One of the most common questions people ask when working with their Mac is: "Where is it?" Not where is the Mac itself (hopefully that is not a mystery!), but where is some apparently hidden file on ...

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion reverses a trend toward user interface complexity, delivering a desktop computing environment that not only incorporates graphical elements of iOS, but also copies the intuitive ...

I use the MacOS Finder daily to manage my files and folders. It's an invaluable tool -- and one of the better file managers I use, but that doesn't mean Finder is configured ideally out of the box.

There appears to be a bug in Mac OS X 10.2.x causes files with unrecognized name extensions to be improperly labeled when duplicated or otherwise modified in the Finder. To duplicate the bug, make ...

PublicSpace.net has released A Better Finder Attributes 3.0, the first version of the Finder file attribute utility for Mac OS X. A Better Finder Attributes is a contextual menu plug-in for the Finder ...

In the initial macOS Tahoe beta, Apple swapped the colors of the Finder icon, a longtime Mac classic. Rather than featuring blue on the left side of the face and light blue on the right side, the icon ...

Apple on Friday released Mac OS X v10.4.8 and Mac OS X Server v10.4.8. Both updates are available for download in various forms both from the Software Update control panel and from Apple’s Web site.

I like to keep my computer organized and this means that I like to keep my files and folders sorted alphabetically by name. Occasionally I might want to sort them temporarily by kind (i.e. PDF, JPEG, ...

Using tokens in Finder searches and some other application searches will make searching for files on your Mac a lot easier. It all starts when you press Command+F in the Finder. For example, if you ...

When using macOS Finder in List view, you'll see the sizes of individual files – but not folders. Instead, folders show a pair of dashes (--) in the Size column. macOS skips calculating folder sizes ...

If you’ve been seeing multiple Finder error messages on your Mac recently, you’re not alone. Although macOS Monterey 12.3 beta comes with some great new features ...