Daniel Hruska In the previous two volumes [AND.] [II.], we described the hottest news, such as Mission Control, Launchpad, Auto Save, Versions and Resume, coming with OS X Lion. In this sequel, we will focus on the well-known file manager - Finder. Although many users won't notice the changes in it at first glance, it certainly won't hurt to show off the new features.
What is Finder
We don't know anything similar in iOS. The user sees the files only within each application, everything else is hidden from him. This fact brings with it both advantages and disadvantages. Without the impossibility of "scrambling" in the directory structure, the risk of unwanted user intervention is radically reduced. Individual applications can also work separately only with their files (so-called sandboxing), which increases the security and stability of the entire system. A disadvantage may be the impossibility of operating Mass Storage, and thus no iDevice can be used as a USB stick. But OS X Lion is a desktop operating system that (yet) cannot do without the ability to manipulate files, for which the Finder is primarily used.
Small news
Compared to the Snow Leopard version, the Finder has been graphically simplified. The design is more polished, the colors and sliders have disappeared (as elsewhere in Lion). Sections in the sidebar are missing arrows and are replaced with words Skryt a Display, as we know from iTunes. The sections in the sidebar themselves have also undergone changes. Places (Places in Snow Leopard) has been replaced by the name Favourite and sections Search (Search for) disappeared completely.
When you select multiple files and then right-click, a new item appears in the context menu. This is an option to create a new folder inside an existing folder containing the files you have marked. Nice feature, isn't it? Also note the last two items. Marked files can be sent as an attachment in an e-mail. There will also be an option to set images as wallpaper.
Copying a file with the same name to the same folder is quite common. Lion will ask if you want to keep both files, abort the action, or replace the existing file with the one on the clipboard. Leaving both files will add text to the name of the copied file (copy).
You can get clear graphic information about your device in the item About this Mac > Learn more, which is hidden under the bitten apple in the upper left corner.
Spotlight, Quick View
A new look corresponding to the colors of OS X Lion was also given Quick preview (Quick Look). You can change the size of the window simply by dragging its edges or switch to full-screen mode with the button in the upper right corner. You also have the option to switch to the associated app if it is installed.
Searching in Spotlight is smarter and easier in Lion. For example, I know I have somewhere in a folder School saved LCD-related Pixelmator templates. Just search for the string in the file names "LCD" and as a type Pixelmator. I will achieve the desired result in a few seconds. Similarly, you can search, for example, for music albums released in certain years, attachments from Mail.app by the name of the sender, etc. There are no limits to your imagination. You can save your favorite searches for later use. You can also search for your question on Wikipedia or the website directly from Spotlight.
Another trick is the Quick preview of the file still displayed in Spotlight. Just press the spacebar and a pop-up preview window will appear on the left. And space can also be used in Mission Control for enlarging windows. This feature was also present in Exposé in Snow Leopard, but it's a little known fact, so it's worth mentioning.
File sorting
Improvements have also come to the display and sorting of files and folders. Classically, you have four display modes to choose from – Icons, List, Columns a Cover Flow. So not much has changed here. What has changed, however, is the file sorting. Look at the tab in the Menubar and look at the menu at View > Sort by. You will be given the choice to divide the files in the given folder into nests according to the criteria, namely: Name, Type, Application, Last opened, Date added, Date of change, Creation date, Size, Label a None. For example in a folder Downloading I am constantly, to put it politely, a mess. In order to make sense of that pile of files, I need to sort it. Sorting by application has worked for me because I know which application a given file type is associated with when I work with my computer every day. Each of you will surely find the right sorting in your libraries and bulky folders.
Continuation:How about Lion? Part I - Mission Control, Launchpad and Design II. part – Auto Save, Version and Resume
As for copying, one of the things that bothers me a lot about Lion is that there is a complete lack of a "skip" option. Why should I waste time copying files that are already in the folder (either by overwriting or making a copy)…
Complete agreement. Another thing that is annoying is the impossibility of marking multiple items using shift in the icon view. I understand it as a bug, but apparently it's some misunderstood feature, because it annoyed me already in Snow Leopard.
This is exactly what I need! What Altap Salamander can do in Windows is to copy a bunch of files and immediately say that a) overwrite all older files, b) skip all the same files. Absolutely ideal for "mirroring", for example, a bunch of photos between the internal drive (where I work with photos and edit some here and there) and an external drive, where the current status is only uploaded here and there.
Couldn't someone make such a function in Automator?
Please advise me - how do I switch to full screen mode with a keyboard shortcut? The shortcut is listed in the menu, but then I couldn't implement it - I don't know where to get the inverted "v". I've already tried a lot, but I'm probably hardened or I really don't know, mostly I just get to the search. I don't really want to walk to the corner with the cursor. Thanks in advance.
The "inverted" V is a stand-in for Control from Jakziva, which Ctrl+Cmd+F switches between normal window and fullscreen mode in all applications that support it.
more at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343
a reversed "v" will probably be ctrl. Try it :)
Sure, it's ctrl, thanks to both of you. Maybe I once knew it, but one doesn't need it that often, so one forgets. I definitely have two Macbooks, one from 2007 and one from this year, but both have a ctrl key without any other symbol, while the upside-down V appears on two keyboard keys, so it's quite confusing to put such a symbol directly in OS X. Similarly, it used to use the apple button, and now instead of that there is this strange character at cmd, I don't even know if it has a name. :-)
you don't know why even after waiting a minute I can't scroll all the way down to see the comments here? it only happens to me in Safari and in other browsers I also have to wait for the Sending request to finish...
is it a mistake on my side or what is the problem you don't know?
It happened to me yesterday or the day before yesterday and I was quite surprised. It's cool now. I don't know what it was.
This time it was caused by a YouTube server outage, but sometimes click to flash also goes crazy if you use it.
Compared to the version from Snow Leopard, the Finder was not graphically simplified, but graphically shrunk! The design is perhaps more polished, but in such a way that the Finder is significantly less intuitive - compared to Snow Leopard.
the most important thing is that after selecting, for example, five files, I cannot find out their total size. I've had x for a while and the only thing I could think of was to create a folder and look at the information about the folder... Does anyone have a better idea?
Mark multiple files, press the mouse a second time and when you mark alt, some menus will change and instead of information, the inspector will show the size of the files and so on. The inspector can be left open and files can be clicked over and you can always see the info of the file which is bluish.