Finder Sidebar Broken in Leopard (updated)

[David Herren]

On Nov 4, 2007, at 3:26 PM, LuKreme wrote:

>
>
> But that's not how it works.  It's not how it's ever worked.  If you  
> have a finder window open that was opened by the system when the  
> external whatever was mounted, regardless of where that window may  
> end up pointing, it will close when the drive mount is ejected.
>
> It worked like this in Tiger (Mount an image, copy the file to ~/ 
> Applications, switch to your home folder, switch to ~/Applications.   
> Select the new app, eject the mount.  Window goes away.

I'm apparently not explaining myself very well.

I NEVER open multiple finder windows. Never. I come to this from  
Nextstep and my work style is one in which there is ONE finder window  
only.

Mounting an external drive does not now and has never opened a second  
finder window. The icon just shows up in the sidebar. In this  
particular case, we're talking about my TimeMachine drive. I never  
drill down into my timemachine drive. Never. I never look at it. I  
mount it, and then later I unmount it. I used this drive with a  
different backup system before time machine and did exactly this with  
that system.

Never, ever, under any version of OSX until Leopard has clicking the  
little arrow to unmount an external drive caused the ONLY finder  
window I've ever had open to close.  It did NOT work that way under  
Tiger nor Panther.

I can't even begin to image why anyone would open multiple finder  
windows--it certainly makes no sense to me, but if your style has you  
opening multiple windows, then fine. However, I'm telling you, the  
behavior of closing the ONLY finder window open when I've NEVER  
traversed a path on an external drive is broken.


/david

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