Mac: Edit Sidebar Items in Finder Posted on Fri, 22 Mar 2013 22:09:28 +0000 Recently I put a CD in my drive but it didn’t show up in my sidebar in the finder. Sidebar Preferences. There’s an easier way to add special locations like music and movies. First, open the Finder preferences (Command +,). Once in the Finder Preferences, click the “Sidebar” tab. From the Sidebar options, you can add or remove sidebar items to.
By In Safari, the web browser installed with OS X El Capitan, click the Sidebar button on the toolbar to show or hide the Safari Sidebar, which has three tabs — Favorites, Reading List, and Shared Links. Bookmarking your favorite pages When you find a web page you want to remember and return to, you bookmark it. Here’s how it works:.
Choose Bookmarks→Add Bookmark, press Command+D, or click the Share button and choose Add Bookmark. Choose where to store the bookmark from the pop-up menu, as shown here. By default, Safari puts them in the Favorites folder. Creating a bookmark. Rename the bookmark or use the name provided by Safari. If you accept the name Safari suggested, this page will appear in the Favorites bar as The BobLeVitus.TV Show.
Click the Add button to save the bookmark. Finding your bookmarks in the Sidebar To return to a bookmarked page, click it in the Favorites bar, choose Bookmarks→Show Bookmarks, press Command+Option+B, or click the Show Sidebar button to see all your bookmarks in the Sidebar, as shown. If you add the Bookmark to the Favorites folder (as shown), it automatically appears in the Favorites bar; if you add the bookmark outside the Favorites folder in the Sidebar, it will not appear in the Favorites bar but will be available at the bottom of the Bookmarks menu and in the Bookmarks Sidebar. Open bookmarked pages in the Sidebar by clicking them.
View the contents of folders (such as Favorites, BL.TV show, Techno, TMO, Alltops, and Social in the figure) by single-clicking their name in the list. The figure shows, in particular, the contents of the Favorites bar folder with the contents of the Social subfolder expanded.
To organize your Bookmarks window or place bookmarks on the toolbar or Bookmarks menu, move bookmarks by dragging them. You can place bookmarks and folders of bookmarks on the Safari Favorites bar or in the Bookmarks menu by dragging them to the appropriate folder. If you drag a folder of bookmarks to the Favorites folder (or directly onto the Favorites bar itself), the result is a drop-down menu. To delete a bookmark, right- or Control+click it and choose Delete. Command+click a folder in the Bookmarks window or Favorites bar to simultaneously open all the bookmarks it contains. You’ve probably noticed this handy behavior by now, but it’s worth mentioning: When you click in the empty Search or Enter Website Name field, a sheet drops down displaying your Favorites; The sheet is replaced by a list of search results and suggestions as soon as you type the first character.
Understandably, the sheet doesn’t appear if the current page is Favorites or Top Sites. But it’s a convenient feature. Last but not least, Safari gained a fabulous new feature in El Capitan — a little blue speaker icon that appears in on the right side of the Search or Enter Website Name field if audio is playing on any page. Click the speaker and Safari will go silent even if the audio is coming from an inactive tab or a hidden window. What’s on your Reading List?
The Reading List serves as a repository for pages or links you want to read but don’t want to read right now. It’s a lot like a bookmark but easier to create on the fly, which makes the Reading List perfect for sites or links you don’t need to keep forever (that’s what bookmarks are for). To see your Reading List, click the Show Sidebar icon and then click the Reading List tab (shown here). To add the page you’re viewing to your Reading List, hover your cursor over the left side of the Search or Enter Website Name field and then click the + that appears, as shown. (You can also use the keyboard shortcut Command+Shift+D or click the Share button and choose Add to Reading List from its menu.).
Adding the current page to the Reading List. To add a link to your Reading List without actually visiting the page, just press the Shift key before you click a link. It’s fast and easy, and it works even if the Sidebar is closed. Or you can right- or Control-click the link and choose Add to Reading List from the contextual menu. To delete an item from the Reading List, hover the cursor over it and then click the little x that appears in its upper-right corner (as shown for the Snark SN-1 item in the figure), or right- or Control-click the item and then choose Remove Item.
If you have other Macs or iDevices, you can sync your Reading List among your devices by enabling Safari in the iCloud System Preferences pane. What the heck is a shared link? Shared Links is a cool feature that aggregates links shared by your friends on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites you’ve enabled in Internet Accounts or Extensions System Preferences panes as well as RSS feeds you’ve enabled by clicking the Subscriptions button at the bottom of the Sidebar.
Then Shared Links displays them in a chronological list. And that is what Shared Links is all about.
If you’re planning on using the list frequently, you’ll want to add/remove some items to your liking to fully customize the list. Adding / Removing Shortcuts from the Sidebar Adding and removing items in the Favorites sidebar, is in fact quite easy. To add an item to the sidebar, all you need to do is locate the original folder you want to add, and drag it from there to the sidebar. Similarly, if you want to remove an item, all you have to do is click on it in the sidebar and drag it anywhere on the desktop; whilst doing this, you’ll see a small gray X appear near your mouse cursor to indicate that it’s going to disappear.
You can also right-click (double click) on any shortcut in the sidebar, and select “Remove from Sidebar” to remove it from the Favorites list: Note: on versions of OS X prior to OS X Mavericks, you may need to hold down the Option key while adding or removing items to the Favorites sidebar. Another way to edit the contents of the Favorites Sidebar is from the Finder Preferences: 1.
Click on Finder in the top-left corner after opening a Finder window, and click on Preferences. In the Sidebar tab you’ll be presented with a complete list of the default entries in the Favorites sidebar. Remove any of the default Favorites by unchecking them, or add them back if you’ve previously removed them.
This method doesn’t allow you to add any new shortcuts to the Sidebar but is still useful if you want an easy way to disable some options in the Favorites section. How to Remove the Finder Sidebar Completely If you’re not a fan of the sidebar, and you’d like to remove it completely, you can do just that very simply. In a Finder window, put your mouse cursor on the divider between the sidebar and the rest of the Finder window, and drag the divider to the left.
This should make the sidebar completely disappear from the window, leaving the content window only.