TotalFinder on Ventura

@Ronald_Epstein

Thanks for reporting that you’re experiencing an issue with the “More information” button.

I’m uh… honestly somewhat confused as to how this even broke (as all TotalFinder is doing is using bog standard macOS APIs to open a web page, of all things…), but I’ll definitely need to re-test all of the info dialogs and see if I can reproduce your issue locally and then fix it.

Anyway, all that button does is open the Apple Silicon-specific documentation — however, I believe what you specifically are missing is this part of said documentation, as that’s what actually triggers the “Apple Silicon support in TotalFinder must be manually enabled.” message.

tl;dr: Run this in Terminal, it should fix your issues.

touch ~/.totalfinder-dontcheckarchitecture
killall TotalFinder; open /Applications/TotalFinder.app

Also, if you haven’t done so already, there’s an additional boot-arg that must be added on macOS 13 (for now, and also for the upcoming beta release), which you can add by running this in Terminal:

sudo nvram boot-args="-arm64e_preview_abi"

※ NOTE: If you already have other boot-args added for other macOS tweaks (you can check this by simply running nvram boot-args), be sure to include them in the above invocation too!

Let me know if this helps.


That being said, I personally can’t really recommend trying to use TotalFinder on macOS 13 right now, since merely having it enabled at all (regardless of what options you have on) actually causes some Finder right-click context menu options to disappear, as documented here.

The “missing context menu actions” bug has since been fixed in my development build (as noted in this progress report), but I still need to fix two more issues (that are giving me a harder time than expected) before a proper beta can be released.

The Visor feature does work fine, though!

As always, thank you for your continued patience regarding macOS 13 support on TotalFinder.

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