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Hi this is Gary with MacMost.com. Let's take a look at using Finder Window Tabs.
So I'm using Mac OS 10.9. We're going to look at Finder Tabs.
You have a typical Finder window here and it works just as is has in previous version
of Mac OS X except now you can open up Tabs. You can do this in many different ways. For
instance you can do File/New Tab here or Command T. You can see I have two tabs here. They
are both looking at the same things. Let's have this one look at something else. We'll
dig down into Home Docs here. Now we can see this is looking at Documents and this is looking
at Home Docs.
I can also change what Finder view I am using. So I can us say List View for this, Icon view
for this. You can see, back and forth. Just like having two completely separate Finder
windows except they are both here, combined into one, and I can use these tabs. Just click
on them to go back and forth. Of course I can click on the X to close a tab. In addition
to File menu or Command T I can use the plus button to open up a new tab. So I can dig
down in like that. So now I have three tabs open and I can have them in three different
modes as well.
You can interact between these tabs very easily. For instance if I wanted to move something
from this Home Docs folder into My Videos I can do so by simply grabbing and dragging
over to the tab. It will then shift to this tab and I can drop it into it. So it is very
easy to copy things back and forth even though you only have one Finder window open.
You can still have a new Finder window. You can still have more than one and drag and
drop between them. Just doing it in Tabs uses less screen real estate.
Another way to open up a new tab is to hold down the Command key and double click on a
Folder. You can see it opens that up as a new tab there as well. So there is a lot you
can do.
You can also move Tabs between Finder windows. So I can create a new Finder window here and
I can drag this tab, I click on it and drag it over to this window here. You can see it
puts that tab there.
To close a Tab of course you can use the X button here even if it is not the tab that
is opened. You can also use Command W which is how you closed a Finder window before.
Now you can use shift Command W to close the entire window including all the tabs and just
Command W to close the current tab. So I can do it like that. Of course if it is the last
tab then the window will in fact be closed.
You also have the option to go full screen with the Finder window now which makes sense
since we have tabs. So I'm going to use the full screen button here and it will expand,
fill the screen, and now I can go back and forth between these tabs, open up new ones,
navigate to them. So you can kind of get this full screen productivity boost here. You can
use Mission Control to move between screens of course. So you can one space in Mission
Control dedicated to the Finder and all your files and even Applications, things like that
and then be working in other apps on other screens.
So just a few more tips here in managing Tabs. Under the Window menu you have a few things
like Show Previous Tab, Show Next Tab. You can see the keyboard shortcut is Control Tab,
not Command Tab, so I can Control Tab between these. If I have another window here and say
I've got two tabs in it, with the current tab I can Move Tab to New Window and it will
break it out like that. I can also merge all of the Finder windows. I've got three tabs
here and one tab. If I wanted to merge them all into one I can hit Merge All Windows to
bring them all together.