I Ordered a new iMac 24” w/M1chip

[Jim Koepke]

JTK, there have been some changes and updates to Finder in the intervening OS versions since your particular release, especially in the more recent ones so as you note, "YMMV". Bruce's machine is M1 processor based and is running Monterey (v12.1 or greater)

Yep, that is why it felt pertinent to reveal my (much) older version of the OS.

Has the finder become less useful for finding files?

My pet peeve about Apple is all the effort spent trying to make their computers act more like an iPhone instead of making the iPhone act more like a computer.

jtk

[Bruce Page]

My pet peeve about Apple is all the effort spent trying to make their computers act more like an iPhone instead of making the iPhone act more like a computer.

jtk

Lol, that was something I quickly noticed as soon as someone sent me a text.
As I said in my first post, I've been a Windows user from day one. I am starting to get comfortable with Apples Finder file management but it is not as intuitive as I had hoped.

[Jim Koepke]

Lol, that was something I quickly noticed as soon as someone sent me a text.
As I said in my first post, I've been a Windows user from day one. I am starting to get comfortable with Apples Finder file management but it is not as intuitive as I had hoped.

One of the things that has bothered me every time there is an OS upgrade is having to learn senseless changes to the keyboard commands. Often it is close to accidental that the change is learned.

One example is saving a new file to different folder than the last saved file. It was a few years before reading some thing someone else was saying about using Shift-Command-G to open a window to type in a path to where the file is to be saved. It is more like saving files in DOS than what it was in earlier versions of Mac OS.

jtk

[Jim Becker]

Other than for Paste, I never use any kind of keyboard shortcuts...it's all trackpad/rodent. But that's also how I've always used Windows, too. The last time I used keyboard shortcuts to any extent was with PageMaker in the late 1980s.

[Curt Harms]

Yep, that is why it felt pertinent to reveal my (much) older version of the OS.

Has the finder become less useful for finding files?

My pet peeve about Apple is all the effort spent trying to make their computers act more like an iPhone instead of making the iPhone act more like a computer.

jtk

I think Apple has sold a lot more iPhones and iPads than they have Macs. I wouldn't be surprised if the iPhone ecosystem holds more sway in Cupertino.