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Renaming files in Finder without jumping away
Authored by: MrBillG59 on Oct 12, '10 11:13:21AM

Instead of all the workarounds, can we just bash Apple a little for this? 10.5/4/3... didn't work this way. I often have to rename files that might be in a folder of a thousand files or more. This new (to me) jumping away crap is a PITA!



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Renaming files in Finder without jumping away
Authored by: Frederico on Oct 24, '10 02:44:58AM

I'll take this behavior over Windows ''Right-Click, Select 'Refresh' to have your changes occur" behavior any day.

Or, better, IMHO, I use a Spotlight query to group the files in need of renaming.

And I guess I must be getting old; seems to me Mac OS has always done the jump thing; I am so attuned to just knowing the name of the next file I want to rename that I simply let it jump then type those letters to get to the next target that I guess I thought this was the way it always had been.

We've always been at war with Instant Refresh.

What I miss is the elegance of using a leading Tilde to push files to the end of a list and a bullet to push it to the front. Spaces and Z's look stupid.

We've always been at war with Unicode.

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