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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Dragged files show up in the corner
Date: 19 Feb 2014 15:47:15 GMT
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On 2014-02-19, isw <isw@witzend.com> wrote:
> In article <bmi3a4FfkftU1@mid.individual.net>,
>  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-02-18, dorayme <do_ray_me@bigpond.com> wrote:
>> > In article <bmhqq3Fdm2cU2@mid.individual.net>,
>> >  Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Choose: View > Show View Options instead. 
>> >
>> > Yes, as I said:
>> >
>> > "There is also another item under the View menu called Show View 
>> > Options, this gives you choices for the desktop too."
>> >
>> > But OP seems not to have that option according to his replies.
>> 
>> Doubt that. The View Options (? J) facility has been part of Mac OS X
>> Finder for *quite* a few Mac OS X releases. I think it's more likely he
>> simply didn't pay attention to what was right in front of him
>
> Please note that the choices available in the drop-down "View" menu 
> differ depending on whether it is invoked from desktop or from an 
> "ordinary" folder.

Yep. I knew that years ago. The menu options pertain to the front-most
window (which can be the desktop itself if no window is selected).

> In a rather "un-Apple-like" way, some of (but not all 
> of) the same options are available, but in different places, depending 
> on what the target is.

Show View Options window is always there though.

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