<<PopupFolder should come with a big red warning. DO NOT GO NEAR IT if you

have any intention of ever working with any later system (i.e. 8.0

onwards). A couple of hours' use and you will never be able to go back to

believing that the MacOS Finder is a good piece of interface design. For

those who don't know it, what PopupFolder principally does, among many

other features (some of them, like the Click, There It Is! functionality,

undocumented) is to give you instant hierarchical pop-up menus off every

volume or folder icon anywhere in the interface: in windows, on the

desktop, in open & save dialogues (which it also enlarges to a sensible

size), in the Apple menu (obviously), and in a number of entirely new

places for good measure.


Once you get used to navigating your disks in this way, that's it. You'll

do ANYTHING to avoid having to upgrade to those dumb, clunky later systems

in which PopupFolder no longer works and you have to try and muddle along

with springloaded folders (gah), disk aliases in the Apple menu, Now Menus,

or at best BeHierarchic with the CMM plugin - none of which comes remotely

close to the ease, elegance, and bleeding obviousness of PopupFolder's

functionality, which in any sensible directory-navigation system would be

built-in. You will spend your life trying to live within 7.6.1, and

choosing your hardware upgrades accordingly, just so that you can continue

to use the one truly, fatally indispensable Finder add-on ever devised.

Don't go there, people. Trust one who's been there, and can't get out.>>

Yes, Popup Folder is very cool.  Unfortunately, when installed(at least with 
7.6.1 on a PowerCenter 150) it disables, for some reason, an even more 
indispensable app for me:  NetPrint(which saves/appends selected text from 
docs, websites, etc.).   You can get nice hierarchical menus with Aladdin's 
DragStrip, BTW, if you put folder aliases into its strips.

Saul Broudy


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