How To Fix These 10 Mac Finder Annoyances
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- Опубліковано 7 лип 2024
- macmost.com/e-2483 There are many small ways to customize the Mac Finder that may get rid of small annoyances for some users. Check out these settings and techniques.
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Unbelievable Gary. I first bought a Mac for playing around while still using Windows. Then it became my main system. I started to use it to organize myself by getting the chaos out of my head. But now I had the chaos on my Mac. Now Gary comes into play to help me a lot to use the capabilities of MacOS to get this chaos sorted out. Your tipps were by far the most helpful. So much appreciated you to play a big role in helping me getting my life organized. Thanks a lot. I think I owe you some coffees.
I appreciate all you do. I recently purchased a new iMac and I’ve learned to do so many new things thanks to you.
Wow - this was really great. I will be using at least 3 of these tips on a daily basis from now on! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Didn't know about the Show Inspector tip... wish I knew this sooner!
Excellent tips. Probably one of the most useful tutorials I have come across for someone like me converting from Windows (PC) to Finder (Mac). Thank you.
I think my two biggest annoyances are 1) Finder doesn't stay in Icon view for all folders/sub-folders (this is likely because I chose list view for a moment but I wish it would reset or inherit icon view from the parent for next time. 2) By default Finder allows folders and files to be anywhere in the window. To me that just looks messy and unorganized. I constantly have to do Cleanup By > Kind.
Can't believe such useful features are just under our noses! Thanks for sharing. Sometimes we neglect to check out the obvious.
I still cant believe some useful features are only possible via Terminal... like disabling mouse acceleration.
Fantastic episode, Gary! Thank you so much!
Finder has a feature called Stacks for organizing a messy desktop. I would recommend this over the approach shown in this video.
Another that I like: double clicking a column divider in Finder (List View) will auto-resize it based upon the length of the content shown.
THIS!
Geat tip, thanks. I can’t get it to stay like this. It keeps going back when I go back to The same folder again.
Thank you, this was very useful. I recently moved to MacOS from Linux Cinnamon desktop, and Finder is the only thing that really gives me problems getting used to it. I find it clunky, bloated, and inefficient, but your video hopefully will help me getting over this.
Excellent Gary! Everything Finder in a nutshell. When I once transitioned from Win to Mac I was completely annoyed by the Finder. Nowadays it‘s the contrary.
I'm loving your videos Garry.Huge thanks.
Yes very useful video tutorial today! Thank you, Gary! 👍🏻❤️👏
Thank you for the inspector tip👍
excellent list, solved many annoyances for me, thank you!!
Great videos I’m a new Mac user and your informative movies make it easy to convert. Cheers from Sweden
Loved the bonus. Many thanks!
Good collection of tips - I knew them but def the key adjustments!
Just discovered and subscribed to your channel, amazing, thank you for all the tips!
great value, thx4sharing Gary
Who knew! Such useful info. Thanks so much.
More great stuff. Thanks.
Great content as always 🔥
Great video, Gary !
I learned so much from watching this today, thank you.
Gary I am amazed at your knowledge! If I retain 1% I would consider myself doing good!
Thank Man!! Your video has been such an eye-opener!! (true that MacOS, even in 2023 is far from being "intuitive".
Thank You very much, Gary!
Appreciate you efforts. Thank you. I am a Patreon member now.
Another Excellent Video! Thx!
Thank you, well explained!
Great tips. Thanks
OMG - you saved me!! Hide Preview!! It's exactly what you said, lol. I have no idea how I turned it on, and I had no idea how to turn it off. After like a YEAR, I finally went on the hunt to get rid of it - and this video solved it. Thank you!! lol #smallmercies
I could not agree more with you about getting rid of files on the desktop. I have not had files there in 10 years. I had fixed all the other settings as well, with the exception of one: did not know of the Inspector instead of regular "Get info". Thanks a lot
Veeeery helpful, thx!
Maaaannnn... this video helped a bunch! THANKS!!!
Great video 👍
Thx from Munich 😉
Amazing stuff thanks. Never knew Tim Roth was so Mac Savvy as well :)
Very helpful.
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Great! Thank Sir
Thank you. The other day I purchased an Apple watch for my wife for her 72 birthday. I would have not have wanted to do such without the help you have given on Apple issues. So what might seem a small video, touches more...
