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)
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>>> 
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