Nov 24 |
The fastest way to browse your directories in OS X is clearly the column view that you access by pressing “Command + 3“.
You probably know that if you double-click the icon at the bottom of a column, it will “right size” that column, so you can see the entire file name.
If you “Option-double-click” that icon, then all columns will be “right sized” to the maximum width necessary to display the longest item in the column.
If you want to change all of them press “Alt” while resizing. This will not only resize all columns at once, but also makes the new width the default setting for all windows.
In 10.5, Apple apparently felt these shortcuts were too hidden; there’s now a contextual menu hiding under the column resize widget, too. Just “control-click” on it, and three choices will appear:
Hopefully someday Apple will figure out how to get the “right size all columns” feature into the Finder, where it would be truly useful. Until then, though, at least it works in the Open and Save dialogs
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October 2nd, 2011 at 5:37 PM
I believe the feature discussed above is now available in any Finder window in Lion, not just the open and save dialogue boxes.
Wish there was an option that new columns would always automatically re-size to the width of their content!