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re: Finder modes (@joshkim)

joshkim:

I would have liked to have gone with the Toolbar Hidden (go to View, or cmd + opt + T), but the problem is that I can’t have it all open in the same folder. I just can’t find out how to do this.

I know I’ve come across information on this before. Since tumblr just ate what I previous wrote, I’ll just say this.

Tidbit: The window-per-folder mode is from the old Mac OS days, before it was called Mac OS, e.g., System 7 (and earlier?) when the Finder was not multitasking. Even afterward, and now, it’s an interesting paradigm for a file manager, though one that clearly suited the earlier Mac OS file system and folder structure.

I don’t clearly remember a hack to force one behaviour or another, though it may exist.

If I remember, I’ll go through my delicious links and look for a solution. In the meantime, I know I’ve read some stuff from Gruber and others related to this, so here are just some quick links I dug up:

http://daringfireball.net/2002/11/that_finder_thing

http://daringfireball.net/2002/12/finder_reflux

http://daringfireball.net/2003/04/siracusa_on_the_finder