Today is the day. A sad day that I knew was coming. I am currently updating the last of my 3 Macs, which is my main studio production Mac, to Mojave.
Due to the lack of info and experience with keeping SIP disabled, I’m not comfortable keeping it disabled in order to run Total Finder so I guess I’m officially done using it.
I’ve tried a few other options like Xtra Finder and Path Finder and neither are as great as Total Finder is.
So, I guess I’ll just have to suck it up and get used to resizing Finder columns manually and not having the full color labels etc.
I did a quick scan of the forum and didn’t find anything, but I’m guessing that Total Finder in Mojave with SIP enable is just not ever going to happen?
I’d pay well more than what I paid for Total Finder for a Mojave safe version of Total Finder FWIW.
I’m completely with Jperkinski on this. I don’t feel knowledgeable enough to safely work with SIP disabled, but I am lost without TotalFinder.
One thought - likely just a dream, but…
XtraFinder now has a workaround that lets it run under Mojave with SIP re-enabled. I’ve tested it, and it does work (but XtraFinder is much less elegant than TotalFinder, so it’s not a real replacement.)
Is there any chance a similar strategy might work for TotalFinder? Like everyone else, I’d happily pay for TotalFinder again if that would help!
I have actually internally implemented the same trick what XtraFinder did into TotalFinder. Kudos to them for discovering it. But I decided to not make it available. Mainly for two reasons:
The workaround they have discovered can be viewed as a security hole and I bet it will be resolved in the next major OS version (let’s see in June)
With each new XtraFinder/TotalFinder update you have to go and do a new installation with disabled SIP, which is quite inconvenient (booting into recovery OS and all that jazz)
I would love to have Total Finder work with SIP enabled. But the way I see it, we were fine without SIP a couple of OS generations ago and we’ll be fine without it going forward. That’s because as Total Finder users, we are “power users”. As such, we’re much less likely to fall prey to malware that might catch less knowledgable users. I hope I’m not being naive.