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is there a terminal command to loop every single video that I press spacebar on to open in quicklook? I dont want to download FFMEG, I know the Mac can do things on its own for example. I used chatgtp to write me a code to separate all my videos in landscape & portrait since Mac doesn't have a...

I recently changed the admin password on an old iMac that I use as my Plex server. Until I did that (an hour ago), all drives connected to it were visible via 'Locations' > 'Network' in the Finder on my Mac mini. I can get in to it via Screen Sharing with the new password, but now when I try to...

How to Change the Default Download Location in macOS so that the download folder shown in sidebar of Finder in macOS with the arrow icon upon clicking opens the modified location? I am not asking about the changing the location where files get downloaded in Safari (which can be changed in Safari...

Hi there, I'm a newbie so please be nice - i am using a macbook with Monterey. The Finder is giving me so much problems. I like to type the name of a file, i type fast, and then see it appear - but it rarely does, and often omits folders. Often I have to find another file within a folder and...

In the Finder (Info) I've checked a large number of files to be Stationery Pads (template-type files). Stationery Pad files, that I'd now like to consider together in a single Finder Window. Under the pop-up menu Kind, "Other" is listed at the bottom. One of these (as in above image) is...

I have a bunch of Smart Folders in my Finder that gather files with specific Tags. For example: Favorites (Smart Folder) - Files (Tagged with "Favorites") Red (Smart Folder) - Files (Tagged with "Red") Smart Folders are not real folders as they are query files such as Favorites.SavedSearch...

I am getting the above message constantly, now. I started off by deleting ~/Library/com.apple.finder.plist and restarting the Finder. No difference. So, I decided to re-install MacOS Ventura. After the three-hour installation process, everything seemed to be working. Until it wasn't. I came back...

Hi does anyone know if there's a way to fix broken file & folder creation dates? & also, how do I get folders to show the sizes, since it only works sometimes?

hey my friends is there an add on to preview or Quick Look? im pretty sure they are the same thing. im tired of using Quick time to look videos & I don't want to create gifs because I can't crop them down. I love making memes & I was just hoping there was a way to use the terminal or download an...

My Seagate OneTouch SSD 2TB just stopped working (I've been using it with Time Machine for the last 2.5 years) and whenever I plug it into my mac, the whole finder app stops responding. Nothing in disk utility appears, either. Immediately as soon as I unplug it, everything goes back to normal...

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...

For the past couple months I've been developing a Finder alternative for Intel and Apple Silicon Macs. I'm making this out of a personal frustration with using Finder, especially as someone coming from a background of Windows/Linux. With Cosmil, my aim is to create a beautiful, functional, and...

Finder is constantly popping up a dialog which asks for my (administrator) password. The dialog says "Finder wants to make changes - Enter your password to allow this" with text boxes for User Name and passsword. If I enter my password, it seems to accept it and then pop up the same dialog...

Hi all, Currently battling with searching in the system default 'open document' window that pops up in applications when you click file>open. Once in that window, the default searching behaviour is to search entire mac, not the current folder. In finder settings I have told Spotlight to...

I have a folder that is is also sync on iCloud When I export from MacBook M2 photos from CaptureOne ( RAW editor ) into a folder I can't see them I thought that some path got lost but after checking I noticed that files was sync on my Mac mini I can't see them on MacBook but I can see them on...

Hi everybody, all at sudden I am experiencing the issue in the image. Only opening finder menu from desktop I am viewing a small menu with the scrollbar (that is totally unusable). Do you know how to get back the full menu with all the items in the list? Thank you! :)

On my Mac Studio, since the late betas new Finder windows randomly come up with fonts set to 10pts. Deleting the preferences using defaults only cures it for a little while. RC2 still exhibits the behavior. A bug has been filed. Is anybody else seeing this?

I have always backed up and updated my iPhone using iTunes. With the recent security issues it seems like it's time to finally update to iOS 16 (I'm still using iOS 15 at the moment...). The problem is that the computer I usually sync with (which still uses iTunes) is not available to me right...

I've reached out to apple to no avail, so here goes: I have a parent folder "Food". inside the parent folder are three folders Breakfast Lunch Dinner now inside of the three folders are hundreds of folders of recipes. so, breakfast has 200 folders of individual recipes lunch has 500 folders of...

Environment macOS Ventura Version 13.5.1 (22G90) iOS 16.6 (20G75) Problem Yesterday I tried backing up my iPhone via the finder to an external SSD (Samsung T7). I chose to encrypt the backup for privacy and security reasons. However, when I compared my storage on my iPhone vs. the backup file...