I downloaded an old website forum archive and it took hours to extract the zip into a folder. But now that it’s extracted, finder is stuck on loading forever. I’m guessing this is because of the massive amount of files. From what I could recall while it was being extracted, most of these were PHP files. How do I smoothly browse this without my MacBook crying in pain
Terminal. ls for starters. You could do
ls -al {path to folder} > folder_contents.txt
Replace {path to folder} with the directory’s path. I like to drag and drop the folder from terminal into finder.
This will create a text file folder_contents.txt which you can open with a file editor to view the names of all files in that directory. Or if you don’t mind using the terminal to browse the text file I recommend less. Hope that helps!