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Column widths shrink with every launch of FCP.

I'm using Final Cut. I set up my columns the way I like them. I put the time (say, in the Last Modified column) right up to the right edge of the browser. Do some stuff, and close Final Cut. Later, I open Final Cut again and the column has shrunk! The last digit in the time is gone! WHY? Same thing happens in Mac Mail with all the columns (well, maybe not the first column). In the Finder, the columns almost always come up wrong. What's with the columns bit? I can't imagine why anyone would want this, and I can't imagine the code it would take to be a bug that causes this. Leave the columns alone!


Yes, I launched with Opt-Cmd. No dice. I've had this problem for a long time (just got fed up and I am asking now), so I doubt a reboot will fix it. What is it with the column-width shrinking?


TIA!


FCP 10.6.8

macOS 12.7.6

iMac 24″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Dec 30, 2024 3:32 PM

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Jan 2, 2025 3:50 AM in response to LocaAlicia

"Long complaints are useless unless they are sent as feedback."


I already told you I've sent feedback. In fact, I said so in the reply you're replying to!


"There are only users like you here."


No, sometimes an Apple person chimes in: a "Community specialist." Even when not, I was hoping to get a user who can help. I mean, otherwise, what is the whole point of this forum or "Apple Support Community."? There are other users that have been helpful. You choose only to criticize me and not be the least bit helpful. And I have been helpful to others at times. See, even though there are only "users like myself" here, we have the potential to help each other. And have.

Jan 2, 2025 2:25 PM in response to terryb

terryb wrote:

@betaneptune - During the discussion panel with the FCP developers at the FCP Creative Summit in November, they emphatically stated that they *do* read all feedback, but with finite dev resources they prioritize based on the amount of feedback or severity of the bug. If you can get more people to submit feedback about the column width issue, it might percolate higher up the to-do list.

Well, good to know. However, they did have time to gray out the bolded shortcuts on the drop-down menus, making them worse. They had time to scramble the Mac Mail message flags, which used to be in a sensible order, but are now in a totally random order. They had time to make the iTunes/Music app user interface even worse. They could maybe hire some additional people.


On a positive note:


But I will admit that they did have time to fix at least a couple of my reported problems: Inability to use the scrubber when watching videos because the notification screen comes down instead in iOS 5.0. Fixed! I reported that using Spotlight and Finder Spotlight didn't work for "file system." Now it works. I think there was at least one other thing. But for each of those, there are numerous things that got no response.


Just for fun: Here's something they fixed that I think I didn't report: It was between 2006 and 2016, I think. I'm on route home from work, and I say to Siri on my phone, "Siri. Please play the last song I just played." You are probably seeing her reply coming. SIRI: Sorry, I can't find anything called "the last song I just played"! Oh, man. They wussified the 0/0 spiel. Glad I heard it before they did that.


Oh, and they finally--finally!--gave us a context-menu keyboard shortcut. And it even has a dedicated key on the newest Mac keyboards (but I don't use those super thin Apple keyboards). I've been waiting 16 years for that one!



Jan 3, 2025 2:54 AM in response to betaneptune

What is a “context menu keyboard shortcut”?!


Contextual menus are triggered by right- or control-clicking, and you can add keyboard shortcuts to at least some of the entries in contextual menus. Are you saying there is a shortcut just to open a contextual menu? I struggle to see how that would even work, since being contextual means what you get depends on where you click.

Would you care to elaborate on that?

Jan 18, 2025 5:13 PM in response to betaneptune

@LocaAlicia


Maybe it's because I've been opening and closing a lot of libraries lately. I have to check certain things in each library, and the column bit gets really annoying.


So if you're hanging out in one library all day, yeah, it's not a big deal. But it shouldn't be happening in the first place. Why would anyone code it that way, or what kind of bug can it be?

Column widths shrink with every launch of FCP.

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