If you use Column View in the Finder to organize your files, here are some useful tips. There are many ways to resize or 'right size' columns. You can navigate and even move files with the keyboard. There are also some preferences you can set.
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Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with MacMost.com. Today let me show you some tips for using Column View in the Finder on your Mac.MacMost is brought to you thanks to more than 700 supporters. Go to MacMost.com/patreon. There you could read more about the Patreon Campaign. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts.So of the three primary views, in the Finder, Column View is my favorite and the one I use the most. Here's a typical Finder window with Column View. I'm in my Home folder here and I've selected Documents and then I have the list of all the folders in my Documents folder. Now one of the disadvantages to Column View is that you've got limited space to see File names. For instance, if you look here the third to the last item you can't see the whole name. You see three dots in the middle and the beginning and the end of the file name. But you can always move your cursor over it and wait. Then you'll see the full file name pop-up. If you want to expand or shrink the columns all you need to do is move your cursor over the line between columns. Then you'll see the cursor change. Then click and drag to the right or left to change the column width. So let's add some more columns here. I'm going to click on this folder here and it will reveal more content inside that folder and then I'll click on a folder in there as well. Now if I want to change the column size for all of the columns at once all I need to do is move the cursor over the line between any two columns. Then hold the Option key down and drag to the right or left. It will change all of the column widths at once. Now usually when you're resizing the width of a column the idea is to either show longer file names in there or to shrink it to save space. Like over here. You can quickly do that by double clicking on any line. So I'm going to move my cursor over this line here. If I just double click it will shrink to a minimum size. In this case there is a file name that's longer. So if I double click here it actually expands so it's the perfect size for the longest file name.Now you can combine these by holding the Option key down and double clicking on any line. That will set every column to the exact right size. Some columns to the minimum size. Some columns to the exact size for the longest file name in that column. Now if you Control click on the line between columns you have some options. You can Right Size that column. You could Right Size all columns individually or you can Right Size all columns equally. That will set them all to the same size that's needed for the longest file name in any column.One of the things I love about Column View is that you can navigate completely with the keyboard. So here I've got the Documents folder selected. If I were to use the down arrow it would go to the folders below it. Up arrow goes up. The right arrow will go down into the folder that's selected and then I could use the right arrow to go down further. Then I can navigate all the way down here. I can use the left arrow to go back. I can navigate all around in the different columns just using the four arrow keys. Now you can also use letter keys too which of course works best as long as everything is sorted alphabetically. So, for instance, if I were to hit the p key it jumps right to the first entry in the selected column using that. But if I wanted to jump further, like say to the pics folder there, if I just do pi it will jump to that. Now you can use keyboard navigation to easily move files around using Copy and Paste. So we know Copy is Command C and Paste is Command V. But if you hold the Option key down Paste will change to Move. So Option Command V moves a file. So, for instance, let's use the arrow keys to go up into the Docs folder here. Go to the right, go down here into Images, go to the right, and let's say we want to move this file. I can now do Command C to copy it. It doesn't do anything right away. But now I'm going to the left arrow back here and let's go into this folder here. I can use Command V to paste a copy here or Option Command V to move the file. So I can move a file around just using the keyboard. You can also use Undo, Command Z, to undo any move like that.Now you can also do this with the cursor using drag and drop. So let's go into Images here and I can take this file and I can drag it over to here. Let's go into Project A, wait a second, and it's spring-loaded. It will then show the content in this column here. I can go to this folder here and then I can drop it in there. So I can easily move a file around, almost anywhere in my hard drive, in one window with the Finder in Column View. Now you may have noticed that when I have a file selected, like say this one, I see a preview here on the right. That's true of almost any file type. Here's a PDF, here's an image. All of these files will show me different previews to the right here. If you don't see the preview go to View, and you should see Show Preview here rather than Hide Preview. If you would rather not see these previews you can Hide them. Then the space to the right in Column View would just be blank. With this preview shown it will use all the remaining space for the preview and it will give you lots of information based on the file type. So here for an image, for instance, I can see some general information about it. But I can also click Show More and see lots of details image specific information. You also get some Quick Action buttons down here at the bottom of the preview area. Also notice here I've got the full path at the bottom. If you don't see that you can turn that on by going to View, and then Show Path Bar. Also there's Show and Hide the Status Bar as well which show me information like the number of files at the bottom there and the available space on my drive.Now there are some preferences that you can set as well. What you need to do is go to View, and then Show View Options. But most people use Command J as the keyboard shortcut. This brings up this little control here. So we have some options. One is to Change the Text Size. The default is 12 but let's say I go up to 16 here. You can see I get much larger text here and the icons enlarge to fit as well. I can also go smaller if I want. Now notice there are icons to the left here. Folder icons in most cases and some file icons there too. If I want to get rid of those and just see the names I can turn that Off. If I do have icons on I can decided whether or not I see little icon previews, little pictures here, for images and such. So I can turn that Off. This is helpful if you're using an older Mac and you're going through lots of files. It takes less processing power if it doesn't have to generate all those previews. Sometimes people just don't like to see them. It creates a little more visual clutter.Now notice here you also have Group By and Sort By. You can also go and do those here. So I can say let's sort by Kind instead. This will change it for all columns. So if I go into this Misc folder here things are going to be sorted by kind. Notice all the pdf's are together, for instance. So you have various Sort By options. Probably Date Last Opened or Date Added, Modified, or Created are the most useful. Size isn't that useful in Column View because you can't really see the sizes. But you can also, instead of doing by Sort By, we can do Use Groups. Now Sort By is Group By instead. So now we can group things, in this case by Kind. But we can also group them in other ways like say by Date Last Opened and it will group them together here. You can see Years and Months.Now let's turn that Off and let's say we want everything to be alphabetical but we'd rather have the Folders at the top. Well, that's actually a Finder preference. So we go to Finder Preferences here. We can go to Advanced and say that we want to Keep Folder on top in Windows when sorting by name. So let me select that. Now we see the Folders are at the top and alphabetical and then all the files. I think this is particularly useful in Column View where where when you're digging down into subfolders you have all the Folders here at the top and then all the files following them below. But do note that if you change the Sort By option to something else, like Date Last Opened, then you get Folders mixed in. The same thing when you use Groups and say you were to group by Date Last Opened. You can see the Folders mix in with the files.So one last thing I want to show you is you could actually use a lot of these tricks inside of the Open and Save Dialogs in apps. By default most of these go to Column View here but you have a control to switch between Icon View, List View, and Column View. So when I'm in here I can click and drag the lines between columns. I can double click on a column andI can right click and get all the different options. I can do all those things to control column width. I can also use keyboard navigation to get around inside of these. You could see I can also go in here and group items as well. When I move my cursor over a longer name there you can see it shows me the full name there. So it pays to learn these Column View tricks even if you don't use Column View all the time in the Finder because you're going to see it a lot here when you're navigating to open and save files.DoYourClone for Mac. 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GNUstep, Mac OS X Compatible On Intel Hardware
June 6th, 2003
Macintosh OS X for Intel processors has long been a topic of debate for Apple aficionados. Regardless of where you stand on that debate, whether you're for or against Apple using Intel processors, there is another option brewing: GNUstep.
