Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

In addition to our recent coverage of illogical filename sorting in Mac OS X 10.2.x's Finder, there is also a problem with special characters, like !@#$%^&*()-_=+? (some of these characters may not ...

In old versions of OS X, you could simply drag any icon you wanted into the toolbar to add it. You can still do that, but as Macworld points out, you’ll need to ...

In yet another addition to the OS X Finder in OS X Mavericks, you can now tag your files. This is a wonderful way to keep track of stuff, since unless you’re an obsessive folder and sub-folder maker, ...

Ever since OS X 10.7 Lion, the Finder has a new sidebar section, called All My Files. It’s a list of, predictably, all the files on your Mac and it can be customized to show them in any style you like ...

Apple’s relationship with the OS X Finder has been a funny one. Since 1984, the Finder has been how Mac users interact with their files, but it’s always been a bit too confusing for many users.

The rumor also notes that OS X 10.9, which is internally codenamed “Cabernet,” will include a new version of Safari with a focus on speed and efficiency. Like Mountain Lion before it, 10.9 will ...

Mavericks’s Finder tags feature offers a number of benefits over the older file and folder labels, but one of the drawbacks of tags is that items are no longer colored with your preferred tag (nee ...

Moving files from one place to another seems like a relatively benign thing to do, but Mac users could find their data mysteriously disappearing if they're not careful. Tom Karpik, a computer science ...

<B>consider</B> purchasing a Macintosh? <P>I'm looking for a well thought out, honest answer here. Personally, I'm torn because I like the software options I've got on the PC platform, but with the ...

Expectation that Apple is set to announce Siri for the Mac at WWDC 2016 has intensified over the weekend, thanks to an apparently unprompted reference to OS X leaked by none other than the personal ...

Just happened. I might have flicked my wrist in a way that Finder finds objectionable, because subsequently it won't let me add Color tag to a specific file, IF the file is named as I want it to be.