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Re: turn off finder "triangles" in Mac OS 9
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Re: turn off finder "triangles" in Mac OS 9


  • Subject: Re: turn off finder "triangles" in Mac OS 9
  • From: Bill Briggs <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 10:56:09 -0300

At 1:52 AM +0000 08/05/01, email@hidden wrote:
Sorry, I don't know what the feature is called

The official name is "disclosure triangle".



-- but I really don't
like the triangles used in Finder windows to expand folders. I
especially don't like logging into an Appletalk server, opening a
folder, and seeing a billion different folders expanded.

Option-click on the triangle at the highest level and it will collapse the view of that folder and all of the enclosed folders.



Is there a way to get the Finder to automatically collapse these when
the window is closed (would a folder action work), or someone logs in
via file sharing?


This Folder Action will close it when you open the window.


on opening folder this_folder
tell application "Finder"
activate
set completely expanded of every folder of this_folder to false
end tell
end opening folder



Or a way to turn them off completely, perhaps?

There is no way that I know of to turn them off. They are and integral part of the file navigation mechanism of the Finder when in list view.

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