Switch Back? Need help with OS X...

[brap]

Also, i couldn't find this "kind" button the other person was talking about, although it seems it doesn't do exactly what I want it to either

Open Finder window.
Click the icon that looks like a gear.
Click 'show view options'.
In the popup, select 'Keep arranged by'
and from the dropdown select 'kind'.

They're all together, it's a start. It's honestly not as hard as you're making it out. The folder organisaiton was my biggest 'shock-horror' discovery with X, but it's really not so hard looking through an alphabetical list...

What you need to do is fiddle. Mess around. The computer won't bite you, there are so many options, you just need to find them.

 

[Logik]

I use this wonderful application called Quicksilver to get where i need to go... maybe you should try that.. it's free.. you can use it to navigate your file system... launchbar does this too.. though isn't free.. pick your poison.

http://quicksilver.blacktree.com/

http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/

 

[SiliconAddict]

Hmmm... anything?

Wrap your head around the concept and get over it.

Grow up zealot boy. He’s asking if there is a way to tweak these annoyances. So either help out or go away.

 

[CaptainHaddock]

- Text highlighting seems likes it possessed sometimes. I never know if I'm going to highlight the word, sentence, etc.

That's an odd complaint, Windows' guess-what-I'm-trying-to-do text highlighting is the most hideous feature I have to face when on a PC. The Mac is so simple:

click: position cursor
double-click: highlight word
triple-click: highlight line
click-drag: makes custom selection
click-pause-drag: moves selection

Which feature do you have trouble with? As someone suggested, you might need to adjust the click speed settings if they don't suit you.

Is there a way to view the internals of ZIP files with out extracting everything? What if I only want one file out of a very large zip file?

My iMac does this whenever I right-click a zip archive (any archive, actually). I get an expanding context menu that shows all the files. It might be because I have Stuffit, an extremely useful program for working with archives and better than anything in the PC world. Double-clicking an archive brings up a Stuffit window listing all the contents.

Heck, to zip a file, I just have to re-type the extension as .zip!

I'll admit that KDE's Konqueror does some neat tricks the Finder doesn't, but Windows Explorer is quite awful compared to both of them.

 

[SiliconAddict]

For the complaints about Finder. You might want to try out:
Mac Explorer X

 

[3-22]

Thanks...

Hey, thanks everyone for the great feedback.

I liked the info on highlighting text and the folder size options I'll try it out tonight. For the highlighting text I think I might have a bad habit from XP of clicking and still moving on text. OS X thinks I'm hightlighting a section. I need to make sure I stop-click-release-move again.

I also have some good shareware to check out...

One thing I like about having a Mac as compared to a PC is the generally helpful Mac community. Although you still get the occasional zealout.

Thanks!

 

[yellow]

OS X thinks I'm hightlighting a section. I need to make sure I stop-click-release-move again.

Or, if you're trying to move/open an app, aim for the icon rather then the text, which might be where you're running into troubles.