![]() Plist Editor - Part of Apple's Xcode tool set.īefore beginning, please-please-please back up your Mac.Prior to changing how Yosemite sorts 'Kind', Folders will typically get buried in a folder's contents.Īfter you're done, sorting by 'Kind' will bring Folders to the top of the list. Open Finder and navigate to /System/Library/Coreservices folder and locate the Finder application.One of the common issues I've helped people with is fixing a corrupted file after trying to make the changes. Locate the file “InfoPlist.strings” file.Once the package contents are opened, navigate to “Contents/Resources/English.lproj” folder.The package contents of the Finder.app will open like it was a folder and show additional folders and files that make up the Finder.app application.Once the folder is open, right click on the Finder.app file and click on ‘Show Package Contents’.Use Shift-Cmd-G in Finder.app and enter the path above. Assuming you're using BBEdit, right click on the file and select BBEdit to edit the file.This is the file that contains the structure on how Finder.app sorts records. Open a Terminal and run the following command: sudo killall Finder.Save the changes to the “InfoPlist.strings” file.Locate the “Folder” entry in the “InfoPlist.strings” file and add a space to Folder string key.Note you may get a warning when you attempt to edit the Folder tag. Terminal may give you a warning prior to running the command. Now when you Finder.app to look at the same folder, the Folders will come first when you sort by Kind. In my previous post on updating Finder.app for OS Mavericks, I added an addendum on a problem a small percentage users were having with the steps above. To ensure the sort order by 'Kind' will show Folders first, make sure the default Arrange By order should be None. The tags for other Arrange By sorts orders override the file tag changed in the steps above. I'm looking into ways for Arrange By sorting to honor the change made to Folders. I'll post an update if I find a way.I was listening to Accidental Tech Podcast E128 today, which discussed the implications of Rootless (i.e. ![]() ![]() System Integrity Protection) at quite some length. 1 Which stirred up my old worries about the Finder - I was briefly concerned about TotalFinder immediately after Rootless was announced in WWDC, but was quickly reassured and forgot that concern after learning that Homebrew (i.e. usr/local) isn't affected, which attracted more of my attention. TotalFinder is dead on El Capitan: it has been monkey patching Finder.app all along, and that strategy apparently is killed by Rootless. BinaryAge has announced that TotalFinder won't be ported to El Capitan. This is actually not the first time I felt threatened as a TotalFinder fan 2. Back in 2013, when Finder tabs was announced for Mavericks, there were hints from BinaryAge that TotalFinder might be discontinued one day, because apparently Finder tabs is a "serious hit for our business". However, it still survived all the way up till Yosemite. I had the hope that TotalFinder could die a peaceful, glorious death when Apple finally improved the stock Finder to a certain point I didn't quite expect TotalFinder to die an abrupt death like this. Chrome-styled tab (instead of Safari-styled) would be a plus.įolders on top (when not sorting by kind) is a nice addition, but not a must.A way to quickly show and hide hidden files without leaving Finder.Auto-resize each column (one can already "Right Size All Columns Individually" through the right-click context menu from the column dividers - is it that hard or unreasonable to make that automatic?).Just provide the following and I'll be pretty happy: Now that I think about it, my expectations for Finder isn't very high.
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