[Editor's note: Thousands of hours with OS X, over a thousand tips published here, a guidebook out the door ... and I had never tried this! Amazing ... thanks Buddha!]
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Here is a handy tip for Finder column view junkies (like myself). If you double click on a column resize widget, all columns will resize to the width of the longest named item in that column. I find this trick especially useful when looking for items with long names that are similar - like Preferences.
[Editor's note: Thousands of hours with OS X, over a thousand tips published here, a guidebook out the door ... and I had never tried this! Amazing ... thanks Buddha!]
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Nice, usefull trick indeed. And as a bonus there is also an OPTION-key variant: Pressing OPTION key and double-clicking the widget will resize only column of interest (expand or shrink as needed) !
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Cool!
...and...
...<Option>+double-click will just resize THAT column. But then you already tried that, right? :) Great tip!
wow
That's it! The. Best. Hint. Ever.
wow
Feel dumb but where is this "widget"?
Widget location...
At the bottom of each column you'll see two little vertical bars:
Widget location...
Thanks a lot. Never would have thought to click on those. I kept looking in the Menu.
Gee... Thanks
I am glad that you all like the hint...
Gee... Thanks
Any idea how to set the default view on all windows to columns?
Gee... Thanks
This is actually listed in robg's excellent Mac OS X Guide...
Gee... Thanks
Wow, that's the BEST tip yet for getting used to this, uh, less than ingenious "Finder" that we have!
Hurm....
I'm finding that if I double-click the resizer-grabber thing in the column divider that it only increases the width of the columns by a slight increment. Perhaps this feature has been broken in 10.2.2? I remember using this before and it working right... I actually just did a search to re-read this hint to remember how to do it!
Resize-to-fit all column-view columns
Just as a sidenote: Under Panther the option-Key behaviour is inverted, so without option only one column is resized and with option all of them. Still a nice feature.
Can column-view sort by date?
I love column-view, but is there anyway to get it to display by date? |
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