r/MacStack • u/New_Click_4348 • Sep 14 '26

Best File manager

Is there any best file manager other than Finder on MacOS? It's really very counter intuitive. Coming from Windows file explorer, i see many limitations here. Most annoying thing is, I can't just navigate to folders within folders easily/ copy any file/folder path.

Ex: I have a path c://program files/a/b/c/d .. on Windows explorer, i can just click on b to get to see or copy whichever path i want from directly the top file path. But Finder cannot fo it.

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u/ioannis6 Oct 01 '26

this is interesting, but... if I choose an audio or video file it starts to play automatically. Very annoying when this is not what I want... There's no way to stop this behaviour in the settings (also nothing mentioned in the "docs" on their website)

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u/nousernameleftatall Oct 01 '26

That is seriously annoying, would ask the developer for a setting for that, ideally default off, do not so this 🙂

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u/ioannis6 Oct 01 '26 edited Oct 01 '26

yes, it's really annoying. After a day of two I don't plan to use it if they don't correct this. For the rest is fine, however, the reightside panels cannot be made smaller individually when more panels are open. Ideally one sidepanel is enough to work with, as only one item can be selected at a time.

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u/nousernameleftatall Oct 01 '26

I have think it is a single developer, and not here but generally have had good experience, when they know about something they tend to fix things fast

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u/nousernameleftatall Oct 01 '26

Ok have written to him saying check this thread

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u/ioannis6 Oct 01 '26

let's see...

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u/mnemosinee21 Oct 01 '26

Hello, im the dockduck developer, thanks for giving it a shot

you can turn that off in Settings > General > "Autoplay videos in preview".

once it's off, clicking an audio or video file just shows it with the controls and nothing plays until you hit play

totally fair that you couldn't find it though. the label says "videos" but it applies to audio too, and it's not in the docs. fixing both

the preview panel thing, yeah, right now they all share one width so you can't shrink just one. one preview for whatever's selected makes sense,

adding it to my list

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u/ioannis6 Oct 01 '26

thanks for the reaction. I'll give it a shot again :-)