08 Jul 2016, 23:00
I think we have great news for the near future of FinderPop!
Today I downloaded Sierra beta and it was clean-installed on an extra partition dedicated to testing that latest Mac OS. After installing a few software, I decided to take the dive and try our indispensable FP. The only hick-up encountered is that it was not possible to install for all users (may be a glitch, but I did not investigate further). Installing for the current user worked fine. I then applied the trick created by Salamac and corrected by Blaubeere for El Capitan:
1) Install FinderPop 2.5.9 beta.
2) Disable SIP (reboot in discovery mode pressing cmd-r while restarting, in Terminal type command "csrutil disable", restart normal)
3) Open /Library/ScriptingAdditions folder
4) Move the FinderPopOsax.osax file in there to the /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions directory (creating the ScriptingAdditions directory first if it doesn't exist). Don't leave the file where it was, move it, don't just copy it. You will probably be prompted for an adminstrator password.
5) Open Terminal, and type command:
sudo chown -R root:wheel /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions/FinderPopOsax.osax
6) You'll need to enter your admin password when prompted in the Terminal window
7) Enable SIP (reboot in discovery mode again, in Terminal type command "csrutil enable", restart normal)
And it is working fine, so far
. Unless Apple changes something from now until the final release, we may be safe for another round.All thanks go to Salamc, Blaubeere, and above all Turly for creating and keeping that little jewel alive for all of us!!!!
Update (09/14/2016): still working fine under the Golden Master, although the update to the GM moved the FinderPopOsax.osax back to the Library. I uninstalled and reinstalled FP (for all users worked this time) and we are back in business
23 Jul 2016, 14:44
These are fantastic news, blueberry. Thanks for sharing.
20 Sep 2016, 10:26
Excellent news!
Any one tried it with the final public release?
Cheers...
24 Sep 2016, 08:48
FP is working with the final release from Apple. Works on a 2014 MacBook Pro & a 2009 Mac Pro.
24 Nov 2016, 02:58
no joy installing under Sierra 10.12.1 today. Have moved file to user Scripting Additions folder as System/Library?Scripting Additions folder untouchable
menulet works on menu bar but no joy clicking on files/folders/desktop
I am v angry - it's my computer not Tim Cook/Johnny Ive - if I want FP on my computer, I should be able to
still looking at other 3rd party apps that are no longer working
any ideas?
thanks
E
24 Nov 2016, 09:59
It will not work like that. You cannot move anything into or out of the System folder with SIP enabled (which is enabled by default). If you want FP to work in Sierra, you will need to follow the steps as described above in the post by blueberry, including steps 2), 5), and 7).
24 Nov 2016, 22:01
Hi thanks - SIP is disabled - I also use cDock and other 3rd party apps that require disabling SIP
but unable to move the FinderPopOsax.osax file to /System/Library/ScriptingAdditions - just not an option.
Have repaired permissions etc and no go.
how do I see if SIP enabled/disabled in Terminal?
thanks
E
25 Nov 2016, 11:28
Type in Terminal: csrutil status
25 Nov 2016, 21:58
RonaldPR wrote:Type in Terminal: csrutil status
very strange - I had disabled SIP but when checked, told it was enabled, so reboot and re-disabled SIP
restart and without moving file to Sys/Lib/SA, FP is working (I assume just for me and not all users based on it being in my Lib/SA folder)
so all is good with the universe.. I have Sierra (still identifying things I don't like such as horizontal file lists in icon view) but FP is WORKING!!!
thanks all for your help and patience with me and thanks again to Turley for his efforts at maintaining this incredibly useful utility! - let me know when you're in Australia and I will buy you a few beers!
all best to all
E
26 Nov 2016, 00:27
Thanks very much Ronald for answering this, I only noticed these messages tonight... I've been up the walls with "real" work for the last five or six months, sorry!
It keeps me off the streets so I can't complain
@Eric - if you want FP to work in Chrome (clicking in unused menubar), then you should definitely move the FP osax.
13 Dec 2016, 02:37
Up to a couple of days ago FinderPop worked perfectly fine on my Mac with macOS 10.12 Sierra. However, since two or three days I can suddenly not anymore invoke FinderPop by clicking into the unused area of the menubar. It still works with a right-click on the desktop - but I really miss the menubar option.
Is this a new and by now known problem? Is there any way to get the menubar option back?
Thanks for your replies - desertman.
PS: FinderPop version is 2.5.9 beta. SIP is, of course, disabled.
14 Dec 2016, 17:39
Does clicking-in-unused-menubar fail to work only in the Finder, or in all other apps also?
And of course you haven't got any funky menubar patterns or transparency that might fool FP into thinking the area you clicked in was in fact occupied by something?
