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    Finder Toolbar Button: Browse Full Screen

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by circa86, Jun 17, 2008.

  1. circa86

    circa86 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    aloha.

    some of you may have seen my post in a previous thread about this, but I figured I would go ahead and put it out there for everyone to see.

    some people were bringing up how they would easily like to be able to browse full screen in a finder window, I told them they were crazy for wanting to do that, but darn it, it is possible and I couldn't let it go.

    Apple has an Applescript that allows you to do this, by placing a little icon in your finder toolbar, it was kind of crap, it changed the auto hide setting on your dock, so if you had the dock set to auto hide, switching out of full screen mode would turn off auto hide on the dock, I fixed that by adjusting the script, and I also created a new icon button for it as well.

    so how do I do this you ask? well you learn Applescript that's how. If you don't want to do that, you find someone on the internet to learn it for you, and they develop a finder menu button that will allow this:

    Browse Full Screen Finder Toolbar Button

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    Just Ctrl/Right click your Finder Toolbar and Choose "Customize Toolbar" Then drag and drop. Click the button, blam, full screen Coverflow:

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    Click it again to go back to the original window state. BLAM!
     
    circa86, Jun 17, 2008
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  2. maclord

    maclord Newbie

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    with regards to the "Browse Full Screen Finder Toolbar Button", both buttons cause the Dock to become hidden - basically both are the same - probably one overwrote another in a mistaken copying or confusion.
     
    maclord, Apr 12, 2009
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  3. StrongerThanAll

    StrongerThanAll Notebook Deity

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    How do i auto arrange my icons?
    everytime i resize my window size in icon view mode, they stay in the same position leaving blank spaces
     
    StrongerThanAll, Apr 12, 2009
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  4. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    You've got to have them arranged. Go to View>Show View Options, and select an order from the Arrange by dropdown box.
     
    Budding, Apr 12, 2009
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