Make the most of this convenient spot that lets you open files, folders, apps, and disks with a click. Here’s how to customize the Finder sidebar on Mac.

Finder is used to navigate your Mac’s drives, iCloud, and other storage locations. Customizing the app to show exactly what you need can make you far more productive. As is the case with many ...

The macOS Finder lets you customize window sidebars to provide quick access to files and volumes on your Mac. Here's how to personalize it to your needs. In macOS Finder windows, there's a wide ...

The Finder sidebar is where all of your favorite local folders, iCloud Drive files, and connected volumes appear. You’ll also ...

Restarting my Mac didn’t solve it, nor did some advice on resetting a Finder preference file, which I don’t want to repeat here, as it wipes out your Finder settings and didn’t solve my problem.

If clicking Finder sidebar items doesn't properly show their contents, then you may need to clear some settings files. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

The Finder app is the backbone of all the file management that happens on your Mac. But by default, it's quite bland, and not as intuitive or transparent as the File Explorer on Windows. Luckily ...

It’s easy to become so accustomed to certain Mac OS X behaviors that when they change and your old habits no longer work, you actually start to question your sanity. That’s what happened to me — and ...

Your iPhone should appear in the Finder sidebar after a few minutes. If that doesn't solve the problem, you might be dealing with a third-party software conflict that's preventing your Mac from ...

Editor’s note: This how-to is about OS X 10.5 Leopard, an old verion of the Mac operating system. It is not relevant to the current version of macOS. While OS X makes it really easy to put a ...

While Explorer's Favorites sidebar does serve a similar purpose, Windows doesn't make it easy to set it as your default sidebar, and it honestly just isn't all that attractive.