Hi, To make column View your Default, open a window in the finder (like Macintosh HD), press cmd-3 to make sure you're in column View, press cmd-j to bring up the View options and check the box to always open in Column View.
Another way to attack this is to set your Finder to always open folders in a new window. go to the Desktop, press cmd-comma to bring up the Finder Preferences and check the box to have the Finder always open folders in a new window. Years ago this used to be the default but it was changed a couple of cats ago. Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On 2012-08-07, at 8:18 AM, Alex Hall <[email protected]> wrote: > I just did a quick test. In column view (cmd-3), you can still right arrow on > a folder to open it, and left arrow to close it, but typing letters searches > that folder first, which list view seems not to do. Also, you have to left > arrow a few times to close in list view, but column view you only need to do > it once. I almost never care about additional file info, and if I need it I > have cmd-i, so I think column view will be my default from now on as it seems > to work better. That said, how do I set it to be my default, or will it > remember my preference once I hit cmd-3? > On Aug 7, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Ricardo Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > > > 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. 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