OS X :: SL - Selecting Files In Finder In List View?

Sep 4, 2009

Under Leopard and prior, in List view you can highlight a line by selecting anywhere on the line. However, to actually select the file to drag it, etc, you had to select the file name itself, clicking the date etc wouldn't allow you to drag the file.

Well, in Snow Leopard, you can now select anywhere on the line and it will allow you to drag the file(s). Pretty nice.

However.....this causes a weird UI issue. If the window you are working in is small enough so that the items in list view fill it up completely (so there is a scroll bar), you can no longer right click on any empty space or the date/filesize etc to pull up the contextual menu for example to create a New Folder.

If there is empty space below the file list, then it still allows you to right click to get the menu.

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OS X :: Issue With Selecting Multiple Items In Finder List View

Oct 20, 2009

Maybe this was discussed elsewhere; if so, I couldn't find it:

Often I need to select multiple separate items from a large folder of them; I use list view, and command-click on each item, and then drag the whole batch to the appropriate location. It appears that in Snow Leopard (unlike previous OS X versions), when if I scroll down the list to select further items, it jumps back to the top-most selected item after a couple seconds. This makes it completely impossible to select further items! Is there a preference to turn this "function" off? Why would anyone want such a thing? Even if it is what the Finder is meant to do, it seems implemented poorly, since if I grab the scrollbar slider and drag it down below my selected items, after the couple seconds the view jumps back to the topmost item, but the slider doesn't move. All it all, it feels like a glitch.

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Mar 30, 2009

For those of you who know Windows, you can view your folders/files in a list but still re-arrange by type/kind (i.e. I will get the folders first, then the different kinds of files).

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May 21, 2010

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Oct 30, 2010

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OS X :: Finder To Display In Columns But It Always Changes Back To List View?

Jan 25, 2010

The title pretty much explains it.

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Is there any way I can make it stay in column view?

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Applications :: Finder Default View Options - Always Open In List

Oct 26, 2010

I'd like all my finder windows to appear the same when navigating through folders, but I'm noticing that finder is not always taking notice of the "set as defaults" button. The way I've tried to do it is to open a finder window and push cmd+J. I prefer the list view, so I check the "always open in list" box, set the icon size and uncheck "icon preview".

However, as I navigate deeper into folders, I notice some folders will no longer remember these and for example, will start to show the icon preview. In Windows, I remember you used to set up a random window to appear exactly how you wanted it, enter folder options and hit "default view for all windows".

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Aug 3, 2010

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Jun 20, 2014

The default 'document' column is way too wide and forces you eye to track all the way across the screen to read info like "date modified', 'kind' or 'size'.  Tried several times to create a narrower default 'document name' column with no results. Couldn't find anything in preferences or view options. Tried dragging column headers while holding the down the option key with no results.   Every time I open a new finder window, all columns except the 'document' column affixed to the right side of the window. Also, when you grab the bottom right corner of a window to resize smaller, the lists become re-affixed to the right side of the window when opening the window back up.  Experiencing the same problem in Mavericks 10.9.3 on an iMac and Macbook Pro Retina.

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OS X :: Select An Inclusive List Of Files In Icon View?

Jun 27, 2010

I want to select several files in icon view, and I want to click the first icon, hold down a key combination, and then select the "final" file to select all the files inclusive in that set. I thought that "Shift" would do it, but it doesn't.

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MacBook Air :: How To Customize Files View In Finder

Mar 17, 2012

I realize I can click on the icons in the upper left corner to change from cover flow to list view etc., but when you do that it becomes the default view no matter what folder you open. I am a recent windows convert and in windows you can have list view for one folder and thumbnail view in another and it remembers. The problem I have with a single default view is that if I change to cover flow to view photos and then open a folder that is just a list of documents I hav to switch back each time I go form one to the other. I also get an error message telling me you cant view documents this way. Is there some way to set a different default view for each folder?

Info:
MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7)

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Mar 18, 2012

My system has been reinstalled six times because I keep getting panic attacks when ever I browse a drive and select the icon view and also when I selct my pictures folder on the left side of the main screen. It only happens when I do those things. 

