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 ...

The Finder supports four different view modes: Icon, list, column, and coverflow; each of which has its benefits in certain situations or may just appeal to a user. By default the Finder will inherit ...

Do you prefer to use one type of Finder window, and only one type? If so, you’re probably somewhat frustrated by OS X’s ability to seemingly randomly pick a different view. You like using icons, for ...

My general preference with XP was to set all folder to "list" view, tell the system to apply that view to all folders, and then change individual ones to other view types as I preferred. Win7 doesn't ...

When you use File -> Open within an OS X application, you can click the drop-down menu at the top of the window to see both the path to your currently-active folder and a list (in the Recent Places ...