The column view - love it or leave it?

[habilis]

I'm slowly learning to like osx now. After 4 PAINFUL months of morphing over from OS9 I'm really learning to love the new features such Quartz font smoothing and the improved file sharing, etc.. I hardly even notice how slow I am anymore.

But one thing that's still is a thorn in my side is this columns view. Just how long does it take before I learn to like it? I still despise it. Clearly Apple isn't known for the abundance of options it gives to its users but couldn't they have included a "classic view" along with columns?

Is there a 3rd party program out there that can return the classic view to me and get my production levels back to par?

And finally, Microsoft has had the columns view for the last 10 years along with the Classic OS9 style. Why are we stepping back in time? And why is Apple acting more and more like Microsoft, and Microsoft acting more and more like Apple?

[Sogni]

Personally I like Tree-Views - "List" view being the closest it still annoys me. I can't stand Column-View and wish the "Save As" dialog boxes wouldn't use them!

[Giaguara]

Uh, i hate classic...

[edX]

personally i like the column view. it saves a lot of time once you get used to it. it took me a while to learn to think the way it works, but once i got it, it makes more sense than the classic way. but i would also suggest you look into Default Folder X, a finder enhancement which will keep all your recently used folders and your favorites and... all arranged nicely for quick opening and saving.

[phatcactus]

I can see how it could be more efficient, but column view just seems to waste quite a bit of space. I really only need to see one directory at a time, for the most part, and option-double click works just fine.

I too wish that open/save dialogs would use list view.

- Brian

[fryke]

I wish the Finder would adhere to its settings to ALWAYS open new windows in column view. I _love_ column view. Together with spring loaded folders, it's the fastest way I've ever handled files...

[TommyWillB]

I really dislike the multi-colum view in general... but I love that when you click on an image file it shows you a preveiw of the image.

It seems like something they borrowed from WinDoze, but I like it anyway...

[TommyWillB]

Originally posted by edX
personally i like the column view. it saves a lot of time once you get used to it. it took me a while to learn to think the way it works, but once i got it...

The thing that is wrong about it to me is I always imaging drilling "down" into a directory tree... So I have sort of a vertical orientation here, but the column view is horizontal.

trying to get back "up" three levels, my brain just can't make the transition to moving left.

Also I really miss having the Path menu in Save dialogs...