![]() One big step for security, but an unfortunate breaking change for plug-ins and apps that rely on these kind of hacks for non-malicious things. In OS X El Capitan, Apple has introduced SIP – “System Integrity Protection”, which protects your system from being tampered by malicious software like malware. It’s particularly useful when using a single display. This way, you can easily drag and drop files from Finder to other apps like Xcode or even your active Terminal session without switching desktops. Finder would appear at the bottom of the screen, Terminal at the top. ![]() The idea is to simplify access to Finder’s folder view and any active Terminal session, by using a global hot key (like ctrl+` for Terminal and alt+` for Finder). In my opinion, both apps were essential for developers working on their MacBooks in the field, but could also prove useful for any OS X users. While I’m really enjoying OS X El Capitan (everything runs smoother and my MacBook is much colder) it has put a large nail into the coffin of my two favourite OS X apps: TotalTerminal and TotalFinder. I’ve fixed tons of Visor bugs and made it possible under Snow Leopard.Visor-like access to Finder and Terminal on OS X El Capitan I hope this is enough info for you to get started playing with TotalFinder. Temporary workaround is not using these Spotlight comments. It seems like Apple engineers scattered DS_Store functionality into more applications. This is caused by mdworker process and has no direct relation to Finder.app process. DS_Store file is created when you modify Spotlight comment on a file The reason is that SIMBL plugin gets injected too late and Finder manages to write this. DS_Store file is created on Desktop during OSX restart, Finder crash or TotalFinder reinstallation ![]() I’ve been using TotalFinder with this redirection enabled for a while and it works pretty well. Testing is a simple C-string comparison and sending notification via socket. I do it only if TotalFinder is connected and only for renames and deletes. I use KAUTH API to monitor kernel filesystem events. At the end of the day that kernel extension turned out to be a really light-weight solution. BSD kqueues must be registered on per-file basis, so it is not usable in this scenario. FSEvents are not precise enough (it just reports “something was changed”). But I didn’t find a better solution in user-space. This is important to keep DS_Store folder structure in prefix directory mirroring actual structure on the disk I’ve implemented kernel extension Echelon, which monitors folder renames (and deletes) and sends them to TotalFinder.The only exception is the prefix folder itself, when you go and see it in the Finder, no redirection is applied.This way Finder thinks files are at original places but they are being physically created in prefix folder, effectively sandboxing them.Anytime Finder.app is asking to open /some/folder/.DS_Store file, I open it as /usr/local/.dscache/some/folder/_DS_Store.I’ve redirected low-level filesystem calls which Finder.app does:. ![]() But this is not good enough for me! I’m using folder colors in Finder ) Or maybe there is some commercial app which is capable of watching filesystem and deleting them after creation. DS_Store litter makes me cry! If you ever happened to google for a solution, you could find just some simple scripts for deleting. Look, I use Finder.app with enabled hidden files and I’m also pretty heavy Terminal.app user. I’m pretty excited about solving the problem which has been bugging me for more than two years since the day I switched to Macintosh. DS_Store files all over the placeĪnd you can also see that I’m planning to start selling this at some point in the future when the thing gets more stable. Visor-like system-wide Finder window available via a hot-key.As you can grasp from the images this version implements two main features:
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