I notice the beta 2 v. of Parallels doesn´t seem to work in 10.5 :( which is a bit of a bollock, cos the features in the new version are fab....

The one thing I´ve noticed more than anything else about switching to the Mac (loving it BTW) is that now every day when I go to work and have use one of those damned windoze boxes to work on it´s rather depressing. Never imagined it´d have that effect :)

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bombholio

I bet Parallels are working hard to get compatible with 10.5.
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simon

Latest: that in most file selector dialogs, the ability to right-click a folder and do relevant stuff to it, is missing. WHY?

And Finder sucks.

But the Pro hardware, I have to say, is just sex personified. Fitting and removing drives is practically a spiritual experience.

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What more do you want to do other than open/save or select/create a folder?
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simon

Example 1. I'm in Publisher (which is actually quite a respectable simple vector layout package, but I digress) and I go Insert / Picture / From File... and the Open dialog appears. I navigate to the folder where the image I want is, and then suddenly remember I needed to touch the image up in Photoshop before I place it into Publisher. So I right-click and choose Open With... Photoshop. I touch it up, save it, and Alt-Tab back to my File Open dialog, pick the newly edited file, and click Open. If I didn't have that facility, I'd have to open Photoshop, navigate to the folder, edit, go back, etc... meaning TWO navigations rather than one.

Example 2. I'm attaching a PDF to a mail message so I've got the Open dialog up, but I can't remember which is the right one. So I right-click and choose Open With... Acrobat to check. Same result -- one navigation instead of two.

Example 3. Insert / Picture / From File..., and I realise I want to create a text file for notes in that folder, so I right-click, New, Text File... and then right-click the new text file and Open With... Textpad.

Example 4. (good grief man, get on with it). Any File / Open dialog, and right-click a file, Copy, then Paste, to create a copy, rename it with a single-click, then open the copy.

You get the picture.

In practice I use this or some variation of it fairly infrequently compared to the number of times I use File / Open (etc) *without* using it, but it's still perhaps 5 or 10 times per work day. So it's hardly a drastic timesaver, especially once I'm quicker at navigating around Finder, but it'd still be very nice -- I badly miss it.

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Seems to me both useful on the one hand, and potentially confusing for a novice on the other. I wonder how many non-tech users ever alt-tab anywhere for instance.

The restrictions in place on OS X's file open/save dialog at least keep the novice focussed on one thing at a time - and if you've ever supported a complete novice, you'll understand why I think that's a plus point.

On the specific point of which PDF did I mean, I'd probably switch to multi-column view because then you can see a preview of each file as you highlight it.

On the other points, I guess because I've been zooming around the Finder for so long I tend not to notice that kind of annoyance.

Though I do miss an old Classic MacOS extension that remembered all the recent folders you'd visited system-wide and gave you drop downs in the open/save dialog and loads of other useful things, similar to what you describe.

[Googles... Ah, "Default Folder" is what it was called - and there's a version for OSX]
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