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 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 ...

Finder slowness may be Spotlight related We continue to report on dramatically slower Finder navigation and window refresh speeds under Mac OS X 10.4.5 -- an issue with a variety of causes and ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

Now that we’re only a month and a half away from Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference – the same event where the current OS X version (10.8) was launched last year – we keep hearing more and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maybe it’s just me, but Finder is one of the default Mac apps I find most annoying. Even though Apple introduced tabs to the default experience a few years ago, Finder still makes it harder than it ...

<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 ...

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.