Greatest strengths:
1. Excellent preview capability
2. Tabbed file browsing
3. Fast contextual menus
Greatest weaknesses (and they are stunning weaknesses):
1. Crashes frequently under a plain-vanilla Tiger environment.
2. No crash reporting to provide data to solve the crashing problems.
3. No "undo" command. Incredible. Path Finder should have the world's greatest undo capabilities.
4. The email script does not use the default email program (Entourage in my case), but rather uses exclusively Apple's Mail.app. This, too, is a stunning omission, since many of us specifically asked that this feature be corrected in version 4.
Path Finder
Browse and manage files on your Mac.
Version: 5.5.6
Very good, but could be better
Feedback Type: Review
Contributed by: ShadowfaxPH Friday, February 17 2006 @ 03:27 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: Less than a month
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Very good, but could be better - grotsasha
>Greatest weaknesses (and they are stunning weaknesses):>1. Crashes frequently under a plain-vanilla Tiger environment.
>2. No crash reporting to provide data to solve the crashing problems.
A crash reporter is now build-in (version 4.0.2), it looks for new crash log at startup and suggests to send it to developer. Of course, you're welcome to send the crash report yourself. The most reported crash in Path Finder is actually related to a bug in Cocoa frameworks, which Apple is likely to correct soon. To avoid this type of crash you're invited to disable the superfluos visual effect in preferences.
3. No "undo" command. Incredible. Path Finder should have the world's greatest undo capabilities.
Undo is coming very soon. (Probably in version 4.0.4)
4. The email script does not use the default email program (Entourage in my case), but rather uses exclusively Apple's Mail.app. This, too, is a stunning omission, since many of us specifically asked that this feature be corrected in version 4.
It will be corrected in the next version. There's a possibility to achieve this now with a tip provided on the Cocoatech forums here: http://www.cocoatech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1424
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