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Fix Finder Annonyances In OS X Lion
Mar 11, 2025
How to fix some issues you might be running into in Lion's Finder
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hey everyone today I'm going to show you
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some handy fixes for some finder
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troubles you might be having in Mac OS
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10 lion a lot of these are pretty simple
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but they can be annoying if you don't
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know how to fix them so first we're just
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going to open up a new finder window to
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get started now you can see here that
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when I opened my finder window it by
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default it went to Macintosh HD but you
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might notice with Lion that it might be
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going to all my files as a default
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location when you open a new finder
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window uh you can solve this pretty
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easily by going up to the finder menu
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next to the Apple logo and clicking on
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preferences then you'll see here under
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the general tab there's a new handy
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little selection box here that says new
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finder Windows show and I have it set at
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MacIntosh HD it might say all my
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files I prefer Macintosh HD you might
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like your home directory or something
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but what's nice is that you can click
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other and you get a full file browser
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here and you can choose any
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folder so that's pretty neat as well so
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I'm just going to select Macintosh HD
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now the next thing you might be missing
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with Lion is down at the bottom here you
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might have had a status bar that showed
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how many gigabytes you have available as
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well as a path bar that shows you the
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path and if those are missing or you'd
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like to see those what you can do is go
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up to the view
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menu and there's a couple different
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buttons here first of all show status
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bar and uh you can see here that it
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shows the available amount of gigabytes
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on my
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drive and this is how it looked in
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leopard and snow leopard in line on the
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default is to not show that another
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thing you can do is go up and click show
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path bar and you can see your little
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path there now if you don't like the
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gray icons on the sidebar at all and you
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just don't want to see the sidebar you
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can also click hide sidebar from here
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and that'll all go away person
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personally I think it's much more useful
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with the sidebar but if you don't like
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how it looks you can get rid of that too
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so that's just a little handy tip now
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another thing you might not like with
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find is the fact that all my files shows
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on the sidebar as default right at the
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top always now while you can drag this
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around and arrange it if you don't want
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it there at all you can see if I drag it
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off it doesn't work uh but there's two
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different ways that you can get rid of
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all my files first of all you can right
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click on it and hit remove from sidebar
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and that'll get rid of it or you can go
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up to finder once again and preferences
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and then click on the sidebar tab right
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here and you can select what you'd like
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to see on your sidebar right here so I
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can check all my files get rid of it
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maybe I don't ever use airdrop so I
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don't want that either and it's really
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nice how you can show and hide different
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items now another thing that bothered me
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with the finder with line is the fact
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that the fonts on the sidebar looked
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rather big and I looked all over if you
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go into finder preferences and look
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around I looked all over here and I
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couldn't find anything I even right
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clicked on the window and hit show view
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options which is another thing that you
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can do and I looked at the Tex size here
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but that only changes the text size for
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the folders and I just couldn't find
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anything that would change the font size
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cuz it was just very big and if I had a
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find a window that was a little bit
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smaller everything was always scrolling
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because the text was so big that it you
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know forced it to scroll and I didn't
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really like that so it took me a lot of
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digging around but I found that if you
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go into system preferences and you click
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on the general tab it's kind of a weird
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spot for it uh but under General you
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have sidebar icon size and it's by
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default set at medium here you can set
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it up to large and large actually looks
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kind of neat other than the fact that
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it's you know pretty huge uh but the
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icons are bigger and I think it looks
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kind of cool but what I like to set it
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on is small and this is more of how it
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looked in leopard and snow Le so if
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you're used to leopard and Snow Leopard
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that's a nice thing to have you can see
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more of the text without having to
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increase the sidebar size and it just
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looks nicer you can keep your finder
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Windows size down a little bit so those
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are some things that you can do to
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revert the finder status back to how it
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was in leopard and Snow Leopard if you
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preferred it that way if you have any
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other things that you'd like to see how
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to do with finder in line or anything
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about Mac OS 10 and iOS in general
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please feel free to send me an email I
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hope you found this video use and thank
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you for
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watching
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