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The “light text on dark background” is great for night time use, but during the day it would probably make me go blind. Although the spring-loaded folders are great for moving files around, if it’s a long journey it could take more time and one small mistake will have you starting all over! Sometimes you may want to totally remove a file from one location and move it to another. You may think that the “cut & paste” option is not needed, but it’s something I use often on my Windows PC, so I’m happy that I can now make use of it on my Mac. Just with that alone enabled, Finder looks better already! Having folders and files mixed together really annoys me, which is why I love the “arrange folders on top” option. Although most are small additions, they’re very useful and make XtraFinder worth your while.Īs you can see, none of the features are enabled by default besides “save open tabs when quitting Finder,” so you’re not going to notice anything different at first. You can see all of the available features in the screenshot below.

This saves time, saves space on the screen and helps to boost productivity. I really love having tabs in Finder because it eliminates the need for multiple Finder windows. The tabs features is experimental you’ll need to be very careful and, of course, bugs are expected. The preferences window is very important because you can enable/disable features and add items to Finder menus.

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With the menu bar icon you can: access preferences, show pinable windows and dual windows, hide the menu bar icon, restart Finder, uninstall XtraFinder, view “about” info (where you can enable automatic update checking), and check for updates. You’ll also get a new menu bar icon, although it can be hidden if you prefer not to have it. After installation, you must run XtraFinder to open the preferences window. This process will restart Finder, so you should not be doing anything important at that time. XtraFinder can be downloaded from the official website.

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Similar to TotalFinder, XtraFinder is free (at least for now) and adds tabs, new menu items and other useful features to Finder. Today we’re going to look at a new Finder enhancement plugin, called XtraFinder.

Tools like TotalFinder and Path Finder are popular alternatives. Unfortunately, many Mac users are not happy with Finder’s default set up, so they often look for a replacement or ways to enhance it.