I ran it against AppZapper and it was comparable. This is an additional tool in Forklift that hunts down all related files for any application you want to delete. In addition to providing an excellent file management tool, it also has an application deleter. Likewise it has the spring loaded folders like the Tiger Finder but I rarely used them since the dual panes made it unnecessary. For instance, OmniPlan and OmniOutlilnes just give you an icon, whereas OmniGraffle, pdf, and photo files give you an accurate representation.įorklift fully supports Growl so my Mac can still tell me when it is done with a file transfer. It does not render previews for all file types. It is very helpful for sorting through images, especially when I am not disciplined in naming them. When you click an image or pdf you see a little version in the icon view. Forklift has a similar, though not quite so slick, version built in. I know a lot of people are excited about the Quicklook feature in Leopard. Whether you are the neat and tidy hierarchical type or a bit more of an anarchist that relies on sorts and smart folders, Forklift will accommodate you.Īnother nice feature is the “Preview”. The application gives you multiple ways to find and sort items from spotlight searches to smart folders to favorites tabs. Except for that hiccup it really felt as if I was working on a local drive the whole time. I don’t think this has anything to do with Forklift and a lot to do with and phone. I spent some time trying to get it to talk to my Verizon Treo 650 but was ultimately unsuccessful. I don’t have an Amazon S3 account but reading the forums and other web postings this appears to run fine. It even can look at archived files as if they were unscrunched. Using forklift I am able to upload files to my FTP server just as easily as if I were transferring between two directories. Forklift gets the whole enchilada: FTP, SFTP servers, Amazon S3, iPods, Bluetooth devices and just about anything else you can plug into or airport link with. When I say “destinations” I’m not just talking about a few directories on you home drive or an external USB drive. It even supports tabs and drawers so you can have collections of locations on each pane making the set up of of your source and destination even easier. You can assign the left and the right panes to different locations and file management will suddenly get much faster and much easier. This isn’t rocket science but the simplicity of it is refereshing. Somebody at BinaryNights must have had the same revelation because when you open up Forklift, the first thing that strikes you is the dual pane window. Sure you can technically do this within one finder window but it never seems to work quite right and it inevitably leads to a lot more clicks than necessary. When working in Apple’s Finder I often find myself opening multiple finder windows to allow me to work with files across different locations. This review was recorded and posted on Surfbits MacReview Cast #112
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