spring loaded folders...

[fbp_]

what are they?

i keep hearing about them but i never really used classic mac os so i dunno

 

[nkuvu]

Only one of the most requested features of OS X version 10.2! The thing that most Mac users can't live without! Sheesh!


Uh, no I don't really know what they are either. Sorry, recent Mac convert myself. But I think that it's when you drag something over a folder in list view, and that folder opens up so you can drop into a sub folder.

Am I close?

 

[Javintosh]

You got it right. You click on something and drag it to a folder and that folder will open up after a delay. If needed you can move around the newly opened window by carefully moving the mouse near the edge of the window so the contents scroll. In the end only the window opened last will remain opened.

This is a handy way to drop files into folders.

I read that in X.2 this will work on all views. In OS9 it only worked on icon view.

 

[nkuvu]

If needed you can move around the newly opened window by carefully moving the mouse near the edge of the window so the contents scroll.

That works now in 10.1.4.

 

[joeth]

it certainly does not work in 10.1.4

 

[lethe]

Originally posted by Javintosh
If needed you can move around the newly opened window by carefully moving the mouse near the edge of the window so the contents scroll.

joeth: this works for me, just fine, exactly as nkuvu describes. in 10.1.4.

 

[hazmat]

Originally posted by joeth
it certainly does not work in 10.1.4

This has been around since at least 10.1. Set it to column view and drag something to the left edge of the Finder window, and it will scroll until you get to Computer. Sorry if this not what you were talking about.

 

[tismey]

Yeah, the scroll-window-whilst-dragging thing works. But that's not really anything to do with spring-loaded folders (although spring-loaded folders would be a pain if you couldn't do that).

The best thing about spring-loaded folders was/will be the way they clean up after themselves, so in the end you still only have the window that was open originally.

 

[joeth]

no that's not what I meant. I meant the thing where say if you wanted to move a game to:

Mac HD/Users/Joe/Games

from the Desktop you could just drag the file over Mac HD and it would open then over users and it would open, then over joe.... and so on.....

Get me


Joe

 

[lethe]

you are describing spring loaded folders. of course they don t work for you. 10.1 doesn t have them.

but it really looked like you were telling nkuvu that she is wrong about scrolling working in 10.1.

go back and read the thread and you l see what i mean. it looks like this:

nkuvu: this works
joeth: it certainly doesn t.

see what i mean?

 

[joeth]

yep sorry

 

[lethe]

Originally posted by Javintosh
In OS9 it only worked on icon view.

What other views were there in OS9?

 

[nkuvu]

The scroll-while-dragging works in any view, not just column view, by the way...

 

[IceDogg25]

Why didnt Apple keep spring loaded folders when they updated to OS X? Why do we have to wait to 10.2? Did Apple decide to take a nap or what?

 

[lethe]

Originally posted by IceDogg25
Why didnt Apple keep spring loaded folders when they updated to OS X? Why do we have to wait to 10.2? Did Apple decide to take a nap or what?

when you ve created an OS as cool as OSX, then you can ask what they were doing. then perhaps you will understand the amount of work that is going into OSX

 

[hazmat]

Originally posted by IceDogg25
Why didnt Apple keep spring loaded folders when they updated to OS X? Why do we have to wait to 10.2? Did Apple decide to take a nap or what?

It's the other way around. You should be asking why Apple didn't add it in, not why they didn't keep it. From what I've read, OS 9 and X share almost none of the code. X is more NeXT than anything. NeXT didn't have spring-loaded folders, did it?

Btw, I CAN'T WAIT for column view spring-loaded folders. It was be perfect!