Learn how to customize the Finder sidebar on your Mac and make it your own with handy shortcuts to your drives, folders. network shares and more.
How to customize the Finder Sidebar on your Mac
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How to add an iCloud Drive shortcut to your Mac desktop or Dock
Find out how to add an iCloud Drive shortcut to your Mac desktop and Dock for faster access to your online files, folders, and documents.
How to add a recently opened files folder to your Dock
Learn how to add a folder to the Dock of your Mac that automatically gathers your recently opened files in real-time for convenient one-click access.
How to immediately delete files on your Mac and skip the Trash altogether
Learn how to immediately delete files on your Mac and skip the Trash altogether, which will permanently erase the items without a chance of undeleting them later.
How to keep folders on top of your Desktop or Finder window
Do you have a hard time finding a folder on your Mac? Do you wish there was an easier way to access your data? A simple feature of macOS makes it simple to keep folders on top of your Desktop or Finder windows. Here's how to do it.
Power Menu lets you add powerful actions and customizable workflows to your Mac’s Finder
macOS includes a super-handy Automator feature to automate the tasks you do on your Mac. Even though Automator takes advantage of ready-made actions for easy creation of complex workflows without programming, most people are unaware of its existence or what it can do.
How to select one, several, or all files on your Mac
Learn all the ways you can select stuff on your Mac, including contiguous groups of Finder files, multiple non-adjacent items, and more.
A quicker way to toggle hidden files on macOS, no Terminal required
Sometimes you need to edit a system file, or look at a file created by one of your programs. Many of these files are hidden by default, so you'll need to make them visible before you can go about your business. One example I often encounter is hosts files, either for SSH or for your computer's whitelisted and blacklisted domains, though there are many others.
100+ new features in macOS High Sierra
Say hello to macOS High Sierra, Apple's newest operating system update for Macs. Whether you're on an iMac or one of the Touch Bar-outfitted MacBook Pro models, there is a lot to love in this latest release of Apple's desktop operating system.
How to remove the Macintosh HD icon from the desktop on Mac
Neat freaks like me like to keep the desktop of their computers free of any clutter. That includes files, folders, and of course, the Macintosh HD icon. As a matter of fact, removing the Macintosh HD icon from the desktop is one of the first few things I do when setting up a new Mac.
Although pretty simple to do, hiding that icon is not very obvious to less tech-savvy people. So in this post, I will describe how to remove the Macintosh HD or the hard disk/SSD icon from the desktop on your Mac.
How to use referenced library mode in Mac Photos to save space
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to use referenced library mode in Mac’s Photos app to stop it from making copies of your media and help save space.
How to change Finder’s default search scope on Mac
In this brief tutorial, we’ll show you how to adjust the search scope for Finder on your Mac. You can set it to search the entire drive (which is the default), search the current folder you are in, or use the search scope you last specified.