Comments on: OS X Finder tutorial and customizations (Part 2)

By: tr

tr — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:01:12 +0000

@Deborah,

Thanks for the tip on sorting via label. This makes giving the labels a name make sense now. Since sorting uses the label names, I named my labels 1, 2, 3…etc. So it’s very easy to get the folder order I want by selecting sort by label and assigning the numbered label to my folders. Excellent tip!

By: Scott Haneda

Scott Haneda — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:28:12 +0000

@Jamilia, the Finder menu in the menu bar only shows up when the Finder is the active application. Either click on the desktop, or click on the Finder icon in the Dock and the menu will show up.

By: Jamila

Jamila — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:07:22 +0000

I just purchased a Mac and I don’t have Finder in the menu bar, but I do have it in the dock… how do i get to the preferences?

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:46:00 +0000

“Show warnings before changing an extension is a new addition to system 10.5. If you have a file called image.jpg, and change the name to image.txt, you will get a warning. This is good. Changing a files extension can break certain files.”

Actually this exists in 10.4 as well, though there is no option (that I know of) to turn it off, as there is in 10.5. I get this warning every single time I try to change a file extension and I’m running 10.4.11.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 15:43:25 +0000

Labels: While I rarely use labels, one helpful thing is that you can sort by labels in “View Options.” I use that in my home folder where I have folders that OS X sets up and folders that I created.

I added a color label to the folders I added and selected view by label. That segregates my folders from the Apple folders in the home folder.