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I've changed something on a right click menu.

As per a different thread, I have posted.

I have changed a right-click menu, as in the image underlined in red.

The window never used to get that wide, even with a file etc with a long name after compress.

The whole window used to be much narrower, and the Compress option never went that wide.

How do I make it go back to how it was?

So for example, looking at the image at the moment, compress is showing the whole file/film name, whereas before I changed something it didn't show the whole thing.

Thanks for any help

Posted on Nov 11, 2024 2:33 PM

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Posted on Nov 12, 2024 7:41 AM

To my knowledge it's always done that. In other words the dropdown menu always got wide enough to display the whole file name. It may be new behavior, but I don't recall how far back it goes.


To illustrate, hold an Option key while summoning that secondary menu. On the Mac I happen to be using right now, the menu becomes wider to accommodate "Copy <file> as Pathname" which is probably even wider than your Compress example. It remains that wide even after releasing the Option key.

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Nov 12, 2024 7:41 AM in response to DoogyDawg

To my knowledge it's always done that. In other words the dropdown menu always got wide enough to display the whole file name. It may be new behavior, but I don't recall how far back it goes.


To illustrate, hold an Option key while summoning that secondary menu. On the Mac I happen to be using right now, the menu becomes wider to accommodate "Copy <file> as Pathname" which is probably even wider than your Compress example. It remains that wide even after releasing the Option key.

I've changed something on a right click menu.

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