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Have you ever opened up a Finder window in column view and found yourself confronted with truncated file names? It's quite annoying. Here's a quick fix.To get an instant map to any address, just go to your Address Book and right click on the address field of any one of your contacts and select "Map Of." The address will then be revealed in Google Maps on Safari. You can do the same if a data detector determines there is an address in an e-mail in Mail.
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ThunkDifferent.com said 12:13PM on 5-14-2007
Thanks for the tip!
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Jason said 12:36PM on 5-14-2007
And if you option+double-click it will expand all available columns!
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Chris said 12:42PM on 5-14-2007
Now, what I want is a way to have all columns automatically expand to the length of their content's filenames.
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thomas Malley said 12:58PM on 5-14-2007
Remember back in the day, where people was reluctant about the column view... looking too much like windows?
We've grown used to it now :)
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Matthew Chambers said 2:10PM on 5-14-2007
What I want to do is be able to view long names on my desktop!
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Stephen Macklin said 3:01PM on 5-14-2007
I wish it was an option to make this happen automatically.
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Ingo said 4:04PM on 5-14-2007
And if you Option-Drag it, it should stay in that position even after closing the Finder and reopening it.
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matthew_treder said 5:19PM on 5-14-2007
3, 5, 6 & 7:
Hear, hear!
Wow, some smart people hang out at TUAW.
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Cameron said 6:15PM on 5-14-2007
Holy crap. I've been a mac user for a couple of years now and I had no idea....
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starwxrwx said 10:01PM on 5-14-2007
If only "List View" could expand to accommodate the full length of filenames - it has a maximum and if your filename is longer too bad!
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Josh said 1:06AM on 5-15-2007
OK this is more like Mac 201 for me now haha. I'm no where near new to macs and I didn't know this. I feel stupid now.
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David said 5:21AM on 5-15-2007
Yeah, well it's something I already knew, but thanks for the tip anyway. The problem that remains is, once your column is resized the window is resized with it, by expanding its width to the right, which usually makes a big part of it outside of the screen.
Now, it would be great if the window, when already wide enough to fill the screen, would stop expanding and the necessary space would be reclaimed by scrolling the left columns to the left... I hope that's clear enough, english is clearly not my first language ;)
Cheers,
David.
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