The Empty New File is a Finder Extension which allows to create an empty new file via contextual menu on macOS.

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The Empty New File is a Finder Extension which allows to create an empty new file. It could be called by right-clicking on selected folders or files and selecting New File from the contextual menu.

Sometimes I just want to create a new file through the context menu as in Windows.

This GIF demonstrates how the Empty New File allows quite simple to create an empty new file in the current directory.

This PIC demonstrates how the Empty New File allows to select files extensions for the creating an empty new file.

• Create an empty new file in a several clicks via the context menu.

• For more information on an upcoming development, please read the todo list.

• For more information on releases, features and changes, please read the changelog notes.

These instructions allow to get a copy of this project and run it on a local machine.

Before using it, make sure that follows software are installed on the local machine:

• OS X 10.10+ - the operating system under which the extention is executing.

If any of the listed programs is not installed, then it can be installed by instruction as described below.

1. OS X 10.10+

   • Install macOS 10.10+ by this instruction.

In order to install it is quite simple to:

1. Download executable file from releases (or compile it from the sources).

2. Go to the directory where you download this tool (optionally):

   • via Finder.
   • via Terminal prompt.

   cd /{path to parent dir with this tool}/

3. Launch the tool in macOS (optionally):

   • via double-click on empty-new-file.app.
   • via Terminal prompt.

   open empty-new-file.app

4. Open up System Preferences > Extensions and enable the empty-new-file-menu.

Otherwise, it's possible to install and remove the extention using the actual extension bundled into the app.

1. To install and approve the extension, run this:

pluginkit -a empty-new-file.app/Contents/PlugIns/empty-new-file-menu.appex/

2. To remove it, run this:

pluginkit -r empty-new-file.app/Contents/PlugIns/empty-new-file-menu.appex/

For the downloading executable file or sources to a local machine, just use the follows link and choose a required release:

https://github.com/ololx/empty-new-file/releases/

For the cloning this repository to a local machine, just use the follows link:

https://github.com/ololx/empty-new-file.git

• Xcode - the IDE for the Finder Sync Extension development.

If you want to contribute this project - you are welcome and have fun. Please visit the contributing section for details on this code of conduct, and the process for submitting pull requests.

In order to ensure that all is welcoming, please review and abide by the code of conduct.

For the versioning is used Semantic Versioning. For the versions available, see the changelog or the tags on this repository.

• Alexander A. Kropotin - Initial work - ololx.

This project is licensed under the MIT license - see the lisence document for details.