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10.5: Avoid strange GUI behavior with certain aliases
Authored by: jdwurtz on Aug 12, '08 07:47:32PM

I concur with the folder alias problems reported here. Folder aliases consistently misbehave because after a Finder restart, when double-clicked, folder aliases open a folder with a 1) different size and 2) different location than the folder had when it was previously open. [Mac OS X 10.5.4 on late 2007 Intel iMac]

Not only that, it's worse. When a folder is already open in a window, I double-click an alias to that open folder and a second window opens for that same folder.  When I close the second window and double-click the same alias again, then the original window for the folder comes to the foreground (which is what should have happened in the first place).

These two bugs did not occur in Tiger.

I also reported these to Apple several months ago; no fix yet.

I think Apple should be grossly embarrassed that the Finder does not correctly perform basic folder open operations correctly!!!!!!! They broke this part of the Finder when going from Tiger to Leopard.




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Jeff Wurtz



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