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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Jason

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.

September 27 2007 at 11:00 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Luigi193

O nevermind...miss read you comment...

D'oh

September 27 2007 at 8:57 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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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!

September 27 2007 at 8:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

.DS_Store would be fine on AFP volumesâ€”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.

September 27 2007 at 8:35 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

seyDoggy

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.

September 27 2007 at 8:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

nick

Leopard will also allow for per-folder custom view settings...

Bit too late for Path Finder it seems.

September 27 2007 at 8:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply