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Finder Window Manager is an application for managing all of your Mac OS X Finder window needs.

This application allows you to create Window Sets to remember the size, placement, and just about all the view options of your open windows (there are a few minor settings such as label placement below or on the side of icon views that are not open to modification by third-party applications). Once a Window Set has been created, you can move, close, or otherwise modify your windows and easily restore the captured Window Set properties, opening all the windows and recreating their views, bounds, and positions—and you can have an unlimited number of Window Sets. When you have many projects in various windows, this application quickly becomes indispensable.

While FWM provides an easy-to-use interface for managing Window Sets, this feature is just the tip of the iceberg of this application’s capabilities.

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WHAT'S NEW
&tVersion 1.9.7:
    Added option to keep existing Finder windows open when restoring a Set (you can set the default to keep the windows open and toggle the setting on the fly when restoring a Set with the Option key held down).
  • Added initial support for stacking & tiling windows in applications other then the Finder. Two new utilities, "Stack Windows in Frontmost Application" and "Tile Windows in Frontmost Application", will attempt to arrange the windows of the active application. The basic preferences for stacking and tiling (offsets, number of tiles, etc.) will be used when arranging application windows.
  • Many memory & code optimizations
  • Several minor enhancements
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.

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Developer:Jonathan Nathan
Downloads:3,202
  - Version d/l:1,697
Utilities:Desktop
License:Shareware
Date:26 Jun 2007
Platform:PPC/Intel
Price:$15.00
RATING
***½.
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May 19 2009
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KOSOVAR1  Jon Nathan from the developer replied to my email within minutes with an easy fix to the problem I was having, (described in a previous message). FWM still has a few rough edges, but it is still very useful. Customer Support deserves five stars though.

Here's the fix: (Thanks, Jon!)

The best solution is to quit FWM (if it is open -- you may need to use

Activity Monitor in your /Applications/Utilities folder to send a quit

command to FWM if it is not responding) and then move the preferences file

to the Desktop. This will most likely cure the issue. The preference file

can be found in your preferences folder (~ is shorthand for your Home

folder):

~/Library/Preferences/com.jen.fwm.plist

By moving this file, you will lose your Window Sets but it should correct

issue you are seeing. If it does, there was a problem with the original

preferences file and it should probably not be used. However, if you had a

lot of custom settings that would take a long time to reconfigure, you can

send the original preference file ("com.jen.fwm.plist") you moved to the

Desktop as an attachment to a reply to this message and I will see if I can

eliminate the corrupted data and preserve your existing settings.  
(Version 1.9.7)

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May 19 2009
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KOSOVAR1  It's too bad to have to give one star to a program that used to be very useful. But after buying the most recent iMac model (2009, 2.93 Mhz) running OSX 10.5.7, FWM stopped working altogether. It tries to start up, then crashes with Error message "FWM AFN Error (PrefWindow) Can't make 0 into type boolean."

Can anyone advise?  
(Version 1.9.7)

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Dec 8 2006
*****

VASILIS  This app rocks! Making sets of finder windows is just what I need. I move and copy things all the time.

The basics are very simple but there are some very nerdy looking preferences. This only means that it does way more than I want. and I think that's OK. Once I figure out what else it does I might be even happier.

There is one thin that is missing: you can hide all apps when you restore a set, but what's needed is that you bring the sets to the front.  
(Version 1.9.6)

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Dec 8 2006

DANA SUTTON  This app. really needs some detailed documentation.  
(Version 1.9.6)

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