Can I Auto-Size Columns On Finder?

I like to use "Finder" in the Columns style (3rd Button on top), however every time I launch finder it seems that I have to resize the columns in order to read it completly. Is there a way to set it up so that it auto-sizes completly on it's own?

There's another hidden trick.
First the basics: If you double click the cursor on the line that separates two columns, it will resize the column to the left to fit its content.
But if you hold down the Option key and then double-click any such line, it will resize all open columns to fit their respective contents.
It still isn't true auto-resizing, but this does makes my life a lot easier! ;-)

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Very many thanks to you, Putaro! Your answer provided the solution. It was a buggy plug-in that turned out to be the culprit.
You're off the hook, Apple, and my apologies for stating that you let a dog run loose. You skated by this time, Apple. But I'm watching you.
But again, Putaro's reference to the plugins I had installed over the years turned out to illuminate the problem. I have several plugins in my iTunes plugins folder, pretty much all designed to add more visualizer functionality. I removed all of them, and ALL of the problems I noted in my post went away, with full iTunes functionality restored.
I began adding the plugins back to hopefully single out the culprit. Among the ones I had been using included fielder, G-Force, Timestrech, volcanokit, QuartzComposer, and Jax. I hadn't used any of them in a while - probably at least a verison or more back in iTunes updates, but iTunes continued to work with all of them installed. Currently, only QuartzComposer continues to work in iTunes 10.4. The rest no longer even show up as visualizer opitons, with one exception. Jax does show up, but does not work. AND THE PRESENCE OF JAX IS WHAT KILLED MY ITUNES.
I looked into it and went back to the developer, and it appears that they discontinued developing Jax some time ago - evidently, it was buggy and crash prone. I remember after buying it, having problems with it - having never worked to its touted potential, but I didn't pursue it, and never uninstalled it. Leaving it in there caused all iTunes functionality to cease with the iTunes 10.4 update.
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I am using Oracle DiscovererBI 10g and I have a worksheet column that I am tring to resize. I have auto size column checked, but for some reason the width of the column is always the size of the header and not the size of the largest item in the column. If I go to print preview everything looks fine.
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Always Auto Size Columns?

Hi,
I was wondering if it's possible to make iTunes always auto size the columns in every playlist, etc. It would be a really cool feature to implement if it's not already possible. If anybody knows how to do this, I'd love to know also.
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Well you can sort of do it manually. Each playlist should remember which columns are on, what order they are in, & what size each column is.
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Hi, I was clicking around iTunes and I was wondering what "Auto Size All Columns" meant (stupid, right?) Anyway, I clicked it, did not like it, and now I can't figure out how to get it back to normal. Is there any way to reverse this action?

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It changes the column width automatically when I select a file in a sub column even after I adjust it to my liking...
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SAME HERE!
I just created a New List in my iTunes 8.0.2, and noticed the same Columns Width Issue, in List View and Cover Flow View:
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I tried different Playlists, and another Library and it was the same issue!
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Repairing Permissions, and Restarting iTunes and Restarting my Powerbook G4 didn't help either...
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http://www.apple.com/feedback/itunesapp.html
and hope others will do also, if they encounter the same problem.
And while at it, please join me in asking Apple to make Lyrics Field SEARCHABLE! What an underutilized opportunity that Lyrics Field is. I can store my notes in there, and have clickable web links, if they are in the same format as the one above, in this post. And while at it, make it Searchable on iPhones/iPods, or at least visible!
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Is there a way to make the last column in finder auto expand?

I know that you can double click the double bar at the bottom right . . . but can't the finder be set to auto expand on the last column so i don't have to click that thing every time i wish to see the long named files ?
Perhaps i should just use Bridge but it seems so slow and cumbersome compared to Finder.
thanks for any advice.
PS . . . is this available on the newest OS . . . going to upgrade one of these days.

No, the finder's column view does not have auto resizing columns.
It does have auto condensing of file names for the narrow display.
Which is what you are trying to overcome.
To accomplish your task, switch to list view.
Select your file. Then switch back to column view.
The trick is to learn your FINDER command key short cuts.
command 1 = icon view
command 2 = list view
command 3 = column view.
So you would press [command] and [3] to view the columns.
Navigate about until you get a column of unhelpfully condensed names.
Switch to list view by pressing [command] and [2]
Select the file from the fully displayed names list.
At this point you can press [command] [down arrow] OR [command] [o] to enter/open the selected item;
or Switch back to column view by pressing [command] and [3] then continue browsing deeper.

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