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10.5: Avoid strange GUI behavior with certain aliases
Authored by: hobbster on Aug 12, '08 02:19:29PM

I occasionally see that very same behavior when double-clicking a folder to open it on a couple of Leopard machines. Indeed there are two animations of the window opening to what appears to be a default size and location (it's always the same). It does at least open only one window though. I simply close the window with a quick command-w keystroke and reopen it. Then it opens to its correctly saved size and location.

Thing is, I hadn't noticed that it happens only with folder aliases, but I suspect that to be true in my case also. I think I'll switch to symlinks. I know there's a contextual menu item that'll make symlinks but I don't seem to have it installed at the moment. Not that I'm overly averse to using Terminal -- I just prefer the GUI because as a graphic artist my hand's already on the mouse 90% of the time.



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