I am trying to sync my computer through google drive. Often these symbols appear next to folders and files and I would like to understand exactly what they mean, and when I will see them. Surely there is some big list of the definitions of each symbol? 1. Blue and white cloud: 2. Empty cloud: 3. Empty cloud with arrow: 4. Dotted cloud: 5. Green checkmark: 6. Red exclamation mark 7. Nothing (even when inside a folder with one of the other symbols, or a folder containing files with one of the other symbols) 8. Looks like I can also have multiple of these: (blue and white cloud + empty cloud): Probably there are others, but I'm just surprised to keep encountering new symbols I haven't seen, and I really want to understand the technical meaning behind them.

I used to convert a bunch of HEIC pictures on my MacBook into JPEG format by using Finder, marking the HEIC, and use from the context menu "Quick Actions" and then "Convert Image". Since my update to MacOS 12.7.3 (I think I had before 12.7.1 or 12.7.2), this does not work anymore. I don't get any error message or other visual feedback either. Clicking on "Convert to JPEG" simply does not have any observable effect. How can this be fixed?

System: iMac M4, Sequoia 15.6 I found various suggestions for quick ways to create a large file for testing purposes. What I don't understand is what dd actually produces. Example: dd if=/dev/urandom of=bar.txt bs=1g count=10 seek=100 Finder window says "bar.txt 118.11 GB" . But the GetInfo window says "size 118,111,600,640 bytes (10.75 GB on disk) " Further, the GetInfo window for "Macintosh HD" seems to agree with the smaller value so far as disk space used vs. free is concerned. I'm guessing that my inexperience with dd means I'm not using bs and seek correctly? If so, what are a set of compatible args to use so the output file has a reliable size reported? As a side note, mkfile 10g fmkfile.txt produces a file that both Finder and GetInfo agree is 10.74 GB.

I'm trying to make a button on finders toolbar that will group the open folders items by kind and sort by name. I found a script online that ive modified that appears to do this, t stops after changing to icon view and doesnt appear to do anything else. tell application "Finder" activate tell the front Finder window set the current view to icon view set the toolbar visible to true end tell tell icon view options of front Finder window set properties to {sort column:name column, sort direction:normal, text size:12, uses relative dates:true, calculates folder sizes:true, shows icon preview:true} end tell tell application "System Events" to tell process "Finder" tell menu item "Show View Options" of menu of menu bar item "View" of menu bar 1 to if exists then click tell checkbox "Always open in icon view" of window 1 to if (exists) and value is 0 then click tell checkbox "Always open in list view" of window 1 to if (exists) and value is 1 then click tell checkbox "Date Modified" of group 1 of window 1 to if (exists) and value is 1 then click tell checkbox "Date Created" of group 1 of window 1 to if (exists) and value is 1 then click tell checkbox "Size" of group 1 of window 1 to if (exists) and value is 1 then click tell checkbox "Kind" of group 1 of window 1 to if (exists) and value is 0 then click tell checkbox "Version" of group 1 of window 1 to if v(exists) and alue is 1 then click tell checkbox "Comments" of group 1 of window 1 to if (exists) and value is 1 then click tell checkbox "Label" of group 1 of window 1 to if (exists) and value is 1 then click end tell end tell

My old MacBook Pro running macOS 10.13.6 gives all the info I care about in the Finder when I select the file in interest, pointed out by the red rectangle. My new M1 MacBook Air running macOS 13 doesn't do the job well. I have to resize the window, so that I can see the dimensions info. How can I make my MacBook Air show the file info the same way that the older macOS does? ### Preview options. I can set preview options for a particular image, though it affects just the one I selected.

I read that I could rename a folder to have the..tmp extension to prevent it syncing over. I did this to a folder that had some confidential files, but I renamed the folder in my icloud drive and the files have all disappeared. I found a copy of the folder on the desktop, but that was also empty. Any idea where I could locate these files or are they lost?

I find that I generally cannot remove files on my main (hfs) external drive via Preview. I can remove them via a Finder window, and I can remove then from Terminal, just not Preview! If they're on my main drive (the internal SSD on my Mac Mini), I can remove them via Preview without any problem. Here's the directories (and security flags) for one file in question (foo.jpg): ls -l -d / /Volumes/ss /Volumes/ss/pics /Volumes/ss/pics/misc drwxr-xr-x 20 root wheel 640 Oct 12 2022 / drwxrwxr-x+ 97 root wheel 3366 Jul 26 22:49 /Volumes/ss drwxrwxr-x 33 sieler staff 1122 Jul 27 21:17 /Volumes/ss/pics drwxrwxr-x 13 sieler staff 442 Jul 27 21:24 /Volumes/ss/pics/misc -rw-r--r-- 1 sieler staff 3035137 Jul 19 12:40 foo.jpg Attempts to remove via Previe (e.g., right-click, select 'Move to Trash'; or left click and hit command-backspace) get a popup: You do not have permission to move the file "foo.jpg" to the trash. What's wrong with Preview? (And, can I fix it?) My external drive is: macOS Extended (Journaled) I'm on Monterey (12.6.1) *** **Update**: Oddly, Preview will let me rotate them and save them back in place, which effectively removes (and recreates) them, so it *has* access! And, since I can Finder-remove, or Terminal/rm-remove, I clearly have the rights to remove the file (and to access the .Trash folder). (Yes, the vast majority of other files on the drive are Preview removable.)

