I would like to know how to get a tighter grid spacing when I arrange my window. In 8.6 (where I have lived for years) you can specify "tight" and get 30 or 40 folders in a decent sized window. Now with Panther I get like 15 or 20 folders and useless empty space between them. Is there some kind of trick involved to get a choice of spacing? Thanks.
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Grid Spacing (Panther)
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Not in Panther, any more, but I seem to remember that this was possible, somehow... either by setting folder icon size in Finder -> View -> View Options (cmd-J) or by setting the grid somehow in System Preferences -> Appearence or Finder preferences...
...or my mind could be playing tricks with me again...
...either way, it gets worse when and if you upgrade to Tiger... I've more or less stopped using the snap to grid feature all together because of it's space inefficiency...
...or my mind could be playing tricks with me again...
...either way, it gets worse when and if you upgrade to Tiger... I've more or less stopped using the snap to grid feature all together because of it's space inefficiency...
Thanks for your reply.
I can fill in the empty space if I make the folders really big. Looks dumb!
The best I have found is if I shrink the text size to 10 pt and move the labels to the side the folders stack up better (View options). I can go from 24 folders in a window to 36. Of course, the numbering goes from horizontal to vertical! Oh brother.
This is going to take some getting used to...
I can fill in the empty space if I make the folders really big. Looks dumb!
The best I have found is if I shrink the text size to 10 pt and move the labels to the side the folders stack up better (View options). I can go from 24 folders in a window to 36. Of course, the numbering goes from horizontal to vertical! Oh brother.
This is going to take some getting used to...