resize microscopic finder window

[bedroom]

hi all. i made some (double sided) floppies of legacy using system 7.5 on a macintosh plus for use with my 512k, running system 3.2. however, whenever i open the disk, the window is unusually small. is there any way i can make it larger? or will i have to erase the disk to use it with my 512k?

 

[Paralel]

Are you sure that is a finder window? It looks more like a video glitch to me.

 

[bedroom]

Are you sure that is a finder window? It looks more like a video glitch to me.

100%. it can be interacted with using a few menu bar commands, notably open and close. the finder plays the animation of it opening the window from the disk, but this is what it draws.

 

[Crutch]

Wow weird, no. The Finder shouldn’t do that. It should fix any bogus folder rectangles.

Just to ask … have you tried clicking very precisely at the bottom right edge of that thing and trying to resize it? The grow region of Finder windows, I’m pretty sure, extends all the way to the rightmost pixel. You might just be able to grow it the normal way.

 

[joevt]

System 7 has AppleScript. Can it be used to modify Finder windows? I don't remember if the Finder was scriptable back then.
https://applescriptlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/applescript-finder-guide.pdf
https://whitefiles.org/mac/pgs/v03.htm

I think System 7.5 should have a scriptable Finder
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_7

 

[robin-fo]

You could try to rebuild the desktop file

 

[joevt]

You could try to rebuild the desktop file

I think window position is defined in the HFS info for the folder. Search for "Window boundaries" in this document:
https://github.com/libyal/libfshfs/blob/main/documentation/Hierarchical File System (HFS).asciidoc