Make the best use of the Finder
The Finder is the heart of your Mac.
The Mac Finder is more than a file online window, though.
It’s a road map to your Mac’s file system.
Taking a few minutes to learn how to use and customize the Finder is time well spent.
The sidebar offers shortcuts to areas of your Mac that you likely use the most.
Organize similar files by applying a Finder tag.
Once tagged, you might quickly view and work with the files that use the same tag.
This makes dragging files to a new location within nested folders a breeze.
Enable spring-loaded folders for the Finder in the Mac’s System Preferences.
It displays the current path to the file or folder shown in the Finder window.
To turn it on, open any folder, clickViewand selectShow Path Bar.
you could also choose how the toolbar looks by displaying icons, text, or icons and text.
SelectCustomize Toolbarin the FinderViewmenu to personalize your Finder.
Working in one Finder view may not seem like a bad idea.
You become adept at the ins and outs of using that view.
When that file is an image file, you will see a thumbnail of the image.
It’s convenient to see what an image looks like quickly.
In earlier versions of OS X, use theZoomoption in the FinderViewmenu to zoom in to the thumbnail image.
Remembering file names or file contents is even more difficult.
If you haven’t accessed a particular document recently, you may not remember where you stored it.
Apple provides Spotlight, a fast search system for the Mac.
Spotlight can search file names, the contents of files, and keywords associated with a file.
you’re free to even create keywords for files.
One lost feature is the Smart Searches that used to reside in the Finder sidebar.
