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Comment on PathSnagger by jon

jon — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:36:02 +0000

@rcfa, I agree 100%. The old mechanism I was using to add it to the contextual menu items was removed with Lion, so I had no choice but to implement it as a service.

Comment on PathSnagger by rcfa

rcfa — Wed, 08 May 2013 04:34:08 +0000

Is there a reason why it’s no longer a Preference pane?

Useful as it is, I still kind of hate the app clutter that recently becomes fashionable; lots of things that used to be preference panes become standalone apps, yet obviously 3rd party preference panes still work, as evidenced by some of the newer ones I have installed.

Just curious if I’m missing something here.

Comment on PathSnagger 2.1 Betas Seeded by jon

jon — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:14:17 +0000

@leif, not sure what that path would look like. Do you have examples?

Comment on PathSnagger 2.1 Betas Seeded by leif

leif — Mon, 06 May 2013 14:08:54 +0000

How do you make a clickable link to someone’s local Google Drive or Dropbox folder (omitting the user account short name)?

Comment on 2.1 Beta Publicly Available by jon

jon — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:07:34 +0000

@Phil, thanks for the feedback.

1. I’d love to make it a system preference, but the old method I was using to create the context menu is no longer available with Lion and Mountain Lion. The service was the official way to perform this task.

2. I’m not sure what you mean by the task bar. Do you mean the menu bar? If you hold down the option key while you are selecting the “Snag Path” menu item, a popup will appear that lets you choose a different translator for that time only, overruling the default. I could probably provide a means to hide the dock icon in favor of a menu bar icon, but you wouldn’t want to remove both; you need to be able to edit the preferences.

3. I absolutely agree with this, and it has always been on the roadmap for the official 2.1 release. I have been unfortunately heavily bogged down with other projects, and have not been able to dedicate the time to this project that it deserves. I apologize for that, but that is why I made the beta available.

Comment on 2.1 Beta Publicly Available by Phil

Phil — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 17:26:25 +0000

I like the new options available through preferences—PathSnagger 2.x is certainly more powerful and flexible that before. But unfortunately, it’s not quite as simple to use. I’d certainly buy this app through the App store, but I would like to see the following refinements:

1) Instead of an App that appears in the dock, this really should be a System Preference pane,

2) Provide an option to have PathSnagger appear in the task bar for quick access to change the default translator. And if it must remain an app rather than a system pref, then at least hide it so it doesn’t show up in the app switcher and dock. I’ve seen other apps pull that off. I appreciate the option to quit the app as soon as it snag the path, but that seems a bit clunky and inefficient.

3) I’d strongly suggest that the four translators previously available by default be preset upon installation. The new config options are great, but most existing users won’t take the time to figure out how to set up their translators to provide the same options they had under prior versions.

PathSnagger is a great utility—I hope you’ll consider some of these suggestions. Thank you.

Comment on 2.1 Beta Publicly Available by Ludwig

Ludwig — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:10:20 +0000

Great Idea I’m on 10.8.3 and would definitly buy this if it worked on my Mac. Will check back for updates

Comment on PathSnagger 2.1 Betas Seeded by jon

jon — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:03:18 +0000

Mark, Alain: I’ve added the link to the ML-compatible version in the sidebar. The one that says “Current Beta Release for OS X 10.7 and Up”.

Comment on PathSnagger 2.1 Betas Seeded by Alain Maygeoz

Alain Maygeoz — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 20:38:03 +0000

Dear Jon
I’m, as many people, working in a PC world company, but my R&D department lunched a trial for using Mac in a Bryng you Own Mac project.
I’m collaborate with my colleagues using PC with Win7 by sharing link on documents.
I’m running OS 10.8.2 (12C3006). It is possible to get a copy of your 2.1 beta or last version of the beta SW for testing in my environment ?
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Alain

Comment on PathSnagger 2.1 Betas Seeded by Mark Saper

Mark Saper — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:16:46 +0000

Jon,

Would it be possible for me to get a copy of the 2.1 beta? I need the option to NOT escape the spaces in the Unix format. OS 10.8.3 doesn’t like backslashes in the “Go to Folder…” command.