The Finder is a classic Mac system component that's ever-present on your desktop, ready to help you find and organize your documents, media, folders, and other files. It's the smiling icon known as ...

You're busy. You've got tons of things going on at any given time. Your Mac's screen is constantly cluttered with a bazillion Finder windows, and you keep shuffling them around to find the one you ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Finder is fundamental to the macOS experience. It’s how you get around, so it should be as efficient as possible. Here’s how ...

Most Mac users know familiar Finder window backgrounds, but few know you can also set Finder window backgrounds to any color you like. Here's how to do it. When you open a folder on the macOS desktop ...

As we know, the Finder offers four ways to display your files. Namely icon view, list view, column view, and Cover Flow. Perhaps you prefer one over the others (let's say column view), but your ...

Some users may run into a relatively unique situation wherein the system persistently opens a series of Finder windows upon login despite no settings to do so. Apple Discussions poster wastedyuthe ...

Ever since OS X 10.7 Lion, the Finder has a new sidebar section, called All My Files. It’s a list of, predictably, all the files on your Mac and it can be customized to show them in any style you like ...

You can open Finder Preferences by clicking anywhere on the desktop and then clicking Finder on the menu bar. How to Use Finder to Search the Current Folder on Your Mac Instead of This Mac Your email ...

If I had to guess which feature of Mac OS X gets the most criticism, I’d say the Finder. Not because it’s bad, but rather because it has the potential to be so good—and we use it so much in our day-to ...

I'm a Windows user at home, but at work, I use a Mac (currently dual-booting Mavericks and Yosemite on a Late 2012 Mac Mini). I frequently deal with files that other users have created, so I have to ...