There is always a better mousetrap for file management on Windows. Several File Explorer alternatives, such as Files, File Pilot, XYplorer (a dual-pane manager), and others, do better than the default ...

If I take an image file and treat it with Pic2Icon, this file now has its own preview as an icon. I can see this icon in the Terminal in the file's resource fork : The file you've got is the resource ...

I was muddling around in Terminal trying to get the "ls" command to print color. I first installed fink and the filetuils packages. I subsequently removed fink, and ...

The fd program is an alternative to find, which can search the file system using various patterns. It has many options to support a wide range of use cases, making it easy to find any type of file, ...

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Windows Terminal is available in Microsoft Store. Hence, if you do not find it on your system, you can install it from there. After installing, you can open, customize and configure Windows Terminal ...

Regarding yesterday's itemnoting that the "ls -l" ls command in Terminal reports a size of 0K for a file that only has a resource fork: Several readers confirmed this, but offered< various solutions: ...

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