Mystery solved but not problem.

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Phredd 17 Oct 2011, 19:02	Mystery solved but not problem. (Was: Lost Factory Feature) It turns out that the reason Option-dbl-clicking a folder icon wouldn't open that folder and auto-close its parent folder was that I had "Always open in a new window" selected in the Finder Preferences. This is behavior that I cannot live without. Having the contents of a sub-folder open in an existing window borders on insanity. 'Sounds like something a peecee would do. With that preference unchecked, the Option key once again works. And FP can be invoked with the Control key. The trouble is that you can no longer open a folder in a new window without pressing the Command key. Oh, goody. A thousand times a day I have to go to go get the Command key just to get a folder to open in its own window. Not gonna happen. Oddly this bizarre behavior isn't present in Tiger. There you can have the "Always" preference selected and still open folder/close parent with the Option key (unlike having to use Control/Option as you do in Leopard). And, presumably, the Control key is available to invoke FP. Tiger was a vastly superior OS to Leopard. In fact, ever since Apple abandoned the elegant Jaguar OS for the clumsy Panther one, every iteration of OSX has become less Mac and more peecee-like. What are they smoking out in Cupertino? Man, I feel sorry for anyone who is forced to use Lion. Apparently, they feel sorry for themselves, too. Every single letter in the Feedback section of the November MacWorld was a complaint about Lion. Not one word of praise. And, the headline of the Features section is, HOW TO MAKE LION MORE LIKE SNOW LEOPARD." The whole issue is rife with Lion workarounds. So, I’m right back where I started. I can either use a great Ute like FinderPop, or I can have Finder behave the way I want it to. Phredd
RonaldPR 17 Oct 2011, 21:03	Re: Mystery solved but not problem. Do you often use/need the toolbar and/or sidebar in Finder windows? Double-clicking a folder in a window with toolbar and sidebar hidden will always open that folder in a new window, regardless the setting in Finder preferences. It works like that in Snow Leopard and as far as I remember it worked like that in Leopard. I keep toolbar and sidebar hidden in the window for most folders and I have Finder preferences set to not always open folders in a new window.
Phredd 17 Oct 2011, 21:20	Re: Mystery solved but not problem. RonaldPR wrote:Do you often use/need the toolbar and/or sidebar in Finder windows? Double-clicking a folder in a window with toolbar and sidebar hidden will always open that folder in a new window, regardless the setting in Finder preferences. It works like that in Snow Leopard and as far as I remember it worked like that in Leopard. I keep toolbar and sidebar hidden in the window for most folders and I have Finder preferences set to not always open folders in a new window. +++ Good tip, Ron. Unfortunately, I use the Toolbar constantly. I gotta have it on most windows. I sure wish I could collapse that sidebar thing as you could in Tiger, though. It's useless to me. I almost never use it and it just takes up space. Phredd

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Phredd
17 Oct 2011, 19:02

Mystery solved but not problem.
(Was: Lost Factory Feature)

It turns out that the reason Option-dbl-clicking a folder icon wouldn't open that folder and auto-close its parent folder was that I had "Always open in a new window" selected in the Finder Preferences. This is behavior that I cannot live without. Having the contents of a sub-folder open in an existing window borders on insanity. 'Sounds like something a peecee would do.

With that preference unchecked, the Option key once again works. And FP can be invoked with the Control key. The trouble is that you can no longer open a folder in a new window without pressing the Command key. Oh, goody. A thousand times a day I have to go to go get the Command key just to get a folder to open in its own window. Not gonna happen.

Oddly this bizarre behavior isn't present in Tiger. There you can have the "Always" preference selected and still open folder/close parent with the Option key (unlike having to use Control/Option as you do in Leopard). And, presumably, the Control key is available to invoke FP.

Tiger was a vastly superior OS to Leopard. In fact, ever since Apple abandoned the elegant Jaguar OS for the clumsy Panther one, every iteration of OSX has become less Mac and more peecee-like. What are they smoking out in Cupertino? Man, I feel sorry for anyone who is forced to use Lion.

Apparently, they feel sorry for themselves, too. Every single letter in the Feedback section of the November MacWorld was a complaint about Lion. Not one word of praise. And, the headline of the Features section is, HOW TO MAKE LION MORE LIKE SNOW LEOPARD." The whole issue is rife with Lion workarounds.

So, I’m right back where I started. I can either use a great Ute like FinderPop, or I can have Finder behave the way I want it to.

Phredd

RonaldPR
17 Oct 2011, 21:03

Re: Mystery solved but not problem.
Do you often use/need the toolbar and/or sidebar in Finder windows?

Double-clicking a folder in a window with toolbar and sidebar hidden will always open that folder in a new window, regardless the setting in Finder preferences. It works like that in Snow Leopard and as far as I remember it worked like that in Leopard. I keep toolbar and sidebar hidden in the window for most folders and I have Finder preferences set to not always open folders in a new window.

Phredd
17 Oct 2011, 21:20

Re: Mystery solved but not problem.

RonaldPR wrote:Do you often use/need the toolbar and/or sidebar in Finder windows?

Double-clicking a folder in a window with toolbar and sidebar hidden will always open that folder in a new window, regardless the setting in Finder preferences. It works like that in Snow Leopard and as far as I remember it worked like that in Leopard. I keep toolbar and sidebar hidden in the window for most folders and I have Finder preferences set to not always open folders in a new window.

+++ Good tip, Ron. Unfortunately, I use the Toolbar constantly. I gotta have it on most windows.

I sure wish I could collapse that sidebar thing as you could in Tiger, though. It's useless to me. I almost never use it and it just takes up space.

Phredd