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Finder Window Resize in Mountain Lion

Finder, Two Monitors, on one I keep a number of folders open in List View. This suits my workflow.

In Lion we lost the the upper right hand button that switched on and off the Sidebar...OK, that changed, I can live with that.

Clearly it switches of and on by selecting the Window and View>Sidebar (off/on) or option>command S. OK..so far!

You could always resize a window by grabbing the lower right hand corner. Lion and back!!

(Letter A...see later) Now with Mountain Lion, in List View you can only size the window height and the width only adjusts just so far (too wide, I only want to see the filenames).

Switch Sidebar on and then off again and now the right hand corner works as it always has going back eons. and I can resize the window narrower as I want it.

Again...OK as far as it goes. Now either Reboot, Restart or just log out and in and when Finder opens you see the window you sized as you left if for just a moment and then....ZONK, WOOSH....almost as if by magic and before your eyes...it pops back to some crazy default width that is too wide so now you I am back to Letter A (see above). As you can see you are caught in a circle never being able to get back to how this Finder Software has worked for perhaps the past 20 or so years.

I accept that I may be doing something wrong...but I can't for the life of me find it in this group and have tried every preference I can find...nothing helps. I sincerely think this is a bug...but I'm open to being enlightened (provided I can continue to use my long standing workflow).

Thanks in advance!

Mac Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 12, 2012 12:47 AM

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Dec 23, 2012 9:53 AM in response to JohnHaeny

I still wish Apple would admit their error and put the desktop back where it was in Snow Leopard!! As said, it worked well for 20 years so why fix what is not broken????

Me too! And to try to maybe answer your question why fix something that is not broken? Well, because there is a new wave of engeering at Apple, they have gone crazy and think everything should look and feel like an iPad or iPhone, never mind that I paid $5000+ for my Mac Pro plus the cost of the associated hardware. Kind of an expensive iPad!

This is not the only "feature" in Mountain Lion, worse than this is the fact and it no longer supports (or at least it doesn't work with) multiple montors when the displays are rotated or that the Apple RAID software stopped working and forced me to restore all my data which meant I was down for a good day and a half as well as having to buy a 3rd party solution to something that had worked fine for 20+ years!!!!! (Thank you SoftRAID!).

I have nick-named Mountain Lion, Alley Cat, since it smells like one and belongs in a dark alley not inside my Mac Pro! This is by far the worst Mac OS "update" ever and I've been using Mac's since the days of the Quadra 950 and Mac System 7. The team at Apple responsible for this mess is obviosuly not up to the job. Building Software for iPad's is NOT the same as building Software for the Mac.

I'm looking into the Script to now and will keep you posted!

Dave

Eric Root

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Dec 23, 2012 11:35 AM in response to JohnHaeny

Apple doesn't read these threads so you need to send them feedback:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/

JohnHaeny Author

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Dec 23, 2012 2:01 PM in response to Eric Root

Thanks Eric,

I know, so I posted my original post to feedback way back when, but as you would expect...it died there!

Cheers,

John Haeny

Eric Root

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Dec 26, 2012 10:52 AM in response to JohnHaeny

Apple won't answer you unless they need to for technical reasons.

fogr4

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Jul 30, 2013 8:08 PM in response to JohnHaeny

It's been a while, but if you still care ...

If you create a script like this:

tell application "Finder"

activate

set toolbar visible of the front Finder window to true

set toolbar visible of the front Finder window to false

set bounds of the front Finder window to {1750, 44 + 300, 1920, 44 + 600}

end tell

then you can use it to shrink whatever the front finder window is.

Under the AppleScript Editor Preferences, make sure that "Show Script in menu bar" is checked, then go to the Script Icon in the menu bar and open the User Scripts folder. Save the above script into that folder.

The script you just created will now be listed on the bottom of the Script Icon in the menu bar.

Open a finder window, pull down the script menu and click on your script. The finder window will shrink to the location specified.

Off course, as soon as you touch the window to try to change its size, it will grow to the minimum size allowed. But it's interesting that the minimum allowed will now be a little narrower that it was before the script was run.

It might be useful to create a few scripts with 'standard' small sizes. i.e. square, short, long ...

Finder Window Resize in Mountain Lion