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Re: Impressions from a first-time Mac user

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Post by tstehr »

zmmmmm wrote: post #250
paxys wrote: post #10

File management is another one I'd like to add to the list of macOS screwups. How can viewing lists of files and moving them over from one place to another be so complicated?

Most annoying for me is there is no simple way to simply search for files matching a name in a folder. Attempting to search using Finder insists on bringing up a giant system wide search that indexes content of files, emails, every stupid thing that contains anything like the phrase I looked for. So imagine I am sharing my screen and I try to just find a simple file and it's spewing the contents of my private emails…

You can configure the default file search behavior in the Finder preferences in the "Advanced" section.

I've set it to search the current folder, you can also configure Finder to reuse the previous search scope.

Re: Impressions from a first-time Mac user

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Post by alsetmusic »

iso1210 wrote: post #680
danaris wrote: post #673

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If you press Cmd-Tab, then let go, and press Cmd-Tab again, yes, you get back to the first application you were in. If you press Cmd-Tab, hold Cmd, and keep hitting Tab, you cycle through the available applications. If you press Cmd-`, get the window you want, and do something in it, then press Cmd-` again, you get back to the first window you were in. If you press Cmd-` repeatedly, you cycle through the available wi…

Press Cmd, Press `, Release `, Release Cmd You've swapped from window 1 to window 2 Press Cmd, Press `, Release `, Release Cmd You swap from window 2 to window 3 Press Cmd, Press tab, Release tab, Release Cmd You've swapped from application 1 to application 2 Press Cmd, Press tab, Release tab, Release tab You swap from application 2 to application 1 That if you type something after swapping window and the behaviour c…

I filed a big report about this years ago. Please do the same so that Apple knows this bothers people.

Edit: it didn’t behave this way before 2009

Re: Impressions from a first-time Mac user

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Post by alsetmusic »

turbocon wrote: post #490
godelski wrote: post #467

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I think the thing that was hardest for me to learn is navigating the folder systems. Luckily I can use a terminal.

This, I'm not sure why people don't talk about as much but Finder is awful and I've not been able to find a replacement.

Sorta late to the discussion, but hope these help you:

Path Finder https://www.cocoatech.io/

ForkLift https://binarynights.com/

Re: Impressions from a first-time Mac user

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Post by ask_b123 »

pombrand wrote: post #744
ask_b123 wrote: post #715

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4. You can press the option key when pasting to move the files or you can drag the files (you can enable drag with drag lock to make things easier: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-mouse-trackp... ) 5. Why do you need a standalone app to make screenshots? cmd + shift + 5 (or 4) work fine imo.

4. Im aware but it still cumbersome, would be nice to do it without the using the keyboard. 5. Because I need more functionality.

4. Dragging and dropping doesn't require the use of the option key. So there are two ways:

- Keyboard: cmd+c -> cmd+opt+v

- Non Keyboard: Drag -> Drop

I know that's not the same as right click -> select cut -> right click -> paste, but it doesn't seem strictly worse.

Oh! While dragging a file if you keep the cursor over a directory or over the Back/Forward Finder arrows it will move the focus while move to that dir.

5. I really don't know much about screenshots, their possible functionality or what you are looking for, but this app -> https://shottr.cc/ might serve your needs?

Re: Impressions from a first-time Mac user

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Post by Crazor »

rwc wrote: post #716
faller wrote: post #579

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> As long as you haven't made the active window full screen, or the window you want to switch to, then yes, it works. But it is painful :P What's being described as "full screen" windows on macOS is not exactly that, and it's very different than full screen windows on Windows or the standard Linux window managers. On macOS, when we click on the little green button on top of a window, that window becomes full screen *…

You can "Maximize" the app (to put it in Windows parlance) by Option+Click the green button (you can observe during the hover state for the green button the change from "full screen" to "maximize" by pressing Option).

Or even just double-click the window‘s title bar. Just like on Windows

Re: Impressions from a first-time Mac user

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Post by Crazor »

alsetmusic wrote: post #752
iso1210 wrote: post #680

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Press Cmd, Press `, Release `, Release Cmd You've swapped from window 1 to window 2 Press Cmd, Press `, Release `, Release Cmd You swap from window 2 to window 3 Press Cmd, Press tab, Release tab, Release Cmd You've swapped from application 1 to application 2 Press Cmd, Press tab, Release tab, Release tab You swap from application 2 to application 1 That if you type something after swapping window and the behaviour c…

I filed a big report about this years ago. Please do the same so that Apple knows this bothers people. Edit: it didn’t behave this way before 2009

And it seems that it doesn’t behave that way in every program. Firefox seems to be doing it correctly (most of the time anyway)
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