Put on your headphones... Apple Music launches. Save files to a certain directory, and it's a tacit request to put it in iCloud. Mouse acceleration is default, disabling it is as easy as a terminal command though (or a third-party tweaking tool). Safari will send nag notifications, but only if you don't disable it. Leaving iCloud alone will add a bright red (1) balloon to your Settings app for no reason; probably for the best. Disable Crash Reporter, disable telemetry, disable the program terminator, disable the sleep image, disable OCSP and Gatekeeper... on top of all that, I still disable automatic updates since Apple cannot be trusted to maintain basic functionality between minor updates.
In all my time on MacOS, the only piece of compelling software I found was iTerm2. Which is a shame, since I don't use MacOS for terminal stuff besides SSH anyways.
By default they put your entire desktop folder, documents folder, etc. as children folders of the OneDrive folder now.
It's absolutely infuriating
Now that I daily-drive Linux, I don't log-on to Windows or Mac systems without a deposit for the troubles. I truly feel bad looking out at the modern landscape of mainstream operating systems. It's no wonder most people feel trapped by modern technology.
No worse than Windows spewing thumbs.db files all over the place. Or any of the thousands of different dot files that end up in Linux volumes.
Literally there’s no tooling I know of that will drop random hidden files.
The ext4 filesystem does have a special hidden directory for data partially recovered/corrupted
That works with ZFS shared over the network (samba, etc) too, which can be useful. :)
It definitely is intentional, and for good reason[1].
[1]: https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/09/27/2032200/students-do...
Isn't that just the standard nix filesystem view abstraction leaking into the rest of the OS? Your file system could be any number of drives (or no drives at all) mounted at arbitrary points. Showing them like they are any relevant place to start for most users seems silly. Especially given that in a modern nix OS, almost everything in the top level of `/` is useless to users.
Also, macOS shows external drives on the Desktop and the Finder sidebar by default. The basis for your conspiracy theory is just plain false.
Are you talking about Mac or Windows?
Windows has those shortcuts which backtrack only to MyPC, and they’ve done that since forever. Always infuriated me as a Mac user since I am both user and Admin to get stuck in one of these loops, when I needed to get to root.
I always find it very fursting to get back to my user folder too without being stuck inside my documents or my downloads. End up adding a shortcut to the navigation panel for it.
And related if you do open a mess of individual info windows, holding option while closing a window will close all windows in an application (note that since the info windows are in the finder, this will close your finder window too)
Still, to me, inspector should be the default.
Command-click the folder name in the title bar.
Or, View > Show Path Bar.
Granted that's not that hard with how bad finder really is.
No the Finder UI is far superior. The part where it falls down is just in sheer bugginess and performance. And Apple of the past couple years has shown it does not care about fixing bugginess or performance on any of their platforms.
Bunch of Stockholm syndrome going around.
Should be configurable though.
Cmd+whatever = annoying chord.
Also if I recall correctly, enter to rename has been Mac convention since the beginning, making it not wrong but just different.
Now, my mac has enter marked as 'return'. Let's follow the same logic, assume I have a file selected, what should 'return' on a file do? Return it to where?
Try doing that in Finder and let us know if you like the approach or not.
I have to amend my previous comment; reading the thread I do understand the hate now, nearly all of the comments here where people are angry at Finder are just things I’ve never had to do. And I suppose if I had to do them I would just use a shell script.
A big one is “no button to go up in the folder hierarchy”, I always open folders in a list view at a high level directory like ~/Documents so I just… didn’t notice the lack of this button. Huh.
Does this mean Finder is “good”? Well clearly not since so many people are unhappy. But it’s working fine for me. Without any other info I would assume it’s working fine for a majority of macOS users.
That’s a little like complaining that Alt-F4 is unintuitive, isn’t it? It’s historical continuity. On the other hand, they changed Command-N…
> there is only a back button and not a go up directory button
Can’t argue with that one, though.
cmd-down goes down a directory tree if you have a directory selected or opens a file if one is selected
IMO more intuitive than "enter opens file, backspace goes back", but YMMV
I suspect the latter at least might not be done because then the menu items for the attributes you sort by would remain selected or reset automatically depending on the state of the `Keep Sorted` toggle, which would be weirdly inconsistent. But then again the `Clean up By` menu enables and disabled depending on the state of the `Sort By` menu, which is arguably even more inconsistent and confusing.
You can press Command-up; and also add such a button in the toolbar from View > Customize Toolbar.
one of my favorites: go save a file in some deeply nested directory. use Column view in the save dialog to get you there.
now try to save another file. you're in Column view only there's one one column: the last saved folder.
ZERO WAY to get back out!
WHY WOULD YOU TRUNCATE ALL OF THE PARENTS FOLDERS FOR NO REASON!
Here we made these columns. But arbitrarily we decided can't use them, so here's a flat, non-structured, hodgepodge miniature list of stuff in a drop-down.
I just tried a few e.g. Safari, Word and can't recreate the behaviour.
Every time column view shows the full hierarchy.