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Tiny open-source Finder extension that adds the basic actions it’s missing: New File, Open Terminal Here, Open Folder in your IDE, Copy Path, Go to Parent Folder
▲ 293 r/MacOS

Tiny open-source Finder extension that adds the basic actions it’s missing: New File, Open Terminal Here, Open Folder in your IDE, Copy Path, Go to Parent Folder

I switched from Windows to Mac and was flabbergasted that Finder can't do some of the most basic things Explorer does.

My 300-code lines Finder extension adds missing features:

- New File… with any name and extension

- Open Terminal Here (iTerm2 if installed, otherwise Terminal)

- Open Folder With lists the IDEs/editors you actually have installed plus "Other App…"

- Copy Path of the current folder

- Go to Parent Folder, which works even when Back is greyed out

It's free, open source, built with Claude.
GitHub: https://github.com/nikgrbn/finder-menu

u/Competitive-Lack-660 — 4 days ago
▲ 101 r/MacOS

a week ago i posted a terminal command to turn off apple intelligence on macOS 27, a lot of you didn't want to touch terminal so it's an actual app now

made this after the last post here, a lot of you said you'd use it if it wasn't a terminal thing

so 1.0 is a proper mac app now, same thing underneath

it turns apple intelligence off and deletes the models, and you can keep any feature you actually use

you see every change before it runs, and there's an undo page that puts everything back

it also does the stuff people asked for in the comments last time, analytics and ads off, the play key not opening music, other apps' background updaters, old installers and caches

SIP stays on the whole time and it doesn't make any network requests

free and open source: https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI

heads up it's not notarized, so the first time you open it you'll need Open Anyway in Privacy & Security, or just use the install line in the readme

u/checkpointdev — 4 days ago
▲ 20 r/MacOS+1 crossposts

Hot Take: macOS 26's Liquid Glass looks A BIT better than 27's

This opinion might be a bit biased due to recently upgrading my iMac to Tahoe with OpenCore Legacy Patcher, but I do think that some aspects of Liquid Glass look better in macOS Tahoe than macOS Golden Gate, especially the icons, I'm not a huge fan of what they did with the app icons in Golden Gate, for me they have a more plastic look rather than a glass look, I especially don't like that kind of "cell-shading" the icons have for the lines.

The biggest offender in the app icons is Mr. Finder itself, I absolutely hate what they did with the Finder icon in Golden Gate, they removed almost all the effects that the Tahoe icon had and they changed to this plastic-looking, thick lines, light blue doppelgänger.

Aside from the icons, there isn't really much I can mention about Golden Gate, maybe that the tweaks made to the Liquid Glass effects made that the buttons in the system also had this plastic look to them.

Let me be clear (see what I did there?), I do think that macOS 27 in the grand scheme of things is superior to Tahoe in many aspects, I'm just saying that the core design language of the system, that being Liquid Glass, have a Involution in some aspects. Feel free to disagree with me and give your point of view in the comments, good night.

u/Plane_Ice6119 — 5 days ago
▲ 525 r/MacOS

macOS 27 dropped the Apple Intelligence off switch, so I wrote a command that turns it all off and deletes the ~12 GB of models

macOS 27 doesn't have one toggle for Apple Intelligence any more. You have to find about a dozen settings, and several of them are under Screen Time. Even when everything is off, the foundation models stay on disk, and that's about 12 GB.

I wrote RemoveMacAI to do all of it in one go. It turns off Siri, Writing Tools, Genmoji, Image Playground, the ChatGPT extension and all the summaries, then it deletes the models and stops macOS from downloading them again. Dictation still works because it's a separate setting.

It uses a configuration profile you approve in System Settings plus Apple's own asset service, so SIP stays on and nothing in /System gets touched directly. removemacai revert removes the profile, and macOS downloads the models again when you turn a feature back on.

brew install omlahore/tap/removemacai, or there's a one-line installer in the readme. It's MIT licensed: https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI

u/checkpointdev — 12 days ago
▲ 4 r/MacOS+1 crossposts

golden gate issue with trackpad and selecting multiple files :/

I’ve been experiencing a weird issue since installing macOS Golden Gate.

I’m using an official Apple external Magic Trackpad (the Lightning version, in grey), and I normally select multiple files in Finder by clicking on one file and then dragging my finger up or down on the trackpad to select additional files.

Since Golden Gate, when I try to do this, instead of selecting multiple files, Finder starts dragging the file I clicked on. I also get a colored rectangle around the inside of the Finder window, as if Finder is trying to create a selection area.

I’m also using Apple’s numeric keyboard (the black one), and I just noticed something strange: if I turn the keyboard off, the old selection behavior starts working again, but only for a few seconds before the problem comes back. same happens when i turn back the keyboard again ...

I’ve tried turning both the Trackpad and the keyboard off and on several times, but it doesn’t make any difference.

