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| cat 02 Nov 2013, 20:46 | move or copy file/folder to external disk
Turly, I’m sure this has been asked before but couldn’t find an answer. If I try to move a file or folder using FP, it will work if the destination is on the same disk (that is, the file is moved and deleted from source) but if the destination folder is on an external disk the file will be copied (that is, not deleted from the source). Is that the way it is supposed to work? Cat |
| cat 01 Oct 2012, 21:39 | Re: FinderPop 2.4.5
Turly, version 2.4.6 works fine now in 10.7.5. Again thanks for FP, I think I’ve forgotten how to operate a Mac without it! |
| cat 01 Oct 2012, 06:02 | Re: FinderPop 2.4.5
Installed FP 2.4.5 and horrible crashes with everything. However, I am on OS 10.7.5 not 10.8.2. Sorry no crash logs because I cloned a backup I ‘happened’ to do yesterday. Now back to FP 2.4.4 and no problems. I do have Stuffit Destinations installed purely to decompress the odd .sitx file. |
| cat 17 Sep 2012, 22:02 | Re: delete using FP menus
Turly, One of the problems was that it worked sometimes, so you might not be able to reproduce it! However, if you set the Finder to ‘Column view’ and arrange it by ‘Kind’and sort by ‘Name’, you will have the setup that I was mostly operating in. Now I am trying it by arranging by ‘None’ and sorting by ‘Name’ as per the website above, and I’m seeing how that works. So far, no problems! With deleting via FP menus. |
| cat 17 Sep 2012, 00:25 | Re: delete using FP menus
Turly, Another idea. I finally googled ‘Column View problems Lion’ to see what would come up and found out that there is a problem in Lion (see http://www.macyourself.com/2012/05/27/h ... os-x-lion/). Since I just discovered this, could the ‘file not found’ issue be related to a ‘wrong’ listing in column view? |
| cat 14 Sep 2012, 21:41 | Re: delete using FP menus
Turly Today it is working! Could it have something to do with working in column view, like that obscure problem ages ago? |
| cat 13 Sep 2012, 21:56 | Re: delete using FP menus
Turly, I just tried it again and the item wasn’t deleted. The console message was ‘14/09/12 6:15:17.589 AM [0x0-0x15015].com.finderpop.fp-injector: FP: Error -43 during move to trash’. I just realized that deleting does work if I am deleting something from within the hard drive that FP is installed on. But it doesn’t work if I am trying to delete from another hard drive or a flash drive. Is it so that you cannot use this deleting method from attached USB drives?. You can move and copy to them, but not delete from? |
| cat 12 Sep 2012, 23:53 | delete using FP menus
I’ve delayed putting up this request because sometimes it works but mostly it doesn’t, so I thought it must be me but when I try to delete something using either the FP menu in a Finder window or in the menubar by ‘going’ to the item and clicking the delete key, the ‘puff’ appears and a dialog box comes up asking if I want to move to the trash. I click yes, but mostly when I check the item hasn’t been deleted. Except that now and then it has been deleted, hence me not asking about the whole issue. Can someone help? When ‘putting away’ a disk by clicking delete, it does seem to work OK. Using Lion 10.7.4 and FP 2.4.4, Intel iMac. |
| cat 11 Nov 2011, 20:51 | Re: show dot files, show invisible items
Ronald, Thanks for that. Stupid me! It works as you suggested. |
| cat 11 Nov 2011, 00:03 | show dot files, show invisible items
I’ve been using FP for years but only just noticed, in version 2.4.1, that checking both ‘show dot files’ and ‘show invisible items’ check boxes has no effect. The only way I can see hidden files and folders in the Finder is to create and use a special service to toggle hidden files. Am I missing something here? |
| cat 03 Aug 2011, 22:05 | Re: Lion, FP and iCal bug
Thanks Turly, that did it! Andrew |
| cat 02 Aug 2011, 22:04 | Lion, FP and iCal bug
Turly, Recently upgraded to Lion. Went fine, except that iCal immediately crashed on launch. In the guest accouint it did not crash so I knew it was something in the Home folder. After days of hair pulling and deleting caches, ical prefs and calendar prefs to no avail, deactivated Finderpop and iCal launched! Reactivated FP and added iCal to the list of applications not to be patched by Finderpop. iCal launched again, no problems. Using FP 2.3.9 of Monday, 18th July 2011, “Lion Salient”. Andrew Gara |
