People may look for Finder settings and options in the System Preferences, assuming it is an integral part of the system. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

Deleting Finder Preferences A new Apple TIL article (#24813) documents a well-known troubleshooting tip: deleting the Finder Preferences file may resolve Type 10, 11, 2, or 3 errors that occur in the ...

In a recent Mac OS X Hints blog, I explained how you can use Terminal to control a number of features that Apple removed from iTunes 8—including the ability to toggle the iTunes Store link arrows on ...

The Finder in macOS is the hub through which we interact with files, folders, and volumes, and while you may have tweaked its appearance with a background image, adjusted icon sizes in windows, views, ...

One of the marquee changes in OS X 10.9 Mavericks is the addition of tabbed windows to the Finder, bringing to file organization and manipulation the flexibility we’ve become accustomed to in Web ...

The Finder is a classic Mac system component that's ever-present on your desktop, ready to help you find and organize your documents, media, folders, and other files. It's the smiling icon known as ...

We took a break last week for Thanksgiving. In this round of Ask TUAW we'll go over setting some Finder preferences, Software Updates, setting iTunes track information, deleting from iPhoto and more.

Similar in concept to group policies in Active Directory, Mac OS X Server’s managed preferences allow administrators to define virtually the entire user experience and restrict user access to many ...