File operations

Copy, move, rename and delete with Finder’s keys, plus a Jobs queue you can pause and reorder, conflicts that don’t block, and undo for copies.

Copy, cut and paste

Copies are recursive and work across volumes. The clipboard is shared by every Mac Explorer window, so you can copy in one window and paste in another. To paste into a folder without opening it, right-click it and choose Paste.

Rename, new folder, new file

• ↩ or F2 renames, with the name selected and the extension left alone. ↩ commits, esc cancels, and clicking away commits.
• ⌘⇧N creates a folder and starts renaming it.
• Right-click the background ▸ New Text File creates an empty text file.

Trash and delete

• ⌘⌫, ⌫ or ⌦ moves to the Trash. Mac Explorer asks first for folders and multiple items.
• ⇧⌫ deletes permanently, and always asks first.

Undo and redo

⌘Z and ⌘⇧Z undo and redo the last 50 file operations:

• copies (undoing a copy moves the copies to the Trash)
• moves (items go back to where they came from)
• renames
• new folders and new files
• compress and extract

Compress and extract

• Right-click ▸ Compress “…” makes a zip of one item (via ditto, keeping macOS metadata). With several items selected it’s Compress N Items.
• Right-click a .zip ▸ Extract Here unpacks it and selects the result.

Both run as cancellable jobs and both can be undone.

The Jobs panel

Copies, moves, compression, uploads and downloads run as jobs. Open the panel with ⌘⌥J or the File operations chip in the status bar. Each job shows its progress, speed, bytes copied and the file it’s working on. You can:

• Pause and Resume local copies
• Cancel any job
• Move a queued job Earlier or Later
• Clear finished jobs

One copy or move runs at a time, so big transfers don’t fight each other for the disk. Share uploads run alongside them.

Conflicts

Name collisions are detected before a copy starts. Instead of a dialog that blocks everything, the job waits in Needs decision, the status-bar chip turns into Action needed, and the Jobs panel opens. Choose Replace, Keep Both or Skip for the whole job. Other work carries on in the meantime.

Get Info

⌘I (or right-click ▸ Get Info) opens a panel with a thumbnail, kind, size, item count, dimensions, created and modified dates, Unix permissions, owner and full path. For photos it adds when the photo was taken, the camera and the exposure. Buttons open the item, Quick Look it or reveal it.

Copy path, copy name, reveal

Right-click ▸ Copy Path or Copy Name works on one item or many (one per line). ⌥⌘R reveals the selection in Finder.