I don't think that option is available any more. Since Mavericks, they have opening Finder windows in new tabs. I think this replaced the other option prior to Mavericks.
Take Care John D. Panarese Director Mac for the Blind Tel, (631) 724-4479 Email, j...@macfortheblind.com Website, http://www.macfortheblind.com APPLE CERTIFIED SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL FOR MAC OSX 10.7 LION and 10.8 Mountain Lion AUTHORIZED APPLE STORE BUSINESS AFFILIATE MAC and iOS VOICEOVER TRAINING AND SUPPORT > On Feb 4, 2015, at 7:47 AM, Jonathan C Cohn <jon.c.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I seem to remember a finder preference to open new folders in new windows, > but I could not find that now. I generally use the column view in finder, > that if you arrow left or right you change folder levels and up and down for > the current folder. >> On Feb 3, 2015, at 16:36, Lorie McCloud <lorice...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> when I open folders in order to copy files from 1 place to another, windows >> remain open for every part of the path. I discovered this when I was cycling >> through windows to get to the place where I wanted to paste the files. is >> there anything I can do to change this behavior? I’d like to be able to pop >> back and forth between the source place and the destination place without >> all that other stuff in-between. closing the window seems to help rather >> than command-up-arrow to close the folder but I can’t do that until I’m >> finished with my procedure. >> >> Thanks. >> Lorie >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.