Path Finder served me well for a few years... But it has gotten noticeable <i>worse</i> with recent updates — buggy, really slow to load image thumbnails, etc.<p>Forklift seems to be a promising alternative... But it also crashes way too often. Tried Commander One some years ago and also wasn't impressed.<p>By now I seriously miss Windows Explorer...<p>Has anyone had better luck than me finding a decent solution for the Mac?
I believe KDE's Dolphin is supposed to be able to run in Mac OS ? ( Haven't tried myself yet. )<p>File management is definitely something Apple has never done well. And they absolutely kept it out of iOS, for good measure. Sigh.<p>Path Finder user myself since it came out years ago, the Finder for me is just unusable.<p>Edit : Sorry, but after thirty years using it, I simply refuse to spell it macOS or whatever the cool kids in their marketing department want to call it next year.
fman (<a href="https://fman.io" rel="nofollow">https://fman.io</a>) is a cross-platform GUI file manager.<p>It's from the Norton Commander school of file management.<p>It's under active development, and the author seems pretty responsive. It's not gratis, but not expensive either.
You can try: <a href="https://marta.yanex.org/" rel="nofollow">https://marta.yanex.org/</a> - this one keeps the original NC spirit strong.
i've used it a while but reverted back to Finder + command line folder manipulation.
Same here. Already tried terminal based tools (Midnight Commander etc.), but i just got different problems with these tools (like not updating listings).<p>I finally turned off "Preview Icons" in the normal Finder that gave a relativ performance gain displaying larger file lists and made the finder kind of useable again.<p>Just a few days ago I saw the finder on a hdd based installation (not ssd) and it took "ages" (like some seconds) to display the relatively empty applications folder.<p>I wonder if all new software is just approved via state of the art hardware and older Macs are left behind ...
I use multiple Finder windows and one of those window auto-move/resize tools which take Alt-1 for left, Alt-2 for right, and so on.<p>This approach lets me arrange non-Finder windows, too, e. g. Terminal sessions, browser windows, or text documents.