Snow Leopard Adds Minor Often Requested Tweaks: Put Back, Stack Folder Navigation

[Small White Car]

All I want in OS X is the Dock folder to work just like 10.4's. So I can click on a folder and it opens up the finder window. no stacks no grids. I mean, the option to.

Hold Command when you click it.

Or, if you really hate the keyboard, right click the folder on the dock and set it to always display using the 'List' view. Then, when you click the folder, the first choice at the bottom of the list is "Open in Finder." It's 2 clicks instead of 1, but it works.

I'd just use the Command method, but at least there's 2 options for you. (EDIT: Looks like clmason came up with an even better option for you.)

 

[fleshman03]

ok, nice feature, more please.

iCal definately needs some makeover just as safari does... just to mention two

Yes!!! I miss the "outlook-style". Panes. Those were the days.

 

[manu chao]

telling what app is avoiding a unmount (?)

That is very welcome.

 

[clmason]

I personally love the Finder in its current form. Call it nostalgia, but its quality over the last 10 years was one of the reasons that I learned a lot more about file management from the command line.

I really only have two options I'd like added and then I'd really have no complaints:

- automatically remember window views for all windows
- always display in a simple window without sidebar

Probably could be worded better, but hopefully you get my point.

 

[Detektiv-Pinky]

I personally love the Finder in its current form. Call it nostalgia, but its quality over the last 10 years was one of the reasons that I learned a lot more about file management from the command line.

...you almost made me spill my coffee over the keyboard

 

[barkmonster]

Can we have fully customisable "boolean" searches like in the original Sherlock under OS 9?

that would be a few features to "put back" from OS 9 at the same time.

A unified file browser that's the same in every application every time we hit APPLE + O would help too.

Some of them are so minimal it's just plain annoying.

 

[addicted44]

Now all they need to do...

Add the "merge" option when copying /moving folders to another folder and there is a folder with the same name there. Windows does a merge by default (but calls it replace) but Mac OS X calls it replace, and does an actual replace.

I am loving Snow Leopard. Screw the Time Machine style features (although, I cant live without Spotlight, TM, Quicklook). Give me a LOT MORE of these little improvements.

 

[Mal]

Can we have fully customisable "boolean" searches like in the original Sherlock under OS 9?

that would be a few features to "put back" from OS 9 at the same time.

A unified file browser that's the same in every application every time we hit APPLE + O would help too.

Some of them are so minimal it's just plain annoying.

You can do pretty effective boolean searches in Spotlight now, not quite the same syntax as Sherlock, but effective.

There is also already a unified file browser for open and save dialog boxes, but if third-party applications don't use them, that's hardly Apple's fault. They make them available, and that's all they can do.

jW

 

[Schtumple]

telling what app is avoiding a unmount (?)

Browse- & Scrollable Stacks

Those 2 things right there, (that and the restore file from trash thing) are the only main annoyances I have with OSX, once those things are implemented, it's all good from then on...

 

[i.maverick]

cool n all..

thats cool n all but yno wt id really like.. quicklook everywhere. within stacks or within the spotlight results drop down or within the select file window (like in mail or trying to attach something).
that would really be cool.

 

[hacksaw-C87]

Please, please, please. Cut and paste. That's all I want (other than performance improvements, obviously).

 

[Rorikynn]

Finally!

Now apple needs to add the concept of file cut & paste. Cringe at the notion of "cutting" a file? Call it "mark for move", and be done with it. Or do a Path Finder type drop box or something, which will keep the drag n' drop feel intact but still allow people to use a shortcut key to push things onto the drop box and pop them back off one at a time or all at once.

Not to mention adding folder merges...that'd be nice too.

I really hope 10.6 continues to clean up shop. It's shaping up nicely.

 

[SFStateStudent]

It's annoying in this situation, as you would have to either move stuff out before you can empty the trash, or delete the stuff that you don't want to permanently delete yet

+1 ^^^ Exactly, the same issue that I have 24/7. I dumped a bunch of music from my iTunes and realized that I had dumped some music and videos that I meant to keep. Took me forever to put it in the right spots, then get album artwork (custom) back from iTunes via the internet or my iPhoto library...

 

[8CoreWhore]

I definitely like the stacks feature.

Although the trash thing sounds silly to me. I don't put things in the trash by accident. I empty it pretty regularly too so even if I ever did put something in the trash by accident, it wouldn't be around long enough for put back to be of any use.

