I have late 2009 iMAC 21.5" with MacOS 10.12.6 with Windows for Mac. When Finder opens Documents, Windows takes control and displays only Windows docs. How do I over ride this default and display ALL my documents?
OBS,iMac (21.5-inch Late 2009), iOS 10.3.3, Actually 10.12.6 but not on list
ChalkieJbay wrote:
Well... yes... sort of... The page Finder takes me to does not have the up/down window where I van navigate to folders I want, It only offers the Office stuff...
Which is perfectly normal. If you are using Apple's Pages and asking it to Open a file, it will only show you files that it is capable of opening. If you are attempting to open a file that is not compatible with Apple's Pages or MS word, you would not be trying to open them from within those Apps/Programs.
Ok, more confusion for me. I restarted my computer to see if that would fix the problem. Firefox used the time to install an update, all looks different and I find this message in mail but not in the chat.
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Thanks, I see the two folder icons look different, how do I resolve the open/closed problem?
Thx Stedman, please check my screenshots above to see the problem I am trying to resolve. If I enter Documents throug Pages etc. it shows all documents, with the ones Pages cannot access as greyed out but still displayed. If I search for Finder : Documents it takes me to the MS Office area with no other docs and no other way or window for navigation. I need to redirect Finder to open the area of ALL docs.
OK. I am still trying to resolve this issue and think I might have found something. In the Dock I see I have two folders, one is APPs and the other is iCloud and all iCloud has in it is MS User Data. So finder is looking for Documents in the cloud and I do not use it. How do I switch off iCloud?
I will be away from home today and tonight, so will continue tomorrow (Wed 13th) about noon your time.
iCloud. Mail has 5 mails only. 1 of 2013, 3 of 2015 and 1 of 2017.
Contacts has All my contacts.
Storage allocated 5Gb 2.69 available.
Thanks Luis, here is the screenshot
Screenshot from Launchpad
Thanks Cs, now we are getting somewhere. I opened Pages : File : Open... this takes me to all my documents. See screenshot: I can even select the various divisions/folders in the top window.
Here is the problem, now all I need to do is to delete the lower Documents folder.
Documents entered thru Finder. See Finder bar at top...
I forgot to add the screenshot
What you are saying is all but clear. Maybe you can post screenshots of what you are seeing?
No idea how to post a screenshot. Born BC :-)
Start by telling us what on earth Windows for Mac is.
If you are running Windows in a virtual machine, if you quit the virtual machine, does it work normally?
Windows taking over MAC
