![]() ![]() It borrows Windows’ idea of folder icons showing a preview of the images in that folder. I did come across an interesting little app called File Browser. As a Mac user I feel insulted and offended that developers think I’m that much of a Mac zombie that I couldn’t cope with a Finder replacement that didn’t mimic Finder. PathFinder, Finder’s supposed ideal replacement, does the same stupid thing, providing only icon, list, and column views. I went looking for a file manager (Finder replacement) that would give me that view option. So, this major shortcoming set in place a hunt that yielded…nothing. Maybe you forgot that people don’t keep all their image files in iPhoto. The fastest way to visually find files is by scrolling through a folder hierarchy with icons or thumbnails on the right. The absence of it sucks with a capital “S.” Could you imagine if iPhoto only provided the view options that Finder does? You wouldn’t use it. Yet good ol’ Finder doesn’t provide that view option. But when I need to find a photo it can be a very, very laborious task.ĭear Apple: why the heck doesn’t the Finder included a folder/file browser file like iPhoto does? (Did you like that? I didn’t say “like Windows Explorer.”) The team developing iPhoto understands we want to browse our photos in a hierarchal manner, with the folder structure in the left pane, and the thumbnails of all the images in the right. I carry a copy of my iPhoto library back and forth because it contains all my photos for school as well. The institute I’m studying at has older Macs with iPhoto 4 on them. Have you ever been stuck on a Mac with an older version of iPhoto than your iPhoto library, which you’ve got a copy of but, sadly, old iPhoto can’t open? Fair enough it can’t open, but it doesn’t get you back down the creek. I spent hours yesterday trying to find an application to solve a problem that just shouldn’t exist in the first place. ![]() This piece is meant to be a review, but instead, it became a bit of a tirade and a plea.
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