How to revert back the Finder replacement

[revoltedlogo]

I got PF awhile ago, and thoght that it would be great, so i did the full finder replacement with the terminal command, and edited some plist. but now I feel that it is slowing my ibook down, and sucking to much power so I would like to revert back to regular finder, Does anyone know the commands to do so. Thank you

[neilio]

Can you give us more information? How is it "sucking too much power"? If you open the Activity Monitor do you see Path Finder using up CPU?

[revoltedlogo]

Running on my battery, right after I installed PF, i found that my battery would not last nearly as long, instead of the 5 hours i coud streach it to i would be lucky to get to 3. So if you can just let me know exactly how to pull it out of the default finder application i would appreciate it.

[bill]

First off, how did you replace the Finder? There's two ways I know to do so. The first method involves physically replacing the Finder with Path Finder, and the second just tells your system to look at Path Finder whenever a Finder call is made.

First method is to remove the Finder from /System/Library/CoreServices. This is done by deleting it (not recommended!), renaming it to something like Finder.app.backup, or moving it somewhere else, like /Applications. Second step in this process is to move or copy Path Finder into CoreServices and renaming it Finder.app.

The fix here is to remove Path Finder from CoreServices and move Finder back in/renaming it to Finder.app.

The second method (which sounds more like what you did) is to tell the system "This isn't the application you're looking for" when it calls the Finder. There are two changes made.

The first involves a change to Path Finder. Quit Path Finder, then right-click on Path Finder & select "Show Contents." Open PkgInfo and changd APPLFNdr to FNDRMACS. Save, close & restart Path Finder.

There are two ways to carry out the second change. One way is via Terminal, and the other is by editing a plist.

Terminal method:
defaults write com.apple.loginwindow path/to/Path\ Finder.app
(path/to/Path\ Finder.app is, of course, the file path to wherever you've put Path Finder.)

The other method involves editing /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist. Open it and add these two lines:
<key>Finder</key>
<string>/path/to/Path Finder .app</string>

Log out and back in.

To reverse the Terminal method:
defaults write com.apple.loginwindow /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app
(I'm not exactly sure about this one, but it should work)

To reverse the plist edit method:
open the plist again and remove the two lines shown above.

Log out and back in.

[revoltedlogo]

Thank you for the assistance, I greatly appreciate it.

[maleko]

actually you do not need to do the
defualts write com.apple.loginwindow Finder

instead to restore the finder just type
defaults delete com.apple.loginwindow Finder