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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Jurgensen Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2008 10:57 AM To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by theblind Subject: Re: Finder problems. Pleaze help! Hi, You can assign a keyboard shortcut for launching a program. Thanks for listening, Alex, On 9-Dec-08, at 9:55 AM, 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 > > EMail and Messenger: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Skype: blindboxer1967 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacob Schmude > Sent: Wednesday, 10 December 2008 1:07 AM > To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS > X by > theblind > Subject: Re: Finder problems. Pleaze help! > > 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. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jacob >> Schmude >> Sent: Tuesday, 9 December 2008 10:07 PM >> To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS >> X by >> theblind >> Subject: Re: Finder problems. Pleaze help! >> >> 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. >>> >>> >> >> The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a >> thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot >> possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to >> get at or repair. >> --Douglas Adams >> >> >> > > The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a > thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot > possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to > get at or repair. > --Douglas Adams > > >
