But you can force a certain Dock folder to sprout a fan or a grid all the time, rather than letting Mac OS X decide | But you can force a certain Dock folder to sprout a fan or a grid all the time rather than letting Mac OS X decide. From the Dock folder s shortcut menu Section choose View As Fan or View As Grid. From now on you ll always get the fan or always get the grid. Note When your Dock is positioned on a side of the screen instead of the bottom you alwaysget the grid never the fan. The View As command doesn t even appear in the shortcut menu. Both the grid and the fan have limited storage space for icons. The exact number depends on your monitor size. In any case if there are too many icons to display at once the last icon says 24 more in Finder or whatever the number is . Click that icon to open the folder s regular window where all the contents are available. Of course then you ve defeated the fan s step-saving purpose. Tip The ideal solution of course would be what Mac OS X had in through a simple pop-up list of everything in a Dock folder. That s exactly what you get with the free program Quay available for download from this book s Missing CD at . Ready-made stacks When you first install Mac OS X you get a couple of starter stacks just to get you psyched. One is called Downloads the other is Documents. Both of these folders are physically inside your Home folder. But you may well do most of your interacting with them on the Dock. The Downloads folder new in Leopard collects three kinds of Internet arrivals Files you download from the Web using Safari Files you receive in an iChat file-transfer session File attachments you get via email using Mail. Unless you intervene they re sorted by the date you downloaded them. It s handy to know where to find your downloads and nice not to have them all cluttering your desktop. Tip Once you ve opened a stack s fan or grid you can drag any of the icons right out of the fan or grid. Just drag your chosen icon onto the desktop or into any visible disk or folder. In other words what
