Re:What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to ...
by GHFigs on Sunday June 14, 2009 @02:29PM
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1 & 2 are both in Leopard. Apple ditched the weird Spotlight results window in equally weird but more functional views in Finder windows. 4 is in Snow Leopard.
Re:What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to ...
by miles on Sunday June 14, 2009 @03:11PM
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"1 & 2 are both in Leopard"
Sorry about that - you're right about the deleting and copying in Leopard. As with the Finder in general, files cannot be cut/moved, and renaming is not available from the Context Menu or by pressing Enter (though it is available by clicking the file names).
As for #2 ("In Folder" or "Location" column in Spotlight results), can you please tell me how to display such a column?
Four things OS X can learn from Windows 95 http://www.tinyapps.org/weblog/mac/200703210700_four_things_...
You would think that after all these years, Apple would have copied these simple yet essential abilities from Windows 95:
1. In Spotlight's search result window, files should be able to be deleted, copied, moved, renamed, etc.
2. Spotlight should offer an "In Folder" or "Location" column rather than forcing the user to press the tiny "i" symbol for each result.
3. The Trash should have two more columns: "Date Deleted" and "Original Location".
4. The context menu in the Trash should offer a "Restore" option to return files to their original location. This is especially useful in putting back the 20 or 30 files from 10 different locations that Adobe asked you to remove and then realized they shouldn't have.