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 ...

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 ...

Finder is fundamental to the macOS experience. It’s how you get around, so it should be as efficient as possible. Here’s how to make Finder work for you by tweaking a few settings. The Finder sidebar ...

Occasionally users will mount shared file servers to download files remotely (often from online sources). These servers show up in Finder's sidebar under the "Shared" section. An occasional bug will ...

Apple changed many things on the Finder sidebar with the release of Mac OS X Lion. Probably one of the better changes was how Apple locked down the sidebar. It is now harder to accidentally remove an ...

Finally updated my production machine at work to Lion last week and now new Finder windows appear without the sidebar. I can't find any preference to show the sidebar by default, and Lion has removed ...

The Finder in Leopard is evincing a variety of drawing glitches. A fairly common complaint is that the sidebar in a Finder window will show two copies of the same disk. Here's one report: In the ...

It's the first thing you see when you switch on your Mac — but then you might not look at it again for the rest of the day. Yet if you take some time to see what the Finder can do for you just in its ...

When I publish hints here on Macworld, I usually try to walk through and explain how they work, so as to help you understand what’s going on behind the scenes. Sometimes, though, I’ll just present a ...

Tags have been popular since the dawn of “Web 2.0,” but I never quite wrapped my head around them. So when file tagging was announced as a feature of OS X 10.9 Mavericks, I wasn’t terribly excited.