Finder window and where it is

When I open my applications folder, the screen opens to where I had last scrolled. So let's say for instance that I scrolled all the way to the bottom of the window to the utilities folder. I can close out that finder window and open a new finder window, and when I go to the applications window, the window is scrolled all the way to the bottom near the utilities window (a.k.a wherever I had last scrolled to, middle of window, wherever). Is there a way I can fix this problem so that every time I open up the finder window, regardless of if it's the applications window or whatever window, the window is scrolled all the way to the top?

So, after two weeks and no replies, I must feel that I am the only tree in the forest that is having the problem stated above.
The problem is, I still have this issue! I can't click to start a screen recording, I can't click on the play, stop, pause, fast forward, rewind buttons, can't select the 'header' bar and move it around my screen - NOTHING.
I've tried everything that appears to be logical to me and every time I try something, OSX ML defaults to the next app that's running. Tonight, I tried to make a screen recording with QuickTime. I went FILE> Screen Recording and voila, the dialogue box. Could I click on the silver and red button to start the bloody thing? NO! All I get is Motion - which is the next app in the stack.
Quite honestly, QuickTime 10.2(603.6) on ML10.8.2, *****; blows; is a waste of space, defunct and the developers should take a holiday and upgrade something like Windows Media Player. THAT'S how irritated I am about this.
Now if this is an overlooked issue I wil have no problem in praising and extolling the virtues of QT on my MacPro. It works well on my MBP, for instance and all of the options are the same in both.
So, if anyone is interested in dipping their toes into the cesspool of this 'issue' then I'd be very happy.

Similar Messages

How do I keep icons from moving around when I close the finder window and reopen?

I am working in one finder window, and every time I arrange the icons the way I want them, they decide to shift around on their own when I open the window again. How can I set the icons where I want and then keep them that way?

Hi,
This may happen if the PDF is opened inside the browser by the PDF plugin.
In '''Tools''' ( or '''Alt''' + '''T''') > '''Options''' > '''Applications''' look for or type PDF in the search box and for the '''Action''' on the right change it to '''Save File''' or click '''Use other...''' and browse to the PDF main exe and select.
Please see [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Options%20window%20-%20Applications%20panel this] and [https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing%20file%20types this.]
Useful links:
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Options%20window All about Tools > Options]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config Going beyond Tools > Options - about:config]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries about:config Entries]
[https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/whats-that-preference/ What's That Preference? add-on] - Quickly decode about:config entries - After installation, go inside about:config, right-click any preference, enable (tick) MozillaZine Results to Panel and again right-click a pref and choose MozillaZine Reference to begin with.
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Keyboard%20shortcuts Keyboard Shortcuts]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe%20Mode Safe Mode]
[http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions Problematic Extensions/Add-ons]
[https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Troubleshooting%20extensions%20and%20themes Troubleshooting Extensions and Themes]

Can't access the "Apple" icon in upper main menu to shutdown my MacBook Pro running 10.6.8! Also can't open a new finder window and main menus such as File and Edit are sluggish to open or don't open at all. Doesn't happen each time I attempt to shutdow

Can't access the "Apple" icon in upper main menu to shutdown my MacBook Pro running 10.6.8! Also can't open a new finder window and main menus such as File and Edit are sluggish to open or don't open at all. Doesn't happen each time I attempt to shutdowCan't

There are some keyboard commands (shortcuts) you can use instead of having to go to the Apple menu -
Control-Eject          This brings up the Restart-Sleep-Cancel-Shutdown window.
Command-Option-Eject          This puts the machine to sleep.
Command-Control-Eject          This closes all apps and restarts the machine.
Command-Option-Control-Eject          This closes all apps and shuts the machine down.

