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

I echo John's and the sentiments of many others here. Since the mid-80's, I've had the exact same folder layout. Until last week, my folders opened in the same place and layout on the screen they always have.

That's good - I want to spend my time doing things, not re-learning how to use my computer because I upgraded the OS.

At work I find it very frustrating to learn to adapt to all the misguided 'improvements' with the other OS updates. I justified the premium price of a new personal Mac because I believed I could maintain MY way of doing things, and not have to adapt. Now I'm questioning my logic, and may need to return my new Mac.

Would be amusing to make a video for youtube called "Double clicking in OS X Mavericks" and have a guy at his desk, drinking a coke, holding down command with his big toe and double clicking on his magic mouse. ...and actually navigating around his mac like that smoothly for like 5 minutes.

I'd like to think it'd go viral, but I doubt it would 🙂

LesPalmer wrote:

I justified the premium price of a new personal Mac because I believed I could maintain MY way of doing things, and not have to adapt. Now I'm questioning my logic, and may need to return my new Mac.

You don't need to return your new Mac, just re-install Mountain Lion and enjoy the new Mac. With enough people sending feedback, hopefully Apple will restore the "Always open a folder in a new window" preference and then you can update. They pulled this stunt with Leopard, and then restored preferences with later updates when people sent constructive feedback.

Peter Hillman

No one should have to hold the command key to double click to open a folder in a new window

I never said anyone should, nor did I imply same, read my first post on page 1.

dont be so impatient, every new OS has a ruffled hair here or there. no worries.

Good news is my macbook Air opens now in 7+ seconds,......before it was 22+ seconds.

longer battery life too.

I can wait for this to "iron out". 😊

Let me ask: Are other users able to double-click on a folder in window and get *either* a new tab or a new window out of it?

Hold down the Command key when double clicking on a folder will open it in a new Finder window.

OT

Yeah, OldToad, thats what has some here ruffled, the necessity of holding down a key AND double clicking.

😉

Just another indication of the iOS-ificaton of MacOS and Apple products generally.

On an iPad/iPhone you can't have multiple windows for an application, but you can have tabs, so Apple remove this incredibly useful feature from OSX now. When iOS becomes the standard OS on Macs in the near future nobody will remember what the Finder was anyway.

(very jaded long-time Mac user who's apoplectic about the gutting of Pages)

Then Right-click on the folder:

That only involves one hand.

That actually doesnt "work" when you have to juggle multiple screens, or you need to open up, say, 20 folders within 4 attached hard drives.

The "right click and open in new window" is a two-step productivity slow-down thats very greatly magnified as per the above use necessities. 😉

It takes, say, a 2 min. operation up to a 3+ min. operation if I were to use that method.

Not however a time dilation in productivity if I use the CMD+ double click, but thats a 2-handed operation, so another form of slow-down.

"right click and open in new window" = 2 step productivity time constraint

CMD + double click = 2-handed productivity constraint.

Right-clicking on a wacom pen isn't doable if you've mapped your buttons to do other things...

I have the same problem! Wacom tablet does not work after Maverick... or even Mountain Lion... they did something to the shortcuts!

Going a little off topic, but as a heads up... I got my Intuous working in 10.8 after much stress and anxiety. Once you actually get the thing working by playing around with drivers for a bit, you find out that in pen mode, the sensitivity height off the tablet for gliding the mouse gets cut in half... I had a 10x larger meltdown than this issue everyone's talking about.

Needless to say, after about 5 calls with Wacom, the solution for 10.8 is to downgrade to the driver that is supported under 10.6 and 10.7. Supposedly it's not under 10.8 (but the unofficial word from engineering is that it techincally has no problems besides bs errors thrown in the system log). Regardless, whether or not that will tank in 10.9, is probably the biggest reason I'm not updating my work desktop.

Peter Hillman wrote:

hopefully Apple will restore the "Always open a folder in a new window" preference and then you can update. They pulled this stunt with Leopard, and then restored preferences with later updates when people sent constructive feedback.

hi...like all the comments....

Technically, if one unchecks 'always open folders in tabs instead of new windows' then that is accomplished, all windows would open separately. It is just that functionality of unchecking is not working, right?

In my case, for some reason the 'always open...' is not working at all. still all single windows open....hmmm.

No, that's not it. if you uncheck 'always open folders in tabs instead of new windows' then when you Dclick on a folder in a window, it opens in that same window, not in a new window. that's the issue.

In a nutshell:

Lion: Double-click on a folder on your desktop. It opens a new window. Then double click on a folder in that window and it opens a new window (with perhaps different properties, shape position, etc).

Mavericks: (with preference unchecked) Double-click on a folder on your desktop. It opens a new window. Then double click on a folder in that window and it opens in the SAME window.

To get Mavericks to function as Lion (and all previous versions) did, you must [cmd]-<double-click> or attempt to open several folders at once. Yes, it's a minor thing, but it reduces productivity over time.