Linelark Finder++
What shipped in 1.0.0.
Safer file operations
- Moving or copying onto a name that is already there now asks: Keep Both, Replace, Skip or Stop, with Apply to All. Replace puts the old version in the Trash and remembers where, so Help ▸ Find Previous Versions can find it again after a relaunch.
- A move to another disk now copies first, checks the copy, and only then removes the original. If a drive is unplugged or full midway, the original is still where it was.
- When an operation only partly succeeds, a sheet lists what was completed, skipped, failed and not attempted. Items you cut but did not move stay cut.
- Undo covers copy, duplicate, compress, Make Alias and Move to Trash as well as move, rename and new folder. If you changed an item after creating it, undo asks before touching it.
- Choosing a tag colour no longer removes a file’s other tags, and failures are reported by file name.
Windows and tabs
- New Window (⌘N) and New Tab (⌘T). Each window and tab has its own folder, history, selection, search, view and terminal panes; Favorites are shared.
- Open in New Tab / New Window from the sidebar, the path bar and the right-click menu. Your windows and tabs come back when you reopen the app, and a folder or drive that is gone is replaced by the nearest place that still exists, with a note.
Everyday file management
- Show Preview (⇧⌘P) puts a side pane next to the list or column view with a large preview and the name, kind, size and date of what is selected. Show Package Contents opens an app or bundle as a folder.
- Dragging works in every view: Option copies, Command moves, a drag within a disk moves and to another disk copies, and hovering over a folder opens it (not in the column view). Command-drag did nothing in earlier builds.
- Rename Multiple Items… previews every new name and flags conflicts before anything changes.
- Put Back and Empty Trash… for items you trashed from this app, including the Trash a disk keeps for itself. Empty Trash says exactly what it will delete.
- iCloud: Download Now, and Remove Download only for files iCloud already has in full. The status line says when a selected file is not downloaded and updates when the download ends.
- The status line says when the toolbar field is filtering by name and when a search hit its result limit.
Drives, servers and settings
- Mounted disks are listed internal first, then external, then network; right-click one to Eject it. File ▸ Connect to Server… (⌘K) hands an smb, afp, nfs, ftp, http(s) or vnc address to macOS.
- Settings (⌘,): reopen your windows and tabs, open Home or a chosen folder at launch; icon size; which list columns show; automatic update checks. Access shows whether Full Disk Access is on and opens the right pane in System Settings; nothing asks for it on its own.
- Finder’s Smart Folders appear under Smart Folders in the sidebar, and File ▸ Save Search as Smart Folder… saves the current search where Finder keeps them.
- The terminal’s colours now meet a 4.5 : 1 contrast ratio against its background in both light and dark appearances.
Known limits in 1.0.0
- The first real update through the in-place installer is the one from 0.8.0 to this version. The installer has been tested against temporary copies; versions before 0.8.0 install an update by hand, once.
- Drives and servers were tried against disk images and a local SMB share, not yet against a NAS, another computer or a physical external drive.
- The app has not been checked with VoiceOver or Full Keyboard Access, and has not been run by hand on an Intel Mac or on macOS 14 itself; the automated tests do pass on macOS 14 and 15.
- Undo history lasts for the session, and each window has its own. Put Back cannot see items Finder trashed (macOS keeps their original location to itself), and listing your own Trash needs Full Disk Access.
- Copying a folder that contains
._*files to an exFAT drive can fail with “File exists”; the folder stays where it was and the result sheet names it. - Search results, Recents, Shared and the tags are queries, not folders: capped, read-only, and only as good as the Spotlight index behind them.
- Dragging a file from Finder into the app was not completed in testing; the other direction, and copy and paste both ways, were.
- It does not replace Finder and does not integrate with the system as a Finder substitute.