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Apple Mail removed the columns!

Where did my columns go? Why does Apple think that I don't change the size, position, display of my columns in Mail? Why does Apple think that the programmer knows how it should be displayed? I want control over the way I use the columns! I want to be able to decide what is sorted when and to easily switch back and forth without the added drop down menu crap! Come on??? Really??? And "Trash" becomes "Bin?" I hope that justified some over paid, stock optioned, self-pat-on-the-back, manager a great deal of money. Don't you remember Window's 98 and the brouhaha over "Recycle Bin" versus Apple's "Trash."

Posted on Oct 12, 2019 5:53 AM

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chrisdgalway

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Posted on Oct 13, 2019 1:00 AM

I feel there is no hope for Apple when I see phrases like "mission critical" in formal responses. Doing what's described above does not solve the problem, as Mail will be continually updated from the current 13.0, and each time one will have to "fix" the problem as leroydouglas describes. This is about being able to lay out the desktop in a way that is a pleasure to use; a small screen, like a laptop, requires narrower windows than a big desktop screen, in order to have the same look-and-feel ... this is not rocket-science. It's such a basic thing, I cannot understand the mentality of decision-makers at Apple who seem to think they know better than their customers. I'm all for change, but not change backwards. Listen to us, and remember Steve Jobs' ... "it just works".

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Barney-15E

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Dec 16, 2019 5:22 PM in response to keeeet

Why is Mail better without columns, but Finder is better with columns?

They can't both be better. One is better and one is worse. And the one that is worse is Mail. So why did they make it worse?

I have no use for columns in either.

Jan 14, 2020 3:03 PM in response to sushistar1

Everyone has been telling men for ages to use Outlook instead of Mail.

I'm going to take their advice.

I'm bitterly disappointed in Apple.

Catalina is a massive letdown, and I wish I'd never "upgraded" to it.

Jan 24, 2020 9:56 AM in response to Yer_Man

Normally, I'd agree. But I don't think that users that are not bitching LOUDLY about this craziness (and we all know that Mail is the tip of a very large iceberg) should get much more than "lemming". Besides, lemmings are pretty cool beasts and nothing like the disney movie where some guy is actually KICKING THEM OFF THE CLIFF!. So let's allow for some "consternation" like the term "lemmings" and focus on the real goal: Slowing down the idiocy in Apple's stuff.

How about starting with forcing me to "log in" to my own machine with no option to NOT. Face recognition, fingerprint ID, etc are coming. You won't be able to use a device without bio lockdown. You aren't doing anything to slow it down.

-MerovingianQaalude44 (and who took 43? HUH?)