Tuesday, July 11th, 2006 at 7:09 PM
FileRun is a new Mac OS X file management application intended to replace the Finder. To compete with Apple’s own software, FileRun offers a more advanced user interface which provides much more information than is currently displayed, but not at the expense of usability. Features like combined tasks, advanced searching, and powerful contextual menus allow for quicker file management and less information-hunting than the Finder offers today.
While Apple is rumored to be reinventing the Finder in 10.5 “Leopard,” it looks as though FileRun may beat them to the finish. Unfortunately, FileRun is not yet released, but a number of screenshots have been posted. I can’t wait to swap the Finder for FileRun as soon as it’s available!
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Why not just use Pathfinder (www.cocoatech.com)?
I’ve tried using PathFinder a number of times, but couldn’t really get the hang of it.
Ever since PathFinder 4.x came out, I’ve found that it’s very user-friendly, and much more robust that the 3.x version. I rarely use the Finder…and haven’t for months. It’s worth a look!
“mamangement”? ;)
I’ll be watching this with great interest. The Finder is the weakest part of OS X in my opinion, so I’ll be giving this a go. Hopefully something like it really is a new feature in 10.5.
Re: “mamangement”
Oops. Typo fixed!
I’m really hoping 10.5 brings some revolutionary stuff, exspecially in the Finder area. I miss having folder-specific iTunes-like filtering. Having that replaced with a Spotlight search field in each Finder window is a gigantic leap backwards in both speed and user-friendliness.
Path Finder is just okay. It’s got a handful of bugs, some major missing features (like undo!), can’t work with the trash in the dock and the interface in a number of places is simply lacking. All that said, I use it because is better than Finder in enough places to make it worth while. At the moment, anyway — FileRun looks impressive and may give Path Finder some much-needed serious competition. Can’t wait to give it a try.
Filerun looks quite promising, not as bloated as PathFinder. Sadly it there still isn’t a public beta and it might as well turn out to be vaporware. I do hope it will see the light of day, though …!
Well, what concernes PathFinder - sometimes it’s to heavy for my system (iBook G4 800mHz, 384mb). Yeah, it has some useful bonuses, but still I give my preferences to Finder. It’s working easier and lighter. And as far as you used to work with it - it will be better than anything else.
Filerun looks interesting to me but no more.
P.s.: here is my personal opinion as a 2 year mac user.
What happened to Filerun??
Don’t tell me it was good enough to be bought out by Apple? O_O
And isn’t Rixstep’s Xfile the fastest for power users??
To bad there aren’t any free alternatives :(
A nice one is coming soon to MAC OS X called Forklift.
Though it is not available yet the screenshots look promising.
It will have FTP and archive support.
You can find it at: http://www.binarynights.com.
the feature list for Forklift looks pretty awsome… but thats only a tiny bit of a successful file manager app. I’m looking forward to the beta.
i clicked on the site today, and the beta just came out! I looking forward to use it as well. http://www.binarynights.com who dont know this website yet
I dowloaded a ForkLift beta version. I can say impressing, very fast and has very nice features. I love the preview on the FTP/SFTP which is very handy when managing a website. Seems to be the ticket.
Anyone know what happened to FileRun? It was coming soon, and now the site is just the icon with no word anywhere? I was really looking forward to a Finder replacement that wasn’t bloated with drawers and clunky OS 9-ish interfaces. PathFinder and Forklift are simply too bloated for my tastes.