"Right click --> new folder " Snow leopard stupid change

Hello,

This is kinda hard to explain what the problem is but I'll give it a try.

So in OSX leopard, when you wanted to create a new folder, you just made a right click in finder (anywhere but directly on a file, so if you would scroll right a little bit (but still in the line of a file), you would get the correct menu) and it would give you the pop up menu where you could choose "new folder" (directly on a file you get a different pop up menu). (by the way, I'm working with the "list view"), now in snow leopard, when you scroll right, but still in the line of a file, you'll always get the pop up menu with options like "open" and "open with", only when you are not in the line of a file, it gives you the menu with "new folder".

This is no problem when you have like 5 files in a folder, there is enough "free" space at the bottom of you finder window with no files where you can make the right click, but it is not usual to have just a couple of files in a folder, so most of the times now I need to use the stupid menu at the toolbar in the finder window, or the key shortcut.

Who know's how to fix this irritating change ??

gr

MBP 15.4" late 2007, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on May 12, 2010 1:14 AM

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May 12, 2010 12:22 PM in response to Th3 Stud3nt

Wrong approach. In a folder with list view, just use CMDSHIFTN to create a new folder. AFAICT, no matter how far right or left of files in a folder w/list view CONTROL-click (or right-click for mice with that feature) never results in a contextual menu showing New Folder. That only works, as you noted, in an empty space below all listed files/folders.

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