[G4] creating a new folder with editable name

[Harrie Westphal]

On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 07:16  AM, Power Macintosh G4 List 
wrote:

> You missed the point. Try this. Open a Finder window, select list view,
> press CMD + SHIFT + N, see new, highlighted (i.e., selected) untitled
> folder appear in window, now (without doing anything else) type the 
> letter
> a, and watch some other item in the window get selected (anything 
> starting
> with the letter a or the next letter in the alphabet after a in the 
> list).
> Now click on the name untitled folder and see the highlighting change 
> to a
> box around the name which allows you to change its name-IIRC, in OS 9 
> and
> earlier (and maybe OS X 10.1 and earlier), this is what happened when
> making new folders; in OS X 10.2+, you have to create the folder THEN
> either click on the name or hit the enter or return key to edit/change 
> it.

No, I didn't miss what was being said. I can be in any of the three 
views and when I create a new folder, either from the findera File 
menu, a contextual menu via right-click, or typing CMD-Shift-n, I get a 
new folder whose text is highlighted and ready to have me type the name 
I want the folder to have. The only time this won't happen for me is if 
I goof and press the Return key or click somewhere else before typing 
my new folder name. Do either of those and the name untitled folder 
becomes the name and I have to click the folder name twice, slowly, to 
get the name editable again.

G4 933 Mhz, OS 10.2.6

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