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File browsing has been a solved problem since Windows XP. I hate that Finder doesn't provide a button in its UI to go one level up (instead I have to use cmd+up

File browsing has been a solved problem since Windows XP. I hate that Finder doesn't provide a button in its UI to go one level up (instead I have to use cmd+up). The fact that it hides the actual drives makes me think that this is all intentional to have users unlearn (or not learn, if young) how HDs work and bill for that juicy cloud storage.

Dalewyn 3y ago
>The fact that it hides the actual drives makes me think that this is all intentional It definitely is intentional, and for good reason[1]. [1]: https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/09/27/2032200/students-dont-know-what-files-and-folders-are-professors-say https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/09/27/2032200/students-do...
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Teever 3y ago
Try long clicking the window title/icon, it'll reveal the tree and you can traverse up it.
- Teever 3y ago
  Oops, actually meant rigiht click.
tpmoney 3y ago
>The fact that it hides the actual drives makes me think that this is all intentional to have users unlearn (or not learn, if young) how HDs work and bill for that juicy cloud storage. Isn't that just the standard nix filesystem view abstraction leaking into the rest of the OS? Your file system could be any number of drives (or no drives at all) mounted at arbitrary points. Showing them like they are any relevant place to start for most users seems silly. Especially given that in a modern nix OS, almost everything in the top level of `/` is useless to users.
- nickburns 3y ago
  imagine the 'most users' of Apple products trying to decipher this comment—which was essentially frozenlettuce's point.
soraminazuki 3y ago
Windows XP explorer didn’t even have tabs. Also, macOS shows external drives on the Desktop and the Finder sidebar by default. The basis for your conspiracy theory is just plain false.
xtiansimon 3y ago
“The fact that [??] hides the actual drives makes me think that this is all intentional to have users unlearn (or not learn, if young) how HDs work and bill for that juicy cloud storage.” Are you talking about Mac or Windows? Windows has those shortcuts which backtrack only to MyPC, and they’ve done that since forever. Always infuriated me as a Mac user since I am both user and Admin to get stuck in one of these loops, when I needed to get to root.
- pests 3y ago
  My PC -> C:/ is the easiest method I've found. I always find it very fursting to get back to my user folder too without being stuck inside my documents or my downloads. End up adding a shortcut to the navigation panel for it.

Dalewyn 3y ago

>The fact that it hides the actual drives makes me think that this is all intentional It definitely is intentional, and for good reason[1]. [1]: https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/09/27/2032200/students-dont-know-what-files-and-folders-are-professors-say https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/09/27/2032200/students-do...

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Teever 3y ago

Try long clicking the window title/icon, it'll reveal the tree and you can traverse up it.

Teever 3y ago
Oops, actually meant rigiht click.

tpmoney 3y ago

>The fact that it hides the actual drives makes me think that this is all intentional to have users unlearn (or not learn, if young) how HDs work and bill for that juicy cloud storage. Isn't that just the standard nix filesystem view abstraction leaking into the rest of the OS? Your file system could be any number of drives (or no drives at all) mounted at arbitrary points. Showing them like they are any relevant place to start for most users seems silly. Especially given that in a modern nix OS, almost everything in the top level of `/` is useless to users.

nickburns 3y ago
imagine the 'most users' of Apple products trying to decipher this comment—which was essentially frozenlettuce's point.

soraminazuki 3y ago

Windows XP explorer didn’t even have tabs. Also, macOS shows external drives on the Desktop and the Finder sidebar by default. The basis for your conspiracy theory is just plain false.

xtiansimon 3y ago

“The fact that [??] hides the actual drives makes me think that this is all intentional to have users unlearn (or not learn, if young) how HDs work and bill for that juicy cloud storage.” Are you talking about Mac or Windows? Windows has those shortcuts which backtrack only to MyPC, and they’ve done that since forever. Always infuriated me as a Mac user since I am both user and Admin to get stuck in one of these loops, when I needed to get to root.

pests 3y ago
My PC -> C:/ is the easiest method I've found. I always find it very fursting to get back to my user folder too without being stuck inside my documents or my downloads. End up adding a shortcut to the navigation panel for it.