Mavericks Finder - how default to "double click opens new window"?

Use the Finder Tabs. You can always Command - Double click and then control - open in new window. Or untick that option for Tabs in finder preferences and just command - double click. That will give you a new window.

Not te same I know, but the classic function is simply not there at present.

Cheers

Pete

I've been using a Mac since 1988 and this is the biggest mind job in it's OS history! I'm constantly closing windows by accident because I'm mind set on more than 1 window being open. I then have to go to... reopen... reopen... then i motot memory click my track pad to close and it's the same bad story! Maverick needs to fix this option. I clicked on Mountain lion install and had a finder message that I couldn't install it over Maverick.

Correct. You need to erase your drive and reinstall the backup you made before choosing to install Mavericks. You have never been able to install an old osx over a newer one.

Pete

No, I understand why I would want to open a "new" window (I many times have 40 or more windows open on my 3 monitors).

What I am saying is that I do not see the advantage to Double-Clicking a folder and holding down the Option-Key and Double-Clicking the folder (other than the Back button is deactivated).

To Open a NEW WINDOW and keep the previous one open I have to now hold down the Command-Key in Mavericks?

thanks, this solved my questions,BLBo

^ How does one "solve" questions anyway? It's usually "answered", considering they aren't math problems.

Speaking of which, Apple really made this whole new fancy OS X add up to nothing but junk for me. I went back to 10.8.5 and I'm quite glad I did; Apple takes away all the important features and leaves us with useless ones. This "Maverick" essentially equates to a candy coated piece of rotten fruit, laying on the ground riddled with bugs. We all knew things would start slipping when Steve passed away, but I never imagined it would get this bad so quick.

Bottoms Up!

😐

^ How does one "solve" questions anyway? It's usually "answered", considering they aren't math problems.

Semantics. Look at it as, "This answer solved my problem." Solved is of course a derivative of solution. There are plenty of solutions for various issues every day which aren't related to math.

This "Maverick" essentially equates to a candy coated piece of rotten fruit, laying on the ground riddled with bugs.

Except for a couple of minor things, I've found Mavericks to so far be the most stable version of OS X I've ever used. And that includes my previous all-time-favorite, Snow Leopard.

I think Snow Leopard is great too, it's too bad they dumped it in favor of Lion and what's followed.

You must have a newer machine than what I have, because Mavericks runs horribly on my late 2009 Mac Pro. I'm not sure what kind of work you do on your system either, although it definitely plays a factor in my situation. It really comes down to having to buy a new machine if I want to run 10.9.1 in a way that actually is acceptable; trying to use it now is counter-productive.

I think Snow Leopard is great too, it's too bad they dumped it in favor of Lion and what's followed.

Lion was one of those "full of good intentions" ideas. In my personal opinion (and I think in the minds of many others), it was an attempt to make the desktop OS behave as much as possible like an iPhone or iPad.

Not everybody of course, but users pretty much hated it. Saving changes to my files before I say so, or even bothering to ask if I want the changes saved? Launching all the apps I had open when I shut down my computer last time on the next startup? Who says I want them open?

You must have a newer machine than what I have, because Mavericks runs horribly on my late 2009 Mac Pro.

Only slightly. A 2010 Mac Pro that came with 10.6.4. I do have 16 GB of RAM in it though since I run a lot of memory intensive apps, such as Photoshop, Illustrator, the Premiere Pro suite.

Over the years, I've seen a lot of complaints about every OS that has come out, and the common issues of "it made my Mac worse/slow down, etc." Other than truly reproducible and verifiable bugs, I've honestly never had any of these problems. And I attribute that to never, EVER installing an old OS over a new one. I always install a new OS to an erased drive, then reinstall of the apps I use. I do this over a period of about a week as I continue to get work done in the previous OS.

Once I have the new OS and everything I use setup, and test it for incompatibilities or other such things (usually always the need of a few apps that have to be upgraded to work correctly in the new release), then I switch over. I keep using the new OS for a couple of weeks before I decide for sure it's working as expected. I then archive the previous OS and everything on it to a .dmg file and erase that partition. If something does come up that can't be worked around without waiting for a fix from Apple or a third party software vendor, I can always restore the .dmg.

Hey Chief,

One thing I've noticed with 10.7 and later is that an SSD OS drive makes a HUGE difference. I still have a MacPro kicking here which was feeling some unnecessary pain under 10.8 until I stuck an SSD in the optical bay and made it my boot drive, and the thing seems brand new.

I also have a few mac minis, all 2011 and later. 2 of the mac minis (one 10.8 and one 10.9) that have fusion drives run beautifully. Two other mac minis (also 10.8/10.9), same i7 and RAM specs, but using just HDD, requires a rereboot once every 2-3 days due to some unexplainable app slowdown (lagging, severe choppy redraw delays in going between spaces, etc). CPUs on both machines tend to be 75% idle and RAM usage/page swap usage seems perfectly reasonable, but that brutal lag seems to remain and gets worse the longer the machine runs. Since noticing that, I ended up hooking up a mini external FW800 enclosure with an SSD in it (as I was too lazy to swap out the internal mini HDD and the machine runs in a rack) and use that as my boot volume, and haven't seen any issues with that machine ever again.

And I have problems writing what I mean, too... 😊 I wrote:

EVER installing an old OS over a new one.

Opposite of that. Should have read:

EVER installing a new OS over an old one.

I have a 2009 MacBook Pro running like lighting with Mavericks. Sound recording and graphic arts use is even faster than in ML and Lion (but I only saw Lion as a Mavericks beta anyway). 8GB ram and a data drive. No crapware installed.

Cheers

Pete

Problem Fixed my way John !

I found a brand new 2012 21.5" iMac with 10.8.2 Mountain Lion, 2.9 GHz, being sold for $1167.00 delivered.

Glad I waited to spend my Christmas money. Wish everyone else was as fortunate.

A little larger than my late 2007 20" iMac, runs much cooler and super quicker.

Having been told 17 months ago I have Pancreatic cancer stage IV, the time I have left can not be wasted waiting for Apple to correct problems they have caused with their current OS updates.

(The chemo is working so far. Only 13 infusions in 2013 has it at bay, remission.) 🙂

Next I will repair my iPhone 5 and iPad 4, going back to iOS 6.

As many have stated, Apple, like Microsoft, has run out of new ideas so is changing their software just to give the employees something to do.

And when Apple releases future, "updates", ................

Kevin

Mavericks and iOS 7 have improved our business workflow vastly. Thanks for your work around but no thanks. If we don't keep up with things we will lose customers. Good luck with the health mate. We l wish you well.

Cheers

Pete

A dramatic step Kevin but I can get where you're coming from!
All the best with your health mate.