Section 60. File Management

60. File Management

PC users will feel right at home in Mac OS X's Finder (shown in Figure 23), which organizes files and applications in nested folders (much like Windows Explorer). Finder, however, offers a column-based view (in contrast to the "one window at a time" approach taken on the PC) that makes for faster, easier, and more visual navigation of files.

Figure 23. Finder's column-based view provides for faster, easier, and more intuitive navigation of the files on your Mac.

Power users may prefer Path Finder (www.cocoatech.com, $34.95), an alternative Finder with enhanced capabilitiessuch as the ability to undo a file operation (move, copy, or delete) with a single keystroke, browse files using a convenient tabbed interface, or collect files from several folders into one convenient "stack" for future use.