Gestures in finder

Zooming Gesture and two-finger back or forward gestures don't work in finder! How can I fix this!

below is the reply from the linked thread that will fix the "problem" you are asking about.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/15737724#15737724
"Go to system preferences - trackpad and under more gestures select from the drop down menu the option to swipe with two or three fingers to move between pages. You will be able to go back and forth pages with a three finger swipe in finder, app store, iphoto, firefox...etc and at the same time use the two finger swipe feature of OS lion on safari."
Basically the new default setting for Lion turned these gestures off but they can be turned back on quite easily. I think that this should have been the default as it does not make much sense to turn these gestures off.

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Hi,
since I updated to Mountain Lion, the expand/pinch gesture in Finder (to resize the icons) doesn't work anymore. The only way are the preferences menue or the slider in the status bar. I searched the web, but it seams that nobody has this problem. Is there anybode else? Do you have a hind for me, how I can restore the behavior from Lion?
Regards

I believe that this is normal, although in my eyes it's not a problem. The old behavior in Lion irritated the heck out of me, as I would frequently trigger a pinch gesture accidentally. I'm a bit anal about my desktop, and resizing the icons would screw up the entire arrangement, so I'd have to go back into the desktop's view options and set the icons back to 64x64 again.
So I definitely noticed that the pinch behavior in the Finder went away, but I was glad about that rather than upset. If there's a way to get the old behavior back, I'm unaware of it, but I have doubts that there is.

OS Lion does not support pinch/zoom gesture in Finder

I've seen multiple posts on this same issue. I just want to add my vote to Apple to restore the pinch-zoom gesture in Finder to OS Lion. I'd love see either a solution, or software update that will rectify this issue. I don't even know why there would be any sense in removing this feature.
Vic

Thank you for your response Rodney. The issue isn't with the browser though. The pinch-zoom works perfectly in Safari. The issue is with Finder. When I'm sorting/organizing files in Finder, I the pinch-zoom functionality doesn't work, so I'm limited to the 4 viewing styles buttons that are available. I can't scale my views which is really inconvenient. Finder used to have this functionality in OS Snow Leopard, so I really hope this function is restored in OS Lion.
Any feedback or ETA if this is going to be addressed by Apple? I see many other cries to have this feature restored in OS Lion.
Sincerely,
Vic

I have updated to maverick from mountain lion.initially my mac book pro was snow leopard.the multitrack touch pad swapping the page is not happening in finder,it is only working in safari.please help me how to get that swiping gesture in finder

i have updated to maverick from mountain lion.initially my mac book pro was snow leopard.the multitrack touch pad swapping the page to get back to previous page is not happening in finder,it is only working in safari.please help me how to get that swiping gesture in finder

Hi..
I repled to you here > https://discussions.apple.com/message/25598596#25598596
Please do not start duplicate topics. It makes it that much harder to assist you.

What happened to the multi-touch gestures in Finder?

I've updated to Lion last week. Overall, I think what Apple did was great to the overall experience. However, my only gripes are in Finder. What happened to the multi-touch gestures? The only thing that I can do is flip through files in cover view using two finger swipes.
What happened to the pinch to zoom in and out? I've seen other posts about this so I'll stop here. Apple please bring this function back. I'm tired of moving my mouse to the drag handle.
Secondly, I was using three finger swipes to navigate to the previous and next folder in Finder. Since two finger is used to flip through cover view, I see why they couldn't extend the back/forward function to two finger swipes as they did in Safari and I know that three finger swipe is used to change desktops. I wish that Apple was more creative to leave this function in somehow.
Is there a way to bring these functions back to Finder? These are the functions that I used all the time.

That doesn't explain why they would remove the pinch to zoom in and out. That is not be used by anything else in finder. If I'm going through pictures, I would like to zoom in on the images for cover view.
As far as the three figure swipes to go back and forth in finder, I understand why that has been removed. However, Apple could have implemented the two finger swipe just like in Safari which is sensitive to the acceleration of the swipes. If you swipe with two fingers somewhat fast, you can go back and forth between previous and next page. If you swipe with two fingers slowly, you can pan left and right on the same page.
They could have done something to retain the functionality versus taking out the functionality all together. As of now, these functionalities do not exist. I'm hoping that something is going to change and we'll have to see what the future brings.

How to go back in Finder with touch gesture?

In Snow Leopard, I could to go back in Finder with two finger swipe. (equal with Safari's backword gesture)
Now, Safari support go back by one finger swipe, but Finder does not. How can enable this?

I think there might be a bug or two in how Finder responds to gestures.
1) Finder does not use "Natural" gestures - the above solution does enable the Forward/Backward gestures in Finder, but they work exactly opposite from Safari. Swiping left should got forward and swiping right should go backward.
2) Finder requires 3-finger swipes for forward/backward, but Safari uses 2-finger swipes. This is annoying because I have to train myself to use different gestures for the same functionality. And it is also a true limitation bug because I cannot have both the "3-finger drag" and the "2- or 3-finger forward/backward for Finder" gestures enabled at the same time.

Finder Back/Forward Gestures Gone?

I am not able to use the Back and Forward gestures in finder in Maverics.
Does anyone know how to activate it or has this really useful feature been completly removed in the new version?

Gestures is not working like it did before. The side to side, forward back swipe, is very picky. Sometimes it takes four or five tries before it works. And yes I know how to do it. I have had a magic trackpad for about one year. And was greatly pleased by how it worked, BEFORE Mavericks. It has has indeed changed.

"Go back" in Finder

When I was still using Snow Leopard, I can use 2 fingers sliding to go back to previous page in Finder. However, I can't do it in Lion. How can I get back this function?

