The default file manager used on the Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems.
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How can I rename multiple pictures simultaneously?
For example,I have 20 pictures downloaded from the Internet. They have some crazy names like "XFGHDHR345" or "SDEREWQ230", and I want to name them:
"Picture 1"
"Picture 2"
"Picture 3"
"Picture 4"
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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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What does it mean when a process is surrounded by parens in `ps`?
I sometimes try to kill -9 Finder.app when it's misbehaving and I'm in a Terminal. This normally works but every once in awhile it leaves behind the pid, even when run with sudo, and the COMMAND ...
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Right Click does not bring up Services every once in a while. Why?
I have a Mac OSX 10.7.5 (Lion), and every once in a while when I right click on a folder or file to pull up a Service, sometimes the Service field disappears. I am not sure if I have a virus or ...
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How to show git files in Finder?
This may be too close to a duplicate for Git plug-in for Finder?, but I'm after a tool that will merely show me whether there is a repo in the current directory, and the state of the files within.
I ...
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Multiple color Labels in the Finder toolbar
In my finder toolbar, I have the color label drop-down. I would like to have multiple instances of it with different colors pre-selected. However it isn't possible to even add more than one instance ...
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Finder spotlight tool not “grepping” through all file types?
We've got this development stack that's mostly javascript, and if I'm looking for a variable definition or something I can use Finder's spotlight tool to easily find the file that contains the ...
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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 droplet description when cursor over icon
After Dragging a droplet onto Finder's toolbar, hover description is its path.
Is there any way to customize this description?
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Does OS X enforce a maximum filename length or character restriction?
What is the maximum filename character length of files in OS X?
Of secondary importance is whether some characters are allowed/disallowed in addition to any overall length restrictions.
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Hide all files with a specific extension from Finder
I have an application that creates MANY .log, .upload, and .json files each day, so that when I go to my "Today" smart folder, it's all clogged up with those. I'd like to hide all three of those file ...
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Last Opened not clickable in Applications folder View Options
I’m trying to sort my applications by Last Opened column, but the option is not clickable (is grayed out) in the view options (⌘+J) panel (see image below).
Why and how can I fix this?
(I’m on Snow ...
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Git plug-in for Finder?
Is there a plug-in for the Finder which lets me see and do all my git-related stuff?
It seems silly that I have to use different apps or the terminal for such things when the files are right there in ...
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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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How can I do a full text search of plaintext files in my DropBox folder?
I understand that Spotlight will search the full text of files in any folder and will show files that contain instances of the searched text. But I would also like to see highlighted instances of the ...
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Finder: Name of file won't go away as file title
Ultimately, this isn't a big problem but it is a bit annoying.
Something happened, at some point, to my Finder application. Even after restarting my computer (even multiple times since this first ...
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Sort Finder columns reversed
I can't get this reversed thing to work:
Tell application "Finder" to set the sort direction of the modification date column to reversed
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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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Python IDLE can't be opened by double-clicking .py files in Finder
I can't open .py files in IDLE by double-clicking them in Finder (IDLE is currently set as the default program for opening such files). Nor can I open those files by right-clicking and selecting ...
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How to make shortcut for changing desktop picture?
I have big set of Desktop pictures in Library and in System Preferences I have set to change Desktop Picture every 30 mins. Now I want to make keyboard shortcut for Finder for loading next desktop ...
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How to set Finder to show all files in search including hidden and Library files?
When I unistall an application I want to check for all remaining files on computer. Searching them with Finder doesn't show any protected file, for instance from Library, and also hidden files are ...
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Remove _specific_ items from Finder Open With menu
Is there any way to purge specific applications from the Finder's "Open With" menu? Mine is cluttered with all sorts of applications I'd never choose to open HTML files with (Word, Calibre, all sorts ...
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Why coreservicesd keep going high?
Recently everything I do in finder is slow. If I go to activity monitor I see
coreservicesd 63%
finder 37%
What's going one?
Some says I got to clear settings. I think all these happened after ...
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How do I get a folder to stop forgetting its sorting options?
