Backdrop Folders 1.3.4 review

Backdrop Folders is an addition to the Finder, that was designed to take advantage of Mac OS X 10.

License: Shareware OS: Mac OS X File size: 235K Developer: La Chose Interactive Buy Now Price: $18.00 Updated: 04 Jul 2006

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Backdrop Folders is an addition to the Finder, that was designed to take advantage of Mac OS X 10.3 "Expose" feature.

You probably noticed, for a given kind of work, that you had to go to the same places with the Finder, again and again.

With Backdrop Folders, you can open "views" of your folders at the desktop level and interact with them.

These views remain visible when you reveal the desktop with Expose, which allows you to pick a file or to do a drag and drop operation in no time, without the hassle of having to switch to the Finder and navigate through your disk hierarchy.

Here are some key features of "Backdrop Folders":
workspaces
drag & drop
auto-resizing
fully customizable views :
display/hide hidden files
transparency, colors
icon size, text size
auto-resize
supports Panther's "kernel event notification mechanism" : the views are directly notified by the kernel when a file is created/moved/renamed/deleted. In other words, if you create a file from the Terminal, the view will be in sync immediately.

What's New:
New button to go up a level.
Changed the close button to a disc.