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by: Craig Echt
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Stacks' fan-view not showing filenames?
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Mar 20, 2008 5:49 PM
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This has been going on since I first got Leopard:
I have my Downloads-stack/folder set to the fan-view (no particular reason, it jsut looks spiffy), but sooner or later the filenames stop showing up. First it's only some of them, but before long it's all of them.
It's obviously got something to do with the contents of the Downloads folder changing, but I can't really see a pattern.
I've attached a snap of the weirdness in question. I figured it was a common bug, but I haven't been able to find it mentioned anywhere.
Any ideas, besides doing a "sudo killall Dock" or a logout every once in a while?
The system's up to date except for the most recent Sec. Update (the one with the SSH issues), but this has been going on since I got the new Mac Pro with (I believe) 10.5.1 pre-installed.
8-core 3.0 GHz Mac Pro
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Re: Stacks' fan-view not showing filenames?
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Mar 20, 2008 6:50 PM
in response to: drdoe
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Do they show up when you click on them, or in the stack view?
Ray
MacBook 2GB, 250 drive, Black W/Lacie 160 external
Mac OS X (10.5.2)
iMac 4GB Memory, 750 GB Drive, 10.4.11, iPod shuffle
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Re: Stacks' fan-view not showing filenames?
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Mar 20, 2008 7:19 PM
in response to: smithrj
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Ray: Do they show up when you click on them ...
Depends on what you mean. Clicking an icon opens something just fine, but of course I can't tell what I'm clicking. And it doens't make the filename appear.
Ray (cont'd): ... or in the stack view?
Don't know. I've just restarted the Dock, so right now everything shows up fine. I'll try switching it to show as a stack "icon" and see if the fanning gets weird again anyway.
I have my Documents folder/stack set to display as grid, and that always works fine, btw.
Message was edited by: drdoe. Reason: Corrected my computer's specs
Mac Pro 8-core 3.0GHz (early 2008), 10 GB RAM
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Re: Stacks' fan-view not showing filenames?
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Mar 20, 2008 8:08 PM
in response to: drdoe
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You can display the different folders with specific folders. Clicking in the icon once the stack, fan is open should reveal the contents. The documents almost have to be displayed as a grid. I can fill up a dozen fans a week. I not only label my folders by name but also with folders I use. his makes for easy identification. I literally have hundreds going at once. So, there's a couple of options, labeling by name and look, changing the folders on the dock, using the grid view, the fan only holds maybe a dozen. Glass icons are nice, and searching Apple's site will show you many styles.
Ray
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Re: Stacks' fan-view not showing filenames?
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Mar 20, 2008 8:28 PM
in response to: smithrj
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Not sure you're getting the picture (literally - look at the screenshot again).
This is not about how I label my files/folders or the settings for the stack. This is about a bug causing the filenames to not appear, not be displayed, not be visible next to their respective icons... as the screenshot above shows. It illustrates as directly as possible that all the filenames are missing.
And yes, I can change the stack to display as a grid (as I did for the Documents stack) or as a list, or change its icon to be a stack or whatever. But I like to keep my Downloads stack in the fan view, and when I do that, the filenames are not displayed. I don't know why, but it's fairly irritating.
If anybody's got a workaround, let me know.
Mac Pro 8-core 3.0GHz (early 2008) / PowerBook G4 1.33Ghz / Dual G4 1.42Ghz MDD
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Re: Stacks' fan-view not showing filenames?
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Mar 20, 2008 10:28 PM
in response to: drdoe
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Afraid I can't help but can confirm that this happens to me from time to time. Also, the sorting in the fan by Date Added stops working every once in a while too, but I suppose that's a different problem. I'm getting pretty fed up with the fan view (it could have been nice).
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Re: Stacks' fan-view not showing filenames?
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Mar 21, 2008 6:11 AM
in response to: Andrew Aspaas
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Hadn't noticed that Date added-sorting goes bad, but it probably does so for me too. Either way I'm glad I'm not the only one who's experiencing the weird fanning stuff.
The Date added-thing could be connected, however, since it's not really something that the Finder supports. I figured I'd just make the Downloads folder itself sort that way in list view but you can't. So I don't know how they've managed to make a new sorting mode just for the Stacks, but that may be why it's so brittle.
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Re: Stacks' fan-view not showing filenames?
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Mar 21, 2008 6:23 AM
in response to: smithrj
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True, that is a possibility. Likewise "killall Dock" does the trick. Switching the view mode back and forth between grid and fan might also do the trick.
But it all seems a bit much, just to get you computer to tell you names of some files. That should after all be a fairly basic function.
If, as I somewhat suspect, it has something to do with using the Date added-sorting, I could possibly just stop using that. But Date added + fan view for the Downloads stack, is (for me at least) really the point of it all, and, I suppose, much the point of Stacks in the first place.
And my apologies to you, Ray, if I came across a bit harsh in that last reply to you. It was, as you mention, pretty late/early.
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Re: Stacks' fan-view not showing filenames?
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Mar 21, 2008 7:43 AM
in response to: drdoe
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It's OK, thank you very much for your apology. I understand, just remember, I do not want stars, just to help.
Happy Easter,
Ray
MacBook 2GB, 250 drive, Black W/Lacie 160 external
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Re: Stacks' fan-view not showing filenames?
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Mar 21, 2008 9:50 AM
in response to: smithrj
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Well, think of the star as an Easter Egg, then 
For now I've just written an Apple Script to kill the Dock and added it to Quicksilver's catalog. So now I can at least restart the Dock with a few keystrokes. Not pretty, but it works.
Filed a bug report on the Stacks issue -- and all the other issues plaguing my brand new Mac Pro (damnation!) -- so I'll see what happens.
I will still leave this thread as "unsolved" for the time being.
Message was edited by drdoe for typos
Mac Pro 8-core 3.0GHz (early 2008) / PowerBook G4 1.33Ghz / Dual G4 1.42Ghz MDD
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Re: Stacks' fan-view not showing filenames?
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Apr 4, 2008 12:51 PM
in response to: drdoe
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I have the same issue but even my folder icons disappear so all I see is the outline of where the folder name and icon should be!!!
Any solutions, please post.
imac
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Re: Stacks' fan-view not showing filenames?
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Apr 11, 2008 9:02 AM
in response to: drdoe
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I got the same problem but it also involves the program and folder names not showing up above their icons and the Dock going pretty much, but not totally, unresponsive (like magnification stops working, or auto-unhide doesn't work unless you click down there). When it happens for one user it happens for the other logged in user. So it's more than a specific user's Dock plist issue, no?
MacBook Pro, 2.4GHz
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factory fresh
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