Re: A Question About Finder and Associated Frustrations



You have a new iMac and it DIDN'T come with a Mighty Mouse? Well, just go buy some multi-button USB mouse. They should all work. Microsoft Intellimouse Exploreres are nice.

Yes it came with a Mighty Mouse that is still in its wrapper, I am using a lovely Logitech MX 310. Very happy with it and orks perfectly with my iMac


Preview is not the right way. it shows one picture at a time. Try importing them into iPhoto....

The question here is not so much about wanting to use Preview to view the files in the folder, but rather the fact that when I select the 1,930 files, then attempt to right click on that selection, Finder crashes. (Spinning beach ball and it is shown as "not responding" in the Force Quit list.

Shouldn't Finder be able to bring up a contextual menu when so many files are selected? I ask only because I am trying to determine whether this is OS X normal behaviour, or whether there is something wrong with my installation of it.




Second Frustration
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The other frustration is the long delay there is from right clicking on a selection of objects and the contextual menu appearing. I have a folder that is about 80MB in size and contains 12 MP3 songs. Again I wanted to simply select all 12 tracks and then right click on the selection so that I could send the tracks to a nifty media player called "MacAmp Lite X", but whenever I do this, there is about a 10 second delay before I can access the "Open With" command. What is the point of putting Open With in the right click contextual menu if it is not supposed to be used?


Can't help you here as I've never used MacAmp. I use iTunes which doesn't exhibit the characteristic that you describe.

Again it is not an app specific problem. MacAmp Lite was just the program I was thinking about using, it is Finder, for some weird reason, that wants to take 10 or more seconds to display a contectual menu when I right click on a selection of 12 MP3 files. I use iTunes as well, but at the time, it was busy running an Apple script on my music library, so it was not usable while it did its work, so I wanted to use Mac Amp Lite to listen tot he music while I did other things. Also MacAmp Lite is one of the few apps I have found that will play both APE and FLAC file formats on my Mac.



Yes. Its a piece of Malware called Windows. But seriously, if you want Windows, use Windows. It is futile to try to make a Mac work like Windows and to be honest, most Mac users don't want Macs to work like Windows

All I want to do is augment the Macs capabilities with some useful features from Windows. Invert Selection is one of those useful features.

Bill Gates apparently wants Windows to be like the Mac.

Hasn't he always, at least since the advent of Windows 95.
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