How to make a plugin for [Path] Finder to view zip archives as folders?
What really surprises me is the lack of some essential functionality in Finder when one is brought over from Windows to OS X. One of the things is the ability to open the archive as a folder, i.e. stay in the directory tree and be able to drag files from the archive to folders in the tree, in the sidebar, etc.
What would you do to enable these features?
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Path Finder is an awesome shareware application I'm going to use instead of the default Finder (as many Mac users do), so I'm more interested in the Path Finder plugin for browsing archives. There is a package viewer (check the view options), so I believe it is possible to distribute them to archives. There is also an SDK for creating Path Finder plugins. The only question is how to make a plugin so that all struggling people are finally satisfied?
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Using the documented APIs, a better option would be to wrap the filesystem, perhaps fuse-zip with MacFUSE , then link the application to the zip UTI such that it mounts the appropriate filesystem in the Finder. You can trigger unmounting by checking the downloaded files and using Finder's scripting interfaces to monitor open windows.
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Or use Apple's Quick Look and these Quick Look extensions (one of which is'BetterZipQL) https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins#webp
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