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The Finder Toolbar At the top of every Finder window is a small set of function icons, all in a gradientgray row Figure 4-6.. The four tiny buttons next to the button switch the current

4.4 The Finder Toolbar

At the top of every Finder window is a small set of function icons, all in a gradientgray row (Figure 4-6) The first time you run Mac OS X 10.5, you'll find only these icons on the toolbar:

• Back, Forward The Finder works something like a Web browser Only a single window remains open as you navigate the various folders on your hard drive

Figure 4-6 If you -click the upper-right toolbar button repeatedly, you cycle through six combinations of large and small icons and text labels (Three examples are shown here.) Tip: This same -clicking business cycles through the same toolbar variations in Mail, Preview, and other

programs that have toolbars

The Back button ( ) returns you to whichever folder you were just looking at (Instead of clicking, you can also press -[, or choose Go Back— particularly handy if the toolbar is hidden,as described below.)

The Forward button ( ) springs to life only after you've used the Back button Clicking it (or pressing -]) returns you to the window you just backed out of

• View controls The four tiny buttons next to the button switch the current window into icon, list, column, or Cover Flow view, respectively (Section 1.2.12) And remember, if the toolbar is hidden, you can get by with the equivalent

commands in the View menu at the top of the screen—or by pressing -1, -2, -3,or -4 (for icon, list, column, and Cover Flow view, respectively)

• QuickLook The eyeball icon opens the Quick Look preview for a highlighted icon (or group of them); see Section 1.8

• Action ( ) You can read all about this context-sensitive pop-up menu on

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• Search bar This little round-ended text box is yet another entry point for the

Spotlight feature described in Chapter 3 It's a handy way to search your Mac for some file, folder, disk, or program

4.4.1 Removing or Shrinking the Toolbar

Between the toolbar, the Dock, the Sidebar, and the large icons of Mac OS X, it almost seems like there's an Apple conspiracy to sell big screens

Fortunately, the toolbar doesn't have to contribute to that impression You can hide it with one click—on the white, oval "Old Finder Mode" button (Section 1.2.10) You can also hide the toolbar by choosing View Hide Toolbar or pressing Option- -T.(The same keystroke, or choosing View Show Toolbar, brings it back.)

But you don't have to do without the toolbar altogether If its consumption of screen space is your main concern, you may prefer to collapse it—to delete the pictures but preserve the text buttons

The trick is to -click the Old Finder Mode button With each click, you make the toolbar take up less vertical space, cycling through six variations of shrinking icons, shrinking text labels, and finally labels without any icons at all (Figure 4-6)

There's a long way to adjust the icon and label sizes, too: Choose View Customize Toolbar (or Option- click the Old Finder Mode button) As shown in Figure 4-7, the dialog box that appears offers a Show pop-up menu at the bottom It lets you choose picture-buttons, Icon Only, or, for the greatest space conservation, Text Only You can see the results without even closing the dialog box

Click Done or press Enter to make your changes stick

Note: In Text Only mode, the four View buttons are replaced by a little pop-up menu

called View Furthermore, the Search bar turns into a one-word button called Search Clicking it brings up the Spotlight window (Section 3.2)

4.4.2 Adding Your Own Icons to the Toolbar

Mac OS X not only offers a collection of beautifully designed icons for alternate (or additional) toolbar buttons, but makes it easy for you to add anythingto the toolbar,

turning the toolbar into a supplementary Dock or Sidebar This is great news for people who miss having their Home and Applications folder icons at the top of the window, as they were in early Mac OS X versions, or for anyone who's run out of space for stashing favorite icons in the Dock or the Sidebar (Of course, if that's your problem, you need a bigger monitor.)

