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Dear Aunt TUAW: Where's my Lozenge?

by Erica Sadun Jul 24th 2011 at 9:00AM

Dear Aunt TUAW,

I miss the lozenge. You know what I mean? The chicklet thing that used to be at the top right of my Finder windows. Click it and it would show the sidebar. Click again, sidebar gone. How can I show and hide the sidebar in Lion?

Your loving nephew,

Michael N.

Dear Michael,

You refer to, of course, the savior of everyone who used to struggle with DMGs on Leopard and Snow Leopard. Auntie remembers the lozenge fondly.

Unfortunately, the lozenge is a thing of the past with OS X 10.7 Lion. But that doesn't mean you can't still hide and show your sidebars. Just right-click on the title bar of any Finder Window and select Show Toolbar or Hide Toolbar from the popup. Unfortunately this affects both the toolbar and the sidebar, but Auntie takes what she can get.

Hopes this helps next time you run across one of those unfriendly windows.

Hugs,

Auntie T.



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Dustin Rue

⌥⌘S doesn't work for windows opened from a disk image which is where I always used the lozenge. Many apps outside of the App Store want you to simply drag the app to the applications folder but if you open a disk image the sidebar is missing. Clicking the lozenge showed the sidebar and allowed me to drag the app to the proper place. Once done, I could then unmount the disk image.

This entire flow is now broken.

September 20 2011 at 1:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
datsafail

option + command + s = lozenge

I never had OSX Snow Leopard, but Lion is epic

September 18 2011 at 6:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
BigWheel

Developers really need to get in the habit of making the dmg so it opens with the sidebar. The only one I have seen that does this is when you open the Skype dmg

September 06 2011 at 3:08 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Paul Beard

These instructions are incomplete. You can't get the sidebar independently of the toolbar, though you can get the toolbar by itself. And if the toolbar is activated, the sidebar is an additional *two* steps: it's on but squeezed down to on pixel in width, so I had to turn it off and back on before it actually appeared. But if you turn off the toolbar, the sidebar goes with it.

Not sure how this is better than the lozenge.

August 08 2011 at 6:46 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
thebwit

Dear Aunt TUAW:

I'm getting a brand new Macbook Pro to replace my 4 year old MacBook. I have a time machine backup of my current system, but I don't just want to copy everything over and have it be as it was on my current machine. Instead I would like a way to only import some of the applications and some of the documents while leaving the rest on a back up disk. Is there an easy way to do this?

Brent

August 01 2011 at 9:50 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
waitWHAT

"Just right-click on the title bar of any Finder Window and select Show Toolbar or Hide Toolbar from the popup."

There is no option titled "Show Toolbar". Just one to hide it. To show it, you de-select the "hide" option.

July 25 2011 at 12:31 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Timothy Paul Read

⌥⌘S

Hide Sidebar.. NOT Toolbar :)

July 24 2011 at 3:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Andrew Visser

Unfortunately that key combo doesn't work (and the menu option is disabled with no indication why) when the toolbar isn't shown.

command-option-T will do what the lozenge did, but how dumb is it that I do "show toolbar" to show the sidebar?

lion--

December 01 2011 at 7:53 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
eyezberg

Dear Aunt TUAW,
Why doesn't 2 finger scrolling work when my cursor is over an swf (Flash Ad) in a webpage with Firefox 5.0.1?
I have to move the cursor from over the swf to be able to scroll again!?

Thanks

July 24 2011 at 3:12 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Kurt Riebe

Because flash is basically another window with another application running in it. So your cursor stops on it and tries to scroll within that "window", forgetting about what larger window that you were just scrolling in. Yay Flash!!!......

July 24 2011 at 4:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Matt

Grab the right side of the sidebar with mouse/touchpad and drag to the left. Sidebar will disappear.

July 24 2011 at 2:18 PM Report abuse +2 rate up rate down Reply
AppleZilla

I think I used that 'lozenge' once around the first time I loaded OS X, many years ago.

Never found much of a use for it.

July 24 2011 at 10:37 AM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
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mikehild

Yep. I had to read the article to see what on earth this "lozenge" feature even was... Needless to say, I didn't even notice it's absence.

July 24 2011 at 3:23 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
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