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Mac - Hide toolbar

Anyone wants to guess what "Hide toolbar" means in Finder? Correct! It hides toolbar, removes sidebar and turns on spatial mode. Couldn't have named it better myself.

Mac's Finder - inconsistencies

Just a reminder to everyone: I'm using Mountain Lion and I haven't used any previous osx before.

So there is this really annoying bug. As we all know it, Apple loves using real-life paradigms in their software. And one of these is spatial finder. Fortunately for people like me, who loves productivity and cleanliness, instead of gazillion open windows, there is also setting to use navigational style. And it even is the default one. But there are times when this spatial metaphor is forced upon user (like when browsing my external HDD). This magical setting is called "Always open folders in a new window". As you can see, this isn't strictly spatial/navigational setting, as Apple can only promise us it will open windows in new windows every time, but not the other way around. But to me, it really feels like a very annoying bug.

Mac's Finder - sorting files

Who knows what is the difference between these options?

  • Clean up by
  • Arrange by
  • Sort by

All these options have very similar submenu: Name, Kind, Date created, etc. I find it very confusing and unnecessary. And even with so much "freedom" of sorting files, I still haven't found a way to organize my files the way Windows and Linux does naturally. E.g. folders first, settings are maintained across all system, aligned to grid and floated left (not just moved to nearest square). Seems easy enough, but it isn't. You can't put folders first. Just can't. This I could live with (albeit unhappy). Other options are there in menus and settings but somehow just don't work.

Way to f*ck up this very basic thing, Apple.