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

Hello again!

Thought I'd update everybody on this subject.

I  have now reinstalled Mountain Lion from a Time Machine back-up  drive. It is brilliant to be able to double click a folder again and see it appear in a new window. HOW IT SHOULD BE!

Also,It is lovely to see the brilliant colour labels again.  Honest,Mountain Lion is an UPGRADE from Mavericks.

Apart  from the folder and labeIs farce,I  hated Spotlight's tag/meta data indexing. I hated the Finder crashing. I  hated the dock disappearing. I hated the failed restarts. I hated  everything about Mavericks.

If you have a ML  back up,reinstall it. Don't hang around for Apple to do anything,if they  bother to do anything,that is.Reinstall ML......now!

?  The only real issue (and what this thread is about) is the inability to double-click on a folder to open it.  I've had none of what you are describing in terms of crashing, restarting, disappearing, etc.  I don't find 9 much different from 8.  I DO bemoan the iOS'ing of X, but that is the direction Apple seems to be going in.  It's not enough to move me to a PC running Windows, at least not yet. 

I have been double-clicking folders to open them in a new window since 1984. I can't believe that they would change something so fundamental to the interface. Oh wait! This is Apple! (sigh)

My feedback to Apple iva the feedback link you shared:

Mavericks Finder has been modified to have two fatal flaws:

 

1) windows cannot be set to not show toolbar and not show sidebar across the system as a default

 

2) "Always Open Folders in a New Window" has been taken away.

 

While you may think that the Mac should be a One Window System like Windows tries to be or like the iPad, it is highly inconvenient on the Mac.

 

Having multiple windows open with the sidebar and toolbar shows an inordinate amount of superfluous information, very much like Windows does with showing a menu bar in every Window. Imagine if you put the dock at the bottom of every window...

 

Sorry but my data is more important that your buttons. I never use the side bar and never use the tool bar. Two TBolt monitors on a MBP-R is not for just 1 finder window.

hi what are you one? a book? imac? mac pro?

just curious....what year?

I have various troubles too...not these but Mail related and other various things. 2008 iMac I'm on

Wizard_Magic_Spell wrote:

 

Hello again!

Thought I'd update everybody on this subject.

I  have now reinstalled Mountain Lion from a Time Machine back-up  drive. It is brilliant to be able to double click a folder again and see it appear in a new window. HOW IT SHOULD BE!

Also,It is lovely to see the brilliant colour labels again.  Honest,Mountain Lion is an UPGRADE from Mavericks.

Apart  from the folder and labeIs farce,I  hated Spotlight's tag/meta data indexing. I hated the Finder crashing. I  hated the dock disappearing. I hated the failed restarts. I hated  everything about Mavericks.

If you have a ML  back up,reinstall it. Don't hang around for Apple to do anything,if they  bother to do anything,that is.Reinstall ML......now!

Late 2012 iMac. Since reinstalling Mountain Lion,everything now works as it should.

I have to add name to the list of people who hate having to hold down the Command Key to get a folder to open in a new window? Even if I want it to open in a new tab, I STILL have to hold down Command. To me this is useless, just like the List View was. Stop taking stuff away to add new stuff.

And what's with the half-baked tabbed windows? As I see it, I can't manually merge two windows into tabs. Why? I also can't seem to have more than one window open with tabs. Why? These seem like bare minimum functions for tabbed folders.

Yes,Kevin,it's ridiculous. All we can do is keep on at Apple in the hope that they will give us an option to revert to the way we liked (and wanted) things.

FEEDBACK    http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

Pete

But Kevinbarre that still only opens a new tab not a new window.
I need the 'new window' function back. I just cannot understand why they removed it.
I don't need or want my desktop to act like a web-browser or a tablet!

What amazes me about Apple's recent changes to the OS as that they are all having these tiny annoying little impacts on productivity.
The folder opening changes mean it now takes longer to do various folder related tasks and the way highlighting folders/files with colour tags has been changed 1 - it's now harder to see a flagged folder/file at a glance, you have to visually search around for it (defeating the purpose of flagging), 2 - if you want to change the flag to another colour you have to unflag the old colour before reflagging it the new colour.
Minor but annoying impacts on productivity.
Apple are obviously quite sensitive about this too as any posts like this one that are critical keep being deleted (censored) from the forums...

It's the same thing they did with iOS 7, not as extreme yet though.

They make everything uglier and harder to use.

Someone inside Apple wants to destroy Steve's and Scott's spirit inside the products.

We only can ask: Why?

Because the products were good the way they were.

Many many million seem to be happy with it. It's been downloaded at three times the rate of Mountain Lion. What would any software company gain by leaving thing 'good the way they were'? These forums are only a representation of a few having issues and/or simply not liking change. It has happened with every OSX release. Read back and you will see what a disaster Mountain Lion was. And Lion. And Snow Leopard etc. etc.

Pete

Not to mention the many people who are unsatisfied but never get their *** up to file a complaint or write a comment.

Why would they if they have no issues and actually enjoy the new OSX?