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#Mac finder window remove files from recent folder mac os x#

I prefer to take the best of both with a little apple script on the side.įYI, I am a 15 year veteran of the Mac OS from system 7.1 as a professional up to the latest, including my ACTC (apple certified technical coordinator).Observer Lee Givens writes in about a new feature in Mac OS X 10.1 that we had yet to mention. GUI is great and the terminal has it's uses as well and can be faster than the GUI for certain tasks. But if you are already working at that level of understation the terminal is your best friend. Would it be nice to force move a folder from the Finder by command dragging and get an authentication box? Yes. I guarantee that the newly created user was not the same short name as the user he was trying to restore from hence the copy and not move. This is a permissions issue not a Finder issue at it's root. Remember this is only for moving folders on the same partition."įrom an old user folder to a new user folder on the same partition. So I wrote an AppleScript script to force it to move the folders. Only the finder wanted to copy the folders not move them. It's a downgrade.įrom the original post "So I figured I'd just move them from the old account folder. Regardless, you could have done the two step move in 10.3 if you wanted to as well, but how is that better than just moving it in one step as was once possible? Less consistency with Mac conventions, reduced capabilities overall. How are people defending this? Change the ownership and then move as an alternative? Once you have changed the ownership or permissions you wouldn't even need the command key so do you even know what you are talking about? Maybe check your facts before posting irrelevant comments prepended with "seems" to substitute for actually testing something first. You tell your computer to move some files and it copies them instead.

Too many recent switchers and newbies that have no recollection of how elegant the Mac used to be even just five years ago, unable to recognize how kludgy OS X has become, blissfully unaware that they are settling for mediocrity are drowing out the voices of those who realize how good it could actually be. Ugh, this is the biggest problem with Apple's increased market share. Tiger and later, an admin in this situation can't move from the GUI at all. Who said anything about circumventing permissions or doing anything without administrator access? When required, a cmd-drag in Panther invokes an authentication dialog so that an administrator could organize things quickly from the GUI. This AppleScript seems to negate that without administrator access which would seem like a security bug not a feature.Īlso the author may not have tried to do a get info on the folders in question and simpy change the ownership to his current user, then move the files in the Finder with the command key. This means that without administrator access and a knowledge of sudo in the terminal, users can not copy from or to other users folders on the same machine. With one user this is really a non-issue but with multiple users on the same machine the individual user folders are not visible nor read/write to each other user. User folders are set to No Access for all other users on a system, and READ Only for the the root level of each respective user. In UNIX all files are set with permissions. The main problem the poster is having is getting past user permissions not a file move. I see what you are saying with this, but the more I think about it, this seems to reveal a security problem rather than a feature. This hint deserves five stars for drawing attention to the deficiency that Apple has shown no interest in rectifying since dropping "Computer" from their name, and should get five stars for providing a functional GUI-based workaround for it. People getting hung up on the example are also missing the point.Īpple and the GUI gets one star. The example used (post-archive and install) is just that, an example. Yes, the command line could also be used, but then why am I paying the Apple tax when I could use Linux for free? Maybe we should all be asking ourselves this question.

It is a workaround that shouldn't even be necessary, but it does work. Yeah, so Cmd-dragging in the Finder (the "force move" action by Mac convention) doesn't do it, but using AppleScript to tell the Finder to move still works correctly. Or maybe the "flexible engineering team" concept shunted the developer off to another project before they could get around to fixing it. It wouldn't have been off-topic five years ago, but whoever Apple brought in to work on the Finder after 10.3 probably wasn't familiar with Mac conventions and broke it. The whole Cmd-key discussion is off-topic. As pointed out earlier, the GUI doesn't allow moves across owners or where permissions otherwise don't allow it.

I'm not the submitter, but it's pretty obvious most people commenting don't get it.