Multiple drag emails from Mail to a finder window and for it to name the files as the subject heading

Hi
I have been using Mac's now for about 10 years and this is my first problem.
I have recently moved into an office that use PC's with a Windows server.
I have set up the network to transfer files and view the windows server and it works fine.
I have a problem in that my colleagues on PC need to be able to view my emails which I send and receive using Mail. They therefore need to have logical title names and the date sent and ideally who to or from. I view them and archive them using Mail which is fine for me.
I understand about the archiving and copying of mailboxes but this gives every email the un-fathomable title name 9944847 etc.
I can get round the problem by dragging and dropping every email I send and receive individually and it will automatically give it a more logical title of the subject heading however the date is when it was dragged not when sent. This is a pain if I am away or forget to save an email for a day or two and then the date is inconsistent.
Is there a way to batch copy emails from Mail to a finder window and for it to name the files as the subject heading or to archive the files in a similar way so they retain the detailed information my colleagues require.
And no I can not get to all change to Mac and I don't really fancy using Outlook, Entourage or Parallels.
Please help.
Toby

Quit Mail. Force quit if necessary.
Back up all data. That means you know you can restore the Mail database, no matter what happens.
Triple-click the text on the line below to select it:
~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope Index
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder
from the menu bar. Paste into the box that opens (command-V), then press return.
A Finder window will open with a file selected. Move the selected file to the Desktop, leaving the window open. Other files in the folder may have names that begin with "Envelope Index". Move those files, if any, to the Trash. Relaunch Mail. It should prompt you to re-import your messages. You may get a warning that the index is corrupt and that Mail has to quit. Click OK.
Test. If Mail now works as expected, you can delete the file you moved to the Desktop. If you get a warning that the file is in use when you try to empty the Trash, log out and log back in.

When I change the time zone of the clock, the "Date created" time information for my documents and image files in the Finder window (and in Get Info) is changed. Can I make the time info in "Date created" remain fixed regardless of the clock's timezone?

When I change the time zone of the clock, the "Date created" time information for my documents and image files in the Finder window (and in Get Info) is changed. Can I make the time info in "Date created" remain fixed regardless of the clock's timezone?

When I change the time zone of the clock, the "Date created" time information for my documents and image files in the Finder window (and in Get Info) is changed. Can I make the time info in "Date created" remain fixed regardless of the clock's timezone?

When my most front window is a safari one and I use the shortcut key "Command N", it opens a new finder window and a new safari window at the same time. Why does it happen?

When my most front window is a safari one and I use the shortcut key "Command N", it opens a new finder window and a new safari window at the same time. Why does it happen?

I just found the solution!
Niel
Re: Why is my Finder window popping up when I open my Safari window?
Jan 20, 2008 7:58 PM (in response to alak)
Open the General tab of the Safari preferences and correct the home page; the default page is this one. If it has become set to a folder on an FTP server or a local drive, that request will be sent to the Finder. (28252)
iMac Late 2007 Core 2 Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Can't customize Finder toolbar, and where's Quick Look?

Hi, all. I'm (of course) hoping for some easy answers here. I recently got a refurb iMac 24"--a beautiful thing, like new. (Used Migration Assistant to bring over old iMac docs and settings.) Since using this new iMac and Leopard, I have yet to see the Quick Look "eye" icon anywhere. Highlighting a doc and hitting spacebar brings up Quick Look (yay!), but there's no option for Quick Look in my Finder menu: no "eye" icon. And under Finder's View menu, most of the options are grayed-out: I can't select "as Icons," "as List," "as Columns," "as Cover Flow"; or "Show Path Bar" or "Hide Status Bar"; or "Hide Toolbar" or "Customize Toolbar." What's up with this?
I did an archive and install this morning to see whether it would give me fresh access to Leopard, but no change. (Hoping not to have to erase and install, since I have Time Machine and Time Capsule playing well together and don't want to mess with their relationship...)
Any insight anyone?
Thanks in advance!

If you Ctl+CLick on an empty area of a Finder window tool bar, do you get the Customize Toolbar option? Is the Quick Look icon there to add? If you remove and then re-add the grayed-out icons, do they become active?

Frozen finder window and missing desktop

Hi, a sister of mine gave me their ibook g4 a few months ago and i've encountered a problem. i downloaded a flash file (.flv extension?) and i don't know if macs even support it, but after trying to open that the computer kinda crashed. the finder window won't open or relaunch and nothing from the desktop will appear. the cursor indicates that the computer is busy when over the desktop and finder taskbar. i can open applications on the quick access toolbar on the bottom of the screen, but everything else can't be accessed without the finder window. airport and stuff works, but i have to hold down the power button to turn the computer off, so it's still functional in a crude (and probably damaging) way. since it was a gift, i only have an apple hardware test disk for ibook g4, which the computer says it doesn't support even when i tried to use it before the crash. i don't have the install disks to clear the slate and start over, so i think it's pretty much done for it's lifetime. any help would be nice. thanks.
iBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

you could try starting in safe mode - "shift" key is held down on startup.
if it boots up, you can create new user in System Preferences-Accounts.
then try to log in as new user.

