sakw@cvaxa.UUCP (Sak Wathanasin) (05/15/86)
Got this off a UK BBS.
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Category: 1 MAC Information
Message #: 694
Submitted: 5/6/86 23:13
Submitted by: BRUCE STIDSTON
Subject: Finder finding.
For months now, whenever I'd find myself in the Finder,
I'd fool around trying to crack a problem that's always
bugged my tidy mind.
The problem concerns the viewing of files in a heavily
populated folder. Having chosen the optimal sort criterion
for the View for that folder (that is, by date or by name or
by size or whatever, from the Finder's View menu), I prefer
to have the files presented to me in Icon format but
retaining the sequence dictated by the selected View method.
(To make that clearer: I wanted to have all my MacPaint files,
for instance, listed by Icon and presented in alphabetical
order from left to right, starting with the A's at the top and
the Z's at the bottom.)
Until now, the only way I'd found of achieving this was to move
the document icons around manually... a bit daft when you've
got the world's friendliest computer standing by watching. Now
there's a better way, thanks to the Put Away item that has
reappeared on the File menu in Finders 5.0 and above.
Here's how you do it: Select the View criterion you want the
icons to follow. Say you choose By Date. All the files are
now presented in Date order, names only, without their associated
icons. Now Select All, and drag all the files onto the Desktop.
Now, select the icon presentation you want: by Small Icon or
by Icon. Re-size the window to make room for the icon layout you
want: eg, three abreast. Now choose Put Away from the File menu
and watch as Finder neatly picks up the files from the desktop,
one by one, and restores them to the window in icon format,
RETAINING your selected View sequence!
A discovery of sorts?
(Yuk!)
> Bruce Stidston.
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Sak Wathanasin, U of Sussex, Cognitive Studies, Falmer, Sussex BN1 9QN, UK
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janet: sakw@uk.ac.sussex.cvaxaephraim@wang.UUCP (pri=8 Ephraim Vishniac x76659 ms1459) (05/19/86)
> The problem concerns the viewing of files in a heavily > populated folder. Having chosen the optimal sort criterion > for the View for that folder (that is, by date or by name or > by size or whatever, from the Finder's View menu), I prefer > to have the files presented to me in Icon format but > retaining the sequence dictated by the selected View method. > (To make that clearer: I wanted to have all my MacPaint files, > for instance, listed by Icon and presented in alphabetical > order from left to right, starting with the A's at the top and > the Z's at the bottom.) > > Here's how you do it: Select the View criterion you want the > icons to follow. Say you choose By Date. All the files are > now presented in Date order, names only, without their associated > icons. Now Select All, and drag all the files onto the Desktop. > Now, select the icon presentation you want: by Small Icon or > by Icon. Re-size the window to make room for the icon layout you > want: eg, three abreast. Now choose Put Away from the File menu > and watch as Finder neatly picks up the files from the desktop, > one by one, and restores them to the window in icon format, > RETAINING your selected View sequence! Actually, it's easier than that. If the disk or folder on which the items are located is visible, just drag them straight there, then choose the new view. No need for an intermediate stop on the Desktop, nor use of "Put Away."