John Dorsey

Q: Mavericks Finder - how default to "double click opens new window"?

I am old and set in my ways.  I like having the Finder open a new window when I double click a folder.  Since 1984 I've arranged Finder windows in positions and sizes that suit me and I have never seen any reason to change.

 

In Mavericks however there does not seem to be a way to default to, "double click opens new Finder window".  My choices under Finder preferences are, open in the same window; or open in a tab.  I don't care for either.

 

Does anyone know of a way to restore the traditional Finder behavior in Mavericks?  Thanks in advance.

Mac Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 18 GB RAM

Posted on Oct 22, 2013 5:54 PM

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  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Dec 19, 2013 4:00 PM in response to Adam Woodhams
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    Dec 19, 2013 4:00 PM in response to Adam Woodhams

    Very good. Now add something of value yourselves to the thread.

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

  • by Alex Geis,

    Alex Geis Alex Geis Dec 19, 2013 4:15 PM in response to The Dude Abides
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    Dec 19, 2013 4:15 PM in response to The Dude Abides

    The Dude Abides,

     

    Excellent, and 100% on point. Especially with the enterprise stuff back in the day, a lot of it was all about getting into the nitty gritty and when in doubt, coming on here and rattling someones brain who's been through the suck. I remember the poster named Camelot who saved my *** more times than I can remember with 10.4 Server and postfix. I was on the original XSan beta team, and remember when accidentally unhooking a ethernet wire would kern panic 7 machines simultaneiously and it was all about complex logs, bug reporting and sending those recommendations to Apple. That's back when they would listen and engineering would actually return emails once in a while. Gone are those days. I got some MAJOR slack from the community when I posted a "is Xsan dead" article years ago, and then when it reemerged as part as the "OS X Server App" as a toolkit upon separate OS build discontinuation, I had a good laugh. I think that a good amount of the quality loss you talk about on these boards is simply due to the fact that everything across the board with Apple is becoming so sanitized that, well, there aren't too many areas left to actually geek out and get into the nitty gritty with innovation. And you're absolutely right... this may still be a discussion board for trying to get or provide input, but the days of that intellectual and innovating "community" is long gone. I actually feel rather reluctant to post in the mobile board areas cause of the attitude (hence my comments from the earlier post... don't take them the wrong way).

     

    Now, when they killed the Xserve, I said to msyelf... wait a year, and OS X Server and XSan will be next. But even I wouldn't have dared to think: "what's next... killing off the ability to double click and open a folder".

  • by Alex Geis,

    Alex Geis Alex Geis Dec 19, 2013 4:20 PM in response to Adam Woodhams
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    Dec 19, 2013 4:20 PM in response to Adam Woodhams

    Appriciate it Adam :-)

  • by Adam Woodhams,

    Adam Woodhams Adam Woodhams Dec 19, 2013 4:21 PM in response to petermac87
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    Dec 19, 2013 4:21 PM in response to petermac87

    petermac87 wrote:

     

    Very good. Now add something of value yourselves to the thread.

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

    Sighhh... yes, done quite some time ago 'Admin' but hey, I wouldn't expect you to know that pete, you only selectively read the posts of others to give yourself trolling fodder...

  • by Adam Woodhams,

    Adam Woodhams Adam Woodhams Dec 19, 2013 4:29 PM in response to Alex Geis
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    Dec 19, 2013 4:29 PM in response to Alex Geis

    Alex Geis wrote:

    ...But even I wouldn't have dared to think: "what's next... killing off the ability to double click and open a folder".

    And I think that's the core point here Alex. This is such deeply embedded functionality that is so logical & obvious. Why remove it?
    Surely to retain it as an option wouldn't place some vast drain on system resources.
    It's removal, along with other things like the loss of coloured tabs, seems to be more like a bloody-minded purging of the old than a surge towards the new.

    Rather than just publishing glowing & glossy lists of what's been added to the OS I really believe Apple has a responsibility to start listing what it is removing from the OS with each update rather than leaving uses gobsmacked when they find that such core functions haven't just been changed they've been deleted. Even if it was just by way of a tech support document.

