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Poll: What View Do You Use in Finder?

You View in Finder?

  • Folders Themselves (1st in Finder)

    Votes: 31 36.5%

  • Columns To Columns (2nd in Finder)

    Votes: 23 27.1%

  • Rows To Rows (3rd in Finder)

    Votes: 24 28.2%

  • Cover Flow (4th in Finder)

    Votes: 7 8.2%
  • Total voters
    85
HappyDude20

HappyDude20

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I think Apple's finder has a few good ways to view itself but am curious as to how others view theirs...

That's where the poll comes in, but am quite curious as to why you choose the view that you do use...

Perhaps you like the look? Easier to navigate? etc?
 
For me mostly Cover Flow or List view, depending on how many items are in the folder I am viewing.
 
Mostly Column view here, though Cover Flow is better for your arrow keys when navigating folders with lots of pictures.

Another very useful feature in Leopard's Finder is the "TOOLBAR".

Notice here that I have shortcuts to programs like Preview, PS, QT and Stickies. Very useful for quick launching images and movies you want to edit or preview once you have located them. AN excellent feature.
 
OdduWon said:
Notice here that I have shortcuts to programs like Preview, PS, QT and Stickies. Very useful for quick launching images and movies you want to edit or preview once you have located them. AN excellent feature.
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Wow how do you get those? They look very cool and useful....
 
I use all of them at some stage, but CoverFlow is my least used view.
 
Cover Flow is rubbish IMO, it just confuses me (its an easy thing to do)

List and column for me, just find it easier to get around. Not forgetting the space bar quick preview! really useful when you got loads of images to go though.
 
need more poll options. i dont use only one view.

Documents, Downloads, Movies, Pictures - Cover Flow (although i hate it how it gets smaller and smaller, unlike iTunes)
root hard drive, home, Music, Libraries, "Stuff", external hard drives - Column View
Preferences - List view
Computer, Trash and everything else - Icon view
 
I use all the views depending on the folder in question. I keep my used folders on the Finder sidebar so for Utilities I use Coverflow, I like using Coverflow for this because the utilities icons are a bit weird to distinguish. For downloads I use icon view with big icons. For music folder I use list view.

I love being able to use the Finder toolbar for one-click access to applications! Can't do that in Windows Explorer. I keep the Delete button in the toolbar so I don't have to right-click or drag items to the trash.
 
fpbecker said:
You forget the I-have-just-switched option:

'Where can I make Finder look and behave like Windows Explorer?'
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Exactly. I think the Finder is the only piece of software on the Mac that I truly hate and wish I had the Windows counterpart instead. I am still amazed that the finder needs 3 views* to do half of the things the Windows explorer can do with one view...
(*coverflow is not a view - it is eye-candy)
 
Detektiv-Pinky said:
(*coverflow is not a view - it is eye-candy)
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You guys say stuff like that but when Apple hears you and yanks the feature and then we have a mega post thread entitled "Bring Back CoverFlow in Finder".

Just because you don't like it or use it doesn't mean it's not used by many Mac users.
 
coming from windows the folder view seems a little more natural to me, but I am finding the 3rd view an easier to use view
 
What's up with your weird titles for the views?
The first view is called icon view, the second is list view, the third is column view and the fourth is coverflow.

Anyway I use icon view in the Finder, I only use the Finder when I'm showing someone else not quite so computer savvy something. I use column view in PathFinder which is what I use in my daily activities. However I've found I barely use either as Quicksilver is much much faster.
 
Varies - the default I have is Icon view, however I have my Applications folder as a list, and if I'm searching for something I'll switch it to list.
 
List view is #1 for me. I can see a larger number of files with more complete name, size and date info.

Cover flow is almost as good for that, but with only Tiger at work, I forget about it at home where I have Leopard. Column view isn't bad, but I can't stand icon view at all (Mac or Windows).

And I'm not sure why there are such fans of Windows. I really miss toggling the triangles when I am on a Windows machine.
 
I mostly use Columns, but the key is using it with Arrange By...Type, added with 10.5. Before 10.5, Column view was marginal, at best, for me, and I tended to use the details mode (rows?) I use the Icon view for few specific cases, like Applications and Downloads.

Now if only the Finder were improved so each folder remembered its specific view settings, life would be even better.
 
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