Don’t worry, you didn’t miss anything — I’ll definitely make a post here when the new beta is available!
I’ll try my best!
TotalFinder 1.14.4 beta development progress report
While the beta is indeed technically usable in its current state (in that there are no known crashes, and is a net improvement over 1.14.3), I don’t know how I feel about releasing something that is pretty much half-baked with missing features, as my standards for releasing beta software is usually “this should mostly work as intended, but there may be unforeseen bugs, or a few known issues that are either very minor or otherwise do not significantly impact functionality”.
In any case, here’s the progress report for those who may be interested:
What’s been fixed so far
- Native Apple right-click context menu actions are no longer missing.
- Copy Path context menu actions are fully working.
- Having coloured labels enabled no longer causes Finder to crash.
- Cut and paste partially works. (※ See below for further details.)
- Coloured label rendering in all views (list, icon, desktop icon, and column) fully works, but… (※ See below for further details.)
What still needs to be addressed
- Cutting a file/folder and attempting to paste it (either via Cmd-V or the context menu) into the current directory does not work.
- Pasting it into a selected/highlighted folder via right-click works, however.
- An unintended bug also currently exists that allows you to do this via Cmd-V as well, but this will need to be removed/fixed as it subverts user expectations and is not how the feature should behave.
- Pasting it into a selected/highlighted folder via right-click works, however.
- Pretty much everything to do with coloured labels has been fixed… except one crucial piece of functionality: The ability for TotalFinder to look up the assigned tag colour of a given file/folder.
- Apple made quite a few under-the-hood changes to Finder in macOS 13, one of which has made this… unexpectedly difficult, let’s say.
- (It also doesn’t help that Finder is one of the more… convoluted apps that I’ve seen come out of Apple, which just makes reverse engineering it that much harder ;P)
Hopefully… I can get this figured out soon. While there’s pretty much “just” two things left to deal with, both of those things ended up being… more complicated than expected.
Once again, my apologies for the delay!
※ Also, regarding the code injection issues that occur on certain specific non-Metal Macs using OpenCore Legacy Patcher: I’ve gotten into contact with some people (including Amy/ASentientBot) on the OCLP team. This is most likely something that will have to be fixed from the OCLP side of things though, as their root patches on these particular machines are actually causing other broken behaviour, too.