When I am in the finder window and I double-click to activate "open with" it is replaced with N125. (Macbook Pro, 10.6.8)

Hey guys, I have a slight problem. Anytime when I am navigating in finder, some commands get replaced with numbers and a letter. Like if I double-click to select "open with" N152 appears. Please Help.
Macbook Pro, Mid 2009, 10.6.8

Karwin wrote:
This is sooo much, I have no idea where to start........
download and install intego's virusbarrier
http://www.intego.com/virusbarrier/
run a scan and post the results

How do I get my Time Machine to appear as a disk in the Finder (wireless) and where do I find the place to assign TM ports to a NAS (Pogoplug v.4). Runnig 10.7 Lion on iMac. Thanks

I am trying to set up Pogoplug Series4 as a NAS attached to my Time Machine router. The TM does not appear as a drive in the Finder and I cannot locate it to assign ports to the PP device. Running 10.7 on an iMac. Time Machine and Time Capsule work fine for backup and internet, I just cannot find it.
Thanks, Ken

After I posted the question, I finally figured out that I needed to open the necessary ports to allow the Pogoplug website to communicate with my computer. After navigating to the proper area (in Airport Utility) and authorizing the ports, it seems to work. The Pogoplug device is neither as easy, intuitive or plug-and-play is it claims to be. We will see if it was worth the effort.
Podini's Time Machine FAQ's is a good resource, however. Thanks for sharing.
For anyone who searches for Pogoplug/port forwarding help and ends up here, this is the entry that helped most:
http://must-know-mac.blogspot.com/2008/07/how-to-port-forward-time-capsule.html

Can't find how and where to downaload the Oracle Client 8i and Developer 6i

All,
I am looking for downloads at OTN for the following.
1. Oracle Client 8i
2. Oracle Forms and Reports 6i
I had them installed on my m/c but lately I have been getting SQL*Net connection failures. I have been suggested to install the whole developer tools again.
Any help in this regard is appreciated.
Regards,
Susheel K Raina.

Here is the link - I just verify prior to posting it here.
http://otn.oracle.com/software/products/forms/content.html
For the Oracle 8i client, download the 8i database server and do a custom installation - client installation is one of the options.
hope this proves useful
regards

Volumes and finder window names

Not really sure how to ask the question so please bare with me.
In the finder window the side bar displays a "name" for the devices; IE "Mac HD," "Backup HD" etc. In this example the mac is the primary startup disk and Backup is an external drive.
When I open a finder window and click on the Mac HD all that is displayed at the top of the window is a " / ". That makes sense to me considering its the root drive/folder but shouldn't the Mac HD name be displayed?
Additionally, when I open Backup HD, it displays " /Volumes/Backup HD 14" where the number has changed from 1-14.
What's going on here?
Thanks

/Volumes is an 'invisible" folder at the root level of your startup drive which is supposed to contain only the "mount points" for your attached disk or network volumes. Sometimes an actual folder can mistakenly get created in /Volumes, often as a result of a failed copy operation. Such a "ghost" folder will have a name similar to a real external drive, and can contain data that was meant for the real external drive but never got there. My understanding is that when the real external volume then re-mounts, it can no longer use its own name for the mount point in /Volumes because that name is already "taken", and so an extra number gets appended to the mount point. This apparently has happened many times in your situation, such that there are pre-existing extraneous folders in /Volumes named "Backup HD" through "Backup 13'. When your "real" external drive tries to mount, its mount point becomes "Backup 14".
Ghost folders can sometimes be quite large, and waste a lot of disk space. They can be deleted after being sure they don't contain good data that never got to the real external drive.
A true mount point looks like an alias when viewed from Finder, and so the basic rule is never to touch any item in /Volumes that has an alias icon. The "ghosts" are the folders with icons that are not aliases. In your own situation, I would again eject and physically disconnect all real external drives, again go to /Volumes, and again be sure that the "Backup HD" items are actual folders that do not have alias icons. You could then move them to the Trash, but don't empty the Trash yet. Restart, and again attach the external drive. This time its "full path" after mounting should be "/Volumes/Backup HD", rather than "/Volumes/Backup HD 14".
There is a possibility that this "correction" could confuse some software that has been pre-set to access the external drive, and will continue to look for it at "/Volumes/Backup HD 14", a path which no longer exists. You should hopefully be able to re-set any such stored paths.
Once you are sure that all is well, you can empty the Trash.

