21 Actually Useful Finder Tips And Tricks
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- macmost.com/e-2035 Learn some useful everyday tips, tricks and techniques to make it easier to manage your files and folders in the macOS Catalina Finder. See how you can use things like Undo, Copy and Paste, the Path Bar, keyboard shortcuts and more to navigate around in the Finder and work with your files.
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These videos about how Macs work have been sooooo helpful. Thank you. I'm a veteran user of Macs and I've learned at least four things each video. I appreciate this information.
I thought I knew my way around the Finder pretty well before I watched this video. I didn’t know even half of these tips! Thanks for posting and all you do for the Mac community.
After 30 years of being a PC user, I finally bought myself a Mac Pro this year. However I missed knowing all the PC keyboard shortcuts and processes off by heart.... and Finder, well it was a real headache for me. So happy I am slowly getting to know Mac shortcuts and can’t wait to try out your awesome Finder tips. Thanks so much Gary, I’m learning so much from you ! 💃😁
after 10 years of Mac use, I finally learned option + command + v can actually move the files and erase it after transfer. Thanks
As a recent Mac convert from the PC world, these short and easy to follow tip videos are invaluable! Keep up the great work!
I 100% agree. I've been trying to convert from PC for years and honestly never sat down to try to learn more about the Finder. I absolutely can't stand the finder every time I use it, which his literally all day long when I am on a Mac. These shortcuts help me out tremendously.
I came to say the same thing. The Finder vs Explorer is by far the most challenging to learn. As someone how has 3 external drives of media and uses PLEX I was getting so frustrated navigating and organizing (after moving folders/files from one external to another to format drives).
I'm a software developer who have run Mac my whole life, and did not expect to learn anything from this video, but I actually learn some new things! I was happily surprised :)
Thank you soooo much! Funny how you uploaded this video on my birthday 3 years ago and how I would never imagine I would be a Mac user.
I just bought my first MacBook Air and this helps me a lot.
Great video Gary, thanks! Really like the pace at which you move through all of your tips. Fast and right to the point. Very efficient use of time! Thank you!
Thank you so much Gary - BRILLIANT! I will never stop learning such valuable Mac information from you; a supporter for years 😃
Tank you for sharing this tips! Some of them was new for me!
Hi Gary. I'm long overdue thanking you for this and your other videos. I moved from PC to a 2021 27" iMac earlier this year after decades as a Windows user. I'm a file folder kid of guy and couldn't figure out how to move a file without creating a copy of it, until I watched this. One would think that there would be better mention of the option key to move files in the Apple user guide. Now I can work with documents and files and make them do what I want. This is a real game changer for me and has really made my Mac experience enjoyable. Thank you again for all of your tutorials. This is an old video but remains relevant and valuable today.
Gary, Thank you for efficient info, given quickly and concisely. As a graphics professional, I don't have time to watch people pontificate while I miss deadlines. This is great info, and quickly delivered.
Holy smoke, I’m exhausted. Great tips!
Hello Gary, so glad I found your ‘little’ channel..
Little by numbers but highly valuable by its content!
You deserve 100 x the numbers of viewers. When others only spend their energy on producing 3 videos a week on the never ending rumours or same subjects as Final Cut Pro, Geeks Speed Tests, your channel is giving us training and valuable info.
Keep up the good work Gary!
Thanks from a Frenchman (trying his 1st ever Mac when everybody seems to switch away from Mac)
Great information! I have had a MacBook for years but learned so many new ways to work. You have an excellent way of presenting. Thank you
Absolutely fantastic video. Easy to follow and clear to understand. Thank you!
Thanks mate, just made the switch from PC to Mac and your tutorials, and this is one particular, are very helpful!
My Mac experience goes back to 1984...but Gary teaches me stuff that I had no idea about...this is great stuff !!
I loved your tag videos as well. Thank you so much. It helps me so much and very cool!
I learned to sort my folders on top of files in documents like I was used to having them on Windows. Thanks!!
WOW! I've watched so many videos being a Windows>Mac convert. Your video was by far the most helpful in learning how to navigate Finder and tweak. Subscribing to your channel for more useful Mac tut's. Finder is by far the most challenging difference. Learning about the Option key was by far the most useful tip for me, especially the "move" command. Thanks so much.
