It’s amazing the hundreds of hidden feature you can find within OS X, today I was listening to the Typical Mac User and while Victor was giving us great tips on how to use Finder more effectively. He started talking about the very top of the Finder window, right where the name of the folder is displayed whenever you open your Finder. Read and learn this is awesome.
If you click on that top section of the screen where the name of the folder winder is, while holding Control key (or Apple Key) you see the path that you took to get to you are. If you open a finder window and you have not navigated anywhere, when you click on the top of they screen where the name of the folder you are in is, it will display a list of folders or drives that are in the column on your left.
These shortcuts are very useful at all times when navigating through your computer. One trick I learned early when I moved to the Mac platform was to set the default location when you open a Finder window. The factory preset is Home, this was very annoying because in my case, most of the time that I wanted to open a Finder window was to look in the Documents folder. You can change this default location to be whatever you want in the Finder preferences.
Another feature that I had to choose was the option to see all the file extensions for all documents, this is a bad habit that I brought from my PC days. In the Finder preferences navigate to the last tab and the first option is to show all files extensions, by default this is unchecked. Share your tips with my community, if you have a great tip that has to do with the finder leave a comment on this post for everyone to take advantage of them.
