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I went in thinking "Yeah right", and came out thinking "whoa! that's pretty cool!" Some of these features I regularly add to Ubuntu (Terminal session here, or

by larrik 15y ago

I went in thinking "Yeah right", and came out thinking "whoa! that's pretty cool!" Some of these features I regularly add to Ubuntu (Terminal session here, or mounting ISO's, for instance), and others I think are insanely important (what is with OS X having no Up Folder button? I still have such a hard time getting around without it.)

frou_dh 15y ago
Press Cmd-Up to go up a folder in OS X (..and Cmd-Down to open a file or folder)
- zura 15y ago
  And with a single mouse click? Also, closing an application with a single mouse click...
  - prewett 15y ago
    Option-click or Ctrl-click on the name of the current folder brings down the menu. Not exactly one click, but not bad.
    - zura 15y ago
      It might sound not bad, when you're only used to that.
  - zephjc 15y ago
    I think there is a point of diminishing returns when you are sacrificing simplicity and straight-forwardness for mouse clicks.
    - zura 15y ago
      I want simplicity and straight-forwardness of a single mouse click.
amartya916 15y ago
Slightly off-topic but perhaps this'll help a little bit (you may already be doing this): a. Right-click (Secondary click) on the toolbar in Finder, click on "Customize Toolbar" b. Add the "Path" icon. c. This is really useful in that you can go through the folder hierarchy, to the target folder, within a couple of clicks.
- podperson 15y ago
  One of the things Finder in OSX inherited from Classic was very good keyboard navigation, especially in List view. (Yeah, I know the NeXT folks are all addicted to columns, but Finder's hierarchical lists are better 90+% of the time.) E.g. command-up to go up level (to parent), command-down to go into a folder or open a document, right-arrow to disclose, left-arrow to fold, start typing to match any item, shift arrow to build a multi-select, and so on and so forth. Most of this dates back to System 3.x.
generalk 15y ago
Several ways to achieve "up a folder" effect, if you're curious: 1. Right click on the folder (so-called "proxy") icon in the titlebar, which will give you links to all the folders up to the root 2. Assuming you drilled-down into this folder from its parent, click the back button or (with a multitouch trackpad) three-finger swipe to the left.
- mattmanser 15y ago
  The up button was removed in Vista/Windows 7 and has now been re-added. It's not a new feature it's just that most windows users moaned about its removal so much they've finally caved. All the functionality you're describing is available in Vista/Windows 7. But the up button? It's just better. You don't know what you're missing.
- T-hawk 15y ago
  The big UI annoyance is that assumption in #2. Most of the time you did drill-down into this folder from its parent so "back" goes "up". But when you didn't (which could have been hours ago), you get a very jarring disorientation. Comically, your scenarios #1 and #2 even clash with each other. If you do #1 then #2, the "back" operation goes deeper into the tree. If you navigate from C:\a\b to C:\a\b\c then to C:\a\b, the behavior of "back" is now different based on how you went from b\c to b, whether you did that by "back" or by clicking the address bar link! The Backspace key always did "up" in older versions of Windows, but does "back" in Windows 7, which annoys me all the time. Alt-Uparrow does work consistently, but my muscle memory isn't there, and it's jarring that there's no symmetrical Alt-Downarrow operation.
Tyrannosaurs 15y ago
>what is it with OS X having no Up Folder button? I still have such a hard time getting around without it. Display the path at the bottom of the window (it's in the View menu I believe). You can click on any part of it so you can go up one level, two levels, whatever all the way up. Sometimes it's about finding a different way of doing the same thing, not just looking for the exact same implementation.
- evilduck 15y ago
  Also, Cmd+Up. Or right click the folder name at the top of the window to see/select in the tree.

by larrik 15y ago

frou_dh 15y ago

Press Cmd-Up to go up a folder in OS X (..and Cmd-Down to open a file or folder)

zura 15y ago
And with a single mouse click? Also, closing an application with a single mouse click...
- prewett 15y ago
  Option-click or Ctrl-click on the name of the current folder brings down the menu. Not exactly one click, but not bad.
  - zura 15y ago
    It might sound not bad, when you're only used to that.
- zephjc 15y ago
  I think there is a point of diminishing returns when you are sacrificing simplicity and straight-forwardness for mouse clicks.
  - zura 15y ago
    I want simplicity and straight-forwardness of a single mouse click.

amartya916 15y ago

Slightly off-topic but perhaps this'll help a little bit (you may already be doing this): a. Right-click (Secondary click) on the toolbar in Finder, click on "Customize Toolbar" b. Add the "Path" icon. c. This is really useful in that you can go through the folder hierarchy, to the target folder, within a couple of clicks.

podperson 15y ago
One of the things Finder in OSX inherited from Classic was very good keyboard navigation, especially in List view. (Yeah, I know the NeXT folks are all addicted to columns, but Finder's hierarchical lists are better 90+% of the time.) E.g. command-up to go up level (to parent), command-down to go into a folder or open a document, right-arrow to disclose, left-arrow to fold, start typing to match any item, shift arrow to build a multi-select, and so on and so forth. Most of this dates back to System 3.x.

generalk 15y ago

Several ways to achieve "up a folder" effect, if you're curious: 1. Right click on the folder (so-called "proxy") icon in the titlebar, which will give you links to all the folders up to the root 2. Assuming you drilled-down into this folder from its parent, click the back button or (with a multitouch trackpad) three-finger swipe to the left.

mattmanser 15y ago
The up button was removed in Vista/Windows 7 and has now been re-added. It's not a new feature it's just that most windows users moaned about its removal so much they've finally caved. All the functionality you're describing is available in Vista/Windows 7. But the up button? It's just better. You don't know what you're missing.
T-hawk 15y ago
The big UI annoyance is that assumption in #2. Most of the time you did drill-down into this folder from its parent so "back" goes "up". But when you didn't (which could have been hours ago), you get a very jarring disorientation. Comically, your scenarios #1 and #2 even clash with each other. If you do #1 then #2, the "back" operation goes deeper into the tree. If you navigate from C:\a\b to C:\a\b\c then to C:\a\b, the behavior of "back" is now different based on how you went from b\c to b, whether you did that by "back" or by clicking the address bar link! The Backspace key always did "up" in older versions of Windows, but does "back" in Windows 7, which annoys me all the time. Alt-Uparrow does work consistently, but my muscle memory isn't there, and it's jarring that there's no symmetrical Alt-Downarrow operation.

Tyrannosaurs 15y ago

>what is it with OS X having no Up Folder button? I still have such a hard time getting around without it. Display the path at the bottom of the window (it's in the View menu I believe). You can click on any part of it so you can go up one level, two levels, whatever all the way up. Sometimes it's about finding a different way of doing the same thing, not just looking for the exact same implementation.

evilduck 15y ago
Also, Cmd+Up. Or right click the folder name at the top of the window to see/select in the tree.