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  1. Z

    folder type

    What is the name of these types of folders? Im trying to locate a psd mockup of one, exactly like this.
  2. RazorBackXX

    How To Delete A Home Folder With Terminal or Other Option?

    hey my friends, I recently made a account for my girlfriend so she could do some organizing. (using a tiny SE wasn't cutting it) & after she was finished I deleted her account. I made sure to select the (Delete home folder options as well) & her folder is still there. I have tried deleting it &...
  3. KasperPSR

    Deleting folders from Desktop permanently erases them

    Lately I've encountered a weird issue: Deleting a folder or a zipped file from my desktop permanently erases it. I'm prompted with an "are you sure you want to delete" dialogue. When I press delete, the file doesn't go to trash – it's completely removed. Other things of note: – When I delete...
  4. RazorBackXX

    How to Keep Folders in Dock From Moving?

    hey my friends, I have the main Mac folders in the dock. documents, photos, videos, downloads, music ect. I want them to stay put. I don't want them to move. I love dragging & dropping files into my dock. but when I hover over the dock folders it tries to put the file aka a photo or video in the...
  5. PowerPCFan

    A quick question about Stacks, the quick way to organize your desktop

    So I used to have NO folders and I just used Stacks. However, I found that it was stressful to find stuff, so I switched to ALL folders and NO stacks. But that made me miss Stacks. So then I switched to a MIX of folders and Stacks. I was happy, but there was one problem: I can’t move the folders...
  6. H

    Batch Rename Subfolders with Parent Folder name in directory

    Is there a way to automate this? I want to select the Parent Folder and have the automation append the name of the container folder to the beginning of the sub folders. See me screenshots attached of a before/after demo. TO I have little background knowledge on this, but I would imagine...
  7. U

    Some folder-icons missing in Finder? (OS 11.5.2)

    In my Finder some folders are suddenly displayed without the folder icon. I have not yet found a rule which ones are with folder icon and which ones still have it. If I create a new folder, it is also without folder icon. Relauching finder or the entire Mac has not solved the issue. Any Ideas?
  8. WannaGoMac

    Change folder background color no longer possible in ventura?

    Did Ventura remove the ability to set a custom background color to a folder? Thanks! Below link to youtube video at the time it discusses changing folder background color in Monterey.
  9. PowerPCFan

    Do you use webloc files?

    Whenever I find a website I want to revisit, I highlight the address bar and drag it to a folder on my desktop. It creates a .webloc file I can double-click to revisit the site. Does anyone else do this? Also how many people use Stacks on their desktop? It's very amazing and helpful for...
  10. R

    De-Folderize

    I have an external drive with A LOT of files in a lot of folders….. What is the fastest or correct way to remove all the individual folders from the external drive? Btw it’s 50TB of data so it’s too hard to go through and drag the files. Any advice? Does MacOS have this capability or does anyone...
  11. stumblingfalk

    Finder file/folder copying and merging - Lord have mercy!

    Bear with me guys, but is there an efficient and reliable way to do this? I got two master folders, same name, same subfolder structure. They have many of the same files (thousands) but there is some discrepancies, some files missing. Versions of the files is not an issue. I just want the two...
  12. P

    Finder shows incorrect folder size - please help?

    I'm looking for help and/or feedback with an annoying problem I am having using Finder. Problem: I've noticed on multiple occasions that the MacOS Finder gives incorrect information for Folder sizes. Often times it will show the Folder contains "Zero Bytes" and sometimes it will even show a...
  13. E

    How to show content thumbnails for *folders* in Finder; any Finder alternative that can do that?

    I'm looking to efficiently see each folder's content from its thumbnail, unfortunately Finder doesn't seem to offer this option. You can only enable thumbnails for individual files, but not folders. I have some massive image asset folders which I need to be able to find the suitable images I...
  14. L

    How to remove a folder in multi-folder hierarchy?

    Hi, Still learning MacOS (coming from Win/Linux background). Today, I was trying to create a new folder and next thing I know, MacOS has created/inserted a few folder within the hierarchy of my files - above the folder I was working in. So, I was trying to do something like...
  15. shankar2

    Lots of images in one folder, search is very slow for new files!

    Hi so on Big Sur 11.5 Macos on 2015 macbookpro I have a folder with about 4000 images. The problem I'm seeing now is that when I download an image from the web using Chrome browser, the writing of the file to the above folder is very slow. Secondly when I search for the image file name, it...
  16. blackxacto

    What is a "boot" folder created on external disks that only backs up data?

    Big Sur 11.2.3, 19,1 iMac: On two external disks to backup data only, why is a folder created named "boot". The disks are in a RAID and I can't boot from RAIDS in Big Sur. So I wonder where they came from and why they were created.
  17. L

    iPad Pro Mail - IMAP erratic Inbox behaviour (Outlook account)

    Hello guys, I have a last gen iPad Pro (system & apps up to date) on which I use Mail to get my emails. My main email account is a Outlook (formerly Hotmail) account, with an additional alias, so I did set up this account as an IMAP account (and not an Outlook/Exchange account) so that I could...
  18. Gravydog316

    (sister + computer = disaster) ~ Catalina home folder issue

    ok, so my dumb sister was deleting files... now I have a unknown folder in the home folder... it has a custom icon, so i'm justing wondering if it is an original folder that i should change the name back, or if i can delete it? the 'CRAP' folder has a custom icon... is it a macOS folder? I have...
  19. S

    Windows are sorting files in reverse order

    Bizarre new issue. If I look at the contents of a folder in icon view, and I try to sort the files by date created or date modified, it puts the newest files first and the oldest files last. This is not how I remember this ever working. If I want to sort by date created I want it in order of...
  20. U

    Can you change app icons with the terminal?

    Hi, recently I've been trying to find a way to change app icons with the terminal without luck... So for example Safari.app, changing the icon for the app and the directory and so on with the terminal... But without replacing the .icns file in the Application's Resources folder, so having an...