10.3: Reclaim the horizontal scroll bar in Finder windows

Jan 21, '04 09:09:00AM

Contributed by: astack

Okay, let me preface this by saying this is a shameless two-bit hack. I finally got around to buying 10.3 yesterday, and the lack of a horizontal scroll bar in the Finder windows has consumed several hours of my time trying to fix/break this bug/feature. The "feature" goes like this: if I click on the Home folder, which is a special folder (like Applications, Documents, etc.), the Finder roots me at that place and pulls the horizontal scroll bar from the bottom of the window. (Someone here already pointed out that a work around is typing "command-up arrow" a few times).

My solution is a bit different, I discovered that clicking on non-special folders doesn't cause this rooting "feature" to activate. So what I did was make aliases of all the special folders that I was interested in, and put them in a directory out of the way someplace (e.g., in folder in my Library). Now after a little icon management to get the aliases looking like the original directories (see other tips on this site), I put the aliases in the Toolbar and Voila!, the horizontal scroll bar has returned in all its hierarchial glory.

One thing though, I haven't figured out a way to get this to work with the Sidebar. When I try the system decides that I really mean the special folder itself and not the alias. This isn't a problem for me because I'm not using the Sidebar at the moment.

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