I was going to close out the 'find' window at the bottom of the desktop and closed out the footer instead, how do I get it back?

I don't have a footer bar any more. I was going to close out the 'find' window and closed out the footer. I don't know how to get it back. Help please.

Do you mean the Add-ons toolbar (Ctrl+/)?
*Firefox > Options
*View > Toolbars

Finder Window Sizes and View Options

In an earlier message under Mac OS X Panther it was recommended that I post a new message in the AppleScript forum.
I'm looking for a way to automate the repetitive task of resizing Finder windows and resetting view options. For example resetting a hundred folders to the same window size and screen position with the same view options. This requires manually adjusting each window one by one.
A solution could be an AppleScript that would automate this task.
The following is the earlier message:
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=1283081#1283081
I mistakenly deleted all the preference files for the Finder window options on my 17 inch PowerBook (.DS_Store Files).
This has returned all Finder windows to default settings for window sizes and view options.
I use custom widow sizes for all my folders that nicely fit the 17 inch screen on my PowerBook, leaving enough desktop space on the right for the hard drive icons and the Dock that I always keep vertical on the right.
I have a 12 inch PowerBook as well. And it has it's own custom window size that fits it's much smaller screen. It has always been a complaint of mine to have to manually reset windows whenever I needed to transfer folders with Bluetooth file exchange.
Resetting Finder window sizes and view option has always been a time consuming problem. Now to have to do it over again for hundreds of windows is a huge task that is way to manual.
The Finder is customizable. There must be a way to set the options for one window and be able to use those adjustments for other windows without having to re adjust each setting manually.
There was an application called Finder Window Manager. Maybe someone knows of another application that can do this of task or another way around this issue.
Photoscene
Powerbook G4 17 inch Mac OS X (10.4.3) Tiger/Panther

Photoscene,
I think if you repost this to the AppleScript link, someone there will have a solution for you (in the form of an applescript that you can run)...
http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=724
Give it a shot (I'm not clever enough to give you a good script yet, but someone there will be!)
Bob

An applescript to change the background color for all finder windows

I'll start off by telling you what I am trying to achieve, then show you what I've tried.
I have a macbook with several HDD's attached. what I want is for each of those hdd to have a specific finder window background color. so no matter where I am in that hdd the background color will always be the same. so for instance if I set the background color of hdd 2 to blue then as long as I see a blue background I know that I'm within hdd 2.
I've tried setting up an applescript to do this but can only get it to change the open finder window, and none of the subfolders have their backgrounds changed.
here is what I have so far:
tell application "Finder"
tell the icon view options of the front Finder window
set the background color to {52942, 54484, 31097}
end tell
end tell
so how do I get this to apply to all subfolders without opening each one and running the script.
thanks in advance for any and all help with this

According to this article:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=AppleScript/2.1/en/as2039.html
it seems that the various options can only be set while the window is open and in icon view.
Rather than manually opening the window of every single folder on the hard drive, it should be possible to write a script to open every folder in sequence, make sure it is in icon view, change its background, then close its window. I have never been any good at the "actions within actions" procedure needed for folders within folders, so maybe someone else with the necessary knowledge and experience might be able to assist in this regard. Such a script would probably take a few minutes to complete while it ran through "every folder of every folder", but it sure would be quicker to have the process automated than to do it by hand - computers are really good at repetitive tasks (as long as the instructions are accurate, of course!).
On the other hand, you might like to try the following:
open a few windows in icon view, choose Show View Options in the View menu (I'm in System 10.4), click the radio button All Windows, click the Color radio button under Background, then choose your color. It might achieve what you are trying to do.

Finder window and where it is

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for