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Modify the Finder's visual animation settings
Authored by: pcurtner on Jul 14, '05 11:58:21AM

The excellent freeware utility TinkerTool supports disabling all of these Finder animation options, as well as adding an Eject button to the menu bar, disabling the 10.4 Finder's sound effects, and many other useful functions.

If you support older systems, and would like to maximize their performance, TinkerTool is a must-have.

http://www.bresink.de/osx/TinkerTool.html



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Modify the Finder's visual animation settings
Authored by: schneidr on Jul 14, '05 12:45:14PM

Speaking of adding an eject button to the menu bar, when I added a second DVR-109 (DVD Burner) and then rebooted an eject button was automatically added to my menu bar.



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Modify the Finder's visual animation settings
Authored by: doneitner on Jul 14, '05 09:32:42PM

I think that's probably how TinkerTool is able to add it -- the functionality already exists but it's usually disabled unless you have 2 optical drives (I'm guessing). TinkerTool is, after all, well known for enabling existing but hidden preferences, not for adding entirely new features. It does what it does very well and I'll be happy to try these new animation remover options to see how my system performs.



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Modify the Finder's visual animation settings
Authored by: qwerty denzel on Jul 15, '05 02:08:44AM
Tinkertool would probably use:
open /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/Eject.menu
(Using 10.3.9, I don't know if this has changed for Tiger).

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Modify the Finder's visual animation settings
Authored by: qwerty denzel on Jul 15, '05 02:12:11AM
Copy and paste into terminal, don't use above:
open /System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/Eject.menu

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Modify the Finder's visual animation settings
Authored by: zane on Jul 17, '05 07:26:09PM
If you explore the parent directory (/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras) you'll find a bunch of Menu Extras, some familiar some not so familiar, including the mysterious 'Home Sync' menu extra (Home on iPod, anyone? Although that's probably a discussion best left for Think Secret). Double-clicking [most of] these will add them to the Menu Bar. Command-drage of course removes them.

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Modify the Finder's visual animation settings
Authored by: rspress on Jul 15, '05 04:53:06PM

Besides my superdrive a pioneer 104, I have a pioneer 109, pioneer A09 and a pioneer 107D all on the firewire bus and the eject button never appeared in my menubar. I did know that it can be add by running the eject menu item but I never really needed it. I wrote applescripts calling shell scripts to do the same thing.



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