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Photo678 · Jun 4, 2004, 12:39 PM

If you have a finder window off the screen a little bit, and you select and slightly drag file in that window, the window floats fully on to screen, and floats back off screen when you let go.

Kind of another aspect of spring loaded folders, but kind of neat nonetheless.

Sorry if this has been known, but its new to me.

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gorickey · Jun 4, 2004, 12:42 PM

Yep, it's another one of those "never will help me in particular; however, cool none the less" features...

chris v · Jun 4, 2004, 01:52 PM

It can actually be a real pain in the neck if it starts it's slinding around right as you drop a file, and as a result, you drop it in the wrong column. I personally wish there was some way to turn it off.

CV

Horsepoo!!! · Jun 4, 2004, 04:18 PM

I agree with chris_v...so far that feature has just been a pain in the arse for me. Apple has to make it little more intuitive. Right now it just slides at the worst possible time.

moonmonkey · Jun 5, 2004, 01:13 AM

Originally posted by chris v:
It can actually be a real pain in the neck if it starts it's slinding around right as you drop a file, and as a result, you drop it in the wrong column. I personally wish there was some way to turn it off.

CV

Yeh, it does my head in, especially when dropping loads of files.

Perhaps 10.4 will do something with expose which fixes this.

schuey100 · Jun 5, 2004, 08:09 AM

Originally posted by Horsepoo!!!:
I agree with chris_v...so far that feature has just been a pain in the arse for me. Apple has to make it little more intuitive. Right now it just slides at the worst possible time.

I hate it too. Grrr

digiology2 · Jun 5, 2004, 07:44 PM

Snazzy....
I think its cool, the column view might have some problems but thats why we have 'undo'

Groovy · Jun 5, 2004, 09:34 PM

Originally posted by schuey100:
I hate it too. Grrr

turn it off. I think i saw the how to on

http://www.macosxhints.com/

I turned that off a long time ago so I may have read the tip on another site.
I just tried it now and it is still off after the 10.3.4 combo update so it should
be in a plist some where.

MacDog · Jun 6, 2004, 01:32 PM

A nifty feature that desperately needs an On/Off switch if you ask me.

I mean, most people who position a window mostly off the screen, WANT IT THAT WAY FOR A REASON!

SKP909 · Jun 6, 2004, 07:04 PM

lol, yeah true.,,,
I do anyway.

madmacgames · Jun 6, 2004, 08:19 PM

Originally posted by gorickey:
Yep, it's another one of those "never will help me in particular; however, cool none the less" features...

hello jackass. It is helpful for those of us with smaller screens, like a 12" where we sometimes push things off screen some.

mitchell_pgh · Jun 6, 2004, 08:31 PM

Originally posted by MacDog:
A nifty feature that desperately needs an On/Off switch if you ask me.

I mean, most people who position a window mostly off the screen, WANT IT THAT WAY FOR A REASON!

I don't think it's that extreme. Interesting yes, worthy of a special fix... I would say no...

mudzilla · Jun 7, 2004, 01:28 PM

Originally posted by madmacgames:
hello jackass. It is helpful for those of us with smaller screens, like a 12" where we sometimes push things off screen some.

1) he's not a jackass for expressing an opinion

and

2) I have a 12" iBook and i find the feature to be a pain in the ass.

madmacgames · Jun 7, 2004, 02:01 PM

Originally posted by mudzilla:
2) I have a 12" iBook and i find the feature to be a pain in the ass.

so don't use it. It's not that hard not to. The feature only activates if you pause over the window for a few seconds. If you just drop something in or move over the window while dragging something, it does not activate.

chris v · Jun 7, 2004, 02:46 PM

Originally posted by madmacgames:
hello jackass. It is helpful for those of us with smaller screens, like a 12" where we sometimes push things off screen some.

I'm sorry, but you're the jackass here. Get out.

CV

absmiths · Jun 7, 2004, 03:58 PM

Originally posted by chris v:
I'm sorry, but you're the jackass here. Get out.

CV

Maybe if we got some pitchforks and lit a bonfire we could scare him out . . .

mitchell_pgh · Jun 7, 2004, 11:45 PM

Originally posted by madmacgames:
hello jackass. It is helpful for those of us with smaller screens, like a 12" where we sometimes push things off screen some.

totally uncalled for...

CharlesS · Jun 8, 2004, 12:34 AM

Originally posted by madmacgames:
hello jackass. It is helpful for those of us with smaller screens, like a 12" where we sometimes push things off screen some.

madmacgames · Jun 8, 2004, 10:56 AM

looks like we're all jackasses

kman42 · Jun 8, 2004, 11:06 AM

I think it's a great feature. Perhaps if it activated faster? If there was no delay, then you wouldn't be tempted to drop files just as it starts sliding. Seems to me that it would be a problem if the window slid on screen as soon as you dragged over it and then slid off when you drop the files.

kman

Ghoser777 · Jun 8, 2004, 11:41 AM

gorickey is a democrat?

Matt Fahrenbacher

turtle777 · Jun 8, 2004, 01:18 PM

Originally posted by madmacgames:
looks like we're all jackasses

No, I'm not.
So WTF are you calling ME one ?

-t

Synotic · Jun 9, 2004, 07:28 PM

FWIW, I don't use column view, so I personally find it pretty useful.

Lancer409 · Jun 20, 2004, 09:44 PM

neat...

RooneyX · Jun 21, 2004, 01:35 AM

Originally posted by Synotic:
FWIW, I don't use column view, so I personally find it pretty useful.

Column view is the biggest revolution in computing since the keyboard....pardon me I've been drinking while fasting (which translates to my car got stolen and therefore I don't have cash for food right now because the nearest Citibank ATM is 15 blocks away).