Re: Possible Fix for Busy Finder

2013-11-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi again Alex That's why I out the message in a big hurry. I didn't want you to spend a lot of grief after the message Apple sent me. Now let me offer a suggestion, although it's a pain, for dealing with this. I finally figured this out after I kept copying files and couldn't find them. I had

Re: Possible Fix for Busy Finder

2013-11-14 Thread Alex Hall
Thanks for the tips everyone. No, I only used the arrows to open the subfolders, so that was probably my problem. I still want Column View back, but at least this should help me deal with List View better until then. On Nov 14, 2013, at 5:55 PM, Teresa Cochran wrote: > Oh, that’s a great tip. I

Re: Possible Fix for Busy Finder

2013-11-14 Thread Teresa Cochran
Oh, that’s a great tip. I also just discovered that command-left-bracket will take you back to your previous folder view, with the folder closed. Teresa Slow down; you'll get there faster. On Nov 14, 2013, at 2:34 PM, Red.Falcon wrote: > Hi! > OK just in case did you open the folder with Com

Re: Navigating Listview, was Re: Possible Fix for Busy Finder

2013-11-14 Thread Anne Robertson
Hello Alex, In List view, the right arrow expands the folder you’re on which is confusing. To open the folder you should use either Cmd-Down Arrow or Cmd-o. To go up a level, press Cmd-Up Arrow. You can collapse all the expanded folders in your window by pressing Left Arrow repeatedly. I alwa

Re: Possible Fix for Busy Finder

2013-11-14 Thread Red.Falcon
Hi! OK just in case did you open the folder with Command+O or with the arrows? If with arrows you might find the items pasted like it did for you! But with Command+O that should open that folder and be the only place you can paste into! HTH Colin On 14 Nov 2013, at 22:23, Alex Hall wrote: > Tha

Re: Possible Fix for Busy Finder

2013-11-14 Thread Alex Hall
That's the thing, I did that. I wanted to paste into /applications/audacity/plugins, so I opened the plugins folder and pasted. My files ended up in /applications, mixed in with all my .app files. On Nov 14, 2013, at 5:18 PM, Phil Halton wrote: > don't forget that pasting is different in list v

Re: Navigating Listview, was Re: Possible Fix for Busy Finder

2013-11-14 Thread Alex Hall
I haven't worked that out, but I do not find arrow navigation to work as well. Sometimes folders refuse to open or close entirely, and even if a folder does close, I have to press the left arrow two or three times to get that to happen. Ialso don't like how VO will keep reading, and worse, searc

Re: Possible Fix for Busy Finder

2013-11-14 Thread Phil Halton
don't forget that pasting is different in list view than in column view. In column view, you can just highlight the folder you want to paste into and hit command v. In list view, you have to first open the folder. A good way to make sure you're on the right destination folder is to check what fo

Navigating Listview, was Re: Possible Fix for Busy Finder

2013-11-14 Thread Teresa Cochran
Where in the folder structure do you go in list view to copy and paste? I understand that you have to be inside a folder. I’m actually getting used to list view now, and the arrow keys work the same way as in column view. Teresa "Everything is interesting if you go into it deeply enough."--Rich

Re: Possible Fix for Busy Finder

2013-11-14 Thread Alex Hall
The only other view that seems usable is List View. I tried it today, though, when I was copying 36 files from one folder to another. Despite VO telling me I was two levels deep into a folder, I ended up pasting those files into the top-level folder and had to go erase them all from there, then

Re: Possible Fix for Busy Finder

2013-11-14 Thread Michael Marshall
hey, good fix but sadly with VO and column view still no go i’m afrade. On 15 Nov 2013, at 1:35 am, Alex Hall wrote: > Hi all, > I was checking my Twitter feed today, when I came across a link that I think > might help. It is a way to basically reset finder so that it no longer > consumes so mu

Re: Possible Fix for Busy Finder

2013-11-14 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys Below is what I received from Apple Accessibility concerning this issue. I had written in about this because it was driving me crayy. I have a lot of files on my Mac, and if I do the wrong thing then I have to deal. I know what I can do to work around it, but I just had a frustrating tim

Possible Fix for Busy Finder

2013-11-14 Thread Alex Hall
Hi all, I was checking my Twitter feed today, when I came across a link that I think might help. It is a way to basically reset finder so that it no longer consumes so much CPU. I have not tested it yet, I have a feeling this might help with the problem that a lot of us are experiencing where Fi