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 ...

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

Adding items to the Finder sidebar and Dock in OS X is one more thing that shortcuts can make a bit easier. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s easy to become so accustomed to certain Mac OS X behaviors that when they change and your old habits no longer work, you actually start to question your sanity. That’s what happened to me — and ...

I have all the appropriate permissions, because if I click on the server and drill down into any of these 3 shares, I can always read/write the contents, any time, without fail. The problem is with ...

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 ...

This is really annoying... when you mount a SMB share, Finder shows the remote computer in Sidebar, but not the mounted volume. It shows volume on the Desktop however but it doesn't show it in Sidebar ...

While there are many new features in Lion—like Mission Control and Launchpad—you’ll also find some old familiars: The Finder, Spotlight, Quick Look, the Dock, and About this Mac, for example, are all ...

Adam C. Engst at TidBITS: With Mac OS X 10.6.7, Apple not only messed up (and then fixed) font handling (see “OpenType PostScript Fonts Troublesome in 10.6.7,” 27 March 2011, and “Apple Releases Snow ...