I'm satisfied with my move to buy a Mac. I'm an avid power-user who's operating at about 70% speed when making a comparison between my skill with the Windows applications I use and their OSX counterparts. Below I list several Leopard issues that are annoying me, with hopes that either my questions can be answered or that I can find a support group with which to grumble.
1 - When 1 of more items are selected, why does the small bar at the bottom of Finder's window display the available storage left on my disk (which can't possibly be considered useful) instead of displaying the total size of said selected items?
2 - While changing the View Options for Finder sidebar items (the bar at the top of the editing window actually displays the name of the specific sidebar item you are toying with), why does clicking Use as Defaults change the settings on some of the other sidebar items? There doesn't even seem to be a logical way of figuring out why or how the operating system decides which ones get changed all together when this button is clicked. It would be much more useful to have each sidebar selection carrying its own default preferences (and saving the window size/dimensions of each would be nice, too).
3 - When switcing the view of Finder (such as switcing from Thumbnails to List), why do the navigation steps I've already taken get erased - sending me back to the root folder of the selected sidebar item?
4 - In Finder, why is there no way to clear (either some or all) the items displayed in the "Search For Today/Yesterday/Past Week" selections?
5- How can I get the home and end buttons on the keyboard to actually behave like home and end buttons (in relation to text input) of Windows?
There's a few more, but I can't quite remember - amid my Friday night drunkenness - what they might be. All my other questions are application-specific, and I'm taking those issues to their proper forums.
Thanks in advance for your replies.
-Will
1 - When 1 of more items are selected, why does the small bar at the bottom of Finder's window display the available storage left on my disk (which can't possibly be considered useful) instead of displaying the total size of said selected items?
2 - While changing the View Options for Finder sidebar items (the bar at the top of the editing window actually displays the name of the specific sidebar item you are toying with), why does clicking Use as Defaults change the settings on some of the other sidebar items? There doesn't even seem to be a logical way of figuring out why or how the operating system decides which ones get changed all together when this button is clicked. It would be much more useful to have each sidebar selection carrying its own default preferences (and saving the window size/dimensions of each would be nice, too).
3 - When switcing the view of Finder (such as switcing from Thumbnails to List), why do the navigation steps I've already taken get erased - sending me back to the root folder of the selected sidebar item?
4 - In Finder, why is there no way to clear (either some or all) the items displayed in the "Search For Today/Yesterday/Past Week" selections?
5- How can I get the home and end buttons on the keyboard to actually behave like home and end buttons (in relation to text input) of Windows?
There's a few more, but I can't quite remember - amid my Friday night drunkenness - what they might be. All my other questions are application-specific, and I'm taking those issues to their proper forums.
Thanks in advance for your replies.
-Will