Issues creating a new folder on my external drive

[aphex]

External 1TB drive connected via FW to my Macbook.

In finder, while browsing the external drive with List View, no matter what folder or subfolder i'm currently in, when I create a new folder, it ALWAYS puts it on the root of the external drive and I have to move it to the subfolder I want it to be in.

Is this normal?

 

[Kaido]

No, that's weird. Is it formatted using HFS+?

 

[Ness]

Just to be certain....

Are you expanding folders in the list view, or if you are in a single folder's listing and create a new folder does it still just magically appear in root?

Like.. rather than being in:

- First Folder
+- Second Folder
++- Third Folder...

are you just in:
- Third Folder

 

[aphex]

I'm expanding folders, but selecting a single directory;

http://www.iiki.org/folders.jpg

Logically speaking, wherever I selected is where the folder should go.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: aphex
I'm expanding folders, but selecting a single directory;

http://www.iiki.org/folders.jpg

Logically speaking, wherever I selected is where the folder should go.

Oh, when you drag it over you have to highlight the folder by hovering the dragged icon over the folder or any of the sub-files in the directory.

Also a cool note, if you hover over a folder for a few seconds, it temporarily opens that window - and you can keep doing it to sub-folders, which all disappear once you've dropped it in the folder you want it to go in 🙂

 

[Ness]

It's always been that way for me. Maybe I just haven't noticed that it's doing it "wrong"... both on my work computer and home computer, 10.4 and 10.5.

edit:

Kaido, I think he's referring specifically to making a new folder and not dragging one in. If dragging one in is the issue, then I'm NOT in the same boat.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: Ness
It's always been that way for me. Maybe I just haven't noticed that it's doing it "wrong"... both on my work computer and home computer, 10.4 and 10.5.

edit:

Kaido, I think he's referring specifically to making a new folder and not dragging one in. If dragging one in is the issue, then I'm NOT in the same boat.

Yeah I just realized that, oops sorry!