Making Icon View Work
Daniel Jalkut, developer of MarsEdit, has issued a call for everyone to start blogging. So:
If you’re a mere mortal like me, you browse the Finder in icon view. Big icons are easy to recognize, and they let me use Fitts’ Law to click on things faster. Yes, the intuitive simplicity of icon view is truly a wondrous thing.
However, getting a file up one folder level is not. You need to create a seperate Finder window, navigate to one folder short of where your file is, and drag it over. Clearly, OS X has failed you.
Or has it? Consider the following Applescript:tell application "Finder"
activate
try
set target of window 1 to the container of target of window 1
on error
display dialog "No parent folder exists." buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon caution
end try
end tell
on open theFiles
tell application "Finder"
try
move theFiles to the container of target of window 1
on error
display dialog "No parent folder exists." buttons {"OK"} default button 1 with icon caution
end try
end tell
end open
Short but sweet. Paste that into Script Editor and save it as an application bundle. You can put it in your Finder sidebar or toolbar if you like. Whenever you want to move files one folder up, simply drag them onto your little script. As a bonus, clicking will change the current Finder window to the parent folder. This way, it behaves as if it were the actual parent folder in the sidebar (but not in open/save dialogs).
