The default file manager used on the Mac OS and Mac OS X operating systems.
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Mac OSX: Finder stops displaying shared section
The finder in Mac OSX (Mountain Lion) suddenly stops showing the shared section. It might show up again in a couple of days or in might not. All completely spontaneous with no apparent cause. Any ...
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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 to open a file and app from within a web browser
Is is possible to trigger a file to open in textedit and trigger terminal to open from an HTML link?
For example,
<a href="file://Applications/Folder/file.txt">Open file</a>
<a ...
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Mountain Lion - Finder - Search by file name
I just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion and I seem to be missing one bit of functionality that I used all the time in Finder. I could press Command+Shift+F and search for files by file ...
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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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Enable Cut in Finder in OSX 10.7 (Lion) [duplicate]
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Why is it not possible to use the “cut” command to manipulate a file in the Finder?
I was fiddling with several settings a few days ago, and I'm pretty sure I did ...
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DVD mounted but not accessible from Finder
I have burnt a set of data DVDs on my Windows PC. These read fine on the PC, but for some reason OS X misbehaves. I have Hardware Growler installed, so when I insert the disc I get a notification that ...
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Right click on title of document no longer opens finder
I seem to remember that right clicking on the title of a document in an application like TextEdit, Preview, or Pages would allow you to jump to the enclosing folder in Finder.
But this no longer ...
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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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Change Finder window graphics back to the more visible Snow Leopard ones?
When Apple moved from Snow Leopard to Lion, all the Finder window graphics became much duller. The enabled states of buttons in the Finder, System Preferences, all over the GUI, became much harder to ...
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Finder window file view header looks odd - fix?
I think I set this up some time ago and it looks like a search or something but I want it to just be like my apps folder where I can sort. My mistake but very unintuitive how to remove this:
and ...
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Consequences of deleting .DS_Store
If I manually delete a .DS_Store file from a directory, what's the worst that can happen? What important information might I lose?
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Change date in menu bar from “DAY MONTH” to “MONTH DAY”?
The date in my menu bar is in "DAY MONTH" format (e.g. 23 Oct) but I want it in "MONTH DAY" format (e.g. Oct 23). How can I do this? Also, it shows "Tue" as the week day when I'd prefer seeing it in ...
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How to use Finder to find all files that do not match a certain criteria?
How can I use Finder's search feature to find all files that do not match a certain criteria?
For instance, all files that don't end in ".txt" in the current folder.
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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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Copying to external USB drive in Mac OS X 10.8.2 yields “Device not configured” and hard lock
I am copying using cp or mv on the command line a large amount (>500gb) of files each sized between 600MB and 2.6GB to an external drive (a Thermaltake BlacX Duet), but after a significant but ...
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/.fseventsd (File System Event Store) is empty?
For some reason my /.fseventsd directory (for the File System Event Store) is empty. I suspect this isn't normal, especially because the .fseventsd directory on my external drives have about 15 files ...
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Almost all files are locked in my Time Machine backups?
For some reason my files are getting locked in my Time Machine backups. I mean, when you "Get Info" on one of them, the "Locked" box is checked. Folders are NOT locked, though.
Is this normal? This ...
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Folder in root greyed out in Finder but accessible in Terminal
I've just migrated from an old MBP to a new one. I had a folder Transmachina in the root in which I keep a large SVN working copy. I just copied this over with cp -R but on the new machine this folder ...
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How to batch rename images, in reverse numerical order?
My camera names its images IMG_0001.jpg, IMG_0002.jpg, IMG_0003.jpg, etc.
I have about a thousand images and would like to rename them without having to do it manually if possible.
Is there a good ...
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Assign shortcut for label in Finder [duplicate]
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Shortcuts to label files in Finder
Is there a way to assign some shortcuts for setting the label colour of the selected item in Finder, like it is in Aperture for ...
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Two different versions of Finder in OS X 10.8 after migrating from OS 10.3 Panther
While setting up new Mac Mini I checked the option to move files and settings from my old Mac to the new Mac. The old Mac was a 2008 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.3 Panther.
Everything seemed to go ...
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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 ...
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Multiple Sidebars in the finder
Is there a way to have multiple sidebars in Finder?
The Finder sidebar is useful for storing shortcuts to different folders. However it becomes lengthy quite quickly.
I want to have a different ...
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“Open with” in Finder.app gives duplicate entries [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to omit apps from external drives in “Open With” menu?
in finder's open with menu are a lot of dups. I am running latest OX X and patches.
I googled and found ...
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Image dimension column in Finder?
Is it possible to add a column in the list View in Finder, that displays the dimensions of image files ?
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How can you avoid error -43 when copying symlinked folder in Finder with a SAMBA share?
The context
From a Mac running Mountain Lion, a share "Multimedia" served by QNAP NAS is mounted as root via SAMBA in the Finder. Let's say I create a symbolic link of a directory on the NAS such ...
