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Missing bit of finder on OSX Leopard
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OPTION/ALT+CMD+S
or Finder > View > Show Sidebar
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or Finder > View > Show Sidebar
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Mac OS X Basics
Switch 101 - guide with articles made by Apple on how to accustom yourself, after you switched to Mac OS X from Windows
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Don't you mean Option+Command+T or View > Show Toolbar?
Or click this (maybe twice):
Nope, as the Toolbar is still showing? Or am I missing something? I just woke up and made the "mistake" to wake that computer of mine and saw this.
I just tested it again. Take a normal looking Finder window, the last in the OP for example.
If you press OPTION+COMMAND+T you hide the Sidebar + the Toolbar, if the Toolbar is hidden, OPTION+COMMAND+S does not work.
If you press OPTION+COMMAND+T again, the Sidebar and Toolbar come back into view. Now pressing OPTION+COMMAND+S just hides the Sidebar and the Toolbar stays visible, just like in the OP.
Or am I still missing something?
Btw, since when does Flickr not support transparent PNGs anymore?
Note the thread title. The OP is on Leopard. Option+Command+S doesn't do anything in Finder on Leopard. There is no Sidebar command in 10.5 Leopard:
That's why I also recommended clicking the button maybe twice, to hide, then show the Toolbar (and hopefully, the Sidebar). If that doesn't work, try deleting:
/Users/username/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist
Ahh, I did forget that. Thanks.
But then how can only the Sidebar go awry, but leave the Toolbar intact or does OPTION+COMMAND+T behave differently in Mac OS X 10.5?
Ahh, I did forget that. Thanks.
But then how can only the Sidebar go awry, but leave the Toolbar intact or does OPTION+COMMAND+T behave differently in Mac OS X 10.5?
Option+Command+T should show/hide both the sidebar and toolbar together. The fact that one is gone and not the other leads me to think that the plist might be corrupted.
What happens if you click the green widget to expand the malfunctioning window?
If it fixes the "missing parts" problem, you can then drag the window-resizer back down to the size you want.
If it fixes the "missing parts" problem, you can then drag the window-resizer back down to the size you want.
That's what I though too, could a deletion of Macintosh HD / Users / USER / Library / Preferences / com.apple.finder.plist work?
That won't work. As you can see from the screen capture, the left side of the window is already visible, so it's not hidden by window resizing.
Repeating the things before I even write them down. Bloody bastard.
Okay, it seems, today is not my day, maybe I should wait till the night comes, that's when I'm in better shape as it seems. It's still light out there.
But one for the road: Have you tried installing Mac OS X 10.1 yet? It solves the problem by not having a Sidebar to begin with? *
See GGJstudios, I can write something before you come up with it.
Animal, this is definitely not my thread...
* not a serious suggestion
I really hate to point this out, but if I had said that, I wouldn't have used the word "bloody", since I'm in Texas, not the UK. If you're gonna put words in my mouth, at least use ones I would really say! LOL!
I really hate to point this out, but if I had said that, I wouldn't have used the word "bloody", since I'm in Texas, not the UK. If you're gonna put words in my mouth, at least use ones I would really say! LOL!
That was more of a description of what you did
than of what you said. I don't know how Texans swear, but I'm sure it is not PG-rated, thus my exclusion of any "hard" swear words.
It's not HBO, it's MRF. One of many places, where adults don't swear at children or iPhones.
Anyway, not to derail this thread further, OP, has the deletion of that .plist file brought any solution? And if you tell your grandchildren about this momentous occasion at some time in the future, please mention me as being the repeater of the solution.