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Re: OS X - Make new Finder window bug
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Re: OS X - Make new Finder window bug


  • Subject: Re: OS X - Make new Finder window bug
  • From: Tod Hallberg <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 09:10:29 -0600
  • Organization: Monical Pizza Corporation

Remember that the "Make New Window" command is no longer COMMAND-N, it is now
SHIFT+COMMAND+N.

if you are telling it to type text (COMMAND-N) it is doing what it is supposed to, that is
opening the "Computer" window.

Personally, I feel that is was a bad change.

hope this helps

tod


Mr Tea wrote:

> In OS X Finder preferences, I've checked the option to have new Finder
> windows open with my home folder as the target, but when I tell the
> Finder to make a new Finder window in a script, the target is always the
> computer. What's going on there?
>
> And a related question...
>
> Is it possible to set the target (& bounds & view options) of a new
> window when (rather than after) it opens? I tried 'make new Finder window
> with properties {target:alias "my disk:my folder"} etc. to no avail.
> Surely this sort of thing should be possible now, given the hugely
> altered nature of Finder windows in OS X.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mr Tea
>
> --
> "Always remember to warm the pot."


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