Penultimate day of the month of November and we return with another little trick present in OSX Mavericks. It is about managing the automatic opening of folders in the system.
Apple operating systems have been able to boast of one thing, it is those small details that, not being a tool in itself, make the system easier and faster to use in daily work.
I don't know if all of you who read us have noticed that when you are going to move any file to a folder, if you keep the file on top of the folder in question, it proceeds to open and show you its content so that you can drop the file not in the folder itself, but in any location within it. All this without having to previously navigate in the folder's file structure. The people from Cupertino call this gesture "springload folders", which in Spanish means "automatic opening of folders."
The fact is that this gesture is permanently activated, so that whenever we do it, the folders will open automatically. However, there are users who are interested in the way they work that this effect is not present in their system automatically but at specific times. In this post we are going to tell you how to deactivate the gesture and how to use it on certain occasions without having to activate it permanently again for it.
If you are one of the users who is going to deactivate this feature, just go to the Finder preferences on the top bar of Finder and deselect the last option "Folders and windows with automatic opening". From that moment on, if you want to use sporadically the feature is enough that you combine the movement of the file on the folder with the press of the space bar twice (keyboard shortcut) so that the folder opens to continue browsing within it.
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