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Change default view style in OS X Finder

September 2, 2012September 3, 2012 by Mr.R

When opening a folder in OS X Finder, icon view is the default view style. Unless is has been manually changed through the Finder toolbar. You can change the default view style

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Categories FinderTags 10.7, 10.81 Comment

Disable ‘Connect to server’ menu option in OS X Finder

August 21, 2012September 11, 2012 by Mr.W

Disable the menu option: ‘Go ▸ Connect to server…’ (cmd⌘ + K) in the Mac OS X Finder menubar.

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Categories FinderTags 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.8

Set Finder path bar to be relative to the home directory

August 21, 2012August 23, 2012 by Mr.R

In Finder you can show the path from root to the current folder (option: View ▸ Show Path Bar). With the following command the path will be displayed from the home folder. When browsing your Documents folder “Macintosh HD ▸ Users ▸ defaultswritecom ▸ Documents” (full path) will be shown as: “defaultswritecom ▸ Documents” in the path bar.

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Categories FinderTags 10.7, 10.8

Disable the extension change warning in OS X Finder

July 3, 2012August 23, 2012 by Mr.R

When attempting to change a file extension in OS X Finder a warning dialog will appear. This could be annoying if you know what you’re exactly doing. Turn off the extension change dialog with the following command.

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Categories FinderTags 10.6, 10.7, 10.8

Show hidden files in OS X Finder

July 3, 2012May 29, 2013 by Mr.R

Mac OS X Finder does not show hidden (.dot) files and folders. Usually administrator will go in the Terminal and browses those hidden files and folders. This command will display all hidden files and folders.

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Categories FinderTags 10.5, 10.6, 10.7, 10.82 Comments
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