The default Windows Explorer sidebars—generally either the System Tasks and Other Places view or the file system tree—are handy ways to navigate your filesystem, but if you're an ex-Mac user or you ...

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

January 9, 2008 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Mac OS X Leopard only: If you keep lots of apps and folders in Finder's sidebar, organize your Places with ...

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 ...

Here is a useful tip for new Mac OS X Lion users that will show you how to configure what is visible in your Finder windows sidebar. I think this particular tip is most useful for people who are new ...

Sometimes the special burn folder the Finder creates to manage optical discs will not disappear when the disc is burned or ejected, resulting in an accumulation of them in the sidebar over time.

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 ...

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 ...

Ever since OS X Lion came out (July 20, 2011) theres a couple of things that drive me nuts about its new Finder sidebar. 1. For starters, Apple changed from color icons to the lifeless gray ones ...

Waaaay back in Tip #9, I said we’d take a closer look at the Finder sidebar. Let’s do that right now. Today we’re looking at the sidebar to the left. It’s the place for shortcuts to locations. Here, ...

Adam C. Engst at TidBITS: With Mac OS X 10.6.7, Apple not only messed up (and then fixed) font handling (see “OpenType PostScript Fonts Troublesome in 10.6.7,” 27 March 2011, and “Apple Releases Snow ...