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Path Finder 4.8 to bring per-folder settings
Over at the Cocoatech blog they've announced that the forthcoming version 4.8 of Path Finder will finally have one of the most long-requested features: per-folder settings. Basically what this means is that Path Finder will remember particular view settings (e.g. icon, list, column, etc.) for different folders. So you could keep your ~/Pictures folder in icon view, your ~/Documents folder in list view, and your ~/Music folder in column view and it would automatically remember your preferred view whenever you navigate to that folder in Path Finder. All of these preferences are stored in Core Data and thus Path Finder does not leave annoying hidden files (like the Finder's .DS_Store) in the file system.In addition, the 4.8 upgrade will bring interface improvements to move closer to the Unified style that is becoming de rigueur for new Mac applications. The 4.8 update is supposed to be available "very soon" and will be free to registered users of Path Finder 4.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Nick said 8:31AM on 9-27-2007
Leopard will also allow for per-folder custom view settings...
Bit too late for Path Finder it seems.
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seyDoggy said 8:26AM on 9-27-2007
I am so stoked for 4.8. I doubt I'll even open Leopards finder to try it, since I know that Path Finder is already ahead in 4.7. I use Path Finder exclusively (except for Automator actions on my desktop) and would die if I had to go back to Finder.
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Mo said 8:35AM on 9-27-2007
.DS_Store would be fine on AFP volumes—it's just NFS and Samba shares that it bugs me, and to be honest AppleDouble files are much more of a bigger headache in any case.
All Finder needs is a per-volume-type preference (settable via Open Directory for workgroups/corporates), to say whether to store folder settings in the folder or locally, and falling back to the local database if the folder is read-only.
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Luigi193 said 8:56AM on 9-27-2007
Mo
If you download tinkertool (and I think Cocktail) it has an option to not transfer .DS_STore files over a network...if thats what you are talking about.....if its not im sorry!
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Luigi193 said 8:57AM on 9-27-2007
O nevermind...miss read you comment...
D'oh
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Jason said 11:00AM on 9-27-2007
I think PathFinder is great, I own it, I use it every day. And it's about damn time someone, Apple, CocoaTech, whoever, finally gets this done. Even Windows Explorer has had this feature since Windows 2000. That's a long damn time ago, folks.
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