One of the Finder’s shiny new leonine features - a file-browsing mode called “All My Files,” which shows you all your own stuff and, more to the point, nothing else - illustrates the feel of the continuing inadequacy of the Finder quite nicely. Either they don’t get it, don’t agree, or don’t care, and it’s baffling and irritating no matter what. This is one of the best examples in tech history of Apple perpetually ignoring a well-crafted and prominent criticism. The Finder still baffles even genius users with its unparseable rules for view persistence, and its crazymaking non-spatial browser behaviour - “ like remembering names without faces to go with them” - failings clearly and correctly explained by John Siracusa for Ars Technica way back in 2003. Finder sidebar headings can’t be rearranged.Input nox disappears while trying to rename files.(This breaks LaunchBar’s valuable instant send feature - which is not a hack, just a terrific 3rd party exploitation of supported scriptability. You end up getting the parent folder instead. A scripting bug that makes it unreliable to get the current selection with a script.Zip archives won’t finish zipping (stall at ~98–99%). Discombobulation of icon arrangement and sorting.I have to force quiet the Finder to restore my desktop. All desktop icons regularly (~6/day) disappear, a major issue, possibly related to multiple displays and thus not on Apple’s radar as prominently as I would hope.Finder windows fail to keep up with changes: for instance, deleted and copied files do not appear to be deleted or copied at first.Some other prominent glitchiness I’ve seen in Finder since installing Lion: A single pair of filenames out of two dozen spastically swapped places every time I clicked the column header (to change the sort order) while everything else stayed still.įinder jankiness like this has been a nearly hourly experience since I installed Lion - and it has ever been thus. The Finder’s perpetually neglected list view mode refused to sort. Alas, as usual, the incremental improvements are a disappointment, and bugs still abound. Mail in particular seemed to have a long list of improvements, especially - crucially! - to its searching. I had dared to hope that Apple might finally address some of their serious inadequacies in Lion. These two are the nearly unavoidable ones, and so chronically buggy and ill-conceived that only dilettantes and dabblers can possibly be content with them. Other stock Apple apps are either better or can be replaced or ignored easily enough. Each can be replaced, but only with awkwardness and ugly compromises. Real Mac power users know that Mail.app and the Finder have always been the can’t-live-with-’em, can’t-live-without-’em turds of OS X. But then I kicked things off with glowing praise of the Lion Recovery Partition. Open the Mac App Store application to redeem a promo code.When I announced that I was going to be reviewing Lion, I promised some crankiness. Get the bundle identifier of an application.Īpp Bundle ID Action: AppBundleID.lbaction Press space bar to enter a date and clicking on the date put content on the clipboard.ĭate Convert Action: DateConvert.lbaction You can also calculate an interval, example: +1d or -5h (h:hour, d:day, w:week, m:month). Run iTerm2 Command action: Run iTerm Command.lbactionĭisplay date in differents formats and convert unix timestamp or date string. Open iTerm2 and run a command (requires iTerm 2.9 and earlier). Switch Proxy Action: ProxySwitch.lbaction
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