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by WorldWideWayne 4115 days ago
I'd bet a month's pay that the hooks are at least there in Explorer to let you do all of those things though.

Apple usually doesn't let you customize anything. That's why I can have things like Tortoise Git/Hg/SVN and Mac users cannot.
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kalleboo 4115 days ago
People have been hooking into the Finder for ages.[0]

And in Yosemite they've started opened up the Finder more with official extensions support.[1]

I don't see how Dropbox can do the things it does in the Finder and you couldn't do Tortoise Git on the Mac. It's just that nobody has done it.

[0] http://totalfinder.binaryage.com

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Genera...

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WorldWideWayne 4115 days ago
Yeah, but in Windows it's usually supported officially (and documented) and you know they won't completely pull the rug out from under you on the next release. Apple on the other hand will break the API without even telling anyone. How could you depend on such a company?

Anyway, talk is cheap - have a look at all of the shell extensions you can build with Windows and compare them to what you can do in OS X: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/cc1...

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