File & Disk Management   Alfred (Professional)

Alfred (Professional)

Mac OS X can be extended and customized in many ways by adding various components like fonts, screen savers, contextual menu modules, preference panes, quicktime components... and many others. Those components, known as plug-ins or add-ons, are only files stored at specific locations on your disk.

The same principle existed in Mac OS 9 and things were rather simple. All files were going in a few subfolders of the system folder and Mac OS 9's Finder was even able to automatically dispatch them to the appropriate locations.

Mac OS X's organization has become cleaner, but also much more complicated. Plenty of folders are dedicated to this storage, and most of the time, multiple locations are available for a given kind of plug-ins. Moreover, Finder's dispatch functionality has gone and Mac OS X really provides no help: users have to know the numerous locations and have to figure them out by themselves.

But users often don't know and don't want to care about this these details. They ask for something as simple as possible, and, in an easy to use environment, they shouldn't have to know. Alfred aims to bring a solution to this problem and bring simplicity back again.

Alfred is an easy to use, customizable, universal plug-ins manager. Inspired from Mac OS 9's Finder and Extensions Manager, taking care of Mac OS X specificities, it covers every aspect of plug-in management and improves overall user experience to install, remove and manipulate any kind of plug-ins (system ones as well as applications ones).

Alfred hides the unintuitive disk organization and provides a dedicated user interface. Taking advantage of its built-in rules, it can natively take care of the most common plug-ins. But the rules may also be customized so that missing and future needs can be covered too, allowing advanced users to efficiently tidy all of their files.

Alfred is the companion of any user who doesn't want to waste time.

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Julien Dufour