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Things OS X Cannot Do
Right Click to Create Text Files: You have to open TextEdit, create a file, navigate to the right folder, and save as...just to create a stupid file. There is a plugin, but it doesn't work that well. Note: textClipping is NOT a solution. See my comment below.
Set a picture as background: You certainly cannot select a picture in finder to set it as background. No app in OS X lets you do that. You have to use go through a long series of clicks in desktop background settings and manually find your file. The only other way is to open your image file in firefox and set as background. Maybe iPhoto can do it, but it's useless for pictures that are not photos. Horrible design.
Choose entire folders to be wallpapers: You can add a folder, but SUBFOLDERS ARE NOT INCLUDED. What good does that do??? Again, iPhoto is useless for anything but photos, so unless all your wallpapers are photos, don't expect iPhoto to be a solution.
Merging folders: When you copy a folder, if the new location contains a folder of the same name, there is no way to merge the folders. Instead, Finder overwrites the original folder with the new one. All files in the original folder are lost. The only way to get around this is to use the unix mv command....very user unfriendly design.
Basic Things You Need Plugins For:
* Uninstall: Just dragging the application to trash doesn't delete the preference files associated with it.
* Preventing your computer from going to sleep when you close the lid.
* Resize your window from other than the bottom right corner.
* Open Terminal in any folder from finder.
* There is No Stereo Mix. Even with Soundflower, it's impossible to both redirect sound
and play them.
* Cannot turn off mouse acceleration. You need to buy software like USB Overdrive.
Trash is Broken
Cannot selectively delete trash: There is no way to delete one or several items in trash at a time. (useful when you want to double check the items one at a time before you actually delete them). You can only empty all the trash at once.
Cannot restore trash: If you accidentally moved something to trash by accident, there is no option to restore the file to its original location. You have to remember where it was. Why do you even need trash if you can't even restore what you deleted to where it was?
Cannot disable trash: Even though trash sucks so much, there is no way to disable
it. There is no way to delete files directly without moving to trash in finder's GUI.
Finder is Broken
There is no cut: There is no "cut" option like in all other OS. So to move a file you have navigate to the destination in a separate Finder window and drag to it, or drag while navigating in the same Finder window through many folders and hope you don't miss.
Can't calculate total size: When you select some files in a folder and right click -> Get Info to find the total size, Finder displays a box for EACH item with the individual sizes.
That's not what I want. I don't want to manually add up the file sizes.
Bad selection of shortcuts: Enter is rename, Command-O is open. Inefficient. The action that you do more requires more keystrokes. What kind of files are renamed more than opened?
Can't do quick keyboard navigation because you can't press enter to go into a subfolder.
More bad selection of shortcuts: Backspace should be move up a level in finder, not back. Moving up a level is used more often. Having to press 2 keys for it (cmd-up) is dumb.
Hard to rename files anyway: You cannot rename files in succession. In windows, you would press F2, rename, tab to the next file, rename... etc. In Finder, you have to: enter, name, enter, downarrow, enter, name, enter...etc.
Even harder to mass rename: There is no way select all files, rename them, and have finder append a number after each file like in Vista. Such a simple task shouldn't require automator.
Limited icon size: In icon view, the largest icon size is 128x128 (except in search mode), useless for previewing documents and image files. Yes, there is quicklook, but what if you want to preview multiple files at a time?
Hard to change icon size: It's even harder to change the icon size. You have to go to view options, which requires many clicks. (except in search mode).
Bad Spacing: The spaces between icons are too big. If you reduce the spacing, the
filenames are unnecessarily truncated.
Hard to view metadata: Most views don't show file metadata (size, dimensions, created..etc). Only column view and search mode's icon view have them.
Column view has problems: Let's say you're previewing through a bunch of images in quicklook and deleting the unwanted ones. (so you're pressing down arrow for next file)
When you press cmd-backspace to delete one file, the focus is BACK TO THE PARENT FOLDER. You have to remember and manually navigate to where you left off. It could be
1000 files...
File transfers don't display transfer rate
Cluttered list view: You can easily clutter up the list view by expanding too many folders. There is no way to automatically collapse all of them. You're stuck with a messed up view.
Sorting: Folders are not always at the top when arranging by kind in list view. Need to edit a system file to achieve this. Even if the folders happen to be on top when you sort by kind, you cannot sort by an additional column.
Spotlight sucks
No customization: There are only 3 columns in spotlight search list view. So hard to find information about these files.
No customization: Cannot choose specific extensions or sizes to include/exclude. Only a limited preset of types.
Cannot search while indexing: And indexing takes forever.
Bad Calculator Syntax: 2^3 doesn't work. It has to be pow(2,3). I think that's the syntax
for C? Well I shouldn't have to deal with it.
Bad Navigation
No single key delete: It's cmd-backspace. Delete should be more accessible.
Tabs only cycle over text boxes, not buttons or check boxes.
Cannot close property/option dialogs with cmd-w: Inconsistent with other Finder windows.
No consistent shortcut to switch tabs: Firefox, terminal, adium..all have different shortcuts for those. Textmate doesn't even have a shortcut. No shortcut for tabs in preference dialogs, either.
Two ways to press a button: Enter = press highlighted/default button. Space = press bordered button. Confusing. Why can't I use tab or arrow keys to move the highlight?
Smart folder is actually a file: This means you cannot navigate into it in any application other than Finder.
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