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Interesting Finder bug Thu, Dec 20 2007 07:48

As the developer of FolderGlance, I often get support mails regarding strange Finder behaviour. Sometimes, the root cause turns out to be FolderGlance, while other times something else or the Finder itself is to blame. The latter was the case for a bug I discovered in the Finder yesterday, which I've now reported to Apple (rdar://5657501). The bug manifests itself when you try to rename a file in the Finder's list view. Here are the steps required to reproduce the issue:

  1. Open a new Finder window.
  2. Set the view to List mode (Command-2)
  3. Select a folder visible in the window, and expand it.
  4. Select a file in the expanded folder.
  5. Begin renaming the file by pressing the Return or Enter key.
  6. Press the right arrow key to move the insertion point to the end of the file name.
  7. Press and hold the shift key.
  8. While holding the shift key, press and hold the left arrow key, as if to select a number of characters from the end of the filename towards the beginning. Note: It is important that the shift- and arrow keys are held continuously, and not released in between character selections.

The expected behaviour here is of course to have the characters from the filename selected, but instead what actually happens is that the sub-folder you try to rename the file in collapses, forcing you to start over.



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My name is Daniel Stødle. I live in Tromsø, Norway, at 69.66° North. By day, I work as a researcher at the Northern Research Institute in Norway; by night, I run my company SCSC. I do most of my development on and for Mac OS X. My research is geared towards interaction with and visualization of geospatial data. Read more on my personal page.

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2011
Jul 28: Running iTunes in a debugger (gdb)
Jul 25: The /Volumes/MobileBackups directory
Jul 20: FolderGlance 3.0.1 supports Lion
Mar 03: Quick tip: Speeding up Xcode compilations
Mar 02: FolderGlance 3.0
Jan 07: Making Universal Back Button work on 10.6.5 and later

2010
Sep 03: Creating pthreads in C++ using pointers to member functions
May 31: Quickly open URLs in Terminal
May 31: Snow Leopard and automatically submitted Crash Reports
May 27: Universal Back Button released for Mac OS X
May 22: The 22 Megapixel Laptop
Feb 09: FolderGlance on MacUpdate Promo

2009
Sep 28: FolderGlance 2.5.3 is out
Sep 21: FolderGlance 2.5.1 adds features and fixes bugs
Sep 16: FolderGlance 2.5 released!
Sep 10: Intriguing: Snow Leopard ships with the iPhone's multi-touch API built-in
Sep 03: FolderGlance and Snow Leopard
Mar 15: Fixing Keynote '08 and '09 to work with the Scripting Bridge
Feb 26: A website in an image
Feb 09: Display wall multi-touch

2008
Feb 19: Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. retires
Feb 08: How-to: Reverse engineering the Dock to fix Spaces
Jan 25: Interacting with wall-sized displays

2007
Dec 20: Interesting Finder bug
Dec 06: Developing applications for the iPod touch (and the iPhone)
Nov 15: Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces.. and 10.5.1
Nov 15: Thread creation using pthread_create() on Leopard
Nov 13: Spaces.. Spaces.. Spaces..
Nov 07: FolderGlance, Leopard and the More... menu
Nov 06: FolderGlance and Screen Sieve now also on Leopard!
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