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Getting "Tiger-Style" Folders In Leopard's Dock
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ncmason
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How can I get those old Tiger-style pop-up folders in the new Leopard dock?
Thanks,
Mason
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Baninated
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Depends what you mean by "tiger style"
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Originally Posted by Kevin 
Depends what you mean by "tiger style"
Probably he means those vertical contextual pop-up menus that I also love and couldn't do without. So I reverted to Tiger for the time being. Bad kitty, Leopard, bad!
(Last edited by selowitch; Nov 6, 2007 at 09:31 AM.
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Baninated
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Yeah that needs fixed. I love stacks, but I want the ability to have pop up menus too.
There needs to be an option to make a folder behave like it used to, or like a stack.
Or at least make folders navigable in stacks.
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ncmason
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Thanks for the info, guess I'll just have to wait until someone finds a workaround.
(Last edited by ncmason; Nov 6, 2007 at 03:25 PM.
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Fortunately, somebody *did* find a workaround. Justin Hankwood wrote a software called "OldFolder" that allows you to have hierarchical folders on the dock. You can learn more about the software here:
Justin Hawkwood: Software
For some reason, the download link on his page doesn't work. You can download it here:
OldFolder 1.0.1 software download - Mac OS X - VersionTracker
Since OldFolder is an application, it will appear in the "Application" part of the dock. But it will bring this functionality back.
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Baninated
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Originally Posted by EsperWizard
Fortunately, somebody *did* find a workaround. Justin Hankwood wrote a software called "OldFolder" that allows you to have hierarchical folders on the dock. You can learn more about the software here:
Justin Hawkwood: Software
For some reason, the download link on his page doesn't work. You can download it here:
OldFolder 1.0.1 software download - Mac OS X - VersionTracker
Since OldFolder is an application, it will appear in the "Application" part of the dock. But it will bring this functionality back.
He doesn't go into detail as to how he accomplishes this. I don't want more extension like "hacks" in my system.
Apple just needs to make this an option again. They should have had 3 folder view options. And they could have easily done it.
This is just more of Steve's "Do it my way or no way at all" attitude.
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I don't think it's a hack, it's just an app. And if it restores most of the functionality we lost I'll upgrade to Leopard much sooner than I anticipated.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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I found a really promising little app called Quay that isn't a formal release yet... just a beta that lets you use only one folder. I used it to set my main HD folder as clickable/hierarchal, and it seems to work pretty great. The new style of rounded contextual menus in Leopard actually look a little better for this use than they did in Tiger, funnily enough.
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Originally Posted by Big Mac
I don't think it's a hack, it's just an app. And if it restores most of the functionality we lost I'll upgrade to Leopard much sooner than I anticipated.
Some hacks are apps too. Look at most of Unsanity's stuff. How is it changing the behavior?
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Originally Posted by Kevin
Some hacks are apps too. Look at most of Unsanity's stuff. How is it changing the behavior?
From his description of how the app works on this page, it seems it just loads the specified folder's contents, and then extends the app's right-click dock menu with the contents (it's standard fare for an app to customize this menu while running). No Unsanity-esque code injection or anything of the sort going on here. I've already seen a few apps like this floating around.
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Baninated
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"and then extends the app's right-click dock menu with the contents (it's standard fare for an app to customize this menu while running)."
How are they doing this? \
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Yeah, there's no hacks involved in what OldFolder does. Unfortunately, it only goes about two levels deep, because there seems to be no way to load Dock menus lazily, and if you try to do so, it just recursively builds the entire menu before displaying it (I tried making something similar to OldFolder shortly after Leopard was released, until I ran into this roadblock).
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