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A thing that I haven’t been able to solve to m complete satisfaction yet is the fact that Finder blows chunks. Or, as I prefer to put it, It’s just not very good.
True, Windows’ Explorer isn’t great either, but to me it is still ahead on some important points. I like the way Explorer’s tree view works. You have the tree on the left and the files on the right and you can navigate around with the arrows or press the first letter of a name to skip ahead and tap around between the tree and the files.
Finder has something similar but instead f having the files seperate from the folders, they are in the same tree. This means that if I want to go to the bottom of the files, I can’t. It also lists all folders together with the files (as opposed to at the top, like in Explorer) wich means that it is a lot slower to navigate through just folders than in windows.
And since there is no right-click button on the keyboard, I have no way of doing stuff like “open with” without a mouse or without using the brilliantly simple keyboard combination ctrl+f2 then E then arrow down then O then arrow down then arrow left.

I hear coverflow is new to finder in Leopard an while it looks impressive when browsing images, it is pretty useless in every other way.

So that’s why I have turned to third-party Total Commander-like solutions, or more specifically: muCommander. It works pretty much like Total Commander except that I can’t find a “copy in background” feature. This doesn’t sound so bad until you have tried it and then has to live without it.

Also, I haven’t found a batch-rename function, but then again, I haven’t looked that hard. Since iTunes insists on managing it’s own file-structure, I don’t really have that many files to rename yet.

Oh, and iTunes is another program that I haven’t found a good replacement for yet. It is not that iTunes is bad per se, but it’s non-existent handling of wma and ogg files, among other things makes it, again, less that optimal for me.

Lasty, I should mention Spotlight. It is one of those features that I overlooked to begin with because the similar feature in windows is slow and only usefull in certain situations. Because Spotlight is so damn fast however it seems like it might be a lot more useful that that and could be used as a way of navigating to specific files or launching applications. Give it a try, if you are like me and have just recently switched.