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Favorites disappears from sidebar in Finder
Running Mountain Lion 10.8.3 I find that after a recent reboot my Favorites have all disappeared from the sidebar in Finder.
Finder > Preferences > Sidebar shows a number of boxes against Favorite ...
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Can I force finder to open without loading previous files?
Finder crashed recently and I had to force quit it. Problem is that now when I open something with it, all of the files that it had open previously (including the one that caused the crash) try and ...
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How to stop cifs volumes disconnecting
At work my Mac Pro (Mountain Lion 10.8.3) connects to several network shares (on a SAN which I use my AD credentials to authenticate to). I connect using cifs by going to the "Connect to server" ...
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Why does my Mac keep opening the application that were open when it shut down?
I have set my Mac to switch off on late evening, and switch on on early morning. I didn't use any third-party utilities to do this.
When it starts up, the Mac loads all the applications that were ...
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Finder window, Save As prompt missing sidebar entries
Check out this screenshot:
Why is everything missing in the sidebar? Normally I would see Desktop, Downloads, a custom list of favorite folders, Applications, Library, etc. Suddenly this started ...
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Finder: keep sort-by per-directory
Some directories make sense to be sorted by date modified, while others make more sense to be kept sorted alphabetically.
How can I make it so that finder will apply a specified sort by selection on ...
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Is there a way to omit certain directories from where Mac OSX finds applications for its Applescript dictionaries et al?
Mac OSX maintains a list of applications for Applescript dictionaries, for the open-with list in finder etc.
This list gets collected from local directories (e.g. /Applications) but it finds as well ...
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How to share files or folders across different user accounts on Mountain Lion?
I have some files with an user account.I would like to share some of the files to another user on the same MAC. I copied the files to Public folder,but I am not able to view the files in the other ...
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Cannot Save/Edit to Mac Share Using Mountain Lion
The problem: Under Mountain Lion (10.8.3) I cannot create new files or save changes to a particular share, which is running Lion (10.7).
I can connect to the shared Mac on my local network (in a ...
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Quick search in folder by key press
I switched from PC to Mac, in pc when you're in explorer, you press a key and it highlights the first result of a file/folder that starts with the pressed key, and when you press again it goes to ...
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Can you color label a file/folder in Finder using a keyboard shortcut? [duplicate]
Is there a faster way to label a selected file or folder without having to right-click and choosing a colour ? Such as a keyboard shortcut or another method to do this ?
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Finder always jumps to top of window in list view
When I expand or collapse directories in list view in a Finder window (every time i click on the expansion triangle), the window jumps to the top (with nothing selected).
I found this article: ...
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“Shared” section of the sidebar very long to appear in OS X 10.8.2
After being very satisfied with my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.8, I advised a non-technical-skilled relative to buy one, which she did. The MacBook Pro came with OS X 10.8.2 but there is a problem. ...
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Mountain Lion way to QuickLook folders
The freeware Folder.qlgenerator was already broken by Lion.
defaults write QLEnableXRayFolders -bool true
does not appear to work in ML. Does anyone have a replacement solution? I’m looking ...
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Finder window resizes by itself
Every time I restart the computer or just Finder app the Macintosh HD folder will be resized to the default size without remember my configuration. Why? Does someone know how to fix this?
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Spotlight doesn't work anymore in OS X Mountain Lion
I can't get Spotlight to search for any documents.
When I search the Finder for documents, nothing happens and the Spotlight search through the menu bar only shows up web searches.
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Finder folder icons look like document and image files
I've got an annoying issue for a couple of weeks now. My folder icons got corrupted from time to time:
Left side is the view I get when I'm switching between views, but when I open finder or ...
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Why might Finder appear broken with question marks in the toolbar?
Recently I noticed some question marks appear in my finder windows. If I click one of them, my finder freezes and has to be relaunched. I can't for the life of me remember what was there that is now ...
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Disable TimeMachine Drive in Finder
When I open a Save as dialog, Finder starts to scan my external TimeMachine drive which needs to "boot up" some seconds. This makes the dialog very unresponsive, because it waits for the drive to be ...
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Why is Finder hanging/beachballing after a Quick Look window is closed?
I select a file, hit Space for Quick Look, and then hit Space again to hide the window. Finder hangs and in some cases beachballs for a while before becoming responsive again.
Other notes:
It gets ...
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Get info: sizes displayed in MB first
One thing that I miss and would like to have back, is when I get info on one or more files, the size displayed first is not the MB rounded one, it is the size in bytes.
The image below shows on the ...
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Multiple instances of applications in “Open With…” list [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I modify the list of Applications under ‘Open With…’?
This issue has existed since Panther, and I do not know what the cause is. The problem that I am ...
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Finder doesn't starts on Mountain Lion (10.8.2)
It happens almost every time after startup. When I click on the Finder it tries to start it, the menubar starts, then the desktop icons disappear for a few seconds then they come back, but the finder ...
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Hide files/icons on the desktop but not in finder
Not sure if something like this exists in OSX. I would like to display a cheatsheet on my desktop as a wallpaper and to make it visible at all times I would like to hide all the icons/files/folders ...
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show long filenames immediately in Mountain Lion when hovering mouse and key press
In Leopard, at the finder, when a file/folder had a long filename (and it truncated it with an ellipsis "…"), I just had to press the option (alt) key and hover the cursor on that file/folder, and it ...
