Comments on: Show Long File & Folder Names on the Mac OS X Desktop

By: abdulrahman

abdulrahman — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:18:57 +0000

It does not work for 10.8.2 it’s really disappoint me

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 23:03:54 +0000

+1: I, too, am frustrated by this limitation, and would really like a fix that allows 3 or 4 rows of characters instead of two, & an option to truncate what’s visible instead of wasting characters on …+last few characters.

I wonder if some hacker could find where in the code it’s being limited to 2 rows-worth and change that to a 3 or 4?

By: Hakuna Matata

Hakuna Matata — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:09:53 +0000

Does not work for me in 10.6.8

I have tons of files and I need to see at a glance what each one is. With this the ellipses (…) I really cannot make sense of the files that I have.

Steve Jobs, please tell your engineers to fix this annoying and important issue. I thought you were all about computers being human friendly.

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 03:46:51 +0000

Maxed grid of only 20 characters. No help.

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 03:46:16 +0000

Try it with a folder name that is more than 20 characters. Doesn’t work, does it?

By: Billy

Billy — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 03:44:49 +0000

Doesn’t work in 10.7. All you losers who are saying it does work probably don’t have a file name longer than 20 characters. Try it, doesn’t work.

Can anyone get this to work in 10.7? No? Lame.

By: Brah

Brah — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:46:11 +0000

may need to killall Dock after applying the command to see the effect. also works in conjunction with increasing your grid size.

By: Brah

Brah — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:32:41 +0000

woo. thats hot. Nice to see this was helpful to some. i spent a lot of time and research looking for this as the long file names “issue” has always driven me nuts for years.

Also… this does work in lion btw. has to be used in conjunction with the grid size. increase grid size and apply the write command and desktop is actually usable.

I noticed it right away when i did a clean installation of Lion to see if they finally got around to fixing the issue and they haven’t.

someone at apple os x development team really should take notice of these things and apply them by default.

it’s unrealistic expectation to the end user to try and name everything under 20 characters.
;P

k later guise.

By: Kicker13

Kicker13 — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:18:16 +0000

Works for me in Lion

By: I Ruined Thanksgiving

I Ruined Thanksgiving — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:28:24 +0000

Definitely Snow Leopard only, but Lion allows you to show longer file names with a maxed grid.

By: peter

peter — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 21:16:33 +0000

I thought I had it working in Lion but now I am second guessing myself because it’s still shortening with 100 count

By: Applephoria

Applephoria — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:12:40 +0000

Mm…In OS X Lion don’t working
Nothing happened after entering this command. Still displaying ~20 char.