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Hide the Finder sidebar permanently
I've Googled for this a little bit, and I wasn't able to find an obvious answer, so is it possible to hide the Finder sidebar completely? So that it never comes back until I tell it to? The same goes ...
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Adding SMB share to sidebar in OSX Mountain Lion
Is there a way to add an SMB share to the sidebar in Finder, such that when I click on the alias, it mounts the share and opens it up like a regular folder? You can do this in Linux and Windows, and ...
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Is there an application for creating an text inventory of media files and/or applications
For insurance purposes, I would like to keep a list of the following:
All of the movie files on my Mac
All of the music files on my Mac
All of the applications on my Mac
The lists needs to be ...
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What makes a “Special folder” - a bundle in the finder
I know applications are just folder bundles - I assume specifically formatted, and some metadata. I did a copy of my iPhoto Library from another disk - at first it was just another folder, then once I ...
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I deleted my Downloads folder, why can't I remove the items pinned to my sidebar?
I moved my download folder on to an external hard drive and then deleted the folder on my Mac.
I clearly had folders I had pinned to the side bar with a root folder in the download folder I deleted.
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10.8.2 Finder windows: number of files in folder?
I just upgraded to 10.8. Finder windows used to show me how many files were in a folder; where is that info now? Apple didn't get rid of it completely, did they?
Please tell me I don't have to ...
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Help in finding files (.vimrc) in Mac
I've made a mistake of moving my .vimrc file from my home directory and now I don't know how I'm able to locate it. I'm still new to Mac and navigating and finding files seems so foreign to me.
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How to prevent OS X from launching programs from another disk?
I just did a fresh install of Mountain Lion on an empty partition. How can I prevent the programs of the previous install from being shown in the contextual menus in Finder ? I already asked ...
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How can I reproduce the Finder sort order without asking Finder to sort for me?
I work with a large collection of mostly-text files subdivided by series, periodically mirroring them from an upstream repository and repackaging them using a shell script from a slightly chaotic ...
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How can I sort by date consistently in the Finder?
I would like to use the "arrange by date" feature of Finder on Mountain Lion (version 10.8.2, all current system updates installed) and view the result in a consistent manner from "newer" to "older".
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Wallpaper settings keep resetting?
I added a folder with some wallpapers to the Desktop settings and also applied Change Picture every 30 mins. However, the folder randomly disappears and the wallpaper switches back to the Galaxy one ...
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Why don't Projects folder and subfolders dynamically update with file system changes?
After spending a long time debugging Sublime Text 2, I discovered the bug is in OSX.
The Finder does not dynamically update changes in the file system for the Projects folder and subfolders.
Why ...
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File has different owner if examined using `sudo`
I have some files backed up on an external HD, and according to Finder they're all owned by my standard user account. According to Terminal, however, they're owned "unknown" if I look at them using ...
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How do I launch shell applications after changing shell to MacPorts bash?
I have installed a current bash version via MacPorts and changed Terminal.app to use /opt/local/bin/bash. Unfortunately shell applications won't launch from Finder and Spotlight anymore. (OSX 10.8.2, ...
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Why does “Recent Places” not include most recent places
I have seen others asking about this but have never seen a good answer.
The idea of Recent Places or Recent Items is a good one, and is found in many contexts, operating systems, and softwares. ...
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Cannot assign 'Open With' to a specific application using Mountain Lion
I am using Mountain Lion 10.8.2 and Coda 2.0.4.
I want all my .js files to open with Coda (currently js files are assigned to Safari).
When I do a 'Get Info' and change the 'Open with' application I ...
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How to display the full path of files found by the Finder “Find” function?
I'm trying to use the Finder to search my code base. For example I would like to find every files that ends with ".m" and contains "keyDown".
Finder does this, but in the Finder window showing the ...
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External drive error while moving files, now folder is inaccessible from Finder
I was moving some files from one external hard drive to another, while the system froze, and I had to reboot the hard way.
When I logged in again, the folder was looking semi-transparent (as it is ...
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Unzipped files mystery location?
I used the Terminal to unzip a file by typing Unzip then dragging the file to terminal. The file unzipped successfully and a few GBs were used from my SDD. However, I have no idea where the files are ...
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How do I remove the Finder context option after removing an app?
I got an app a long time ago (called SourceTree) that adds an option to Finder's context menu. The way I installed the app was by simply moving it to my Applications folder, and it didn't come with an ...
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Shortcut to open the Goto window in file open/save dialogues WITH the equivalent to path added
When you have a file open/save prompt box open, you can hit the / key to open a GoTo dialouge to navigate via the file path.
Is there a shortcut that does this action but automatically adds the ./
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Mountain Lion-password prompts
How do I stop Mountain Lion from asking me to put in my password everytime I want to move/change folders/files etc?
An example is "Finder want to make changes. Please enter your password to allow ...
