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Is there a way to set ForkLift as the default file viewer, to a degree? PathFinder somehow does this, see http://cocoatech.com/faqs#3, but how does it do this and could that option be set to redirect to ForkLift instead of PathFinder?

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Path Finder looks like it's modifying the "NSFileViewer" preference. You can set this manually from Terminal to point to ForkLift (I tried this, and it seems to work):

defaults write -g NSFileViewer -string com.binarynights.ForkLift2

(The -g sets this preference globally for all applications.)

However, be warned that the Path Finder website lists some applications that don't respect this setting, such as the Dock and Firefox.

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The -g flag is equivalent to NSGlobalDomain. It simply writes the preference to the global domain, rather than to a specific domain. – Mathias Bynens Mar 25 '12 at 8:43
Very interesting, thanks! Seems to work well for the applications that do support it! – penguinrob Mar 26 '12 at 12:19
how do I revert to using Finder? – john2x Jun 15 '12 at 8:51
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Try defaults delete -g NSFileViewer. – jtbandes Jun 16 '12 at 2:33

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