Stacks Are Worthless

[Kevin Callahan]

On Oct 27, 2007, at 5:17 PM, Scott Anguish wrote:

> I think this depends entirely on your usage patterns.
>
> I use Stacks for accessing the downloads from Safari, but I don't  
> keep the directory full.
>
> The other directories are also similarly small.. Applications, ~/,  
> etc...

I have 324 items in my Documents folder (which is really an alias to a  
folder living on an external drive) -
when I click the Documents icon in the Dock , nothing happens

obviously, not a good use for stacks

i'd like to put a SMART FOLDER there

but when I do, it opens in a Finder view instead of a grid or fan
(it's not because the smart folder contains 897 items)

when I create a smart folder with criteria that keeps about 5 items in  
it, clicking on the smart folder in the Dock still opens the Finder

I don't mind too much, but I wouldn't mind eliminating the opening of  
a window I don't need to open --

Anybody know how to create a sort column for date modified or date  
created in a smart folder results window ?
I like having "Last opened", but why not the ability to add some  
sorting options?   Is there a way ?

K

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> On Oct 27, 2007, at 7:41 PM, Phil Larson wrote:
>
>> So I'm liking most of Leopard, but Stacks are completely worthless.  
>> I remember some people on here telling me they were for arbitrary  
>> collections of files, which may be useful as a temporary  
>> organization. Stacks are just a new and worse UI over the old  
>> folders in a dock, just like I said and thought.
>
> Glad you came at it with an open mind.
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