10.7: Open/Close folders in List View in slow motion

Nov 15, '11 07:30:00AM

Contributed by: HairyPotter

I am almost 99% sure that this is new in Lion. If you have a folder that is closed in Finder (list view), or even in Xcode. This folder is represented with a black triangle on the left side. So, if you click that triangle, the folder expands and shows its contents.

But if you click on the triangle with the Shift key pressed, you see that expansion/contraction in slow motion. This is one of those OS X hidden pearls.

[crarko adds: I tried is in Snow Leopard and could not reproduce the effect. Some Finder engineer at Apple must really get a kick out of the Shift key = slow motion effect model.]

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