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Curious folder thing

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TrailerTrish

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Jan 22, 2012
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I've noticed a folder in Finder that is unusual in that it has no little arrow beside it, and the contents are listed below it. You cannot close the folder, because there's no little arrow to open or close it when viewing the folders on the disk as a list. I can't understand why this folder is different.

Is it actually a folder on another disk?

I'm on a Powermac G4 MDD running Leopard.
 
It looks like this, and it's not the only such folder. It's on an external USB drive, and there are other such folders below it. I have no idea how they got that way. Why does this happen?

They weren't like that before, they had little arrows to the left so you could open and close them, and see the folders inside them. Now they don't, and you have to double click to open some of them, and Retro TV has the folders inside it below the folder icon.

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Silly question maybe, but have you tried scrolling sideways to see if they're just hiding?
 
hafr said:
Silly question maybe, but have you tried scrolling sideways to see if they're just hiding?
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Okay, now I feel really stupid...

I stretched the window open to the right and the little arrows came back and all is normal now. Anyway, that was weird, I didn't know that could happen. Thanks for the help.
 
TrailerTrish said:
Okay, now I feel really stupid...

I stretched the window open to the right and the little arrows came back and all is normal now. Anyway, that was weird, I didn't know that could happen. Thanks for the help.
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Haha, glad I could help :) I wish all problems would be this simple to fix ;)
 
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