This feature is what prompted the question-will the basic finder still operate as in 10.2? A choice of "by icon" "list" or "column view". I am not sure I could warm to the sidebar idea, having grown accustom to the idea of icons and opening multiple folders to find a file (pre "multi-finder" era). Rod On Wednesday, September 24, 2003, at 10:51 AM, John T. Folden wrote: > On an entirely personal level, I have to say that I still dislike the > new Finder's Sidebar and the modification to it's browsing > methodology. Column View has got at least one fairly nasty limitation > in this new Finder. If you open a new window, viewing a folder that > might be six layers deep, the Finder will display as if this Folder is > the root of the drive... you can't simply scroll higher into the > directory tree like you could under previous versions. I, frankly, see > no benefit to this at all.