What is the current version of the Finder?
What is the current version of the finder?
10.4.6 ?
10.4.6 in the PPC version of 10.4.8; may be different in the
Universal Binary version.
Russ
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thanksWhat did the app do?
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RBarbato wrote:
When I am at home or traveling the green dot is small and very accurate. When I am at work the dot gets really big and not accurate at all. Why does this happen?
See your duplicate post here...
https://discussions.apple.com/message/22392418#22392418 -
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I am in the process of deleting my old iPhoto library. When I installed OS X 10.10.3 it created a new Photos Library.photoslibrary and left the old iPhotos library as an archive. The old library is 249 gigabytes. I don't have "Empty Trash securely" on, and yet it is taking hours for the Finder to empty the trash with the 249 gigabyte iPhotos library in it. What is odd is that for a time, the amount of free space on my MacBook was increasing. It went from 77 GB to 88 GB, and then it started dropping all the way to 70 GB free. Now it is back up to 83.61 GB free.
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It has been deleting for 4 hours and based on the "Emptying the Trash …" progress bar, it should take another two to three hours.Yes, but why would the space available go up and down and up as the files are deleted? If the Finder is deleting the files, shouldn't the free space on the drive be steadily increasing as the Trash is emptied?
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Is the Finder living up to it's potential?
I don't know the workings behind the interface of the Mac OS X Finder, but I've been told that it is essentually a database. Assuming this is true, why is the Finder so limited in functions? Not that I'm complaining, Its a good interface, better than any other. I just get the feeling that it could do so much more.
What is the Finder? Does it include Spotlight, expose and other features that have come and gone or are these actually part of the finder that does exploit the database qualities precent? I wouldn't want to see the Finder regress any more than it has. (I remember back, way back when the ability to have more than one window open and being able to see both was a highly touted feature and selling point. Now the exact oppisite is true. Although now we have a choice.)
But databases should be able to do more of the little things. I'm sure we used to be able to tile the screens. Is this still there somewhere? One way to minimize a window was to double click its name and have that window shade effect reduce the window to just the title bar. Simple and keeps the window in sight so its not missed at a crutial time. Why can't you calculate the size of your files and folders in a search? Why can't I color my text and use it as a sort feature or quick refernce to what project the file belongs to? Why can't I sort by two columns a first sort and then a second like Excel? Why can't I have more colors for labels or increase the number of labels? Can files be tagged and accessed from other software like mail or ical or even third party software? Are the reminders in iCal the same as in Mail's to do list? Why not? Why can't we mix the way files and forlders are presented in a finder window? It could be as simple as taking three differnt windows and combining them into one seamless window treated as one folder? Drag and move files between the seamless sections and in the back ground the files move to the correct folder if one folder is not used when the windows are combined?
Take a good hard look at what other database and spreadsheet software does and determine if it would be an asset in the Finder. And make the Finder backward compatible. So you don't have Rossetta in Lion. Its a seperate item in Snow Leopard. Why not let users install the feature from the Snow Leopard disk. A small market for legacy software could be created or you could sell these as Mac Apps on the store. Perhaps ever rework them into plugins or Widgets for the dashboard.
Are any of these things feasible? Are any of these desireable? Would it make the finder to complicated? I believe that the vast varity of useful feature exist that the best of the best should be incorporated in the finder — the forgotten database.
Thanks, I look forward to being ripped to shreds and I also apologize for the poor organization of this work. I don't have time to spend on creating a nice concise professional article. Sorry.
RodThe Finder application is essentially a file finder, although it does deal with the whole desktop metaphor, along with the other parts of the operating system such as Spotlight and Expose. It has never been a database or a spreadsheet application. Legacy items such as Rosetta are not independent applications and require quite a few support frameworks - one thing I've noticed over the last 30 or so years is that Apple is not afraid to drop older technologies and move on.
Apple tends to design software based around the primary needs (or at least what it thinks are the primary needs) of the majority of users. Implementing every feature that anyone thinks should be included would lead to bloat and increased complexity which only benefits a small number of users. Simplicity and consistency tend to win over trying to match what others do. Apple seems to be more than willing to let third-party developers provide hacks tools and features that specialized users may want.
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I have heard that the unidbfix tool used for troubleshooting Calendar Server
database problems is frequently revised from the version that is supplied
with the server package software. How do I know when I need a newer version of
this tool? And how often should I execute it?
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You can always find the latest version of this tool available here at
http://www.iplanet.com/downloads/patches/index.html.
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However, note that there may not be a new version of the tool for every platform
every time. Depending on what reason the tool is revised and for what it is
checking, it may not pertain to all platforms in which case the most current
version that you have it quite sufficient.
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For preventative maintenance, it is recommended that the this tool be run in a
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