Oh that inspector tip! I was searching for that for forever. I remember I tried highlighting all 200 files I wanted it to combine the size info of, clicked get info and bam it opened 200 info windows. I was like no fkn way you do that to me 😃. Now I know how to do that. Thanks!
Thanks!
Very useful indeed
Thank you
thank you
Gary,
omd, my Finder was stuck on the download folder, which drove me nuts. Thank you for correcting that for me!
Real genius!
For hiding desktop icons, I was expecting a right-click menu option like on Windows. Was not expecting a terminal command. I suppose if someone had to do this often, an Automator script could be made.
Lifesaver!!!
Maaaan you know a lot of stuff !
Your damn clever. ❤️
Any idea how to index streamed storage services such as Google Drive and Egnyte?? So grateful for the streaming so files don't take up space but I terribly miss command spacebar search to find the files!
I really love this video. What brought me to it is a general frustration that I have with find... basically that it isn't Windows Explorer. I want a navigation pane. The alternatives out there all seem to push the same dual-pane feature which I find zero value in. I basically want a List view that isn't a heirarchy... when I click on a folder, it goes into the folder, but still list view, and then the navgation pane (not the breadcrumbs) follows me around. Do you have any suggestions there?
Sorry, I don't know what you are looking for based on that description. Try both Column and List views and learn to use them. Perhaps one of them is what you are looking for if you set it up right.
Hi! do you know if there is a fix for finder showing a white background on png images which should have transparent backgrounds, Thanks!
This post is quite helpful! There's one particular issue that really bothers me. Whenever I click on "get info" or any other option that triggers a pop-up box, it consistently appears in the least desirable location. It would be fantastic if the developers could find a solution to position these elements in a more logical and convenient manner.
Hi. I have a doubt with Finder. A little mystery. Maybe someone can help. I got my first MacBook, M1 MacBook Air. I was testing stuff and really liked how in Finder I could change the size of the thumbnails with the Trackpad using 2 fingers, but then I was setting up stuff and updated from Big Sur to Monterey. Later I realized I couldn’t change the size of thumbnails in Finder anymore by pinching… was it the update to Monterrey or something I turned off/on? Do you know?
The bonus tip seems a bit cumbersome to do. If I absolutely had to, I would either use stacks or go into the finder desktop window and copy amd paste those into a temporary folder located somewhere else other than the desktop. Five second fix
Gary have you found any way to put the mac os widgets on the home screen of a macbook pro?
Not sure what you mean by "home screen." That's something in iOS. Notification Center widgets are just for the Notification Center though.
Thank you - the tips are very useful! 👌. The most annoying for me is Finder’s ‘back’ button (arrow). I can’t figure out what it does, but I wish it would go up one level in the current file/folder hierarchy. Or that have an ‘up’ button, since navigating is such an essential function to working with files.
Use Command+Up to go up, or Go, Enclosing Folder. Back works just like in a web browser. It goes back to the previous location shown in that window or tab. Try using the sidebar to jump to several locations: Documents, Desktop, Applications, etc. Then Back, Back, Back to go back through them.
@@macmost Oh, thank you - I appreciate the reply! Great tips & my problem solved 😊
@@vwood2 I have "Path bar" and "Status bar" (Menu -> View) always turned on. It adds two bars at the bottom of each finder window showing (you guessed it!) the statistics and the path of the folder you are currently in. You may double-click at any parent folder in the bar to go directly up there.
@@hape3862 - Thanks tor the great tips! 😊
In the finder window, I used to have drop down arrows to the left of folders for quick access. Something changed all of them to not be visible now - how do I get these back? TIA
I have this small problem in Finder column view... when files are added, for example a download finishes or if drag and drop into a folder with other items, the alignment of the file icons gets offset a little. The spacing between file icons becomes inconsistent. I usually have to click out to another location and back in, and that resets the alignment correctly. I’m still on MacOS Catalina 10.15.7 but I’ve noticed this issue a few versions back. Does anyone else experience this? Or know how to fix it?
One Finder annoyance I've been seeing is the window size reverts to a tiny window. I will resize it, then bounce the Finder application, then it'll stay the size I want - until the next time and I have to do it all over again. It's a weird bug. (feature)
Hey Gary, this may not be the place to pose a question that not related to the video that presented, but I couldn't figure out how to email you or send a question via your UA-cam page. I have a Studio Mac and a MacBook Pro (MBP). I would like my MBP desktop to always look like the desktop on my Studio, in essence have the two desktops synched. When I change something on the Studio desktop, I want the same change to occur with the MBP desktop. Files are in the cloud and they already synch between the two. I just need to figure out how to synch the two desktops.