Very good tutorial about the Finder! A must watch for every new Mac user or use it receptively!
Super tips. Thx my friend ✌🏾
Love this video, very clear and very helpful! I've recently discovered you can select items and just drag them into the tags (for example the green tag), and those items will automatically be tagged accordingly :)
Excellent show as always! Love your channel. As a decades-long Mac user, I still didn't know about half of these! And a BIG thanks for the lack of uuh's and umm's LOL
This was really useful! Thank you.
I consider myself very finder proficient and I still learned a lot from this. Thank you!
My brain just blew up a little. This is incredible information (that will take me repeated viewings to digest!). Thanks for sharing this info with us! Subbed.
Great finder tips. Thank you.
Good succinct advice and lots of it. Thanks Gary
Very useful tips. Thanks so much.
Thanks man, these are awesome!!
Thanks a million! this was very helpful!!
Very useful Finder tips, thanks!
Very useful. Thank you.
You're my hero Gary !
Very useful, thank you!
As always... great info, Thanks
Useful tips... Thank you so much.
I haven't watched the entire video yet and already I can say this is the mother lode of amazing useful, practical Finder tips 👍👍👍
Excellent as usual my friend,!!!
Really excellent Gary.
Putting BBEdit in the toolbar--that got me to sign up on Patreon. Thanks!
Great content and presentation. The best.
Top shelf, Gary.
well done 10/10 you're a hero
Dude I love you man... I learned SO MUCH in this short vid! [Subscribing]
Heaps of useful info here. I thought I knew most of the finder shortcuts...nah! Subscribed!!
Great tips!
Great Tips. I have found it really hard to go from Windows to Finder. Windows I have found easier to use but i am slowly getting there with my Mac. I don't need some of the advanced features here but this video helps
Thank you so much .
Another awesome video, so much to learn. One bugbear that I am unable to solve is how to get finder windows to consistently open in a preferred size. I have tried various methods but the window opens in different sizes after some time
thank you , very helpfhul
thank you very much sir
subscribed. thank you
thanks lots of good stuff😀
Superb and awesome dude.
excellent. thanks
amazing help !!!!!!
Thanks for the great video. My last Mac gave up the ghost approx. 3 yea5s ago. Instead of getting a new one, I got a 3rd Gen iPad Pro 12.9 1Tb on release. It was basically an overgrown phone until iPadOS was released. I’ve just bought a Mac mini and this video has been excellent to remind me of what I’ve been missing. My work Windows PC is a joke. It’s so clunky and you can’t do half the things you can on a Mac.
Great clips Gary. You help me remember some commands I had forgotten about and learned some new ones too. Thanks for the video.
Notice that the View Options lets you change the background color of a folder icon view, or set a background picture. Makes that Finder window stand out, and very attractive too.
oh u r my life saver .love ya
Is there an option / work-around to close all folders in a list view? Depending on how nestled the folders are it can take quite a while. thank you for your great videos! I discover so many new things!
Is very effective for beginner for mac user.
Wow! Good Stuff...
thank youuu
Great video I'm new to MacOS and wonder if you can copy the tags from one file to another file
Gary....Just found this UA-cam site and it is hands down the best site for help with the Mac. I have a question. Could you tell us if there is a way to remove an icon from the Microsoft Excel app. Specifically the Print command. I have on countless instances pressed the Print key instead of the Save key and it prints the document in its entirety when I only wanted a single page.. I would like to remove the Print icon to eliminate this from happening.
My finder tip is to enabled file extensions. Finder > preferences > advanced > show all file extensions
Thanks for the good info! Question: I have a late 2015 IMac, with El Capitan. I'm finding some things won't work with such an old system. I never upgraded to Catalina, High Sierra, etc..........so, on Apple Store, there are no upgrades to be seen, and when I search for them, it says they aren't found. Please advise how I can update from El Capitan to which newer one you think best............I have plenty of RAM, have checked the Apple Icon, About, and I'm compatible, but just can't find where I can switch over/update on Apple Store. I don't trust some outside Mac site to download a whole operating system. Please Help. Thank you.
