Opening dock folders in finder

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Opening dock folders in finder

I prefer the Tiger dock feature by which if I click on a folder in the dock it immediately opens it in a finder window. In Leopard (which I have just installed) I am required to go through a dialogue before I can do so. Is there anyway of reverting to the Tiger method?

PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Oct 22, 2008 2:00 AM

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Answer 1

Oct 23, 2008 8:29 PM in response to James Mathews

I'm a Leopard newbie and I learned that if you press CONTROL while opening folders from the Dock, you can access the first selection, OPEN which actually does open that folder and not just give you options of opening ITEMS in that folder.

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Answer 2

Oct 23, 2008 8:36 PM in response to James Mathews

Pressing the command key and clicking the stack/folder in the dock will open it as you're looking to do. You can probably change this default behavior for folders with a plist edit, but I'm not sure what that edit would be.

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Answer 3

Dec 31, 2008 10:03 AM in response to Topher Kessler

CMD + Clicking on Folder in Dock actually opens the folder that folder lives in, not the folder listed in the Dock.

Still looking for a way to get the old Tiger way of opening a specific docked folder in the finder, haven't found one yet...

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Answer 4

Dec 31, 2008 10:09 AM in response to Kenneth Hughes

Found it... Make Alias of the folder and put the Alias in the Dock instead of dragging the actual folder. Works, not elegant, but works.

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Answer 5

johnyz

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Mar 7, 2009 2:11 AM in response to Kenneth Hughes

Yeah! Come on Apple, the stack and grid view look pretty but are not half as useful as a finder window. Give us an option in the contextual menu to open in finder by default. Anyone wants to turn the behavior off in the terminal here is how:

http://www.tuaw.com/2008/09/17/terminal-tip-disabling-leopards-dock-spring-windo ws/

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