Cutting a Giant Finder Window Down to Size

Mechcozmo

macrumors 603

Original poster

• Oct 30, 2006

• #1

Bluntly: How do I fix this?

Clicking the green button doesn't change anything.

 

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Chaszmyr

macrumors 601

• Oct 30, 2006

• #2

Don't activate Exposé when you have a 10 mile high window open.

Unless I'm missing something, this doesn't look like an Exposé error.

 

Mechcozmo

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Original poster

• Oct 30, 2006

• #3

Chaszmyr said:

Don't activate Exposé when you have a 10 mile high window open.

Unless I'm missing something, this doesn't look like an Exposé error.

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You are right; I mistitled the thread. What I meant was, how do I fix the 10-mile-high window problem.😱

 

MrSmith

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• Oct 30, 2006

• #4

Mechcozmo said:

You are right; I mistitled the thread. What I meant was, how do I fix the 10-mile-high window problem.😱

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Click a folder with fewer contents? 😱 Sorry, but for some reason this problem makes me want to laugh 😱

 

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SC68Cal

macrumors 68000

• Oct 30, 2006

• #5

Grab bottom right corner and resize?

 

Mechcozmo

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• Oct 30, 2006

• #6

SC68Cal said:

Grab bottom right corner and resize?

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Can't. When I deactivate Exposé, the bottom-right corner is wwwwwwaaaaaaayyyyyyyy down there.

 

MrSmith

macrumors 68040

• Oct 30, 2006

• #7

OK, I'll take it more seriously. Sorry, I thought it was the computer equivalent of a 'bad hair day' but I've recreated the same thing and see what you mean. For me, I just click on another file in the shelf and then the green button brings it back up. Then if I go back to the original problem folder the window behaves itself.

 

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phuong

macrumors 6502a

• Oct 30, 2006

• #8

how did you get it anyway?

there's a program called "megazoomer" or similar to that, which allows you to make the most front window to fill the screen when you press Cmd+Enter.
so, install it, and press Cmd+Enter. hopefully it'll make that 10-mile window to shrink back to full screen, and then you can manually resize it using its corner

 

HexMonkey

Administrator emeritus

• Oct 30, 2006

• #9

Make it the frontmost Finder window then run this script in Script Editor:

Code:

tell application "Finder" to set bounds of Finder window 1 to {100, 100, 800, 600}

 

Mechcozmo

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Original poster

• Oct 31, 2006

• #10

HexMonkey said:

Make it the frontmost Finder window then run this script in Script Editor:

Code:

tell application "Finder" to set bounds of Finder window 1 to {100, 100, 800, 600}

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Beautiful!
I'm saving this snippit of script just in case that happens again. Which I'm not sure how it did.

Thanks HexMonkey!

 

TumbleDryer

macrumors 603

• Oct 31, 2006

• #11

Cant you just go to Window > Zoom?

It works slightly differently to 'maximise' maybe this is what caused it to happen in the first place.