Getting inside applications

[the8thark]

With some apps in 10.3 I used to rename them from say:

xxx.app to xxx

And than they turned into a folder and I could look inside the application and do things with it. But in 10.4 this doesn't seem to work. Is there a way still that people can look at the files inside an application?

And sorry for all the questions of late. I'm still learning about 10.4 Never used it before 3 days ago.

 

[dtravis7]

Hi-light the Applications Icon, Right (Or Control Click) and then click on "Show Package Contents" . It gets you inside the App. That worked on Panther also and even Jaguar I believe. Below is example.

 

[the8thark]

Thanks. Yeah that shows how unobservant I was. Anyways that's just so useful. And easy.

 

[mikeyman]

Instead of starting a new thread...
does anyone know how to organise folders, in windows i used to be able to right click and select organise by name etc
but my pictures folder is a mess

 

[giulio]

Hey mikey,

It's in the View menu. Use 'arrange by'. Or Show View Options to make the setting sticky.

 

[mikeyman]

Thanks giulio, i wanted to do this for ages.
REP!!!

 

[giulio]

[perk] you're welcome, and thank you!

 

[walmartconnect]

Hey gulio, whats with that cool folder overlap?

 

[giulio]

Nothing special. I rarely use anything but column view. When I switched to icon view for the screen grab, the icons were supersized and overlapping.