Finder 10.0 To 10.2.8
The OS X Finder was not an update of the previous Finder, but was a complete re-write that borrowed concepts from the NeXTSTEP file manager, Workspace Manager. As such, it was a major departure from the original Finder and was poorly received by many longtime Macintosh users. The original OS X Finder was a Carbon application built on top of Metrowerks' PowerPlant framework. It was later rewritten to use the modern HIToolbox framework built into OS X.
OS X 10.0 ("Cheetah") lacked many features found in its Classic predecessor. The universal Desktop was gone, replaced by a Desktop that presented only the contents of the user's own Desktop folder. Support for Labels, and almost any form of metadata, was gone, as were pop up windows, desktop printers, the "Put Away" command and spring-loaded folders. In Finder 10.0 the Trash was also removed from the Desktop and was no longer part of the Finder, having instead been integrated into the system's Dock.
Finder 10.0 also eschewed the classic Finder's "spatial" orientation, in which each location on the hard drive opened in its own window, and only one window, in favor of a NeXTSTEP-style browser system.
Finder 10.0 introduced a customizable toolbar which could be displayed at the top of every Finder window, and the NeXT-derived Column View, which displayed the hierarchy of the file system in a series of left-to-right panes. Users were also able to specify which, if any, of the mounted disks on their system appeared on the Desktop.
OS X 10.1 ("Puma") brought CD burning capability to Finder 10.1. This feature had been added to the classic Mac OS with version 9.1.
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