Thanks all. Yes, I use right arrow to open, but I'll try cmd-o (or cmd-down, as I think it does the same thing) from now on and see if that makes a difference. I'll also play with the different views to see if one works better. On Aug 7, 2012, at 5:24 AM, William Windels <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, Alex and others, > I simply use column view as my default view. > With that view, I press (vo)right arrow to open a folder and (vo)left to > close. > When I open/close folders on that way, only the contents of that folder is > available. > Whhen I want more details of a file/folder, , I switch to the list view with > command+2 and back to column view with command+3. > > Hope this helps, > > kind regards, > William Windels > > Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPad > > Op 7-aug.-2012 om 09:20 heeft "Red.Falcon" <[email protected]> > het volgende geschreven: > >> 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. > > > -- > 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. 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.
