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Annoying Column View Behavior
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Apr 6, 2004, 05:04 PM
 
So this apparently has been an issue since 10.0, and I'm just now getting pissed off enough to come in here and bitch about it.

I use Column View almost exclusively. I love it. The problem is with the initial opening of a Finder window in Column View after a reboot or login. In the first Finder window I open, while the window itself is the right size and in the right location, the columns are all default size. The solution to this has always been, open new Finder window (don't navigate anywhere), close Finder window, open another Finder window and you're all set.

Three words: WHAT... THE... FU�K??

Is it just me, or has Apple completely missed this bug? I mean come on! How hard could it be to fix this? Why is this still here? Am I in the minority here by using Column View? Is there a 3rd party fix to this? Can someone (this means YOU Apple!) stop the insanity??

Ugh. I usually don't bitch about this sort of stuff, but for some reason it's really chappin' my hide today!

     
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Apr 6, 2004, 05:54 PM
 
If you leave the window open when you log out, doesn't it reappear exactly as you left it when you log back in? I swear mine does...
     
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Apr 6, 2004, 06:05 PM
 
Originally posted by AKcrab:
If you leave the window open when you log out, doesn't it reappear exactly as you left it when you log back in? I swear mine does...
The window comes back for me (since I left it open); however, my column sizes are different still...
     
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Apr 6, 2004, 06:25 PM
 
I would like to put out the plea for some smart young programmer to come up with a nice fix for this issue, since Apple has decided that it doesn't exist. Maybe something as simple as an AppleScript that launches at start up/login that opens a Finder window and then closes it. Something more elegant and out of the way would be nicer, but I'll take anything.

(Yeah, I know that opening a Finder window and closing it myself is as easy as blinking, but this is one of those pet peeve things that I just can't deal with.)
     
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Apr 7, 2004, 10:18 AM
 
You are not alone, yes it has been there since 10.0, yes it is amazingly annoying and yes Apple should have fixed this years ago...
     
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Apr 7, 2004, 01:09 PM
 
The X Finder is evil. The code gnomes are having their way with us! Revolt!

Try PathFinder from CocoaTech.
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Apr 7, 2004, 03:10 PM
 
Yeah, I've been a little annoyed by this since I started using OS X too. Well, at least the Finder window can remember it's size and position (even if you do still have to use a trick to get it to do that , although that "feature" can be nice at times).
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Apr 7, 2004, 05:18 PM
 
Yeah, the Finder window size / position thing can be annoying. I've got no idea why the default attributes for those are what they are - it's not quite centred on screen and it's too wide for 4 icons, too narrow for 5 (I mainly use icon view).

I think the best thing would be to have a true 'global' setting for size and position - at least for the brushed metal browser view. Centred horizontally at the top of the screen with the sidebar showing just icons and the window just wide enough to fit 4 across. This is how I have it currently, except that I have to set that for EVERY window, and that's an awful lot!

Then there is the question of why you can't use cmd-~ to switch between finder windows when dragging / copying files. Thankfully Expos� works for that but it would be easier the other way!

As for column view, I've never gotten into it, one of the reasons being the difficulty in saving settings. For similar reasons, I'm glad we have the option in open / save dialogues now as well.
     
   
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