Lonny Eachus wrote:
Nobody has "hijacked" anything. This is the thread that APPLE gave me when I searched for this issue in the
forums.
You really do try to justify everything to have to suit your needs, don't you? So far you have claimed to have the answer
In regard to the problem most people have been reporting here, that is, finder being glitchy in certain ways, I think I know the cause, and it should be ridiculously easy for Apple to fix.
I first noticed a different symptom (of the same problem): when viewing a list of pictures in CoverFlow, if I deleted some pictures, the image cache did not refresh... it still showed the images associated with the deleted files.
I changed the "arrange by" and that did indeed solve the problem. But here's the thing: clicking on a column header changes the displayed order in Finder... but does not update "arrange by" as it should. I think when they built the new-style column headers in Finder, they neglected to make them update "arrange by".
As a result, your Arrange By settings are lost, and clicking the column headers does not fix it. You have to actually go into "arrange by" to fix it.
Note that after you do that, clicking the column headers to change the sort order still does not change your "arrange by" setting as it should. But as long as it is on something other than "none", most of the problems go away.
then decided you were wrong
After some more experimentation, it turns out that my theory might not have been the whole answer. There seem to be a number of different but related problems. I am no longer sure of the root cause.
Setting "arrange by" to "Name" instead of "None" did indeed solve the CoverFlow problem I was seeing, but it introduced other problems. I didn't have these problems when I was running Mountain Lion.
It does indeed seem like the Finder "improvements" got rushed out the door incomplete. I am a big fan of Agile incremental development but the end user should not have to take the place of the QA department.
And then demanded that someone fix YOUR issue within someone else's thread
This is only a partial answer. There are a number of options in the Recovery menu. Which did you use? Did you re-install the OS?
A "destructive" solution is no good to me.
THAT'S ONLY A PARTIAL ANSWER.
Is "restore" destructive? Does it just "restore" my OS files and leave everything else alone?
Maybe it is time to stop making yourself look like a silly Troll and address your issue in your own thread.
Sorry this thread is so long, but it is hard to do it justice without linking up your thread hijacks.
Good Luck
Pete