In the Beginning There Was NeXTstep
What is GNUstep? Well let's step back just a bit. Before there was OS X, there was OPENSTEP by NeXT. Of course Apple bought NeXT and used the OPENSTEP operating system as a basis for our current Apple operating system. Many consider Mac OS X to be OPENSTEP 6.0. However, prior to 1997, NeXT released an open specification to its libraries for OpenStep. In effect, the GNUstep organization used that specification to build a GNU based version of OS X. GNUstep even includes Display Ghostscript (i.e., Postscript). GNUstep could conceivably run on any number of base operating systems. Just as the middleware and higher levels of OS X run on the base Unix/Darwin variant, middleware and higher levels of GNUstep have also been abstracted from the base operating system.
Write Once, Release Everywhere
If you haven't asked yet, you should by now: 'why should I care?' You should care because GNUstep is so similar to OS X that applications developed for it are basically Cocoa applications. Currently, you can go to GNUstep.net and download a slew of programs that will build and run with literally a single click. To do so, all you have to do is install the OS X Development Tools that either came with your copy of OS X or just download them for free (after registering for free).
You can use InterfaceBuilder.app to modify and customize Cocoa programs to a great extent by rummaging within an application's package. In fact, every Macintosh owner should install the development tools. Not because everyone should become a programmer, but simply because GNUstep and Cocoa projects are so easy to build and modify; think of InterfaceBuilder.app as Resedit on steroids. The process to build a GNUstep application for OS X basically requires you to double-click on the program's .pbproj file in the Finder, and then click on the big Build button (it looks like a hammer) in Project Builder.app and you're done. That's it.
Currently, what this means for you is that a few GNUstep applications already can run under OS X and might be worth checking out. For example, GNUMail.app is developing into a nice Mail.app alternative. You can find other programs at Collaboration World, and a Japanese site (English and Japanese versions available). Zircon zaga! {early alpha} mac os.
This is an incredibly big development as it enables write-once-deploy-everywhere software design for Cocoa programmers. Back in the day, a NeXT programmer would build a Cocoa-like application, and cross develop the program by simply checking off hardware architectures in a list just before pressing the Build button in ProjectBuilder.app (at one time this included Motorola 680x0, Intel x86, HP PA-RISC, and SUN workstations). One click and your single application would be compiled into a 'fat' binary that could be run on any of these computers. With GNUstep being so portable, it is only a matter of time before it's layered not only atop Linux, but Darwin and Windows.
GNUstep/Cocoa Applications on Windows Could Change Everything
If you think it's silly to have something like GNUstep on Windows, think again. NeXT used to provide OPENSTEP for Windows. Unfortunately for many developers, Apple has pulled the plug on the technology preventing one-click cross compiling for Windows by restricting its tools.
All of this changes with GNUstep. If Cocoa developers can take their application, and just build a fat binary version including GNUstep libraries so that it can run under Windows, Linux or OS X, the developer's market just became orders of magnitude bigger.
Two things are needed before GNUstep explodes onto the scene, which may well threaten Apple.
- An easy to install GNUstep + BSD/Darwin/Linux distribution needs to be developed;
- A Windows layer/version of GNUstep needs to be developed.
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Item A is already available at SimplyGNUstep, but needs to be updated. Item B is being worked oncurrently.
GNUstep. Mac OS X Cocoa, Hold the Carbon and Classic
This means that a lot of people are going to be able to run Cocoa OS X programs, not only on Intel machines, but on various operating systems. This may make things more difficult for Apple when comparisons of speed take place with the same code running; except now judgments can be made not only on which processor architecture is faster, but also on which operating system performs better.
This might become a good reason for Apple to consider releasing proprietary Intel hardware because such comparisons might make it more difficult to obfuscate lagging performance. As much as GNUstep will do for the Apple platform by providing high quality Cocoa programs, in time, GNUstep could provide some with less reason to stick with Apple. Of course GNUstep does not, and probably will never, provide any Carbon or Classic compatibility. Nevertheless, Apple should pay close attention to what is fast becoming a free clone of OS X.
John Kheitis an attorney. Please don't hold that against him. This work does not necessarily reflect the views and/or opinions of The Mac Observer, any third parties, or even John for that matter. No assertions of fact are being made, but rather the reader is simply asked to consider the possibilities.
You can send your comments directly to me, or you can also post your comments below.
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