From: jason@slimes.ca   
      
   joan wrote:   
   > On 10/30/25 3:41 PM, Slimes wrote:   
   >   
   >> You see a lot of people shitting on finder, but they have no idea how   
   >> powerful finder is.   
   >>   
   >> I'm going to make a few hints, others who know, post.   
   >>   
   >> Proxy Icons.   
   >> You can put any item in any place by comand-click the Icon in the   
   >> Application, chooser or finder. Also, the reverse, you can drag a   
   >> folder or icon into the chooser for it to go to that folder/file.   
   >>   
   >> for instance, if you open a text file, in an applications, the name   
   >> and icon is in the title bar. You can drag the icon to a new location   
   >> without saving first, and it will be there when close the program.   
   >>   
   >> The vice-versa, when you use 'file->open', you can drag an icon into   
   >> the chooser and the path/file will be available.   
   >>   
   >> This is 1980's level file choosing. Still not available in other OS   
   >> systems....   
   >>   
   >> Applies to macOS now, but it took a while.  CMD-Click the icon in any   
   >> window for a suprise!  Yeah, this wasn't promoted to 'normie' users.   
   >>   
   >> Wait til next episode, Folder Actions!   
   >   
   >   
   > I use macOS a lot at work and finder is really nice. Not sure why people   
   > are shitting on it. Columns, quick look, and being able to search   
   > tags/smart folders are all really useful in my day to day.   
   QL Actions!  You can install new QL 'lookers'.  Its mostly automatic   
   when you install a new app, but there are tons of QL actions that apply   
   to other types of files!   
      
   It seems, tho, that apple didn't push this enough... Custom QL actions   
   can do a lot more than 'show' a file. QLs can do a lot of stuff...   
      
   why not show the contents of a compressed archive? well, yeah, that   
   exists... press spacebar to show contents.  Look up QL actions on the   
   web...   
      
      
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