TotalFinder status under OS X 10.11 (El Capitan)

darwin · October 12, 2015, 5:57pm

Sidebar mirroring in dual mode under El Capitan is back!

Please test v1.7.6:
http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/beta-changes#latest

eBara · October 12, 2015, 6:56pm

You are the best!! Now I can finally update my main machine and office iMac to El Capitan!! Thank you very much!!

P.s. who cares about SIP

darwin · October 12, 2015, 9:22pm

I also think running with csrutil enable --without debug isn’t that bad. You get all SIP features including filesystem protection and kernel extension checks, just except for code injection. Would be great if Apple could enhance the system in the future and allow more fine-grained control with csrutil. So you could for example specify that you allow only code injection from code signed by binaryage (me).

Nailv · October 13, 2015, 6:02am

Typed ‘csrutil enable --without debug’ (as well as the ‘csrutil clear’) in the Terminal in Recovery mode.
Tried to reboot the machine - but did not succeed. The progress bar does not move (for 30+ minutes).
MB Pro (A1502) with Retina, 256 GB SSD.
Can run only recovery mode now.
Time machine copy and fast Wi-Fi (to reinstall El Capitan) are at home - and I’m on vacation.
Could you please suggest some decision?

abajo · October 13, 2015, 7:59am

Perfect !!!
Thanks.

darwin · October 13, 2015, 10:06am

This is unfortunate.

First try to reset NVRAM:
1.a) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063
1.b) reboot normally
Second try to boot in verbose mode
2.a) https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201573
You should see booting progress and many messages. When your booting stops, please write down last few lines and paste them here. This could be a hint what failed.
Boot in safe mode:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18760?locale=en_US
Boot in single-user mode:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18782?locale=en_US

Let us know what worked.

Nailv · October 13, 2015, 11:42am

After booting in verbouse mode:

Nailv · October 13, 2015, 11:51am

Single-mode

Nailv · October 13, 2015, 11:53am

HVRAM was reset, but machine could not reboot after.
In safe mode - the same as in the ‘normal’ wake-up: no progress in progress-bar…

darwin · October 13, 2015, 11:53am

This looks bad. You have a kernel extension which is crashing. It is SyncMate from eltima.

If you have plugged in any external devices (USB mouse/keyboard etc.), unplug them.

If not, I could probably help you uninstall it from recovery mode. But you should go to Eltima first and try to ask their support. I’m here all day, drop me an email to support@binaryage.com in case of emergency.

A side note: I believe booting in safe mode should work. System is supposed to load only essential kernel extensions (from Apple). So it should not attempt to load SyncMate.

Nailv · October 13, 2015, 12:13pm

Thank you for your efficiency!
I’ve written to Eltima, but (as shown in their web site) they answer in 1-2 business days!
Actually, today I do not use SyncMate (was nessessary 1-2 years ago).
May be you’ll help me and we’ll delete this program now?

darwin · October 13, 2015, 12:38pm

Please write to support@binaryage.com. So we don’t spam this thread.

darwin · October 13, 2015, 7:10pm

TotalFinder v1.7.7 is out on beta channel:
http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/beta-changes#latest

This release has new implementation of ColumnViewAutoWidth plugin. It turned out to be much simpler under El Capitan.

eBara · October 14, 2015, 9:19am

Yeah you’re right, Apple should specify more parts of SIP that can be disabled -maybe disabling per-apps protection. Stopping using TF cause of this part of SIP is too drastic IMHO. In the last 2 days you made lots of improvements I think TF on El Cap has reached the level of Yosemite.

Well done! Congrats!

denva · October 14, 2015, 11:26am

Hi,

First of all many thanks for the TotalFinder. It is very helpfull.

The «Folders first» sorting mode ceased functioning. Files and folders are sorted alphabetically instead, Latin names going first. It kept working properly under version 1.7.3. It stopped under v1.7.5 and is still malfunctioning under v1.7.7. (MacOS 10.11, Russian locale, MBP 13" mid 2012).

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,
Denis

darwin · October 14, 2015, 3:58pm

Any chance the Folders on Top feature got disabled in your TotalFinder? Default shortcut is CMD+SHIFT+;.

I have just tested it here on my machine with 1.7.7 and Russian locale and it seems to work just fine.

darwin · October 14, 2015, 5:49pm

Another daily update TotalFinder v1.7.8:
http://totalfinder.binaryage.com/beta-changes#latest

This one is a candidate for release to all on stable channel.

hanhae · October 14, 2015, 7:51pm

Great version… It seems to do the trick for me.

microN · October 15, 2015, 4:24am

there are still some occasional issues with this version for the folder-on-top feature. Also the finder doesn’t show the right folders when clicking on “reveal in finder” a specific file from another application.
Best

MauroCL · October 15, 2015, 10:59am

Hi Darwing,

Thanks the work done until now despite Apple’s new show stoppers (SIP).

Bug reporting:
As previously mentioned by email, the size of the column “Name” in list view goes back to default size once I move out of the folder despite that I adjust the length to the desired one. You once mentioned to me that it was an issue already identified, do you have this bug coming up in the list of those to be squashed?

Update:

I just noticed that if I double click on the edge of the column to resize the width to the longest file name, Total Finder will remember, but if I resize by dragging, then TF forgets. Is this value stored somewhere that can be used to address this bug?

Mauro