Tag Archives: Finder

When you connect an external storage drive to a Mac, it mounts automatically. You then have to double-click it to open it in Finder. It’s nothing too difficult but if you want to automatically open Finder on disk mount, you can create a folder action with Automator. It will open …

Catalina has officially been released and that means iTunes is no more. If you own an iPhone, or had one in the past, you know that it’s hard to use it without iTunes. With Catalina, iTunes’ functionality has been broken up and split across different apps. Syncing the iPhone on …

Items in folders in Finder can be sorted and grouped in all sorts of ways. You have the usual date sorting options, the type sort, the size sorting option, sorting by tags, and much more. You may notice though that when you set the default folder group in Finder for …

Regardless of what OS you use, you will inevitably have to search entire folders for other folders or files. Every file manager, regardless of how basic or advanced it is, supports a search feature however macOS’ Finder can save folder searches and proactively update them to include new files that …

Files in the Downloads folder tend to build up over time. The same can be said for various other locations e.g., where you save screenshots to. If you can’t be bothered manually cleaning old files, you can use Automator to find and delete files older than X days on macOS. …