18 Dec 2016, 01:11
It does not work in any application. My menubar is always visible and has the usual full white color. I also did not do anything (including no updates) to the system between the last day it worked and then suddenly did not work anymore.
18 Dec 2016, 13:46
What about the little "FP" menulet? Does that still work?
(You might have to enable this in the FP prefpane.)
Obviously something, somewhere, must have changed for FP to stop working, but I'm not sure what it could be
19 Dec 2016, 21:38
The menulet works.
I did not have the time yet to start the Mac without extensions and see whether that makes a difference.
26 Dec 2016, 21:59
1) Several days ago I started my Mac with all extensions except for finderpop-daemon and fp-menulet disabled. This did not make a difference - the menulet worked but clicking into the empty space of the menu bar not.
2) Some days later I noticed that clicking into the empty space of the menu bar did work - for as long as I clicked the menu bar at its very bottom border. Nothing had been changed to the system or installed in-between.
3) Today suddenly clicking into the empty space of the menu bar works "as usual". Again, nothing had been changed to the system or installed in-between.
Let's see what tomorrow brings.
27 Dec 2016, 20:32
Anything unusual about your screen geometry (multiple screens, etc?)
To double-check, your desktop background pic hasn't changed?
Anyone else suffering from this?
27 Dec 2016, 21:20
I have 3 monitors. The main monitor (which has the menu bar in it) is connected to the Thunderbolt port, the second monitor is connected to the HDMI port, the third monitor is (with a Displaylink adapter) connected to a USB port - and I did actually update the driver for the Displaylink adapter just a couple of days ago from their version 3.0.0 Beta 1 to 3.0.0 Beta 2.
It could be that FinderPop stopped working correctly after installing the Beta 1 driver several weeks ago and then went back to normal after updating the to the Beta 2 driver. If I find the time I will reinstall the Beta 1 driver just to check whether this was the culprit.
Wow! So much to a statement like "nothing has changed on my system." Thanks, Turly, for not giving up and continuing to dig to find out what might have happened on my Mac.
28 Dec 2016, 16:25
Hmm, not sure about three monitors... might be an issue with how they're laid out. FP might be making an invalid assumption about where the menubar lives, though from what you were saying about being able to click on the dividing line between menubar and desktop, I'm not sure about that.
Does clicking on (0, 0) - the very top left corner of the main screen - work OK?
08 Jan 2017, 16:14
macOS 10.12.2 installed on top of the previous Sierra version and everything works fine.
No need to do anything, FinderPop just works
Happy camper here.
12 Feb 2017, 04:28
desertman wrote:Up to a couple of days ago FinderPop worked perfectly fine on my Mac with macOS 10.12 Sierra. However, since two or three days I can suddenly not anymore invoke FinderPop by clicking into the unused area of the menubar...
I wondered if problems like this could be somehow triggered by the helpful "auto-rearm" feature of gatekeeper, which quietly resets your gatekeeper prefs for you after 30 days?
I've turned it off on my system:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.security GKAutoRearm -bool NO
04 Jun 2017, 17:32
10.12.5 just intalled - FinderPop kicking like a champ.
23 Jun 2017, 18:16
I have installed FinderPop as per Blueberry's notes and it seems to be working so far. There are two important functions that are missing however...
1. The "Contents" function (after invoking FP, there was an option to view the contents of the folder one had right clicked on.
2. The ability to right click on a file/folder and move it into one of the FinderPop favorites folders.
Anyone have fixes for these?
Thanks!
24 Jun 2017, 14:31
You have to select the item you're clicking on first (eg, single-click) and then, once it's selected, right-click it again.
I still haven't figured out a proper way to get the Finder item clicked on El Capitan and later...
02 Aug 2017, 15:18
10.12.6 just installed - FinderPop working great. SIP is enabled. Chapeau, Turly!
27 Sep 2017, 07:07
Hello all, I posted a new topic regarding my particular problem:
http://www.fnarr.net/fp/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=366&start=0
Briefly, in Sierra (10.12.5) FP seems to break the normal function of right-clicking a folder or item in Finder windows. Right-clicking shows only FP items, not the normal contextual items. ... NOTE that this is only in Icon view, as reported by some others earlier re FP 2.5.9 Beta. In List or Column view, normal contextual items do appear. Apparently this is still the case in Sierra, at least for me. (I installed exactly as per blueberry's instructions.)
I would appreciate hearing from anyone here if you are experiencing this problem in Sierra, or not. If not, do you have any idea what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks very much.
31 Oct 2017, 16:51
I have the same issue (right click menu not working properly in icon mode) but I consider the price to pay for FinderPop... let be it.
Unless Turly has a fix or it is fixed on High Sierra!