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Pressing CMD + Folder from dock opens finder at bottom page
When I press Command and click on a folder in the Dock, Finder should come up and show me it's location there. However, Finder shows up and the page is scrolled all the way to the buttom. So I have to ...
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iPod Touch Not Showing Under Devices in Finder
I'm a software developer that recently switched to a Mac. I am using OS X 10.8.2. I am trying to debug an issue with a website using an iPod touch. I've been told that I can connect the iPod to my Mac ...
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How can I change the view options for all subfolders at once?
I want to adjust the view options of a folder and all of its subfolders, the end result being that they have identical view options.
I'm not sure where to start with this. I normally launch View ...
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How can I browse my pdfs?
I have a great many directories where I've latex'd my notes on various topics, so many that I'm beginning to have trouble finding things. Is there a way to display thumbnails of all the pdfs (under a ...
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Finder not showing toolbar and sidebar sometimes
I'm running OS X 10.8.2 with TotalFinder.
Recently, when launching Finder from dock stacks—for instance, the Downloads folder—by clicking the "Open in Finder", the toolbar and sidebar are both hidden ...
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Make apps stop showing as mounted partitions
I am new to OS X and have been using it for 5 days.
Whenever I launch an application, it shows up as a mounted drive in finder and on the desktop. This looks useless and annoying. Is there a way to ...
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Sidebar icons from non-system volume disappears after restart in Finder of Mac OSX 10.8.2
I dragged folders in finder to Favorite in sidebar. Folders from system volume survived after system restarts but folders from non-system volume are gone. This problem happens since I upgraded from ...
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Change Mac OS X Finder sidebar icons
I have seen a lot of related questions/answers but it seems that there still isn't a working solution for it. So I have sum up all related info that I found and maybe we can find a solution to it.
So ...
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How to disable thumbnails icon preview only for video files in Finder?
I hate my finder opening slow because of loading all those icons for video files. While I still want thumbnails for PDFs, documents, music, I don't want previews for video files because they're ...
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Finder View-->Show Path Bar doesn't work
I have a MacBook Pro retina running Mountain Lion. Finder View-->Show Path Bar doesn't work. When I toggle it, it just changes the size of the Finder window, without showing the path bar.
Another ...
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Any easy way to search for & replace characters in JPG file names in a folder?
Have a MacBook Pro 15 (Oct2009 vintage), and am running 10.8 (Mountain Lion).
Is there an easy way to search for and replace chars in JPG file names in a folder file list?
I'm working with over ...
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How to fix drag&drop copy onto optical media
So I got a DVD-RAM and a BD-RE both formatted with UDF, packet-writeable (I think packet writing is the wrong descriptor here as a DVD-RAM is randomly addressable but it's pretty close).
At least the ...
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Cut-Paste files or folders on Mac OS X
Is there anyway to move some files/folders on Mac OS X as easy as in Windows?
The only way I know is to side the two source and destination folders, and drag and drop the files from one to the ...
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Safari 6's show/reveal in Finder stopped working
The other day Safari 6's "Show/Reveal in Finder" command in the downloads window suddenly stopped working. Whether right-clicking or clicking the magnifying glass/loupe button, I can't get the Finder ...
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“Name” folder appears in the top of every finder window
I am running Mountain Lion and notice occasionally a weird thing happening in the finder. I will be navigating through folders and notice that at the top of each folder that there is a folder called ...
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How do I make the hard drive visible in the Finder?
On OS X Lion I don't see the hard drive in the Finder and I seem to have no permission to create a folder under / from terminal.
I know I can do this if I activate the root user, but I need to be ...
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Remove entries from finder's context menu?
Does any one know how can I remove items that I never use from the context menu?
e.g.: Burn "yadda yadda" to Disk...
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Why can't I drag columns in Finder's Column View?
Sometimes, when I'm working with Finder (Mac OS X 10.8), with a folder in Column View, I suddenly notice that the separator between columns has changed to a thick one like this:
When this happens, ...
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Finder, column view: arrange by Kind, sort by Application
Currently (i.e. Mountain Lion, 10.8.2), in Finder, column view, I can arrange the files/folders thus:
What I would like to do is, on the other hand, to arrange by Kind, then sort by Application. ...
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Problem with corrupt .rar file
I have a big file compressed in split .rar archives. There are 68 archives named .rar, .r01, .r02, etc., annd the problem is that .r36 is corrupted resulting in an Unexpected end of archive. I've ...
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Lots of Duplicates in “Open With” [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I remove duplicate “Open With” context menu items in Finder.app?
My Finders "Open With" menu contains lots of duplicates.
E.g. "Evernote.app" is listed 3 times, ...
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How can I easily specify an or-search in Finder?
I wanted to create a smart-search for my R-files, including both files ending in ".r" and ".rmd". Obviously, files can't end in both.
This yields only files that satisfy both criteria
This yields ...
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Double-clicking file from Finder does not open it in application [closed]
I have installed an application that is associated with a particular file type. When I double click a file of that type in Finder, the application starts, but does not open the file that was clicked. ...
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All Windows get shrinked and Finder disappears after docking MacBookPro to clam shell and LED Cinema display
When docking my MacBookPro 10.8.2 into an LED Cinema display in clam-shell mode, all the windows get shrinked, finder and top menu bar disappear.
The only way to get them back it to either restart or ...
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Why does my Mac's list of “Open with” applications start listing the apps twice and sometimes three times?
When I right-click on a file on my Mac OS desktop and then in the contextual menu, I move to the "Open with...", the list of potential applications to "open with" has applications listed multiple ...
