Q: Finder Frustrations
I have about a half dozen Finder Frustrations (I'd call them Finder Funnies, but they're not that funny anymore). My downloads folder (and others) always rearranges content into alphabetical order no matter what I do in any settings. It also rearranges all folders in that folder as well. I upgraded from Snow Leopard, hoping to escape some Finder annoyances, only to gain additional ones (for example: https://discussions.apple.com/message/12085356#12085356). I've found forums regarding files spontaneously re-arranging themselve alphabetically, but not some of the following:
New Finder Frustrations include:
1) Finder opens the WRONG folder at times upon dragging an item onto a folder you want to move something to. You need to be VERY CAREFUL here, folks, because I had to use Spotlight to find a file when Finder dropped it into the wrong folder and I didn't notice. Fortunately, I remembered the name of the file and could find it misfiled in a totally unrelated folder (and, no, I didn't drop it in the wrong folder; I've seen this bug multiple times and now never just drop any file onto a folder; I wait for it to open before dropping to be sure it's the correct folder and often it is not! When it opens the wrong folder it opens another folder somewhere in the same general area). This seems to happen in my download folder A LOT.
2) Upon dropping a file or dragging a photo from your browser into a folder, Finder jumps to another location in that folder. You then have to go find the file you just moved or copied in order to perform any actions upon it, such as rename the file. If you have a folder with lots of other files in it, that can be a big pain in the hiney.
3) Not sure if this is a part of Finder, but QuickLook now initially shows a grey box upon first hitting the shift key when trying to view a photo (see https://discussions.apple.com/message/16046574#16046574 for example image). I can close QuickLook and hit shift again, and it opens appropriately. In other words, I have to highlight a file, then hit the shift key three times to view it. Annoying.
4) I'm also not sure if this is still present in Lion (I'm waiting to see; it was definitely a problem for me in SL), but the Finder will move a newly named file to another part of folder when the folder is opened at a later date. I find this on my computer very commonly, but since it was doing it in SL, not sure yet if it's still doing it Lion.
I will say that a big problem I had in Snow Leopard, pixelated icons, seems to be impoved in Lion, at least at this point. Unfortunately, one of my biggest problems with Snow Leopard, losing ethernet connection upon awakening, is still there, though it seems less often. But that's for another forum (https://discussions.apple.com/message/16047173#16047173).
Does anyone else encounter any of the above? Better yet, do you have any solutions?
Posted on Sep 3, 2011 1:27 PM