Hi Alex! I suppose you are using arrows to open the folders! OK when you get to that folder instead of using arrow open with Command+O and you should have only that folder open and not end up somewhere else! hth Colin
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.
