Lightroom Classic: Alt-drag on Windows doesn't expand Library panels like Opt-drag on Mac

LOL I don't even remember writing that!

Hi John.  Thanks for the work around.  I'm on Windows/10 using LR/Classic 9.2.1 but can't seem to get this to work. 

I followed Victoria's blog and discovered that I did not have an "en" folder.  I had plenty of other languages, but not 'en' so I created one.  I then created the text file.  In Victoria's blog she showed the file as "TranslatedStrings_Lr_en_US.txt" but in your post you called it "TranslatedStrings.txt".   So, first I tried it with Victoria's file name but when that didn't work, used your file name, which also didn't work.  



The only line of text in my newly created txt file is this
$$$/locale_metric/Win/Panel/maxWidth=800  (later changed to 1600 just to make sure)



Did I miss something in the instructions or is this workaround no longer valid?

Thanks -- Dan
 

The line has to include the quotes:

"$$$/locale_metric/Win/Panel/maxWidth=800"

and the full filename is as described in the lightroomqueen.com article. (I sloppily use "TranslatedStrings.txt", the former file name, to refer to the generic mechanism.)

In general, when I'm poking around Translated Strings, I look at TranslatedStrings_Lr_de_DE.txt (German), since German words are close to English words. I find the relevant lines there and copy them to TranslatedStrings_Lr_en_US.txt.

John,

Thank you.  The quotes did the trick.  You are scholar and a gentleman and greatly appreciated.

Dan