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Path Finder - A feature-laden Finder replacement
Authored by: macgruder on Dec 13, '06 09:59:56AM

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.



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Path Finder - A feature-laden Finder replacement
Authored by: Nostromo1965 on Apr 09, '07 06:57:21PM

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.



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