Finder (macOS)

“Moving iPhone syncing to Finder made sense at a high level, but somehow it ended up becoming super glitchy and never gets fixed”

“It doesn't happen all the time, but frequently enough that I assumed that Finder does some re-scan every now and then”

“I am very fond of the Finder’s navigation and as a long-time Mac user”

“when you're in a folder, you start to search, and then it defaults to "This Mac" and not the god damn folder you're in”

“For my use cases, I am often sorting through large quantities of media files, so I value things like column view and Quicklook.”

“the column view and hit-space-to-preview is all I want for my basic needs”

“most complaining about finder haven't actually bothered to give it the benefit of the learning-curve”

“Enable the path bar. It does what you want in regards to path copying.”

“it just encourages a unique set of power user workflows that aren't replicated elsewhere”

“column view is the one saving grace of finder; the rest is best left untouched”

“just select file in Finder and press Option-Cmd-C to copy file path”

“I feel like Finder is easily best in class, even after ten or fifteen years of design.”

“the obscure shortcuts are discoverable by holding the modifier key down while a menu is open”

“Once I got used to column view, I miss it on other operating systems.”

“Finder is missing so many basic features that explorer.exe and Linux file managers have had standard for decades.”

“I agree it would be better for this to be an option, but I think the status quo is more clicks, not nothing exists.”

“once you got to know them (e.g. when coming over from Windows), it's smooth sailing - and much better than the Explorer.”

“Finder has a “Recent” virtual folder right a the top that’ll list all files the person worked on most recent”

“I can't remember the last time the save panel didn't show me the folder browser by default.”

“I do most of my work in the terminal, so the Finder is less of an issue than it would be otherwise”

“Those settings with the hierarchy view makes seeing the file system quite clear in my opinion.”

“far more user-friendly and comprehensible than what explorer exposes to normal people”

“it's one of the only FM that supports Miller columns, which I use quite a bit”

“I feel like Finder is overly-simplified and tries to abstract the directory structure away from the user too much.”

“I genuinely like Finder more than any other file manager I've used.”

“Wherever you moved something on the desktop or within a particular folder, it stayed there.”

“This is much nicer than the Windows Explorer's CTRL+X and CTRL+V”

“It does it in a very intuitive way and without covering any of the other files listed”

“the constant explosion of new windows and lack of split-view”

“I don’t quite understand the discontent with the Finder for the most part”

“Finder blows, but somehow I navigate better with it now than I can with Explorer.”

“It’s incredible that “Search the Current Folder” is not the default, nor, as far as I’m aware, can it be made the default.”

“It has one feature I wish everyone else would copy: Miller columns.”

“IMO the spacial Finder was designed around floppies and small folders and didn't work so well with hierarchical folder views”

“But when Finder gets confused seems to be that when you shift between folders using the "browser-like" tools (back, forward, double-clicking a folder from the current folder)”

“Everytime I try to search something, it seems to insert random results in the list that have nothing to do with the term.”

“The Finder issue can be alleviated if you include the path bar in your Finder window”

“The Finder has barely changed since its OS X 10.2 incarnation over two decades ago, except for gaining features”

“Finder does have Miller columns, which to me is the best way to manage and explore files”

“it was hard to believe Finder was so bad compared to XP-era Windows Explorer”