I’ve fortunately used MoofMenu from Lobotomo Software program on a collection of Macs since OS X supplanted OS 9 — I preferred MoofMenu’s recursive listings once I first noticed them, and so they stay very helpful. Now I’m tech assist for my accomplice’s new Macs, and I’m challenged.
My accomplice’s first Mac was an iMac M1, now operating macOS 15.6.1 and MoofMenu 1.9. On this machine, MoofMenu runs and behaves accurately, simply because it does on my present three Intel Macs (an iMac operating Monterey and two MacBook Airs operating Large Sur), and did as nicely on many different older Macs (now gone), going again to once I first got here throughout MoofMenu.
The problem is my accomplice’s different new Mac, an M4 MacBook Air 13″, additionally operating macOS 15.6.1 and MoofMenu 1.9. On this machine, I can configure MoofMenu to carry and show the folders whose contents I want MoofMenu to record (that’s, I can drag folders from the Finder into the MoofMenu Configure display screen, and the newly-dragged folders will then seem within the Moof Menu record), however MoofMenu doesn’t thereafter show all of the contents of the newly-dragged folders. As a substitute, MoofMenu shows a shorter model of the dragged-folder’s contents. I feel I first noticed this truncated record once I put in MoofMenu of this MacBook Air, however I’m not positive. What I need, after all, is for MoofMenu to show all of the contents of the folder which I simply dragged to the MoofMenu Configure display screen, in addition to the recursive particulars of no matter is inside that folder.
Restarting the MacBook Air has no impact on MoofMenu’s habits. Likewise, beginning the MacBook Air in Protected Mode additionally has no impact. Trashing MoofMenu, restarting, after which downloading a recent MoofMenu from Lobotomo’s web site once more yields the identical undesirable habits. Apart from this problem, the MacBook Air behaves precisely because it ought to.
I emailed Lobotomo to ask about this, and haven’t acquired a response.
May there be a cache someplace that accommodates this undesirable knowledge, and blocks or overwrites the stuff I wish to see? Is there another manipulation I would carry out to rectify this?