Developer(s) | Cocoatech |
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Stable release | |
Operating system | macOS |
Type | File browser |
License | Shareware |
Website | cocoatech.com |
Path Finder (originally SNAX) is a Macintoshfile browser developed by Cocoatech. First released simultaneously with the public release of Mac OS X 10.0,[1] it replicates or integrates most of the features of the Finder, but introduces additional functionality similar to that found in Windows Explorer, Norton Commander and other third-party file browsers developed for a variety of platforms.
Some of Path Finder's features not found in the Finder include a dual-pane browser, terminal, StuffIt compression, an active process viewer, an application launcher, and .dmg disk image creation tools. Path Finder also includes tabs, not found in Finder until Mavericks.
Where are the save game files for this game stored? I heard there are some syncing issues with steam cloud and saves for this game. I plan to upgrade my system soon so I'll also have to format my C drive and reinstall Windows. I'd like to backup Pathfinder: Kingmaker saves before I do that. Pathfinder is an agent based egress and human movement simulator. It provides a graphical user interface for simulation design and execution as well as 2D and 3D visualization tools for results analysis. Graphical User Interface Pathfinder includes a graphical user interface that is used primarily to create and run simulation models. 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's functionality can be extended through a plugin architecture; the program ships with plugins for Subversion support and a hex viewer, among others.
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The interface of Path Finder follows the common navigational file manager paradigm, also called the browser paradigm, as opposed to the spatial style. Most operations take place in a single window, although more windows or tabs can be opened. The interface can further be customized by enabling or disabling various panels and/or their corresponding functionality.
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References[edit]
- ^'Interview: Steve Gehrman of Path Finder/CocoaTech'. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
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Retrieved from 'https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Path_Finder&oldid=954420860'
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I agree that PathFinder is very impressive. And CocoaTech definitely deserves praise for their trail period and license policy. (Twenty one days of usage rather than twenty one calendar days for the trail and one user on three computers for the license. I have purchased a license and posted a comment on their 'Suggestions' forum about the issue below.)
However, there is one substantive capability lacking which prevents me from integrating it into my workflow - it does not support Access Control List (ACL) permissions.
Every day I routinely sit in front of three OS X computers:
- Mac mini core duo on the living room coffee table
- G5 dual 2.7ghz home office workstation
- MacBookPro 15.4' 2.33ghz which travels to/fro the corporate offices
Being able to seamlessly use three systems relies heavily on using a (fourth) central file server. This file server (an OS X 10.4.8 client on an old Digital Audio 1.4ghz with 1.6 tera-bytes of disk storage) supports multiple Windows and OS X users and uses ACLs to handle permissions configurations for users/groups on a myriad of file systems and directories. (There is also another old DA running Tiger Server to handle email, accounts/passwords, Retrospect backups, and other responsibilities for which OS X Server is so well suited.) PathFinder does not support this file server.
The MBP runs ChronoSync to keep things synchronized on it with various directories on the corporate office's file server and workstations. And then when it is connected at the home office ChronoSync likewise keeps in sync with the home office's file server. Like magic, I do my work from whatever machine I use, wherever I sit, in two discrete buildings, and the files automatically propagate to wherever they need to be updated.
Bottom line: PathFinder works great for file operations on a local computer but is 100% unable to deal with the majority of files which are kept on a file server for common access from whatever machine I happen to be using at the moment.
However, there is one substantive capability lacking which prevents me from integrating it into my workflow - it does not support Access Control List (ACL) permissions.
Every day I routinely sit in front of three OS X computers:
- Mac mini core duo on the living room coffee table
- G5 dual 2.7ghz home office workstation
- MacBookPro 15.4' 2.33ghz which travels to/fro the corporate offices
Being able to seamlessly use three systems relies heavily on using a (fourth) central file server. This file server (an OS X 10.4.8 client on an old Digital Audio 1.4ghz with 1.6 tera-bytes of disk storage) supports multiple Windows and OS X users and uses ACLs to handle permissions configurations for users/groups on a myriad of file systems and directories. (There is also another old DA running Tiger Server to handle email, accounts/passwords, Retrospect backups, and other responsibilities for which OS X Server is so well suited.) PathFinder does not support this file server.
