Finder is used to navigate your Mac’s drives, iCloud, and other storage locations. Customizing the app to show exactly what you need can make you far more productive. As is the case with many aspects ...

Mac OS X Leopard only: If you keep lots of apps and folders in Finder's sidebar, organize your Places with Finder Sidebar Separators. Finder's sidebar doesn't support actual separators, but the Mac ...

If clicking Finder sidebar items doesn't properly show their contents, then you may need to clear some settings files. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to ...

The default Windows Explorer sidebars—generally either the System Tasks and Other Places view or the file system tree—are handy ways to navigate your filesystem, but if you're an ex-Mac user or you ...

The macOS Finder lets you customize window sidebars to provide quick access to files and volumes on your Mac. Here's how to personalize it to your needs. In macOS Finder windows, there's a wide range ...

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

Sometimes the special burn folder the Finder creates to manage optical discs will not disappear when the disc is burned or ejected, resulting in an accumulation of them in the sidebar over time.

Here is a useful tip for new Mac OS X Lion users that will show you how to configure what is visible in your Finder windows sidebar. I think this particular tip is most useful for people who are new ...

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 ...

Waaaay back in Tip #9, I said we’d take a closer look at the Finder sidebar. Let’s do that right now. Today we’re looking at the sidebar to the left. It’s the place for shortcuts to locations. Here, ...

Ever since OS X Lion came out (July 20, 2011) theres a couple of things that drive me nuts about its new Finder sidebar. 1. For starters, Apple changed from color icons to the lifeless gray ones ...