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Miracles do happen. My wife who lives in an assisted computing facility taught me something about Finder’s Column View I did not know.


If you own a Mac you use Finder, OS X’s file management application, which is similar to Windows Explorer. Have you ever customized Finder? Did you know you could?

The default toolbar, at the top of the Finder Window, is Spartan. It contains a minimal set of controls. Let’s add some others.finder-default The Finder toolbar is easy to customize. Right click on the toolbar (or control+click if you have a one-button mouse) to expose the context menu. And click on Customize Toolbar…finder-window-with-toolbar-context-menu-highlighted

The Finder Toolbar icons window opens.

customize-toolbar-dialog

Drag the icons you want, one-by-one, to the location on the Toolbar where you want them. If you need help remembering what the icons are for change the Show control to Icon and Text instead of Icon Only. When you are finished click the Done button.

Below is a modified Finder Toolbar with Icon and Text displayed.finder-window-with-customized-toolbar

If you play around with Finder, like my wife, you will discover it has hidden features that improve its functionality. You may even teach me something.

 

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