oh my good god
it took me 20 years to discover this option in macOS Finder
for decades i've fought with finder never sizing the column width to the width of the filename, which means i manually click and drag the column slider wider. i'd had to do this tens of thousands of times.
on a whim today, i right clicked on the damned column slider. *and there is an option to auto-size*
"Right Size All Columns Equally" is a life changing event.
@avail i want 20 years of my life back
@vga256 I think it was TotalFinder that had an auto-size columns feature.
@vga256 double click the divider also does it iirc
@hippiegunnut @vga256 Also: Option-double-click and Shift-Option-double-click do the Individually and Equally versions.
@vga256 A great tip! I *think* this only works when in Column mode though. I use List view as my default and couldn't see a way to do the same thing.
@vga256 Looks like double clicking the slider in List view will automatically size the column a la Excel.
@paulhellyer great find!
@vga256 Wow, it always drove me crazy when it was sized so wide! Gonna try this out.
@vga256 Oh, I was hoping it was a setting that forced new columns to always be "right sized".
It looks like Finder's behavior is to inherit the width of the parent column whenever you navigate to a sub-folder, but I feel like sometimes it starts out too wide and I have to manually bring it in, otherwise it's just unusable when navigating.
@vga256 Why in Jobs's name is this not the default?
@vga256 Then: "Here's the comprehensive 170 page manual for this 113KB software package that does three things."
Now: "This software has 3.2 million features. Many of them are hidden and there's no indication that they exist, and others will be added or subtracted on a whim, so many aspects of this software package can only be discovered by accident or by reading about them in crappy listicles. This concludes the software documentation. Fuck you."
@screambiogenesis You are now blocked for publicly acting like an idiot. Was that worth your time to write?
@vga256 I guess you blocked me for this? In case I wasn't clear (entirely possible, it happens), I'm on your side with this. Software has a *ton* of functionality nowadays, and often has zero useful documentation to go with it. It's very frustrating, especially when you just like, stumble across something like this that is immensely helpful.
@vga256 same, but over 25 years. Until just this minute basically
@PenguinToot @vga256 This falls FIRMLY in that “I don't know what people don't know" file, there are so many things like this in the dusty corners of every operating system. I share the ones that stand out because it might help someone else too!
@vga256 you can also double click if you want only one full size
@vga256 wait WHAT
@vga256 excellent, thank you. Makes column view much easier to manage. I had to right click on the “bottom” of the column to make it work. Love finding out these little features of the finder!
@vga256 If it’s the “right size” then it should be the default.
@vga256 Well I’ll be …
@vga256 MacOS does not have a right-click, we’ve been laughing at those Macintosh types with their one-button mouses all the time.
If Mac OSX now added it they violate their own UI guidelines
@mirabilos @vga256 Laugh at yourself for not knowing that there’s been Ctrl clicking (your right click) since the original macOS. And that it maps to that on multi-button input devices.
@mirabilos @vga256 I’m not here to educate your trolling. Go to an Apple Store.
@vga256 You didn’t miss it for 20 years AFAIK. That’s a relatively new addition.
@vga256
"took me 20 years" - I'm not a Mac user, but didn't Apple mouses only have one mouse button for at least some of that time?
@vga256 will it give you comfort if I tell you it was only available in Sierra?
@vga256
You are a God.