  • by Scott Newman,

    Scott Newman Scott Newman Dec 19, 2013 4:37 PM in response to Adam Woodhams
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    Dec 19, 2013 4:37 PM in response to Adam Woodhams

    Ditto!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Dec 19, 2013 4:41 PM in response to Adam Woodhams
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    Dec 19, 2013 4:41 PM in response to Adam Woodhams

    You could Apple your opinions. I may have mentioned a feedback link somewhere.

     

    Pete

  • by romeup,

    romeup romeup Dec 19, 2013 4:54 PM in response to petermac87
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    Dec 19, 2013 4:54 PM in response to petermac87

    Already did. Emailed straight to Cook.

     

    I've been using Macs for almost twenty years, and after the last three iterations of OS X it has been a straight downhill experience.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Dec 19, 2013 4:59 PM in response to romeup
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    Dec 19, 2013 4:59 PM in response to romeup

    That should solve it. Or just return to Snow Leopard. Some have that require its features.

     

    Cheers

     

    Pete

  • by BLKFTINDNGRL,

    BLKFTINDNGRL BLKFTINDNGRL Dec 19, 2013 7:43 PM in response to John Dorsey
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    Dec 19, 2013 7:43 PM in response to John Dorsey

    I use Photoshop most of the day while drawing with a wacom and using the keyboard at the same time.

    So contrl+cmmnd worked - I had to adapt to this nonsense.

    Hope it changes, along with labels. There are apps though we can pay for to get labels back. Not nice Apple, not nice.

  • by Ricky Barnaby,

    Ricky Barnaby Ricky Barnaby Dec 27, 2013 12:48 PM in response to dackman
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    Dec 27, 2013 12:48 PM in response to dackman

    So…

    Speed Navigating the hierarchy goes like this for me again now. Praise the lord. thanks be to the holy wot not.

     

    SPEED WINDOW NAVIGATION WILL ONLY WORK NOW IF YOU REMOVE THE TOOLBAR (Alt Cmd T)

    Once you got rid of that you can, again…

     

    Cmd down arrow… into the lower hierarchys, leaving the previouse window open.

    Alt Cmd down arrow… into the lower hierarchys Closing the previouse window behind you.

     

    Cmd up arrow… into the higher hierarchys, leaving the previouse window open.

    Alt Cmd up arrow… into the Higher hierarchys Closing the previouse window behind you.

     

    But the ONLY way to get this Fabulous functionality that been with us since IOS8 i think is to get rid of the toolbar. Shame, you´d think they would have kept this available for this amazingly fast window navigation method.

    I am VERY VERY thankfull for finding the answer to my Mavericks problem here on this post.

    I have been so so soooo slowed down.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Dec 27, 2013 1:09 PM in response to Ricky Barnaby
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    Dec 27, 2013 1:09 PM in response to Ricky Barnaby

    Ricky Barnaby wrote:

     

    that been with us since IOS8

    I didn't think iOS8 had even been released yet.

     

    Must have missed the upgrade. Will apply it to my iPhone immediately.

     

    Thanks

     

    Pete

  • by Ricky Barnaby,

    Ricky Barnaby Ricky Barnaby Dec 27, 2013 1:27 PM in response to petermac87
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    Dec 27, 2013 1:27 PM in response to petermac87

    Sorry Pete

    OS8 not IOS8

    But you go ahead and install it anyway.

    Let us all know how it went.

  • by petermac87,

    petermac87 petermac87 Dec 27, 2013 1:31 PM in response to Ricky Barnaby
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    Dec 27, 2013 1:31 PM in response to Ricky Barnaby

    Ricky Barnaby wrote:

     

    Sorry Pete

    OS8 not IOS8

    But you go ahead and install it anyway.

    Let us all know how it went.

    I tried, but you posted misleading information. iOS is only at v 7.0.4 at present. So I could not follow your advice.

     

    Please be more precise with any information you post in the future.

     

    (And OS8 - Now there was a great system......until OS9)

     

    Thanks

     

    Pete

  • by Ricky Barnaby,

    Ricky Barnaby Ricky Barnaby Dec 27, 2013 1:34 PM in response to petermac87
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    Dec 27, 2013 1:34 PM in response to petermac87

    Well good on ya Pete

    At least you tried.

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