Mac 101: Viewing long file names

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.

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.

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!

Holy crap. I've been a mac user for a couple of years now and I had no idea....

3, 5, 6 & 7:
Hear, hear!

Wow, some smart people hang out at TUAW.

And if you Option-Drag it, it should stay in that position even after closing the Finder and reopening it.

I wish it was an option to make this happen automatically.

What I want to do is be able to view long names on my desktop!

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 :)

Now, what I want is a way to have all columns automatically expand to the length of their content's filenames.