Much has happened since our last post. We have received a lot of attention thanks to an interview on MacApper. They are a great team, we hope to work with them again soon. You should keep an eye on their site for upcoming Mac apps and a few ForkLift related surprises…
About ForkLift: WE HAVE TABS! WE HAVE AMAZON S3 SUPPORT! WE HAVE SPRING LOADED FOLDERS! and of course the usual fixes. This is the last beta, and we plan to release the final application in June. As you may have already learned, the price will be $29.95, including minor upgrades. We truly believe it is a good deal. Since every new app needs a lot of attention, we’d really appreciate reviews and feedback.
Although localization seems to be a hot topic, we’ve thought it over and we think we’re not quite ready, yet. We can assure you that it is going to happen, but it will take some time to work out the process.
And the latest and greatest feature, we’re sure you’ve all been waiting for… one, that will change the way you’ll look at the Internet… one we’ve devoted most of out time developing… we have a favicon! (as always, much faster than any other on the market) 
ForkLift – the most advanced file manager and FTP & SFTP client for mac
Finder replacement, FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3, WebDAV, Archives
If you want a french translator, you have one !
tabs + spring-loaded folders rounds out this to be a amazingly functional app. thanks for these!
my only developing irk is having too many favorites and no way to organize them.. being able to group these and open them up with ye olde (>) icon would be perfect. and the one remaining Transmit feature i really use is the DockSend functionality (which opens up a whole can of worms as to how to implement this in ForkLift…)
even so, ForkLift has become the most useful app on the dock in short order.
holy f**k!
So, now I can’t wait to see shiny 1.0 release…
You completely bought my loyalty with new tabs functionality, however I would love to see option to have tabs working on per-pane basis.
My credit card is ready, just give me 1.0…..
Used to be a killer app…… now it is a mass murderer
Great job!
Good work guys, but
Plz, can we remove the beta splash screen ? i open the apps lot’s of time a day, it’s unusuable :/
Some feedback :
- in the toolbar, would be great to add “up” button in the “navigator” menu
I want to tell you once again, good work! this could be a real finder replacement. Fast and usuable.
- in the contextual menu for files/folders the “move to” option would be appreciable
- some improvements to move to parent directory
- some improvements in the sincrony for the two panel (diff,etcet)
thx
Hey, its great build, too!
My credit card also ready to buy!
Some feedback:
- if I can compare files, I am ready to buy!
- synchronize folders (ftp);
- extract archives
being able to diff two files would indeed be very very nice. i often find myself renaming a local file, downloading the remote, and running diff manually in TextMate — automating this would be pretty damn easy.
even better would being able to set up custom commands, which would allow the user to set up FileMerge or diff (w/ whatever output options) or whatever else they wanted (sequential rename, extract archives, etc).
also a simple compare folders (just visually selecting what’s different on left and right) and/or synchronize folders (with some sort of preview of what’s going to happen, options of how to compare, etc) would be useful. not too much bloat, but things you use often in file management.
Yes, navigation buttons for each pane would be great. I’d like to see three, ‘/’ ‘~’ and ‘..’. So root, home and up a directory.
Also an option for right click highlighting would be fantastic for a switcher such as myself!
I’d love to try this app out … it looks to be full of features I’d love to use, but it immediately crashes upon launch on my Core Duo MacBook Pro. I submitted a bug including a crash log. Please fix!
This certainly looks like an awesome Finder replacement. I must say though, if you added Subversion support (like scplugin for finder except not crappy) I would buy it for any cost
Great job anyway, though!
I’ve been looking for an app like ForkLift for ages! Great job guys!
The Amazon S3 support is outstanding.
I support Tom’s request, please add Subversion!
Thanks!
Great job, that’s the only app in the world I am eagerly waiting to pay for!
My wishlist, if I may:
- “copy in new ftp connection” kind of dialog on ftp copy (TC like);
- this one is OSX hell for switchers: when copying a folder onto another folder with the same name, the old content gets erased, while on windows files get amended or overwritten with prompts – now that would be something;
- toolbar buttons to expand/collapse sidebar/info;
- as someone said, optional top row with an “up one level” arrow, especially now with spring loaded action;
- more archive options (password protection, support for more compression types, ie .sit if possible)
Keep up the good work, thanks for all!
We have to admit that one of the most requested feature is the ‘..’ thingy for the file view.
Well, we were not likely to add it but Rafalski just made a point of it.
We will see…(It is not a promise)
First of all, congratulate, it’s the first really usable two-panel app on Mac OS X.
My wishlist:
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- total commander’s alt-f5 (compressed archive transparent handling)
- compare directories (ok, my wife is total commander addict)
- apple scripting for adding functionality
- cvs and subversion support (or possibility to add context sensitive menu items, list columns with special content, buttons, hotkeys, main menu items and connecting functions like this in applescript or any scripting language … or at least provide API to code this plugins
compare directories is needed for me too
apple scripting for adding functionality could be usefull, for building a community extending the software functionality, or adding my functions. i can imaginge using applescript by a button added by the user to the user interface…
This isn’t something I’ve seen anyone comment on. I like the fact that you have the option to “Group Folders.” This is something I’ve wanted in Finder for a while. But, in applications folders it groups both “Folders” and “Applications” together. They appear intermixed. While I understand that applications are technically folders, it would be handy to keep them grouped together. Maybe have them directly under proper “Folders.” Thanks, and I’ll be ready to buy when it comes out.
I found this app by chance looking for something else.
In short it looks very promising. But I do have comments.
Possible bugs/issues:
1. When using relative dates, no account is taken of my international settings. I insist on having a 24 hour clock. The AM/PM thing is a disaster. Forklift shows AM/PM regardless of my settings.
2. Tabs don’t work as for example in Total Commander, where tabs work per pane.
In Forklift tabs operate on a “higher” level.
I don’t know which is better or easier or more functional. I am used to the Total Commander way of doing tabs.
There is an issue with the Forklift way of handling tabs: tabs show the volume name. You can’t see what the tab contains at a glance. So a tab naming facility?
Wishes:
1. please make fonts in file panels configurable. Now they are simply too small. Also sometimes you’ld like a monospace font.
2. selection with spacebar?
3. more zip/archive options: no Mac related stuff.
4. compare directories a la Total Commander
5. synchronise directories a la Total Commander
6. file difference viewer (I now use TextWrangler for that)
7. file renaming a la Total Commander or comparable Mac file renamers
8. in situ rename (Finder/PathFinder/Total Commander)
9. as other have proposed: a .. entry for easy moving up a tree
If I connect a volume (a second hard drive), there is no disconnect sign for disconnection. How to disconnect it? It was not the case when I was connected to another computer or to a pendrive – that time there was a disconnect sign. Why not with the drive outside?
Let me say this is a very good program: especially the FTP/SFTP support is great. for me, BUT… I don’t like the idea that I will have to pay for this. Not that I can’t spare the $30 but I just don’t like the idea of paying for software that I won’t use that much…
So, make it free and I’m a big fan. If you don’t, well, good luck…