Alex, Just a thought on this. How do you open your folders and subfolders generally? I always make sure that my subfolders are collapsed and I always open them with command+down arrow so that I am sure that I am within the folder I want. Therefore, when I start typing the first few letters of a file, I won't ever leave the folder. However, if your subfolder is expanded with right arrow key press, it is possible that you are searching within more than one folder. Voiceover announces to me whether a folder is expanded or collapsed. I'm still on lion though.
Hope this helps. Andrew On 7 Aug 2012, at 02:05, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I was looking through my large media collection to find the songs I have to > practice for Wednesday. I opened the folder they are in and typed the first > couple characters, but was taken to the matching song in a folder a level up > from where I was, which was, of course, the wrong song entirely. I find this > happens a lot: I'm in a folder, but navigating by letter brings me to the > parent folder instead of staying inside the folder in which I want to be. I > don't know why this happens, and maybe there's a setting I can change to stop > it, but it is very frustrating. I prefer the windows way of displaying each > folder's content in it's own view, so you are in that folder and not jumping > around a massive table, never sure just which folder you are really in. Might > there be something I can do to open things in their own views, navigating > back with cmd-leftBracket or a similar keystroke? I hate to bring up Windows, > but I do find Explorer's layout a lot easier to manage than how finder does > things. Thanks. > > > Have a great day, > Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) > [email protected]; http://www.facebook.com/mehgcap > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
