Linelark Finder++
What shipped in 1.2.0.
The list
- Folders open in place. In the List view every folder has a disclosure triangle: → opens it, ← closes it, and what you open is read when you open it.
- Three buttons beside Back and Forward act on every folder showing: close them all, open one more level, or open them all and everything inside them. Opening everything is read in the background and stops at 10,000 entries, with a note on the status line.
- Selecting a folder along with what is inside it (⌘A with folders open, say) acts on the folder, so Move to Trash does not fail on contents it has already taken.
Finding
- The filter looks inside the folders you have open. While you type in the toolbar field, the list shows what matches in the folder and in every opened folder, with the open folders that lead to a match. Return settles on the plain filter of the folder’s own items.
- Folders you had open stay open while you type, and come back open when you clear the field.
Move to Trash
- Items that are not yours ask for your password, as Finder does: a root-owned app the App Store installed, say. One system prompt covers everything refused that way in the selection, and the item goes to your own Trash.
The icon
- A redrawn app icon: Apple’s tile shape and lighting, and a light folder that stands out from the blue and holds up at small sizes.
Known limits in 1.2.0
- Items moved to the Trash with a password have no Undo and no Put Back, because putting one back would need the password again; only items on the same disk as your Trash are moved this way.
- A change made inside an opened folder by another app shows after the next reload (⌘R, or any file operation here); only the folder on screen is watched.
- Opening everything stops after 10,000 entries and never enters a link to a folder. Typing in the toolbar field looks inside the folders that are open, not the ones that are closed.
- In Recents and in search results the list is flat: there is no folder to open there.
- The Get Info window shows what was true when it opened; it does not update while the file changes, and the name, comment and default app cannot be edited from it — only Locked.
- In the terminal ⌃V always pastes, so a program that uses it itself (nano, vim in insert mode) no longer receives it.
- 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.
- Search results, Recents, Shared and the tags are queries, not folders: capped, read-only, and only as good as the Spotlight index behind them.
- It does not replace Finder and does not integrate with the system as a Finder substitute.