Now what I want for stacks is the ability to sort different stacks different ways. Like I want my documents stack ordered by date last modified while I want my applications stack ordered by name.

Sometimes you need to put something in the trash while diagnosing problems. Sometimes that file came from a deep dark hole - that would then be easily put back - in the correct place.

 

[Sky Blue]

telling what app is avoiding a unmount (?)

Greatest thing ever. i know there's a terminal command for this now, but I always forget what it is.

 

[krye]

finally, I've been wanting these 2 things for a while now.

 

[ingenious]

So what was wrong with Edit/Undo to put the deleted files back to where they were?

That only works if moving the file to the trash was your last action in Finder. This works on any file currently in the trash, no matter when you deleted it.

 

[ingenious]

Please, please, please. Cut and paste. That's all I want (other than performance improvements, obviously).

This is an update to the Mac operating system, not the iPhone's... Mac OS X has always had copy and paste.

 

[alexbates]

Awesome, now there's a need to buy Snow Leopard!

 

[hacksaw-C87]

This is an update to the Mac operating system, not the iPhone's... Mac OS X has always had copy and paste.

... But not cut and paste ...

 

[me_94501]

The current theme is definitely the perfect default... but there are a lot of complaints by Vista users about the lack of eye candy. I think Apple should add glass themes and other colours etc, but as an option rather than the default.

To thinkk that just a few years ago Windows users were teasing our OS for its eye candy.

 

[NoSmokingBandit]

Put Back - Under Mac OS 9, users had the option to restore any "Trash"ed files (before the Trash is emptied) back to their original locations with a simple "Put Back" command. For some reason, this capability was lost in the transition to Mac OS X. In the latest Snow Leopard builds, it's back. So any accidental disposals can now easily be restored with a simple click. Again, this only works for files that have been moved to the Trash but not yet "emptied".

WOW. This is big. Chalk up one less thing that Windows users can complain about!

I agree. Now if we can just have cut/paste files...

 

[Tallest Skil]

This is an update to the Mac operating system, not the iPhone's... Mac OS X has always had copy and paste.

Cut... and paste. Cutting files out of folders and pasting them elsewhere.

I say just drag the freaking thing, but then again, I use OS X as Apple intended it.

Awesome, now there's a need to buy Snow Leopard!

As opposed to Grand Central, OpenCL, ZFS, and a somehow more unified interface...

 

[inkswamp]

Good news. I am glad Apple is taking a breather to just polish and trim their OSX. Ever since 10.3 came out, the OS lost its direction and became bulky and slower.

I own an iBook G4 circa 2004 and previously owned an iBook G3 circa 2002. I also have an "iLamp" from 2001. All of them got noticeably faster and more usable with each OS X release. I've experienced the same on newer Macs too. I couldn't disagree more than OS X has become bulky and slower since 10.3. Quite the opposite actually.

I miss the original days of OSX when it ran like water.

Like water? Are you kidding? 10.1 and 10.2 were okay but any time they experienced networking complications the whole OS bogged down or went into the spinning beach ball mode and often needed to be forced to shut down. 10.3 did that but much more rarely and 10.4 onward has shown little to no signs of that. From my experience, OS X has gotten progressively and significantly better since 10.3.

 

[Xian Zhu Xuande]

I'm looking forward to Snow Leopard more and more. I was originally excited about it when I heard that Apple was simply focusing on refinement instead of loads of new features. I wish Adobe would do that for once! Their crap just keeps getting more and more bloated and cumbersome, but if they were to put some real effort into refinement it would make an incredible difference.

Check out PathFinder to see what a REAL modern finder would look and act like

You clearly haven't been tutoring Mac users who aren't power users. This is the last thing in the world most of them--and they're most of the users out there--would want to see. I see plenty of fun features for power users, though.

I own an iBook G4 circa 2004 and previously owned an iBook G3 circa 2002. I also have an "iLamp" from 2001. All of them got noticeably faster and more usable with each OS X release. I've experienced the same on newer Macs too. I couldn't disagree more than OS X has become bulky and slower since 10.3. Quite the opposite actually.

Faster? I might have agreed with you for 10.1 through 10.3, but 10.4 slowed things down a bit and 10.5 is pretty darn harsh on older PPC processors. Sure, they run a little smoother each time, but Leopard in particular is too much for the older processors, even if they're able to run it. There's a reason why most people recommend Tiger or Panther for older Macs.