I have heard a lot of people complain about not having it. How is the UP button any different then the “back” button? Why do people seem to miss it so much?
If you’re going through a long list of folders, opening each one and then going back to the list, back will take you back to where you left off. Up will take you to the top of the list. This becomes frustrating in direct proportion to the length of the list.
‘Back’ goes to the directory you were at before the one you are at now, which may not have been the parent directory. For example, if you change directories via the folder tree, you can go to any directory regardless of where you are at now. Hit ‘Back’, and you’re back at the previous directory. ‘UP’, IIRC, would always take you to the parent directory of where you are at, regardless of where you were before.
Vista got rid of the up button? That was way more useful than the back button! Gah!
I have shortcuts and favorites to folders I use often. It’s faster to hit the shortcut and then go up than it is to navigate to the drive and then to the appropriate folder.
Sure, if you know what you’re looking for. But if you’re digging around, trying to remember where you put something eight months ago or trying to find something in the system folders of a program you didn’t write, the up button is really useful.
Count me among the many who bemoan the loss of the “up button”.
I did recently discover that you can get the same functionality by pressing Alt+Up Arrow on the keyboard. Normally, I’m all for keyboard shortcuts, but for some reason I can’t seem to get the hang of this one…
On my machine, the path for the current folder is listed in the Address bar. Is it not the same to just click the next folder up on the address bar?
Pffft. The Vista explorer has breadcrumbs in the address bar. Instant access to any folder up the chain in one click beats an up button by a mile.
Yeah, the clickable address bar is great. What I don’t understand is what moron thought hiding “select all” was a good idea!
True, but Windows spent all those years teaching us that we needed to click on the buttons to navigate, and now they want it to work like a web page where we click on the underlined text link to where we want to go…
Yet another example of changing things for the sake of making it different.
Similar to what they did when XP came out… at least there we were able to keep the “classic view.”
And they wonder why they have to have the “Mojave project” ads. Many of us don’t want to upgrade, as we don’t want to have to relearn an OS’s methods of doing things. Keep the look & feel the same wherever you can, even if you’re changing things “behind the scenes.” Add features, but don’t change the fundamentals!!!
Clearly, I misunderstood the OP and thought they had gotten rid of the “Back” button.
Not good enough. With the up button you never hit a dead end. With Vista, you get to the level of your My Docs folder, and can’t go from there to the drives. Why would they remove it anyway? So annoying.