I have a folder (my home folder) which I like to have in icon view and kept arranged by name.
However, every day or so it seems to forget the sorting - although the view options panel seems to think ...
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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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Finder crashes/closes when copying files to NAS
OS X 10.8.2 Latest series MBP 13"
I am experiencing a problem where Finder crashes, or rather closes without notice when I move large folders into a NAS folder. (WEstern Digital Black Armor 6TB NAS ...
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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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How did this ominous file end up in my Application Support folder?
Deleting this file will break the whole internets, for the sake of our children don't do it!.
The above quotation is the content of a text file called STR8369805638PUB6932583035105 that I found ...
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Why does my finder window not allow for re-sizing?
When I open a new finder window, there are three diagonal lines that allow you to resize the finder window. Others around me can use this to resize their window but mine seems to be locked. How can I ...
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Finder does not recognize + in filename
I use + signs in filenames to indicate quality of publications, e.g. Johnson 2013 +++.pdf. However, Finder gives me zero hits when I search for + either in filenames or file contents. I started using ...
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Mount NFS share in /Volumes as a drive
Ok, this might be a stupid question to ask, but trying to mount a NFS share (from a Linux machine, if it's worth anything) in a folder that resides in /Volumes never makes the share appear in Finder ...
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Difference between du and Finder file sizes
I was having a look at the size of libBLAS.dylib at some location in my Mac and du showed it's file size as 572K while the allocated file size (showed by Finder) was 1.4MB. I've read that the lack of ...
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Removed Movies folder, now want it back
That's it. I typed rm -r ~/Movies in the Terminal and entered the root password. Now I want to get this nice-looking Movies folder with a corresponding icon back to my home folder.
Folder was ...
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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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How come Dropbox gets an icon in Finder sidebar?
How come Dropbox gets a non-generic icon in Finder's sidebar, when other directories like Google Drive and Sites (native in OS X before Lion) all have the same generic one?
How can I customise the ...
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Something has been wrong with my finder and Mac. How to fix?
Finder is often unresponsive.
Also in many software, like xcode or any project. I used to be able to right click and select open in Finder. Now if I do that nothing happen.
Zip utility is much ...
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Identify whether an icon represents a package or file
There are some way to know, by the icon, if it's a package (like a .app) or a single file? I'm talking about some app or config that adds a flag in the icon, or something like that.
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How to set multiple folder icons in finder (for symbol- and list-view)?
I'm using OS X 10.8.2. By default the system folder icons differ in symbol- and list-view in the finder. If I use the list view a small icon (16x16px) is displayed. In symbol view finder switches to a ...
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How do you select multiple specific files?
Say I've got 5 files, and I'd like to select just two of them. In Windows I would select file 1, then press Control, and then click file 5.
How could this be done in Mac Os X?
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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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Cannot change Finder's “New Finder windows open” preference; it's grayed out
Why am I not allowed to change any of the preferences in Finder's General preference pane, except for Spring-loaded folders? I am allowed to change any of Finder's Labels, Sidebar, or Advanced ...
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How do I prevent 'Open with…' showing multiples of same app? [duplicate]
Anyone know why this happens and how to make it show only one instance of each?
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Finder shows stale directory listings from NFS server
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 Linux server sharing files via NFSv4. I mount the share on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.7.5. I have the NFS share set up to automount in Disk Utility with default mount ...
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Time Machine wiped my external drive despite pressing “Don't Use”
I have an external hard drive(formatted as FAT32) that has been in use on/off for years. I even had backups on it (not using time machine). I mounted this hard drive, it was taking a while to mount. A ...
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Changing Finder's Font Size - Lion
I open My Documents in finder. Click CMD-J and change the font size to 10. I choose set as default. The font size looks right on My Documents.
Then I navigate to Applications, and the font size is ...
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Smart Folder: what files are considered as music?
What files are considered as music? How can I edit that list?
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Spotlight Cmd+Enter to open containing folder does not work
When you type something in spotlight, highlight a result and hit Command+Enter, it should open the containing folder in finder (For reference). However, it does not work on my OSX 10.8.2 MBPR. The ...
