Is there an alternative to TotalFinder?

Open up all your protections, post your passwords, do whatever you want. Don't like SIP? Turn it off. Don't want the firewall? Turn it off. Don't like how the EFI console works? Refit it. Need to tweak or adjust or alter OS X? Have at. It's your Mac, after all.

Now if I wanted to exercise control over the platform — and there are valid reasons for needing or wanting that — then a "target practice" scratch OS X system or more likely a Linux or BSD system would be a better choice than OS X. Why? Because the path you're on — fighting against what Apple is doing with OS X here — is likely going to lead to more issues and incompatibilities and oddities. Things are only going to get more locked down over time, too.

As annoying as it is to have to decide to disable the protections or to keep the protections with more limited access (or to migrate platforms), what Apple is doing here is a viable way to reduce the amount of malware that's targeting OS X. There just aren't many good ways to keep a lid on the dreck that's around, and increasingly targeting OS X.

But this is your Mac. You do not need to justify running it over with a truck or throwing it off a building, if that's what you want to do. Much less disable SIP. Your Mac. Your call.

Hello again GoldFran,

And to follow up with what MrHoffman said, you can always re-enable SIP after installing whatever you want.

I would check into Path Finder by CocoaTech - the Swiss Army knife of Finder replacements.

http://www.cocoatech.com

"HaraldS wrote:

I would check into Path Finder by CocoaTech - the Swiss Army knife of Finder replacements.

http://www.cocoatech.com"

As was mentioned. However, I don't know if Path Finder 7 needs SIP disabled.

GoldFran wrote:

If re-enable SIP after install for example TotalFinder or rEFInd, this apps will not run...

Hello again GoldFran,

Oh well. There goes that idea. Sorry.

Path Finder 7 supports El Capitan.

People report all sorts of problems here, and all the time.

Apps that weren't updated for El Capitan are certainly among those issues reported.

Apps that require injecting code into system applications have been particularly problematic for many years, both for the stability and operations of legitimate apps, for the various haxxies that have been available and sometimes problematic, and obviously for the cases where these injections are being used by and for malware.

It's the code injections and the oddball extensions added into the system directories that's been on the increase, and unfortunately there's no reliable means to differentiate malware from power users.

Or just shut SIP off.

Also consider a migration to a platform such as Linux or BSD. To a platform that specifically targets your requirements, that expressly caters to power users, and that might better meets your needs and tools and requirements. Apple is very unlikely to walk back on SIP, after all.

I have used Pathfinder for years and it works great with El Capitan. Absolutely no problems now or earlier.

Duane wrote:

I have used Pathfinder for years and it works great with El Capitan. Absolutely no problems now or earlier.

Good to hear Duane. I was thinking about trying it. It doesn't require SIP to be disabled?

FWIW, if it doesn't work, my head will explode and I will come and haunt you. 😁

No need to disable SIP.

danke.

Sorry Duane, one other question. Any reason to run Path Finder and the Finder simultaneously?

So far, so good btw.