Tired of truncated filenames in Finder’s column view? macOS 26 Tahoe adds a checkbox that automatically resizes columns to ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago we wrote an article on options for launching applications in OS X, which included creating a quick-launch or Windows "Run" equivalent with Automator, using Spotlight, and also using an ...

Even if you always just launch straight into apps on the Mac, you're using the Finder, but this core macOS feature is replete with useful features that get missed — or often not understood. Apple has ...

Most Mac users know familiar Finder window backgrounds, but few know you can also set Finder window backgrounds to any color you like. Here's how to do it. When you open a folder on the macOS desktop ...

Is there anyway that you can set the default Finder Window size for present folders and future created ones as well? I always find myself resizing Finder windows for new Folders that have opened in a ...

The Finder is one of the most customizable elements of macOS. However, Apple’s two interrelated settings for how folders open a Finder window don’t seem to have any effect and haven’t for years.

One of the least known and most useful shortcuts in the Mac toolbox has long been the capability to use a window’s proxy icon—the little icon next to the window’s title—as though it were any other ...

Yes I know there's a "Path" button, but I have to click on it to see where a perticular Finder window points to. I want this to be instantly visual even when multiple Finder windows are opened, ...

When using macOS Finder in List view, you'll see the sizes of individual files – but not folders. Instead, folders show a pair of dashes (--) in the Size column. macOS skips calculating folder sizes ...