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Mac Power Users

481: Finder and Its Alternatives

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

At the heart of the macOS experience is Finder, which is part file manager, part search tool and a whole lot more. Its smiling blue icon boasts many features, and third-party developers have written tools to make it even more powerful for those users who need more.

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0:00.0

MacPowers, episode 481, finder and its alternatives.

0:05.0

Hello everyone, this is David Sparks joined by my

0:14.0

pal Stephen Hackett how you doing today Stephen I'm doing well David how are you

0:17.6

I'm excited I like it sometimes when we do these episodes where we just dig on

0:21.7

something really nerdy and this one feels

0:24.7

like it to me.

0:25.8

You can't get much nerdyer than like finder tips and tricks, right?

0:30.6

It's going to be, it's going to be fun. I've been looking forward to this and I got to play with a lot of apps that honestly I haven't visited in several years some of them so it's been it's been fun to put this one together. I think people will enjoy it.

0:44.0

I've been doing so much whining about the files app on iOS that I wanted to just kind of dig in on finder on Mac and

0:50.2

see why is it that I get so upset with the files app and and so I thought well let me just look at I you know Mac

0:56.8

what is it all that I'm doing and and start cataloging that the pieces of it that I'm using using I realize oh yeah that's why I'm so in create files

1:06.6

So today's episode is not going to be about I.

1:09.6

I was files. It's going to be about finder on the Mac. This is a Mac Heavy episode.

1:14.0

But before we get started, we've got a few announcements.

1:17.1

Show 500 is not that far away.

1:20.7

It's coming up.

1:21.3

Mac stock is at the end of July and we have a link in the show notes to their ticket page and we had a couple

1:29.4

questions about is the MPU ticket separate it's not not, we're just part of the conference.

1:34.7

So if you have a conference ticket for Saturday,

1:37.4

then you should be good to go.

1:39.2

And we are the last thing on the schedule on Saturday.

1:42.3

So we are closing out the Saturday sessions with

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