Here’s a simple trick you can use in OS X 10.5’s Open dialog box. Say you’ve decided to open a saved file in a given application. You press Command-O (or select File -> Open if you’re menu-inclined) ...

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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 ...

Through the years, Apple has refined the OS X Finder's interface and added a few hidden tricks, and I've found newer Finder revisions to be more and more appealing than previous versions. Here are ...

There are many ways to organize files in folders within Finder, but possibly one of the handiest is to sort files by the application that will open them. AppleInsider shows how to enable this Finder ...

I use the MacOS Finder daily to manage my files and folders. It's an invaluable tool -- and one of the better file managers I use, but that doesn't mean Finder is configured ideally out of the box.

In the past few months, I've tried a lot of file managers on both Windows and macOS, and it's made me realize how ineffective and insufficient the solutions provided by Microsoft and Apple can be.

To transfer files between your iPhone and Mac, use AirDrop, iCloud Drive, or Google Drive. Finder allows you to transfer files between devices by using a USB cable or Wi-Fi connection. Sending ...