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2023-02-15 macOS Ventura: Finder Display of File/Folder Dates with Time in Seconds

2022-05-18 macOS Finder Changes File Creation and Modification Dates on Every File it Copies (but milliseconds part only, HFS only)

2022-01-17 Reader Comment: Finder File Copying Data Loss... “catalyst that drove me off the platform”

2021-07-25 Batch Renaming Files for Photography using 'A Better Finder Rename'

2021-07-23 Quick Look: 'A Better Finder Rename' for Batch Renaming Files

2021-07-21 How to Batch-Rename files in the macOS Finder

2021-03-26 macOS Big Sur: Finder Randomly Depopulates Favorites in Sidebar

2020-05-05 How to Rename Files in the Finder

2019-08-28 How to Show or Hide Hidden Files in macOS Finder

2019-06-20 Apple Core Rot: macOS Finder Shows Bogus Files s Not Yet Copied 18 Hours Later

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How To Guides

How to perform useful tasks and upgrades..

  1. Finder Setting for Generic Icons or Custom Icons Based on Content

Setting Up Your Mac

Suggestions for setting up your Mac for performance and data safety..

  1. Set Finder Preferences

Optimizing Other Photography Software

Speedups for working with images..

  1. How to Organize Photos or Files Into New Folders in the Finder
  2. How to Quickly Preview and Sort 1000 Images the OS X Finder

OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Significant changes and issues in OS X 10.9 Mavericks.

  1. OS X Mavericks: Finder can now Unhide Library Folder

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

Special Report: Upgrade Now or Wait?.

  1. Finder preferences in Snow Leopard

Mac OS X Lion Hairballs

When an upgrade brings more downgrades and bugs than value..

  1. Fixing Controls in Finder Icon View Windows
  2. Pixellated Image Previews in Lion Finder
  3. Finder Cannot Display File Type Correctly

Optimizing Mac Application Performance

Optimizing specific application performance..

  1. How to Add a Quit Finder Option to the Finder

Core Rot at Apple

The worrisome decline of OS X quality and integrity..

  1. Impossible to Complete a File Copy on Any Drives
  2. Finder Copy Destroys File System on Boot Drive
  3. Finder Refuses to Delete 'Backup Items'
  4. Finder Silently Fails to Copy Files

Blog posts

2023

2023-02-15 macOS Ventura: Finder Display of File/Folder Dates with Time in Seconds

2022

2022-05-18 macOS Finder Changes File Creation and Modification Dates on Every File it Copies (but milliseconds part only, HFS only)

2022-01-17 Reader Comment: Finder File Copying Data Loss... “catalyst that drove me off the platform”

2021

2021-07-25 Batch Renaming Files for Photography using 'A Better Finder Rename'

2021-07-23 Quick Look: 'A Better Finder Rename' for Batch Renaming Files

2021-07-21 How to Batch-Rename files in the macOS Finder

2021-03-26 macOS Big Sur: Finder Randomly Depopulates Favorites in Sidebar

2020

2020-05-05 How to Rename Files in the Finder

2019

2019-08-28 How to Show or Hide Hidden Files in macOS Finder

2019-06-20 Apple Core Rot: macOS Finder Shows Bogus Files s Not Yet Copied 18 Hours Later

2019-05-11 Configuring Time Format to Include Seconds Such as in macOS Finder Windows; YYYY-MM-DD and HH:MM:SS Format for Date/Time

2019-03-05 Apple Core Rot: macOS Finder File Copying: Fails to Replace "dot files" When Replacing a folder = DATA LOSS

2019-02-20 Apple Core Rot: macOS Finder Shows Zero-Size Folders — Very Dangerous if Unaware

2019-01-27 Apple Core Rot Metadata Loss: macOS Finder Destroys File Dates When Moving Files

2018

2018-06-29 Another Finder Data Loss Bug

2018-06-26 Apple’s Penchant for IGNORING Data Loss Risks Continues, Unabated: Finder Erroneously Shows Files as Zero Bytes

2018-03-16 One more Finder File Copy Bug: Is it Even Safe to Count on the macOS Finder to Copy Files?

2017

2017-12-18 Copying Files with macOS Finder: Data Loss Bug

2017-12-09 One Example Among Many of Things that Suck with macOS: Continual Breakdown in Quality Control

2017-01-29 Finder Hangs While Copying

2016

2016-10-07 macOS Sierra: Crashes Viewing Folders with Images (while selecting them)

2016-09-30 macOS Sierra: Possible Data Loss Scenario

2016-07-11 Finder Setting for Generic Icons or Custom Icons Based on Content

2016-02-03 OS X El Capitan Finder: “The operation can’t be completed because one or more required items can’t be found. (Error Code-43)”

2015

2015-11-12 One of the Most Confusing Finder Preferences

2015-09-23 Will Apple Core Rot Trend be Reversed?

2015-08-08 More Apple Core Rot: Finder Sluggish Since 10.10.4 Update

2014

2014-11-21 OS X Yosemite Finder File Copy: Data Loss

2014-02-13 One of Many Mavericks Bugs: Column Widths in Finder, Open/Save Dialogs

2013

2013-03-26 A Finder Shortcut for Organizing Photos or Files Into New Folders

2012

2012-10-23 Files and Folders That Are Invisible in Finder Windows (But Should Not Be)

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