Command-Shift-C - top-level Computer folder.

Use the following keyboard shortcuts to open a specific folder in Finder: The first helps you keep your trash from overflowing with files, and the second helps you navigate Finder more easily by grouping your folders above your files.

Keep folders on top when sorting by name.

Remove items from the Trash after 30 days.

If you are using MacOS Sierra, click the Advanced tab in Preferences and you'll see two new check boxes:

You can change to your Home or Documents folder or whichever folder you use the most.

Under the General tab, you will see that for New Finder windows show, the default is All My Files. Click the Finder menu in the menu bar and select Preferences. If you navigate to a particular folder often, then you can set it as your default and save yourself a few clicks each time you open Finder. Wait about 5-20 seconds for it to show up in the side bar.Whether you are using OS X El Capitan or MacOS Sierra, these shortcuts will make you faster at finding things with Finder. Under your user: Click the Login Items tab.ĭrag the volume(s) from the Finder into the Login Items list in the System Preferences window. Under 'Show these items on the Desktop,'enable the option for 'Connected servers.'Ĭonnect to the server volume(s) you would like to automatically mount at login. Make sure to remember the credentials in your Keychain if you don't want to be asked for the login and password every time.įor Mac OS X v10.4, v10.5, and v10.6 and apparently 10.8 (tested it myself April 2013)įrom the Finder menu, choose Preferences. Note: After following the below steps and the 'Connect to Server' dialog box appears on startup, type your name and password, or choose Guest access, then click Connect. To make a server connection a login item, follow the steps below: Mac OS X can open or execute designated login items immediately after you log in to your computer. Small price to pay to have the rest of the day with a usable sidebar :pĬredit to rizion216 for finding the workound But in our case most machines stay on, and if I have to reboot or i suffer a crash then it takes less than 20 seconds to open a finder, log off and log back on again. Unfortunately you still do need to remember to keep a finder window open when you shutdown. This has worked for me on multiple ML machines using regular SMB shares, and software managed shares (AvidISIS). (On some machines with lots of startup items, I dragged 'Macintosh HD' into the list before any items to mount shares.)

Log off then log in again (you dont need to reboot).

Open a new Finder window ⌘N (doesnt matter where).

Drag your network shares to the 'Devices' section in the sidebar (they wont stick this is ok for now).

The solution that works for me (more of a workaround) is that you need to have a finder window opened before you mount any network shares. This is definitely a bug that hopefully Apple will fix!!

Mac finder window missing shortcuts