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Just check out the Path Finder website and you’ll see a long list of features described there. I generally do not use these features beyond the ones I mentioned above on a daily basis, but it’s there when the need arises. Path Finder is fully loaded with a lot of features. If you are copying files from to a different targets, say two different external USB HDD, both copy operations would run concurrently since both utilises their own data channels to write the files.Ĭomparing the view options between Path Finder (left) and Finder (right) Reason #6 and beyond: A bunch of features here and there One nice thing about this feature is that its smart too. Therefore, instead of me just sitting around waiting for file operations to complete themselves, I could just queue them up and let it process sequentially by itself! So this is why this same feature is still on the top of my why-use-Path-Finder-vs-OS-X-Finder reasons. However, my external disks and my home media server still runs off regular HDDs. Sure, my MacBook today runs off a PCIe-based SSD which is great and these sort of random r/w operations. So to avoid having the hard disk being “trashed”, that’s having the hard disk head seeking all over to read and/or to write the files being copied, I’d usually copy the sets of files in sequence. I often need to move and copy files around and sometimes, these files can be rather large and the target could be over the network. Till today, I still cannot fathom why none of the operating systems out there have this feature built-in. There are a few tools out there that does this same feature in all the popular OS platforms. So allow me to apologies here first if blurred screenshots irritates you. Just a note: I hate using screenshots other than my own, but since it’s my own personal MacBook that I’ll be showing here, I have blurred out all the content section of the screenshots. At this point of publishing this article, I’ve used the Path Finder 7 for almost 3 months now and while it’s not perfect (a few nagging bugs that I hope they would fix soon which I’ll get to later in this writeup), Path Finder continues to be my default file manager app on OS X Yosemite. However, I would still have to say that Finder is still far behind Path Finder. I sometimes still do use Finder quite a fair bit, especially when needing to get access to iCloud folder or to use AirDrop, or when times Finder is just conveniently a shortcut key away. So I reached out to the good guys are Cocoatech if I could get a review copy for this purpose. They agreed! So here I was now equipped with the ability to compare both the applications as they should be.įirst off, I’d have to say that the incremental improvements on Finder with the release of OS X Yosemite is most welcomed. As for batch renaming, Path Finder’s batch renaming feature has always been more comprehensive with the ability to preview the changes before you apply the change. And knowing that there was also a new release of Path Finder 7 just before the release of Yosemite, I thought that a fairer comparison was to compare the latest release of Path Finder against OS X Yosemite. File preview within Path Finder is a default configuration for me.

These two capabilities have always been on Path Finder 6. There is also a batch rename capability which is really handy to quickly rename files within Finder. You can now Preview any files in any view mode of Finder, not just in the Column view mode as before.

Now with the release of OS X Yosemite, Finder has a couple of new tricks up its sleeves. Even with improved Finder app with the release of Mavericks, Path Finder 6 continues to offer better functionality and I kept on using it as my default file manager. Since I’ve discovered Cacoatech’s Path Finder 6 last year (2013), I’ve been hooked on it ever since. I’ve written this article here back in 2013 highlighting some of the key features why I thought it was the a great replacement file manager app for OS X.