Just discovered your channel. It's a keeper and I've subscribed. Thanks so much. Just received my iMac M1. Loving it. I was wondering when you select "Show Preview", in the Pictures folder, is there a way to set the zoom size of the preview? Thank you.
Images will automatically size so the width will fit in that space.
Yikes. This is 5 videos in one. Fabulous video thanks. Seriously this is exhausting and could have been at least 2 or 3 videos. Get info to Show Inspector is such a great tip.
Nice.
Love your videos. You are definitely under-subscribed.
When possible, you should do a video on getting rid of unnecessary files and better organizing files/photos/etc. All my Macs have no space and I pay for iCloud lol
Thanks! I did something like that earlier this year: ua-cam.com/video/peL79Cck3g4/v-deo.html
Thank you for this video, I learnt a few tips that will be useful. However, one thing that continues to annoy/irritate me in OS X is that the search/spotlight (magnifying glass) window cannot be expanded horizontally. Sometime when you search for a file or document somewhere on your computer and then when you find it, sometimes the full path (when you select option key) is truncated because the window is too narrow. This has been like this in OSX for ages and with each new upgrade i.e Catalina, I hope this has been fixed, but alas no, it is still limited to expanding the window size only vertically, but not horizontally. If you know a way of fixing this, please post a video on this trick. For the life of me, I do not understand why Apple continue to limit the resizing of this window, every other window seems to be able to be resized in both directions, except this spotlight window.
Hi is there a keyboard shortcut for "Show all windows" on every app in Mac? to show all windows under Macfinder for instance. Thank you
This is a wonderful channel! I recently found it and have been watching back to back. I do have a question though, perhaps you could provide the answer? When one is using an application and do "Save As", the system takes you to the last location where files were saved, but for me, this is mostly incorrect. I would like for it to take me to where the file I am editing was opened. Can that be configured somewhere? Many thanks!
No, but you can always do other things to get there quickly. See ua-cam.com/video/0ZooSkWBArk/v-deo.html
Amazing! #PRICELESS Schooling sir! 🙌🏻⚡️ 💻 💪🏻💥👏🏻
Great video as always..thanks! One thing I'm challenged by: In the folder Show View Options menu, there's a button to use my settings as Default. I'm assuming (maybe wrongly) that means ALL folders will use my chosen settings (icon, font sizes, etc.) but that doesn't happen. What am I missing? Thanks again...
It changes the defaults, but if you have set some property of a folder previously, then it will remember it. So if you have folders A, B, C, D and you set A to something and B to something, and then C to something and click the Use as Defaults button on C, then you'll see the same when you go to D. But A and B will remember how you set them up.
Hi Gary, Thanks for your vids. Billiant. I downloaded Catalina. Music, everything is ok my my movies collection apparently are in the TV app. I put TV app in Finder but it doesn't show. Can you please tell me where is it? Thanks so much
What do you mean by "I put TV app in Finder" -- it is an app and should be in the Applications folder. You can launch it there, or in LaunchPad or you should have it in the Dock by default too. Or use Spotlight to launch it.
A way to move files/folders from one folder to another:
Create Finder Folder Tabs for the “from folder” and the “to folder”
Click on the file/folder you want to move in the “from folder” tab
Drag it up to the “to folder” finder tab.
The “to folder” tab window will open up (come into focus)
Drop the file/folder into the “to folder” tab window area.
Some new, and some reminders of things forgotten... thanks! Question, when using Spotlight Search, the searched item appears in the image viewer on the right, which can be double clicked and opened. But, is there a way to show the path to that file without having to scroll to the bottom of the searched files and Open in Finder?
Hold down the Command key and the path should appear at the bottom, under the preview.
That works! Thank you!
Wow!! thank you SO much... I hardly dare say that I've been looking for an option not to copy a file but to MOVE a file for 8 years... not knowing the option key trick!!! 🤪!!! I know it sounds like an idiot:-)
Thank you again for these tips! I still have one thing that bugs me - can you think of a way for this, please?:
Each time I open a finder folder (I have it set to always open in column view) I have to click on a diver and choose " *Right Size All Columns Individually* ". Is there some setting to use that would make this permanent/the default?