| cat 11 Jul 2011, 00:24 | Re: FinderPop 2.3.3.0 BETA
Works for me on 10.6.8........... So far. I’m back to using column view and it’s still working as is move, copy etc. It wouldn’t work at first, but then I discovered that Finderpop wasn’t active in ALL applications so check the control panel under ‘active’. Then, when Safari was the active application for example, clicking on the menubar brought up the Finderpop menu. |
| cat 22 Apr 2011, 22:12 | Re: copying a folder in the Finder
Turly, I just switched FinderPop off and the shortcuts wouldn’t work in column view but did in icon and list view. So doesn’t matter whether FP is on or off. |
| cat 22 Apr 2011, 01:03 | Re: copying a folder in the Finder
I’ve found also that if I make a keyboard shortcut for the ‘Create Clean Archive’ or ‘Folder Actions Setup...” service within the Finder as Application, it won’t work in column view but will in icon and list view. In fact if I make keyboard shortcuts for other services which I have created, they won’t work when column view is selected, but will when either icon and list view is selected. |
| cat 18 Apr 2011, 00:19 | Re: copying a folder in the Finder
Actually, it looks like that what RonaldPR reported vis a vis moving or copying folders, when in column view, equally applies to ‘Finder Control free popup display‘ and whether ‘contents if on folder’ is checked. (At least it does so on my computer!) If a folder is selected first, it cannot be clicked on and have revealed the contents of that folder. But it does reveal contents if the folder is not selected first but just clicked on with ’contents if on folder’ checked. I hope that makes sense. |
| cat 16 Apr 2011, 22:05 | Re: copying a folder in the Finder
That seems to be right, Ronald. As long as I don’t SELECT a folder and THEN try to copy or move and instead just right click on it, I can go ahead and copy or move. Thanks so much for some patient and observant work from you!!! Andrew |
| cat 11 Apr 2011, 00:18 | Re: copying a folder in the Finder
Turly, Although I suspect that FP 2.3.1.0 Beta wasn’t designed to fix this problem, just wanted to confirm that it isn’t fixed! Andrew |
| cat 21 Mar 2011, 20:58 | Re: copying a folder in the Finder
It’s got me beat! Because I erased and freshly installed Snow Leopard on one of the Macs, updated to 10.6.6 and got the problem. The other Mac has all the additions I’ve made plus extra applications etc and obviously has the problem. |
| cat 28 Feb 2011, 23:06 | Re: copying a folder in the Finder
Turly, Forget that about the core i3 iMac. The iMac that I installed 10.6.0 and updated to 10.6.6 was my backup Mac, an older iMac, 2007 version, Intel core 2 duo, 2.16 Mhz iMac The function of copying or moving a folder doesn’t work on either of my Macs. Sorry, Andrew |
| cat 28 Feb 2011, 21:02 | Re: copying a folder in the Finder
Turly, I had already tried that. It makes no difference. Very rarely, copying or moving a folder does work whether I select and wait or not but very rarely and I cannot see a pattern in it. I am using one of the 2010 Macs, a 3.06 Ghz Intel core i3, a bluetooth mouse and keyboard that came with it, in case that helps. |
| cat 27 Feb 2011, 23:33 | Re: copying a folder in the Finder
Turly, I just installed Snow Leopard from scratch, updated to 10.6.6, updated Java, itunes, quicktime 7, made sure that folder actions was enabled, made sure that I enabled access for assistance devices, installed FP beta 6 and the same result. No copying or moving of folders but can do so for files!!!!??? Go figure. Andrew |
| cat 24 Feb 2011, 21:08 | Re: copying a folder in the Finder
Turley, In answer to your questions: I’m not trying to move/copy a folder into one of its children. No green + cursor appears in the entire FP menu at all. And, yes, the green + cursor doesn't appear at all once I’ve right-clicked on a folder, but it does if I right-click a file. Console doesn’t say anything. When I control-click a folder, FinderPop does add that folder name to the FP menu (normally it would be in bold) with a contents submenu hanging off it. Sometimes I have to click in the menubar first for it to happen as if FP needs to be “cleared”. (If I control-click a file, the filename is added to the FP menu in bold, but obviously without the submenu.) Andrew |
| cat 24 Feb 2011, 01:26 | Re: copying a folder in the Finder
