I have a few Macs on my desk at work. Two are now running 10.7.1: 17" MB Pro and 24" iMac. I default to Columns view in all finders windows, and I noticed a difference. On the MB Pro, the Finder windows still have their column separators with the little pause-button symbol at the bottom for resizing the columns. On the iMac, though, the columns are now separated by a thin line with no symbol.
What's the difference?
The separators display in different widths depending on your setting in System Preferences->General->Show scroll bars.
The separators display in different widths depending on your setting in System Preferences->General->Show scroll bars.
It depends whether you have an external mouse connected - with a mouse, it shows thick column separators with the little pause icon to resize the columns, but using the tracker pad it's just a line. I can't find an option to always use the lines (which I find less cluttered and makes the column content easier to read). Unplug that mouse!
habaker - you are the only person I can find that even understands what OP is talking about! Thx for the info...but I just can't drop the mouse🙂 Man, can't Apple give us an option to select?
I encountered a similar problem recently as well. I did not have any mouse connected to my Macbook Pro at the time.
I went to System Preferences --> General --> Show Scroll Bars.
Mine was sent to Automatically and when I switched to "When Scrolling" the column separator (with the pause symbol) went away but came back when either "Automatically" or "Always" was chosen
I've just recently got a macbook pro, my 'show scroll bar' setting was set to "automatically", however, it seems to switch between the thin line and the thicker line to separate the columns. I can't figure out why sometimes it appears one way and sometimes another, but it's mostly the thin line. I've never had an external mouse attached to this laptop (as it's less than a month old), all I use is the trackpad, which I'm loving more and more as I get used to it 🙂
I used to have an iMac (like 10 years ago), which always had the thicker line, which is what I prefer. I like the scroll bars to be automatic though so that they aren't always showing up, but in order to keep the thicker column separator I have to select "always" for the show scroll bars option.
I agree with an earlier post, this should be an option on its own that we can select.
Same for me. I'm on a 2015 MacBook Pro and it seemingly randomly selects which setting to use every time I open Finder! Really weird...
Column separators are different
