Hierarchical browsing work-arounds

I want my Tiger Finder Sidebar back. Not digging the Leopard ones with the tiny iTunes interface icons.

First thing I did was get rid of my Stacks folder. Bleccchhhh!

I am another MaxMenu's supporter. Though I suggest iKey for a keyboard based launcher since MaxMenu's is rather basic.

I wouldn't ever consider living without Max Menus (http://www.proteron.com/maxmenus/) and although it says that it is ready for Tiger, I've had no problems running it under Leopard.

First off, gives you the ability to hot-key anything, apps, docs or folders.

Second, you can hot-key spring up folders. So, for example, I have made a custom pop-up menu which contains my drive and my home folder. I hotkey this and bind that hotkey to my mouse. So, with one button click I have an instant pop-up menu and I can navigate through my drive or, very quickly, through my home folder.

Check it out - I can't imagine anyone being disappointed with it.

And no, I don't work for them but I've had a license for Max Menus for years.

The strange thing is that Stacks worked differently in seeds of Leopard from this past summer. In Grid view, clicking on a folder within a stack transformed the stack into the folder you just clicked on. In essence, you could drill-down (but not back up) folder hierarchies with stacks. And my menu bar was transparent with these builds, whereas with the retail version it isn't (though I'm not complaining about that).

There's a v1.0.2 posted now that opens folders in the tree, along with making the drag and drop a little smoother, and adding click-and-hold to get the menu. Check it out if you have v1.0!

Nah, dude, you just have to right click on it and it'll give you the tree view. Just like the dock used to.

And as for Hierarchy it's sweet as hell but it doesn't open a folder in a tree when you click on it, it only opens files...

I found Himmelbar to work fine, but it allows u to add only one extra folder to its defaults, and that's plain dumb!!!

I,ve found that this un-obtrusive little menu bar app works great for what so many folks want to see. I've used it since Panther, and it still works as normal on Leopard,and it's free. Check it out here:http://softbend.free.fr/himmelbar/