Don't bother if you're running OSX 10.5 - ill trooper
Truth is, I'm not sure it does run solidly under Leopard.
I love this utility, I've owned it for years now, loathed when it isn't on a machine I'm using, and pushed it on many people who can't understand why I'm so enthusiastic about it, but many of those same people aren't old enough to remember utilities like 'Boomerang' (which handled back in the day what 'Default Folder' does now). It's always been solid and the features are amazing time savers. Well worth the cost.
What happens is this: At some point in my computing day, I will save a file from an app to the desktop, or drag an image off of the web to the desktop. Then, when I go to the desktop to retrieve it later on, it's not there. Or rather, it's not visible. If I open a new finder/folder window, use the navigation to show the desktop in list mode, the files are there, safe and sound, but the destop has not redrawn them. At this point, if I attempt to click and drag a visible file on the desktop, the file becomes highlighted but will not move. Then the highlight remains lit although the file doesn't actually appear to be there; that is, if I click or double-click on the highlighted 'ghost' file, it's as if it isn't there.
I can't say for sure that Default Folder is causing this, but if I was asked to guess (although it might be considered an uneducated guess), I would say that something about 10.5, Spaces and Default folder aren't working together. I have the disabled "finder-click" in Default Folder, thinking that might be a good starting point for my trouble-shoot, but it's happening again today.
I can't pinpoint what causes it, but the problems I have don't manifest themselves when I have Default Folder turned off. In the 23 years I've been using macs, this seems like some sort of conflict in the way the desktop and the files on it are drawn by the OS's graphics engine.
Again, I am not casting a finger at Default Folder, but I think it may be part of a conflict occurring on my machine. This based on the following notions: 1) Didn't happen in 10.4, 2) I haven't noticed it happening with DF turned off, and 3) the latest version of DF is from July 10th, meaning it hasn't been updated for the public since long before Leopard was released.
I'm posting this here both for the developer to see, and to see if others might be experiencing something similar. Again, maybe it's my Wacom tablet, my eBay settings, the angle of my monitor, or how I butter my toast. But it's not happening when I reluctantly turn it off.
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Don't bother if you're running OSX 10.5 - ill trooper
Truth is, I'm not sure it does run solidly under Leopard.I love this utility, I've owned it for years now, loathed when it isn't on a machine I'm using, and pushed it on many people who can't understand why I'm so enthusiastic about it, but many of those same people aren't old enough to remember utilities like 'Boomerang' (which handled back in the day what 'Default Folder' does now). It's always been solid and the features are amazing time savers. Well worth the cost.
So when I started getting unusual behavior in the finder after installing 10.5 Leopard, I got worried that it might be one of the two utilities I run: LaunchBar, or Default Folder. I'm running a G5 dual-core with Spaces and Exposé active.
What happens is this: At some point in my computing day, I will save a file from an app to the desktop, or drag an image off of the web to the desktop. Then, when I go to the desktop to retrieve it later on, it's not there. Or rather, it's not visible. If I open a new finder/folder window, use the navigation to show the desktop in list mode, the files are there, safe and sound, but the destop has not redrawn them. At this point, if I attempt to click and drag a visible file on the desktop, the file becomes highlighted but will not move. Then the highlight remains lit although the file doesn't actually appear to be there; that is, if I click or double-click on the highlighted 'ghost' file, it's as if it isn't there.
I can't say for sure that Default Folder is causing this, but if I was asked to guess (although it might be considered an uneducated guess), I would say that something about 10.5, Spaces and Default folder aren't working together. I have the disabled "finder-click" in Default Folder, thinking that might be a good starting point for my trouble-shoot, but it's happening again today.
I can't pinpoint what causes it, but the problems I have don't manifest themselves when I have Default Folder turned off. In the 23 years I've been using macs, this seems like some sort of conflict in the way the desktop and the files on it are drawn by the OS's graphics engine.
Again, I am not casting a finger at Default Folder, but I think it may be part of a conflict occurring on my machine. This based on the following notions: 1) Didn't happen in 10.4, 2) I haven't noticed it happening with DF turned off, and 3) the latest version of DF is from July 10th, meaning it hasn't been updated for the public since long before Leopard was released.
I'm posting this here both for the developer to see, and to see if others might be experiencing something similar. Again, maybe it's my Wacom tablet, my eBay settings, the angle of my monitor, or how I butter my toast. But it's not happening when I reluctantly turn it off.
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