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FolderGlance

FolderGlance - 2.1.0

hierarchical folder browsing in contextual menus

All Time: (4.4)
Version 2.1.0: (4.6)
Selected Version: 2.1.0
Release Date: 2007-11-06
License: Freeware
Downloads (version 2.1.0): 2,813
Downloads (all versions): 19,472

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Product Description:

FolderGlance is a small Contextual Menu Plugin for the Finder. When it is installed, it allows you to control-click or right-click on folders to see and open their contents, as well as examine the contents of sub-folders down an unlimited number of levels. FolderGlance also has the following features:
  • Adding your own custom folders to the contextual menu, enabling FolderGlance to act as a very versatile launcher
  • Moving, copying and making aliases of the currently selected files in a folder you browse to
  • Control-free popups: Open the contextual menu without holding down the control-key or using a two-button mouse
  • Drag-and-drop of files and folders
  • In-menu preview of arbitrary files
  • Opening files with an application different than the default by using an "Open with..." menu you can tailor to suit your own taste
  • Changing the font size used in contextual menus
  • Disable the menu fade effect, for a more speedy menu experience
  • Browsing into package contents
  • Optional display of custom file and folder icons
  • Customizable sorting and customizable display of hidden files and folders
  • Trash files directly from the contextual menu by typing Command-Backspace or Command-T
  • Localized to Japanese, French, Polish, Italian and Norwegian.
  • Universal: Runs on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs!

FolderGlance is donationware, which means that it is basically free. However, for those who can afford it, I would greatly appreciate receiving a donation.

What's new in this version:

  • FolderGlance now works with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
  • Fxed bug on Intel-based Macs where some cleverly named folders wouldn't work (Russian and Japanese)
  • Fixed bug where Command-T/Command-Backspace wouldn't work on Intel-based Macs
  • Exposed Control-free popup functionality for all applications

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
  • Mac OS X 10.3.9
  • Mac OS X 10.3

Additional Requirements:

  • Mac OS X 10.3 or later

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Feedback Summary:

Version 2.1.0:
Overall Rating: (4.6) Features: (4.5) Support: (4.0)
Ease of Use: (4.5) Quality / Stability: (5.0) Price: (5.0)
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FolderGlance ReviewSimply "A MUST HAVE APPLICATION ! " for every Mac user! - Version: 2.5.7, 11/14/2009 05:07PM PST

krainin
FolderGlance is so valuable and works so flawlessly, that every time I use it (which is all the time!) I wonder why the Mac Operating System doesn't come with it already built in. This easy to use and seemingly simple application supplements the way I work so profoundly that the Macintosh experience would be noticeably less speedy, less fluid and certainly less fun without it. Moving a file, copying it to some other location, or making an alias of it somewhere, takes significantly less thinking and less time then it did before using FolderGlance. But FolderGlance has lots of other handy and nifty directly related functions as well as customized controls that I continue to discover as the weeks go by. It is thoughtfully and intelligently designed by a developer who is responsive to your questions and your requests for support. I am so dependent on FolderGlance now only a couple of months after purchasing it, that at this point I simple don't know how I'd get along without it. Please don't let my enthusiasm for this product lead you to believe that I am either somehow connected with this product or personally know the developer. Neither is true.
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FolderGlance ReviewMiss FruitMenu but Liking This - Version: 2.5.4, 10/3/2009 05:21PM PST

julia2
I'm a FruitMenu user since forever, and Action Menus in the OS9 era before that. I'm just really really used to having a customizable system-wide hierarchical menu in my Apple menu, and none of Apple's spring-y dock gimmicks do it for me. FruitMenu also had a few nice "special" items like "Running Apps" and so forth. That said, the Unsanity folks seem totally asleep at the wheel these days and I have to have some kind of navigator, and so far this seems clean, fast, and trouble-free. The only downside is that I have to go to the Finder to access it, but that's only an F1 away thanks to Spark, which I truly couldn't live without :-)
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FolderGlance Troubleshooting ReportInstaller problem - Version: 2.5.1, 9/21/2009 10:02AM PST

Fra
Installer appears (on a mini last rev) as a non compatible app !
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