Nothing that will force the columns to resize every time. Maybe just make them all big enough so you don't need to do it? Or. instead of using the context menu, hold Option and double-click on a divider to resize all the columns.
@@macmost Thank you for taking the time to reply! Much appreciated. Yeah, I figured that may be the case - so will keep using Opt+DblCLick as you reminded.
Great videos.
I have a question. In list view within a folder, I have several folders that are open and I can see their content. I'd like to close all open folders with a single action (instead of selecting each folder, close it, move to the next folder, close it, etc...) . I'd like to see all of the folders in a closed view. Thanks.
Command+a to select all, Command+left arrow to close all folders.
@@macmost Fantastic! From that I figured out a) Command+Right arrow to Open all folders, b) Command+Up arrow to go up a folder level and c) Command+Down arrow to go down (or into) a folder....Awesome, Thank you.
I am fairly new to the MacBook. On my Windows 10 I run the programming language, Haskell. To run it on the MacBook a document from Haskell tell me I need to install Xcode first. Could anyone explain to me how to do this and how Xcode works?
Thomas Kember open App Store, search for Xcode. It’s free and it’s a big download
Hi Gary, when I add emojis to several of my iMac subfolders (within the same folder), the alphabetical order of the emojified subfolders goes for a random toss. Any idea what is happening? Thanks!
I would imagine that alphabetizing folders that start with an Emoji symbol would be unreliable since they aren't letters.
macmostvideo Yes. That’s what it is then. Thanks.
Great Finder videos. Please setup more easy ways for us to show our appreciation directly. I have some funds on my Apple Cash card. Just don’t want to sign up for another service and creates another other account and Patreon.
Unless Dropbox has fixed it recently, using emojis and special characters in file or folder names may prevent dropbox from syncing those particular items.
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I have a lot of photos which I would like to sort but I get lost along the way. Can you suggest a method or a process which helps make this process of sorting photos easier
Photos as files in the Finder? Or do you mean Photos in the Photos app? And if they are files in the Finder, what type of photos? If they are your family or vacation photos (etc) then maybe consider bringing them into the Photos app so you can organize them there. That's what the app does.
Thanks for that Gary. I see it's not called TV app it's just called just TV
Every second tip I was saying... OMG, I didn't know that
I been try to find out about this column view trick, please help: in your video the column separator is a thin line which is what I want, but in my column view my separator is a much thicker gray bar which is not what I want. please help to show us this tip how to change that. thanks!
Maybe you have scroll bars set to "always?" Go to System Preferences, General, and change "Show scroll bars" to "Automatically..."
Create a tab in finder window by clicking command & T
why do i get no sound from some of your videos but sound works fine for everything else including other videos? (have audio box)
I don't know what "audio box" means. But maybe you just have the sound for the video turned off or all the way down. Adjust it at the bottom of the video.
I'm on OS Catalina ✏️ I see you can grab the Finder Column ANYWHERE along it from top to bottom. I can only grab the tiny little 'Divide' marks at the very bottom of the Columns. Between my columns there is a width for the slider when needed… perhaps this is the issue❓ For one, they should be at the top as this is where the user is 99% working with their mouse. The amount of distance you need to travel EVERY SINGLE TIME to adjust the columns using this is infuriating. NOW that I have your awesome tips the world is a better place 😃 Why though can I not grab the edge of any Column and drag/adjust❓
ALSO, it would be good to comment on COMMENTS 😉 What are they for❓ Can you Search in Comments❓ Could they be used also as Tagging❓ Love your work 😬 🎉💥 🚀
How do you move and resize Finder window so it opens to that position and size every time you open Finder even after restarting Mac? I have tried so many different ways and nothing works permanently. It always opens to s small window in the middle of the screen.
If you have to restart your Mac for some reason, make sure you choose the option to NOT close all windows. If you do, then you are not reopening old Finder windows, but opening new ones. New windows won't be in the same place as old ones, naturally. See ua-cam.com/video/nKXCjD4HdpY/v-deo.html