Okay so thats a bit of a lie. With these 2 methods the program will open, print the item, and then close the file.  

The first way is to select Print in the Finder s File menu.  This only works if you have the file selected in the Finder window. For example I have a Numbers document named Bills in my documents folder. If I wanted to print that, with this meted, I would open a Finder window navigate to the file and select …

After downloading something, I usually want to go to my downloads folder. I’ve discovered recently that you can put folders into your Safari bookmarks bar. This means that instead of having to click on my downloads folder in the dock, I can simply hit a Keyboard Shortcut and it will open up the Downloads folder in Finder. 

Step 1: In Finder, locate the folder you want to be able to open up from the bookmarks bar.

Step 2: Open up Safari and …

I have most of my folders set to open with the defaults I’ve set for icon size, view columns, etc.; plus a few folders which have their own customized settings. In Tiger and earlier, there was a button on the View Options panel to restore a customized folder to the default view, but we lost this with Leopard. 

I found a really nice tip for those of you who connect to a lot of removable devices and what them to stay in the Finder side Bar.

If you’re anything like me, then you probably access files within folders within folders on removable media (i.e. external hard drives, Flash drives). It can become quite a hassle (with a trackpad, anyway) to open the the media device, select the folder, navigate, select another folder, navigate, and then select the desired file …

DiskLibrary is a fun and easy to use media cataloging application for Mac OS X . DiskLibrary is indispensable if you have a lot of media to keep track of. DiskLibrary catalogs not just your complete file structure, it also creates thumbnails, and stores metadata, for most popular media formats. DiskLibrary is capable of importing export formats from CDFinder, FileFinder, WhereIsIt, DiskCatalogMaker X and DiskTracker.

If you want to be able to get Time Machine’s  icon off the menu bar to free up room for something else you can. To do this open the Time Machine Preferences and un-checking the box “Show Time Machine status in the menu bar”.

Most people know that if you right click and select “Get Info” or “Command + I” on a file in Finder you will get all kinds of information about the file. But, did you know that if you select a few files and “Option + Command + 1″ “Option + Command + I”(Thanks Dave M for the pick up)on that it will show you the total size of the files you have selected.

Are you tired of telling finder it is okay to empty the trash just after you asked it to?

If you have ever had an Application lock up on you in OS X and had to force quit it you know that normally you would go to the apple in the upper right and select the force quit menu. Here is away to speed up the process. If you hold down the shift key after you hit the apple the option to force quit the active Application will appear and you can force quit from there. You can also …

While you can add items to the favorites folder in Finder with Cmd-Shift-T, there’s no easy way to get to it, or, any indication of where it is. To start off, the favorites folder is at (Your_Home_Folder)/Library/Favorites/. Now, you can add aliases to that folder by simply selecting a file/folder and hitting Cmd-Shift-T.

With this in mind, you could add the favorites folder to the dock, or, to the sidebar.

via the MacTipper

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