In a terminal, ls -al, lists the complete folder contents of the home folder. Among the folders, there are Downloads and Documents. Both have the exact same access rights set. Now when I open the home folder in Finder. The Documents folder is missing. Why? ![Screenshot of the Home folder showing the Applications and Downloads folder but no Documents folder ][1] The output of ls -al for the home folder:

drwxr-xr-x@  3 christian  staff   96B Dec 19 14:17 Applications
drwx------@  4 christian  staff  128B Dec 21 09:57 Desktop
drwx------@  8 christian  staff  256B Dec 21 09:57 Documents
drwx------@  8 christian  staff  256B Dec 21 10:01 Downloads

I had a dozen or so windows with some tabs open in Finder for a long time. Today I find out it's randomly lost them all. Is there a way to restore the open windows/tabs using a Time Machine backup? Thanks! EDIT: I tried restoring "com.apple.finder.plist" from /Users/[User]/Library/Preferences but it doesn't work. I don't think the system is letting me do this properly while Finder is running. Is there a way to keep it killed while I swap the file? Or how could I do this from recovery? Does this file even store the open folders?

"Any File.pdf" is in the Trash (~/.Trash). How can I determine its original location? (the folder where that file would move *if* one selected "Put Back" (*without* doing so)?) "Get Info" does not say

Is there a way to navigate through a list of files and select individual files (like you would normally do with command + click) but using only the keyboard ?

When you click on unselected file and start moving it up to start dragging, mac os selects sibling files instead of dragging.

I’m looking at some video files (captured from various iOS and Android devices) using Finder’s Inspector. In the “more info” section, it lists Dimensions, Codecs, and Duration… but there’s also a “Color profile” which I don’t understand. For image files, this would be something like sRGB, but for video files, it just displays cryptic numbers. Depending on the file, it either displays as “HD (1-1-1)” or “(5-1-5)”. So my questions are: * Is there a webpage somewhere that explains what the numbers mean for these video color profiles? * Does one set of numbers indicate a higher-quality video (à la chroma subsampling)?

I'm on macOS Big Sur 11.1, and I wanted to use a different folder for my Safari downloads, so I created another directory and did

-s ~/Downloads

on it (symlinked). Everything works fine except for a small thing. In the Finder app, on the sidebar, this folder has a "standard folder" icon, even if it is recognized in the preferences as my Downloads folder (see the attached pictures). Is there any way to at least make the Finder think that folder as the original Downloads folder? Or maybe is there a way to manually change its icon? Please note that I already found some answers to my question on this site, but they seem to not to be compatible with Big Sur.

According to System Preferences, the Downtime feature of Screen Time "[s]ets a schedule for time away from the screen. During downtime, only apps that you choose to allow and phone calls will be available." Downtime blocks most apps, but it does not block Finder. It blocks the Quick Look feature of Finder for video but not audio or PDF. How can I block Quick Look for all file types during downtime? Alternatively, can I force a log out during downtime? As I recall, the Restrictions feature that preceded Screen Time could force a log out. If Screen Time cannot do this, then what parental control apps can?

Super simple use case: 1. Take a picture on iPhone. 1. Go to Mac, open a program where I can choose a file to send to a friend. 1. Click on Media / Photos in the shortcuts bar. 1. Wait for it ... intended picture DOES NOT appear. Instead, I see bunch of old pictures. Why doesn't Finder's Photos integration not able to show the latest pictures I took on my iPhone? Isn't the whole idea of this that I can see what is in my Photos library? And, I have verified that the intended picture is actually showing up in Photos app, just not in the file picker in the Finder integration.

I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 15 inches, mid-2015) with a 2.8 GHz Intel quad core i7 processor, now running macOS Catalina 10.15.3. Before the upgrade, I could do a search as follows. Press ⌘ + F to open a Finder window; select what I want to search (this Mac, recent files, etc); press the Plus Sign to add criteria (such as extension, title, type of file, etc). After the upgrade, there is no Plus Sign. All I can do is search all occurrences of whatever I type. How do I add search criteria like I did before?

I very much like the Finder shortcut CmdShiftG to navigate my files. However, it is a hassle having to open the Finder every time I use it. I would therefore greatly benefit from being able to use this function from any app that is currently open, launching the nice dialog in which I can enter my folder path. Is there any way to accomplish this? The shortcut does not have to be CmdShiftG.

**Disclaimer**: *I have actual clinically diagnosed OCD, so please, excuse my request if you find it silly, thank you.* Sometimes I misclick while using Finder, and as a result, files are dragged and moved between folders, or I double click to open a file and instead it gets me to rename it. Can I use Terminal, or some kind of script, to prevent Finder from click-drag-moving or renaming files (unless a user defined modifier key is pressed at the same time, like ⌥ Option or ⌘ Command) There's the Esc button in order to cancel an action, indeed, (as well as the Undo function), but unfortunately due to my OCD, it doesn't reassure me.

I was hoping there was a way I would be able to make all folders and files hidden on the OS X Desktop, but leave the Hard drive(s), network drives, CD's/DVD's, etc. But if I was to go into the Desktop Folder using Finder, the items would still be there. So, basically the opposite of the Finder Preferences of showing specific items on the desktop, to hide the files, etc. but leave the HDD's, CD's, etc.: Thanks a lot