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Re: Mojave annoyance - Finder expansion triangles missing (solution)

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On 2019-01-07, Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
> On 2019-01-07 18:17, David Empson wrote:
>> Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Once Mojave is up and going one thing I found annoying was the black
>>> triangles to expand a sub folder were missing in Finder.
>>>
>>> To restore
>>>        View | Show View Options
>>>                Group By [None]
>>>
>>> and "Use as defaults" of course...
>>>
>>> I don't recall an major version update ever doing that before.
>> 
>> Then you didn't bump into it.
>> 
>> I saw the same thing on a Mac running High Sierra and found a similar
>> solution. In that case it was "Arrange by Name" (not the same thing as
>> sorting by the name column in list view) or other categories, which
>> caused the loss of the reveal triangles. "Arrange by None" fixed it.
>> 
>> Testing now, the same issue exists as far back as Mac OS X 10.7 Lion,
>> but not 10.6.8 Snow Leopard, where "Arrange by" corresponds to the
>> selected sort column in List view, and there is no "None".
>> 
>> Mojave has replaced "Arrange by" with a "Use Groups" option.
>> 
>> If "Use Groups" is enabled there is a "Group By" submenu which works
>> like the Lion through High Sierra "Arrange By", including a "None"
>> option.
>> 
>> If "Use Groups" is not enabled, there is a "Sort By" submenu which
>> matches the selected column in list view, like Snow Leopard.
>
> I can barely keep up with one OS version.  Keeping all that gobbledy in 
> order back to SL is insane.  You are committed.   ...

: D You ain't alone.

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Mojave annoyance - Finder expansion triangles missing (solution) Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-07 16:55 -0500
  Re: Mojave annoyance - Finder expansion triangles missing (solution) Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-07 23:08 +0000
    Re: Mojave annoyance - Finder expansion triangles missing (solution) Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-07 18:28 -0500
  Re: Mojave annoyance - Finder expansion triangles missing (solution) dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2019-01-08 12:17 +1300
    Re: Mojave annoyance - Finder expansion triangles missing (solution) Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-07 18:30 -0500
      Re: Mojave annoyance - Finder expansion triangles missing (solution) dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2019-01-08 14:31 +1300
        Re: Mojave annoyance - Finder expansion triangles missing (solution) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-08 01:40 +0000
          Re: Mojave annoyance - Finder expansion triangles missing (solution) Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2019-01-08 04:51 +0000
        Re: Mojave annoyance - Finder expansion triangles missing (solution) Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-08 08:24 -0500
      Re: Mojave annoyance - Finder expansion triangles missing (solution) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-08 01:39 +0000
      Re: Mojave annoyance - Finder expansion triangles missing (solution) Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2019-01-08 11:07 -0500
        Re: Mojave annoyance - Finder expansion triangles missing (solution) Alan Browne <bitbucket@blackhole.com> - 2019-01-08 20:08 -0500
  Re: Mojave annoyance - Finder expansion triangles missing (solution) Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2019-01-08 01:38 +0000

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