Wondering how to make your Mac show folder size in Finder? Here are the fastest ways to check your storage usage.

One of the most common questions people ask when working with their Mac is: "Where is it?" Not where is the Mac itself (hopefully that is not a mystery!), but where is some apparently hidden file on ...

One of the prominent components on a Mac is the Finder. It is essentially a portal that allows you to access all the files, folders, and documents you have on your machine or on the iCloud Drive—not ...

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion reverses a trend toward user interface complexity, delivering a desktop computing environment that not only incorporates graphical elements of iOS, but also copies the intuitive ...

Yesterday we covered a bug in Finder labels in that label colors differ between Mac OS X and Mac OS 9, leading to possible confusion in mixed-version environments. (For example, a file labeled ...

When using macOS Finder in List view, you'll see the sizes of individual files – but not folders. Instead, folders show a pair of dashes (--) in the Size column. macOS skips calculating folder sizes ...

The new Finder icon in the first beta of macOS Tahoe 26 raised a lot of eyebrows when Apple did more than glassify it: the company also flipped the light and dark sides. The internet wasn’t happy, and ...

I use the MacOS Finder daily to manage my files and folders. It's an invaluable tool -- and one of the better file managers I use, but that doesn't mean Finder is configured ideally out of the box.

PublicSpace.net has released A Better Finder Attributes 3.0, the first version of the Finder file attribute utility for Mac OS X. A Better Finder Attributes is a contextual menu plug-in for the Finder ...

With Snow Leopard, Apple said it refined 90% of the foundational "projects" that were built into Mac OS X. Apple pitched the update as offering a more responsive Finder app, an improved Mail app that ...

I like to keep my computer organized and this means that I like to keep my files and folders sorted alphabetically by name. Occasionally I might want to sort them temporarily by kind (i.e. PDF, JPEG, ...

Apple on Friday released Mac OS X v10.4.8 and Mac OS X Server v10.4.8. Both updates are available for download in various forms both from the Software Update control panel and from Apple’s Web site.