copy the path of the item.
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Curt Cliftonreplied to Giuseppe Alletti last edited by
@giuseppe @Drwave @octothorpe I also have a couple of shell aliases that let me work with the path of the front-most Finder window without reaching for the mouse. https://curtclifton.net/finder-and-terminal-are-friends
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@curtclifton @giuseppe @Drwave These are great!
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@octothorpe I tried it again earlier this year and ended up giving up on it AGAIN after a few months of trying to tough it out. The reason for my ultimate decision was that OS integration will never be as tight as needed, but also that PF comes with its own separate set of issues, and customer support appears to be non-existent these days, which means that these issues might never get solved. We already have that same situation with the Finder, thanks very much.
YMMV, of course.
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@betalogue yeah, there’s def some jank, and some questionable choices made… overall it does a lot of stuff I’ve been wanting (queued network copies, robust renaming, labels that are obvious, etc.). It’s not that expensive (they’ve got a pay once option), so after my trial, I’ll see.