Cleaning Files from Desktop

[scottsavi]

Hey
I am forever saving files to my desktop and its constantly becoming a mess - is there any form of automation that can move doc, XLSX, PDF files etc to a present location on the hard drive ?

Cheers

Scott

 

[Mr.Blacky]

If not already done, use stacks on the desktop. Just drag and drop your files in the corresponding locations. From now on, just save your files in the right locations in the first place. 🙂

 

[SamC741]

I clean my Desktop after every 3 months and it take me almost 30 mins to do so...

 

[Slartibart]

open a Finder window and change it to list view. Navigate to your Desktop. In list view change the order to kind (see the Apple support page).

Open a second Finder window and navigate to the folder where you want to save some of the files - or create a new folder and open it.

Select e.g. all PDFs from the first window - that should be easy because after sorting the files to kind all PDFs are listed after another - and drag them into the second window where you want to save them.

 

[KALLT]

You can use Automator or Shortcuts to help you. Alternatively, there is the paid third-party app Hazel that specialises in this kind of automation.