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Unzipping Annoyance

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snverhallen

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Another Leopard annoyance, when ever I unzip a file it unzips on top of the .zip file. Refer to attachment. Anyone else find this annoying?

snverhallen
 

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snverhallen said:
Another Leopard annoyance, when ever I unzip a file it unzips on top of the .zip file. Refer to attachment. Anyone else find this annoying?

snverhallen
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I assume Apple did this so that people could see where their zip filed unzipped to. Before the directory used to open somewhere random on the desktop, which if you have a lot of desktop items can be hard to spot. Quite smart if you think of it that way. ;)
 
dr_lha said:
I assume Apple did this so that people could see where their zip filed unzipped to. Before the directory used to open somewhere random on the desktop, which if you have a lot of desktop items can be hard to spot. Quite smart if you think of it that way. ;)
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You don't have your desktop snapping to a grid, if you are at the desktop with nothing else selected, hit Command+J and you can set up things like the grid spacing, icon size, font size, ordering... all that jazz.
 
This happens even with the desktop set to snap to grid. I love it; it's one of the tiny features in Leopard I think are really cool. No more visually searching the desktop to find where the unzipped folder landed.

I wish the same thing happened with .dmg files and the resulting mounted volume icon.
 
kostia said:
This happens even with the desktop set to snap to grid. I love it; it's one of the tiny features in Leopard I think are really cool. No more visually searching the desktop to find where the unzipped folder landed.

I wish the same thing happened with .dmg files and the resulting mounted volume icon.
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On my desktop it doesnt do that for me, i've got all my stuff set to snap to grid.
 
Mine does that and I have snap to grid on. It's annoying to me too.
 
Oh well, I don't put stuff on my desktop... and when i unpack something with Unarchiver I have the zip thrown in the trash anyway.
 
This is really odd to see all the different results. It seems everyones Leopard has a mind of it's own, in terms of all the different results!?

snverhallen
 
Well I have snap to grid on and just downloaded something that I then manually unziped.

Maybe its a Safari download thing? The "open safe files" setting? Mine is off.

Either way, I like it A LOT. While I never save the archives, its nice to see right where it unzipped to.
 

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