I think there might be a bug or two in how Finder responds to gestures.
1) Finder does not use "Natural" gestures - the above solution does enable the Forward/Backward gestures in Finder, but they work exactly opposite from Safari. Swiping left should got forward and swiping right should go backward.
2) Finder requires 3-finger swipes for forward/backward, but Safari uses 2-finger swipes. This is annoying because I have to train myself to use different gestures for the same functionality. And it is also a true limitation bug because I cannot have both the "3-finger drag" and the "2- or 3-finger forward/backward for Finder" gestures enabled at the same time.

What is the Back gesture on the trackpad on the mac app store?

the back gesture in safari is changed to two finger swipe but i am not able to figure out what is the gesture for back option on the mac app store?
could somebody help

i have found the answer after a lot of browsing on this link http://navinpeiris.com/2011/07/23/os-x-lion-enable-forwardback-history-navigatio n-gesture-for-finder-and-chrome/
it helps enable both back option on the finder with three finger swipe and also in the mac app store
This link also has answers for a few other questions http://navinpeiris.com/category/os-x/
check it out

Trackpad Gestures for Google SketchUp?

Dear friends,
I'm using a Macbook Pro and the trackpad with gestures and finding it extremely usefull.
Not using the mouse anymore as now my hands are always on the keyboard. And I also found my carpal tunnel issues are disappeared since I started using the trackpad gestures.
So my question is if you know how to setup gestures on the trackpad so I can rotade 3D objects in SketchUp.
Does anyone know anything about SketchUp and Gestures?
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Lion Gesture Problems and Gesture Bugs...

The back gesture (return to previous page) doesn't work in finder and in other apps that aren't safari. Also, when the app expose feature is turned on it is very buggy - doesn't show all the windows that are open, but only shows the one that is on top. All these bugs found only after 10 min... argh... not a good start.

Hey there..
Even I experienced the same issues. But these are not issues if u look closely. The Expose feature in Lion is called "App Expose". This is an expose just for the apps running in the foreground. In case u have multiple pages of finder or chrome. The app Expose will show only windows of the selected app.
Actually the earlier Expose feature used in Snow Leopard has been upgraded to "Mission Control" which is actually kinda stupid (Sorry). I can't fast switch between apps like i used to in Snow Leopard.
And for the back/front gesture. U need to enable "Use two or three fingers for back/forward in pages" This way u can use the three fingured back/forward gesture in Finder, Chrome, Safari. The two fingered back/front pages is to switch between pages (which again is stupid, since u already have three fingered for that). It can be demonstrated in Safari. Open google. Search something random and click on any result and keep loading 4 to 5 pages. Then use three fingered gesture to normally go back and forth between pages. Now when u use two fingered back/front it does the same but with "different animation" So basically the two fingered pages is just a pepped up useless version of the existing three fingered gesture.
Also the bug which I found was that. The three fingered back/forth does not work in system preferences unless u do a two fingered back/forth gesture once.
Anyways really wish they add the Expose function of Snow leopard. Also the "show desktop" gesture of three fingers with the thumb is really annoying. The four fingered hide feature minus the thumb was so much useful. Everytime I need to use my thumb for this now. Please fix this apple or atleast give us the option to choose our own gestures.

Macbook Pro 4,1 (Early 2008) Multitouch Trackpad Update Issues

I've searched around the discussions and haven't seen any other posts, any input would be greatly appreciated.
I have the last MacbookPro model before the unibody model came out, so it's got a three finger multitouch trackpad and a trackpad button.
Before the unibody model came out, the trackpad was fine, but after the trackpad update for multitouch trackpads I've found a couple of issues.
When I click (both tap and button) on any stacks in my dock, they open, but when I click it again it should close, but does not respond to multiple clicks. I have to move somewhere else on the screen instead.
Also, before the trackpad update, the zoom in/out pinch gesture worked in the finder. With any window you had open, you could change the size of the icons or zoom in and out of the thumbnails and the previews in cover flow view. After the trackpad update, these gestures no longer work.
Has anyone else experienced these quirks?
Thanks.

So a bit of an update-
After doing some more searching, this discussion popped up
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8633568&#8633568
and the problem with multitouch gestures for finder windows has been solved
the zoom using trackpad option has been moved to the finder menu inside of preferences>advanced.
I think that I also figured out what was wrong with my trackpad with regards to clicking. For some reason, every time I restart my computer, the double click speed defaults to really slow. Anyone else have this issue?

Little functionality for Mac OS X

Hello guys,
I wish Finder has a gesture like Chrome or Safari has. I mean, when you surfing on the internet you swipe two of your fingers left or right to reach to the last page or next page on the browser. I hope one day Finder has it too. Everytime I use Finder I'm thinking why Apple did not put this gesture for Finder. What do you think about it ?
Thanks.

Tell Apple at the link below.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

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I'd install Better Touch Tool (free). Add two gestures for Finder ONLY that have "No action" associated with them. This disbales pinch/zoom on the desktop AND in any Finder window, but not in any other application.
If you'd like to occasionally use pinch to zoom in the Finder (to zoom into a photo thumbnail for example), then add two more gestures, again for Finder ONLY - but this time also selecting one of the modifier keys (e.g. "Option" key). For these gestures set as "Use Apple Default or do nothing".
Together, this enables disabling of the zoom feature (to prevent accidental zooming of the desktop icons for example). But whenever you'd like to zoom into a document or photo etc in a Finder Window (which are also now disabled), you can now simply hold down "Option" key and the Pinch functions work again.
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