As far as I have seen, TotalFinders preferences hasnt been successfully loaded into Finders settings since Sonoma.
Some settings are available in the menu bar. (View for example has Dual mode, ProgressBar etc), however, if you follow below, more setting are available.
Navigate to /Users/(your home folder)/Library/Preferences
Open com.binaryage.totalfinder.plist
Change appropriate / desired settings and save.
Reboot
Most settings in there are a on / off unless specifying a dimension / position.
0 - Off
1 - On
hi @akemin_dayo does the dock progress bar for Finder requires SIP disabled totally or partially? If not, is it possible to have functions that don’t require SIP in something like a TotalFinder lite app?
@akemin_dayo do you (or anyone else?!?) know if Total Finder will work in MacOS26 Tahoe? I’m really hoping all will be fine. Would be great to hear if anyone has been testing Total Finder with the OS26 betas.
I can confirm that TotalFinder works on Tahoe MacOS 26.
It initially didn’t in the earlier betas. I just upgraded from Sequioa to Tahoe Beta 5 and everything works great.
However, I would recommend that you do the following:
Go into MAC → USER → LIBRARY → PREFERENCES
Look for the 3 .plist files that begin with com.binaryage.totalfinder
Copy those 3 files and put them somewhere safe. Should you ever have to do a fresh install, you are going to have issues accessing the TotalFinder preference pane. By pasting those 3 .plist files over the default ones, your preferences will be copied over and TotalFinder will work exactly as you need it to.
Of course, make certain that you turn SIP and NVRAM off. Also, be sure Security Startup Settings are set to PERMISSIVE and both permissions beneath that (dealing with kernels) are checkmarked. All this can be done by booting into restore mode.
Great, thanks Ronald. And yes I should have security settings and such set already for current use of Total Finder, so hopefully that won’t get altered when I eventually update. Great to know we’re not going to be screwed when the OS update officially comes out.
I just updated to macOS 26.2 Beta 3, and noticed that the menubar transparency doesn’t work in TotakFinder. It’s fine everywhere else, and I haven’t noticed this before.
I don’t know if anyone is reading this thread anymore (I’ll repeat this message in another topic). I have a feeling more and more of you have moved away from TotalFinder. Unfortunately, it’s the only Finder I have found with a VISOR function.
Unfortunately, the VISOR function seems to be broken under Tahoe.
I just bought a new MacBook Pro that comes with Tahoe. I was able to install TotalFinder after changing my security settings and csrutil. That was no problem.
The problem is, even with my old preference files placed in /Library/Preferences, the VISOR function doesn’t work.
I’m at a loss for how to get that visor working. Perhaps someone here has an idea. It seemed to work when I installed TotalFinder under Sequoia and then upgraded to Tahoe. I have another Mac running Tahoe that TotalFinder works fine on, but TotalFinder was installed under Sequoia.
Maybe a terminal command to enable the VISOR function?
PS: This is an edit. Miraculously, I did get the VISOR function to work. Don’t ask me how. I used CHATGPT to help and I entered a bunch of terminal commands. They intitally did not work. I just went on with my daily business, and suddenly, the VISOR function decided to work.
It will probably work, but the problem is, you have to disable SIP to use it. In doing that, you can’t use some Mac apps from the App Store because they won’t enable with that setting turned off.
I didn’t delete TotalFinder. It still sits in my Applications folder, but since I opted not to turn off SIP, I can’t test it.
So far I am using the default finder. What I miss the most about TotalFinder – and the only reason I use it – is it’s visor opening and closing (like a drawer) when I double click on the option key. It is so handy and convenient. I wish I could do that with another finder.
First one that comes to mind is Carrot Weather. I think any OS or iPad designed app that you download from the Mac OS app store does not work with SIP disabled.
Right, I think it’s been that way from before Tahoe, that iOS/iPad apps don’t work without SIP. I use iPhone Mirroring for the phone and Universal Control for the iPad, so really don’t have any need to run iOS apps on my laptop.
Me too as it is not really supported by the founders for a long time, i do not find the few things i use with TotalFinder weight anymore against the reduced security.
But i like to thanks Akemin for her fantastic work to put some life again into this fantastic app. THANKS VERY MUCH Akemin.
I do not understand why Apple did not take over this functionality.