UA-cam doesn't have a place where you can do that. But I do: macmost.com/ask
You said that you are using iCloud Drive. If you have the Desktop & Document feature of iCloud Drive turned on for both then both Desktops will show the same files.
Great video. I mainly use column view in Finder. However, I find the default column width too narrow but when I customise column width it is not retained when I open Finder next time. I’m constantly changing the width so I can read file names correctly. Is there a way retain my custom column widths?
See ua-cam.com/video/nKXCjD4HdpY/v-deo.html
It is nice to be able to resize columns in the Finder, List mode, window but, something that has been an annoyance for years is that the Finder doesn't remember these changes. When the Finder window is reopened it reverts back to the original settings. Is there a way to fix this? I have not been able to find a way.
This is great work! thank you. Can you tell me? When I save, I get a list of folders, then I have to click "other" at the bottom, to access the normal finder save window. I'd like to skip the first bit. Just like in the good old days! The list of folders is rarely helpful.... thank you!
Look for the button to the right of the Where menu in the Save dialog. It looks like a down arrow. Click that and it expands the dialog to look like you want.
Thanks for a great video Gary. My particular Finder annoyance is being unable to set the Finder size on first opening it. Any thoughts?
It will remember the size, but it is folder-specific. So if you set the size while viewing one folder, close the window and then open a new window that is say, Documents, then you get the size for the Documents folder. Note that you don't need to close Finder windows. I never do. I usually have one Finder window always open with several tabs. I never worry about the size because I never close it. I hide it if necessary, but never close it.
@@macmost Thanks for your thoughts.
Hallelujah!! I couldn't add information columns to my finder panels. It was driving me nuts (5:26-6:32).
after doing some of the features, my files are difficult to find. now find that i have multiple "Desktop" folders as well as can't find folders/files that i went to often.
Excellent video! Thank you. But how do i stop Finder from showing me recents when I open it? :D I disabled recents in finder preferences, but when i open finder, it still shows me a list of recent files. I would love to disable that, but can't find how! FYI, you gave my advise previously abbout battery, i followed it, and system learned and is working as intended. No more third party tools for me.
Finder, Preferences, General "New Finder Windows Show."
if you create a video on how to turn of finder "disk not ejected properly" notification, you would save so many people lives.
My annoyance of Mac Finder is that it doesn't remember my preferred view. I know that we can set "default" view, but I would like to have different mode for certain folder (i.e. I'd like to use icon mode for photos and list mode for the document ... etc). Does someone know how to set it up? Thank you!
ONE CUESTIÓN THERE IS ANY WAY TO CHANGE THE COLOR OF THE "TAG MENU "FOR A SPECIFIC COLOR LIKE A DIFFERENT BLUE, MORE DARK OR LIGHT BLUE OR ANY COLOR I WANT?
No. But don't focus so much on the colors as the names of the tags. Colors are just a bonus.
What I would like to be able to do is to have Finder, in Column view, adjust column width to fit the width of the widest displayed element. I'd appreciate a tip on that.
As for the thing about hiding messy files on the Desktop, a simpler option I rely on regularly is to use multiple desktops and switch among them with Mission Control. I don't bother to keep Mission Control visible in my Dock, as it is so accessible (on my iMac) as F3. Multiple desktops is handy for other reasons. For instance, I keep a hobby on one desktop, a collection of some work things on another, etc. Actually, in each case I have two screens (using an extra monitor) and they switch together.
Double-click on the line to the right of that column and it does just that.
7:28 Inspector !!! 🥰🤯😎🙏
Great presentation! I think I have had all of these annoyances at one time or another! LOL. My current one is: In Finder if I hit the spacebar, the "preview" is small and looks like a thumbnail. ( Same way with Comand Y) I have my preferences in Finder and Preview the same as my MacBook Pro... Any one have any ideas? Many THanks!
A restart should fix that.
How do I get that little circle you use on your keyboard, I can’t seem to find the correct session about. I did watch several times the keyboard class but could find anything about. I have vision problems, that circle seems helpful.
