Agreed 100% about the cut and paste, that's elementary functionality
that should have never been left out. Guess I forgot to put that one
in my list of annoyances. Still, I love column view and I wish there
was a way in most other file managers to turn off the folders first.
Never did care for that.
What's disk order? I might have to give it a look. Is it a finder
replacement?
On Dec 9, 2008, at 12:55, David Truong wrote:
Hi Jacob,
I don't use the folder treeviews in Windows explorer so I'll take
your word
for it on that one. But in finder there's no easy way to cut and
paste, no
real way to see your folders first and files last or the other way
round
meaning files first and then folders last. No really easy way to
run a
program with a hotkey, instead you have to navigate to an edit field
then
interact then type in your program you want to run etc. I grant it
that
Quick look is sort've handy I guess but more time than not it's a
pain in
the arse and I turn it off. But I praise finder for having that
hotkey to
turn it off and on. Windows explorer has this and more plus it's
list view
is excellent. I don't worry about column view and wouldn't use it
on the
mac if the mac's list view was half way decent. But each to their
own as
they say. That's why I like disk order instead of finder.
David Truong
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Don't know if I'd agree with that, I do like quite a bit about the
finder actually. Like everything, I guess, it's got its quirks though
and certain things about it could certainly use an update. Column view
in and of itself makes the finder far from a joke for me, I'd love to
see something like that in other file managers. Windows explorer sort
of has this, but it's a folder-only treeview and you have to tab back
and fourth between it and the file list, and that to me is a joke. I
also think quicklook is very useful, and I like its uncluttered
interface.
That being said, I hate the fact that it switches back to icon view
sometimes. I hate those dot files it creates in remote folders
(the .DS_Store files can be disabled, but that doesn't help some of
the others it creates). I know what they're for, but it doesn't make
them any less annoying. Its built-in FTP is a crack-up as well, no
upload support? What were they thinking.
I think it's mostly a matter of taste. I like the minimal approach
Finder takes--it's a file manager, and that's all it tries to be. But
sometimes I feel like getting ahold of some of the engineers who
designed Finder and beating their heads against a wall :). It's sort
of a love/hate thing, I guess.
On Dec 9, 2008, at 08:48, David Truong wrote:
The Mac finder is a joke so I'm not surprised.
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Well, Vista does anyway. XP actually handles this very well once
configured properly, it opens all folders in your selected view. This
is what Ars's rant claims Finder does, but on mine it most certainly
doesn't, and that's the problem. I want it to remember to open
everything, and I mean everything, in column view, but disk images
insist on going back to icon mode. At least OS X has a shortcut to
switch the views quickly, unlike Windows, and hitting command+3
when a
disk image opens has pretty much become an automatic habbit I don't
even think about.
On Dec 9, 2008, at 07:00, David Poehlman wrote:
You should see the mess windows makes of this.
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