Turly, Folder Actions Setup service is enabled. Still doesn’t work. Any other ideas? I’ve disabled all non apple control panels and still won’t work. Maybe Onyx removed something essential when it did it’s stuff cleaning and maintaining my HD? Andrew |
| cat 23 Feb 2011, 02:04 | copying a folder in the Finder
I am using the latest FP beta with OS 10.6.6. In the Finder when I select a file and copy it to another folder somewhere on my HD by right clicking and following the usual procedure I get the dialog box which gives me the options to New Foder, Move, Copy, Alias and No which is as it should be but if I select a FOLDER in the Finder and attempt to do the same (that is, copy IT to another folder), the same dialog box should come up but it doesn’t. Instead the target folder opens up on my desktop on top of other Finder folders. Not much of a big deal but I think the same thing should happen in both cases, shouldn’t it? I can’t remember what happened in the previous versions. Andrew Gara |
| cat 03 Oct 2009, 00:53 | Re: 2.2.3.1 "thrillseekers beta"
Turly, On both my Intel Macs, an iMac and a MacBook, I can get an FP menu in the Finder in the Menu bar but only if I click in the top left of the screen. And I cannot get any FP menus on the desktop or in a Finder window. (2.2.3.1). |
| cat 01 Oct 2009, 05:29 | Re: 2.2.3.1 "thrillseekers beta"
I still cannot get menus in the Finder in menu bar. MacBook, screen resolution 1280x800. But the problem with FP menus hanging off of the normal Finder menu when clicking on file, edit, view, has gone! |
| cat 28 Sep 2009, 20:33 | Re: 2.2.2 "thrillseekers beta" - no effect in my system
Turly, Suddenly it just started working but now I have the same effect as Francola : 'Initially, the click on unused portion of menu bar functions as expected, but after clicking around a bit I have found a bug that causes the FinderPop menu to appear in place of the normal Finder menu when clicking on file, edit, view, go etc.' |
| cat 28 Sep 2009, 20:14 | Re: 2.2.3 "thrillseekers beta" - no menubar FP
Turly, I just uninstalled FP 2.2.3 from my system. Re-installed. Still no FP menus in the Menubar or in 64 bit applications. And there are no unusual FP messages in the console. |
| cat 28 Sep 2009, 13:44 | Re: 2.2.2 "thrillseekers beta" - no effect in my system
Sorry, Turly, I AM using 2.2.3 beta not 2.2.2., and I cannot get the FP menu in the menubar in the Finder or 64 bit applications. |
| cat 27 Sep 2009, 20:38 | Re: 2.2.2 "thrillseekers beta" - no effect in my system
Have to agree with Baba. With beta 3, cannot get the FP menu in the Finder or any 64 bit app. Running a core 2 duo iMac. |
| cat 15 Sep 2009, 06:50 | Re: 2.2.2 "thrillseekers beta" - no effect in my system
On My Mac it does work in the menu bar but as Turly said only in 32 bit apps. I have set Mail and Safari and Text Edit (plus Word already is) to open in 32 bit mode. So as long as I am in those applications I can click in the menubar and FP is active! But it will not work in the Finder. Thus I cannot move or copy files in the Finder using FP yet. |
| cat 03 Sep 2009, 22:47 | Re: FinderPop 2.2 not compatible with Snow Leopard 10.6
I have installed Snow Leopard on a back up drive and love it, but I'm not going to do it on my main drive until Turly has found the time to upgrade FP. I am simply too dependent on it. The one thing I miss the most is the ability to move and copy files within my hard drive. This drag and dropping using springloaded folders is nifty but so cumbersome compared with FP. Just as a matter of interest, does anyone know of something else that accomplishes this copying and moving without having to drag and drop into springloaded folders? Not that I'm going to do anything about it, just wondering why anyone would choose it over FP? |
| cat 16 Jun 2009, 20:40 | Re: Mac 10.5.7 & FP
As far as I can tell, 10.5.7 and FP are very happy together! |
| cat 04 Apr 2009, 21:09 | contextual menus in dialog boxes?
Turly, Forgive me if this has been asked and answered before, but I seem to remember contextual menus in dialog boxes hanging off folders in FP in OS 8 or 9? Can it be done in OS X? |
| cat 02 Apr 2009, 19:53 | Re: Welcome to the new FinderPop Support Forum
Ditto to what Sandy says! FinderPop has been my most used add-on for donkey’s years and for that I’ll put up with whatever #hit happens! |