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Missing icon in Finder

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bodzasfanta

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Used to be (Snow Leopard and before) when you mounted a dmg file, there was an icon in Finder on the top right corner.
Clicking on this it showed the sidebar. Where is it now? How can I get back?
 
paulsalter

paulsalter

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bodzasfanta said:
Used to be when you mounted a dmg file, there was an icon in Finder on the top right corner.
Clicking on this it showed the sidebar. Where is it now? How can I get back?
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not sure of the icon you mean

but does View -> Show Sidebar give what you want ?
 
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bodzasfanta

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paulsalter said:
not sure of the icon you mean

but does View -> Show Sidebar give what you want ?
Click to expand...

There is the button (not icon, sorry for the confusion!), in the top right corner:
SnowLeopardDMG.jpg


And no, show sidebar is greyed out for me...
 
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aresinferno

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Oct 13, 2008
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It is missing because that button is not often used, other than in Finder. That corner is now almost-exclusively used for a fullscreen button. Finder may not support fullscreen but apple does not wish to 'confuse' users by having something other than a fullscreen button there.

If you want to show the sidebar, first show the toolbar. I had a bit of trouble when I tried and had to show toolbar, show sidebar (which didn't appear), hide sidebar and then a final click on show sidebar made it appear.
 
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bodzasfanta

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aresinferno said:
It is missing because that button is not often used, other than in Finder. That corner is now almost-exclusively used for a fullscreen button. Finder may not support fullscreen but apple does not wish to 'confuse' users by having something other than a fullscreen button there.

If you want to show the sidebar, first show the toolbar. I had a bit of trouble when I tried and had to show toolbar, show sidebar (which didn't appear), hide sidebar and then a final click on show sidebar made it appear.
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Since I've found the TUAW article about it and it's called lozenge.

Right click on the corner, and hide toolbar works pretty much. Just one more click :)
 
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