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 ...

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 ...

We continue coverage of an issue where no open Finder windows come to the foreground when the Finder is switched to using the Command-Tab keyboard combination -- which should be default behavior.

The Finder has been with the Mac since day one, way back in 1984. But just because it’s old, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have some new tricks. Did you know, for instance, that you can add a path bar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Finder windows on OS X are a bit finicky. One time you’ll open it and it’ll be tiny, another time it’ll be huge. Over on MacWorld, they take a look at why this happens and came up with a way to set a ...

I like to have a few finder windows open, that have lists of files that I am working on. Through Snow Leopard, it was easy to make a list mode window kind of narrow, so you can see just the filenames.

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 ...