[Update Discussion] TotalFinder 1.15.1 for Apple Silicon and Intel — macOS 13, 12, 11, and 10.15

@eBara @RickO @Thommy

Here’s a very quick and unpolished writeup regarding the compatibility of the current public build of TotalFinder 1.14.3 and macOS 13.0.1 22A400 Ventura.

What does not work (public 1.14.3)

  • [※ SEVERELY IMPACTS USABILITY] Having TotalFinder enabled at all causes some context menu actions to disappear from the Finder right-click menu, regardless of whether or not any TotalFinder context menu tweaks are actually enabled.
  • The entire Cut and Paste feature, including the Command-X keyboard shortcut as well as the custom context menu buttons.
  • Copy Path context menu actions do not appear.
  • Having Coloured Labels enabled at all will cause TotalFinder to completely crash.
    • ※ If you find yourself in such a state, you can manually disable the feature in Terminal using defaults write com.binaryage.totalfinder TotalFinderLabelsEnabled 0

What works (public 1.14.3)

  • Replacing the Finder Dock icon with the TotalFinder Dock icon
  • Keeping the original Finder Dock icon (or a custom one set via another tweak)
  • Showing a progress bar for file operations in the Dock icon
  • Menu bar item
  • Colourful sidebar, including Finder icon rendering mode (※ some custom disk icons may not display correctly)
  • Auto-adjusting column sizes in Column View
  • Quick-toggling hidden files
  • Visor
  • Tabs
  • Dual View
  • Compatibility with OpenCore and OpenCore Legacy Patcher
  • Compatibility with Apple Silicon (※ requires additional -arm64e_preview_abi boot-arg to be set for now)
  • Compatibility with Intel / AMD (x86_64)

@ChrisOSX @ChrisSpera as well as everyone else patiently waiting for macOS 13 support:

With the current progress in my internal development build, I’m aiming a hopefully-usable beta or something in around a week’s time. Thank you your patience and understanding.

(※ Unlike the previous estimate, this is somewhat based in reality instead of Baseless Guessing™ ;P)

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