Q: spindump is killing your Mac performance (7 year problem still open!)
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Sep 6, 2016 10:48 AMby dialabrain,Luis Sequeira1 wrote:
Can't copy and paste in the same folder in Finder? Sure you can, even though you insist you can't.
Here is how: Select, press Command-C, press Command-V. That is all.
Bye.
Luis, now you've done it. You gave away the secret method to copy and paste in the same folder!
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Sep 6, 2016 11:41 AMby flag2,"Scroll bars too thin?"
Maybe, but the main thing here is that when the scroll bar is on the far right (on the edge of the screen), mostly for example in "window full screen", not "full screen" within different space.
Then you move your mouse to the far right, and you miss the scroll bar... this makes the scroll bar tiny instead of infinit to the far right... this is in fact a design flaw, if you believe or not.
This has nothing to do if you like it or not - this is just a design flaw, well known for ages. And it would change nothing but better simpler usability to fix that.
Sure you can use the track pad, but if it must go fast - the mouse is still the way to go.
So grab the mouse, move to the far right, hold down the left mouse button, try to scroll... nothing... instead you resize the window... this is a design flaw, which affects the usability. It's not easy to use.
Then I grab the window, move it a few pixels to the right (beyond the window screen edge) - to fix this. Then I can "hit" the far right window edge to infinity and always scroll, not resize. The far right edge is preserved for scrolling by convention, not for resize.
This also would made it easier for others from Linux and / or Windows or whatever OS to switch to Mac. (And / or use multiple OS as many have to do. School: Mac / or Windows, Job: Linux + Windows, etc.)
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Sep 6, 2016 11:50 AMby flag2,It works... but this should really also work with copy & past as others do - not because Mac can't be different, but it's the way one expect it things work. And: Why make things complicated if it can be done in a standard will known way?
Is it just different? Or unnecessary complicate to do?
Let me guess: This duplicate thing is a relict from the old ages...
BTW: Edit > Cut --- or cmd + x is always greyed out... don't know why... it's simply not working with Finder. This is an other bug / feature / by design... maybe.
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Finder does not sort "Folders on Top" but a "mixed view with folders and files...
This is another huge thing, which should be fixed.
Then users come up with all fancy folder names like
"___PUT_ME_ON_TOP_my_folder_pleae"
and
"00000_I_am_on_top"
Just because there is no "Show Folder on top" option....
This is really a stupid thing and should be easily to implement for Apple in Finder.
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Sep 6, 2016 11:55 AMby flag2,No, as you can see for example in YouTube videos, they affect many people. Maybe not everybody tell you about these things here.
Also the "Cursor to the far right does not scroll" Design flaw is well known.
These are all "bugs" or Design flaws one can find out very easily. If not, just let a novice or Windows or Linux or whatever user work a day with a Mac and just watch what he or she run into...
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Sep 6, 2016 11:55 AMby dialabrain,flag2 wrote:
It works... but this should really also work with copy & past as others do - not because Mac can't be different, but it's the way one expect it things work. And: Why make things complicated if it can be done in a standard will known way?
You expect it to work a certain way, not "one". Mac users expect OSX to behave how it does. Windows users expect Windows to behave the way it does. Linux users, depending on which deasktop environment they use expect it to behave the way it does.
Your personal view of how things should work is not the world view.
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Sep 6, 2016 12:04 PMby flag2,Oh, no... not that one... If you have to hit or hover over a 4 x 4 pixel range with your mouse - what is easier? 4 x 4 or 4 x infinity? I think this is not a personal opinion...
Folder's on top... go to a Apple Store and open Finder... you will see tons of folders (Apple) users created just that the folder is on top.... also not my personal opinion... instated: experience of many users.
Easy to use does not mean it has to be different at any cost... and this seem to be the maxim or excuse at Apple... not very user friendly any more... unfortunately.
OS X could be an advanced desktop but it misses always a few little and big things - and also made it even worse with some fancy Finder animations with side effects - "It's by design" also is not true, it's a bug. Proof: It worked for example in Lion as expected.
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Sep 6, 2016 2:50 PMby Barney-15E,flag2 wrote:
It works... but this should really also work with copy & past as others do
It does work. You just don't understand how List View works. Selecting a folder in List view does not make that folder the focus. The folder with Focus is the folder name that appears in the title bar. You are viewing the contents of that folder in a hierarchical list. The selected folder a zillion levels deep is not the focus. Pasting acts on the folder that has the focus. That is the way List View works and has worked forever.
