Talk:Finder (software)

message: Note: the interesting bits of this talk page are at the bottom, so scroll down... GaelicWizard 00:16, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
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message: :Image:Mac_OS_9_screenshot_2.jpg seems to be downscaled, making the screenshot blurry and of lesser quality. Maybe someone could make a new screenshot for it? --Michiel Sikma 20:55, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  OS9 screenshot 

message: There seems to be some dispute over the correct Finder version for Mac OS X 10.4.6. I am on an Intel Mac, and mine says Finder version 10.4.3, not 10.4.4 like everyone else is saying. Is it because the Intel builds are slightly ahead or behind in their build numbers than the PPC builds? — Wackymacs 19:38, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct version number? 

message: The Put Away command was in System 6, doing exactly what was described as a System 7 first feature. So I moved the paragraph to the System 6 section and changed another reference in the System 7 section so that it points out that using Put Away to eject/unmount a disk was a new thing in Finder 7.
The article was saying that Finder 5.0 introduced the Eject menu command. Considering that Mac floppy drives didn't have an eject button, how did you expect people in 1984 to eject their disk? With a paper clip? Now seriously, the Eject command was first found in System 1.0, not 5.0!
I removed something about the Finder ejecting the disk only by dragging to the trash which is not true. The whole dragging the disk to the trash should be explained here once and for all.
To eject disks in the original Finder users had to use the Eject command found in the File menu. Doing so would leave grayed out icons for the disk and its files. That enabled users to copy files between multiple disks using a single disk drive. The system software would eject the current disk and ask for another if needed. 
To get rid of the grayed out disk icons you had to drag them to the trash can, or restart. Since Finder 1.x didn't let users drag currently inserted disks to the trash, a complete ejection was a two step process:
First select the Eject menu command. That will physically eject the disk, leaving a ghost image.
Then, drag the ghost icon to the trash.
More recent versions of the Finder (System 4.1 and up?) combined both actions and enabled dragging a mounted disk to the trash directly to both eject the disk and its virtual representation. Command-shift-1 and command-shift-2 were added in early versions to directly eject disk in drive 1 or 2, but these would still leave a ghost volume.
It wasn't until System 7 with the modified Put Away command that you could do the equivalent of dragging a disk to the trash with a menu command or command key.
The ghosted icon feature doesn't exist in OS X, and completely ejecting and unmounting a disk doesn't require dragging to the trash or using a cryptic command (Put Away). You can either eject via contextual menus, an eject button at the right of the volume icon in the sidebar of a finder window, the eject menu command or the eject key on the keyboard.
:There was a "Put back" menu command in System 1 that seems to have identical functionality to the "Put away" command in later systems. Theshibboleth 17:20, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Put Away was in System 6, and Eject is there since 1.0. 

message: What does everyone think about making a reference to shareware Finder replacements such as PathFinder and Macintosh Explorer ?
Also I think the MiniFinder, being so totally different in user interface ought to have its own article. It was in fact possible to have a bootable floppy that only had the MiniFinder and no regular Finder. Connectionfailure 00:34, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If memory serves me, some of Infocom's larger games, like Trinity, were distributed like that. Probably so that the whole thing would still fit on a bootable 400 KB floppy. (The game itself would probably have been somewhere between 250 and 300 KB.) 62.181.255.64 13:55, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finder replacements and MiniFinder 

message: Could somebody with a a lot of experience add some details on the Simple Finder option? Peter S. 13:48, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simple Finder? 

message: The first paragraph of the article claims that the Finder was completely rewritten for Mac OS X. I seem to remember that Apple deliberately did NOT rewrite the finder specifically to show off that Carbon worked as advertised (almost, at least). GaelicWizard 00:17, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complete Rewrite? 

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message: The section Reception is stupid:
It is no more than a handful of opinions from specific peoples,
OK, they write in magazines but that's not a `reception'.
Reception was just that Apple deliver this as a way to explore the content of your mac and this is what you have.
Should rename at least `Opinion' or `Praise' or whatnot, but rather removed IMO
( Can be condensed in `it's generally praised')  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.68.159.242 (talk) 23:12, 28 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Reception' 

message: : graphical user interface shell used on all Macintosh operating systems.
Is in the lead, but my understanding is that this was only true for Classic Mac OS. I'll try to dig up some references and clarify this. DFlhb (talk) 12:10, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphical user interface shell