There has to be ONE little thing missing to get TotalFinder working in Sequoia and Tahoe

TotalFinder
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Someone reported that they have TotalFinder working in Tahoe Beta 26.

So, before I upgraded, I tried to install TotalFinder on my new Macbook Air under Sequoia.

Now, I have TotalFinder installed on two other Macs under Sequoia, and it works fine.

I went into Recovery Mode, disabled SIP, and lowered the security settings according to the support instructions.

I do have TotalFinder installed, and it is showing up in the preference pane of Finder. The problem is that the TotalFinder icon cannot be clicked on, so I can activate VISOR functionality.

I did the upgrade to Tahoe Beta 5, and it’s the same situation. I think TotalFinder is working as when I click on FILE, it opens across the entire bottom of the screen, but I am still locked out of preferences, and I can’t activate VISOR.

I would think there is something I missed along the way that is not allowing me to access the preference pane and activate VISOR functionality.

Can anyone help me out here? Thank You

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You have to tweak some file manuallynto get visor working … but sadly i do not remeber which one.

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Same issues on Sequoia. Opening TF preferences has been broken for some time. No idea if the maintiner is even working on it anymore.

Navigate to \Users\home(or w/e your home folder is called)\Library\Preferences and open com.binaryage.totalfinder.plist

There are a few different options pertaining to Visor.

0 = off
1= on

Good luck and don’t forget to make a backup :+1:

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I was able to get TotalFinder working perfectly on Tahoe OS 26 (now on Beta 5)

First of all, if it’s working on Sequoia, it will work on Tahoe. It just didn’t work on prior beta versions.

If you are like me and you had to do a fresh install on one of your machines, you can do a great CHEAT to get TotalFinder up and running if you have it running on another Mac.

Of course, you have to disable SIP, disable NVRAM, and run in PERMISSIVE security, allowing kernels to run (both options)

The trick is copying the three .plist files in your User Library and pasting them to the new computer.

I simply went into MAC → USERS → LIBRARY → PREFERENCES and copied all 3 .plist files (com.binaryage.totalfinder) and then pasted it in the same directory on the new computer.

I think it’s a great idea to back up all three .plist files in case you ever need to reinstall on a fresh machine.

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Does your time machine still work? Mine stopped working.