I also opened my MacBook Pro, since I normally use it in desktop mode with the external Trackpad and keyboard, and I have exactly the same issue with the MacBook’s built-in trackpad and keyboard. I completely disconnected the external Trackpad and keyboard, so they definitely aren’t involved.

Is anyone else experiencing the same issue since Golden Gate?

Thanks!

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u/AngeAlexiel — 8 days ago
▲ 0 r/MacOS+1 crossposts

Retiring M4 Pro because of Golden Gate issues

I accidentally upgraded my M4 Pro 24 GB Mac mini from Tahoe to Golden Gate, and since then it has become virtually unusable because of repeated TCC/permissions problems.

Apps keep asking me to reauthorize Accessibility and other permissions, and the permissions often don’t survive a reboot. I’ve updated all of the affected apps, but the problems continue. I’ve seen issues with Keyboard Maestro, AltTab, Bartender, Default Folder X, BetterTouchTool, and others. At one point after rebooting, the mouse cursor would move but mouse clicks and keyboard input stopped working entirely.

What’s interesting is that my M4 16 GB Mac mini is also running Golden Gate, but I installed it as a clean/fresh OS installation. That machine isn’t experiencing these problems.

For now, I’m taking the M4 Pro out of service and switching to the slower but much more reliable M4 mini as my primary machine. I’ll probably leave the M4 Pro alone for a couple of months and revisit it after Golden Gate has received some updates.

Given how many people seem to be reporting similar TCC and permissions problems, I’m surprised Apple hasn’t addressed this yet.

I’m increasingly wondering whether there’s something specifically wrong with the Tahoe → Golden Gate upgrade path, since my clean Golden Gate installation has been so much more reliable.

UPDATE: Possible workaround — delayed launching of login apps

I may have found a workaround for the permissions/login-item problems I’ve been experiencing after upgrading to macOS 27 Golden Gate.

I noticed that many of the troublesome apps were being launched at essentially the same time immediately after login. As a test, I removed the affected apps from my normal login sequence and created a small Automator application that launches them one at a time, with a 5-second delay between each launch.

Rather than hard-coding the applications, the Automator app works through a folder containing aliases. I numbered the aliases (01, 02, 03, etc.), which lets me easily control the launch order or add/remove applications later.

I also added notifications showing each application as it launches, followed by a notification when the delayed startup sequence is complete.

So far, this is working extremely well. The applications are launching normally and I’m not seeing the barrage of permission/authentication problems that I was getting when everything launched together.

I’m not calling this fixed yet. My next test is several cold boots to make sure the Automator app’s App Management permission survives restarts and that the behavior remains consistent.

If it continues to work on my M4 Pro, I’m going to set up the same delayed launcher on my M3 MacBook Air, which had even more problems after the Golden Gate upgrade.

At this point my working theory is that at least some of what I was seeing may be related to many login/background applications initializing simultaneously after the OS upgrade, rather than every individual application independently having a permissions problem.

I’ll update again after more cold-boot testing and after trying the same workaround on the MacBook Air.

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u/jlext — 10 days ago
▲ 160 r/MacOS

Theory: some of macOS 27’s weirdest bugs may be fallout from Apple rebuilding interaction around touch

I have a theory about why some of the buggiest parts of macOS 27 seem to cluster around Finder, Spaces, drag-and-drop, and cross-app interaction.

My guess is that Apple is in the middle of rebuilding parts of the interaction/window-management stack to support a future touchscreen Mac, and we’re seeing some of the rough edges while that work is still settling.

A lot of the regressions I’ve personally hit are in exactly those areas:

  • drag-and-drop behavior across Spaces
  • Finder spring-loaded navigation
  • app-to-Finder copy/paste
  • apps forgetting assigned Spaces
  • dragging while simultaneously scrolling a Finder window
  • odd behavior when an app or dialog is in another Space

What makes me wonder about touch specifically is that Spaces, gestures, and direct manipulation all seem like areas Apple would have to rethink if three-finger trackpad-style gestures are eventually going to coexist with direct gestures on a display.

Some of these bugs are already being fixed in the 27.2 betas, which also makes it feel more like active subsystem work than intentional behavior changes.

Obviously this is speculation. I don’t have any evidence that these specific bugs are caused by touchscreen work. But the pattern feels interesting enough that I’m curious whether anyone else has noticed the same clustering, or has a better theory for why these particular interaction systems seem unusually rough in macOS 27.

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u/rumorconsumerr — 13 days ago
▲ 12 r/MacOS

When did Spotlight become so terrible?

I don't know if it's me or if there's just a bug in Spotlight's indexing but over the last few months Spotlight has become unusable. I can enter the name of any app installed on my Mac and it will show me anything but the app. Web search recommendations, sometimes even items within the app, but not the app whose name I am typing character for character. Sometimes the app even flashes shortly but as I continue typing the recommendation simply vanishes. It is infuriating. Anyone else have similar issues?

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u/Thoughtful-Otter_ — 12 days ago