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Have you tried to use Windows Explorer recently? It's maddening! Just dragging files to the "Quick Access" bar will have you pining for Finder.

Rury 7y ago
It has always bothered me that I can't simply click on finder in the dock to bring up a window for the first time (as it'll only toggle what windows are already open). I have to either right-click on it and select new window, click on file in the menu and drag my mouse to new window, or hide/move what's on my screen to double click on Macintosh HD on the desktop. At least on windows I can simply just click on explorer on the taskbar to bring up a first window.
- Wowfunhappy 7y ago
  You can also click the Finder icon in the Dock and then ⌘N. I understand why this bothers you but I do think the current behavior is better than the alternative. I often click the Finder icon to bring my existing Finder windows to the front. The alternative is to risk creating extra Finder windows the user didn't want, and that's a bad outcome. Too many windows get hard to manage, especially when you're not sure where some of them came from.
  - Rury 7y ago
    Don't see why it would risk creating extra finder windows the user didn't want. If I click safari, and safari is not open, it opens a safari window. If I click it again it doesn't open another safari window, it just activates my current window. If I want more than 1 safari window, then I right click and click new window. I don't see any reason finder shouldn't behave the same.
    - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
      > If I click safari, and safari is not open, it opens a safari window. If I click it again it doesn't open another safari window, it just activates my current window. If I want more than 1 safari window, then I right click and click new window. ...I believe that's exactly how Finder works? If there are zero open Finder windows, clicking the Finder dock icon does create a new one. It's just, if you have Finder windows open already, it focuses the existing ones rather than opening another new window. I just tested this in both High Sierra and Mavericks, was it different in very old versions of OS X? Under what scenario would you like Finder to behave differently?
      - Rury 7y ago
        >...I'm believe that's exactly how Finder works? If there are zero open Finder windows, clicking the Finder dock icon does create a new one. It's not, or if it is then there's a bug somewhere that breaks this behavior after doing something, as it's been a problem I've had on multiple macs I've owned for almost a decade now, and it just annoyed me yesterday.
        PandawanFr 7y ago
        I don't understand, you seem to contradict yourself: > It has always bothered me that I can't simply click on finder in the dock to bring up a window for the first time (as it'll only toggle what windows are already open). I've never encountered any issues similar to what you're mentioning. It opens a new window if none are open, and shows the currently existing windows if some are already open.
    - matt-attack 7y ago
      I find it really annoying when it jumps you to another Desktop. If I’m on Desktop 1, and I click Finder in the Dock, often times it will slide me over to another Desktop just because that is where the only Finder window exists. Totally takes me out of what I was doing.
- tonyedgecombe 7y ago
  Cmd-N will open a new Window once Finder is in the foreground. If you are in Terminal then "open ." will open the current directory in Finder. I think spotlight will do something similar as well although I have it disabled at the moment.

Rury 7y ago

It has always bothered me that I can't simply click on finder in the dock to bring up a window for the first time (as it'll only toggle what windows are already open). I have to either right-click on it and select new window, click on file in the menu and drag my mouse to new window, or hide/move what's on my screen to double click on Macintosh HD on the desktop. At least on windows I can simply just click on explorer on the taskbar to bring up a first window.

Wowfunhappy 7y ago
You can also click the Finder icon in the Dock and then ⌘N. I understand why this bothers you but I do think the current behavior is better than the alternative. I often click the Finder icon to bring my existing Finder windows to the front. The alternative is to risk creating extra Finder windows the user didn't want, and that's a bad outcome. Too many windows get hard to manage, especially when you're not sure where some of them came from.
- Rury 7y ago
  Don't see why it would risk creating extra finder windows the user didn't want. If I click safari, and safari is not open, it opens a safari window. If I click it again it doesn't open another safari window, it just activates my current window. If I want more than 1 safari window, then I right click and click new window. I don't see any reason finder shouldn't behave the same.
  - Wowfunhappy 7y ago
    > If I click safari, and safari is not open, it opens a safari window. If I click it again it doesn't open another safari window, it just activates my current window. If I want more than 1 safari window, then I right click and click new window. ...I believe that's exactly how Finder works? If there are zero open Finder windows, clicking the Finder dock icon does create a new one. It's just, if you have Finder windows open already, it focuses the existing ones rather than opening another new window. I just tested this in both High Sierra and Mavericks, was it different in very old versions of OS X? Under what scenario would you like Finder to behave differently?
    - Rury 7y ago
      >...I'm believe that's exactly how Finder works? If there are zero open Finder windows, clicking the Finder dock icon does create a new one. It's not, or if it is then there's a bug somewhere that breaks this behavior after doing something, as it's been a problem I've had on multiple macs I've owned for almost a decade now, and it just annoyed me yesterday.
      - PandawanFr 7y ago
        I don't understand, you seem to contradict yourself: > It has always bothered me that I can't simply click on finder in the dock to bring up a window for the first time (as it'll only toggle what windows are already open). I've never encountered any issues similar to what you're mentioning. It opens a new window if none are open, and shows the currently existing windows if some are already open.
  - matt-attack 7y ago
    I find it really annoying when it jumps you to another Desktop. If I’m on Desktop 1, and I click Finder in the Dock, often times it will slide me over to another Desktop just because that is where the only Finder window exists. Totally takes me out of what I was doing.
tonyedgecombe 7y ago
Cmd-N will open a new Window once Finder is in the foreground. If you are in Terminal then "open ." will open the current directory in Finder. I think spotlight will do something similar as well although I have it disabled at the moment.