I have a Mac Pro Mid 2010 with 24Gig Ram a ATI Radeon HD 5870 480GB SSD main drive running Lion 10.7.3 (11D50) 

I had done a full check up and there is no problem with the systems hardware ie.. Ram. 

Info:
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OS X Mavericks :: Finder Freeze When Selecting Desktop Folder

Aug 20, 2014

When opening it shows "as icons" but if I select "as list" or if I select desktop folder, it freeze and doesn't show anything nor close the window. Following is my log:

Marcador - 20/08/2014 14:09:17
Aug 20 14:09:24 Macintosh.local Finder[1429]: -[__NSCFString hasPrefix:]: nil argument
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Apr 24, 2012

I would like to view as Columns but it is grayed out in Finder view options.  Why is this? And is there a way to fix it? 

Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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May 21, 2012

If I look at any file with QuickLook, and then immediately try to select any file after closing the QuickLook preview window, there's a 2 second lag between click and actual file selection (with an outline around the icon or list name). 

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Macbook Air
1.8 GHz Intel Core i7
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Jul 3, 2012

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I remember doing this over a year ago on my G4 Powerbook and it working. But on my Intel MacBook Pro, I can't locate the file they are referring to in the article. where this file was moved to or how to access this thing on the Intel machines?

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When I double click the "Macintosh HD" icon, on desktop, the window always appears in list view although I've selected icon view for this window.

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Jul 1, 2012

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Info:
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Jul 29, 2009

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Software :: List View Format Won't Stay

Apr 27, 2009

Opening HD. always comes up in Icon View. Have gone into menu and unchecked "Icon view" and ckd. " list View" but quite often it goes back to icon view. Irritating that it won't stay as list view.

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Disappearing Triangles In List View

Feb 9, 2012

Maybe I am missing a setting somewhere but the wee triangles alongside folders in list view randomly disappear. To see what is inside a folder, therefore I have to double-click (which kind of defeats the idea of list view methinks!)

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Mar 17, 2010

does anyone know how to select a group of files to then get the total size of the group. ever since i upgraded to snow leopard, whenever i select a group of files and then click on info, i get separate windows for every file and then must add them up separately.

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Oct 11, 2010

I just fresh-installed 10.6 and updated everything. And now this.

I have not ever seen this before nor have I installed any software I haven't ever used before that did not do this.

This also shows in Columns View and the Lower Pane of Cover Flow.

... so lost ...

Get Info shows a preview of a normal folder, as does icon view.

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Jan 8, 2011

After doing an erase and clean install to 10.6.6 for some reason my Search window continues to open in Icon view rather than List view as it did before. Hard to believe I can't resolve this. And there's probably a very simple solution, but even after doing an extensive search on the web I can't seem to find it.

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May 22, 2009

I have to clean up my calendars in ical.app. At the moment, there are around 10 different calendars mixed from fragments of an Outlook import, mobile phone import, Entourage fragments, new ICal calendars. Can I display all events of a calendar at once in a list, to mark and delete unimportant or double events? Is there a easier way, to edit multiple events from one calendar to another (I have to export a calendar, delete it after export in ical and import it in the calendar, I want it to live in)?

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Jun 9, 2009

In Safari 4 all history files show up in a coverflow manner. I want to see list view only. How can i disable coverflow view?

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May 20, 2010

How do I set my folders to display in list view instead of icon view consistently? I've tried the "open new windows in column view" option, but it still opens as icons.

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Command-Drag Select In List View?

May 4, 2012

There are many things about Lion that irk the crap outta me, but this one is near the top. In ALL previous versions of Finder, one could, in list view, select a bunch of files by dragging over them, then, holding the command key down, add more non-contiguous files to the selection, again by dragging. If you try that in Lion, it starts dragging the whole lot of what you just selected to, usually, the root folder of the window you have open. 

It appears that the only way to add extra non-contiguous files to a selection is to individually click each one of them.

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