How do you change folders listed in Finder?
I want more folders to show on my Finder screen. Right now I can't see as much on iCloud as I would like to. I'd like to add "favorites" I often use. Please advise.
iMac 27″, macOS 15.0
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I want more folders to show on my Finder screen. Right now I can't see as much on iCloud as I would like to. I'd like to add "favorites" I often use. Please advise.
iMac 27″, macOS 15.0
CraigT54 wrote: I want more folders to show on my Finder screen.
I'm not totally sure what that means. If you want "Favorites" to be in your iCloud Drive, then just drag it from where it is now to the iCloud Drive folder. iCloud Drive is just a folder like any other, so when you drag Favorites to it, that folder is moved, not copied, and it will disappear from the old place and reappear in iCloud Drive. Then it will be copied to iCloud.com to be available on other devices like your iPhone. If you have Optimize Storage turned on, then when your Mac's drive fills, that folder may be removed from your local iCloud Drive folder and be kept in iCloud.com for you when you need it. You can keep it local by right clicking on Favorites and choosing "Keep Downloaded."
Or do you mean that you'd like to see Favorites in your Finder's Sidebar? In that case, you just drag Favorites to the Sidebar where you'd like it. You can drag it from it's current place, or you can drag it from iCloud Drive.
Is this what you were asking?
Richard, thanks for your help. Let me try again. This is what I see in Finder. I would like to have other folders that I know are on iCloud show up in the Finder sidebar. Where do I see the other folders on iCloud? They aren't on Finder. I know there is one called Documents on the iCloud Drive. (separate from Documents A shown here) I'm drawing a blank as to how to pull up the contents of iCloud Drive.
CraigT54 wrote: … I'm drawing a blank as to how to pull up the contents of iCloud Drive.
Ahhh-- I think what you need to do is to check the Finder Settings. Like other apps (Finder is really an app) you click on the app's name, Finder, in the menu bar to get the settings:
and choose "Sidebar." These are my settings. I change the sidebar so seldom that I forget what to do, sometimes.
Once you open iCloud Drive, you can drag folders from there to the Sidebar. You can even drag apps to the sidebar, but I normally drag those to the dock. You can also grab things in the Sidebar and move them around.
I hope I got it this time…
That's what I needed. Thanks, Craig
How do you change folders listed in Finder?