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Finder Tweaks 2: Extra Toolbar Items
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Sometimes when we are working around with Mac Finder, we need to have some quick shortcuts to quickly launch application or to navigate to particular application. From the Finder itself we can customize the toolbar.
You can actually drag and drop most used tools like Path, New Folder, Get Info, Eject, and Delete as main toolbar for most of quick file actions. To arrange toolbar, we can add one or more separators or flexible spaces.
Favorite Items
These collection of favorite items can be opened by pressing command-option while pressing top-right corner pill button.
Extra Tools for Toolbar
Besides, there are a lot of extra tools out there that we can use to increase our productivity. I have only added few toolbar items as I don't want to clutter my Finder toolbar itself.
Some third party toolbars that we find them useful.
Open Terminal Here
Just download and drag it to your toolbar and rearrange it according to your preference. Open Terminal Here can be used to launch Terminal with current path as working directory.
Open in TextMate
I am using TextMate as my development tool, loading the files in a directory become more frequent because of this. I am using this plugin to faster access my development environment which is located in different folders for each different projects.
Full Screen Finder
This plugin is used to browse Finder in full screen mode in just one click away.
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3 Comments
Dimi
Hi! I’m a MacOS newbie and I find your articles/hints extremely useful and easy to follow... thanks!! I was looking at the screenshots above and noticed a ‘toolbar’ at the bottom of your Finder windows; the one that has icons for ‘Macintosh HD’, ‘User’ and ‘chardy’. Can you please explain how I could get something like this in my Finder? Thanks!
Wendy
Hi, Dimi. You only need to open Finder and then go to menu bar, choose View → Show Path Bar and then you're set.
Dimi
Thanks so much Wendy!
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