> What the hell are all these colors? Why would any sane person want to group their files by color?įor the same reason people use colored post-it notes and bookmarks, and color code things. Sounds more like a complaint from somewhere coming from Windows and wondering why things aren't the same (ignoring the fact that OS X did things before Windows, and has its own users to please by keeping its own way). > The default presentation is some weird list of random stuff from my system, recent files and temporary files and assorted irrelevant garbage. Besides, there's a setting to make it search only the directly you're in (and a third, to make it stick to what you've selected before, either global search or 'current dir' search). > Search, by default searches the entire system not the directory I'm inĪgain irrelevant. That's some kind of complain? There's a two clicks away setting to enable said path display, plus a one click away viewing mode (NeXT-style) that shows all previous directories up to where you are. > I can't even see a path tree to know where I am in the filesystem out of the box

> Why does hitting the enter key not 'go into directory' or 'open file'?īecause it has it's own shortcut for it, e.g. They make garbage and promote it like it's gold and people fall for it. Just in case anyone reading this has noticed the problem here but hasn't quite woken up to it: I really hate that people seem to accept their marketing at face value and not analyze any further, think they're doing something wrong if they run into problems with an Apple product.

Turns out that part was marketing wank too I guess. Having used dozens of different desktops on Linux and Windows I didn't think a 'user friendly' one would be such a pile of annoyances. I shouldn't need 3rd party tools like Spectacle just to make things tolerable on a modern OS. In the end I wiped OSX off the machine as I just couldn't put up with it's constant annoyances for no gain - more of window management than file management though. What the hell are all these colors? Why would any sane person want to group their files by color? I had to fuss with options for quite some time just to get this to be intelligible. The default presentation is some weird list of random stuff from my system, recent files and temporary files and assorted irrelevant garbage. Search, by default searches the entire system not the directory I'm in I can't even see a path tree to know where I am in the filesystem out of the box. Why does hitting the enter key not 'go into directory' or 'open file'?

Finder is awful IMO, this thread is probably fully of Apple-y types who will disagree, but if you're actually interested:

Windows like file manager for mac