Out of genuine curiosity: What makes this so bad? I’ve been in similar teaching situations myself, and find that Finder in column-view is pretty helpful for helping people learn to navigate their file system. One of the first things I do is drop a link to the root folder in their favourites-menu in Finder, then tell them to try to navigate to whatever they need from there, and open it with “Open with”. Usually, they start understanding the concept of a file system pretty quickly after that.
Edit: The fuckery that is “iCloud trying to trick you into thinking that files on the cloud are actually stored locally” can go fuck itself though. I’ve had way too many cases of people suddenly discovering that they have exactly zero files on their computer, because “Desktop” and “Documents” turned out to be links to iCloud…
Out of genuine curiosity: What makes this so bad? I’ve been in similar teaching situations myself, and find that Finder in column-view is pretty helpful for helping people learn to navigate their file system. One of the first things I do is drop a link to the root folder in their favourites-menu in Finder, then tell them to try to navigate to whatever they need from there, and open it with “Open with”. Usually, they start understanding the concept of a file system pretty quickly after that.
Edit: The fuckery that is “iCloud trying to trick you into thinking that files on the cloud are actually stored locally” can go fuck itself though. I’ve had way too many cases of people suddenly discovering that they have exactly zero files on their computer, because “Desktop” and “Documents” turned out to be links to iCloud…
Yeah, it’s the iCloud-local issue. I swear, almost all of them default to that.
It plays fine with R 90% of the time, but when it borks it takes FOREVER to troubleshoot!