Add a tree view like in Windows Explorer
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(Admin, Path Finder) shared this idea
37 comments
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fussylizard
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Just found out about Path Finder. Lots of cool features, but tree view is what I want most. Please add it so I can buy Path Finder!
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michelle
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yes please, this will guarantee my purchase.
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Anonymous commented
How is it that there *still* isn't a viable file browser tool for OS X that has a tree view for the folders? There are countless file browsers that do this on the PC and even Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu.
I own both Mac and PC computers and own a license to Pathfinder, but this massive oversight simply blows my mind.
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Jay
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Pleeeeeeeease....
As a purchaser of Pathfinder, and a Windows convert...1. There is a serious lack of tree-view file explorers in the Mac market. Adding this feature would undoubtedly make pathfinder stand out amongst the crowd. (To be honest, there is a flood of "pathfinder-like" products out there..... which are all just an 80% copy of Finder!). A quick Google search will confirm the absolute lack of this feature for the Mac.
2. Especially for the Windows converts out there, tree-view is a must - and the truth is, most are totally lost without it (at least, to start). I understand the Finder way has it's benefits, is better about some things/etc, and all the arguments in that direction. That is true. BUT, the fact remains unchanged - the numerous Windows converts are simply not used to the finder mentality, and they REQUIRE an easy to use (for them), intuitive, way to interact and work with their files. Working with files is a fundamental requirement of using the computer.. and something most Windows converts struggle with. Adding this feature to your product would appeal to all those users who so desperately feel this need.
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Frank
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I would love to see a tree view, having used Linux and Windows for a long time. However, I would strongly suggest it to be disabled / hidden by default. And to HIDE FOLDERS in the file view when they are displayed in a left side tree.
Why? Because new users, especially those not pre-corrupted by Windows' way of doing things, will get confused. The "Explorer way" of displaying files is extremely confusing if you start to actually think about it, or you are not used to it: All folders are all displayed twice, which has prompted many new users (in Windows) to think they have duplicates. I lost count on how many times I had to explain to users that it is just a way of displaying a hierarchy of folders, and try to recover their deleted "duplicates". And then explain what a "hierarchy" is ...
People don't think in hierarchies. We think in groups and collections, which can overlap. Thus, file tags would be much more intuitive than folders. The folder tree paradigm is something that has to be (painfully) trained, but for many of us this training is so long ago that we don't remember it any more.So: please do implement it, but do it right: Folders in a left-side tree, and ONLY files on the right side.
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oakinger
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Path Finder rocks. Tree View is the only thing missing to make it perfect!
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realityloop
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What do people think of this?
http://feedback.cocoatech.com/forums/275-general/suggestions/325803-flat-grouped-view-for-listers -
Jim
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i don't understand why some people are against this feature. i've been using a mac for a year now, i love almost everything about it, and so much is superior to the way windows does things.. but not file management. put the tree view in, those who want it will use it, those who don't know what they're missing, won't. simple. it doesn't hurt anyone to have an extra optional feature, it would help a whole lot of people though.
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Jim
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if you implement this feature i will also buy pathfinder, in fact if you advertised it you'd probably get a TON of sales from windows converts. the fact is a tree structure is not a windows only thing, i have used adobe bridge, adobe lightroom, and aperture and they all have a tree structure folder view. please make this happen, it is a no brainer.
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PB
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I won't buy Path Finder without this, but with a folder tree view I would purchase Path Finder for all of the switchers that I help at my University. When I first switched I missed this folder-tree view, but after years I don't miss it. But all the switchers have a really hard time. How hard could this be? Long time or Mac-only users (like Mr. Cocoatech) probably just don't understand how much this is a part of Windows users concept of the file system. Yes it may not be efficient or pretty but most windows users brains need it.
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p
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Having worked with both Macs and Windows machines, the tree-view from WindowsXP explorer was one of two things that I really missed in Mac OS 9 and X. It just makes sense. Don't get me wrong I like other Finder views, each has a purpose, but 85% of the time the tree-view proved the most useful.
