Can anyone shed any light on why you can’t swipe back and forward in Finder with a trackpad? The option in Settings allows for two finger swipe between pages in eg. Safari, but that doesn’t extend to Finder, and I can’t work out why?

I’ve been able to activate it using BetterTouchTool, but it seems like a truly bizarre omission, considering how much Apple have optimised macOS for trackpad use.

I don’t know why I’ve never really thought about it before, but now I can’t stop…

    • @HKPiax
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      33 months ago

      How did you create this screenshot? I mean, is there some kind of smart program that lets you zoom in like that?

    • d00phy
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      33 months ago

      Column view has pretty much become my default.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 months ago

        Has been mine since Mac OS X 10.2. It was one of the reasons I switched to a Mac in the first place.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      33 months ago

      Yeah, I know column view is an option, I’m just wondering why - for a company as focused on trackpad manipulation as Apple - they never brought that to Finder. And since my original post I’ve noticed that swiping doesn’t work in Settings either.

      It just seems like a bizarre omission.