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Mr. Anderson
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mkrishnan
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I get the four squares icon in view / "as icons," but I don't see grid view. What's that? When I check view options with no window selected, I can make the desktop snap to grid, but I don't see the icon you showed as a result.
More to the point, what does it do differently in the finder window?
And semi-OT, which mode do people use most -- as icons, list, or columns? I always liked list mode from the old MacOS, although sometimes columns is handy.
On Windows though, I usually use small icons (list) and set it to open subsequent folders in the same window....
I use list view all the time now.
I used to like icon view, but so few icons fit in a window, and it seems like they're always jumbled.
Might switch to column view, tho. Can you drag a file from the right-hand side and drop it on a different folder in one of the the middle columns?
mkrishnan
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Yes, you can. I really like the way Finder implements popping up other folders if you try to put things into them... like if you put a folder in the left-hand tray, then if you drag something over to it and hold it there, it will temporarily open in a separate window and then let you sub-navigate, and then go away when it's finished with. Now if only there was a "/.." entry in the folder so you could use this trick to move to a folder up....🙄
