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| Video: Showing The Library Folder In Mac OS X Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:39 PM PDT Hey, Many posts on this site utilities the users Library folder. This is a folder that many applications and system apps use to store information such as preferences, cache files and other files and folders. Todays video is a quick video on how to access this folder. In the latest version of Mac OS X, the guys decided it would be a good idea to hide this folder from view. It is still easily accessible however it takes a quick keyboard trick. The second half of the video discusses how to show the Library folder permanently by using a Terminal command to remove the hidden aspect of the folder. If you want to watch more YouTube video, please subscribe to the video channel. If you can’t see the video below you can watch it on Youtube. Want to catch up on the latest Tweets about this site, follow me on Twitter. You can like this site on Facebook. |
| Speed Up Your Mac By Disabling File Previews Posted: 21 Aug 2013 12:02 PM PDT Hey, Speed is king. Although you may have a fast Mac you may always want to speed it up. Today’s post is going to discuss a neat little trick to help speed up your Mac. This process is going to disable the image previews used by your Mac within Finder. Every time you open a Finder window in icon view, you Mac has to open every file to generate a thumbnail preview of the image. This slows you Mac down, especially those with slow hard drives, due to it having to access everything single file. By turning this functionality off it is a lot quicker to open and access files within icon mode in Finder. If you have enjoyed this type of tip I recommend installing CleanMyMac, so you can clean up your Mac and have other speed increases. Disabling Icon PreviewTo disable the icon preview go to View > Show View Options, alternatively press Command + J. This will bring up the view options for that Finder window.  Disable Icon Previews using the view options. You will immediately notice that the Finder window will revert back to the default icons. This effect is best seen on an image folder. You can apply this effect to just select folders. However, if you want to apply it to every folder on your Mac press the ‘Use as Defaults’ button at the bottom of the window. This will use this setting as the default for every folder. It is a little speed increase, but one that can help for Mac’s with slow hard drives. Want to catch up on the latest Tweets about this site, follow me on Twitter. You can like this site on Facebook. |
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