Hi, I prefer the column view myself. List view talks too much for me. Most of the time, I don't need to know the date the file or folder was created.
Ricardo Walker [email protected] Twitter:@apple2thecore www.appletothecore.info On Aug 7, 2012, at 9:09 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- 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.
