Comments on: Mac OS X’s Finder: No easy way to select file name without extension http://www.betalogue.com/2005/09/09/mac-os-xs-finder-no-easy-way-to-select-file-name-without-extension/ Notes from an unfinished world… Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pierre Igot http://www.betalogue.com/2005/09/09/mac-os-xs-finder-no-easy-way-to-select-file-name-without-extension/comment-page-1/#comment-3113 Pierre Igot Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:47:04 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2005/09/09/mac-os-xs-finder-no-easy-way-to-select-file-name-without-extension/#comment-3113 Yeah, I am tempted to try Path Finder out myself again (I remember trying it a long time ago) — but like you said, it cannot completely replace the Finder. Yeah, I am tempted to try Path Finder out myself again (I remember trying it a long time ago) — but like you said, it cannot completely replace the Finder.

]]> By: Paul Ingraham http://www.betalogue.com/2005/09/09/mac-os-xs-finder-no-easy-way-to-select-file-name-without-extension/comment-page-1/#comment-3112 Paul Ingraham Sun, 11 Sep 2005 21:09:37 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2005/09/09/mac-os-xs-finder-no-easy-way-to-select-file-name-without-extension/#comment-3112 Yep, this is certainly one of Finder’s dumbass design flaws. So, here’s a hurrah for CocoaTech’s <a href="http://www.cocoatech.com/" rel="nofollow">Path Finder</a>, a file browser with a much richer feature set and a lot more user good UI sense than Finder. In particular, it certainly does allow you select filenames sans extension... and all with the keyboard. It’s lovely to scroll to the file you want to rename, hit return or enter, and start typing your new filename. Aaah! Sadly, Path Finder is definitely a bit on the sluggish side, given that cocoa applications still have some speed limitations, and it cannot completely replace the heavily integrated Finder: too many other applications call the Finde up, and so it’s always appearing, even though I try to turn it off and just use Path Finder. However, I have started to use Path Finder full time anyway, as my preferred file browser, resorting to Finder only when I absolutely have to -- kind of like the way I have to use IE every now and then when a site won’t render in Safari. Yep, this is certainly one of Finder’s dumbass design flaws. So, here’s a hurrah for CocoaTech’s Path Finder, a file browser with a much richer feature set and a lot more user good UI sense than Finder. In particular, it certainly does allow you select filenames sans extension… and all with the keyboard. It’s lovely to scroll to the file you want to rename, hit return or enter, and start typing your new filename. Aaah!

Sadly, Path Finder is definitely a bit on the sluggish side, given that cocoa applications still have some speed limitations, and it cannot completely replace the heavily integrated Finder: too many other applications call the Finde up, and so it’s always appearing, even though I try to turn it off and just use Path Finder. However, I have started to use Path Finder full time anyway, as my preferred file browser, resorting to Finder only when I absolutely have to — kind of like the way I have to use IE every now and then when a site won’t render in Safari.

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