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Making the Move to Mac - #1 - Finding Your Way with Finder

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Moving from Windows to Mac can be a little jarring to your established computer workflow. While there are...

Using Finder on Mac -

Moving from Windows to Mac can be a little jarring to your established computer workflow. While there are significant differences between Windows and Mac operating systems, there are a number of similarities too. Here, we go through the Mac Finder for newcomers to OSX.

Added: 11/5/09

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Making the Move to Mac - #1 - Finding Your Way with Finder

Today, in part one of our 10 part series on switching from the PC to the Mac, we’re going to look at the Finder. Now, the Finder on the Mac is equivalent to Windows Explorer on the PC. Just to refresh your memory, here is a Windows Virtual Machine with the Windows Explorer running inside of it. And just as with Windows Explorer, the Finder on the Mac is used to manage your files and folders. You could see here on the right hand side, I have lots of folders. Now, over on the left is an area called the sidebar. The sidebar has a variety of divisions. For example, there is DEVICES, so I can see my Mac’s hard drive, a couple of external drives I have connected. Under SHARED, I have things on my network that are shared and under PLACES I have folders that I want to be able to access quickly. Now, if I click on these tabs, I can shrink up or drop down the things to give myself more or less room as needed. Now, there are number of View mode on the Mac and then one that we’re currently looking at is called Icon. The next possible mode is called List and what this does is it shows you a list of files and you can see the file name, the date it was last modified, the size and the type of file that it is. So, this is very similar to the Detail mode in the Windows Explorer. The next type of mode that’s available is called Columns and what’ interesting about this is that, it shows you things in progressive columns. So, if I click on this folder, it shows me the contents of that folder in the next column. If I click on another folder, it shows me the contents of the folder in the next column. If I click on a file, it shows me information about that file in the next column so a very interesting View mode. And then, the last one and the probably the one that has become most well known is called Cover Flow. And this is the one that you’ve seen in the Apple commercials for the iPhone and the iPod touch with some scary pictures of—over last year, so we’ll go back to icon mode and get out of that. If you want to see what programs are currently running on you Mac, you can press Command tab and you can cycle through the programs that you currently have running and if you want to open a new Finder window, you can press Command N and it opens a window for you. So, that’s the Finder on the Mac and that concludes part one.

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Today, in part one of our 10 part series on switching from the PC to the Mac, we’re going to look at the Finder. Now, the Finder on the Mac is equivalent to Windows Explorer on the PC. Just to refresh your memory, here is a Windows Virtual Machine with the Windows Explorer running inside of it. And just as with Windows Explorer, the Finder on the Mac is used to manage your files and folders. You could see here on the right hand side, I have lots of folders. Now, over on the left is an area called the sidebar. The sidebar has a variety of divisions. For example, there is DEVICES, so I can see my Mac’s hard drive, a couple of external drives I have connected. Under SHARED, I have things on my network that are shared and under PLACES I have folders that I want to be able to access quickly.

Now, if I click on these tabs, I can shrink up or drop down the things to give myself more or less room as needed. Now, there are number of View mode on the Mac and then one that we’re currently looking at is called Icon. The next possible mode is called List and what this does is it shows you a list of files and you can see the file name, the date it was last modified, the size and the type of file that it is. So, this is very similar to the Detail mode in the Windows Explorer. The next type of mode that’s available is called Columns and what’ interesting about this is that, it shows you things in progressive columns. So, if I click on this folder, it shows me the contents of that folder in the next column. If I click on another folder, it shows me the contents of the folder in the next column. If I click on a file, it shows me information about that file in the next column so a very interesting View mode.

And then, the last one and the probably the one that has become most well known is called Cover Flow. And this is the one that you’ve seen in the Apple commercials for the iPhone and the iPod touch with some scary pictures of—over last year, so we’ll go back to icon mode and get out of that. If you want to see what programs are currently running on you Mac, you can press Command tab and you can cycle through the programs that you currently have running and if you want to open a new Finder window, you can press Command N and it opens a window for you. So, that’s the Finder on the Mac and that concludes part one.

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