InfoHeap
Tech
Navigation
  • Home
  • Tutorials
    • CSS tutorials & examples
    • CSS properties
    • Javascript cookbook
    • Linux/Unix Command Line
    • Mac
    • PHP
      • PHP functions online
      • PHP regex
    • WordPress
  • Online Tools
    • Text utilities
    • Online Lint Tools
search

Mac Finder

  • Change search default folder to current folder
  • Mac Finder - how to change default folder
  • Open Finder from terminal
  • Search files by name
  • Search system hidden files
 
  • Home
  • > Tutorials
  • > Mac
  • > Mac Finder

Mac Finder – how to change default folder

By admin on Oct 8, 2015

Finder app on Mac when opened start with a default folder. Sometimes it opens “all my files” which takes somewhat long time to display. You may probably want to open the folder you use most. Here are quick steps to change the default folder in Finder on Mac

  1. First open the Finder and click on “Finder” > “Preferences…” in menu tp open Finder’s preference window. Ensure that General tab is selected. You should see the default folder in section “New Finder windows shows” as shown below:
    finder-preferences-default-folder-higjlighted
  2. Click on the options present in section “New Finder windows shows” to the desired value as shown below. Here were are choosing Documents as default folder.
    finder-preferences-default-folder-options
  3. Now close the Finder window and reopen it. This time the default folder you selected should open in the Finder window.

Suggested posts:

  1. How to enable Chrome tabs on Android Lollipop
  2. Mac – how to take timed screenshot
  3. How to run a program as administrator on windows 10
  4. How to delete files starting with dash/hyphen
  5. Iterate over specific file extension in a dir in shell script
  6. How to remove hard drive icon from mac desktop
  7. AWS EBS and reliability/durability
  8. How to insert multiple rows in google sheets
Share this article: share on facebook share on linkedin tweet this submit to reddit
Posted in Tutorials | Tagged Mac, Mac Finder, Tutorials
  • Browse content
  • Article Topics
  • Article archives
  • Contact Us
Popular Topics: Android Development | AngularJS | Apache | AWS and EC2 | Bash shell scripting | Chrome developer tools | Company results | CSS | CSS cookbook | CSS properties | CSS Pseudo Classes | CSS selectors | CSS3 | CSS3 flexbox | Devops | Git | HTML | HTML5 | Java | Javascript | Javascript cookbook | Javascript DOM | jQuery | Kubernetes | Linux | Linux/Unix Command Line | Mac | Mac Command Line | Mysql | Networking | Node.js | Online Tools | PHP | PHP cookbook | PHP Regex | Python | Python array | Python cookbook | SEO | Site Performance | SSH | Ubuntu Linux | Web Development | Webmaster | Wordpress | Wordpress customization | Wordpress How To | Wordpress Mysql Queries | InfoHeap Money

Copyright © 2025 InfoHeap.

Powered by WordPress