I don't know what you mean by "little circle you use on your keyboard." Where in the video (what time) do I show it?
Great tips, Gary! I'm having an issue with files and folders being cut off when in icon view mode. Stuff hides behind the preview pane, and I spend a lot of time thinking I've deleted files, before realizing they're probably still there, but I can't see them. Is there any way to fix it so that when the window is resized, the icons rearrange themselves automatically? Thanks for all you do!
Choose View, Sort By, and an option.
@@macmost Ah I had found that went away if I sorted by name, but I was hoping there'd be an overall way to do that, where I could set it as a preference and not have to do it folder by folder. Thanks!
@@Artystrique See ua-cam.com/video/nKXCjD4HdpY/v-deo.html
@@macmost Thanks so much, I'll have a look. :)
Great video. I use column view all the time. Is there a way to have the column's width automatically be based on the longest file name in the folder?
No. My guess is that in practice that would be a nightmare, with columns always shifting around in size as you moved from folder to folder.
No wait…if you double-click on a column heading border (changes to doubleheaded arrow) it does just that: it resizes the column to the widest number of characters in that column. May be just a temp solution but works for me in the moment! Desktop-specific; no iOS equivalent as far as I know. Let me know if that’s what you are asking…
@@howardlevinger4571 Option drag will permanently place the divider where you want it even if you close or reopen the finder window. Also, right click on the divider for some other options.
One thing strange happening since the update of macOS Monterey 12.4, the saved favorites keep disappearing upon rebooting of Mac that is unexpected.
Thanks for the video. My biggest finger annoyance is that I cannot create a new sub folder in a highlighted folder in the list. I have to actually open the highlighted folder for that new sub folder to be created there. Dumb!
I like using Column view as I find it best for navigating around the Finder. However, it annoys me that the column widths are NEVER automatically resized to fit the length of the file names. I wish there was a setting to allow it to automatically ‘fit’ the column widths to the longest name in that column when opening a window. I realize that occasionally a very long file name with a small window size may mean that you can only have a single column visible, but this would not happen often IMO. Is there a way around this annoyance?
No way to do that. My hypothesis is that if you could do this, you'd try it and stop pretty quickly. Having columns jump around in size all the time would be way worse than you can imagine.
Option drag will permanently place the divider where you want it even if you close or reopen the finder window. Also, right click on the divider for some other options.
@@macmost Option drag will permanently place the divider where you want it even if you close or reopen the finder window. Also, right click on the divider for some other options.
@@mehmd1913 thanks for the tip. Will give it a try and explore what other options are available with the right-click when I get back to the computer.
@@apeel2008 you’re welcome. It seems to stay put once done.
Why doesn’t apple produce a book with all this info in when you buy a computer, would be so useful. But I guess nowadays everything you have to search for. Thanks Gary, excellent work
Thank you for the information. But can you tel me how i can remove some of the content in the Recent folder. In my Recent folder i see 1219 items, but the most of them from long time ago. Can i clear these items out of this folder whiteout really delete them?
I see in this folder items from 4 Years ago, i doint need them in the recent folder but i like to keep them on the original place on my MacBook.
Thank you.
There is really no "Recents Folder." What you are seeing is a list of your recent files, from other folders. See ua-cam.com/video/9bY9cDSRZxc/v-deo.html to understand.
@@macmost
Thank you for your answer and the helpful link. Ok, now i understand.
For al safety i think i should not manipulate this folder to much and to often. I now how to find him behind the Go button, so i am gonna delete it in the sidebar. I think i don't need this folder much, in case of needing it there still is the Go button.
Many hanks and greetings
Nice!! Do you happen to know how to get the gray and white bars in Finder's list view to disappear? (To make the background plain white and clean, as it is in column view? I have searched for ways and have not found anything that works so far. I watched your video in the hopes you would have this solution but didn't see it.
No. But those help you see the rows more clearly.
@@macmost That's true! That is a very valid point and I will seek to appreciate it more. Thanks for your speedy response! +1!
How to set up the default view as List for all folders on the finder?
Use as Default option only defaults for that particular folder and not for all other folders on mac.
I've got a video on that coming up (explaining why this is so and how to work around it).
Thanks for making this video.
Is there a way to turn off the Finder lines in the background?
The grey and white lines are distracting and I'd rather have a solid colour instead.