The MBP runs ChronoSync to keep things synchronized on it with various directories on the corporate office's file server and workstations. And then when it is connected at the home office ChronoSync likewise keeps in sync with the home office's file server. Like magic, I do my work from whatever machine I use, wherever I sit, in two discrete buildings, and the files automatically propagate to wherever they need to be updated.
Bottom line: PathFinder works great for file operations on a local computer but is 100% unable to deal with the majority of files which are kept on a file server for common access from whatever machine I happen to be using at the moment.
But I wish that Apple would just buy this and make it part of OS X.
They would just have to create a simplified mode for the old-timers. I can still feel the 'classicyness' in the current Finder. Yuck.
Someone tell me they have rewritten the Finder for Leopard!!!!
They would just have to create a simplified mode for the old-timers. I can still feel the 'classicyness' in the current Finder. Yuck.
Someone tell me they have rewritten the Finder for Leopard!!!!
Path Finder is indeed an insanely great program.
The thing that keeps me from completely abandoning the Finder, and for me this is a HUGE reason, is that Path Finder lacks a visual layout mode. (I've forgotten the 'official' name for this function.) This is the usual 'view by icon' in the Finder, where you can arrange icons in any old way you want. Path Finder has an icon view but it places the icons on a rigid grid and in a rigid order (alphabetical, by date). Many folders I view in list form, but many others I keep in visual form because I can find things much faster because I can remember 'where I left them.'
The visual mode is a fundamental UI concept supported by UI designers far and wide. I understand that Apple refuses to make available the stuff that is necessary for others to access this information, so Cocoa Tech is not to be faulted here.
The thing that keeps me from completely abandoning the Finder, and for me this is a HUGE reason, is that Path Finder lacks a visual layout mode. (I've forgotten the 'official' name for this function.) This is the usual 'view by icon' in the Finder, where you can arrange icons in any old way you want. Path Finder has an icon view but it places the icons on a rigid grid and in a rigid order (alphabetical, by date). Many folders I view in list form, but many others I keep in visual form because I can find things much faster because I can remember 'where I left them.'
The visual mode is a fundamental UI concept supported by UI designers far and wide. I understand that Apple refuses to make available the stuff that is necessary for others to access this information, so Cocoa Tech is not to be faulted here.
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The features are great, but it's slow for me (1.5 GHz G4, 1.25 GB). I replaced my Finder w/ it for a time, but then went back, and I now use it only rarely.
I scoffed, yes scoffed, but ended up forking over the cash before the trial period even ran out....
I used Path Finder waay back when it was SNAX. I gave it up, just like Rob - and eventually returned when the program was reaching its 4.0 milestone. I enjoyed using it but it was still too slow for me. I reverted back to the Finder. I decided to try PF once it hit 4.5 and now it appears to be much better in terms of performance. I'll stick with it until I wind up upgrading to Leopard.
-Krishna
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-Krishna
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Cartoonist, 'The PC Weenies'
I decided to go 'cold turkey' and replaced the Finder with Path Finder (which is easy to do via a setting in Path Finder's preferences).
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Ehm, how, exactly?
So far - missing one feature: when cmd-clicking on the file name in the title bar of a doc window (in most apps) you get a popup menu of the path to the document - selecting any level opens that folder in the Finder (is there a short term for this feature?). Doesn't work with PathFinder. Understandable, I suppose… but a lack nevertheless.
For me it works like you would want it. I cmd-click on the name or icon in a PathFinder window and I see the whole path. When drilling down, it opens that folder in Path Finder 4.6.1. Is this what you want or am I missing something? Regards...
nope, he's talking about any app aside from pathfiner.here's my solution:
1. paste into the terminal
2. relaunch pathfinder
3. there is no step 3.
this allows apple events meant for the finder to be received by pathfinder. it fixes the safari download window too. :)
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vacuums do not suck. they merely provide an absence that allows other objects to take the place of what becomes absent.
oh... it might also work because i have this installed. i dunno, try the FNDRMACS one first.vacuums do not suck. they merely provide an absence that allows other objects to take the place of what becomes absent.
