Missing icon in Finder

bodzasfanta · Jul 25, 2011, 07:36 AM

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 · Jul 25, 2011, 07:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bodzasfanta

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?

not sure of the icon you mean

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

bodzasfanta · 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by paulsalter

not sure of the icon you mean

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

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

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

Simplicated · Jul 25, 2011, 07:59 AM

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Originally Posted by bodzasfanta

There is the button (not icon, sort for the confusion!), in the top right corner:
Image

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

View -> Show Toolbar

bodzasfanta · Jul 25, 2011, 08:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Simplicated

View -> Show Toolbar

Yes, it shows the toolbar but not this button! It is missing.

aresinferno · Jul 25, 2011, 08:29 AM

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.

bodzasfanta · Jul 25, 2011, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by aresinferno

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.

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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bodzasfanta macrumors newbie Join Date: Jan 2009	Missing icon in Finder 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?
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aresinferno macrumors regular Join Date: Oct 2008	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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