The Finder sidebar and view options

We are now going to present the features that are offered to us by the new window that opens as soon as her to click on the View Options menu item shows analyzed in the previous chapter. The new window that will appear a window like this:

We are now going to analyze the main settings that you can make from this new window. The icon size slider called has the same effect of the slider at the bottom right of the window presented in the previous chapter. Very useful but it is the grid spacing slider that allows you to adjust the size of the cells containing the icons of files. To be clear, if you move the slider to the right increased the space occupied by a single cell and thus increase the space between icon and the next. Again the reader can adjust the cell size at will, but it is advisable to keep a very high because this spacing allows for rapid identification of various elements within the main window.

The Voice Text size sets the size of the font indicates the name of the file or folder, while the item label position can change the position of the name of the files or folders.

We recommend to check the two check boxes to display information item, and preview shows. This is because, this information can be very useful when we seek such an image within a window that contains many elements. Without the preview, we should open each file and check that what is sought and of course, as the number of files within the window, this is temporarily dispensdiosa.

The last setting that you can make in the menu is to change the background of the main fienstra. Here too the reader is left free choice, but it is recommended to keep the white background by default, because color can be too intense fatigue seen in a significantly prolonged use of computers.

It 'worth noting that the settings that are made using this menu affect only and exclusively on the main window from which we drew the same menu. If we want to make these settings common to all windows of the Finder, simply click on the button below uses as the default.

We are now going to analyze the main elements of the Finder sidebar.

Sidebar

The Finder sidebar is a very useful tool that allows a quick navigation through folders on your hard disk and has a structure like this:

As we see the sidebar can be divided into three main devices, locations, and look.

As for the label devices, they will be inserted below the list of devices connected to your computer. In my case there is only the hard disk drives (ignored for the moment, the device iDisk) because I have only this piece of hardware is physically connected and in use at this time. If, for example, connect a thumb drive or external hard drive to your computer this type of device will be present in the device list (same thing will happen when you insert a CD or DVD into your optical drive). Once an external device has been included in this list as if it had been "recognized" by the computer and simply click on the name of the device to access its contents. To make a comparison with a Windows computer that list is the list of devices displayed in the window after opening the My Computer folder.

Position in the list identified by the label we collect some important folders, so to speak, or those folders that are usually used as the user such as the Desktop and My Documents. And 'possible to customize this list by simply dragging the desired folder in the list as you can see from the screenshot below:

The list contains the label search queries made ​​through the instrument spotlight and Mac OS X offers us and that we discuss in the next chapter.

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