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Expand Finder Columns Quickly

Column view in the Finder is great for navigating through your disk's hierarchy, but the columns often aren't wide enough to show the full names of all the files. To expand a column to a width that will show all file names in their entirety, double-click the handle that you would normally drag to expand or shrink the column. To expand all the visible columns to that width, Option-double-click the handle.

 
 

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A quick update - the Info-Mac archive site at <sumex-aim.stanford.edu> is back up and running, although you should still try to use mirror sites whenever possible.

 

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