Path Finder9.4

It's beyond me how any company providing software to developers can go years without fixing the problems with "Open In Terminal".

I used to love Path Finder 6 and 7 ; 8 till a point but still decent. 9 has so many bugs: they fix one and you got another. Their support is awful. Now they always answer you, actually is Mary who does all the work with trite answers. Giving 2 stars because of the old times. I will never update again!

If the author(s) of PathFinder reads this, then please - update the fonts and shadows on icons and labels when setting PathFinder to replace the Desktop. I've mentioned this for years, both here, directly on Twitter and I believe on their own website. Nothing is done about it. It looks really jarring on a Retina display and I bet on a non-Retina display too - Since Yosemite there's been newer font and label shadows but since then all through versions 7 through 9 nothing has been done on that front by this developer or multiple developers. I really would like to update from version 7 of PathFinder to the latest. But, it ain't happening as long as something so jarring to look at is still present for many years.

I could not say it better than the review by The Philosofox on 02 Nov 19. I, too, started using Path Finder soon after migrating from Windows and Norton Commander well over a dozen years ago. Based on my own experience including the lingering voids in non-functioning features that remain unaddressed, I can only assume the passion this developer once had for this product has moved on. This is not to speak poorly of the individual(s) but rather the risk of becoming too dependent on developers with the best of intentions but who nonetheless need to make a living. Since profitability is based on margin or volume, it's reasonable to conclude that not as many people rely on file management utilities, strange as that seems to those of us that desperately do!

Big fan of this soft a few years back but something changed since then: no more frequent updates, bugs opened for years (eg: file tags aren't sync with the Finder, so they are useless). I paid for all the major versions, but I'll skip the 9th version for the first time. I would love to use it again but there are too many show-stoppers now, at least for me :(

I wish I could give Pathfinder 9 a better review. I upgraded to Catalina and purchased an upgrade to Pathfinder 9. Pretty much all the functionality that wasn in PF8 works in PF9. I use multiple desktops (three finger swipe right or left) so that I don't have to juggle multiple windows and apps on one desktop. I can have an e-mail client on one desktop, a word processing program on another, a web browser on a third, and so on.. The reason I uninstalled the app is because when opening a PF browser on one desktop, the browser window appears on all desktops often being the topmost window. If I have multiple PF9 browsers open, all of them appear on every desktop. I've gone from relatively clean desktops to cluttered ones. An app that is supposed to increase productivity has made productivity more difficult. Another annoyance is that I created an alias to a network share I use from home through a VPN connection. The alias fails when I double click it in PF9. The same alias works in the Finder. Not a huge annoyance because I could still access the share through the Connect to Server option. The problem with the same file browser windows on multiple desktops does not occur with the Finder nor did it occur with PF8 in High Sierra. The same with alias's to network shares. If these are something that Cocoatech has no control over because of Catalina, that's fine (like access to iPhones). I wish they would just say so. Until I'm certain that that at least the PF9 browser windows are fixed, I will not be using PF9 nor will I take a chance on paying for an upgrade.

I used to love Path Finder, but had to stop using it because its desktop refresh function broke. IOW, when I mount/unmount a drive, or add/remove an icon on the desktop, the desktop doesn't refresh...all the icons remain the same. I have to do a Cmd-A to select all the desktop icons to force a refresh.

This used to be a 5-star utility that was among the 3 first things I installed with a new system. Not sure what happened, but it sure feels like the original devs and quality control decided to go home and just let the interns run the show.

Using this app forever, but it has become an absolute memory hog and many things just don't work, cant preview raw images (finder can preview) often wont connect to network drives and many small little things needs some serious QA and bug fixes

Struggling to find the words to describe just how bad this application has gotten. I've archived most of my email but still found an email from 2008 and I'm pretty sure I've been using it longer than twelve years. Anyway, it just doesn't work properly. Batch rename is permanently greyed out. Creating a new file seems to work but does it appear in the file listing? No. When you overwrite it with another new text file does that appear in the listing? No. How about the drop stack? Broken. Why does it take over as the foreground application every time you switch to a space? Why does it hang? Why does it lock up my machine(s)? I bought PF8 in 2018. I barely use it now. It is a terrible piece of software.