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vacuums do not suck. they merely provide an absence that allows other objects to take the place of what becomes absent.
vacuums do not suck. they merely provide an absence that allows other objects to take the place of what becomes absent.
Pathfinder Machete
Disk Order (a Mac clone of Total Commander from the Windows world) is for me the absolute greatest Finder replacement when it comes to filehandling via the keyboard!
I think MacZOT introduced me to PathFinder, so I got a great deal on it. :) I've used it ever since. One of the killer features, for me, is the tabbed terminal windows. No mass of shells obscuring each other on the screen: they're all where you can reach them easily. The 'Open in Terminal' contextual menu item is also a big time-saver when you have a deep file hierarchy. Additionally, PathFinder's translation approach is unique in my experience. You can translate the app. directly from the Help menu, and press a button to send in your strings. Definitely cool. :)---
Clytie Siddall -- Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia
iBook G3, 10.3.5, all updates current
Clytie Siddall -- Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia
iBook G3, 10.3.5, all updates current
for me, Path Finder rules for many reasons, but the main one is this:
it doesn't spawn windows with differing view options, as it does not reference those pesky .DS_store files each with it's own idosyncratic icon layout. Thank god for that.
Path Finder does not suffer from the infernal biopolar dis-order that the Finder has.
Whenever i go back to the Finder, it's a wrestle between Icon View, List View, Column View, different X-Y co-ordinates, windows with toolbars, windows without, different icon sizes etc etc. It's insane.
Ever since 4.5, Path Finder has had a massive speed increase. I love it.
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dirtymouse - 'fix a troubled Mac' - troubleshooting PDF book
it doesn't spawn windows with differing view options, as it does not reference those pesky .DS_store files each with it's own idosyncratic icon layout. Thank god for that.
Path Finder does not suffer from the infernal biopolar dis-order that the Finder has.
Whenever i go back to the Finder, it's a wrestle between Icon View, List View, Column View, different X-Y co-ordinates, windows with toolbars, windows without, different icon sizes etc etc. It's insane.
Ever since 4.5, Path Finder has had a massive speed increase. I love it.
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dirtymouse - 'fix a troubled Mac' - troubleshooting PDF book
So near yet so far.
I bought Pathfinder but I barely use it now. For just 2 reasons:
1. Command - F is poor.
In the Finder, if you do Command - F you get to choose the current folder to search in. Amazingly, Pathfinder doesn't give you that option. You would have to manually add it every time. You can use the Filter by kind option, but it isn't recursive. So it seems very difficult to do this simple thing: 'Find all the pictures in this folder (recursively)'
2. There is no command-option-I, so you can't select many objects and change for example the Label of all of them.
(If I'm wrong in the above, I'd love to hear it because I really want to use Pathfinder.)
I'm back to the Finder - well, mainly Quicksilver.
I bought Pathfinder but I barely use it now. For just 2 reasons:
1. Command - F is poor.
In the Finder, if you do Command - F you get to choose the current folder to search in. Amazingly, Pathfinder doesn't give you that option. You would have to manually add it every time. You can use the Filter by kind option, but it isn't recursive. So it seems very difficult to do this simple thing: 'Find all the pictures in this folder (recursively)'
2. There is no command-option-I, so you can't select many objects and change for example the Label of all of them.
(If I'm wrong in the above, I'd love to hear it because I really want to use Pathfinder.)
I'm back to the Finder - well, mainly Quicksilver.
Pathfinder Mace
I'm not sure about #1 -- although I just did a Command-F search of my Home folder for all .pdf files and it found every one in every nested folder -- is that the kind of search you had in mind?
But for #2, why not just select the files then Control-click (or right-click) and choose the Label from the contextual menu?
I did a lot of poking around Path Finder, but couldn't find any way to get the Command-Option-I behavior that the Finder gives, though.
But for #2, why not just select the files then Control-click (or right-click) and choose the Label from the contextual menu?
I did a lot of poking around Path Finder, but couldn't find any way to get the Command-Option-I behavior that the Finder gives, though.