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INSTALLATION

Ensure you use the Apple unzipper to unzip the downloaded FinderPop zip file. Then, if the System Preferences application is running, please

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Double-click the FinderPop.prefpane icon you downloaded. System Preferences will open and ask if you want to install FinderPop for all users or just you.
If you are using 10.7 or later, or are using FileVault, you should choose 'All Users'. Otherwise you can choose either option, and the System will install the FinderPop Preference Pane.
FinderPop may ask you for the admin password in order to set certain permissions on some FinderPop files. This is only done once at installation time.

If you had an older version of FinderPop already installed, you will have to logout to begin using the new version.

USAGE

After installation, open the FinderPop Preferences Pane. Click on the 'Items' tab, then on the 'Show FinderPop Items' button. You'll be switched to the Finder with a folder called 'FinderPop Items' showing.
Add aliases to your favourite apps/folders/disks/documents to this 'FinderPop Items' folder.
Next time you control-click, the items you added will be part of your contextual menu!

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Additionally, click a blank portion of the menubar anytime to have instant access to these items and more. While browsing FinderPop menus, pressing Command-Option will display a 'Get Info' help tag, pressing Cmd-Opt-Control will allow you to move the selected item to the trash, and pressing Command while selecting an item will reveal that item in the Finder. Also, pressing 'i' will immediately show the Finder Info window for the item, 'r' will immediately reveal the item, 'q' will QuickLook it (Leopard only), 'g' will 'grab' or 'pick up' the item and allow you to drag it around (as with all Mac drags, dragging to the menubar and letting go aborts the drag.) Pressing Tab will bring up a 'FinderPop Info' window on the item.

Other features: Command-control-click a folder to get a Contents popup menu. Shift-click an unused portion of the menubar to see a Desktop menu with yourmounted disks and items on your desktop. Command-click an unused portion of themenubar to see aProcesses menu. If Control is down as well, background-only processes will alsobe shown in the Processes menu. Press Command-Option-Control to kill a process.

HELP

Please use the FinderPop Help button in the preference pane; there are many features in FP that are not immediately obvious. I'm working on it :-) The FAQ in the Help is also worth a read. Most UI elements have fairly comprehensive help tags, so just hover the mouse over something if you're not sure. The 2.5 manual is also available online. (Mini Table Of Contents: FinderPop Basics ; Invoking FinderPop ; Navigating FinderPop Menus ; FinderPop's Info Window ; Hints & Tips ; FAQ me! ; Release Notes ; )

There is also the FinderPop Support Forum, where if I can't answer your questions, someone else will!

DOWNLOADS

Download FinderPop 2.5.7. (Universal, 10.4+, 2.1M zip.)
FinderPop contains the following localisations:

• Français by Corentin Cras-Meneur
• Japanese by Osamu Satoh
• Danish by Mogens Thyregod
• German by Hajo Bass
• Swedish by Michael Berglund
• Italian by Mauro Ferreri and Nello Martuscelli

KNOWN PROBLEMS

FinderPop is also known to have difficulty with FileVault-protected home directories. Ifyou use FieVault, install FinderPop for All Users rather than just you. (You should do this anyway if you're using 10.6 or later.)

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Author:	Turlough O'Connor
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FinderPop 1.9.2 (3-December-2000 -- 'Bah Humbug Special Edition')

FinderPop is a control panel that extends Mac OS 8 or 9's contextual menus using a 'FinderPop Items Folder', much as the Apple Menu Items folder does for the Apple menu.

Some people think of FinderPop as a launcher that takes up zero screen real estate, merely a click away on any blank area of menubar. Others see it as a handy filesystem browser, allowing quick and easy access to their files in the Finder, as well as enhancing navigation in the Standard File and Navigation Services dialogs, as well as in 'Path Popups.' Still others see it merely as a means to get a Windows menu in the Finder by option-clicking a blank area of menubar, or an Applications menu by command-clicking a blank menubar area. A few foolhardy souls claim that the 'FinderPoplets' and the 'Set File Type' mechanism are worth a mention. A few more think that control-free popup also works fairly well.

FinderPop also lets you open up the contextual menus without pressing the control key - just click.

Finderpop Replacement

• Top DL: FinderPop 1.9.2 English (archive in .hqx wrapper)
  Via Internet Archive Wayback Machine mirror of old Tucows Software Library
  
• 2nd DL: FinderPop 1.8.9 French (From my personal backups CD's)
  
• 3rd DL: FinderPop 1.9.2 French - StuffIt 5.x 'sit' archive
  Via Internet Archive Wayback Machine mirror of old FinderPop site
  
• 4th DL: FinderPop 1.9.2 German - StuffIt 5.x '.sit' archive in '.bin' wrapper
  Via Internet Archive Wayback Machine mirror of old FinderPop site
  
• 5th DL: FinderPop 1.9.2 Spanish - StuffIt 5.x '.sit' archive
  Via Internet Archive Wayback Machine mirror of old FinderPop site
  
• 6th DL: FinderPop 1.9.2 Italian - archive in .hqx wrapper
  Via the Wayback Machine mirror of the Italian FinderPop page

The Internet Archive's FinderPop site WaybackMachine mirror also has version 1.9.2 (English) as a StuffIt archive (if hqx is not your preference).

For early OS X releases, go to: http://www.finderpop.com/

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See also
Apollo, PopupFolder

Compatibility

Finderpop

Finderpop Mojave

Architecture: PPC