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Swipe back/forward gesture in Finder?

gorskiegangsta

gorskiegangsta

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Previously (Lion and ML) I could swipe back/forward in Finder with 2 or 3 finger gesture. In Mavericks the neither 2 nor 3 finger gestures work, making Finder navigation rather tedious. Is there any way to (re)enable the feature? Are there any 3rd party apps that allow this.

Thanks!

BTW, I've tried XtraFinder - the gestures don't seem to work with that, either. :(
 
I'm really hoping this is just an oversight- apparently it was a problem in the GM as well though so I would hope Apple is aware of it.

In the mean time I've been using Better Touch Tool, which I have set up to use the three-finger swipe gestures in Finder only to represent the shortcuts "⌘[" and "⌘]" for back and forward, respectively.
 
wellslogan said:
I'm really hoping this is just an oversight- apparently it was a problem in the GM as well though so I would hope Apple is aware of it.

In the mean time I've been using Better Touch Tool, which I have set up to use the three-finger swipe gestures in Finder only to represent the shortcuts "⌘[" and "⌘]" for back and forward, respectively.
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thanks, I was also able to get back an easy way to show the desktop, the way they force it on you is extremely unreliable and awkward.

they have lost their minds if they took away swipe-back in Finder on purpose
 
Phazer said:
How did you get it to work in Lion and Mountain Lion?
To me it only worked in Snow Leopard
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I believe it was tied to the swipe between pages command. I had it set to With one or two fingers and it's always allowed me forward and back in the Finder.

-Kevin
 
it worked fine in ML, it may have been an extra option in the accessibility stuff but I couldnt find anything that looked familiar in the settings, I seem to remember disabling/changing the default method of swiping pages because it never worked well
 
I've never been able to get it to work with three finger drag enabled. As soon as it's disabled, it seems to work ok. It's a bit annoying at the best of times. it shouldn't matter whether or not three finger drag is enabled for this feature to work.
 
PS:

Maybe we should file more this kind of issues.

Apple considers duplicated issues as votes for this feature (as I heard).
 
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