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

I have sent my feedback about restoring this basic, oh so basic function to the OS X.

It is such a ridiculous thing to remove that I cannot even begin to comprehend who thought it would be a good idea.

It's annoying enough and hampering my functionality that I'm considering going back to the previous OS version.

Please fix this!

This is the next major negative UI change for me after the removal of scroll arrows in windows. I used to say to Windows folks that I can manage 3 times more work done on Mac OS than on Windows.

Not anymore.

I thought I was having a problem with the Finder after upgrading, but it looks like they failed to mention during the keynote presentations that they were holding down the COMMAND key to demonstrate folders opening with new tabs. So regardless of the checkbox setting, you have to hold down the command key to open new windows in tabs, or to open a new window while keeping the prior window open. Unbelievably stupid.

I have to admit thats pretty funny 😉

I would hope in the very near future a patch is written for this missing point.

untill then I'll keep my two-handed ninjitsu CMD + double-click going

what about a piece of tape to hold down the CMD key all the time so you'd only have to double click. (just kidding).

Inexcusably stupid (or presumptuous) for Apple to remove this long-standing Finder behaviour.

Oh Apple, I LOVE YOU, I love you, I love you!!!

I just posted the opposite today which had been CENSORED by Apple. My post had been deleted. So hopefully an entry in favour of dear Apple won't be deleted.

I also complained about this at Apple's feedback already and it is ridiculous! But as I said already to avoid one more deleted post: I love you Apple, nevertheless!!!

Best regards,

Stefan

Glad I came on the forum. Thought I was missing something. I sent Apple feedback on this and urge everyone else to do the same. The double click, new window thing will be a deal breaker for me !

Hi...maybe someone has said it already, but here is what I find on the iMac 2011:

(Mavericks-checked in finder preference - general:) "Open folders in tabs instead of new window"

if a folder is on the desktop and I open them, they all open individually - separate windows.

When I have a window open already, then command click on any folder in that window, it opens as a tab, in that same window.

When I first tried Mavericks, it seemed all the windows always opened in one window, tabbed. So this is a change.

John Dorsey wrote:

Just a reminder that Apple doesn't read these message boards - if you want them to take notice, be sure to submit your comments and concerns to http://www.apple.com/feedback/ !

dont see where to write them on this page.

Mathaetaes wrote:

A temporary solution is that you can drag-and-drop files into tabs, which I actually find quite convenient.

Not seeing any way to do this on my imac....no drag and drop into tabs, from already open windows, into already open windows.

Evil Hacker wrote:

I really miss the original Finder behavior which was:

- double-click opens folder in a new window

- option-double-click opens folder in a new window and closes previous window

And, the window position, size, and view was never changed.

Hi

This is what mine is doing even in ....'open folders in tabs...' checked

any folder on my desktop, that I dbl clk and open:, size, position and view, all remain the same when closed then reopened.

in case useful....

John Dorsey wrote:

In the "making lemonade out of lemons" department, I am finding it useful to take two or three windows that I had previously set up with similar display characteristics, like downloads & documents (list view, tall window, sorted by mod date) and putting them all together in a tabbed set rather than aligning them in a kind of offset overlap. I think that'll be useful.

I don't know what happens if, after carefully setting up this window, I make the mistake of closing it. I too am learning that the new Finder doesn't always keep track of window characteristics.

hi

what happens, at least for me, is if before making them in a tabbed scenario, you make them, as you said, in an offset overlap, then once establishing that postion etc, then put them all into one window. close them, then when they all re open, they will be in the original offset overlap, not in the tabbed window....in the same place, but not in a tabbed fashion.

I can't believe that they make it so that finder windows are like your browser, with tabs and only one window and all that... and then they don't even allow the two finger swipe gesture to go backwards in that window. That just makes me think even more that this was not well thought out, maybe the OS X team needs new leadership or something.

Actually, this started with Lion. I started noticing that external hard drives were automatically resorting based on file name.

Dear apple:

Have we forgotten why the GOS and now the GUI is used in the first place? Brain Speed. It takes the human brain about 1000 times less power and time to recognize a person's face than it does to read their name tag. Icons are faster to read than test, and some people (most, i'd bet) make use of this in an expanded format. The size and shape of a window can tell you which one it is much faster than reading the top line. One of the biggest jumps in productivity was being able to use these faster recognition parts of the brain to make reliable "images" out of window size/shape and icon placement combinations.

Next, IOS7 cme out will "all new" icons. Why? Again, those icons were intended to speed things up and suddenly you're taking them all away? Never mind if they look bad or not, forcing a mass change like that reduces productivity by once again, forcing text processing at every step.

Now this.

*sigh*

Fine, add tabbing, but not at the cost of losing this fast-processing capability. and don't force us to change the entire way we work. Because if we have to do THAT, maybe we'll change more things too, like which OS maker to choose.