[dice]

I just discovered that it is possible to drag anything that you want into the toolbar at the top of the folders.

It is possible for it to kinda become a second "dock" for apps and so on... and it is also possible to add the trash to the toolbar: open the trash folder and click and hold the small trash icon at the top of the window until it darkens, then simply drag into the toolbar!!!



btw I am using 10.1.5

[Telusman]

Ive used the finder toolbars for ages, for a wide variety of things including launching apps and stuff, but what nifty thing I noted was the ability to drop any picture from an IE window into the toolbar, I was taken aback when i accidentally dropped an picture from a webpage into my IE Toolbar and it stuck there as a clickable thumbnail.

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[seb2]

if you have a folder in there, it'll even spring open under 10.2 if you drag something over it...

[KidRed]

Yea, the trash thing is old, however it's broken for me. I had the trash can up there and after installing Jag it messed up the icon placement and would not display the "trash" text. So I deleted it and now i can't seem to put it back on the tool bar.

[chris v]

Originally posted by KidRed:
Yea, the trash thing is old, however it's broken for me. I had the trash can up there and after installing Jag it messed up the icon placement and would not display the "trash" text. So I deleted it and now i can't seem to put it back on the tool bar.

I hadn't noticed that because I keep my toolbar on icon only, but it's messed up here, too, if I set it to icon & text. I'm afraid to drag it out, as it would suck to not have trash in the toolbar. I never drag files all the way to the dock anymore, since I put the trash on the toolbar.

Definitely cool about the springloaded folders in the toolbar. I keep my main Files folder there, and that'll come in handy.

CV

[jrafter]

Originally posted by chris v:


I hadn't noticed that because I keep my toolbar on icon only, but it's messed up here, too, if I set it to icon & text. I'm afraid to drag it out, as it would suck to not have trash in the toolbar. I never drag files all the way to the dock anymore, since I put the trash on the toolbar.

Definitely cool about the springloaded folders in the toolbar. I keep my main Files folder there, and that'll come in handy.

CV

Why not put the Delete icon in the toolbar instead of the trash icon?

[ryju]

Because maybe you want to access the contents of your trash can from a single finder window.

[ret]

Originally posted by ryju:
Because maybe you want to access the contents of your trash can from a single finder window.

So make it a Favourite I'm getting this mental image of Oscar the Grouch here, "Oh I Love Trash"...

Seriously though, how often do you really need to access the trash contents that you can't do it from the dock? At least that works properly, unlike all the haxie "ln -s .Trashes" work-arounds that I've read. Personally, I like the delete button on the toolbar, although the jury's out on the camera noise it makes in Jaguar...

Anyway, the other thing that the customizable toolbar is really good for is for drag-n-drop apps like Pic2Icon and LineBreak, where you want to perform basic "no questions asked" operations on file(s)/folder(s).

Just my 2c

RET

[yuriwho]

just 'apple-delete'

to send a file selection to the trash

and 'shift-apple-delete' to empty the trash


Y

[Axel]

Originally posted by KidRed:
Yea, the trash thing is old, however it's broken for me. I had the trash can up there and after installing Jag it messed up the icon placement and would not display the "trash" text. So I deleted it and now i can't seem to put it back on the tool bar.

check that hint on macosxhints.com

[Amorya]

Originally posted by ret:


So make it a Favourite I'm getting this mental image of Oscar the Grouch here, "Oh I Love Trash"...

Anyone remember the old extension for System 7 that made Oscar pop out of your wastebasket when you emptied it, and sing his song?

Amorya

[chris v]

Originally posted by ret:


So make it a Favourite I'm getting this mental image of Oscar the Grouch here, "Oh I Love Trash"...

Seriously though, how often do you really need to access the trash contents that you can't do it from the dock? At least that works properly, unlike all the haxie "ln -s .Trashes" work-arounds that I've read. Personally, I like the delete button on the toolbar, although the jury's out on the camera noise it makes in Jaguar...

Anyway, the other thing that the customizable toolbar is really good for is for drag-n-drop apps like Pic2Icon and LineBreak, where you want to perform basic "no questions asked" operations on file(s)/folder(s).

Just my 2c

RET

The new trash noise is definitely not very trash-like. As far as the icon, I don't like a lot of unnecessary color, so the grey trash icon is more appealing to me than the bright red circle-slash.

Hey, Steve Jobs likes to have options. I like to have options, too. The thing I love most about the Mac OS is how many different ways there are to do essentially the same thing. Chooses the one that suits your style best.

CV

[TonyRado]

Originally posted by Amorya:
Anyone remember the old extension for System 7 that made Oscar pop out of your wastebasket when you emptied it, and sing his song?
Amorya

I soooo want that back!!!

[snerdini]

Originally posted by Amorya:


Anyone remember the old extension for System 7 that made Oscar pop out of your wastebasket when you emptied it, and sing his song?

Amorya

YES! sniff, sniff...memories...

[Millennium]

Originally posted by Amorya:
Anyone remember the old extension for System 7 that made Oscar pop out of your wastebasket when you emptied it, and sing his song?

The Grouch was, hands down, one of the most useless but uber-cool hacks of all time.

The extension, sad to say, never worked properly with OS8, much less any later operating system. But there was a second version, made by the author at the request of parents who were tired of having their kids trash important stuff just to hear Oscar singing his song. This was just an application with five Trash cans; you'd click on one and Oscar would pop out. This one probably still worked up through OS9.

Unfortunately, I don't think a Haxie for OSX to do this would be wise. Not just because of the problems of drawing on (over?) the Dock and keeping Oscar in the proper position. The real problem is that a wireframe trash can just isn't Oscar's style, you know?

Besides, last I checked Children's Television Workshop (the producers of Sesame Street) got mad at the guy who made it. Copyright issues and all that.

[KidRed]

Originally posted by Axel:


check that hint on macosxhints.com

Well, I did have my icon up there after updating but I got the error message that .trash was already in use.

I may try the delete icon but thats not as cool. Damn Apple.

[pdot]

the trash folder in the toolbar also works well as an eject. this can potentially replace both the delete & eject buttons.

[sambeau]

I have to admit that it was a while before I realised that you could drop files onto the folders in the toolbar.

This makes installing apps so much easier - just drag them to the 'A'..

God, I love Macs!

[Jim Paradise]

Originally posted by Amorya:


Anyone remember the old extension for System 7 that made Oscar pop out of your wastebasket when you emptied it, and sing his song?

Amorya

Do I ever!! I loved that so much as a kid!

"Oh I lovvvvve trash!"
"I love it because it's trash!"

[Jim Paradise]

Originally posted by TonyRado:


I soooo want that back!!!

Me too!! ^_^