But the Windows XP(not 7) Explorer, though essential for me, isn't perfect and as I see it, there could be a little bit of the Mac Finder in it.
Nevermind me, but I'm gonna dream, now — This is my "dream" navigation
:* 1 LEFT-panel with "Folder (hierarchy) Structure"
* 1 RIGHT-panel with "Contents" of the selected folder (files and other folders).
The RIGHT-panel could have three modes: a list view, a Finder-like icon-mode view and a Coverflow-view (this last one being, of course, a list-view with icon carousel).Note: On the Left-panel I would love this: besides clicking an "arrow" or a [+] symbol next to a folder to reveal it's folder hierarchy (which means there's no change in the right-panel), Why not also allow for the same feature to occur when double-clicking that same folder in the same Left-panel-Tree-View?
It would require less mouse precision (which is a problem for us, carpel-tunnel-affected-people) and that would be user-experience sweetness.— With the amount of Windows users that crossover to the Mac platform these days, Path Finder coulb reach new height. Someone who uses a Mac its entire life may not notice this "need" or the usefulness of this feature, but there really is a market for this. Take it seriously, please.
A lot of new Mac users are urging for something like this. And there's a lot of them that are waiting to switch, because of the lack of an 'Explorer' Tree-View app in the Mac World.
Love this Digg-like suggestions page. It shows you care about the users. Keep up the good work, guys.
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Márton Sári
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With tree view, I will buy this product.
Files and folders mixed in a tree view is a very, very bad idea. Tree view shows a hierarchy, and folders are nodes of this hierarchy, they are the junctions of a navigation. Files should not appear in a tree view, they don't function as an element of the hierarchy, they're just junk in navigation.
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csx
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as a programmer, having to jump around a huge number of folders & files, folders-only tree on the left panel is a huge time (and hand pain ;) ) saver, definitely!!! ;)
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DJ
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Without this tree view I won't buy Pathfinder..
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lech
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Please, please, please....
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yildiz
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Yes i'm also waiting for this feature, if i would get a windows explorer like tree at the left panel, i would deffinitely buy it. We switcher from the windows world are used to work with that feature, its so difficult for us to get rid of the file operations and view without that feature :-(. This is my favorite wish, hopefully you will integrate this the next version. Thanks in advance. Yildiz
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Some Guy
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This is the only feature I'm waiting on before spend the money on pathfinder.
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Nevada Princess
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Absolutely! I've been a (mostly) happy Mac user for the past 18 months after 20+ years of Windoze...please add the tree view, it can be most helpful at times.
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OmBreNoiRe
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Why this feature is not planned ? Really is the only thing I'm waiting to buy your application ! Please do it ;)
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Jim Askew commented
I'm a recent switcher and am now in my 30-day evaluation of Path Finder. I downloaded it because of my frustration with using Finder. I gotta say...I just find Windows Explorer so much easier to use and more versatile than Finder so was hoping that Path Finder would fill the niche. It's better, but I am still frustrated with it.
1) I love how Windows Explorer (starting with Vista, or maybe Windows 7...I forget) offers to rename files that are duplicates when you're copying or moving large numbers of files from one folder to another. In Finder and Path Finder, my only choices are "don't move" and "replace." In Windows I can select "move and rename".
2) I like how I can do non-destructive clipboard "cuts" in Windows Explorer. If I cut a file (or set of files, or a folder) and forget to paste into a different location, nothing is lost I think, but am not sure that if I do this in Path Finder, the files/folders are gone if you forget to paste them into a new location. (And, of course, in Finder you can't cut files at all.)
I also have trouble in both Finder and Path Finder keeping track of what folders are network folders versus local ones. It's much easier to see this difference in Windows.
Otherwise, I'm a big Mac OS fan...but, Windows 7 is pretty dang good, too!
