How to keep folders on top of your Desktop or Finder window
A simple tool in macOS makes it simple to keep folders on top of your Desktop or Finder windows. Here’s how to do it with ease.
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How to view EXIF image metadata in the Finder’s new Gallery view on macOS Mojave
The important Finder improvements in macOS Mojave include a brand-new Gallery view with big previews that make working with files easier. And as the Preview pane now displays all file metadata, you are able to find a specific image by confirming EXIF data like the camera model, aperture, location, exposure and more—right from the Finder, and here’s how.
macOS Mojave declutters desktops instantly by stacking files into neat groups
Inspired by Stacks for the Dock, Stacks for the desktop is a cool new feature in macOS Mojave that helps clean up your cluttered Mac desktop by automatically organizing your files into related sets, with custom grouping and sorting options, the ability to peek at a pile of files by scrubbing over a stack and much more.
Power Menu lets you add powerful actions and customizable workflows to your Mac’s Finder
This workflow-enhancing, productivity-boosting extension lets you do things such as moving and copying files or converting images via a right-click menu virtually anywhere from your Mac’s Finder. It supports custom shell scripts and comes bundled with preset actions so you can improve your workflow without writing a line of code.
4 ways to select files on your Mac
Before you can move, copy, duplicate or make other changes to the files on your Mac, you usually have to select them first. Feel free to peruse and memorize these handy tips to master the art of making multiple file selections in macOS and increase your productivity.
A quicker way to toggle hidden files on macOS, no Terminal required
Sometimes you need to view hidden files on your computer, but normally only briefly. Don’t bother with the command line, use this simple toggle method instead.
100+ new features in macOS High Sierra
One of the biggest yet largely unseen updates, macOS High Sierra brings many new features to Mac users. iDownloadBlog takes a closer look at some of the biggest changes in High Sierra, with an accompanying hands-on video from Andrew and the non-exhaustive list of everything that’s new.
How to remove the Macintosh HD icon from the desktop on Mac
In this post, you will learn how to remove the Macintosh HD icon from the desktop on your Mac.
How to change the default search scope in Finder
This guide will outline the simple process to customise the default scope for Finder window searches, so that you no longer have to trawl through your full hard drive for a file which you know is in the folder you’ve already navigated to.
macOS 10.12.4 properly displays icons for Windows executable files in Finder
Yesterday’s beta release of what would become the fourth major software update to macOS Sierra doesn’t just bring iOS’s Night Shift mode to your Mac. Aside from that feature and things like an updated PDF API, expanded Dictation support or the ability for Siri to look up cricket scores and rosters, macOS Sierra 10.12.4 includes better handling of Windows executable files in the Finder.
As discovered by Microsoft’s Mac product designer Vaclav Vancura, rather than use a generic icon to represent Windows executables like before, macOS Sierra 10.12.4 now actually parses .EXE files for native Windows resources such as icons.
How to configure your Mac to automatically delete files that have been in the Trash for 30 days
Some people aren’t as retentive about emptying their Mac’s Trash as others are, and when things start piling up, valuable storage space can be wasted as it just sits there and does nothing productive.
You can configure your Mac to automatically remove items that have been sitting in the Trash for 30 days, which might be a useful function for people who tend to forget to take out the trash from time to time.
How to hide mounted volumes from your desktop and the Finder
We’ve already covered how to completely prevent partitions from mounting under macOS but, as one iDB reader pointed out, sometimes you want a partition mounted and ready to use but still want the benefit of it not cluttering up your desktop and the Finder sidebar.
The example our reader enquired about was Time Machine, and that really is a perfect case in point. Many people want their Time Machine partition constantly mounted and backing up throughout the day but don’t need it to be visible at all. Finder’s preferences allow for hiding all volumes from the desktop but offer no control on a volume-by-volume basis, and though drives can be manually removed from the Finder window sidebar, this is an inelegant extra step and the drives still show elsewhere.
Luckily, there is a way to leave specific volumes mounted whilst hiding them from both the desktop and the entirety of the Finder in one fell swoop.