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I have a folder on my laptop that i make changes to almost everyday. For backup purposes I've copied the folder to dropbox, but now my question is is there any way i can get the dropbox folder to automatically "update" pr synchronise with the folder on my mac?

I always have a finder windows with some tabs opened, but everytime I click in an app for open a link/folder it opens me a new window. Example: with Dropbox, in the status bar, If I click on a recent uploaded file, it ignores the fact that I have a finder windows opened and opens a new one...

Okay, so I have a 2010 Macbook Pro, 13.3 inch with 10.6.8. It seems like every time I make a file in textedit or edit one, then try to find it later, I can't. Every few days the file will show back up. I guess this means it's indexing, but there's no indication of that on my laptop by the...

Good Morning Mac Community, Bit of an add question here, but I could do with some technical advice. Does anyone know whether photos can reappear back in Finder long after they were apparently deleted? I just found some very suspicious and "end of marriage" type photographs on my husband's...

Hi, Weird question, I have a WD 6TB MyCloud drive that works using the MyCloud app to connect, but on the Finder under the Devices/Shared section I do not get a connection to the drive this way. I don't know if this is because of El Capitan or not, but it did work for a time with the Yosemite...

I want Finder to always open in a particular location on my screen. Is there a way to make it do that?

I have a small office with a Windows 7 PC being used as our server. I have no issue seeing and accessing the server from my iMac but recently I've run into a huge problem that is crippling my work. On my iMac I open "server" in finder (it shows up in the shared column of Finder), I navigate...

I'm just having a clear out before purchasing a new iMac, and just wondering what files I need for my iTunes library. I have two folders which look the same - i.e. look as though they contain all my music, which are: Music/iTunes/iTunes Music (68GB) Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music (56GB) Do I...

Hi, For some reason, my finder window is not sorting my files by date created. It does sort them by date in terms of year, but that's all. for example in this one folder, all the files for 2014 are just in alphabetical order. Any ideas why this is? Thanks

Hi, I noticed something strange today on my m4v files in the Finder, in the list view. There is no more thumbnails on them, just a blank icon: In icon view all is OK. And even in list view, if I change the size of the icons to the larger one in view options, the thumbnails appears...

After updating to El Cap 10.11.3 from Yose: Switching between tabs in Safari or Finder doesn't work using Ctrl+Tab. It works only for switching between tool buttons. In Chrome and Firefox it still works as before. Have had this problem before upon updating major versions.

Yosemite 10.10.5, ACDSee 3.7, iMac with external SSD as boot disk Yesterday I had been looking at my photos in ACDsee. After I had finished, I shut down the Mac. I usually do that without closing any programs, I let Yosemite do that (wrong?). When I started the Mac a few hours later the photo...

I unchecked and re-checked whatever is in the Devices multiple times, but nothing changes. Tested it with the ones in Favourites; they get updated fine real-time. But not whatever is in Devices. I used Terminal to repair permissions. Deleted finder plist and the sidebarlists plist and...

I have a somewhat strange problem. I have two network external drives, one Dlink and one WD. When trying to access any of these or even any other machine on my home network that are listed under "Shared" on my iMac, Finder crashes. If I click on network and then try to access anything on the...

It's 2016 and Apple still hasn't added this basic functionality into the finder... at least not properly. The UNIVERSALLY accepted method to cut/paste has always and forever should be cmd+x and then cmd+v. This is true for all applications I've ever come across except for the Finder. For the...

Hi! On my iMac with OSX 10.10.5 I've 1 Raid 5 drive (ThunderBay, using SoftRAID) via Thunderbolt and 2 USB drives. I do use CCC to clone my Raid 5 to both USB's. When I drag a folder from my ThunderBay to Finders sidebar and I click it, it points correctly to the folder on the ThunderBay...

Hey everyone, I'm running the latest OS X 10.11.2 (15C50) on a mid-2012 15" MBP (screenshot: http://cl.ly/2g00023m0E2f). I've been facing a rather annoying issue (even after resetting my Spotlight cache numerous times) – everytime I look for a file/folder using Spotlight and if Spotlight finds...

I have 2 TB of files on a external WD my book duo. I'm trying to copy the files to another external drive using finder on my iMac. It gets part way through and stops, complaining that the file is open. I don't see any files open, and logged off the other profiles. I even rebooted the iMac...

Hi, I bought a new 5TB external hard drive to use as a back up for my existing 5TB drive. There are approx 1.2TB (80K) photos in various folders to be backed up and I used Intego Back Up Manager to copy the files across. I formatted the new drive correctly before starting the back up and...