Hi there,

First, thanks for the update! It's absolutely great to have Path Finder support Quick Look and I even like its behavior under PF better than Finder (for example, quick-looking at a pdf from PF lets me scroll through pages from the keyboard using the arrow keys, whereas with the Finder. the arrow keys opens the next document in quick look. Awesome!)

I was wondering how you dealt with the operations requiring root access. From your previous post, you mentioned a few less-than-clean solutions: a package installer (yuck) or a launchd process. I'm assuming you went with the launchd route, unless you discovered a better way. Can you talk about how this will impact system resources?

Thanks again for a great update!

Dan

Thanks, we're glad you like it :) I'm also quite a heavy QuickLook user, so I was glad we could add that to PF.

Concerning the root operations, we finally found a solution which was neither installer, nor launchd daemon. What we're doing now - is to copy the necessary frameworks inside the helper tool bundle so that the path is absolute instead of being relative to the main application bundle. It's not very cool to have a 20 MB duplicate of framework code residing in /Application Support folder, but it's the only quick and dirty solution that we came up with. We will probably find a more elegant solution in the future, but it will require far more serious architectural work, than what we could do in two weeks.

That sounds like a reasonable compromise. It may not be optimal, but it certainly is better than the other two methods you were considering and I'm happy you found a solution that seems transparent to your users.

Well done and keep up the great work!

Many thanks! I just updated an hour ago. I got so frustrated with things being broken and the bouncing folders and having to force quit that I thought about going back to the Finder. I checked the CocoaTech site and the release was issued today. I'm glad that I can stick with Path Finder. I haven't used Finder in a long time. Thanks again and great work.

Thanks for such a quick update! I've been missing Path Finder in a big way. The addition of QuickLook is a nice touch too :)

Path Finder’s desktop disappears when Expose is triggered: I use the lovely Spaces as a workaround, I just create one space more than I need for my Applications and whenever I want to view the desktop, I just switch to that space.
Thank you for Pathfinder, can't live without it :)

Thank you, thank you for getting this update ready so quickly. Like others commenting here, I was going through severe PF withdrawal and it's great to have things working properly!

Looking forward to the few remaining glitches being dealt with as time (and Apple answers) permit but I'm just delighted to be able to work in the much more productive fashion I've become accustomed to. The Leopard Finder is certainly better than what' come before but still cannot compare with the information and action density PF provides.

Thanks a lot for all your positive comments! We did work hard in an accelerated mode to make it ready quickly and we're glad you appreciate it!

I could kiss you guys for this one. Making these two features the priority confirms that you are in touch with the users of your product.

Are we going to see ACL support anytime soon? Apple's ACL manipulator in the Leopard Finder blows for anything advanced.

I love your product though guys. yes, i did buy a license. :)

Joshua Byers

"Moving items across partitions copies instead of moves" - This never bothered me. I just ALT+Drag to copy and CMD+Drag to move. Simple enough!