No, that's just how it looks.
My complaint still exists and it used to not exist in older Mac OS's. When the size of the folders in the list The Column view are shrunk, the Name width is compromised instead of the other columns. This wasn't the case in older OS's like Lion (the Name column's width wouldn't shrink even when you shrunk the folder down to a very small size). I wish they would make this optional to go back to the old behavior without adding something like XtraFinder to my OS
The only problem I have with the get info /show inspector is that it always by default throws the get info window to the far left of my screen when I would love to have it appear on the right side instead. I haven't found a way to make that happen or at least when I do a get info on an item that the window pops up where I last had it.
Phooey! Some people are annoyed by the weather whatever it is, or by the sun coming up every morning.
My sister won't open up her Mac unless she really has to. It's more than these few things that bother her. She's just fiercely uninterested and has other things she's much more interested in.
Great video, thank you..let me ask something: I’ve set file extensions to off (to be hidden), as I do NOT want to see them. However, despite having set extensions to off, each time I create a file, the extension is still displayed in finder (wheareas i don’t want to!). This means every now and then I have to select those new files, right click for “more info” and manually tick to hide extensions. How do you keep extensions hidden permanently hidden? In Windows, if you select to hide extensions, they are always hidden for all files (existing ones and new ones too, so no need for manually turning extensions off as I have to do on my Mac). Thank you.
If you create a file with the extension, it will assume you want to see the extension. So if you name a file "test.txt" then you'll get "test.txt" with the hide extensions turned off. So just name it "test" instead of "test.txt."
@@macmost Aha, wasn’t aware of this, will try it….I’ve lost so much time with manually selecting and unclicking the “hide ext” tick box… have gone to the Apple store and no one knew….THANK YOU Gary! Subscribed!
i wish i knew the get info vs inspector, i want them to follow me as well, i get info then i do another get info before you know it screen is full and you are xing out to make room for another, thank you for this tip
for me my most common action in get info is changing the generic icon to something of relevance
Can Finder show files in alphabetical order with folders at top for all folders without setting view for every folder? This should be a very basic option for a folder viewer which Zein/Linux do fine.
Turn on Finder, Settings, Advanced, Keep Folders On Top ... In Windows.
Thanks again! Question: as a Shortcuts rookie, I am wondering... is there a way to make a shortcut that will run the "Kill Desktop" terminal steps to hide desktop items? And, also to reverse it? And to get even fancier... could I create a voice command for my Mac that would run the whole process? "Hide Desktop Items"
Do you mean the Shortcuts app? Yes, sure. You can use the Run Shell Script action to run the Terminal commands if you like. But I would caution that this is a Terminal command not meant to be run over and over all day. It may have issues. If you really need to have your Desktop clean that often, I would just keep it clean. Don't put anything in the Desktop folder. Use your Documents folder for all of your files.
@@macmost Thanks. I get it. I was hoping there could be simple way to "clear the deck" for screen sharing during Zoom sessions...even tho I rarely share the entire screen. Tho part of why I rarely share my screen is because it is often cluttered. I suppose a better solution to this Zoom dilemma is to set up a separate Mac User for me when I do Zoom sessions. I assume you do something similar with all your tutorial materials and settings shareable from that user account with a clean desktop.
@@victrolux Yes, I use a second Mac user account for many reasons while recording a tutorial. But if I was just doing zoom meetings, I wouldn't want to switch user accounts and have to deal with setting up zoom and other things in two accounts all the time. I would simply only share a single window, or keep my Desktop clean (which I do anyway).
I need help, my finder dosent show the side bar on the left i don't know what i done. Please help.
Thanks for the video. But the main annoyance is not addressed. Finder periodically "forgets" default view settings (eg. group by kind, name, etc.). And there is no way to make it to "remember" them for some reason.
Hi Gary. My pet annoyance with finders is the way the column widths don't remain as selected after I change folders! I'm probably missing something simple, but can't find it!!
Option+drag the line between columns to set the default.
@@macmost Thanks Gary!! That's almost exactly what I needed. However that command sets the same default for all columns. Is there a way to set a default for just one of the columns?
@@GozoAya A default would apply to all columns, yes. There is no way to set it for a specific folder any time that folder happened to appear in a Finder window.
@@macmost Gary - thank you SO much for taking the time to check that and respond!