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Hidden Finder Features

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Category:	Control Panels & Extensions Utilities
Year released:	1996
Author:	Richard Burgess
Publisher:

[www]_.se [ftp]_.se [mirror]_.us [mirror]_.de
hidden_finder_features.sit (3.94 KB)
MD5: 19b8d83d30b783129e2aa0e7f34352d2
For System 7.0 - 7.6

Emulation
This app works with: SheepShaver, Basilisk II,

This control panel is for Mac OS 7.5.2 through 7.6.1. It unlocks four secret features that were included in these systems, but left inaccessible by Apple:

Command-Delete moves selected items to the trash
Command-R reveals the original item that an alias points to
Control-dragging an item makes an alias of it
The "zoom rectangles" window-opening animation can be turned off

In particular, the Command-Delete shortcut is much quicker than dragging items to the trash with a laptop trackball or trackpad.

(v1.0.3)

See Also: Finder Options

Compatibility
Architecture: 68k

Not needed in Mac OS's 8.0 and newer (these features were all enabled in the Finder from then onwards).

Comments

by cbone - 2020, February 15 - 5:37am

I remember this little enabler; a very nice cdev indeed!