Finder is the premier file management utility within macOS - here are the secret settings I tweak to make it a more powerful ...

Adding items to the Finder sidebar and Dock in OS X is one more thing that shortcuts can make a bit easier. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

Finder is used to navigate your Mac’s drives, iCloud, and other storage locations. Customizing the app to show exactly what you need can make you far more productive. As is the case with many aspects ...

I'd like to make network volume appear in the Finder sidebar under "places" so I can have one-click access. For some reason, this does not seem to be possible---it seems like you have to click on ...

Occasionally users will mount shared file servers to download files remotely (often from online sources). These servers show up in Finder's sidebar under the "Shared" section. An occasional bug will ...

OS X’s Finder is your window onto the documents, spreadsheets, photos, and other files you’ve tucked away on your Mac and other connected computers and drives. One often overlooked Finder tool is the ...

Khamosh Pathak is a freelance tech journalist with over 13 years of experience writing online. An accounting graduate, he turned his interest in writing and technology into a career. He holds a ...

I find the Finder window’s sidebar immensely useful. By default, it shows a number of useful folders and locations you might need quick access to, and you can drag in folders, servers, smart folders, ...

Apple changed many things on the Finder sidebar with the release of Mac OS X Lion. Probably one of the better changes was how Apple locked down the sidebar. It is now harder to accidentally remove an ...

This is really annoying... when you mount a SMB share, Finder shows the remote computer in Sidebar, but not the mounted volume. It shows volume on the Desktop however but it doesn't show it in Sidebar ...

Tags have been popular since the dawn of “Web 2.0,” but I never quite wrapped my head around them. So when file tagging was announced as a feature of OS X 10.9 Mavericks, I wasn’t terribly excited.