Dragging speed and other q's

Ripcord

Ripcord

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Okay, here's something that's bugged me for a long time and I've never seen anything on it:

If I'm dragging an item in a list, and have to scroll to place the item, the scroll is invariably WAY too fast to be useful.

Let me give an example: I'm moving a file from one place in the finder to another, and I'm in List mode. The folder that I want to drop the file is currently off the screen. I drag the file near the bottom of the window, causing the window to auto-scroll. However, the scroll seems to happen at entire screenfulls in fractions of a second, so I always "miss" the area that I'm shooting for.

Is there any way to slow this scroll down? Or make it more usable? This isn't a finder-only thing, but doesn't happen for, say, List Boxes (like the web widget)

I remember this being true in 10.0, and seems to still be the case in Panther.

Question #2:

If I'm in list view and want to create a new folder, the folder is always created in the ROOT of whatever window I have open, and not in the folder that I have selected. It's non-intuitive and annoying - has anyone else noticed this and dealt with it?

Question #3:

Am I the only one that has "Open new windows in Column View" selected in Finder options, but all folders (ones that have never been opened before) still open in Icon view anyway? Is this "expected" behavior? This still seems to be the case in Panther for me nearly all the time, so I'm guessing that I just misunderstand what the option actually is for.

Perhaps I'm one of the few people who use List view, I just hate the other two primary views in 90% of cases...
 
1) This is the closest thing I could find on Macupdate. If that doesn't work, all I can suggest is you try drag-scrolling in bursts, like with a machine gun: You don't hold the trigger and fire your entire clip at once, you shoot in bursts to conserve ammo. Likewise, just "tap" the bottom of your screen with the icon and it should scroll a little bit; keep doing this until you find your destination.

2) This is a behavior that has carried on since list view was invented. It's annoying, but there's not much you can do except expand the folder you want the new folder in. This happens because when you're in list view, you essentially haven't navigated away from the root of your hard drive, you're just displaying portions of the heirarchy tree.

3) That's an annoying problem and sounds like a bug. I couldn't find anything relevant on Macupdate. Sorry, you'll probably just have to live with it.
 
Arden, I'll try out the program, thanks!

Perhaps it would also help if I got a scroll mouse (or used the one I have). I hate the one-button mouse but they just look and feel so cool...

Surely I'm not the only one who is constantly annoyed with problem #1, though... It often makes moving things in Finder and other places near-impossible. No one else runs into this?
 
I use OS 9 mostly, so I really don't run into it much, but I have in OS X.

I have a Starlogic 8D mouse with a small trackball instead of a wheel, and 3 buttons. I really like it, but it doesn't work with USB Overdrive in OS X, so the middle button is essentially useless and I can't program it in anything. Other than that, though, I would recommend that mouse. It's also very comfortable and cool, though not as cool as the Apple Pro mouse.
 
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