4.4.2.1 Apple's toolbar-icon collection

As noted above, the first step in tweaking the toolbar is choosing View Customize Toolbar The window shown in Figure 4-7 appears

Tip: There's a great secret shortcut for opening the Customize Toolbar window:

Option click the Old Finder Mode button that appears in the upper-right corner of every Finder window

Figure 4-7 While this window is open, you can add icons to the toolbar by dragging them into place from the gallery before you You can also remove icons from the toolbar by dragging them up or down off the toolbar Rearrange the icons by

dragging them horizontally

This is your chance to rearrange the existing toolbar icons or delete the ones you don't use You can also add any of Apple's buttons to the toolbar by dragging them from the

"gallery" onto the toolbar itself The existing icons scoot out of your cursor's way, if necessary

Most of the options in the gallery duplicate the functions of menu commands Here are a few that don't appear on the standard toolbar:

• Path Most of the gallery elements are buttons, but this one creates a pop-up menu

on the toolbar When clicked, it reveals (and lets you navigate) the hierarchy—the path—of folders that you open to reach whichever window is open (Equivalent: -clicking a window's title, as described on Section 1.2.3.)

• Eject This button ejects whichever disk or disk image is currently highlighted (Equivalent: The File Eject command, or holding down the key on your keyboard.)

• Burn This button burns a blank CD or DVD with the folders and files you've dragged onto it (Equivalent: The File Burn Disc command.)

• Customize This option opens this customizing window that you're already

examining (Equivalent: The View Customize Toolbar command.)

• Separator This gallery icon doesn't actually do anything when clicked It's

designed to set apart groups of toolbar icons (For example, you might want to segregate your folder buttons, such as Documents and Applications, from your function buttons, such as Delete and Connect.) Drag this dotted line between two existing icons on the toolbar

• Space By dragging this mysterious-looking item into the toolbar, you add a gap between it and whatever icon is to its left The gap is about as wide as one icon (The fine, dark, rectangular outline that appears when you drag it doesn't actually show up once you click Done.)

• Flexible Space This icon, too, creates a gap between the toolbar buttons But this one expands as you make the window wider Now you know how Apple got the Search box to appear off to the right of the standard toolbar, a long way from its clustered comrades to the left

• NewFolder Clicking this button creates a new folder in whichever window you're viewing (Equivalent: the File New Folder command, or the Shift- -N keystroke.)

• Delete This option puts the highlighted file or folder icons into the Trash

(Equivalent: the File Move to Trash command, or the -Delete keystroke.)

• Connect If you're on a home or office network, this opens the Connect to Server dialog box (see Section 13.3.2) so that you can tap into another computer

(Equivalent: The Go Connect to Server command, or -K.)

• Get Info This button opens the Get Info window (Section 2.7) for whatever's highlighted

• iDisk The iDisk is your own personal 5-gigabyte virtual hard drive on the

Internet It's your private backup disk, stashed at Apple, safe from whatever fire, flood, or locusts may destroy your office Of course, you already know this,

because you're paying $100 per year for the privilege (see Section 18.6)

In any case, you can bring your iDisk's icon onto the screen simply by clicking this toolbar icon

• Search This item represents the Spotlight search bar described in Chapter 3

• Drag the default set If you've made a mess of your toolbar, you can always

reinstate its original Apple arrangement by dragging this rectangular strip directly upward onto your toolbar

Note: If a window is too narrow to show all the icons on the toolbar, the right end of the

toolbar sprouts a >> symbol Click it for a pop-up menu that names whichever icons don't fit at the moment (You'll find this toolbar behavior in many Mac OS X programs, not just the Finder: iPhoto, Safari, Mail, Address Book, and so on.)

4.4.2.2 Adding your own stuff

Millions of Mac fans will probably trudge forward through life using the toolbar to hold the suggested Apple function buttons, and the Sidebar to hold the icons of favorite

folders, files, and programs They may never realize that you can drag any icons at all onto the toolbar—files, folders, disks, programs, or whatever—to turn them into one-click buttons

In short, you can think of the Finder toolbar as yet another Dock or Sidebar (Figure 4-8)

Figure 4-8 You don't need to choose View Customize Toolbar to add your own icons to the toolbar Just drag them from the desktop or any folder window directly onto the toolbar, at any time Pause with your cursor on the toolbar for a moment

before releasing the icon

4.4.3 Rearranging or Removing Toolbar Icons

You can drag toolbar icons around, rearranging them horizontally, by pressing as you drag Taking an icon off the toolbar is equally easy While pressing the key, just drag the icon clear away from the toolbar It vanishes in a puff of cartoon smoke

If the Customize Toolbar sheet is open, you can perform either step without the key