[G4] creating a new folder with editable name

[James Asherman]

On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 12:34  PM, Harrie Westphal wrote:

>
> 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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> A Mac addict in Tennessee
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>

Nah, it does not work in  list view. But I for one am not losing any 
sleep over that!
Jim