Best App For Organizing Mac Files

Back when I was doing the Work Awesome podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jesse Jacobs for. He is the founder of Samovar Tea Lounge (based in San Francisco), and occasionally writes over at his weblog,. One of the things that we chatted about after the recording was how we keep our computers organized. I talked to him a bit about how I did it and told him that I’d write a post about it someday. He then had this to say: “Please do write the post. I’ve not heard or read anything on best practices for folder organization. And, include screen shots!” Almost one year later, I’m delivering the goods as part of my “How I” Week.

How to format a startup drive for a Mac If you want to format a drive that will be used as your Mac’s startup disk, the procedure is a little different from formatting it for use as a secondary. Startup Manager identifies your Time Machine backup as ”EFI Boot.” If you can't select your startup disk or start up from it Check for these possibilities if you can't see your disk in Startup Disk preferences or Startup Manager, or your Mac won't start up from it. It sounds like your USB disk is formatted using a GUID partition table (GPT); the EFI partition a standard part of how OS X formats disks with GPT, so it probably shouldn't be removed. What I suspect you really want, though, is to replace the GPT with a master boot record (MBR) partition table instead.

How I Don’t Organize My Mac I don’t keep much media on my MacBook Air. The Air has less than half the storage of my old MacBook Pro, so my goal is always to keep it lean and mean. Check out my Movies folder below You get the idea. Here’s what media I don’t keep locally: • My main iTunes Library. This was a bit of a problem when you used to have to sync your iDevices directly to your machine. But now with wi-fi syncing and iCloud (sort of), this isn’t something I need to keep on my Air. Even software updates can be done on the devices themselves now.

Full screen in excel 2013. New in Windows Excel 2016, this shortcut toggles a full screen mode that hides both the ribbon and status bar. When the formula bar is visible, this provides space to view 8 more rows. When the formula bar is hidden, this shortcut shows 10 more rows in a worksheet. We don't know an equivalent shortcut on the Mac. Important: The Full screen option is not available in Excel 2013 and later versions.However, you can always hide the ribbon, tabs, or commands, to maximize the screen space in Excel. For more information, see Show or hide the ribbon in Office.

And since I use Instacast for my podcasting needs and for my music needs, I generally have local music stored on my Drobo for archival purposes these days. They’re on my iPad and stored on my Drobo as well. For the times and amount I watch, it’s not something I need to have stored right on my machine.

We tested nine photo manager programs for a total of 85 hours to discover which had the best organizing, editing and sharing features. Our choice for the best photo manager software is CyberLink PhotoDirector 9. It lets you organize photos by date, color labels, star ratings, locations and even by person through facial recognition.

Having Netflix on my iPad helps as well. • My main iPhoto Library. Again, we use an external drive for this (that also gets backed up to the Drobo) for this.

It’s a 320GB portable drive that my wife and I can share between the family machine (re: my old MacBook Pro) and my Air. That said, much of the photos I want are already on my iPad and iPhone to show people quickly and easily. 1 I don’t keep much on the Dock. My Dock is kept hidden – and when it does come out to greet me it contains only the following: • Finder • LaunchBar • (run with Fluid.app) • Sparrow • Safari • • nvALT • • Scrivener • Downloads Folder • Trash If I could get rid of Finder and LaunchBar, I would. But doing so would modify them in a way that I’m not terribly comfortable with, so they are staying put. I hide the Dock so it gets out of my way and the things I keep on the Dock are the things I use most often.

I will also place items on the Dock from time to time that I do need to use for a project so that I get a visual trigger whenever I use my Air. Scrivener is getting that nod right now since I’m working on a book, and any application I’m putting through the paces will end up there during the testing phase as well. 2 I don’t use Spaces/Expose.